Chapter 4

As Minato watched Night Wuji's happy appearance, he felt very pleased as well. After all, if they just left him alone, he might be killed by the war at any time. It would not be in vain for them to have saved him if he could have some ability to protect himself.

However, Minato soon put away the smile on his face. Seeing Minato's stern expression, Night Wuji also reined in his happy mood.

Minato, seeing Night Wuji's appearance, nodded in satisfaction, thinking, "Not bad, he can quickly compose himself. This is very important for a ninja."

Then, Minato began to speak to Night Wuji, "Since you want to be a ninja, I'll teach you something first. Do you know what a ninja is?"

"I don't know," Night Wuji replied, which was true. He really didn't know what a ninja was; in his mind, a ninja was just a profession.

"A ninja is someone who can endure. This is the basic condition for being a ninja. To become an outstanding ninja, you need to have good endurance, whether it's towards people or things."

"Uh-huh," Night Wuji nodded in response.

Seeing Night Wuji's obedient and very listening appearance, Minato smiled, "Alright, let's skip the preliminaries. You'll understand when you grow up. I'll tell you about ninjas. A ninja is a human who can skillfully use chakra energy. Chakra is the basic energy that ninjas use for various jutsu, and this energy is not possessed by ordinary people. It requires special training methods to extract chakra. Do you understand this?"

"I understand. It's about using a kind of energy called chakra, right?" Night Wuji answered in a straightforward manner.

"Very good," Minato said, looking at him as if he were very smart, and then continued, "Chakra is the energy that ninjas use when performing jutsu. This energy comes from two sources: one is the physical energy contained in each cell of the human body, and the other is the mental energy accumulated through training and experience. Chakra is composed of these two sources.

Jutsu involves drawing these two energies from within the body, extracting them as chakra, and then activating them through hand seals."

Seeing Night Wuji nodding as if he understood everything, Minato was a bit curious. He thought to himself that if he hadn't grown up in this environment, he wouldn't have understood it so easily. This kid seemed to understand it all on his first hearing.

"Do you understand everything?" Minato asked.

"Yes, it's quite simple. But I don't seem to have that chakra energy you mentioned. You said it's the energy contained in the human body, right?" Night Wuji knew this wasn't the time to act naive. In this situation, he would be considered a genius. If he wasted more time on extracting chakra, he might not learn anything else after Minato left. He needed to take advantage of the time to learn as much as possible.

"You really understand, kid. Not bad," Minato praised him. He thought, "To understand this on first contact, this kid might become a genius in the ninja world."

"You don't feel chakra in your body now because you haven't undergone the special method to extract it. I'll teach you how to extract chakra. Go sit over there first."

Night Wuji followed Minato's instructions and sat down, focusing his mind as Minato said, imagining a flow of energy within his body. Unfortunately, after trying for a long time, he didn't feel anything.

Night Wuji then stopped his efforts and looked at Minato with a pleading expression, saying, "Why don't I feel anything? I don't feel anything at all."

Minato was not surprised at all and said sternly, "Extracting chakra isn't that quick. You've never done anything like this before. You need to concentrate and focus entirely, without relaxing. Do you think being a ninja is easy? Since you want to be a ninja and I'm teaching you, follow my instructions. Keep your mind focused on your body and don't slack off, understand?"

Seeing Minato's stern face, Night Wuji thought, "He's not trying to trick me. If the Fourth Hokage didn't want to teach me, he would have said so directly. He wouldn't play such a childish trick. I'll do as he says. I don't believe I can't extract chakra."

With this thought, Night Wuji tried very hard to focus his mind, trying to find that flow of energy within his body. Unfortunately, after many attempts, he still felt nothing, even to the point of dizziness.

Several times, Night Wuji wanted to give up. But thinking about the ninja world and the fact that without chakra, he would be mediocre, he didn't want to give up this opportunity to change himself. In his previous life, he had no chance to change his fate.

This time, Night Wuji decided to seize this opportunity no matter what, even if it meant death. In this world, if he became a civilian, he wouldn't be satisfied. It would be better to die than to regret it later.

Night Wuji consoled himself that once he became a ninja, he could interact with the people he admired in his previous life. Whether they were friends or enemies, it would be an exciting thing. As time passed, Night Wuji's face began to twist. After countless efforts, he still felt nothing, and he began to worry. Could he be one of those who can't extract chakra? In the Naruto world, even in the Five Great Shinobi Villages, there are still many civilians. Some might fear the violence of ninjas and not want to become one, but with such a large number, there must be some who want to become ninjas but can't. In the highly developed jutsu world of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, the desire for power is universal.

Could he be one of those people, a civilian in the Naruto world? Even though he now knew the Fourth Hokage, he could still live a good life as a civilian if he worked hard.

As the sky grew darker, after countless efforts, Night Wuji felt nothing in his body, and his face became increasingly grim, even twisted.

Night Wuji gradually felt that he couldn't do it and needed to face reality. In his previous life, despite his efforts, he couldn't change anything, not even a simple wish to build a better house for the old principal.

"Perhaps one should face reality." Just as Night Wuji was about to give up, he suddenly remembered Naruto's words, "My ninja way is to move forward bravely. Complaining about fate changes nothing. If you think it's fate, I'll change it." This was said during his first fight with Neji, and it was something like that.

When Night Wuji watched Naruto, he sometimes thought that if Naruto wasn't the Fourth Hokage's son, he might have died long ago. Naruto seemed too naive, and it was only because of the Fourth Hokage's protection that he grew up.

But Naruto's growth did change many people. For example, the very shy Hinata was changed by him.

Night Wuji laughed at himself, "At the time, I thought if I were Naruto, the result would be different. Now, how ridiculous that seems. If I were Naruto, I would just be another Pain or Gaara."

Night Wuji laughed at his former self. If he could have been as brave as Naruto, the results might have been different. Instead of hiding and licking his wounds when mocked, he could have stood up and shouted, and everything might have been different.

Night Wuji thought about the mischievous Naruto, the cold Sasuke, the smart Shikamaru, and the cool Itachi. Most importantly, he hadn't even seen any of the beautiful women in the Naruto world. Thinking about Hinata's shyness, Temari's confidence, and Konan's angelic appearance, these were no longer just cartoon characters. They were real people in the same world, breathing the same air.

"Considering all this, how can I be a mere civilian in a world with the First Hokage, Uchiha Madara, Hashirama, the Sage of Six Paths, and even the legendary Kaguya Ōtsutsuki?" With a roar in his heart, Night Wuji's body seemed to move on its own. A powerful aura emanated from him, and a white light suddenly appeared on his body, though it quickly disappeared. At this moment, Night Wuji finally felt that special energy within his body.

"I finally felt it," Night Wuji was overjoyed, but then he lost consciousness.

When the aura emanated from Night Wuji, Minato was resting and training nearby. The aura woke him up, and he saw the white light on Night Wuji's body. Then he saw Night Wuji suddenly stand up and fall backward.

Just as Night Wuji was about to hit the ground, Minato quickly came to his side and caught the young Night Wuji.

"He really extracted chakra. From the aura just now, he's not simple. Could he really become a great ninja in the future? But this situation seems to be a severe overexertion. He just recovered from an injury, and now this. Why did he push himself so hard? Extracting chakra isn't something that can be done in a day or two. This is going to be a bit troublesome." Minato picked up Night Wuji and slowly carried him into the room.

If Night Wuji had heard Minato's words, he would have fought Minato no matter the difference in strength, for making him worry and fear that he couldn't extract chakra.