Chapter 22 - 22 (1/2)

Ryo's hand was looking like he was starting Chidori.

”Is it Chidori? No. This is changing in shape!” Minato has observed Chidori before. He knew it well as it was a technique used by Kakashi.

In Ryo's hand, Chidori gradually changed into: [Lighting Beast: Tracking Fang]! Right after the Lightning Hound was made, he used his Ice escape and teleported right behind Minato!

”Space-Time Jutsu!?” Ryo's sudden disappearance looked a lot like his own signature technique, Flying Thunder God Jutsu! But as master of that technique who was very s_e_n_s_i_t_i_v_e to space fluctuations, he sensed none of that, making him feel that this is different.

The Lightning Hound technique is a shape transformation of Chidori.  Ryo altered his initial technique's shape into a wolf. The wolf has the speed of lightning, while being controllable from a distance. Ryo knows that he wasn't marked before by Minato, so he tried this combo.

He was exhausted, standing behind Minato; but he gathered his last reserves of chakra and once again formed Chidori.

Ryo was really interested in seeing how Minato would handle the double Chidori/Thunder Hound attack without pre-marking him. He had his Sharingan set on him waiting for his next move.

”Ryo, you're really good, I'll give you that! But I won't lose to you.” Minato used his Flying Thunder God Jutsu and created a great distance between himself and Ryo.

Ryo's Chakra was being depleted. He could no longer use his Ice Escape to follow Minato, and he couldn't really maintain the Chidori for long enough. That distance that Minato created put a nail to a lot of his efforts. Not to be unexpected, with the gap between Ryo and the future Hokage, who had on top of his immense talent, a great deal of experience as well!

But Ryo still had the Lightning Hound! After Minato's teleportation, it followed him with its lightning speed and in no time, it was on his back!

Minato knew of the presence of a wolf behind him. Right is it was about to hit him, a pale blue Chakra sphere appeared in his left hand.

Ryo instantly recognized it: This is Rasengan! In the anime, it was stated that it took Minato 3 years to fully develop it. But they didn't really precise the time period that this happened in. Ryo's has always thought that it was completed during the 3rd world war. He didn't expect it to be completed by the year 40.

Rasengan and the Lightning Hound collided, cancelling each-other off.

”Ryo, I think I won!” Minato Smiled to his opponent on the other side!

”Well… nii-san… you did win indeed!” Ryo was gasping as he replied. ”What was that last technique?”

”That's a Jutsu that I'm working on, Rasengan!”

”Isn't it complete yet?”

”Well, I can't seem to get it stable enough. I can condense it, but I can't seem to maintain it for enough time to use it at will.”

Hearing this Ryo understood that its development was actually almost reaching completion.

With Rasengan, You collect Chakra in your hand, continuing to condense it relying on High speed rotation. This creates a massive tearing force that can inflict a lot of damage. Someone being hit by Rasengan doesn't just get physically damaged; it also disrupts one's Chakra making it harder for him to use Ninjutsu. (Translator's note: Not sure about this point in particular to be honest, tell me what you think!)