In the blink of an eye, three years passed. Over these three years, after the purge during the original Nine-Tails Plan, the Shinobi World had become much more peaceful. Thanks to Konoha's strength, the great nations were unusually harmonious with one another, without any friction at all.
Only the lands where small nations stood clustered together still spoke of the Shinobi World's true nature.
Three years was neither long nor short. It was long, in the sense that Naruto was only three years old, and relying on the bloodline of the Uzumaki Clan, he could barely begin taijutsu training.
But to call it short was not quite right either. Kakashi had already successfully mastered Mirror Image's "Instinct," and through the mask's copying function, he had made a name for himself as the Copy Ninja just as in the original work, hailed as the next God of Ninjutsu!
Of course, anyone familiar with Kakashi knew that what he was truly skilled at was not the tens of thousands of ninjutsu he possessed, but his superb swordsmanship!
At present, in all of Konoha, there were almost none who could surpass him with pure swordsmanship, including seasoned shinobi like White Fang and Mito. Even Shiro, if he did not Project the Noble Phantasms of those Sword Saints, still could not match him in swordsmanship.
However, in Shiro and the others' eyes, all of this was only natural, because the energy and resources Kakashi had poured into it were terrifying. With his talent, achieving these results was actually quite normal.
What truly surprised Shiro and the others was Kakashi's development of Raikiri. He had once again strengthened the connection between Lightning Release and space-time ninjutsu, not only greatly shortening Space-Time Chidori's preparation time, but also expanding it further.
Originally, Space-Time Chidori could only cut