"Renji-sensei, I have a question." Sakura raised her hand, her pretty face full of curiosity.
"Go on." Renji replied casually, already thinking about how to spend the large sum of tuition money he had just collected.
First, a luxurious barbecue.
Then drinks with some older sisters.
Perfect.
Sakura asked, "Earlier, when Naruto attacked you, you used something like Wind Release, right? But you didn't form any hand signs. How were you still able to use ninjutsu?"
She remembered clearly—Naruto's Shadow Clones had surrounded him, and Renji hadn't formed a single seal. Yet an invisible force blasted them all away.
At the Academy, she had learned that all ninjutsu required hand signs.
So how?
"You mean this?" Renji raised his hand, aimed at a nearby large tree, and flicked his finger.
"Boom!"
A massive repulsive force erupted outward, tearing up the ground and blasting the entire tree flying into the distance.
"So… so amazing!"
Team 7 froze, staring in disbelief at the uprooted tree.
If that hit a person… Just imagining it was terrifying.
"I can also release it continuously, and increase the output." Renji lazily pointed toward a small forest in the distance.
Streams of violent repulsive force burst from his fingertip like compressed storms.
"Rumble!"
The small forest was flattened into ruins.
Renji chuckled. "Just a normal attack. It's even more convenient than throwing kunai."
He wasn't exaggerating.
Freely manipulating repulsion and gravity was merely a basic attack for him.
Even these were heavily restrained.
"Renji-sensei, teach me that technique! Teach me quickly!" Naruto's eyes sparkled like stars as he stared at Renji in admiration.
He glanced at Sasuke and began fantasizing.
Sasuke and Sakura in danger.
Sasuke beaten to a pulp.
Then Naruto arrives dramatically, flicks his fingers, defeats everyone, and Sakura looks at him with admiration.
"Hehehe… Sasuke will kneel and beg for mercy, and then I'll make a grand entrance and win Sakura-chan's heart."
He drooled while giggling.
"Idiot! How could Sasuke kneel and beg for mercy?!" A '#' symbol popped on Sakura's forehead as she punched Naruto.
"Bang!"
Naruto hit the ground, clutching the red bump on his head. "Sakura-chan…"
"Idiot." Sasuke snorted coldly.
"I'm sorry, Renji-sensei. Please continue." Sakura dragged Naruto aside and apologized.
Renji looked at them calmly. "Want to learn?"
"Yes!"
All three nodded vigorously, even Sasuke.
"No chance." Renji pointed at his jewel-like sky-blue eyes, glowing faintly silver.
"My ability transcends Bloodline Limits and even Bloodline Selection. It's a Bloodline Mesh. To use that move, you'd at least need these eyes."
Sakura blinked. "Then what was the point of demonstrating it?"
"If we can't learn it, why show it?"
Renji answered matter-of-factly, "Because it's cool."
"…"
Black lines appeared on Team 7's faces.
Infuriating.
But there was nothing they could do.
Naruto clenched his fists and muttered, "Damn it, everyone loves showing off. Especially that grinning Renji-sensei. He just keeps showing off again and again!"
He once thought no one could out-smug Sasuke.
He was wrong.
Renji was worse.
Renji glanced at Sasuke. "Uchiha brat, I told you before, your hand sign speed is too slow."
Sasuke kept his hands in his pockets and replied coolly.
"Your Bloodline Mesh may allow you to activate techniques without hand signs, but normal ninjutsu require them. I'll improve my speed myself."
"So cool… as expected of Sasuke. His Fire Release is amazing too." Sakura sighed dreamily before glancing at Naruto. "Unlike someone."
Naruto pouted. "What's so great about Sasuke?"
Sasuke shot Sakura an icy glare. "Ugly woman, don't compare me to the dead last. The Great Fireball is a unique Uchiha Fire Release. How could that idiot Naruto possibly use it?"
Naruto instantly grabbed Sasuke's collar. "How dare you call Sakura-chan ugly?! She's clearly super cute!"
"And it's just a Great Fireball! I'm going to be Hokage. I don't need such low-level ninjutsu!"
"Let go, dead last." Sasuke stared at him indifferently.
Renji rubbed his forehead. "Sigh… little brats are troublesome."
"Let me teach you something you couldn't learn at the Academy."
The three immediately quieted.
"Something we couldn't learn there?"
Renji raised a finger. Faint blue chakra emerged, wriggling like a small snake under precise control.
"All ninjutsu require hand signs. That's common knowledge. Even a pig knows that. But if you can control chakra freely, you can simplify hand signs. You can even activate techniques without hand signs."
"Impossible!" Sasuke immediately denied it.
He had never seen such a thing.
Not even Uchiha Itachi could do that.
"Don't deny it so quickly." Renji smirked.
"I'll only demonstrate once. Any more will cost you. Although I rarely use low-level techniques, I'll reluctantly use the Great Fireball to educate you stinky brats."
He formed no seals.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball."
Renji tilted his head back and exhaled.
A massive wave of high-temperature flames burst forth, condensing into a dark-red fireball that expanded wildly.
It covered the entire Training Ground like a descending meteor.
The air distorted from the heat. The flames roared and swirled in the sky.
It was at least thirty times larger than Sasuke's.
Renji shaded his eyes and looked at it lazily. "Is this all there is to it? Low-level techniques really are hard to take seriously."
"You didn't use any hand signs!" Sasuke stared with his two-tomoe Sharingan wide open. He had been watching the entire time.
Renji had formed none.
Not one.
"And… is this really the Great Fireball?" Sasuke looked up blankly at the flaming meteor.
You're telling me this is C-rank Fire Release?
Who are you trying to fool?
He had trained the Great Fireball since childhood.
Why didn't his look like this?
Renji had used a C-rank technique like it was S-rank.
...
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