"Rasengan is a Ninjutsu created by the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato, inspired by the Tailed Beast Bomb. He and I spent three years developing it."
Jiraiya spoke with a reminiscent look.
Upon hearing that Linto wanted to learn the Rasengan, Jiraiya, who was on a mission elsewhere, rushed back.
They arrived at a training room specifically for practice. Jiraiya sat facing two people.
One was Linto.
The other was Naruto.
After all, teaching one person or two made no difference, as this was Naruto's father's Ninjutsu.
Jiraiya had originally planned to teach Naruto when he was older, but considering Naruto's ability to wield the Nine-Tails' power when facing the Kumogakure attack last time.
Jiraiya thought:
"Perhaps, it's time."
However, Naruto's attention was completely elsewhere.
He looked back out the window. Sasuke and Little Momo were pressed against the glass, each poking half their faces out, smiling and waving at him. Naruto grinned back—
A large hand grabbed Naruto's head and forcefully turned his face back.
Naruto met Jiraiya's gaze, shrinking his neck and giving an embarrassed chuckle.
Jiraiya withdrew his hand, cleared his throat, and continued:
"The full name of the Rasengan is 'Spiral Ice Pop Launching Swirl's Jiraiya Twin Style Ball'— Linto, you don't need to remember this, but Naruto, you must memorize both names."
"Huh? Why?"
Naruto protested the different treatment.
Jiraiya didn't explain, and continued to describe the principle of the Rasengan. He extended a hand, and Chakra rapidly swirled and condensed in his palm, accompanied by a faint, rapid whooshing sound. A Rasengan appeared in his hand.
"The Rasengan doesn't require hand seals. You just need to condense Chakra in your palm, making it flow and compress continuously in different directions to form a 'Chakra sphere' with high rotational density.
The rapidly spinning Chakra itself carries immense power."
"You can try it first. Condense your Chakra in your hand. This is the first step of training."
Naruto, being impatient, had already stretched out his hand and started trying.
Of course, this wasn't a simple technique, and Naruto didn't have the brilliance to learn it instantly. Fortunately, his perseverance was enough, and he kept trying repeatedly.
Linto didn't rush to act.
He quietly observed the Rasengan in Jiraiya's hand.
Seeing Linto's focused gaze, Jiraiya leaned closer and asked, "Did you notice anything?"
Linto nodded slightly. "In your Rasengan, there are about five to six thousand tiny strands of Chakra spinning irregularly.
One strand disappears, and another is born from your palm… Is this something you deliberately control?"
"Five, six thousand?"
Jiraiya was puzzled. "I don't know... When you cook rice, do you deliberately count how many grains you put in?"
He just had a rough sense of how much Chakra it was, threw it into his palm, and let it spin.
Linto understood the difference between Rasengan and Golden Spin.
Rasengan pursues rotational speed. As long as Chakra is constantly added, and Tailed Beasts, Senjutsu, or other powers are incorporated, the destructive power of this technique will continuously increase.
Rather than a Ninjutsu, Rasengan was more like a "platform."
The more supplementary methods one possessed, the stronger the corresponding Rasengan would be.
But Golden Spin pursues rotation at a specific arc, a "Golden Spin" that conforms to the laws of the world, bestowing magical power upon an ordinary sphere.
The user throwing the iron ball process was more like throwing a key that could unlock the world's power, using rotational force to borrow the world's strength to destroy the opponent.
It must rotate in a specific direction according to technique, not the irregular spinning of Rasengan.
"I think I understand the general situation," Linto said.
"Understand?"
Jiraiya looked suspicious and was about to ask Linto what he understood.
Then, he saw Linto raise his hand. Golden lightning continuously flashed and spun in his palm. The lightning strands connected, forming thin, elongated golden flames.
Finally, a golden, flaming "Rasengan" appeared in Linto's palm.
Jiraiya's mouth hung open.
If he had known, just about fifteen minutes ago, Linto couldn't tell the difference between a Rasengan and a meatball. He had only heard Jiraiya explain the principle and seen a demonstration…
And he learned it just like that?!
Naruto, standing nearby, looked down at his empty palm. He had been trying to condense Chakra for a long time, but all he managed to produce was a fart, which caused a gust of wind. Nothing else.
He squinted at Linto.
What! What! What!
What were they even talking about!
Naruto squeezed over to Jiraiya's ear, poked Jiraiya's face with his finger, and grumbled in a displeased whisper:
"Why did Linto big brother just get it when you mentioned 'rice' and 'cooking'? Are you guys using some secret code I don't understand?"
There's no secret code.
Jiraiya stared at the rapidly swirling golden flame Rasengan.
"No wonder, not long after Linto left Konoha, he gradually displayed terrifying battlefield dominance. What kind of talent is this!"
Sensing their gazes, Linto shook his head slightly.
He wasn't some Ninjutsu genius. It just so happened that the principle of the Rasengan was exactly what Linto was best at: "energy manipulation."
This was the simplest part. Linto was not satisfied with this.
"Please move a bit further away from me," Linto warned.
This simple sentence made Jiraiya's heart skip a beat. He quickly scooped Naruto under his arm and dashed to a corner of the training room.
Linto took a deep breath, his dark eyes suddenly sharp.
BOOM!
Thunder boomed throughout the vast training room.
The irregularly spinning ripples, under Linto's control, transformed from chaos to order. Each ripple began to spin according to the Golden Spin technique.
As the transformation progressed, the booming thunder gradually faded, leaving only a faint, almost imperceptible "shhh—shhh—" sound, like high-frequency tinnitus.
Linto looked at the Golden Spin Rasengan floating in his palm.
Could it succeed?
The moment the thought flashed through his mind, the skin, muscle, and bone in his palm caved inward and contorted. The rotational force continued to transmit rapidly backward along the flesh and blood, threatening to turn Linto into a character from an Ito Junji manga.
BANG—
Scorching golden flames dispersed in all directions. A dozen or so flames flew towards Jiraiya and Naruto.
Jiraiya was about to make hand seals for Earth Release when purple vines shot out, intercepting all the scattered flames.
Jiraiya breathed a sigh of relief and was about to thank Linto when he saw Linto's right arm hanging unnaturally, drops of blood falling.
"Linto!"
Jiraiya cried out and rushed over. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, actually..."
Linto looked at his fractured bones and extensively damaged muscles in his right arm, slowly smiling.
"I felt it."
Felt it?
Jiraiya was a little confused.
Linto took a deep breath, and Sage Power surged into his body. All the dripping blood flowed back, broken bones mended, muscles and skin regrew, and in an instant, he was back to normal.
"Let's continue."
"I've grasped a little trick."
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