#67 - Chapter 67 A genius who can’t cast a seal? Gamabunta appears!
Boom!
With a burst of smoke, an orange toad even larger than Jiraiya, with black纹路 patterns on its body, appeared out of thin air beneath Jiraiya's feet.
"This is the Summoning Technique. After signing a summoning contract with a creature, you can summon it by performing hand seals!"
Jiraiya proudly showed off to Naruto, expecting to see a hint of surprise on Naruto's face, but... there was none!
Naruto's expression remained calm, as if such a ninjutsu couldn't attract his attention at all.
"Cough, cough!"
Jiraiya covered up his embarrassment with a cough, then had Gamachu spit out a scroll and hand it to Naruto.
"Open that scroll and take a look!"
Naruto followed instructions and opened the scroll, seeing several names on it.
Hagoromo Otsutsuki... Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, a total of five names, and now he was about to become the sixth person to write his name on this scroll!
"This is the Summoning Contract passed down through generations on Mount Myōboku. Write your name in your own blood, then stamp it with a blood印 imprint of your five fingers. Then, as long as you concentrate your chakra on the hand that signed the contract and perform the hand seals 'Boar-Dog-Rooster-Monkey-Ram,' you can use this ninjutsu!"
Naruto continued to follow Jiraiya's instructions, biting his thumb and writing his name—Naruto Uzumaki—in the sixth blank space on the scroll!
Then, using his thumb, he pressed the blood印 imprint together with the other four fingers, leaving his five-finger print on it.
"Okay."
Naruto put away the scroll and returned it to Gamachu, then prepared to perform his first Summoning Technique.
But as soon as he raised his hand, he froze.
"Boar-Dog-Rooster-Monkey-Ram... How did the hand seals go again?"
"......"
"Don't joke with me, you idiot!!"
Jiraiya couldn't believe that a genius who could skillfully control the Nine-Tailed Fox's chakra and was likely to become a Chūnin didn't even know how to perform hand seals!
"Well... but I really don't know how."
Seeing Naruto's serious expression, which didn't seem like a lie, Jiraiya fell silent.
Could it be true?
But how was that possible?
A ninja who doesn't know how to perform hand seals is like an air conditioning repairman who doesn't know how to repair air conditioners... Is that right?
"Actually, it's not like I can't do any hand seals at all..."
Seeing Jiraiya's expression, Naruto felt a little embarrassed, so he opened his mouth to explain and performed the 'Ram' hand seal.
"I can do this one!"
"......"
The Ram seal is the hand gesture for the Transformation Technique and Body Replacement Technique in the basic Three Body Technique. Naruto first learned this seal when Mizuki taught him before he went in.
Later, after he obtained the max-level Transformation Technique, he became even more familiar with this seal.
"How did you graduate from the Ninja Academy if you only know this ninjutsu?" Jiraiya said speechlessly.
Only knowing one 'Ram' seal, wouldn't that mean Naruto only knew the Transformation Technique and the Body Replacement Technique, two basic ninjutsu?
"Well... I defeated a Chūnin teacher, and then I graduated," Naruto said.
"A Chūnin teacher? The guy who told you about the Nine-Tails inside you?" Jiraiya thought of the teacher Naruto had mentioned before.
"Yeah," Naruto nodded.
"Alright..."
Jiraiya felt a little weak. He now regarded Naruto as someone with some brute strength who was a dropout.
But he had chosen his disciple himself, and the name on the Summoning Scroll had been signed, so it was too late to regret it.
"Then let's start learning from the basics. This is the Boar seal, this is the Dog seal..."
Jiraiya taught Naruto one seal at a time.
Fortunately, Naruto wasn't stupid, and these seals weren't complicated, so he could basically remember them all after Jiraiya did them once.
It's just that memorizing them isn't the same as being proficient!
It's no problem for Naruto to perform the seals one by one, but if he had to perform the seals in a specific order, he would still be a little rusty!
The speed of performing hand seals is somewhat related to muscle memory. Naruto's muscles had not received such training before, so it was difficult for him to quickly become familiar with them!
A few minutes later,
Naruto practiced the order of the seals a little, and then slowly performed the Summoning Technique.
Boar-Dog-Rooster-Monkey-Ram!
Boom!
A burst of smoke exploded!
A giant red toad with a giant smoking pipe in its mouth, bandages around its waist, and a short sword stuck in it appeared beneath Naruto's feet!
"Boss Toad?!"
Jiraiya didn't expect Naruto to summon Gamabunta directly. Even he had to lower his head in front of Gamabunta.
"Hmm? Jiraiya, what did you summon me for?" Gamabunta stared at Jiraiya in front of him, his face displeased.
"Ahaha... How should I put it? It wasn't me who summoned you," Jiraiya sat on Gamachu's back and laughed.
"Not you? Who is it then?"
Gamabunta didn't remember anyone else in this world who had signed the Summoning Scroll and was still alive besides Jiraiya.
At this time, Jiraiya opened the Summoning Scroll, revealing the new name on it.
"Naruto Uzumaki?"
Gamabunta glanced at Jiraiya unhappily, "This person wouldn't be a new disciple you recruited, would he? Is it that little brat on my head?"
"That's right," Jiraiya nodded.
Gamabunta was silent for a second, then suddenly shouted loudly, "Are you kidding me! How can such a little brat summon me out?"
Faced with Gamabunta's questioning, Jiraiya couldn't argue.
He couldn't possibly ask Gamabunta to go back and have Naruto summon it again, could he?
"Hey, brat, shouldn't you get off my head now!"
Seeing that Jiraiya didn't explain, Gamabunta believed it a little, but he still planned to test Naruto, so he began to shake his body.
But Naruto was like glue stuck to his head, not moving at all!
"Don't bother, you can't shake me off your head," Naruto stood on Gamabunta's head and said calmly.
His max-level chakra control wasn't fake!
Not to mention standing on the shaking toad's back, even if he stood on lubricating oil, Naruto wouldn't move a bit!
At this time, Jiraiya was also surprised by Naruto's chakra control.
"Although the foundation isn't solid, this talent is not bad~" Jiraiya stroked his chin and looked at Naruto with increasing appreciation.
It seemed that he hadn't been completely fooled.
A poor foundation can be made up for, but if there is no ninja talent, then that is truly being fooled!
"You have some skills, brat!"
Seeing that he couldn't shake Naruto off, Gamabunta also recognized him a little, but to get him to fully recognize Naruto, this alone was not enough.
"Brat, have the guts to come down and fight me. If you can last five minutes in my hands, I'll allow you to be my little brother! You can summon me to help you fight in the future!"
Hearing Gamabunta's words, Naruto jumped directly from Gamabunta's body to in front of him, and then stretched out five fingers.
"Five seconds, if you can last five seconds without falling in my hands, I'll recognize you as my boss!"
