How to get stronger without medicine?

Kiyohara put away his kunai, reached out a hand toward Obito, who was lying on the ground, and said:

"It seems I have won."

Kiyohara's tone was calm.

Obito possessed the bloodline of the Uchiha, and he also had his own urn waiting for him.

Everyone had a bright future ahead of them.

It was just that he currently held a slight advantage, and in the future, he might hold an even greater one.

As long as he could roll a powerful future, Kiyohara would be able to complete the last wishes and take off.

Of course, the more powerful the future, the greater the difficulty of completing the last wish might be.

Obito lay on the ground, looking at the hand Kiyohara extended, then glanced at Rin, who was standing nearby with a look of concern, his face instantly flushing red.

This was a disgrace to the Uchiha!

Fortunately, Obito was already used to being a dead last; he had grown accustomed to the taste of defeat back at the Ninja Academy.

During his first attempt at the Chunin Exams, he had even lost to Might Guy.

In the end, Obito managed to provide himself with some psychological counseling, sheepishly grabbing Kiyohara's hand to stand up while muttering:

"...Damn it, I'll definitely win next time!"

Namikaze Minato looked at Kiyohara, the look of admiration in his eyes deepening as he smiled gently:

"A very brilliant tactic and shurikenjutsu. Kiyohara, your practical combat ability far exceeds that of an average genin."

Speaking of this, Namikaze Minato was also a bit curious as to why Kiyohara had not participated in the Chunin Exams.

"With your strength, you should be able to pass the Chunin Exams with ease."

"I have been busy with training, so I haven't been able to take the exam."

"I see."

Namikaze Minato nodded.

However, it was wartime now, and the promotion to chunin did not necessarily have to follow the standards of peacetime.

If one performed well, it was not impossible to be promoted to chunin ahead of schedule.

"Kiyohara, if this mission is successful, you should be able to be promoted directly to chunin," Namikaze Minato said.

As the jonin leading the team, he was very clear about the difficulty of this mission.

He looked at his students, feeling a sense of guilt in his heart.

This was not a mission they should be executing.

But Konoha had no other choice right now.

The situation on the front lines was already extremely dangerous; Konoha had reached a critical moment of life and death.

If they could successfully cut off the logistics supply line of Iwagakure this time, it would bring a great advantage to the village's battle against Iwagakure.

It was precisely because Iwagakure also felt it was impossible for anyone to break through that this mission could only be assigned to a standard squad.

If ninjas with excessive strength went, they would inevitably be discovered by Iwagakure's reconnaissance ninjas, who would then dispatch reinforcements.

"Yes."

Kiyohara nodded, indicating he understood.

After the Battle of Kannabi Bridge, if he became a chunin, he estimated his strength would see a significant surge.

In the subsequent wars, his ability to survive would increase substantially.

As long as he wasn't killed, Kiyohara could receive more help from versions of himself who had died in different timelines.

If he could keep the momentum going, he would be able to face the crises that followed with much more composure.

The Nine-Tails Incident, the Konoha Crush, Pain's Assault, the Otsutsuki invasion, and so on.

At any of these turning points, if his strength was weak, they would be hurdles he could not overcome.

Soon, Namikaze Minato departed first.

The mission was scheduled to depart on the afternoon of the third day.

He was busy every day and had many things to handle.

After Namikaze Minato left, Kakashi walked over to Kiyohara.

"You're not bad. It seems you won't have a negative impact on this mission."

Kakashi said indifferently.

Ever since his father died, he had only cared about one thing.

That was to follow the ninja code and ensure the mission was completed.

Ninjas who cannot complete their missions are trash.

With the strength Kiyohara had just displayed, he would not hold everyone back or decrease the probability of mission success.

"Hmm."

Kiyohara nodded.

The current Kakashi was in his obsessed phase; saying anything more would be useless.

Experience is the best teacher; one lesson is all it takes.

This mission to Kannabi Bridge would also become a turning point that changed Kakashi.

However, in the original story, it was merely a brief dawn before stepping into darkness, because after he killed Rin with his own hands, he became so hopeless that he even contemplated suicide.

Honestly, if Kakashi had been named Uchiha Kakashi instead of Hatake Kakashi, he could have easily managed to get his own Mangekyo to play with.

That way, not only would he avoid being drained of chakra, but he could also reach new heights.

"Kakashi, do you want to go train together?"

Nohara Rin asked.

Ninjas cannot afford to slack off; they must constantly train to keep their strength from regressing.

Once one gets used to comfort, even a tiny bit of regression during a mission could lead to death.

"No need."

Kakashi was concise.

He planned to go train by himself; he had recently succeeded in developing a particularly powerful technique.

It was the perfect time to refine it before completion.

I remember Kakashi became a Jonin the day before the mission, Kiyohara thought to himself.

Kakashi's strength was, in fact, only that of a newly promoted Jonin.

His current situation was somewhat awkward.

He had failed to properly inherit the swordsmanship of his father, Hatake Sakumo, and he hadn't mastered Lightning Release ninjutsu either.

No matter how strong his current Chidori was, it had a fatal flaw.

It required the dynamic vision of a Sharingan to control, which is why in Boruto, Kakashi—having lost his Sharingan—developed the Purple Electricity, a Lightning Release technique of the same level that did not require a Sharingan.

At the critical moment, Kiyohara figured he would still have to rely on the rogue ninja Kiyohara possessing him.

Although he had also just become a Jonin, there were gaps even among Jonin.

Thirty-plus years of training and accumulated combat experience were not things Kakashi could compare to.

"That's just how Kakashi is."

Obito said, resting his head on his hands.

He didn't know about how Kakashi's father had been slandered by his former comrades and subsequently committed suicide.

He just felt that Kakashi was being a bit pretentious.

"I also think it's better for everyone to do some targeted training for these last few days."

Genma Shiranui picked up the senbon that had fallen to the ground, wiped it off, and put it back in his mouth.

The reason it had fallen was that he was shocked by the strength Kiyohara had just displayed.

"Makes sense."

Kiyohara agreed.

In the remaining three days, the rogue ninja Kiyohara could still help him boost his strength.

After saying goodbye to the others, Kiyohara headed home quickly.

Back at home, Kiyohara looked at the ninjutsu scroll in his hands and felt a headache coming on.

Sometimes, even with a teacher's explanation, one still needs to practice constantly to become proficient.

It is very easy to end up in a situation where the eyes understand, but the hands don't.

Commonly known as "learning it at a glance, failing at the first attempt."

And then there was the issue of chakra volume, which is also a process that requires accumulation over time.

Unless he completed his second dying wish right now and allowed the rogue ninja Kiyohara to merge with him.

"By the way, do you have any other ways to get strong quickly?"

Kiyohara asked.

Logically speaking, his future self at over thirty years old had become a rogue ninja, so he should know quite a few shortcuts... oh, wait, I mean, quick and painless ways to improve strength.

"There is one, and that's taking drugs."

The rogue ninja Kiyohara replied.

How else would one get strong without taking drugs?

Upon hearing this, Kiyohara remembered that during the three years Sasuke spent with Orochimaru, he had also taken quite a few forbidden drugs.

It was just that Orochimaru cherished Sasuke's body, so the forbidden drugs didn't have any harmful effects and didn't make Sasuke's head pointy.