Chapter 40: Leave
"Brother Minato, this is a healing potion I prepared myself," Dosuke said.
"You know I'm injured?" Minato asked. Hearing Dosuke's confident statement and seeing the healing potion, he did not object.
Taking off his coat and the black long-sleeved shirt underneath, Minato revealed burns covering his back and a knife wound on his chest.
Otherwise, with Minato's abilities, he would have rushed directly to Takigakure after defeating the group of ninjas blocking his path.
As it was, he didn't arrive in Takigakure until near noon the next day. It was likely that Jiraiya had helped treat his wounds.
"Brother Minato, you're injured so badly?"
"When Obito pounced on you today, I felt something was off with your expression, like you might be hurt. But I didn't expect you to be so seriously injured," Dosuke said.
The ambush ninjas were unexpectedly formidable. Although Minato had not yet reached the level of the so-called Yellow Flash of the future, he far surpassed ordinary ninjas.
If it had been Soma from Dosuke's first mission, there was a high chance he wouldn't have survived to meet anyone.
"The ninjas who ambushed us were no ordinary people. Their leader had a Bloodline Limit that allowed him to extract metal from the earth, something I've never seen before. I was caught off guard and injured in the chest," Minato explained.
Dosuke sat cross-legged behind Minato, his hands glowing green as he activated the Mystical Palm Technique, gently healing Minato's back.
During the treatment, Dosuke controlled his chakra carefully, assessing Minato's injuries.
Through the treatment, the burns on Minato's back gradually healed, and his skin slowly returned to a healthy complexion. Fine sand and stones emerged from the wounds, a result of a large-scale explosive tag explosion.
When the skin on Minato's back had improved, Dosuke took out the potion and gently applied it to Minato's back.
He placed a clean cloth over it and asked Minato to lie on it.
Pouring some green liquid from the healing bottle into his hand, Dosuke used chakra to form a water mass and pressed it onto the wound between Minato's chest and abdomen.
Under chakra control, wisps of brown toxin drifted out from the wound along the chakra water mass, gathering together under Dosuke's guidance.
The slightly greenish liquid slowly turned brown. When no more toxin floated out from Minato's wound, Dosuke collected the toxin ball, picked up a cup from the table, and carefully placed the toxin inside.
The Mystical Palm Technique was activated, and Minato's wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye under the steady input of Dosuke's chakra.
Seeing the wound healed, Dosuke wiped the fine beads of sweat from his forehead and stopped the Mystical Palm Technique.
"Brother Minato, the wound has healed, but you need to rest for a while," Dosuke instructed while bandaging the area.
"Thank you so much this time, Dosuke," Minato said, putting on his clothes and feeling relaxed.
"It's no trouble, it's what I should do. You should rest early, Brother Minato," Dosuke replied, packing away the healing potion and the cup containing the toxin before turning back to his room.
"Dosuke, how is your Flying Thunder God training?" Minato asked.
Hearing Minato's question, Dosuke turned around and replied, "The basic sealing technique has been mostly mastered. I've also gained a little insight into the Flying Thunder God Technique. But I'm completely puzzled about sensing space. By the way, Brother, could you check if my method is right?"
After speaking, he quickly walked into the house.
After a short while, Dosuke came out of the house, holding a kunai with a spell wrapped around its tail.
Dosuke handed the kunai to Minato.
"Brother Minato, this is the Flying Thunder God seal technique I completed myself. Take a look."
Minato took the kunai and gently touched the spell wrapped around its tail.
Looking at Dosuke sitting in front of him, he couldn't help but think, *What a genius.*
It had only been a few days since Minato taught him the first step of the seal. Not only had Dosuke understood the sealing method, but he had also adapted the original Flying Thunder God method.
Even Minato, after a long period of relentless effort and personal instruction from Kushina, had only recently completed the Flying Thunder God Technique.
"Very good, Dosuke, there's basically no problem with your Flying Thunder God spell, just a few minor issues that need correction. In the end, as long as you can sense the power of space, you can complete it."
"Everyone's Flying Thunder God spell is different. Mine and the Second Hokage's are not the same."
"I can only help you point out these few flaws. The rest you need to feel for yourself and perfect step by step," Minato said, highlighting several problems in Dosuke's Flying Thunder God spell.
"The next step is to learn to sense the power of space and link the Flying Thunder God spell with it for teleportation." After speaking, Minato returned the kunai to Dosuke.
"Well, I understand, Brother Minato. You should go to bed early," Dosuke nodded, took the kunai, looked at the spell on it, and returned to the room thoughtfully.
After the treatment and witnessing Dosuke's skills, Minato couldn't help but sigh that it was truly a great blessing to have a teammate like Dosuke.
Early the Next Morning
Several people finished washing early.
Tap tap
There was a knock on the door.
"Sirs, I am the man from yesterday delivering your food. Please open the door."
Opening the door, a man holding a food box similar to yesterday's but relatively larger stood there.
Takikage must have informed the chef to prepare more food.
Dosuke took the food box and thanked the man.
Minato called out to him, "Hi, please wait a moment. Please work hard and tell Takikage that we want to visit him this morning."
"Oh, oh, oh, oh. I see," the man replied quickly, assuring he would deliver the message.
After breakfast, they packed their bags, and Minato led the group toward the office building of Takigakure.
Takikage Office Building, Inside Takikage's Office
"Master Takikage, it seems that they want to leave."
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