Back to the Drawing Board (That's Different, Dammit! II)
Minato had just explained his idea for the Hiraishin to Kushina.
"So you do a Kawarimi with a kunai?" asked Kushina.
"No!" shouted Minato, for what seemed like the hundredth time. "There's a seal on the kunai! It's teleportation!"
"You mean like Shunshin?" asked Kushina, still not getting it.
"No," growled Minato. "It's like a summoning. The seal on the kunai pulls me to it."
"You mean like the scrolls from the Chuunin Exams?" asked Kushina, more confused than ever. Her boyfriend seemed to be all over the place with this one.
"No! Well, er, that is…" Minato floundered. Actually, under examination, his awesome new technique really did seem an awful lot like the basic Kawarimi, the Shunshin, and the summoning scrolls used in the Chuunin Exams.
"Maybe you should just keep working on your wind manipulation, Flash," said Kushina, patting him on the shoulder.
"I hate it when she calls me that," sulked Minato.
A.N.
The Hiraishin just doesn't seem that impressive to me; not when a 10-year old Academy student can do the Kawarimi.