Just as Obito began celebrating victory in his mind, something he never expected happened.
Kakashi, who had been struck by the aftermath of the Fire Release explosion, vanished in a puff of smoke.
Obito naturally did not think he had killed Kakashi. If Kakashi had been blown to death by Fire Release, his body should still have been there.
"It was a Shadow Clone!" Obito immediately sensed trouble, but it was already too late. The instant Obito relaxed, Kakashi, who had been hiding underground, decisively made his move.
"Konoha Secret Taijutsu Ultimate Technique: Thousand Years of Death!"
Forming a tiger hand seal, Kakashi burst from the ground and attacked Obito's weak spot.
"Aaaah!" Obito's expression changed drastically in an instant. The intense pain from that vulnerable area sent him jumping several meters into the air. Even after crashing to the ground, both hands still protected his heavily injured weak point, though it was already too late.
Obito lay on the ground with his butt sticking up, letting out an unyielding, furious roar. "Kakashi, you despicable bastard!"
"You were too careless." Kakashi walked over and replied flatly.
"The enemy disappeared before your eyes, yet when you saw him again, you rushed in without even observing carefully. If I had been an enemy, you would have died several times already," Kakashi said without mercy.
"Damn it..." Obito had no retort, because he truly had lost—not to some powerful Ninjutsu, but to a Shadow Clone.
If he had lost in a Ninjutsu clash, Obito would not have felt so unwilling. This was simply a complete defeat in combat experience.
Unlike him, a student, Kakashi had already been a ninja for more than three years and had experienced real life-and-death battles.
"Talk less big. If you want to dream of defeating me, train for