Mei Terumi's proposal was clearly to retrieve Zabuza.
Hashirama Senju: It can work like that?
Tobirama Senju: She seems to have gone offline.
Minato Namikaze: That's nice. If we had bodies, we could join in too. Right, Kakashi?
Although Minato was calling Kakashi, Minato Namikaze was currently staring down Zabuza.
Then—
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!"
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!"
The two sides began fighting.
Zabuza was the first to use ninjutsu, and Kakashi did not dare underestimate him, immediately using his own skill.
Sharingan + Copy.
Zabuza formed hand seals very quickly, and Kakashi copied them with his Sharingan just as quickly.
Thus, the two formed seals at the same time.
"Water Dragon Bullet!"
Minato Namikaze: Kakashi really is a genius. His hand seal speed is so fast. Two seals per second.
Hashirama Senju: So this is hand sealing. I've learned something new.
Tobirama Senju: ...
Hashirama Senju: Tobirama, why aren't you saying anything?
Tobirama Senju: ...The Water Dragon Bullet was originally only twelve seals! How did they manage to form forty-four seals for it?!
Tobirama felt utterly humiliated.
Fortunately, Kirigakure's female Mizukage had gone offline. Otherwise... this would have been truly embarrassing.
No.
Kirigakure should be the embarrassed one, right? How had Zabuza turned twelve seals into forty-four?
By then, Zabuza and Kakashi had already finished forming their seals.
"Water Dragon Bullet!"
Two water dragons six meters tall collided.
They were not merely similar—they were identical.
PS: Brothers who send flowers, you'll grow two centimeters tonight.
On-Site Teaching—Doesn't Zabuza Have Any Pride?! (Asking for Data)
Waves appeared beneath Kakashi and Zabuza's feet, gradually forming a river surface. Then, the two water dragons shot fiercely out of the water.
They rapidly stretched from half a meter tall to several meters tall.
The two water dragons were exactly alike, whether in size, speed, or power.
Bang!
The two water dragons intertwined and collided, but their force was identical.
After the clash, both turned into water mist and vanished.
This was something that could only happen when both sides' strength was completely equal.
This showed that although Kakashi was copying Zabuza's Water Dragon Bullet, the completion and similarity of his copy were both one hundred percent.
And this method of using the Sharingan... was freaking amazing.
Sasuke sat slumped to one side, watching the scene.
"So this is Copy Ninja Kakashi..."
"The Uchiha's... Sharingan..."
He probably still did not know that Kakashi possessed one Sharingan gifted to him by Obito Uchiha.
But—
He could sense it... Kakashi was clearly an outsider, yet he was more proficient than Sasuke himself, or rather, used the Sharingan better!
Sasuke was shaken.
"Ah... the Water Dragon Bullet is so cool."
"I want to learn it too," Naruto said.
Naruto was also on the ground, though he was sitting on it.
Naruto noticed that Kitahara Kaede was standing nearby too.
Kitahara Kaede stood quietly, looking at the rainbow that appeared after the two water dragons intertwined and vanished.
Naruto said, "By the way, Kitahara, don't you yearn for the Water Dragon Bullet?"
Yearn for it...
Hearing Naruto's voice, Kitahara Kaede looked toward the shallow river left behind after the two six-meter water dragons collided.
"Yeah, I yearn for it."
"After all, it's a B-rank ninjutsu."
Ninjutsu also had ranks: S, A, B, C, D, and E. The ranking was not based on a ninjutsu's power, the amount of Chakra required to use it, or the number of hand seals needed, but on how difficult it was to learn.
Thus, B-rank was already enough to make people look at it with admiration.
Kitahara Kaede's Observation (^_-) Small Group
Everyone was still within Kitahara Kaede's daily three-hour observation period.
The older unmarried woman Mei Terumi had gone offline, but everyone else was present except Minato Namikaze.
Hashirama Senju: Can one Water Dragon Bullet really make them that happy?
Minato Namikaze: Sorry, Naruto-chan hasn't seen much of the world.
Naruto being so happy made Minato both pleased and a little embarrassed.
Because neither he nor Naruto had Water-nature Chakra, this ninjutsu was beyond their reach.
Hashirama Senju: That's not what I meant. I just think this Water Dragon Bullet is different from my little brother's.
Hashirama Senju: It seems a little small.
Tobirama Senju: I don't even know what to say. The complete Water Dragon Bullet only has twelve seals. How did they form forty-four?!
Minato Namikaze: Then, Second Hokage, how should the complete twelve seals be formed?
Tobirama Senju: You've asked the right person.
Tobirama Senju: @Kakashi.
Minato Namikaze: Second Hokage? I'm fighting right now! Even losing focus for an instant is dangerous!
Tobirama Senju: Change your hand seal sequence.
Tobirama Senju: Switch to Rooster-Ox-Horse-Snake-Rat-Tiger-Dog-Tiger-Snake-Ox-Ram-Snake-Boar.
Minato Namikaze: Second Hokage, this is...
Tobirama Senju: Let me show you the real Water Dragon Bullet.
Minato Namikaze: Understood.
Kakashi hurriedly struggled awake from his soul-being-ripped-out state.
Then he shouted.
"Naruto, Sasuke, and Kitahara."
"Watch closely!"
"What you saw just now was the wrong demonstration."
"A forty-four-seal Water Dragon Bullet is not a Water Dragon Bullet."
"The normal version of the Water Dragon Bullet uses twelve seals."
"And now..."
"Zabuza, you Dead Last, learn properly!"
As he spoke, Kakashi began teaching on the spot.
??!!
Those words left Zabuza somewhat dumbfounded.
He was a Dead Last?
He had taken Kirigakure's own Chunin Ninja Exams, and Kirigakure's exam had only one rule: kill one's companions.
And he... had not only killed his own companions, but everyone from his entire class.
It could be said that Kirigakure's cruel policy had long since forged his ability to adapt to cruelty.
So he was still a Dead Last?!
But Kakashi had already raised both hands.
Zabuza's eyes narrowed, and then he saw Kakashi forming hand seals.
"Rooster-Ox-Horse-Snake-Rat-Tiger-Dog-Tiger-Snake-Ox..."
"Rooster-Ox-Horse-Snake-Rat-Tiger-Dog-Tiger-Snake-Ox..."
"Sorry, I messed up in the middle."
"Rooster-Ox-Horse-Snake-Rat-Tiger-Dog-Tiger-Snake-Ox-Ram-Snake-Boar—"
Kakashi made mistakes three times in a row, then held his hands in the seal position.
The lake surface began to tremble, and a water dragon twice as thick as the one Zabuza had summoned earlier rose into the air.
Minato Namikaze: Second Hokage, is this right?
Tobirama Senju: Kakashi, your strength is kind of terrible. I'll reluctantly count that as a normal Water Dragon Bullet, but you formed three extra seals for a twelve-seal Water Dragon Bullet!
Tobirama Senju: Are you trying to make people laugh themselves to death? Compress those ten seals into eight!
Tobirama Senju: An eight-seal Water Dragon Bullet is acceptable. That means you've barely passed!
Minato Namikaze: Uh...
Tobirama Senju: Hurry up!
Hashirama Senju: Kakashi, be more responsible. Tobirama gets like this whenever he gets fired up. He can't stand seeing someone perform too poorly.
Minato Namikaze: Sweat.
Minato, who had been called a genius, broke into a sweat. He had originally been looking forward to having his own body.
But now he watched Kakashi act as Teacher Kakashi while also acting as Minato Namikaze in the group, getting scolded, then performing badly and being watched by everyone...
That was just too miserable.
Tobirama Senju: Kakashi, aren't you a Jonin of the Hidden Leaf Village? You form seals that sluggishly and still want to be a Jonin?!
Minato Namikaze: ...
Who had he offended?
He had originally wanted to show off his title as Copy Ninja Kakashi, but instead...
He had been grabbed as a poor student and trained.
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