Naruto: Senmei Asahi

Early in the morning, Asahi was sweating profusely on the training ground as usual, doing his basic training-routine.

Getting up early was a habit that Asahi had developed over the years. Over the years, unless he needed to lie in bed to recuperate due to an injury, he would insist on doing the basic training without any fail.

In August of the 44th year of Konoha, Asahi was already eleven and a half years old.

At this stage, basic training was still one of the most important things that could not be neglected.

For ordinary ninjas, with age their thoughts gradually mature from ignorance. They were often very playful in their childhood and yearn for powerful ninjutsu in their adolescence, only to regret it when they become adults.

Especially during wartime, although the pressure of war could stimulate some people to unleash their potential, due to the lack of time for training, these people's future achievements might be very limited. Even Kakashi, who was known as a 'genius' in his youth, would only achieve the status of an Elite-Jonin in the future.

The biggest advantage of Asahi was that he had a mature mind since he was born. He knew what he should do and had made a set of plans, forcing himself to strictly implement them.

Although it was difficult to improve greatly through the basics, every bit of progress would be of great benefit to Asahi's future.

In the next few years, Asahi's body would gradually mature, and the amount of chakra would also increase greatly at this stage. The problem that had been bothering Asahi the most would also be solved. For now, as long as his combat experience was improved, the current he would be able to compete with some ordinary Jonin.

It was precisely because of these reasons that Shikaku, their leading Jonin, had submitted Asahi's Jonin-promotion application to the village administration. As long as the village's top-management approves the application, Asahi would become the youngest Jonin in Konoha's history, breaking the record of the twelve-year-old Jonin Kakashi in the original work.

In terms of missions, Asahi had already reached the qualifications to apply for the promotion to Special-Jonin, and the only thing he lacked was strength and experience.

However, judging from Asahi's performance so far, Asahi's thinking was mature, and the tasks led by Asahi were all completed successfully. In addition, this time Asahi uncovered the fact that Sasori of the Red Sand assassinated the Third Kazekage, so his resume was already fully stacked.

So after Shikaku considered it for a while and asked for Asahi's opinion, he submitted his application for the position of Jonin to the village.

In Shikaku's words, even if it just for the sake of village wanting to boost the morale of the frontline ninjas, they would surely choose to approve Asahi's application. What's more, Asahi now had the solid qualifications to become a Special-Jonin without any problems.

For the ninjas on the front line, the appearance of a young genius in the village meant that the village had successors. The will of fire of Konoha is to burn themselves to illuminate the next generation. With offspring who could be entrusted with the future, those ninjas on the front lines would fight even harder.

In the month since returning to Konoha, Asahi's reputation had grown noticeably. Because he had been treating patients and saving lives in Konoha Hospital, almost most of the ninjas in Konoha know Asahi, and they would come forward to greet him enthusiastically whenever they see him.

This was not because someone was helping Asahi to build momentum, but because Asahi had gained the recognition of a large number of Konoha ninjas through his continuous efforts.

Under such circumstances, it would be very easy for Asahi to recruit one or two subordinates to work for him. But after careful consideration, Asahi gave up this idea.

'It's not the right time yet.'

Asahi's growth was still not enough, and there were no particularly outstanding ninjas in Konoha at this stage. Especially once the matter of recruiting subordinates was exposed, it would easily cause misunderstanding with the Third Hokage.

Asahi's purpose of recruiting subordinates was just to help him gather information, but if it was just for that purpose, instead of looking for those unreliable ninjas, it would be better to continue cooperating with Chizuru.

As long as Asahi could come up with chips that were enough to impress him, given Chizuru's status in the Uchiha clan, it was easy for him to find out some information

During this period, Asahi had been paying close attention to the situation in the ninja world. Given Asahi's current position in Konoha, except for confidential information, general information would not be hidden from him.

Through the incident with Sasori, Asahi had proved his ability. Perhaps Hiruzen was also expecting that Asahi could analyze something beneficial to Konoha through this information that he was receiving.

The war against the Iwagakure had basically stabilized. Jiraiya was fighting steadily on the front lines. Although the Iwagakure has launched a fierce offensive, it still had failed to break into the border of the Land of Fire. The reason why Hiruzen had not yet sent reinforcements to the front line was because of a shocking news coming from the Kumogakure.

The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki went berserk, and the Kumogakure suffered some losses as a result. Although the Third Raikage subdued the Eight-Tails with his powerful fist and selected a new Jinchūriki, it was rumored that the Third Raikage was severely injured in this battle and was still in a coma.

However, despite the Third Raikage's power, he was injured like this, this news was the one that shocked the ninja world. Anyone in the ninja world with a little common sense knows how strong the Third Raikage's physique was. It might be true that he was injured, but it was not certain that he was seriously injured to the point of being unconscious or not.

Moreover, the news of the village's leader being seriously injured was leaked out so quickly without any confidentiality measures, which made many people unable to believe it.

It was precisely because of the need to guard against the Kumogakure that Hiruzen did not dare to make a rash decision.

However, Asahi could not wait any longer. The time agreed with Orochimaru was getting closer and closer, and there was no result in researching the potion. If he could not go to the battlefield on the Iwagakure-side to ask Minato for advice on the [Flying Thunder God Technique], Asahi really could not imagine what the consequences would be for him.

So in order to get to the front line as soon as possible, Asahi thought for a long time, and finally decided to take another risk and ask Hiruzen to agree to let him go to the Iwagakure battlefield.

If he wanted to convince Hiruzen, he needed to start with intelligence.

According to the information that Asahi currently had, the two villages of Kumogakure and Kirigakure were the best breakthrough points.

The Kumogakure had just survived the Eight-Tails' riot. After some rest and recuperation, it would inevitably join the Great Ninja War to gain benefits from the war.

Judging from the plot of the original work, Iwagakure should have taken advantage of the war between Konoha and Sunagakure to launch a sneak attack on Kumogakure, resulting in the Third Raikage being consumed to death by ten-thousand ninjas.

Similarly, Iwagakure would also suffer heavy losses in this war.

The battle of Kannabi Bridge cut off the only supply line that Iwagakure had. But a bridge could be easily built using Earth-style ninjutsu. So why would they declare a truce with Konoha over this?

According to Asahi, the heavy losses suffered by the Iwagakure in the sneak attack on the Kumogakure, coupled with the record of Minato killing dozens of ninjas in an instant proving his title 'Yellow Flash', made Onoki dare not take risks easily again.

However, with the temporary withdrawal of the Sunagakure and the main forces of Iwagakure being held back by Konoha, all this seemed impossible to happen.

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