"Secret Technique: Shadow Assault!" Countless black shadows shot madly toward Li, each one shaped like a sharp spike. Yet Li felt a trace of confusion. Reporting him to the Hokage and attacking while using their companions to question him were certainly clever moves, but at best, they were merely petty tricks.
These little tricks looked impressive, but the backlash would be enormous. Or rather, even if Shikamaru's plan succeeded completely now, dealing with the aftermath later would be extremely troublesome.
That didn't fit Shikamaru's character...
"When they become involved in this world, the world will become abnormal..." The system's words rang in Li's mind. Oh? So those two were behind this again.
Li let out a long breath. They truly were impossible to get rid of!
Li stomped his foot fiercely, and invisible ripples continuously spread outward from beneath it. As the ripples fluctuated, the shadows Shikamaru had fired out twisted along with them, circling endlessly around the outer perimeter as though they could not see the path ahead.
Li slowly said, "If I want to leave, do you think you can stop me?" His words stunned everyone present. They knew they could not stop Naruto, but they would never say it aloud. By saying it now, Li was instead giving them a way out. Whether they took it or not was their own choice.
They exchanged glances. Then Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame both stepped aside. Their meaning was simple: if you wanted to leave, then leave. The two of them would absolutely not stop you.
Seeing what the two had done, Kakashi's eyes widened. Then his entire body vanished from where he stood. As he disappeared, an intense fluctuation of chakra came from Li's right side—the fluctuation of Chidori.
Kakashi had spent two or three years as Hokage.