Sasuke's Strength

"Haha! I can finally get the Bells!"

Naruto rushed towards the base of the big tree as fast as he could. Just as he was about to jump up and grab the Bells, his ankle suddenly tightened, as if he had tripped over something. Then, his entire world did a 180-degree turn.

Immediately afterward, Naruto was hanging upside down from the tree.

Kakashi jumped down from the tree, looked at Naruto, and sneered, "You fell for the same trap twice. How did you even get your Forehead Protector?"

Naruto yelled out, extremely unwilling.

Opportunity!!!

Sasuke seized the moment when Kakashi was most relaxed, instantly conjuring several shurikens in his hand, and then forcefully flung them towards Kakashi!

The shurikens flew towards Kakashi from different trajectories.

The smile on Kakashi's face gradually froze.

In the next moment, all the shurikens pierced Kakashi's body, and Kakashi fell to the ground, his life hanging in the balance.

Sakura, seeing this scene, exclaimed in horror, "D-Dead??!"

A second later, they realized that the shurikens had not hit Kakashi, but a wooden log.

"Phew~"

Sakura breathed a sigh of relief.

Sasuke couldn't help but frown and charged forward.

Kakashi was prepared. Sasuke launched a horizontal kick, but Kakashi skillfully deflected it with a raised hand.

Sasuke unleashed a series of punches, but Kakashi seemed to anticipate Sasuke's attack direction without even looking, blocking them all.

Sasuke frowned again and again.

The difference in strength was too great.

Unwilling to accept defeat, Sasuke exchanged a flurry of punches with Kakashi at his fastest speed, but the end result was that Kakashi seized an opportunity and pinned him to the ground from behind.

Sasuke was completely unable to move, his eyes filled with shame and anger!

Just then, Kakashi suddenly disappeared.

Including Sasuke.

Sakura was stunned. The surrounding scenery hadn't changed, but Kakashi and Sasuke, who had been fighting just moments ago, were gone, including Naruto and Ye Lan.

"Sasuke!! Naruto! Ye Lan!! Where are you?"

"Kakashi-sensei!"

Sakura shouted several times, but no one responded.

Just then, a rustling sound suddenly came from behind a large tree behind Sakura. Sakura instinctively looked back.

She saw Sasuke, his entire body riddled with kunai, blood streaming down him!

"Sakura..."

Sasuke called out weakly, then collapsed directly to the ground, ceasing to breathe.

"Ah!!"

Seeing the person she loved die right before her eyes, Sakura couldn't control her emotions. Her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.

In reality, Kakashi and Sasuke, including Naruto and Ye Lan, had never left their original positions. The fight was still ongoing. Everything Sakura had seen before was an illusion deliberately created by Kakashi.

Kakashi had exploited Sakura's weakness: she cared too much about Sasuke. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so frightened by the false image of Sasuke's death that she fainted.

Sasuke still refused to give up, continuing to try and snatch the Bells from Kakashi's waist. He even touched the Bells several times, but he just couldn't grab them.

Sasuke felt the immense gap in strength between him and Kakashi, and his eyes gradually turned cold. This wasn't the result he wanted!

He came to the Ninja Academy, worked hard to become a Genin, and then joined Team 7. He hadn't done all that just to be easily defeated like this!

Suddenly, he thought of that man, the man who had slaughtered his entire clan, that cruel, bloody, merciless demon, his brother, Itachi Uchiha!