"Don't worry, Satsuki." His voice was reassuring. "I promise you, I absolutely won't use it. Don't worry about that."
He leaned a little closer and lowered his voice, "After all, we made a promise to each other to become ninjas together, right?"
Zuo Yue lowered her head slightly, feeling the reassuring warmth lingering in her hair, and softly hummed in agreement, regaining her composure.
Kakashi's gaze inadvertently swept over Satsuki, noticing her focused gaze on Naruto...
Strange… He thought casually, that look in his eyes felt like something he had seen a long, long time ago…
It was a fleeting, blurry, and distant déjà vu, but like a reflection on the bottom of water, it vanished quietly before it could be captured.
Just then, Naruto turned to Sakura and said, "Sakura, listen carefully. Your priority is to protect yourself and find safe cover. Only after ensuring your own safety should you look for opportunities to provide tactical support, understand?"
"Huh?...Yes! I understand!" Sakura responded loudly on her own, feeling a little nervous about being incorporated into the tactical system, but also a sense of security.
Seeing this, Kakashi nodded almost imperceptibly. He hadn't simply told his weaker teammate to quit, but instead offered more practical and safer guidance under pressure.
"very good!"
Kakashi's voice returned to its usual languid tone, "Looks like you're all ready for the challenge. Well then..."
"The exercise begins!"
The moment the words left her lips, Sakura almost reflexively leaped backward, quickly finding a sturdy tree to use as cover. With her kunai held horizontally in front of her chest, she was highly focused and on high alert.
However, in stark contrast to her defensive stance, Naruto and Satsuki did not hesitate at all and stood side by side at the forefront, directly facing Kakashi.
"They're about to go, Satsuki!"
"Ok!"
The next second, a powerful burst of chakra erupted from Naruto's body like a surging tide. It was not the violent and ominous aura of the Nine-Tails, but rather the pure and boundless blue chakra that originated from him.
At the same time, Zuo Yue's dark eyes suddenly changed, the deep black was instantly replaced by scarlet, and three black tomoe appeared out of thin air in the blood-red base and began to slowly rotate.
What an enormous amount of chakra! No wonder he's the child of his teacher and his wife!
When Kakashi caught sight of the three tomoe slowly rotating in Satsuki's eyes, his astonishment deepened... He'd awakened the Sharingan at such a young age? His talent was truly astonishing...
Thoughts flashed through his mind in a split second. The next moment, Naruto's figure vanished from his spot without warning, appearing directly in front of Kakashi almost instantly, using the Body Flicker Technique!
So fast!
"Konoha Tornado!"
Naruto twisted his body in mid-air and delivered a fierce sweeping kick to Kakashi's head!
Kakashi immediately raised his left arm to block. A muffled "bang" was heard, and a solid touch came from his arm.
So that's it, it's Guy's taijutsu style. He knew Naruto often trained with Might Guy in taijutsu, but he didn't expect the results to be so remarkable.
His strength and control were both outstanding... This level of taijutsu would be considered excellent even among Chunin. Kakashi continuously parried and dodged Naruto's relentless punches and kicks, discovering that Naruto's attacks were dense and fast-paced, clearly indicating that he had undergone rigorous training.
It seems I can't just study and try to pass the tests like I used to when I was a graduate...
However, this seemingly intense physical attack was actually just a performance that Naruto deliberately controlled. He did not actually use his full strength.
What bothered Kakashi even more was the gaze that remained fixed on him from behind. Satsuki's three-tomoe Sharingan was fixed on him, and this feeling of being watched forced him to be on guard, wary of a possible deadly attack from behind.
Just as he blocked Naruto's straight punch, a strange sensation struck him without warning! Kakashi suddenly realized that the flow of chakra within his body had become extremely subtle and disordered. This feeling…
wrong!
Alarm bells rang in his mind, and he immediately and forcefully stopped his actions to deal with Naruto's attack. Without hesitation, he took a step back and at the same time quickly mobilized his chakra to form a simple hand seal.
"untie!"
A slight feedback came that the illusion had been broken. Without the slightest hesitation, Kakashi almost instinctively used the Body Flicker Technique, his figure disappearing from the spot with a "whoosh" and reappearing more than ten meters away.
After stopping, he looked up. Sure enough, in the spot where he had been standing, Naruto and Satsuki were standing side by side. Naruto clicked his tongue, a hint of regret on his face, while Satsuki frowned slightly, a similar look of disappointment in his eyes.
How embarrassing...
Kakashi smiled bitterly to himself, realizing he had fallen for a genjutsu.
Satsuki awakened her three-tomoe Sharingan on the night of the massacre of her clan, and she has never stopped training it in the past few years. A few years ago, when Fugaku learned that his youngest daughter had not only awakened her Sharingan at a young age, but had even become a three-tomoe Sharingan second only to the Mangekyou Sharingan, he calmly said, "As expected of my daughter."
But his heart was already filled with immense pride and satisfaction. After relieving himself of the heavy burden of being the clan leader, he had more time to impart his lifelong understanding and skills in using the Sharingan to Zuo Yue one-on-one without reservation, wholeheartedly helping her cultivate this power.
"In that case, Kakashi-sensei! We're going to get serious!" Naruto shouted. "Satsuki, use that technique!"
"Yes, I understand!" Zuo Yue immediately understood.
The two began forming hand seals almost simultaneously. Upon seeing this, Kakashi subconsciously lowered his center of gravity, focusing intently on their movements.
"Wind Escape·Big Breakthrough!"
Naruto took a deep breath, his chest bulging, and then a massive, incredibly powerful horizontal tornado erupted from his mouth! It roared and whipped up the grass and dust from the ground, charging forward with a force that seemed to tear everything apart!
Almost the instant after the Wind Release technique was used, Zuo Yue's hand seals were completed.
"Fire Release: Fire Phoenix Immortal Technique!"
After his fingers hovered over the final hand seal, he unleashed a series of blazing fireballs. These fireballs precisely targeted the raging tornado Naruto had created!
In the theory of chakra nature's mutual generation and restraint, fire nature is precisely the element that restrains wind nature. However, this restraint does not cancel each other out at this moment, but rather produces a strange and complementary effect—the raging wind not only fails to extinguish the flames, but also provides them with endless oxygen and a carrier for diffusion, causing the fire to escalate rapidly!
With their precise chakra control honed through countless practices, Sasuke's fireballs perfectly merged into Naruto's Wind Release. Each fireball became part of a tornado, pulled and extended by the gale, ultimately transforming into a roaring inferno.
The originally white tornado was instantly dyed a fiery orange-red, and a huge, wildly spinning fire tornado suddenly took shape, fiercely attacking Kakashi!
This is the combined ninjutsu that Naruto and Sasuke secretly practiced and refined over a great deal of time. Naruto gave it an extremely resounding name!
Wind Release: Ultimate Technique - Super Instantaneous Radiant Wind Dragon Flame Sky Vortex Whirlwind Formation!
Faced with this complex ninjutsu that far surpassed the level of a genin and even made ordinary chunin tremble with fear, Kakashi raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Hmm... This is really scary for a newly graduated genin."
He muttered to himself, "It seems we absolutely cannot treat them as ordinary kids."
Seeing that the enormous fiery tornado was about to engulf him, Kakashi stopped being careless and quickly began to form hand seals, preparing to seriously deal with this "surprise" from his disciples.
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(Still three updates today, posted between afternoon and evening)
Chapter 133 Earth Burial
"boom--!!!"
With a deafening roar and a burst of flames, the "Super Instantaneous Radiant Wind Dragon Flame Sky Vortex Roaring Array" struck Kakashi squarely where he had been standing.
A raging fire tornado swept across the area, turning it into a scorching hot zone. The intense heat waves it generated even made Sakura, who was far away, feel her skin burning.
"Whoa! Wait, wait a minute! You guys killed Kakashi-sensei!"
Sakura was still reeling from the shock of her teammate's devastating attack when a sense of inferiority and defeat welled up inside her.
But when she saw Kakashi not only not dodge, but was completely engulfed by the terrifying fire tornado, her shock instantly turned into terror, and she couldn't help but scream.
"Shut up, Sakura!" Naruto didn't even turn his head, his gaze still fixed on the dissipating smoke and flames. "You underestimate the strength of a Jonin, don't you? How could Kakashi-sensei be taken down so easily?"
His tone carried a hint of helplessness as he inwardly complained that in this world, which had only been a generation since the Warring States period, it seemed as if people no longer had a clear concept of the strength of truly powerful ninjas.
Sure enough, as the flames and smoke gradually dissipated, revealing the ravaged scene, four thick earthen walls stood around the spot where Kakashi had stood, forming a sturdy defensive barrier. Even more striking was the fact that each earthen wall had a lifelike dog head sculpture clearly carved on its front.
However, at this moment, these earthen walls were blackened by the intense heat and flames, and their surfaces were covered with spiderweb-like cracks, clearly having withstood a tremendous impact, but ultimately they successfully withstood the attack.
"Is that Earth Release ninjutsu?"
"As expected, a Jonin isn't so easy to defeat," said Zuo Yue in a serious tone.
However, looking at the Earth Release: Earth Wall that maintained its personal style even in the midst of an emergency defense, Naruto couldn't help but mentally complain again, "Hey... he doesn't even have a lot of chakra, yet he still has to go and create this dog-head shape when he uses Earth Release: Earth Wall..."
Zuo Yue stared intently at the cracked earthen wall with its dog-head relief, trying to catch any movement within it through the dissipating dust.
However, Naruto was the first to notice the extremely subtle yet incredibly rapid chakra fluctuations emanating from the soil beneath his feet!
"Run away!"
Without the slightest hesitation, the instant Naruto issued his warning in the shortest possible voice, he had already exerted force with his feet and leaped rapidly to the side and rear!
Almost at the same moment Naruto's voice rang out, although Satsuki couldn't directly sense the anomaly underground, her unconditional trust in Naruto meant that her brain didn't even have time to think before her body instinctively followed the command and swiftly dodged to the other side.
The two reacted incredibly quickly, evacuating from their positions almost simultaneously.
Meanwhile, Sakura, upon hearing Naruto's sudden warning, was momentarily stunned. Just as she panicked and tried to jump away like her companion because of this momentary hesitation, it was too late!
Without warning, a hand broke through the soil beneath her feet and firmly grasped her ankle! The cold touch and powerful grip startled Sakura, causing her to let out a short scream.
"Earth Release: Heart Beheading Technique!"
The sound came from underground. Immediately afterwards, an irresistible, immense force suddenly dragged Sakura downwards!
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
With a terrified scream, Sakura felt the world spin around her as she was suddenly pulled into the solid ground.
In the blink of an eye, all the struggles and screams were buried by the mud. When she came to her senses from the violent tremors, she was horrified to find that, except for her head, her entire body was buried deep in the earth.
Kakashi, meanwhile, calmly squatted down in front of her, his exposed eye carrying a hint of scrutiny.
"During combat, they lack a clear understanding of their own strength and will even freeze in place when the team leader issues an emergency warning..."
Kakashi's tone was calm, but every word was piercing: "How is it? You can't move at all now, right? This is the price of a weakness."
"H-How could this be..." Sakura murmured in disbelief, both shocked and embarrassed. "Kakashi-sensei was just over there, protected by the earthen wall!"
"Using Earth Release for movement and surprise attacks is not a difficult thing for a qualified Jonin."
Kakashi explained casually, but his gaze drifted to Naruto and Satsuki, who had reunited in the distance and were ready for battle. "Compared to those two, you still have a very, very long way to go."
Seeing Sakura's head bowed low in frustration and self-blame, Kakashi slowly stood up. His gaze returned to Naruto and Satsuki in the distance, and his hands began to form a simple hand seal.
"Bang bang bang bang bang..."
A series of soft white smoke bursts suddenly rang out across the training ground! One by one, Kakashi figures appeared out of thin air, their numbers rapidly increasing to more than twenty in the blink of an eye!
What's even more troublesome is that each clone is holding two jingling bells in its hands!
The next moment, the twenty Kakashi clones, each holding a bell, scattered without hesitation and swiftly disappeared into the dense forest on both sides of the training ground.
At the scene, only Kakashi remained, still standing guard next to Sakura, who was buried in the ground with only her head sticking out.
Kakashi looked at the two with serious expressions in the distance, and as if he had suddenly remembered something, he gave them a "warm" reminder in his unique, lazy yet slightly irritating tone.
"Oh, right, just a reminder—I'm not the real me." He pointed to himself. "The real me is currently hiding somewhere in the woods, holding a bell."
He looked up at the sky; the sun was already close to noon.
"It's almost noon, and you don't have much time left. I hope that before then, you two can successfully find my true form in the forest and steal the bell."
"Wish ya'll good luck."
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(Sorry, there are still two more chapters to go. The bell-grabbing part will probably end in the next chapter, but I'm really stuck on the script. I really don't know how to express the outline. I need to rack my brains!)
Chapter 134 Solution
Under Kakashi's deliberate guidance, the atmosphere seemed to be pointing towards Naruto and Satsuki abandoning Sakura, who was firmly trapped, and prioritizing the pursuit of the clones with bells.
However, Naruto knew in his heart that this exercise was not a contest to snatch the bell, but a test of the team's sense of camaraderie.
Naruto then formed hand seals with both hands.
"Bang bang bang bang bang..."
The next instant, a series of identical white smoke burst open around Naruto! A full twenty shadow clones, exactly like Naruto's original body, suddenly appeared, instantly filling the empty space in front of him.
"So, what do you say then, Kakashi-sensei?"
Twenty Naruto Uzumakis spoke in unison, their spirited and defiant gazes all fixed on Kakashi, who was guarding the pit.
This scene caused Zuo Yue, who was behind, to catch her breath slightly. Looking at the large number of Narutos in front of her—even though she knew they were just clones—her heartbeat still involuntarily accelerated.
She forced herself to calm her somewhat flustered emotions, and then did something that surprised everyone—she quickly and silently pulled out the small camera from the side pocket of her ninja tool bag, and while everyone's attention was on the standoff, she turned on the silent mode, pointed the lens at the twenty spirited Naruto figures in front of her, and pressed the shutter repeatedly, "click, click."
Her movements were astonishingly fast. With the speed and stability honed through hand seals, she captured dozens of photos from different angles in a very short time. Then, as if by magic, she quickly put the camera back in its original place. The whole process was smooth and seamless, without making a single unnecessary sound.
Just as she finished this series of small movements, Naruto's real body turned around and said to her.
"Satsuki, listen up. I'll stay here and try to defeat this clone of Kakashi-sensei—or, in case he's lying and this is actually the real one—anyway, I need to find a way to save Sakura first. You and all my clones, immediately go into the forest and search for Kakashi-sensei's real body with all your might, and steal the bell!"
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