Fire Country.
Frontier Camp.
In a large tent in the center of the camp, Orochimaru, Yeruashi and several members of the advance troop gathered here.
A few minutes later, a small snake came out from under Orochimaru's vest.
The Snake opened its mouth and spat out a scroll.
"Let's go."
Orochimaru took the scroll and opened it, it contained the Hokage's instructions, after a brief glance, he read it.
The contents ordered that Orochimaru will create a team to escort the severely and lightly injured ninja back to Konoha, while the rest will remain at the border of the Grass Country to monitor Iwagakure's movements.
Finally, of Yeruashi's rise in rank to Tokubetsu Jounin.
"Although he is only a Tokubetsu Jounin, you could also say he is a Jounin. It has never happened before in Konoha for a boy under eleven to become a Tokubetsu Jounin, hehe."
After Orochimaru finished reading, he turned to look at Yeruashi beside him.
The Jounins around them looked at each other, though the fact that Yeruashi had become a Jounin at such a young age caused some ripples in their hearts, but there was no feeling of dissatisfaction or resentment.
Given the strength displayed and the merits earned during the last battle, no one dared to question Yeruashi's promotion to Tokubetsu Jounin.
With a slight smile, Yeruashi said, "It's just a forced promotion in wartime."
Orochimaru withdrew his gaze from Yeruashi and after a period of reflection, he said, "Then the next question is who will escort the wounded,
Orochimaru wondered, "Now it's time to deal with the issue of escorting the wounded. let's put your squad in charge of this Shigehiko."
There are only four with serious injuries, and those with minor injuries are able to maintain normal mobility and even have some combat ability, so only a squad needed to be formed to escort them.
"Right."
Shigehiko Aburame nodded and left the tent without further ado.
The other ninja discussed a bit more about further camp setup and whether or not to enter the Grass Country and do a cleanup of it before they left.
...
Returning to his tent, Yeruashi sat down on his knees and pulled out the White Fang Blade.
It was evident that there was a crack in the blade running from the center to the hilt, which is an extremely serious flaw for a blade.
Holding the white light chakra sword in his hands, Yeruashi closed his eyes, calling the illusory clock in his mind and, after a few attempts, tried to turn back the time on the blade, but nothing unusual happened and the crack on the blade did not disappear.
"As expected, it's not working."
Yeruashi opened his eyes and sighed.
After receiving information from Orochimaru about the Kusanagi Sword, he didn't immediately go looking for it, but first resorted to his ability to reverse the flow of time in an attempt to restore the White Fang Sword.
Unfortunately, try as he might, he was unable to apply the power of time to anything other than himself, whether it was speeding up time or reversing it.
Previously, Yeruashi always felt that the White Fang Blade would feel much better in his hands than in Kakashi's hands. His Hatake kenjutsu is at a much higher level and this sword matches his skills quite well, at least it wouldn't be damaged easily....
As a result...
It broke even before it was broken by Kakashi....
"You need to find a good craftsman and find out if it can be restored. If this is possible, then it's better to pass the sword to Kakashi, it doesn't fit me anymore."
Yeruashi pondered for a moment and put the sword away.
It seems that Sunagakure has launched a large-scale attack, but we don't know what will happen on the Iwagakure side, if everything calms down soon, he might go after the Kusanagi sword.
In fact, the sword does not have too much effect on the combat power of the current Yeruashi, because you can use Chidori without sword, so the short-range attack will not weaken much, only the medium-range attacks weakened significantly.
Because Hatake Kenjutsu is a means of concentrating power, it is capable of allowing a person to deliver a long-range strike that has a higher probability of killing than "Peacock Dawn", which uses the fist to launch a fireball that looks like the feathers of a peacock.
"My chakra volume is already close to the level of an Elite Jounin, but it is still not enough to learn Senjutsu."
According to the above estimation, when the age of his physical body reaches thirteen, his chakra volume should not exceed the level of a normal Jounin, but due to the Cell Stimulation technique, the chakra volume was much higher than expected.
Judging by this volume of chakra, we can safely say that in this aspect he surpassed more than ninety percent of the ninja in the world of Naruto, but in fact this is not enough even for a single use of Rasenshuriken.
"I don't think it is necessary to practice Rasenshuriken, but a limited amount of chakra makes it very difficult to upgrade Chidori to Raikiri."
Chidori belongs to A-Rank ninjutsu.
Raikiri, on the other hand, is the direction of the evolution of Chidori, turning it into an S-Rank Ninjutsu, which required more chakra and a higher level of chakra control.
There was no doubt that the power of Raikiri surpasses that of Chidori. For Yeruashi, the evolution from Chidori to Raikiri was also a training method, but it was difficult to get results yet.
"It would be great to increase the amount of chakra one more level..."
Yeruashi muttered in his mind.
If his chakra volume increased one more level, to the Kage level, he could not only develop Raikiri, but also start practicing with Senjutsu, at which point the power would have taken another big leap.
Unfortunately, it is not so easy to reach this level, just by looking at the ninja world, you can find only a handful of people who have the volume of chakra to the Kage level, in each of the Great Towns there are only a few such ninja.
"According to normal practice, my chakra volume will reach Kage level at approximately the time when the age of the physical body reaches sixteen, to achieve this faster, it is necessary to resort to some external means, for example, becoming a Jinchuriki, or absorbing the Ryumyaku Source located in the Roran Realm..."
With his physique, he can take a maximum of a quarter of Kyubi chakra, as for the other Bijuu, it is possible to become a Jinchūriki, but in any case, his spirit is likely to suffer greatly if he fails to quickly establish a friendly relationship and educate them in a socialist ideology.
This project cannot be completed overnight, so it is too troublesome, it would be easier for Yeruashi to continue his training to attain the Kage level chakra
Becoming the Jinchūriki of the Ryumyaku is not entirely out of drawbacks either.
Although he has the ability to go back in time and recover indefinitely if the body cannot absorb the energy properly, but the concentration of energy in the Ryumyaku Source is so great that it can affect even Space-Time, Yeruashi had no desire to go to the future or past for thousands of years, and may not be able to return.
As for other methods, such as Orochimaru's Cursed Seal or the Hoshigakure meteorite, Yeruashi did not even consider these options, because it would definitely lead to chakra contamination.
In comparison, it is better to rely on accelerating the growth of the physical body with quadruple acceleration.
"At this time, the best option is to concentrate on opening the next Hachimon Tonko gate."