Naruto: Multiverse Character Templates

"I did not find any trace of them."

Natsuki jumped down from the rooftop and said, "I have an idea."

He had thought of the Misaka Mikoto Template's Electromagnetic Wave Perception.

Unlocking it required detecting five enemy infiltrations.

Infiltration and ambush had roughly the same meaning.

Electromagnetic Wave Perception would be very useful in war.

He wanted to unlock it as soon as possible.

"Minato, have your team hide in the dark. We will lure out the Ame shinobi."

Natsuki continued.

When Jiraiya introduced the situation yesterday, he had mentioned that Ame shinobi mainly fought through ambushes.

"I think this idea is feasible."

Kosuke pondered briefly and said.

"Okay."

Minato nodded.

He, Kae, and Suzume immediately hid themselves.

Natsuki and the other three left the village normally and headed toward the next location.

The sun set in the west.

It was not night yet, but the sky of the Land of Rain had already darkened.

At this moment, on a hillside four kilometers away from Natsuki and the others, seven people were hiding in the forest. They blended in with the rain, and unless one looked carefully, they could not be discovered at all.

Just then, a figure appeared in front of them.

"Four people. Confirmed to be Konoha shinobi."

The figure, wearing a raincoat and a poison mask, spoke.

"Then move."

The Ame Jonin, who was the captain, said in an icy tone.

The eight people immediately disappeared from where they stood.

"It is about time. We will rest here for tonight."

Natsuki stopped and said.

"I will set up the tent."

Nawaki immediately complained, "I really cannot stand this annoying rain."

"It is fine. The mission will be over soon."

Natsuki said with a smile, "They are already approaching us."

Four kilometers was a sensory range that most sensory ninjutsu could not reach.

But his Clairvoyance just happened to cover four kilometers.

Natsuki glanced at his Misaka Mikoto Template.

As expected, infiltration and ambush were treated the same. The progress had now reached one-fifth.

"They? You mean Ame shinobi?"

Nawaki froze for a moment, then immediately reacted. Excitement appeared on his face.

"Set up the tent so it will be easier for them to ambush us."

Natsuki gave him a look and said.

"Understood!"

Nawaki immediately opened a summoning storage scroll.

Before long, a tent was set up on the spot.

The four of them entered the tent.

"Eight people, seven o'clock direction, six hundred meters away."

Kosuke maintained his sensory ninjutsu as he spoke.

Nawaki raised his hand and grabbed the Great Sword, Samehada, on his back.

Natsuki and Nonō, on the other hand, remained very calm and made no unnecessary movements.

"One hundred meters."

Kosuke said again, "Prepare to act."

Shadow Assassin!

Natsuki formed hand seals with both hands and disappeared from where he stood.

A mass of shadow left the tent.

The rainy night gave him the perfect cover.

The Ame shinobi moving in a hurry did not immediately notice that a shadow had appeared on the ground.

The next second, Natsuki leaped up.

The surrounding rain paused slightly, then was drawn toward him and began circling around his body.

Water Breathing, Tenth Form, Constant Flux!

A water dragon formed together with several rotating slashes and attacked the eight Ame shinobi.

"We have been discovered! Be careful!"

In an instant, the eight Ame shinobi reacted.

The Ame Jonin quickly formed hand seals.

A wall of water rose in front of them.

But Natsuki's target was not him. It was the Tokubetsu Jonin beside him.

The Ame Tokubetsu Jonin had just taken out a black umbrella when he saw a water dragon.

His expression changed drastically, and he instinctively opened the black umbrella to meet the water dragon.

Boom!

The water dragon crashed into the black umbrella.

Just as the Ame Tokubetsu Jonin felt relieved that the black umbrella had blocked the water dragon, a blade entered his vision.

Kurosawa pierced through the black umbrella and then through his head.

The Ame Tokubetsu Jonin let out a muffled sound and collapsed to the ground.

"Damn it!"

Losing a Tokubetsu Jonin in the first exchange immediately enraged the Ame Jonin.

At that moment, Kosuke, Nawaki, Minato, and Uzumaki Kae all appeared and joined the battle.

Only the two medical-nin, Nonō and Inuzuka Suzume, did not participate in the fight.

"Fight while retreating!"

The Ame Jonin immediately realized they had fallen into an ambush.

But in terms of numbers, they still had the advantage. He just did not know the other side's strength.

So he did not retreat directly, but fought while pulling back.

If Natsuki and the others were not strong enough, he would immediately order a counterattack.

After the Ame Jonin finished speaking, he suddenly took out a poison bomb and threw it to the ground.

In an instant, poisonous gas spread.

"It is poisonous!"

Minato immediately warned, "Hold your breath and do not touch the poison gas directly!"

He had fought Ame shinobi many times and already knew how to deal with their poison bombs.

As long as they did not directly touch the poison gas, the poisoning would not be too severe, and a medical-nin could save them.

Although Kosuke and Nawaki had Curse Antidotes, there was no need to deliberately get poisoned.

After they dodged away, they formed hand seals.

Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!

With the support of the rain, the two water dragons became larger than usual.

They roared into the air and charged toward the Ame shinobi.

Natsuki locked onto another Tokubetsu Jonin and reached him with Soru.

The Ame Tokubetsu Jonin's vision blurred. When he saw Natsuki, his heart shook.

For a moment, he almost thought he was hallucinating.

But as a Tokubetsu Jonin, his strength was not bad after all.

In an instant, he pulled out a flying sickle ninja sword, the same kind as Hanzō's, and slashed at Natsuki.

The Eclipse!

Natsuki did not hold back at all. Both swords came out.

The Ame Tokubetsu Jonin had just swung his ninja sword when he froze in place.

Twenty-seven consecutive strikes erupted instantly.

Cuts appeared all over his body, and countless sprays of blood scattered.

The final slash cut open his throat.

The Ame Tokubetsu Jonin died while still standing.

Natsuki turned his body and suddenly threw Kurosawa from his left hand.

Kurosawa flew at extreme speed toward the last Tokubetsu Jonin.

He was fighting Minato.

Minato heard the sound of air being torn apart and turned to see Kurosawa. He suddenly thought of something and quickly retreated.

The Ame Tokubetsu Jonin could not help freezing.

He did not understand why Minato was pulling away. Was he worried about being accidentally hit by his teammate?

But this ninja sword was clearly aimed at him. It could not hit Minato at all.

The Ame Tokubetsu Jonin casually opened a black umbrella.

Just as he was about to use the black umbrella to deflect Kurosawa, Kurosawa suddenly exploded.

Countless fragments cut through the black umbrella and continued forward, all landing on the Ame Tokubetsu Jonin's body.

He opened his mouth, and a large amount of blood spilled from its corners.

"You are Natsuki?"

When the Ame Jonin heard the explosion and subconsciously looked over, he suddenly cried out in alarm.

After the battle between Konoha and Suna, Natsuki had become famous throughout the shinobi world.

Among the stories that spread about him, the most famous one was that his ninja tools could explode.

Whether swords, arrows, kunai, shuriken, or other ninja tools, all of them were like that.

The moment the Ame Jonin saw Kurosawa explode, he immediately thought of Natsuki.

Without another word, he hurriedly shouted, "Retreat!"

As for himself, he directly abandoned the other teammates and fled with a Body Flicker.

"I will chase him!"

Natsuki immediately pursued.

Although the Ame Jonin was fleeing, he had not lost the judgment he should have.

After sensing Natsuki behind him, he flung both hands backward.

The sound of air being torn apart rang out.

A large number of senbon shot toward Natsuki.

The senbon flashed with an unusual color in the rain.

Clearly, they were coated with deadly poison.

Natsuki originally wanted to use Armament Haki, but he suddenly thought of something and immediately raised Kurosawa.

Water Breathing, Third Form, Flowing Dance!

He swung his sword several times in an instant, and the water current knocked away the dense senbon.

"Die!"

Seeing that the senbon had failed, the Ame Jonin immediately threw out two poison bombs.

A large amount of poison gas instantly surged out and swallowed Natsuki.

But Natsuki had Poison-to-Medicine. To him, the poison gas was instead a kind of supplement.

He ignored the poison gas and gripped Kurosawa.

One-Sword Style, Iai, Lion Song!

His entire body was like a blade, cutting through the poison gas and also cutting through the Ame Jonin.

With a scream, the Ame Jonin widened his eyes and stared at Natsuki, completely unable to understand why he did not care about poison.

But his thoughts quickly disappeared, because he had been split in two. The left and right halves of his body slid several meters across the ground.

Natsuki put away Kurosawa.

There was no need for him to interfere with the remaining Ame shinobi.

After all, he had already taken care of one Jonin and three Tokubetsu Jonin by himself.

[Congratulations to the host for unlocking Nami Template Ability Two, Navigator.]

Natsuki nodded slightly.

Although the Navigator ability was not very useful in the Land of Rain, unlocking one ability meant one fewer thing to worry about.

And with Navigator unlocked, the Nami Template had now fully fused.

Aside from that, the progress of Artoria Template's Mana Burst had reached one-fifth.

Its unlock condition was to defeat five Jonin using only swordsmanship.

The Ame Jonin he had just defeated also met this condition.

That was why he had not used Armament Haki to block the senbon.

"Sometimes, having a teammate who is too strong is also a kind of trouble."

Nawaki shook his head and said.

"Why do you say that?"

Minato, who had finished the battle, subconsciously asked.

"I had not even used my full strength yet, and they had already been defeated by you all."

Nawaki complained, "Especially Natsuki. He actually took out four enemies so quickly."

When Minato heard this, he thought of Natsuki's performance just now and could not help falling silent.

This strength was much greater than what the rumors suggested.

Minato suspected that if he faced Natsuki now, he might not last even one exchange.

Without learning the Flying Thunder God Technique, he was only at the level of an elite Chunin and had not yet reached Jonin level.

And the Wind Release he specialized in seemed far too slow in front of Natsuki. Being able to release even one would already be fortunate.

Minato sighed inwardly.

"A mission is not about competing to show off strength."

Kosuke smiled and said, "As long as the mission is completed, that is enough."

"Let's go back and report the mission."

Natsuki smiled and said, "This is war. You will have plenty of chances to perform."

"I was just saying it casually."

Nawaki chuckled and said.

After Natsuki put all the Ame shinobi corpses into a summoning storage scroll, the group left.

Under normal circumstances, a summoning storage scroll could not hold living things.

But corpses were not a problem.

Late at night.

The group returned to Konoha's main camp.

Although it was already late, there were still quite a few shinobi on duty who had not slept.

After Natsuki and the others handed in the mission, they returned to their tent to sleep.

A new day arrived.

While everyone waited for missions, they did not waste time and began training.

Minato immediately noticed something.

Kosuke, Nawaki, and Nonō were all training in taijutsu.

"It is a taijutsu I created, the Konoha Rokushiki."

Natsuki smiled and asked, "Do you want to learn?"

"I can learn it too?"

Minato could not help being stunned.

He understood Konoha's rules regarding learning ninjutsu very well.

And most shinobi would not easily teach others the ninjutsu they had mastered.

Unless they were teaching their students.

But he clearly was not Natsuki's student.

"You do not want to learn?"

Natsuki blinked and said, "Among the Konoha Rokushiki, there is one taijutsu that is especially suited for the Flying Thunder God Technique."

He was referring to Shigan.

The Flying Thunder God Technique was indeed absurdly powerful, but it also had a weakness.

It was too fast. So fast that Minato did not have time to form hand seals.

Think about it. If Minato teleported behind an enemy through the Flying Thunder God Technique, would he use ninjutsu to attack?

Although his hand seal speed was very fast, it still took time.

And in battle, especially against Jonin, a single instant was enough for them to counterattack.

Then the Flying Thunder God Technique would lose its purpose.

At that time, there were only two types of attacks that could be used.

One was ninja tools.

That was also why Tobirama and Minato both liked using shuriken.

The other was ninjutsu without hand seals.

Minato developing the Rasengan was certainly inspired by the Tailed Beast Ball, but on another level, it was also because of the Flying Thunder God Technique.

The Flying Thunder God Technique plus Rasengan was what allowed him to sweep through the Third Shinobi World War almost without obstruction.

Against most Jonin, he could defeat them as easily as cutting vegetables.

Only when facing certain special Jonin would the Rasengan's power seem insufficient.

But if Minato learned Shigan, his killing power would definitely rise another level.

In the original work, during his battle with Obito, if he had known Shigan, he might have been able to pierce through Obito's heart directly.

"I will learn it."

Minato immediately said.

Since Natsuki had said this much, refusing would be somewhat impolite.

After listening to the explanation of Shigan, he finally understood why Natsuki said it was especially suited for the Flying Thunder God Technique.

"Thank you."

Minato said gratefully.

Although he had long considered Natsuki a good friend, after Natsuki taught him Shigan, their relationship could rise another level, reaching the level of close brothers.

"How long do you think it will take you to learn the Flying Thunder God Technique?"

Natsuki asked curiously.

In the original work, although it was not said when Minato learned the Flying Thunder God Technique, it was definitely before the Third Shinobi World War.

Natsuki remembered that the first time he used the Flying Thunder God Technique should have been during his battle with the Fourth Raikage and Killer B of Kumo.

Based on the timeline, that was still several years away.

Of course, because of his appearance, many butterfly effects had already been created.

For example, before Minato graduated, he had already received Jiraiya's guidance.

"Probably after this Shinobi World War ends."

Minato replied, "During the war, there is not much time to study the Flying Thunder God Technique."

"Then it is soon. You will most likely learn it next year."

Natsuki nodded and said.

It was already November now, so next year was not too far away.

However, learning the Flying Thunder God Technique alone was not enough. He would also need to learn advanced techniques like Flying Thunder God, Second Step and Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder.

But the Flying Thunder God Technique was the most difficult. If he could learn it, he would already have succeeded more than halfway.

Natsuki watched everyone training in his Konoha Rokushiki and could not help rubbing his chin.

He wondered when a teacher-type character template would awaken.

Was the number of students not enough? Or was their fame not enough?

Natsuki thought for a moment, then stopped thinking about it.

In any case, it would awaken when the time came.

He also began training.

He temporarily stopped developing Magnet Release ninjutsu, mainly because developing it in Konoha's main camp would cause too much commotion.

He did not intend to expose Magnet Release ninjutsu yet.

Natsuki already had a plan.

The advancement of creating his own ninjutsu was undoubtedly creating forbidden jutsu and creating kekkei genkai.

As time passed and his strength increased, it would be very reasonable for him to create Magnet Release.

Of course, the most important thing was that with his current identity and status, even if it was unreasonable, no one would investigate it too deeply.

It was not as though someone could claim he was the Third Kazekage's student.

Who would believe that?

Although the Five Great Shinobi Villages often sent spies to one another, no Kage would ever send their own genius out as a spy.

The pot shadow Danzō was the exception.

But he was not a Kage.

Natsuki began training in Lightning Release and Wind Release.

In the afternoon, they received a notice from the Anbu to gather at the entrance of Konoha's main camp.

"What does that mean? Why not just tell us the mission details directly?"

Nawaki scratched his head and asked.

"It is a joint mission."

Minato pondered briefly and said, "Aside from us, there are other teams participating."

Once Nawaki heard this, he understood and stopped asking.

The seven of them arrived at the entrance of Konoha's main camp.

Just as Minato had said, there were two other shinobi teams there.

Natsuki glanced over and noticed a familiar face, Mikoto.

But her teammates were no longer the same as before.

Mikoto also noticed him and could not help feeling a little surprised.

During this period, although she had not seen Natsuki, she had heard many stories about him.

For example, he had defeated Rasa and become Konoha's youngest Jonin.

Thinking back to those days, the two of them had been roughly equal in strength. Now everything had changed.

"Natsuki will be in charge of this mission."

Jiraiya handed Natsuki a mission scroll and said.

"Yes, Jiraiya-sama."

Natsuki opened the mission scroll and began reading.

Jiraiya turned and headed toward the main tent.

This mission was similar to the last one, but it was no longer targeting a single Ame squad. Instead, it was targeting an Ame stronghold.

Moreover, after taking this stronghold, they had to hold it for three days.

Because this stronghold was quite important.

Within those three days, Orochimaru would make other arrangements, repel the Ame shinobi, and ultimately turn this stronghold into Konoha's.

"Which of you two teams are the captains?"

Natsuki put away the mission scroll and asked.

"I am the captain, Uchiha Mikoto."

Mikoto stepped forward and said.

Natsuki raised an eyebrow, a little surprised.

Because he remembered that Mikoto had still been an ordinary team member before.

Had she awakened the three-tomoe Sharingan during the war and become a Jonin?

But that was normal. War was the easiest time to be stimulated into awakening the eyes.

Mikoto herself was around five years older than him.

(To be continued.)