Kakashi's New Moonlight

"Kakashi Hatake, the legendary Copy Ninja?"

Biwa Juzo's eyes shifted slightly when he heard Itachi Uchiha's words. Kakashi was famous throughout the ninja world!

"Mm. I just didn't expect him to have left the Anbu. Looks like he's started leading students."

Itachi Uchiha's gaze was calm, and he gave a casual explanation, but inside, he felt a headache coming on.

How had he run into Kakashi, his old superior, in this damn place?

No matter what, he still considered himself a member of Konoha!

As for whether others acknowledged it or not, perhaps he did not care at all.

"Trouble..."

Kakashi did not dare read his book anymore. His gaze could not help sweeping toward Kitagawa Gen beside him.

This was the ninja you called extremely dangerous?

How was this "extremely"? This was clearly "utterly" dangerous!

Biwa Juzo, once one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, and Itachi Uchiha, who had wiped out the entire Uchiha Clan by himself and had been his Anbu colleague.

For a moment, even Kakashi wondered if his disaster-star trait had flared up again.

Otherwise, how could he casually take on a mission no one else wanted and run into enemies like these?

"Assassins! Attack!"

Kakashi did not dare make a rash move when he saw these two, but the samurai dressed as farmers did not care that much.

They had already been unhappy about two ninjas joining their group, as if it were a challenge to them.

Now that enemies had appeared, this was the perfect chance to prove themselves!

They immediately drew their ninja blades, and traces of Chakra appeared on the blades in an instant. With roars, they charged straight in.

"Hey, don't act recklessly—"

Seeing this, Kakashi hurriedly tried to stop them, but sharp-eyed as he was, he noticed Itachi Uchiha had already finished forming seals!

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

Ferocious flames came roaring toward them, and they could only immediately raise their blades and use Chakra to block.

Buzz—

However, the instant the flames dispersed, Biwa Juzo had, at some point, already rushed right in front of them.

That massive Kubikiribōchō swept out horizontally, and two samurai fell to the ground before they could even scream.

"Bastard!"

The other two samurai cursed under their breath and instantly charged out, trying to seize the opening before Biwa Juzo could withdraw his blade, but Itachi Uchiha's Shuriken took their lives outright!

Biwa Juzo and Itachi Uchiha's coordination was fairly seamless. Two powerful ninjas dealing with these samurai was truly like cutting through melons and vegetables.

Seeing this, Kakashi could only sigh. These samurai had lost too quickly; he had not even had time to look for a chance to help.

"Gen, leave this place the moment you get a chance."

Putting away the book in his hand, Kakashi took out a Kunai and spoke quietly to Kitagawa Gen beside him.

"This mission has already exceeded expectations. The enemies we're facing are too strong, so you—"

Kakashi turned his head, only to discover in astonishment that Kitagawa Gen was not listening to him at all.

Instead, at some unknown point, he had taken out a signal flare and fired it into the sky. Watching that slowly rising flare bloom in midair, Kakashi was a little dazed for a moment.

He already understood what Kitagawa Gen meant, but how was this any different from courting death?

"A signal flare?"

After Itachi Uchiha used Genjutsu to bring down the last samurai, he and Biwa Juzo both frowned as they looked at the light in the sky.

"Reinforcements?"

"Unfortunately for you, I already ran into you two in the town last night."

Kitagawa Gen winked at Kakashi, then turned toward Itachi Uchiha and Biwa Juzo with a perfectly serious expression.

"Especially this ruthless man who disowned even his closest kin and slaughtered his entire clan. Any normal Konoha ninja would probably know him, so we requested emergency aid from Konoha overnight and had nearby Anbu reassigned here. You have no chance."

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Itachi Uchiha fell somewhat silent. Although he had already prepared himself mentally, being judged like this by a ninja of Konoha still made him feel awful.

Kakashi's eyes widened even more. No, you're still provoking them? Are you insane?

"Looks like Itachi-kun is quite famous."

Biwa Juzo did not mind. His fierce gaze locked onto Kakashi and Kitagawa Gen.

"But kid, have you ever thought about one thing?"

"Mm?"

Kitagawa Gen tilted his head, a puzzled expression appearing on his face, but in the next instant, he suddenly leaped backward!

At that very moment, Biwa Juzo had already arrived in front of him, and the Kubikiribōchō came swinging viciously toward him.

"All we have to do is finish this quickly! Itachi, you deal with Kakashi Hatake. I'll take care of this brat and come reinforce you!"

"Of course."

Kakashi's head was pounding. The thing he feared most had still happened.

Kitagawa Gen's plan was good. Using a signal flare directly to scare them might very well frighten these people into retreating.

But the problem was, if these people were determined to carry out their mission, then that signal flare could be deadly!

And now, everything was developing in the direction he least wanted to see.

"No, I have to get Gen out of here!"

Kakashi tightened his grip on the Kunai and had just prepared to reinforce him when Itachi Uchiha had already blocked his path.

"Forgive me, Kakashi-senpai."

Itachi Uchiha's eyes were scarlet, that pair of Sharingan staring straight at Kakashi.

"Itachi..."

Kakashi sighed. He still understood this former subordinate of his to some extent.

Especially since he had heard that after Itachi Uchiha slaughtered his entire clan, his eyes had become even stronger. That made him even harder to deal with.

But no matter what, this battle was unavoidable. As a Konoha jonin, he had to deal with this rogue ninja!

It was just that his original plan had been to handle all of this alone, and now he still needed to find a chance to reinforce that student of his.

"If I were you, I would choose to leave."

As Kakashi pushed up his forehead protector to reveal the Sharingan beneath, his voice, following Kitagawa Gen's words, also began to turn cold.

"But it doesn't matter. As long as I hold you off until the Anbu arrive, that will be enough. Today, there will be an end to this!"

"Perhaps."

Itachi Uchiha remained unruffled, but the Chakra inside his body had also begun to circulate.

"Kakashi-senpai may be fine, but what about that student of yours?"

As he spoke, Itachi Uchiha had already charged forward on his own, and the two of them soon clashed together!

"Kid, if you had turned around and left, perhaps none of this would have happened."

On the other side, Biwa Juzo was extremely fast, and the massive Kubikiribōchō was incomparably light in his hands, as if it had no weight at all.

Every time he swung it, he drove up a huge roar of sound, and the surrounding trees and rocks were easily smashed apart by him!

Kitagawa Gen did not reply. He was nimbly dodging nonstop.

In truth, he wanted to leave too.

But after seeing these two, he seemed to know how to complete Kakashi's exclusive mission.

And by pure coincidence, he had also received a new Side Quest, so he had simply accepted them all!

Obtained a new Side Quest

Kakashi's New Moonlight

Let Kakashi know who is more important to him now!

Seeing a mission like this, Kitagawa Gen felt somewhat resistant inside, but since they were going to fight anyway, he naturally accepted it.

Of course, he had some confidence too. He might not be able to win, but stalling should not be a big problem.

Although he really was lying, there was an Itachi Uchiha here who considered himself a Konoha spy!

He was probably the one who least wanted to run into Konoha ninjas. As long as he was given a "reason he could not refuse," perhaps it would work.

At worst, Kitagawa Gen was still very fast.

"In that case."

Whoosh—

After dodging another slash from Biwa Juzo, the Chakra inside Kitagawa Gen also surged and boiled.

"I might as well test just how my Purple Electricity holds up!"

However, at that very moment, Biwa Juzo's blade once again chopped down at him soundlessly!

Yet this time, the one whose gaze turned somewhat strange was Biwa Juzo himself.