Defeating Kakashi!

Chapter 5: [Defeat Kakashi!]

With a turn, Hyuga Bin received a prompt from the system.

[Optional Mission Complete!]

[Subsequent Mission Unlocked: Resolve Tsunade's Heartache. Reward upon completion.]

[Mission Completion Standard: Completely heal Tsunade's psychological trauma from the deaths of her brother and lover.]

This... is more than a little difficult.

After reading the mission's completion standard, Hyuga Bin couldn't help but lament the difficulty. At the same time, he began planning how he should proceed.

After all, this was a choice he made himself regarding Tsunade. He had to see it through, even if it meant crying.

"This kid, I feel like something's off about him?" Tsunade watched Hyuga Bin's retreating figure as he walked away with "tiny steps." She then looked at the exquisitely wrapped piece of candy in her hand.

She then unwrapped it, popped the candy into her mouth, and tossed the wrapper into the trash.

"It's quite sweet..."

Hyuga Bin ran into Hatake Kakashi, who was deliberately waiting for him, at the bustling entrance to Konoha's food street.

Eating sweets on food street was Hyuga Bin's daily "required course."

As an "old acquaintance" of Hyuga Bin, Hatake Kakashi naturally knew this, which was why he arrived early at the entrance to food street to stake out Hyuga Bin's arrival.

"Bin, I challenge you!"

Seeing Hyuga Bin's lazy figure appear, Hatake Kakashi leaped in front of him. His small face, not yet wearing his mask, was very serious.

His expression and tone were indistinguishable from Uchiha Obito's a few days prior when he couldn't find something.

The reason he chose to challenge Hyuga Bin was simple: he had heard that Hyuga Bin had cornered three Uchiha and even killed one of them.

This made him think that Hyuga Bin must have been holding back during their previous three fights, which was why each battle had been a "fifty-fifty" draw.

Yet, at the time, he had actually believed Hyuga Bin was using his full strength, just like himself.

As the son of Konoha's White Fang, he was too embarrassed to realize he'd been held back against in a fight.

Therefore, this time, he wanted to challenge Hyuga Bin proactively, wanting to understand the actual gap between himself and Hyuga Bin.

Facing Hatake Kakashi, who had suddenly appeared, Hyuga Bin was stunned because the Hatake Kakashi he "knew" wasn't someone who would challenge others proactively.

In their previous few fights, Hatake Kakashi had always been reluctant and fidgety, like a reformed prostitute who was about to be forced back into her old ways by him.

The Hatake Kakashi from the original story wore a mask, his forehead protector covered one eye, and his other eye always had a dead-fish look, as if everyone owed him a few hundred dollars.

Indeed, you have to transmigrate yourself to truly understand these characters from anime. Kishimoto was just a manga artist, and fanfic authors are just writing whatever they want based on their own ideas. What do they know about Naruto?

While Hyuga Bin marveled, he also felt Hatake Kakashi was being unnecessarily troublesome.

He was just an ordinary branch family member of the Hyuga. How could he possibly be a match for Hatake Kakashi, a genius who graduated at five, became a Chunin at six, and a Jonin at twelve?

The previous three times he'd barely managed a fifty-fifty draw with Hatake Kakashi had almost drained him dry.

Moreover, he was about to go eat taiyaki and didn't have time to spar with Hatake Kakashi.

"Kakashi, I'm going to eat now," Hyuga Bin politely refused.

"Bin, I can wait until you're done eating before we fight," Hatake Kakashi's attitude was firm.

Clearly, Hatake Kakashi had made up his mind this time to have a real fight.

"I..."

Hyuga Bin opened his mouth, intending to say he had other things to do, but the option mission reappeared in his mind.

[Option A: Accept Hatake Kakashi's challenge. Completion Reward: Eight Trigrams Sixteen Palms (C-rank reward).]

[Option B: Say to Hatake Kakashi: "Maybe next time, maybe next time." Completion Reward: Substitution Technique (D-rank reward).]

[Option C: Refuse Hatake Kakashi's challenge. Completion Reward: Random Stat Point +0.1.]

After all, the Eight Trigrams Palms held great temptation for Hyuga Bin, who was only three and a half years old.

Furthermore, sixteen palms were considered a C-rank reward, so Hyuga Bin figured the difficulty wouldn't be too high.

Therefore, Hyuga Bin decisively chose Option A.

"Okay, Kakashi, I accept your challenge."

[Optional Mission Complete!]

[Subsequent Mission Unlocked: Defeat Kakashi. Reward upon completion.]

[Mission Completion Standard: Defeat Kakashi and make him genuinely convinced.]

An hour later, on a Konoha training ground.

Hyuga Bin and Hatake Kakashi stood facing each other.

"We're not ninjas yet, so we don't need to form the hand seals," Hyuga Bin said, adopting a defensive stance, to Hatake Kakashi.

"Mm, Bin, I'm coming at you," Hatake Kakashi said, then attacked Hyuga Bin.

"..."

After a fierce battle, both Hyuga Bin and Hatake Kakashi were almost completely exhausted.

They both had minor injuries on their faces and bodies, which were unavoidable in sparring.

With their physiques, they would fully recover in just a day or two.

Of course, Hyuga Bin won.

After all, Hyuga Bin was a few months older than Hatake Kakashi. Born into the Hyuga Clan, he hadn't fallen behind Hatake Kakashi in targeted training, and his diligence was even greater than Hatake Kakashi's.

Even so, Hyuga Bin had to use his trump card to narrowly defeat Hatake Kakashi.

Without the system, Hyuga Bin would have been completely outclassed by Hatake Kakashi after a year of enrollment.

"As expected, the only thing separating me from a genius is a system!"

As Hyuga Bin reached out to pull Hatake Kakashi up from the ground, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

"Bin, I'll keep challenging you until I defeat you!"

Hatake Kakashi didn't take Hyuga Bin's hand but struggled to stand up on his own. With a determined gaze, he said this to Hyuga Bin before turning and leaving.

[Mission Failed!]

Hyuga Bin: "..."

Kakashi was somewhat convinced in his heart, but not in his words.

Hyuga Bin felt like he'd been dealt a dirty hand!

The rewards he almost had in hand had flown away again!

"If I don't complete the system's optional missions soon, I definitely won't be able to beat Kakashi next time."

Hyuga Bin also sighed and looked at Hatake Kakashi's limping back before turning to head home.

Clearly, Hatake Kakashi was still full of drive at this moment, not much different from an ordinary boy.

In the original story, Hatake Kakashi, who was dejected all day, was like that because of the deaths of his father, Hatake Sakumo, his comrades Uchiha Obito and Nohara Rin, and his teacher Namikaze Minato, which left him physically and mentally exhausted, feeling that life had lost its meaning except for reading his favorite book.

Oh... and the Sharingan that could never be turned off, constantly draining his already limited energy, which served as a unit of chakra measurement.