His father had already given him the ninjutsu scroll for Earth Style: Earth Wall, but he had never practiced it.
He decided that once he mastered the Shadow Clone Technique, he would train both his shadow clones and his real body at the same time, just like Yuki Yuichi.
That way, he should be able to catch up to Yuki Yuichi faster.
Kakashi Hatake thought to himself, his gaze growing resolute.
He was Kakashi Hatake!
How could a mere Yuki Yuichi possibly be his match?
Sensing his gaze, Yuki Yuichi looked back at him.
His intentions were obvious. Yuki Yuichi did not even need to think to see through them.
Tch, such an average yet overconfident guy. What a turn-off.
Meanwhile, in an underground base elsewhere.
Danzo wore a grim expression as he looked at the two people below him.
Root had been disbanded.
However, after he argued his case vehemently, his base had been retained.
And these two were the only subordinates he had left.
"Damn it!" Danzo viciously slammed the intelligence report in his hand onto the table.
Over the past few days, he had repeatedly emphasized Root's necessity to Sarutobi Hiruzen, but Hiruzen had yet to agree to his request to restore Root.
Yesterday, that brat named Yuki Yuichi had actually destroyed one of his branch bases.
It was a base he had secretly constructed, more than two hundred meters underground.
He had been confident that no one could possibly discover it.
Yet Yuki Yuichi had destroyed everything within a five-hundred-meter radius with a single ninjutsu.
Naturally, the base two hundred meters underground had not survived either.
"Lord Danzo, our losses are not severe." Yamanaka Fū knelt on one knee.
"Since it had only recently been completed, we had not placed much inside."
"Fū! Our losses are