Taking advantage of his lunch break, Sasuke did not waste time, but continued to delve into the practice of changing the properties of thunder attribute chakra.
In fact, under Kakashi's guidance, he had already developed the habit of not wasting any free time in the past three years.
Except for necessary rest and meal time, he devoted all his time to practice and constantly pushed himself forward.
A few years ago, he would have been complacent because of his status as a 'genius', but the more he came into contact with Kakashi, he realized that sometimes things like 'genius' were really not worth mentioning.
His vision cannot be limited to those of his peers. If he is complacent here because of his slight achievements, then he will have no hope of revenge in his life.
Just when Sasuke was devoting himself to his Thunder Release training, he suddenly heard clearly audible footsteps.
The person who came had golden hair, wore a brand new Konoha ninja forehead protector on his forehead, and had the iconic six beards on his face. He walked over step by step without any intention of hiding it.
Looking at Naruto striding over, he folded his hands in front of his chest and looked at himself with an unkind look on his face.
Sasuke stopped practicing on changing the properties of thunder chakra and asked calmly: "Did you come to me to guide the jounin?"
"It has nothing to do with that, I just want to give you a piece of advice, stay away from Sakura in the future. Otherwise, I will make you look good."
"……idiot."
Sasuke didn't take Naruto's threat to heart, leaving these two words of comment, turned around and planned to leave.
"What did you say?"
Naruto asked angrily.
Sasuke didn't look back, not intending to get entangled with Naruto in such boring matters.
"Damn it, there must be a limit to looking down on people!"
From Naruto's perspective, Sasuke's cool behavior of turning his back to others was a clear sign of looking down on him.
With anger burning in his heart, Naruto rushed towards Sasuke without mercy and hit Sasuke in the back with his fist.
Sasuke's figure flashed and disappeared from before Naruto's astonished eyes. Naruto raised his fists in the air and staggered forward a few steps before barely stopping.
"The momentum of your punches is good, but your basic taijutsu skills are terrible. Are you really a genin?"
Sasuke's voice came from behind, and a smile appeared on his lips.
Being lectured by Sasuke really hurt Naruto's heart and made him blush a little.
He turned around again and glared at Sasuke fiercely.
Sasuke was unmoved and said: "It's a hundred years too early for you to want to fight me. Now that you have this time, you might as well polish your foundation and come here to challenge me."
Sasuke gave sound advice.
But this kind of speech, which was like the teaching of an elder, was undoubtedly a very arrogant expression in Naruto's opinion.
Unable to bear it anymore, Naruto formed a seal with his hands, and the chakra in his body began to gather:
"The only way to be arrogant is now, the art of shadow clone!"
A dozen clones similar to Naruto ran out of the smoke and rushed towards Sasuke with a fierce momentum, which seemed to surround Sasuke.
The smile on Sasuke's face disappeared and turned into a look of surprise.
Shadow clone is not a clone technique that creates illusions, but a high-level clone technique that condenses entities.
This is a B-level difficult ninjutsu... How is it possible that a crane tail has learned such a high-level ninjutsu?
Even for him, it is not easy to practice a B-level ninjutsu.
B-level ninjutsu is a very powerful killer ninjutsu for chuunin.
This chakra at the end of the crane... Sasuke's face turned serious, realizing a more serious problem.
Maybe this crane tail, who he has always looked down upon, has more chakra than him!
However... Sasuke couldn't help but feel regretful when he saw Naruto's clone rushing directly towards him without any formations at all.
Although he felt sorry for Naruto's poor basic skills, Sasuke had no intention of showing mercy.
One to a dozen, he was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers.
As a result, chakra condensed on the soles of his feet, and his body quickly disappeared from the sight of Naruto's clones.
boom!
A punch hit a clone in the abdomen, and the fist turned there. The clone's stomach suddenly boiled with bitterness, and it exploded into smoke and disappeared.
"There! Get him!"
A dozen clones were clamoring and wouldn't stop until Sasuke was knocked down.
Sasuke's expression remained unchanged and he moved his body quickly. In the past few years of training, his physical skills have also grown rapidly. Compared with his peers, he is no longer at the same level.
Naruto's clone only saw a flower in front of his eyes, and Sasuke disappeared from his eyes again.
Although I saw the afterimage, my body's reaction was always a beat slower.
Bang bang, two more clones disappeared.
Naruto, in his true form, looked ugly.
He didn't expect that Sasuke would be able to advance and retreat even though he used the shadow clone technique.
Naruto, who originally only troubled Sasuke out of jealousy, couldn't help but be aroused by Sasuke to be competitive.
This guy is really strong! Naruto put away his dismissive thoughts of quickly dispatching Sasuke.
…
And somewhere unknown to the two of them, a slender figure stood on the thick branch of a big tree not far away, leaning against the tree, holding a book in his hand called "Intimate Paradise" series, while reading Reading the contents of the book, he glanced at the battle between Sasuke and Naruto with his peripheral vision, distracted.
"Hundreds of shadow clones were created that day, and it was indeed with the help of the power of the Nine-Tails. Today's quality and quantity are far inferior to the time when Mizuki was defeated."
Kakashi commented calmly.
However, this level should be just right for Sasuke.
Although after his teachings, Sasuke's strength has surpassed that of his peers, it has not reached a point where he is invincible.
Because Sasuke's obsession with revenge was so deep in his heart, his practice of natural energy had been very slow. If the natural energy can be initially applied, Sasuke can be on par with the chunin just by relying on his taijutsu.
In addition, he deliberately stabilized Sasuke's basic abilities, such as the practice of changing the nature of chakra, and constantly accumulated Sasuke's basic abilities for the purpose of accumulating knowledge.
The basics are always the most important thing for ninjas.
A solid and stable foundation is much more affordable than any forbidden technique. It can be said to be a forbidden technique without any side effects.
In comparison, Naruto is much worse.
I have the basics, but I don't know how to temper myself, nor how to apply taijutsu and ninjutsu. It's all a rush.
This kind of fighting style, like gangsters on the roadside, is really hard to associate with ninjas.
Otherwise, maybe Sasuke really has the possibility of failure.
Without him, Naruto's foundation was too good.
Even if no one teaches him, he is born with powerful chakra and can withstand the power of the Nine-Tails and exists as a Jinchuuriki.
This is not only because Naruto's chakra is powerful, but also because the opponent's physical strength is very terrifying.
Without a strong body, it is impossible to control the huge chakra in the body.
A person with a weak body and no powerful chakra will often have an extremely heavy load due to the powerful chakra, causing various large and small hidden dangers to the body.
Kakashi, who has practiced natural energy and senjutsu, can naturally feel how terrifying the hidden life force in Naruto is.
The Uzumaki clan is born with a fairy body constitution, the same as the Senju clan, and is the best jinchūriki container for sealing the tailed beasts.
Chakraduo has strong vitality and extremely long natural lifespan, which is the most remarkable feature of this clan.
Naruto, who inherited the bloodline of his mother, Uzumaki Kushina, naturally also has these excellent characteristics of the Uzumaki clan.
A unique family.
In contrast, the Uchiha clan's bloodline requires a certain amount of stimulation to grow.
Therefore, compared to the Uzumaki clan and the Senju clan, what the Uchiha clan lacks is the foundation of physical energy. The physical body will limit the chakra limit of the Uchiha clan ninjas, and the Sharingan is a blood inheritance limit that consumes chakra extremely. A vicious cycle is born.
This is why Kakashi hopes that Sasuke will lay a good foundation.
Otherwise, he would be surpassed by Naruto very quickly.
The deeper he gets into the practice of natural energy, the more Kakashi understands how solid a foundation a child like Naruto with the power of a natural immortal body has.
Even if they don't deliberately practice, the foundation laid by the immortal body is intimidating to most ninjas.
While reading a book and watching the 'rookie' battle between Sasuke and Naruto, Kakashi couldn't help but recall the lost youth in the past.
And the battle in the open space not far away also came to an end.
Naruto's body was pushed to the ground by Sasuke. Sasuke was also panting and sitting on Naruto's back to catch his breath. He looked at Naruto in confusion, a little unbelievable. The man he was pressing under him was a month ago. , and was beaten to the pulp by him in the practical class.
"Who did you learn the shadow clone technique from?"
Sasuke asked after taking a breath.
Unlike Naruto, he has the accumulation of the Uchiha clan behind him. Although the shadow clone technique is not popular, it is not difficult for him to learn this ninjutsu.
But Naruto was alone. He had no father or mother since he was a child, and he had no idea of his background. How could he learn such advanced ninjutsu without anyone's guidance?
"I want you to take care of it!"
Even though he was pinned down by Sasuke, Naruto did not surrender. Instead, his face turned red and he tried to break free from Sasuke's restraints.
Unfortunately, his hands were restrained behind his back by Sasuke, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not break free.
After trying several times and failing, Naruto finally calmed down, but he didn't look good to Sasuke either.
When he saw Naruto, he didn't say anything, and Sasuke didn't ask further. Everyone has their own secrets, and since Naruto didn't want to tell them, it was obviously not a secret that could be inquired about at will.
However, Naruto's performance did make him a little impressed.
Being able to force him to this extent, Sasuke no longer regarded Naruto as a loser.
Everyone was wrong. Looking at Naruto who looked unhappy, Sasuke thought to himself.
This guy is not a fool at all, but is pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.
He was certain that among the graduates of this class, apart from him, the chief student, there were definitely no more than five people who could hit Naruto from the front.
Whether it was the body's ability to resist blows or the powerful chakra in his body that even shocked him, it proved that Naruto was no ordinary genin.
However, this guy failed the graduation exam not long ago... Sasuke looked confused.
Although he felt that Naruto had many secrets, Sasuke had no interest in digging deeper. He let go of Naruto's hands and got off Naruto's back.
Naruto also stood up and stood there honestly, knowing how powerful Sasuke was, and did not fight against Sasuke again.
"I win this time. If you want to challenge me again, you can always accompany me."
Although the gap between Naruto and himself is a bit big now, he can be considered a good target for sharpening his sword at this time.
"I will definitely win next time, just wait for me!"
Naruto pointed at Sasuke and shouted this, then ran away from the place.
Sasuke watched Naruto go away and shook his head, he was indeed an idiot.
However, being so disturbed by Naruto, Sasuke also gave up the idea of continuing to practice.
Knowing that his future teammates were not here to hold him back, Sasuke felt that he was in a good mood now.
"Uzumaki Naruto...I remember you."
A look of anticipation flashed in Sasuke's dark pupils.
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The time came to four o'clock in the afternoon.
The sun slowly sets towards the west, and the light becomes very soft.
When Sasuke came back, he found that there were still only two people in the classroom, Naruto and Sakura.
"Sasuke-kun."
Seeing Sasuke come in, Sakura smiled and said hello.
Naruto, on the other hand, snorted and turned his head to the side, as if he didn't want to see Sasuke.
Sasuke didn't pay attention to Naruto's cold attitude, but his recent sparring session with him should have left a very deep impression on him, and he would not easily cause trouble for him again.
"Hasn't the guiding jounin of our group arrived yet?"
Sasuke glanced around the classroom and asked Sakura.
"No, I don't know who the instructor jounin of our group is, and he didn't come here so late. And he's been late for so long, and no one has come to inform him. Maybe he won't come here today."
Speaking of this, Sakura's face also showed an angry look, and she couldn't hold her breath.
Sasuke nodded and said calmly: "It seems that our instructor jounin has his own style."
Walking to his seat and sitting down, Sasuke crossed his hands on the table and rested his chin, maintaining a thinking posture.
Sakura's face turned slightly red, thinking that Sasuke looked very handsome like this.
When Naruto saw this scene, he felt even more unhappy.
Why does this guy act so cool even when he is sitting?
Do you want to deliberately find trouble?
Especially when he thought about being punished by Sasuke for attacking Sasuke before, Naruto felt even more depressed.
"Why isn't our instructor here yet? Everyone in the other groups has already left the school. What are you doing?"
Naruto deliberately made a loud noise to attract the attention of Sasuke and Sakura.
"Naruto, don't yell here, it will disturb Sasuke-kun's thinking. How many times have I told you, if you want to make trouble, just go outside."
Sakura frowned, letting Naruto complain a little quieter.
hateful! Naruto glared at Sasuke fiercely.
Sasuke, who was inexplicably lying on the gun, also responded to Naruto with a look, as if he was looking at an idiot.
"You two..."
Sasuke was about to speak when he suddenly stopped and looked towards where the door was.
There were footsteps outside the door.
The sound of footsteps also attracted Naruto and Sakura.
I only saw a figure pushing the door in. It was a silver-haired man wearing a mask. The first time he saw the three of them, he smiled and raised his hand, and said casually: "Good afternoon, you three." , I am your guiding jounin, my name is..."
Before he finished speaking, Naruto interrupted him, ran over angrily, pointed at the other person's nose and said:
"Asshole, you're hours late. Do you know how hard it is for us to wait here for you? Apologize properly!"
After Naruto finished speaking, Sakura also looked at Kakashi with an unkind look on her face, agreeing with Naruto's words.
Sasuke closed his eyes, secretly thinking that it was true.
This silver-haired man wearing a mask is none other than Kakashi, the late king.
When other instructing jounin came to pick up their team members, he was a little expecting it.
Now I just confirmed my guess.
But that’s fine too.
He fully recognized Kakashi's abilities.
The only doubt is that the ANBU minister should have important responsibilities. Does he have the time to lead the three of them?
Even if I teach him, I only make time to teach him, and I don’t come every day. Sometimes I only come occasionally a few times a month. It's not uncommon to not see Kakashi for half a month.
Although Sasuke was confused about this, he did not ask immediately.
"Uh... I'm sorry for keeping you waiting for so long. However, I didn't mean to be late. In fact, I have a friend who met an old lady who fell down on the road, and then he took the old lady to the hospital. I was undergoing treatment at the hospital, but unfortunately I found that I didn’t have any money with me today, and I happened to be passing by, so I asked me to go over and help. I was busy at the hospital and spent an afternoon..."
Kakashi scratched his head, his eyes serious.
No matter how you look at it, it's all lies, but Naruto believed it and nodded.
"So this is ah."
Sasuke and Sakura were speechless when they saw the anger disappear from Naruto's face.
He is such an idiot to believe such an outrageous reason for being late.
Sasuke was sure that Kakashi must have been secretly observing them all afternoon.
Maybe when he and Naruto were fighting, Kakashi was already peeping in secret, observing their every move.
This is a trick Kakashi always likes to use.
It's nasty, but it's very effective at observing people's personalities.
In this short period of time, the other party must have collected a lot of information.
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On the rooftop of the teaching building, Kakashi brought three people here.
Finding a place to sit down at random, Kakashi clapped his hands to the three people in front of him who were also looking for a place to sit down, and said: "Okay, without further ado, it will be dark soon, so we still have to sit down." Let’s introduce ourselves early and get to know each other.”
"Whose fault do you think this is?"
Naruto was very dissatisfied.
Kakashi turned a blind eye and continued: "Let's start with me. My name is Hatake Kakashi. I am the instructing Jonin of your seventh class. I have many hobbies and dreams... Well, it's not very convenient. You share.”
"..."
I basically told them nothing except my name.
"Okay, it's your turn."
"Then I'll do it first." Naruto held up the ninja forehead protector on his forehead and said with a smile on his face: "My name is Uzumaki Naruto, and my favorite thing is ramen, especially the ramen served by Iruka-sensei. What I hate is waiting three minutes for the ramen to soak.”
Why is this kid talking about ramen? Kakashi shook his head helplessly.
"As for my future dream...that is to become Hokage and have the whole village recognize me!"
Having said this, Naruto's eyes were firm and his tone was decisive and unquestionable.
Kakashi looked at Naruto deeply and said calmly: "Next."
Sasuke's eyes lingered on Kakashi for a while, and he said in an indifferent tone: "I am Sasuke Uchiha. I hate and like many things. My purpose is to revitalize the Uchiha clan, and then... kill a certain man. !”
When he said this, cold murderous aura overflowed from his body, causing Naruto and Sakura to tremble subconsciously, and their faces turned slightly pale, as if they had recognized Sasuke again.
"now you."
Kakashi glanced past Sasuke and looked at Sakura.
"Okay. My name is Haruno Sakura. What I like... I would rather say I like someone... well, my future dreams..."
Having said this, he glanced at Sasuke with a red face.
"What about the annoying person or thing?"
Seeing Sakura hesitating, as if she was shy, Kakashi asked casually to guide the conversation.
"Naruto."
Sakura blurted out with no mercy on her face.
This little girl doesn't seem to have the consciousness of a medical ninja yet. She is obviously an extremely important support member of the team, but it seems that she still needs to be polished. Seeing the unique girlish shyness on Sakura's face, Kakashi nodded secretly.
Generally speaking, the three students in his class are not ordinary ninjas.
Needless to say, the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki and the last descendant of the Konoha Uchiha clan, even a Jonin can understand the weight of this.
Even though she was born as a civilian and had no strong background, Sakura was a pure medical ninja. And as far as Kakashi knew, Sakura's medical ninjutsu assessment results were very good.
Now it seems that the other party is more concerned about his youthful love than his responsibility as a medical ninja.
However, this can be considered a normal development.
Now is no different than before. War is not so ordinary. Both boys and girls are a little childish after just coming out of school. It's just a matter of polishing it afterward. A person's growth cannot be achieved overnight. After all, he has not received various beatings and lessons from the ninja world.
But... this standard configuration of the lineup made Kakashi think of many things.
Uchiha, Uzumaki, medical ninja.
The White Fang team that his father led back then had a similar lineup at its peak.
Uchiha, Hinata, plus a medical ninja who manages the team's logistics.
The difference is that when the three members of White Fang's team just graduated, one of them had the strength of a jounin, and the other one had a strength close to that of a jounin. Even medical ninjas who manage logistics are more skilled than ordinary chunin.
Together with his father Sakumo Hatake, the team has just formed and already has very terrifying lightning guerrilla capabilities.
"I almost understand your situation. Let's start the mission tomorrow."
Kakashi stood up and said.
"Teacher, what task will we perform tomorrow?"
Sakura asked.
Kakashi glanced at her and said: "A mission that only the four of us completed - a wilderness survival exercise."
"Drill? But, when we were in school, we had done countless drills..."
Before Sakura could finish speaking, Kakashi interrupted: "My survival drill is different from the field drill held by the school. Your opponent is me, and if you fail in the drill, you need to turn in the ninja protection to me." , return to Ninja School to re-study."
"What? Go back to school and re-study?"
Naruto was shocked.
Sakura was also frightened by Kakashi's words.
Sasuke raised his eyebrows, feeling something strange, but couldn't put it into words.
"Are you trying to scare us, teacher?"
Sakura asked tremblingly.
"I'm not that bored...Besides, there is no need for waste among ninjas. If you are afraid, you don't have to come. I agree that he should return to school immediately and re-study."
Kakashi said with a smile, but the three of them couldn't see that Kakashi was smiling.
Seeing that the three of them were a little silent, Kakashi knew that the heat was almost over, so he continued: "Tomorrow at five o'clock in the morning, we will gather at the designated place. You are not allowed to be late. It is best not to eat breakfast, otherwise you will vomit. Details You have already written it on this piece of paper. The three of you should look at each other."
Kakashi handed over a piece of paper.
Naruto took it, Sasuke and Sakura came over, looked at the contents on the paper, and frowned.
"Well, see you tomorrow."
Kakashi dropped these words and disappeared from the rooftop.
However, Kakashi's departure has made Naruto unable to pay attention. All his thoughts are on tomorrow's survival drill.
"Very good, I'm going to have a good fight tomorrow!"
Naruto clenched his fists with a bright look in his eyes.
As he was about to leave, Sasuke's voice suddenly sounded: "Wait, Naruto, I have something to tell you."
"What?"
Naruto turned around and asked subconsciously.
Under the surprised looks of Naruto and Sakura, Sasuke said: "I'm good at taijutsu, and as for ninjutsu, I'm good at fire escape and thunder escape, and I'm also good at genjutsu."
"Well?"
Naruto and Sakura were a little confused about Sasuke's intentions.
"It's your turn. I need to understand your respective abilities to formulate tactics for tomorrow."
Sasuke glanced vaguely at the location where Kakashi left.
In order to ensure the 'unknown' nature of tomorrow's exercise, he knew that Kakashi would definitely not be eavesdropping like this.
However, he knew Kakashi just as Kakashi knew him, and his current actions might have been anticipated by Kakashi.
"That's it. Let me go first. I'm good at making medicines, as well as medical ninjutsu, and I know a little bit about taijutsu and ninjutsu."
Sakura answered.
"Drug making? Can you make poison?"
Sasuke asked.
Sakura nodded.
It's common knowledge that medical ninjas use poison.
"Very good, I need you to make something later. Follow me. We will go to the designated place first and arrange some things in advance. Also, I will share the information about Kakashi with you. That guy Their tactics have always been bad, and they will definitely use some despicable means to drive a wedge between us. Therefore, I hope you can..."
After staying with Kakashi for a long time, Sasuke naturally knows what Kakashi's personality is like.
Although he looks lazy, when he moves his hands, he usually strikes the enemy's fatal position.
In particular, he is also good at verbal provocation and setting traps in his words so that the enemy can jump into them without knowing it.
Having been tricked so many times, Sasuke was used to it.
"Hey, why don't you ask me what I'm good at?"
Naruto yelled, interrupting Sasuke's narration.
"Besides the shadow clone technique, are there any ninjutsu you are good at?"
Sasuke asked.
"..."
Naruto tilted his head and thought. It seemed that except for the shadow clone technique, he really didn't know any other ninjutsu.
"Well, does seduction count?"
Naruto asked quietly.
This is his ultimate trick, and it is also his only super powerful forbidden technique that can defeat Naruto!
"..."
Sakura looked sideways at Naruto with disdain. If Sasuke wasn't here, she would have wanted to go up and punch Naruto a few times.
After Sasuke heard this, his eyes lit up and he stared at Naruto as if he had discovered some treasure.
