Chapter 132, 55 pages
Chapter 132, 55 pages
In short, apart from Naruto strictly forbidding the use of the Nine-Tails' chakra, any other means—ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, traps, and even anything else you can think of—can be used freely.
Kakashi paused, his right eye narrowing slightly as he swept his gaze over the three of them. "And you'd better remember—you absolutely won't be able to steal the bell unless you're prepared to 'kill me.'"
The air seemed to freeze.
"Wait, wait a minute, Kakashi-sensei! This...this is too dangerous! This is just a drill!"
Sakura's voice was filled with obvious panic as she tried to object to the cruel order. But Kakashi merely glanced at her lazily, completely ignoring her protests.
"The exercise will officially begin when I shout 'Start'."
"Naruto..."
Suddenly, Naruto saw Satsuki turn his head sharply, staring at him intently. His previous feigned composure had vanished, replaced by a barely perceptible hint of panic.
Kakashi's words, "It may cause irreversible damage to your body," precisely pierced the calm she was trying to maintain, causing her deepest fears to surface.
Naruto noticed her unease. He turned his head and met her worried gaze. He naturally reached out and skillfully ruffled her soft black hair.
"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?"
Satsuki 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 out of the subconscious, 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.
"Here we go, Satsuki!"
"Um!"
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 using the Body Flicker Technique almost the instant Kakashi sensed the chakra fluctuations!
So fast!
"Leaf Whirlwind!"
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 has never stopped training it in the years since. 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 Release: Great Breakthrough!"
Naruto took a deep breath, his chest bulging, and then unleashed an extremely violent and astonishingly large horizontal tornado from his mouth! It roared and whipped up the grass and dust on the ground, charging forward with a force that could tear everything apart!
Almost the instant the Wind Release technique was unleashed, Zuo Yue's hand seals were completed.
"Fire Release: Fire Phoenix Flower 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 what 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 the 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 was formed, 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 huge 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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