Hearing Minato's offer, Kazuo's lips curled upward slightly more than his usual soft smile.
"I'm afraid that I would hold you down, my best trait is my strategies not my raw power Minato Senpai," Kazuo said as he shook his head lightly.
"Don't worry, you would be a great addition to the team!" Obito practically screamed as he looked at Kazuo.
"If you really think so then it would be my pleasure to join a team like yours, it's like a dream coming true," Kazuo said, his eyes shining as he looked at Minato.
"Right, yeah you would be a great addition. Welcome to the team, Kazuo" Minato replied with a slightly awkward smile on his lips.
"Yeaahh!!" Obito screamed as he practically jumped next to Kazuo to ask him questions about his time on the battlefield.
Kazuo explained everything from when he had first been reborn in this world all the way up to his last battle.
'When will i get a better chance to boast in front of the hokage.' Kazuo thought to himself, feeling the urge to chuckle as he looked at Obito.
'How the hell did Madara turn this dumbass into the legendary ninja of the fourth world war? Seems like Madara's talents were even more impressive as a Sensei and trainer than as a shinobi.' Kazuo thought to himself before turning toward Minato.
"So when is the mission?" Kazuo asked, his smile barely noticebal as his aura changed from carefree to one of seriousness.
Minato and Kakashi immediately noticed the change whilst Rin and Obito seemed completely oblivious.
"Tomorrow actually, meet up with us infront of the village gates, i can't tell you more than that before the mission officially starts." Minato answered as he looked at Kazuo.
"All right Senpai, I'll have to get going now then, i have some matters to take care of in the village before I join you tomorrow. Do I go and register myself with you in the shinobi office as well?" Kazuo asked as he stood up.
Minato nodded as he stood up as well, politely sending Kazuo off.
After heading out of Yakiniku-Q, Kazuo headed straight toward the Hokage Tower.
Inside most of the shinobi-related offices were.
The office that Kazuo was currently heading to was the Personnel and Operations shinobi office, it was also the office with the most influence from the Hokage who could almost be said to personally manage it.
Once inside of the Hokage Tower, Kazuo took a left turn and after climbing up a pair of stairs and arriving on the second floor, he took another right and finally arrived at the office.
"Hello," Kazuo said, addressing the middle-aged man behind the counter with a respectful tone. "I've been assigned to join Team 7 for their next mission by Minato Namikaze."
"Minato Namikaze's team? We will have to confirm it, please wait a moment." The man said before heading behind a door to his back.
After around three minutes, he returned.
"The Hokage has called you, he's waiting for you right now." The man said as he pointed to a pair of stairs to the left.
Nodding his head, Kazuo started walking toward the stairs.
'I knew that it wouldn't be so easy, if im correct than the mission Team 7 will be doing is the Kanabi Bridge one, which could be said to be the most important mission in the entire village right now.' Kazuo thought as he headed up the stairs and followed the path he had used in a previous turn to arrive before the door of the Hokage Office.
*Knock* *Knock*
"Come in," A voice said from the other side of the door.
Opening the door, Kazuo headed inside after which he closed the door gently and walked to the middle of the office.
In front of him was the Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen also known as the God of Shinobi.
'I don't need to lie this time so hopefully this will turn out better than the last time we met, Hiruzen' Kazuo thought before he kneeled down on one knee.
Only got up once Hirzuen told him to.
"Kazuo, you're joining Minato's team?" Hiruzen said, in comparison to the cold authoritative voice that Kazuo had heard in his previous turn, this Hiruzen spoke with a soft almost grandfatherly voice as he looked at Kazuo.
"Yes sir, Minato offered me to join his team for the next mission so I accepted since I had no current mission at the time, I would only be coming back out of vacation tomorrow," Kazuo replied, his voice as respectful and polite as he could make it.
"I see, well then you can join his team." Hiruzen said with a smile as his eyes scanned over Kazuo's body.
'He's looking to see if im lying? Could there be a technique for that? If there is then the possibility that he knows it is extremely high, he was named The Professor for a reason.' Kazuo thought before he gave the man a bow.
"I see, well then I'll get going Hokage-Sama if you excuse me."
"One moment Kazuo, I've heard of your contributions in the last battle and I wanted to reward you. It's good that we get to finally meet like this." Hiruzen said, a soft grandfatherly smile still on his face.
'You're two fucking weeks late you fucking bastard.' Kazuo thought to himself as he looked at the man, however, his outward appearance remained the same if not growing softer and slightly showing his joy.
"I'll give you a B-Rank jutsu, You can go check them out at the ninja library and chose one, simply use this when you plan to take one of them out." Hiruzen said as he quickly took a piece of paper and a brush to the side before inscribing some type of seal on it and raising it toward Kazuo.
Taking the paper carefully, Kazuo bowed once more before he was dismissed.
'Next location, the ninja library.' Kazuo thought with a wide grin once he was outside of the library, still, he dared not say or utter anything even in his mind. The Hokage tower was filled with hidden Anbu, a single wrong move or expression could land him back inside the Hokage Office.
And he wouldn't be rewarded for a second time.
'Unless I was a Masochist.' Kazuo thought to himself jokingly.
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A few minutes later, Kazuo arrived in front of a building near the Hokage Tower.
It was a large building with multiple stories, built from wood that had been painted red.
Heading inside, Kazuo found himself surrounded by hundreds of books and scrolls.
To the left, there was a small counter, behind which an old lady was sitting and reading a book.
Heading toward her, Kazuo gave a shallow bow of his head before speaking.
"Hello, i've been allowed by the hokage to pick a B-Rank jutsu from the library, where do i go?" Kazuo questioned, his tone polite as he faced the old woman.
Lifting her head from her book, she merely nodded and pointed toward a staircase at the end of the room that lead to the second floor.
"Thank you," Kazuo said before heading toward the staircase.
Once on the second floor of the building he saw a similar layout to the first however this time there were no books, only scrolls, and to the right, there was a similar counter as before however the one seated behind it was a young man wearing a chunnin vest.
"Hello, I was sent by lord Hokage to pick a B-ranked jutsu." Kazuo said to the man before showing him the small seal that the Hokage had given him.
"Head to the next floor, the staircase is at the end of the room to the left." The man said as he pointed in the staircase's direcion.
Nodding his head, Kazuo headed to the next floor once more.
This time however once he arrived at the third floor, three shinobi were already waiting at the top of the staircase.
"Here's the seal Lord Hokage gave me so that I can pick a B-Rank Jutsu," Kazuo said as he showed the shinobi the seal.
Looking at the seal closely and using a few handseals, the shinobi nodded their head and allowed Kazuo through.
Looking around, Kazuo saw that the quantity of the scrolls had lowered massively, the room looked barren in comparison to the previous floors.
Heading toward the counter, behind which a shinobi was seated, most likely a Jonin.
Quickly telling him what he was there for, the man said to look around and bring the scroll he wanted back to him.
Nodding his head, Kazuo finally turned around and started looking through the jutsu section.
He already knew what he would be picking, however.
'The Shadow Clone Jutsu' Kazuo thought as his smile grew larger and larger.
'As well as every other jutsu in this place.' Kazuo thought his lips curling even further.
Looking around, he found tens of B-rank jutsu, be they elemental or simply normal chakra-based jutsu.
Ranging from Jutsu like:
Fire Style: Great Annihilation Jutsu
Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death
Earth Release: Earth Spear
Water Release: Water Gun
And finally...
The Shadow Clone Technique.
Each of the scroll techniques gave a brief description of the jutsu however they didnt tell the person how to do the jutsu.
Taking the Shadow Clone Jutsu, Kazuo turned around and headed to the counter once more.
Giving the man both the scroll and the Hokage's seal, he was given a different purple-colored scroll in return.
Opening it quickly, Kazuo found the shadow clone technique inside, this time explained in full detail.
"Thank you," Kazuo said as he gave a shallow bow to the man.
"It's nothing, remember to destroy the scroll after you are done with it." The man said before quickly shooing Kazuo away.
"No problem, goodbye." Kazuo said before turning around and heading toward the exit of the building.
Once outside, Kazuo quickly used the body flicker technique to head toward training ground one.
Once he was back in his training spot once more, Kazuo opened the scroll and started reading it.
'The technique works by dividing the user's chakra in half and making a clone that is physical as well as can transfer back memories to the user, because of the usage of so much chakra, it is considered one of the more dangerous B-ranked Jutsu.' Kazuo read before quickly arriving at the part where it described how to use the technique.
'Seems fairly simple, it uses the tiger seal instead of the cross seal that Naruto uses for the multi-shadow clone technique.' Kazuo thought as he memorized the entire scroll and finally decided to put the technique into practice.
Making the tiger seal, Kazuo followed the instructions on how to move the chakra through his chakra coils and performed the technique.
With a large puff of smoke, a clone appeared next to him, it looked completely identical.
'A success' Kazuo thought before sensing his chakra reserves.
'Extremely low, if I had Gennin chakra then I would have most definitely lost consciousness or maybe even died if I used this technique.' Kazuo thought before shaking his head and dismissing the clone.
Around sixty percent of the chakra used was returned to him once more.
'The higher the mastery of the technique, the less chakra is lost however even then this technique is useless for combat for the me of right now, i lose too much chakra and cant use any other techniques after i use it.' Kazuo thought in slight annoyance before his mouth curled up into a smile once more.
'Alright, shall we check out the other techniques now?' Kazuo thought as he sent almost his entire chakra reserves into his brain.
*Thump*
Opening his eyes the next second, Kazuo found himself back in his broken bed, the time having looped back.
Getting up from his bed, Kazuo followed his actions that he had done yesterday almost completley, the only difference being that he started practicing the shadow clone technique aswell.
Met with Minato later and joined his team and then headed to the Hokage tower before being granted the ninjutsu reward and arriving at the third floor of the Ninja library again.
'All right, what should I pick next?' Kazuo thought with a large smile on his face, his eyes practically sparkling as he looked at the ninjutsu scrolls around him.
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