Invisibility~ Water Prison, Prison It Is~
The battlefield in the Land of Lightning.
In Konoha's camp, Kakashi and the other two were cheerfully preparing for the suppression mission they had finally managed to secure.
Ever since Minato had rescued them last time, he and the others had needed to devote themselves completely to the coming decisive battle. For the moment, they had no time to look after Kakashi's team, but they were also worried that the three hot-blooded youngsters might get themselves into more trouble.
So he simply placed a ban on them, only allowing them to carry out simple patrol missions to prevent anything else from going wrong.
However, Minato also knew that overprotecting them was not a good thing for ninja, so after keeping Kakashi's team restrained for a while, he deliberately took time out to choose the safest possible mission for them to practice on.
The three, who had been bottled up for a long time, were naturally very excited about it. But because the last encirclement by A and the others had hit them hard, they had also become much more cautious beneath their excitement.
The ninja tools they had once been exceptionally familiar with had already been checked over and over again, while they silently ran through new tactics in their minds—especially Kakashi, after witnessing Uzumaki Tiezhu's inconceivable ninjutsu.
He had even rethought the path he would take in the future and prepared to change his approach.
The path he had originally intended to follow was the one most ninja believed in: learn powerful ninjutsu and that was enough, the stronger the better. Beyond that, he had rarely dabbled in anything else. Fundamentally, he had been living off the foundation Sakumo had left him while he was still alive.
After all, once Sakumo passed away,