“Hey!
Kakashi-sensei, I want to challenge you one-on-one.” Five minutes later, the yellow-haired boy jumped out of the bushes with a swagger, hands on his hips, pointing at Kakashi.
“This guy, he really is the number one unpredictable Ninja, running out without any precautions at all.” Kakashi thought, a bit speechless.
It seemed he needed to teach the boy a lesson.
Hidden in the shadows, Sakura and Sasuke both raised the corners of their mouths simultaneously; Naruto had done well.
Immediately, Naruto pushed off with both feet, sprinting forward and launching a flying kick at Kakashi.
But the boy still underestimated the strength of a Jonin; Kakashi couldn’t even be bothered to gather Chakra, catching Naruto’s flying kick with one hand and then forcefully throwing him aside.
Naruto was tossed away as if he were a shot put.
“Bang!” The moment he hit the tree stump, the boy turned into a puff of white smoke.
“A Shadow Clone?” Kakashi was stunned for a moment; it seemed this kid wasn’t stupid, not just running out to get beaten, but knowing how to use a Shadow Clone to lure the enemy.
“Teacher, I’m behind you!” At this moment, Naruto’s voice came from behind Kakashi again.
The boy threw three Shuriken at Kakashi, accompanied by the sound of breaking wind; Kakashi had just been distracted by Naruto’s clone and could only dodge sideways.
“It’s time, Sasuke!” Sakura, hiding in the bushes, shouted loudly.
Two figures emerged from the bushes, their hands quickly forming seals in front of their chests.
“Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!” “Water Release: Hard Vortex Water Blade!” Water and fire swept toward Kakashi from two different directions.
Kakashi smiled faintly; so this was the tactic the three of them had discussed.
Not bad.
Immediately, the man’s fingertips also quickly formed seals.
Water and fire collided, “Sss—” for a moment, white smoke billowed, and the high temperature meeting the cold condensed into a large amount of water vapor.
“Did it work?” Naruto, on the side, watched the thick smoke with glowing eyes, full of anticipation.
A moment later, the thick smoke dissipated.
A charred piece of wood fell to the ground.
“It’s a Substitution Jutsu!” Sakura was startled; as expected, Kakashi wasn’t that easy to deal with.
If he had been taken out by two such simple moves, he wouldn’t be worthy of the title of Jonin.
“Over here, Sakura.” Just as the young girl was distracted, Kakashi’s playful voice suddenly came from her ear, followed by a whip kick aimed at her waist.
It was a Body Flicker Jutsu…
Oh no, it was too late to dodge.
“Water Release: Water Cloak Technique!” A layer of cyan-blue Chakra water cloak condensed around Sakura’s waist, tightly wrapping the area the girl was being attacked.
Taking Kakashi’s whip kick head-on, Sakura was also forced back more than ten meters by the powerful blow.
Looking at the blue water film around Sakura’s waist, Kakashi was somewhat surprised: “Was it this layer of transparent Chakra water film that withstood my attack?” Sakura, a newly graduated Genin, could actually use Water Release so skillfully; such Chakra control ability even exceeded that of most Chunin, and it was performed using Water Release.
You must know, Water Release was a Ninjutsu that only Ninjas from the Hidden Mist Village in the Land of Water were good at, and being able to use Water Release to such an exquisite degree was even more precious.
Looking across Konoha, there weren’t many Ninjas who could use Water Release.
The Second Hokage, the Third Hokage, and Kakashi himself were the best among them, while other Ninjas mostly only knew the basics.
“Haha, Teacher, you almost fell for it.” Naruto and Sasuke also arrived at Sakura’s side at this moment, the three of them looking at Kakashi opposite them, already looking a bit like a team.
“Hehe, not bad, stronger than I imagined, but this is still far from enough.” Kakashi said with a smile, his eyes suddenly sharpening.
“Earth Release: Rock Lodging Destruction!” Following Kakashi’s seals again, the ground under their feet suddenly rose, and the ground began to crack.
The legs of Sakura and the others fell, stuck in the collapsed sinkhole, unable to move.
“Damn it!” Naruto tried hard to climb out, but because his feet were suspended and he couldn’t leverage himself, he could only curse angrily.
Sakura and Sasuke, who was beside her, looked at each other, and the two immediately understood each other’s intentions, nodding slightly at each other: “Yeah!” The girl concentrated Chakra on her palms, grabbed Sasuke’s hands forcefully, and pulled upward.
Sasuke’s entire body was pulled out instantly, the boy landed back on the ground, and immediately used the same method to pull out the trapped Sakura and Naruto.
“Hmm—knowing how to use the power of companions to get out of trouble, you’re starting to look a bit like Team 7.” Kakashi intentionally created various difficulties for them during training; defeating them was not the main purpose, the main goal was to train the three’s team consciousness.
This was also the purpose of this training.
“Teacher, you should get serious; the three of us aren’t that easy to deal with!” Sakura looked forward to Kakashi using stronger Ninjutsu; after all, the girl hadn’t used her trump card yet.
Previously, there hadn’t been a suitable opportunity to use it, and Sakura also wanted to see what level her strength had reached.
“Oh?
So I’m being looked down upon?” Kakashi scratched his head, no choice, he would have to get serious then.
“Ninja Art: Shadow Clone Technique!” Kakashi summoned two physical clones; he wanted to test the strength of the three students separately.
The two clones on the left and right rushed toward Naruto and Sasuke, while the real body was naturally left for the strongest, Sakura.
“Is he taking me that seriously?
Using his real body.
But this is exactly what I wanted.” Sakura was secretly excited.
“Let me see how strong your Water Release is!
Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!” Controlling water with water, Kakashi also used Water Release; a huge water dragon, its eyes flashing with golden light, attacked Sakura in front of him.
On the other two sides, Naruto and Sasuke also began to fight with Kakashi’s clones.
Sasuke should be fine, it was just a question of how long Naruto could hold out.
But Sakura had no time to worry about them now.
“Water Release: Water Wall.” The pink-haired girl didn’t want to be outdone; waves surged in front of her instantly, and the water spray formed a square Water Wall upward, protecting Sakura’s body behind it.
“Slap!” The water dragon roared and slammed into the Water Wall; the two masses of water carrying Chakra fought each other, their forces canceling each other out, and finally turned into a powerless splash of water, scattering all over the ground.
As the water spray dissipated, Sakura slowly gathered Chakra at the soles of her feet, using the power of Chakra to make wind under her feet, and quickly attacked Kakashi.
This time, she wanted to strike first.
“Preparing to fight me directly in Taijutsu?” Kakashi muttered, this girl really had guts.
The girl threw a powerful uppercut, attacking Kakashi’s chin from bottom to top; Kakashi was half a head taller than her, and Sakura was using this height difference to land a suitable blow.
“Slap!” Fist and palm met.
Sakura’s uppercut was firmly pressed by Kakashi’s hand from top to bottom; the girl wanted to withdraw her right fist, but found that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t move.