Naruto: The Strongest Sage

The old man was very angry.

Aoba had a feeling. Naruto's ability to use multiple shadow clones without limit should also be due to Ashura.

Just like in the plot, Sasuke was able to successfully devour Orochimaru. These two children of destiny are protected by the Six Paths Sage at the spiritual and soul levels.

This also made Aoba always feel a little conflicted when he came into contact with Sasuke and Naruto. He always felt that the old man, the Six Paths Sage, would be watching him in secret.

He came into contact with Sasuke more because he knew that the Six Paths Sage was obviously biased towards Ashura. Sasuke, this Indra, was a bit like a tool man.

After graduation, these graduates of the Ninja School will face the division of teams.

To be honest, in Aoba's view, these are clearly a group of little brats. But in Konoha, or any ninja village, they are already regular ninjas.

And ninjas have to do tasks. From the lowest level of cleaning the river, to finding cats and dogs. To escorting caravans, cleaning up bandits. Even facing stray ninjas, or even ninjas from enemy countries.

Death and killing will become the norm in their lives.

In the classroom, the graduating students are waiting for the team leader to come and lead them.

Soon, Hong, Asuma, and their subordinates left.

In the end, there were only four people left in the classroom. Karin, Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura, who graduated early.

This made the four people look at each other in bewilderment, because according to the rules, it was clearly a group of three. What does it mean that there are only four of them left? Could it be that someone is going to be eliminated?

Near noon, Aoba slowly appeared. There was no special reason, just that he got up a little late in the morning.

Karin had long known that her team leader was Aoba, and Uchiha Sasuke was half of Aoba's disciple. Both of them were very familiar with Aoba.

Naruto also knew Aoba. But because of Konoha's ban, Aoba had not had much contact with him before.

He was not allowed to contact before, but now he has become Naruto's team leader. Aoba sighed again, it's easy to use someone above. Kakashi and Shikaku are one in the open and one in the dark.

Some simple proposals can be passed without a trace. Konoha F3 didn't even feel anything wrong.

"What, it turned out to be you, Aoba brother. I said you are too perfunctory, you are late for more than two hours." A group of little brats accused him together. Aoba was unhappy. Especially Karin was still making trouble inside.

Aoba wanted to say, I was late because of your mother. But thinking that there were minors in front of him, it was not good to say such things, so he finally held back.

"......Follow me, all of you."

According to tradition, the leader of the team should give his three new subordinates a test mission.

It's like Kakashi's snatching the bell. It can test the subordinates' combat effectiveness, intelligence collection ability, and mutual bond at the same time.

But Aoba didn't have time to play this game with them. He directly assigned Sasuke and the others the task of cleaning the river one by one and sent the children away.

At this time, only Haruno Sakura and Aoba were left at the scene.

Haruno Sakura now knew that she was the one who was eliminated. But it didn't look like she was completely eliminated.

She knew Aoba, or it could be said that there were few civilian ninjas in Konoha who didn't know Aoba. The other party was born in poverty and relied on swordsmanship. He fought against the Thunder Shadow twice without being defeated and has become an idol-level figure among the civilian ninjas of Konoha.

It's just that Aoba is usually low-key, and there are not many people who really have a relationship with him.

It's just that Haruno Sakura couldn't figure out what the other party meant by leaving her alone.

"Haruno Sakura, right? According to the information I have here, when you were in the ninja school, you got full marks in most of the theoretical exams?"

"Yes." Theoretical classes were originally Haruno Sakura's pride. But after more contact with Sasuke and Naruto, she realized very early on the huge gap between her and Naruto in combat power.

Haruno Sakura once had a dream, dreaming of becoming a ninja as powerful as Tsunade. But in reality, the gap between Sasuke and Naruto alone made her feel unattainable.

Her theoretical achievements were not worth mentioning in actual combat.

"Have you practiced climbing trees and treading water?"

"Yes."

Sasuke and Naruto taught her these skills. She practiced well, but was limited by her chakra and physical weakness. She was really far behind those two perverts in combat power.

Aoba stretched out his right hand, and

A ball of chakra gathered in his hand. As he controlled it, the ball of chakra slowly transformed into the image of a bird.

This move looked very powerful, but it was actually just a little trick. It was completely different from the Rasengan.

Rasengan also condensed chakra in the hand. But the Rasengan can cause huge damage because the chakra in the hand is highly compressed and rotated.

Aoba's move was just the most basic condensation, without the process of rotation and compression, so it had no lethality. All that was needed was precise control.

"Try it, can you do it?"

"This..." Haruno Sakura roughly understood what the legendary jonin wanted to do. She immediately concentrated and tried to complete this operation.

But unfortunately, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't complete the last step of letting the bird spread its wings.

After a while, the little girl was exhausted and panting.

"Okay, you're already very good."

In fact, in Aoba's requirements, as long as the chakra ball can be simply deformed, it will be qualified. But Haruno Sakura's control is better than expected. It can actually complete the complex transformation process of the bird.

As for the final step of making the bird move, it is a real advanced operation. It is completely different from the simple transformation in the previous step.

"Haruno Sakura, I ask you now, are you willing to be my disciple?"

"Ah... But. Lord Aoba, can I know why it is me? I am not good. Whether it is Sasuke, Naruto, or even Karin who graduated early, they are much better than me. They..."

"They are different, at least not like us."

"We?" Haruno Sakura didn't understand why a big man like Aoba would treat them as the same kind of people.

"Haha, didn't you notice? Those three people are all special. Sasuke is a descendant of the Uchiha clan, the former No. 1 family in Konoha. He was born with the bloodline limit of the Sharingan. He has great blessings in illusion and dynamic vision.

Uzumaki Naruto and Uzumaki Karin are both from the Uzumaki clan. Their clan is born with huge chakra that ordinary people can't match. Their vitality and physical strength are far beyond ordinary people. Do you understand what I mean?"

"You mean, sir, we are all civilian ninjas?"

"Yes, we are all civilian ninjas without bloodline and bloodline limit. Of course, we have another more important similarity.

You know, when I was in school, I also got full marks in theory classes."