"Lady Tsunade, shouldn't you be handling official business?"
Jimo looked at Tsunade helplessly.
"It's fine, it's fine! Shizune's there, so nothing too serious will happen!"
"Is that so..."
If Jimo hadn't seen Tsunade holding a cup of sake in one hand and a skewer of meat in the other, he might actually have believed her...
"Shizune, you really have it rough..."
"I knew Kakashi-sensei had a Sharingan... but he's ridiculously strong..."
Sakura leaned against a tree and spoke.
"His Hand Seals are so fast... he doesn't give you any chance to get close! If we want to steal the bells, we have to keep his hands occupied..."
"His battle instincts are better than Shikamaru's, his sense of smell is better than Kiba's, his Sharingan is better than Sasuke's, and even his Taijutsu is probably better than Bushy Brows'..."
The two fell silent...
"He can't possibly be without a single weakness, can he?"
Sakura said.
"If we're talking about weaknesses... I think there really is one! Come closer!"
While Naruto and Sakura worked out a strategy, Kakashi leaned against a tree and rested.
"I overdid it... I used the Sharingan too much... I even burned through this much stamina!"
Kakashi smiled in satisfaction.
"Looks like they've grown quite a bit!"
"Kakashi-sensei! Here we come!"
At the shout, Naruto and Sakura suddenly burst out of the dense grass like two gusts of wind.
Kakashi was focused on forming Hand Seals to perform a jutsu. At the unexpected shout, he couldn't help but pause.
Before he could react, Naruto's loud voice rang out again. "The ending of Make-Out Tactics is—"
"Damn it!" Kakashi thought, alarmed, and hurriedly raised both hands to cover his ears. But it was already too late.
"Wait, even if he can't hear us, he can still guess from our