In Kakashi's memory, the only ninja who could skillfully use the Flying Thunder God Technique were the Second Hokage and his teacher Minato.
However, there were quite a few people within Konoha who could use the Flying Thunder God Technique. For instance, Minato's Shadow Guard, though not particularly strong, had mastered the Flying Thunder God Array.
When the three of them activated the technique together, they could achieve a teleportation effect.
Of course, it could only teleport. It had no practical combat use whatsoever. Preparation took anywhere from dozens of seconds to several minutes, which was far too long in a battle where every second counted.
Yet some details on the scroll reminded him of Minato, and the intelligence details also confirmed the sender's identity.
It was Naruto, Minato's child, who had already left the village and independently established a ninja village.
Naruto had shared a great deal of intelligence with him and offered many suggestions regarding Konoha's current situation—for example, joining forces with the Ninja Clans to pressure the high command, threatening the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire, physically eliminating Danzo, and so on.
Those suggestions could indeed change Konoha's lifeless state, but some of them sounded more like jokes.
If they were carried out exactly as written, Konoha would be more likely to collapse internally first.
What Kakashi found even harder to understand was why Naruto had chosen to leave Konoha and establish an independent ninja village when he had so many ways to change Konoha.
With Naruto's status, becoming Hokage in the future would have been effortless. Had he become completely disillusioned with Konoha?
After thinking it over, Kakashi could only arrive at that explanation. He, too, was disappointed in Konoha, but only in the Konoha High Command led by the Third Hokage. He bore