Jack continued.
"The first method which is the Konoha method limits their thinking and stop them from trying to improve themselves in various areas. making them thinking that only by becoming a ninja to protect the village is the right choice.
But the other with gave them the right to explore other areas.
Let's take a look at the Hokages. Well, let's skip Hashirama as he doesn't have much choice and was air headed as he was too strong for someone to oppose him and his career was influenced by the clan wars era.
Tobirama was also the same way in that he was deeply influenced by the clan wars era. So let's see from Hiruzen.
Hiruzen was only politically active on the inside and didn't contribute to any progress. The village is still the same way it was with hardly any improvement.
He is the definition of stagnant water. Even politically, He kept trying to suppress the clans and ignored the other villages.
In his regiment, the children died, the Uzumaki clan and Uchiha clan were exterminated, strong men like Uchiha Kagami and white fang died under suspicious circumstances.
So overall, he is one of the worst leaders in the history of the shinobi world.
Then Minato, I actually didn't know much about your time but as I heard from you, you weren't much different from Hiruzen. Except that you tried to release some oppression on the clans, there's really nothing much you have done.
I understand your regiment was short but you didn't have much vision too.
The Fifth , Tsunade, was actually somewhat innovative but in medicine only. She made progress in the field of medicine and it's enough that Sasuke and Naruto alternate arms could work just like the original's ones.
Kakashi was only lucky I guess. Konoha was influenced by the progress from other villages and made some progress.
Naruto, was well Naruto. I mean that he really shouldn't have been a Hokage. He was Hashirama 0.2 . He was actually more than enough as a spiritual leader. But not an actual leader.
Now you might think that I'm thinking about this from my world point of view.
But let's take a look at your next door neighbor. The first four were as dumb as you so there's no need for me to mention them.
No let's talk about the fifth. Gara was an exemplary leader . He single handle made the weakest village of the five has financial stability and strength to compete with the other five. Not to mention kirikagura that became technologically advanced.
You might think that because they are at peace era that they could do such progress. But your own Hokages which had the same philosophy as didn't make much progress "
Minato and kushina looked at each other in embarrassment and were unable to get any chance to refute.
Kurama started laughing and said.
"Hahahaha. I can't believe that such a brainless line of Hokages kept coming one after the other and no one saw any problems."
As kurama was laughing, Jack said.
"You shouldn't be too happy as Shukaku who resides at the sand village might laugh at you as he has a better kage jinchuriki."
Kurama stopped laughing abruptly and immediately got angry.
"Not allowed. Absolutely not allowed. Shukaku, the weakest tailed beast, can't be allowed to be better than me, the strongest tailed beast, in any way."
Jack looked at kurama outburst with a smile.
Jack however continued.
"However let's now talk about your own characteristics as individuals. Again let's skip the air headed Hashirama as he was too strong. Now let's talk about Tobirama and you Minato.
Tobirama was without a doubt a ninjutsu genius. The ninjutsus he left behind are all reaching the level of borderline insanity .
I have discovered that the level you have to reach to develop a ninjutsu like flying thunder god technique in a backward world like this is that you really need to be insane and desperate.
Nothing really about this ninjutsu is normal. I can't even imagine what someone would have to go through to bring such a technique to light.
This isn't something that have any background work you depend on.
Did he see storage scroll that he knew of space. Did he just wish for a technique to plant on his brothers so during the war that he could transfer to them anytime to save them.
I really have no idea but even if the idea is there, did he just jumped blind on something and hoped for the best . How did came to the conclusion that we saw about space.
So now you can get the picture of what I'm talking about.
Second technique is Edo Tensei. If the flying thunder god technique was the optimal of his genius prowess borderline insanity then This technique was insanity borderline god complex.
You had to have god complex to invent this technique. For someone to think about reviving the dead, either you lost your mind or just have a god complex.
Now imagine Tobirama didn't become the Hokage and just focused inventing techniques to develop Konoha financially and for war time.
He just needed to keep researching without thinking about clans, wars and leave it for someone like Nara clan .
How much progress and powerful Konoha would have become. Hell, if he left it to a Uchiha was better than wasting this insane level of genius on some trivia. He would have helped Konoha to progress by light years a head of others.
You know what I first thought when I saw Outsutsuki clan coming down from the space. Oh if Tobirama didn't waste his time with the Hokage position, the story would be about conquering instead of invasion."
As a genius who was struggling with disease he always thought that if he didn't, he would have made a scientific impact on world. So thinking about Tobirama made extremely disappointed.
"You too Minato, if you have explored you scientific mind in the right direction, you might have left a much bigger impact on the world."
For Minato to understand that level of scientific knowledge , again in this backward world, he needs to at least be a genius level scientist.
"Although I don't like orochimaru as a character because he is a scientist that has no regard for human lives, but at least he is better than you in that he didn't stop his research even after he returned to Konoha.
By the way, I think that your scientific mind might be much better than orochimaru as he is very slow in the progress that he made considering the unlimited research funds and time he had.
But you too pale greatly in comparison with Tobirama."
Minato was some what embarrassed by Jack words but after thinking about it, he realized that he is really right.
"Anyway, the philosophy of will of fire is really good for soldiers but not for leaders. They must have much more qualities than that. And for the core code of the village to be this is just wrong as the first code you should teach is that you should contribute to a better Konoha in your own way."
"Jack, you should become the Hokage instead of those dumbasses."
Kurama said as he thought about Shukaku gloating in front of him.
Jack was speechless.
"Kurama, didn't you just hear me that Geniuses should stick to their suited field of expertise."
"Yeah, but you also need a leader that can help Konoha progress."
"Well, it's not that there aren't. I have no doubt in my mind that shikaku or any of the Nara clan heirs would be a great leader with just some good advisors.
Nara clan fortes are in there strategic mind. If you gave him a hint he would make a whole plan to make it happen in less than an hour.
But because of their weak strength individuality and lack of enthusiasm as the environment around them make them take each step with cautious so they stick to the code that inaction are the best action as a method of survival in this village."
Minato, Kushina and kurama understood what he meant immediately. The Nara has high political sense but they are afraid of stepping on anyone toes as they are average in strength, so they keep a low profile as a method of self reserving.
While talking about ideological differences for the whole night . The next day arrived and Naruto went out to train again with Kakashi.
As he kept running around the field, Kakashi showed up on time this day
Jack frowned as he felt something wasn't right as this wasn't Kakashi habit unless there's something.
"Good morning , Naruto. Good to see you are still active and full of vitality. But let's try refining chakra now and stop the exercises."
Naruto didn't notice anything wrong with Kakashi so he replied happily.
"Good morning, Kakashi sensei. I'm feeling that today I will definitely succeed in refining chakra."
"Good to see you are optimistic, let's begin."
Naruto started to refine chakra again with Kakashi telling him the steps again. After four hours of continuous working and a few minutes of resting in between, just as Kakashi wanted to tell Naruto to stop and eat his launch first, he felt a thread of chakra coming from Naruto. So he stood there in shock as he began to feel if he really felt it right.
You should know that the younger someone is, the harder it is to extract their chakra as they lack both physical and spiritual energy to succeed . Even Kakashi who was considered a genius started training in physical strength for six months before succeeding in extracting chakra before his fifth birthday by about two or three months.
With training his physical strength and being close to the age of five allowed him to have enough physical energy and spiritual energy to extract chakra that made him famous and be considered a genius.
But now Naruto is only three years old and started some light training for a day or two but he succeeded in extracting chakra.
Just as he was thinking he noticed that the chakra volume kept increasing.
First it was only a thread, then 10 , then a 100, a 1000, 10000 and finally stopped at 27,000 threads.
Kakashi was speechless. What is the fuck is wrong with you. Are fucking kidding me.
I'm a dignified jonin for almost 8 years. I had countless life and death battles. I'm a freaking Anbu captain and have only 32,000 threads. You just started refining and your baseline is already my life time work.
Naruto after a while jumped up and said happily .
"Hahahaha , Kakashi sensei, I succeeded. Looks like I'm a genius after all."
Kakashi told him before starting that he he is unlikely to succeed in refining chakra before he reach 4 ~5 years old . But when Naruto asked then why try now. He told him that some geniuses might succeed so if he could, he would be considered a genius.
But the real reason was that refining chakra was an act of meditation that calmed the mind and strengthed it too. As you keep arousing your spiritual energy every time you try to refine chakra. As a by product, you end up strengthening your mind.
This strengthening however is minimal in older age but extremely useful in younger age.
On the contrary is the physical energy. Extracting chakra arouse the physical energy too, but your body gets depleted in return, so after many studies they discovered that the optimal time to extract chakra is 6 years old. Not too old that he has some time until his mental world solidify, not too young that his body would suffer from adverse effects later.
Naruto situation however was exceptional. He awakened wisdom from young age as a defensive mechanism against discrimination. He also met kurama that and enter his mind space. Although it was by coincidence caused by many factors from kurama's malice disappearance that the spirit didn't avoid his mental space subconsciously to the Bijuudama that exploded in his mind space bypassing the seal due to Minato transferring it away by flying thunder god technique which shock his mind space allowing a his spirit to reach it.
Not to mention his linage that's famous for their physical prowess and longevity.
Kakashi looked at Naruto smug face and immediately slapped him on his head saying.
"Don't get arrogant, Naruto. This just the starting line. Anyway, how do feel now."
"Ouch, Kakashi sensei why did you hit me. Didn't you say that only geniuses can extract chakra before 4 years old, so I'm not wrong, am i?."
No, I was lying. You shouldn't have been able to extract chakra yet. And with this large amount too. Geniuses are those who extract them at 4 but before that , they are considered monsters.
"Anyway, how do you feel now. Do you feel tired, depleted, pain or something .?"
"Mmmm?. No, that doesn't seem to be the case, I fee..."
Naruto didn't complete his words after shifting his towards his body as if he really is suffering from something.
Kakashi got worried when he saw him looking at the ground in silence after pausing mid sentence. So he caught him and asked with a worried voice.
"Naruto, is there something wrong. Tell me quickly how do you feel.?"
Naruto looked at Kakashi with tears in his as he said.
"Hungry. I'm really really hungry. I need to eat something right now or I will pass out from hunger."
Kakashi immediately fell on his head. He thought that something was wrong but it turned out he was just hungry.
Kakashi was worried that he overdid it while extracting his chakra and that's he had such a huge amount of chakra.
But what he didn't know was that the reason his chakra stopped growing wasn't because he got depleted of physical energy but spiritual energy.
Naruto body had only used half the physical energy he had when he extracting his chakra. As you would expect from a semi sage body .
"Ehm, well then let's eat."
While eating Kakashi spoke and said.
"Naruto, I will be training you for one more day after today . After that I will have to leave as I have a mission."
Naruto was surprised then saddened by the news as he was still young and didn't understand what mission means and thought that Kakashi was just telling him excuses as he didn't want to hang with him anymore.
Kakashi saw that Naruto looking sad and couldn't help but bitter but he really had a mission.
"Okay, we still have the rest of the day and tomorrow. Also I will give homework that I will have to see when I come back to make sure you kept training."
Naruto was happily surprised that it seems that Kakashi didn't want to leave him for good and was coming back after a while but he was confused.
"What's a homework ?."
Kakashi saw that Naruto mood got better and smiled as he explained.
"A homework is something that I will assign you to do when I'm a way. If you keep training and don't slack off, you would be able to show me the results of your training, if you don't , you wouldn't be able to and I will punish you."
Naruto understood but after a while he said.
"Why do I have a feeling that I wouldn't like having to do homeworks."
The moment he said that Kakashi smiled with an eerie smile and said.
"Well, if you want to be a Hokage you will have to do a lot of homeworks"
Naruto looked at his eerie smile and shivered.
What Naruto didn't know was that this his first time meeting with his eternal enemy.