Chapter 239 - 237: Is This Also Within Your Calculations?

Chapter 239: Chapter 237: Is This Also Within Your Calculations?

As the Hunting Horn melody played, Kakashi felt a slight change in his Chakra. His keen observation skills allowed him to notice a thin layer of water mist appearing on his Kunai.

"Obito, watch out for genjutsu!"

However, Obito wasn’t looking at him at that moment. Even if Obito could guess Kakashi-sensei’s meaning through his mask, without even looking, he certainly couldn’t have guessed it.

But that wasn’t a big deal, after all...

"Kakashi-sensei, you guessed wrong. This time it isn’t genjutsu, but a support Ninjutsu. Watch closely, this is my first time using it in actual combat. Ninja Art: Water Dance."

As the dance segment finished, the battle dance effect was activated. As long as Kano’s dance continued, the entire field would receive a certain bonus.

"The first effect is that the difficulty of forming hand seals for Water Release Ninjutsu is reduced."

Immediately, Kano freed her hands and formed four hand seals.

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"

Water flowed from her toes, gathering like a stream into a river that swirled around Kano, gradually forming a soaring water dragon that then attacked Kakashi and Obito.

"A four-seal Water Dragon Bullet Technique? That’s absurd!"

Kakashi knew how complex the Water Dragon Bullet Technique was. Kano just whipped it out with four hand seals?

Obito stepped forward and formed hand seals.

"A mere Water Dragon Bullet Technique, watch me push it back! Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique!"

Dragon-shaped flames enveloped Obito’s entire body, then erupted forward! Water and fire collided again, but this time, the fire couldn’t hold back the water.

"What?! How can it not be blocked?"

"The second effect is that the power of Fire Release within this range is reduced. Of course, there is also a third effect: the Chakra consumption for Water Release is reduced. So you can’t block it; I advise you to dodge instead."

"Damn it, don’t underestimate the Uchiha! Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"

Obito took a deep breath, his small, flat chest swelling up, and used all his strength to exhale an astonishing dragon-shaped flame, causing the temperature of the surroundings to rise by several degrees.

Beside him, Kakashi couldn’t help but frown. You’re just being stubborn, aren’t you? You really have to use your damn Fire Release to clash head-on with the Water Dragon Bullet Technique.

Kakashi formed hand seals, and a wall carved with a dog’s head appeared.

"Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!"

Then he grabbed Obito and ran. If it weren’t for Obito and Naruko starting a fierce battle right from the beginning, they should have been fighting a guerrilla war in the woods right now.

Before he could finish exhaling, he was grabbed by the stomach and lifted up by Kakashi, causing Obito to choke on the fire.

"Trash Kakashi, put me down!"

Obito kept hitting Kakashi, but Kakashi was wearing earplugs and couldn’t hear him.

"Staying in one place to fight Kano is too disadvantageous; her abilities are better suited for positional warfare. As long as we keep moving, she won’t be able to maintain her dance posture. Plus, I feel like Kano is holding back, and Naruko isn’t using her full strength either. Obito, you need to steady yourself, too; it would be bad if we ran out of Chakra early. I’ll take you and retreat quickly to conceal our presence. Kano’s Shadow Deer moves very fast, so I must move at full speed. You just need to watch their movements. Once you confirm it’s safe, call out to me, and we’ll hide and wait to ambush them."

However, Obito was also wearing earplugs and didn’t hear him.

...

On the other side, after Kano and Naruko shattered the Earth-Style Wall, they discovered that Obito and Kakashi were gone.

"Kano-chan, should we chase them?"

"Logically speaking, we should chase them, since we are the ones grabbing the bells and they are guarding them. But well, we don’t necessarily have to fight for a win or loss. Besides, Kakashi-sensei being chased away by us already proves our strength. Think about how it used to be us running and the teacher chasing us."

"Then we aren’t chasing them?"

"Yeah, we won’t chase them. Let’s let the teacher win this time; otherwise, it would be so embarrassing to lose to students in a two-on-two. Let’s sit here and wait for them to come back."

Kano laid out a camping blanket, took off her shoes to sit on it, and pulled a small basket out from her shadow.

"Naruko, come over and sit too. This is a bento my mom prepared; you should try some."

"3Q, Kano-chan!"

The two little girls just started having a picnic on the training field like that.

Tsunade and Jiraiya, who were watching the battle from afar, couldn’t help but frown.

"Your student is way too laid-back, isn’t she? She even carries picnic supplies with her?"

"How would I know? You know her strength, and the things she does are quite abstract. By the way, what did Naruko even learn while she was out with you for two years? I don’t see any progress at all."

"I just patched up her weaknesses and she learned the Big Ball Rasengan. The rest of the time, she was just pondering her Seduction Technique."

"Naruko has learned bad habits from you."

On the other side, after running for over ten minutes, Kakashi was actually a bit tired. He didn’t expect that Obito hadn’t warned him for so long; it seemed Kano was in hot pursuit. He would speed up one last time; Kano certainly wouldn’t expect him to run back.

The so-called most dangerous place is the safest place!

Kakashi, carrying Obito, rushed out of the woods and happened to see Naruko and Kano sitting on the ground drinking tea.

Kakashi pondered for a moment, then put Obito down and tapped his right hand against his flat left palm.

"Is this also within your calculations, Kano?!"

"Screw you, you idiot Trash Kakashi!"

Obito immediately pinned Kakashi down, straddled him, and started hitting and scolding him. After scolding for a while, he realized something, took off Kakashi’s earplugs, and continued to scold him.

"You still don’t know you’re wrong? You still don’t know you’re wrong?!"

After hitting him for quite a while longer, Kakashi was still as stubborn as a mule, refusing to admit his mistake. And he was quite resilient; despite being beaten like this, he didn’t make a single sound...

Obito silently took off the earplugs from his own ears.

There must be something wrong with the earplugs; when wearing them, it’s almost hard to realize you have them on. Looking at Kakashi, who was wailing and begging for mercy from his beating, he turned back to look at Kano.

"Is this also within your calculations, konoha songstress?!"

Kano was bewildered. Why did everything get blamed on her? But since time hadn’t run out yet, they could continue grabbing the bells.

"Naruko, now that we’re full and satisfied, let’s exercise to help digestion."

"Alright!"

...

"This won’t do, Kano’s intensity is too exaggerated. In contrast, Naruko is just like an accessory, dispensable. Naruko hasn’t used the Rasengan from start to finish; she’s still too kind and afraid of hurting us, so she’s holding back."

Kakashi fled in a wretched state, bringing Obito with him; despite that, the bells on them hadn’t been lost. Just like Naruko, Kakashi didn’t intend to use Chidori, as that Ninjutsu was too powerful and could really kill someone. Unlike the Water Dragon Bullet Technique, which was flashy but useless—a Ninjutsu that wouldn’t do much damage even if it actually hit someone.

"Tsk, is the konoha songstress not holding back at all? You’ve been beaten black and blue by her big hammer; the intensity of the entire exercise is all on her."

Kakashi glanced at Obito. Don’t you know why I’m beaten black and blue?

"Besides the abilities she has displayed so far, as far as I know, she still hasn’t used Summoning Jutsu or sealing techniques. She’s likely still holding back; if she had used those, we would have been done for long ago."

"Isn’t she from the Nara Clan? Why isn’t she using her family’s secret techniques?"

"If the current head of the Nara Clan, Shikaku, let you fight him head-on, how many could you kill?"

Obito silently held up one finger.

"Ten?"

"Keep killing."

Kakashi was somewhat speechless, but he also somewhat agreed with Obito.

"That’s exactly it; their family’s secret techniques are just that weak."

"How could a mere Nara Clan compare to the Uchiha? I actually have a way to defeat her."

"What way? Let me hear it."

"Give the Sharingan back to me; that way, I can recover my strength and use the Sharingan to defeat her."

"Ah, this..."

Kakashi hesitated. Kano had warned him that Obito was dangerous and to be careful, as he might take back the Sharingan.

"What are you hesitating for? You don’t trust me? Fine then, I’ll go deal with that more trustworthy student of yours myself."

"Obito, don’t be impulsive."

"Let go, Kakashi. If you don’t trust me, there’s no need to work with me. Anyway, I won’t trust you anymore, not since the day Rin Nohara died."

"Wait! Obito, I... trust you..."

"I don’t see it."

Obito made a move to leave again, but was held back by Kakashi. Kakashi helplessly placed his finger on the Sharingan, falling into hesitation once more.

"Coward."

Seeing that Kakashi was still hesitating, Obito dug out his own left eye right in front of him and held it in his palm for Kakashi to see.

"The me from before wouldn’t have hesitated, and the me now won’t feel fear."

"Obito, promise me, don’t do anything rash and stay in Konoha."

Kakashi likewise dug out the Sharingan and held it in his palm.

Obito just gave a cold snort, grabbed the Sharingan, and shoved it into the eye socket that was still bleeding. Relying on the self-healing ability provided by the Hashirama cells remaining in his body, he reconnected the Sharingan.

The Sharingan that could never be deactivated on Kakashi turned into a black pupil after being reconnected. Obito closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, it was already a shuriken-shaped Mangekyo Sharingan.

Immediately, Obito turned his back to Kakashi, revealing a ruthless smile.

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