Naruto’s thoughts stirred, and the Nine-Tails’ chakra began to increase.
A red, translucent tail emerged from behind him, his nails became long and sharp, and his body shifted from standing upright to moving on all fours.
“Wind Release: Wind Cutter!”
Naruto quickly formed hand seals and released a wind blade.
Empowered by the Nine-Tails’ chakra, the wind blade became enormous and collided with one of Kakashi’s slashes, causing an explosion that kicked up a massive cloud of dust.
“Wind Release: Breakthrough!”
Before the dust could settle, Naruto’s voice rang out again.
A violent gust suddenly erupted, sweeping the lingering dust toward Kakashi.
Kakashi instinctively closed his eyes for a moment.
In that instant, a red flash streaked past, and Naruto had already ridden the wind to reach Kakashi.
He raised his palm and mercilessly struck toward Kakashi’s chest.
Poof!
When his palm landed, the scene of blood splattering that Naruto had imagined did not appear.
Instead, Kakashi turned into white smoke and vanished after being struck.
Naruto’s pupils suddenly contracted.
[Oh no!]
Naruto inwardly realized that something was wrong and immediately leaped into the air.
The next moment, a hand appeared where he had been standing, followed by Kakashi emerging from the ground.
“Oh? Very good reaction speed. But what are you going to do next? In the air, you’ve lost your ability to move.”
Kakashi looked up at Naruto.
Although Kakashi had a smile in his eyes, Naruto felt an extreme sense of danger.
“Looks like your day off is going down the drain!”
Kakashi swung his sword at Naruto from a distance.
The slash was just as terrifying as before.
Bloodshot veins appeared in Naruto’s eyes as he crossed his arms in front of his body, and two more tails grew behind him.
Boom!
Another explosion rang out, and Naruto was swallowed by the blast.
He quickly fell from the sky, but he did not collapse.
Instead, he landed steadily on the ground on all fours.
Blood flowed down his arms, but he did not appear to be seriously injured.
“How is that possible?! That one hundred thousand is mine!”
Naruto roared and charged toward Kakashi, moving far faster than before.
In the blink of an eye, he was already in front of Kakashi.
Kakashi was somewhat shocked, but it was already too late.
Naruto thrust out his claw, and Kakashi hurriedly blocked it.
Simply blocking the attack was already difficult, and Kakashi had no time to exert any more force.
Kakkashi’s long sword was knocked into the air, but fortunately, he also used the force to retreat and widen the distance between himself and Naruto.
“Your speed suddenly increased by quite a lot. Is it because you grew two more tails? This is getting a little troublesome.”
“Then hand over the money!”
Naruto had no intention of giving Kakashi a chance to catch his breath.
He charged fiercely at Kakashi using both his hands and feet, leaving clear footprints in the ground with every step.
In the blink of an eye, Naruto caught up to Kakashi and prepared to strike again.
Naruto’s attack was about to hit Kakashi in the chest, but Kakashi still had that dead-fish-eyed expression, without the slightest hint of panic on his face.
[Could it be… a trap?]
Naruto instinctively felt that something was wrong.
Sure enough, the next moment, his vision suddenly went dark, and he found himself surrounded by darkness.
Then, a sharp pain shot through his right shoulder.
The darkness disappeared, and a beam of white light as thick as two fingers had pierced through Naruto’s shoulder from behind.
Blood trickled down his arm.
Naruto turned around in disbelief and saw Chidori glowing in Kakashi’s hand, with a beam as thick as two fingers extending from it.
[How is that possible? Chidori Sharp Spear? Wasn’t this developed by that Second Pillar based on Chidori? How did it become Kakashi’s?]
Naruto looked completely incredulous.
Kakashi, meanwhile, was happy because he had gained another piece of information from Naruto.
Combined with the fact that he felt he had won, an unconcealable smile appeared on his face.
“It seems to be over. What a pity, you won’t be getting that one hundred thousand.”
“Over? How could it be! This is only just beginning!”
[Kurama! Give me more power!]
Naruto roared in his heart.
A fourth tail gradually formed, while Naruto’s skin also began to peel away, revealing the bright red muscles underneath.
Seeing this, Kakashi struck toward the back of Naruto’s neck, intending to knock him unconscious.
However, the fox demon cloak was now as hard as steel, and a mere hand chop could not break through it.
“Hey, hey, hey! This isn’t good!”
Kakashi withdrew Chidori Flow and flashed in front of Naruto.
He held the index and middle fingers of his right hand together in front of him as the tomoe in his Sharingan began to rotate.
Naruto suddenly felt a sharp tug in his chest, and the chakra that had felt endless moments ago suddenly disappeared.
The instant withdrawal of chakra completely drained Naruto’s strength, causing him to fall stiffly to the ground.
Immediately afterward, intense pain spread throughout his entire body.
“Ah!”
The pain far surpassed Kakashi’s lightning attack from yesterday.
Even Naruto could not help but let out a miserable scream.
Kakashi gently helped Naruto up and began carefully examining him.
“It seems this is the limit. Although you didn’t get the one hundred thousand, I’ll still give you the twenty thousand I promised. In your condition today, you won’t be able to train either. I’ll take you home.”
Kakashi carefully carried Naruto on his back, picked up the weapons the two had dropped, and headed back.
Naruto’s body was tense, and he did not dare move at all.
If he moved, the places where his skin had peeled away might get touched.
[Sure enough, this body can’t withstand four tails? What a pity. If I had reached four tails, I could have fired a Tailed Beast Bomb. But what was that Kakashi just did? That’s way too outrageous! No, he was so shameless just for the money that he even used genjutsu. Shameless bastard!]
Kakashi could not help but glance back at Naruto.
He had not expected Naruto to notice that he had used genjutsu.
At that moment, he had used the Technique of Darkness to take away Naruto’s vision, then circled behind him before delivering that strike.
“Big Brother Kakashi, you beat me up this badly, and you think twenty thousand is enough? Shouldn’t you at least give me some medical expenses?”
“No. Just twenty thousand. Take it or leave it.”
“Tch! Cheapskate.”
After Kakashi sent Naruto home, he left behind a twenty-thousand-ryō banknote.
However, after stepping outside, he took out a pocket watch from his clothes that he used for timing.
The time displayed on it was 3 minutes and 43 seconds.
“Well, there’s no need to be so strict. I’ll just let him go out and play for a day.”
Kakashi smiled, reset the pocket watch to zero, and put it away.
Chidori Sharp Spear?
It seemed like a pretty good name.
Although Naruto had failed to last five minutes, Kakashi was still in a very good mood.
He knew better than anyone what Naruto’s condition had been like during this period.
Having this level of combat ability was already far beyond his expectations, which was why he gave Naruto twenty thousand ryō to go on his date.
Unlike Kakashi, Naruto was not in a good mood at all.
The pain from his injuries was one reason, but the main reason was the seal Kakashi had used to stop him at the end.
Naruto calmed his mind and once again arrived before the Nine-Tails.
At this moment, the Nine-Tails had its eyes open, with a somewhat gloomy expression on its face.
“Kurama, what happened at that time? Why was your chakra suddenly cut off?”
“Kid, that man is dangerous. At that time, his Sharingan resonated with the Sharingan that suppresses me, and I was controlled by him.”
“What!”