Kakashi's teaching methods for Naruto were very problematic.
He projected himself onto Naruto, but Naruto was fundamentally a different type of Ninja than him.
Wind Release: Rasenshuriken was classified as an S-rank forbidden Ninjutsu by Tsunade, not because it was difficult to learn, but because it harmed both the user and the target, with an effect roughly equivalent to Danzo's Reverse Four Symbols Sealing.
After much effort, he finally created a Rasengan as big as a windmill, only to have to run up and attack at close range?!
Can such a Ninjutsu be considered successfully developed? Because it was a close-range attack, Wind Release: Rasenshuriken dealt a thousand points of damage to the enemy per second, and also a thousand points of damage to the user, leading to a contest of recovery power—whoever had stronger recovery won.
It wasn't until Naruto created Sage Mode: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, allowing him to throw this windmill-like Chakra Shuriken from a distance, that the entire Ninjutsu was considered fully developed; the previous Wind Release: Rasenshuriken was, at most, a half-finished product.
If it's all close-range attacks, how much more convenient are Big Ball and Super Big Ball?
Ino first dispelled her Big Ball Rasengan, then motioned for Naruto to follow her outside the city. Seeing no residential buildings nearby, she condensed a basin-sized Chakra sphere and pressed it firmly against the side of a mountain wall.
The mountain wall, over ten meters high, was punched through by the Big Ball Rasengan, creating a large, transparent hole, and seven or eight large trees behind the wall were snapped in half.
"Wow!" Naruto was incredibly excited. He didn't fully understand the specific principles, but he loved this kind of Ninjutsu that relied on brute force!
"Teach me, teach me quickly!" he urged repeatedly.
The difficulty of the Big Ball Rasengan lies in Chakra; without sufficient Chakra, this Ninjutsu truly cannot be used.
Weak control is not an issue, as it truly doesn't matter how precise it is when such a large Chakra sphere hits the enemy.
Ino's current Chakra is sufficient for the Big Ball Rasengan, but not for the Super Big Ball Rasengan. With the limited Chakra pathways in her hands, there's a cap on the Chakra output per unit of time, making it impossible to create such a large sphere. She estimates that the Super Big Ball Rasengan would require Sage Mode.
"Alright, I'll teach you this Ninjutsu. Watch carefully. First step, you need to complete Chakra compression… You don't understand, right? Let me explain it to you five times first."
After teaching for two days, once Naruto had a basic grasp of the Big Ball Rasengan's process and entered the phase of repeated physical memory, Ino left him to it. She began to ponder adding Yin Release and Yang Release to the Rasengan.
Wind Release: Rasenshuriken aims for extreme speed and high lethality. She doesn't need these things; she just needs to add nature transformation to the shape-transformed Rasengan. How to add it, and what effects it will produce, still requires careful research.
"Big Ball Rasengan!"
"Big Ball Rasengan!"
"Big Ball Rasengan!"
Naruto shouted every time, with great vigor.
Watching his Big Ball Rasengan grow little by little, his heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment. Besides the Sexy Jutsu and Shadow Clone Technique, the Big Ball Rasengan was the simplest Ninjutsu he had learned in his life.
After seven or eight days of hard practice, the Big Balls he created were still inconsistent in size, but his body was almost memorizing the Ninjutsu.
He was making a lot of noise, while Ino's side was very quiet. Fifty Shadow Clones sat cross-legged on the ground, each holding a dark purple Rasengan with a faint white glow inside.
He asked, "Is yours also a Rasengan?"
A Shadow Clone looked up and said, "This is a Rasengan formed by adding Yang Release Chakra nature transformation and Yin Style Chakra nature transformation, mixed in a ratio of one Yang, two Yin, and seven parts neutral Chakra."
Naruto: "..."
He squinted his eyes, what was he talking about?
Feeling that the conversation couldn't continue, but unable to suppress his curiosity, he pressed on, "Does it have a name?"
Does this thing need a name? Ino realized a similarity between Naruto and Minato Namikaze; both father and son particularly liked to name other people's techniques.
"Uh…" She thought for a moment, seeing Naruto looking eager, and quickly stopped him: "Yes, it's called Ringu, Spiral Ringu! Hmm, it's still a very early version right now."
Ino copied a name from her brother Menma, then continued to research her Spiral Ringu.
The fusion progress of Yin Release and Yang Release was almost zero. She estimated the problem still lay in her Chakra control, or "Seal."
Facing 10 points of "Spirit," 8 points of "Seal" was a bit hard to control.
But if she hadn't increased "Spirit" back then, she wouldn't have had enough Chakra to practice the Rasengan.
She thought and thought, and decided she still needed to cause some trouble! At least get two more scapegoats, adding to her existing one, to increase her "Seal." For such complex Chakra fusion, she needed to increase her "Seal" to at least 9.
Ino left a Shadow Clone in the Land of Wheat to continue the matchmaking mission and guide Naruto in his Big Ball Rasengan training, while her main body quietly returned to Konoha Village.
Ultimately, the matter of finding a scapegoat still had to go through Danzo!
She had no money right now, so she could only rely on information to persuade him.
Ino reviewed the Yamanaka Clan's intelligence files, trying to find information that would be beneficial to her.
"Eh?" A seemingly low-value historical record made her look twice.
The record mentioned the Kamizuru Clan, a bug-controlling clan once as famous as the Aburame Clan of Konoha Village.
This clan belonged to Iwagakure in the Land of Earth, and in the field of bug control, they were once equally renowned, one in the south and one in the north, alongside the Aburame Clan.
In the mid-First Shinobi World War, when the entire Ninja World was in fierce combat, this clan deployed all its elite members, secretly infiltrating the Land of Fire via a small path, planning to launch a surprise attack on Konoha Village.
Their plan was discovered by the Yamanaka Clan. Konoha set up a comprehensive trap, and the usually low-profile Aburame Clan went berserk that day, killing their fellow bug users with immense joy.
The Kamizuru Clan and Iwagakure's surprise attack unit were completely annihilated. This battle cost Iwagakure five Jonin, and naturally, someone had to take responsibility. Thus, a bug-controlling clan that had existed since the Warring States Period was completely erased, with only a few clan members who hadn't participated in the operation surviving. However, the Ninja World no longer recognized them as a Ninja clan.
This news wasn't particularly significant; in the Shinobi World War, too many clans vanished, turning into historical dust.
The Uzumaki Clan was gone, so the Kamizuru Clan was nothing in comparison.
But Ino, in the lines of another document, discovered that the Kamizuru Clan's leader at the time was a subordinate of the First Tsuchikage.
At the same time, an information report retrieved from the brain of a Kamizuru Ninja made her eyes light up.
The report stated that the Kamizuru Clan's leader at the time had lost a Ninjutsu scroll named [First Secret Scroll], and many of their clan's Secret Techniques were lost.
Ino pondered for a long time, then added two words to [First Secret Scroll], which was mentioned in the intelligence, turning it into [First Tsuchikage Secret Scroll].
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