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Minato walked at the forefront of a small team. Next to him Orochimaru walked.
"The Iwa nin are getting out of hand..." Minato spoke gravely as they walked back from the battle they had. Behind him, many of the team struggled to walk on their own, being supported by others.
Orochimaru glanced at Minato. "Yes... They've been using their Jinchuriki more and more." Orochimaru nodded. "Makes me wonder..."
Minato turns and glares at Orochimaru as he spoke. "No." He said, his voice dangerous. "Off the table."
Chuckling, Orochimaru lifted his hands in mock surrender. "Fine." He smirked. "I wonder how long you can coddle her in Konoha's walls..?" He muttered in a low voice, making sure Minato could hear him.
Shaking his head, Minato ignores the scheming man next to him and continues walking, making no further talks.
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"Hoooh..." Byakuya breathed out, wiping the sweat off his forehead as he looked at the cracked tree in front of him. 'Finally...' He thought. 'I finally got it. Almost on the brink of Chakra exhaustion though.'
Shaking his head, he settled his excitement and walked back to the platoon, feeling his hunger increase.
'Maybe I should've eaten something before going out.' He thought to himself as he walked on.
Not long after, he came to the platoon, spotting Minato and co. just arrived. Walking to the group, he saw Orochimaru talk to the medics on field, showing them to the injured.
"Minato-san." Byakuya stopped in front of Minato, who grew a smile at his appearance.
"Just Minato." Minato started, patting the shorter Byakuya's shoulder. "Anyway, I asked around when I came and they said you've been out since the crack of dawn?" He questions, raising an eyebrow.
Byakuya nodded. "Hm." He hummed in confirmation. "I developed a new jutsu." He revealed, his face straight as if he had announced he went for a stroll.
"What?!" Minato exclaimed. "You developed a new jutsu?!" He called out, garnering the attention of those around them before chuckling awkwardly and dragging Byakuya out of the platoon.
"Where are we heading?" Byakuya asked, not fighting back.
Without looking at Byakuya, Minato continued walking. "We're going to an isolated area so you can show me the jutsu." He explained.
Minato had always craved knowledge. He'd done a deep dive into sealing techniques after he found their power and he's also currently on the brink of completing his own one.
a Few seconds later, both Byakuya and Minato stood facing each other.
"Alright." Minato spoke up. "Is it an offensive jutsu?" He asked first, to which Byakuya shook his head. "Then show me."
Nodding, Byakuya stepped forward, an arm's length away from Minato and extended his right arm to the man, pressing his palm against his chest. Seeing Minato's confused expression, Byakuya started explaining.
"You've felt the imbalance in my Chakra?" Byakuya asked and Minato nodded after a few seconds, knowing the boy's Chakra was something to marvel at since it wasn't a perfect balance of physical and spiritual power, but more inclined towards spiritual.
"I had deduced that my Kekkei Genkai was the reason for this imbalance." Byakuya continued explaining. "I've been tampering with my Chakra and I've come to realize I can wield the 'Spiritual' aspect of my Chakra quite freely..."
Minato's eyes widen at the boy's words, having a few ideas pop into his head already. 'Is it like the Spirit jutsu used by Dan-san?' He thought, but Byakuya suddenly spoke up, breaking him from his thoughts.
"Like this..." Byakuya lowered his voice. "Push back, repel the vile knave." Byakuya started chanting.
Minato glanced down at his chest, feeling Chakra build up in Byakuya's palm. 'No... Not Chakra...' Glancing at Byakuya's other hand quickly, he saw no movements. 'No hand signs?!' His eyes widen.
"Hadou #1 Sho."
Byakuya's palm glowed blue for a split second before it expelled outwardly, pushing Minato back a bit.
"Ugh." Minato grunted at the sudden force, but otherwise felt little to no pain on his chest. "That's..." Minato let out. "Amazing!" He appeared in front of Byakuya, grabbing the boy's palm, inspecting it. "Not to mention the fact that you created your own jutsu at what? Eight years old?" Minato ranted on. "But it being a jutsu that requires zero hand signs on top of it being extremely applicable in actual combat..."
Byakuya zoned out. 'So he likes jutsus? Although I didn't invent the jutsu, I had to tweak it as much as possible for me to use it. My Chakra kept interfering during the Kido so that took a while.'
"Hellloooo?"
'But I'm glad I got it. The power will of course increase with my understanding of it and my increasing Reiatsu.'
"Byakuya." Minato spoke louder, snapping Byakuya back to reality. "I asked: What was the chant when you used it?" He asked.
"It's similar to hand signs." Byakuya explained. "Similar to how you need hand signs to use jutsus, I need a chant to use Kido."
"Kido?" Minato raised an eyebrow.
Byakuya nodded. "It isn't a typical jutsu, as it uses the pure manifestation of Spiritual power, so I gave it a name." He explained, not minding Minato's increasing questions.
Minato opened his mouth, wanting to ask more, but quickly caught himself. Smiling sheepishly, he spoke. "Sorry..." He apologized. "I'm just excited because I'm actually also working on my own jutsu." As he spoke he lifted his own hands.
Byakuya glanced down, focusing on his hand. 'His jutsu..?' He thought and it suddenly came to him. 'The rasen-'
Above Minato's palm, an orange sphere starts forming. Swirling wildly. "Uhh." Minato grit his teeth, feeling the Chakra go out of control for a second before it dispersed. Looking back up at Byakuya, Minato smirked. "That's all I got for now." He scratched the back of his head.
Byakuya ignored him, thinking back to the manga, or what he could remember from it. 'How did Naruto learn it again..?'
Minato went quiet, patiently waiting for Byakuya's thoughts on it.
"Oh." Byakuya spoke up. "I think it's dispersing so quickly because of the rotation. You're rotating it in one direction, maybe counter it by adding a counter rotation?" He explained his view, remembering how Jiraiya had Naruto use a balloon to practice opposing rotations.
"Hmm..." Minato hummed a bit. "That... Might actually work." He lifts his hand up again, conjuring another orange sphere bigger than the previous one, but this time it wasn't as uncontrollable, forming a smooth sphere. a Few long seconds after, the sphere dissipated.
"Damn." Minato muttered. "Maybe it's not dense enough? It felt as though any disturbance might have canceled it out..." He mused and formed the same bigger orange sphere. Flexing his fingers a bit in focus, the ball shrinks little by little.
'Amazing.' Byakuya thought. 'To have already figured it all out just by me pointing one thing out...'
"Hahaha!" Minato laughed out loud, his gaze fixed on the solid sphere of Chakra hovering over his palm. "Byakuya you're a genius!" He exclaimed before turning around and rushing to the closest tree behind him.
"Halo hair whorl twin style sphere!" Minato called out loud and crashed the orange ball against the tree's bark, sending splinters everywhere before the tree fell down in front of him.
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a Lil training and bonding filler. uh huh uh huh