Battle Against Kakashi

Kakashi thought for a moment, then added,

"I'll give you twelve hours. If you don't get them within those twelve hours, you'll be eliminated."

With that, he led the four of them to an open clearing.

Naruto was the first to attack. He grabbed a kunai from beside his foot and charged at Kakashi.

Kakashi avoided Naruto's attack with nothing more than a single leap.

The three of them were stunned. That speed was simply beyond anything they could match. Josuke was no exception, inwardly crying out, So fast.

After putting some distance between himself and the four of them, Kakashi pulled a book from his pocket and began reading.

Naruto instantly flew into a rage and shouted,

"Damn it, you actually dare look down on me!!"

With that, Naruto rushed forward again and sent a flying kick at Kakashi, only for Kakashi to block it with ease. Naruto had to do a backflip to steady himself.

Naruto then thrust another kunai at Kakashi. Just as it was about to hit, there was a bang.

Kakashi had already flashed behind him.

Kakashi formed hand seals.

"Hidden Leaf Secret Taijutsu Ultimate Technique!"

He gathered chakra in his fingers and thrust them toward Naruto's butt.

"Thousand Years of Stabbing!"

Naruto let out a pained scream and was sent flying.

Josuke covered his mouth at the side, forcing himself not to laugh. A classic scene from the anime—the Thousand Years of Stabbing.

But playtime was playtime. The battle was still ongoing.

Sakura and Sasuke had vanished somewhere by now. Maybe they were watching from the nearby forest, but Josuke didn't care about that.

He fired a Great Fireball Technique at Kakashi. Kakashi turned his head, surprised. Was this the Uchiha genius? At such a young age, he had already learned the Great Fireball Technique.

Still, Kakashi smiled inwardly. He was still too young.

With a simple flash, he evaded it. But Josuke had anticipated that, so he immediately activated the Eight Gates and charged at Kakashi.

He opened the Eight Gates all the way to the Third Gate and gifted his teacher Kakashi a Front Lotus.

Kakashi's eyes widened. The Eight Gates? So he was the second disciple Guy had mentioned. What a surprise. Josuke's flying kick came crashing toward him.

Kakashi grabbed his right leg and flung him away. Josuke went back-to-back with the ground.

Josuke grimaced in pain. Damn it, is this the strength of a jonin? He can take out a small fry like me with brute force alone.

"Not bad. You even know the Eight Gates."

Just as Kakashi was teasing him, Naruto unleashed his Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu. Seeing this, Josuke immediately activated his Sharingan as well. Although his Sharingan still couldn't copy techniques at this point,

by observing Naruto's hand seals, combined with the Sharingan's ability to sense chakra, he could definitely figure it out eventually.

(This was a method that Josuke the schemer had come up with: using the Sharingan's traits to slow down the hand-seal movements and let himself sense Naruto's actual use of the Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu.

You're asking how there could be multiple hand seals when the Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu only needed one or two? Huh? No idea?)

Naruto's more than twenty clones swarmed Kakashi at once.

Kakashi merely jumped and flashed away, and Naruto's clones began fighting each other instead.

A series of bangs rang out.

Naruto's clones all dispersed one after another.

Josuke wasn't idle either. He launched two ninjutsu at the same time: Earth Style: Earth Collapse Technique. Cracks of varying sizes immediately appeared across the ground.

The earth beneath Kakashi's feet trembled, and Josuke followed with Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Technique!

Kakashi grew increasingly surprised by Josuke's performance, but to him, this level of attack was nothing.

He immediately formed hand seals. Earth Style: Mud Wall Technique!

A mud wall shaped from a dog's head rose from the ground, easily blocking the Phoenix Flower attack.

Josuke was shocked. This was the first time he had ever hit a wall. He opened his Sharingan, preparing to engage Kakashi in close combat, but Kakashi gave him no chance.

In an instant, he was already standing in front of Josuke.

He immediately used taijutsu on Josuke and slammed him to the ground. Yet there was no pained howl, as Kakashi had expected.

Instead, with a bang, Josuke turned into a cloud of smoke.

A Clone Technique? That was beyond Kakashi's expectations. Three kunai flew toward Kakashi from behind him—Josuke's kunai.

Kakashi dodged them easily.

Josuke threw another three shuriken, but Kakashi still evaded them without effort.

Out of options, Josuke could only sneak into the forest.

Kakashi looked somewhat surprised. Oh? Was he running already?

Sasuke, watching from afar, couldn't calm his heart. Josuke was too strong. Had he already reached a height Sasuke could never hope to attain? Damn it!!!

Josuke had no idea what everyone else was thinking. All he wanted was to change positions as quickly as possible.

Back on Naruto's side, although his Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu had failed against Kakashi, Naruto wasn't discouraged.

He glanced toward a tree and saw a bell hanging there!

Naruto was overjoyed. He thought Kakashi must have accidentally knocked it off while they had been fighting earlier.

Hehe.

Genin, here I come. He happily went to grab the bell, but how could it possibly be that easy to get one?

Before he knew it,

Naruto was tied up by Kakashi's trap before he could even reach the bell.

Only then did Kakashi stroll out slowly.

He picked up the bell from the ground.

"Hey, you bastard! You cheated."

Naruto refused to accept it, clamoring to fight Kakashi for another three hundred rounds.

From the shadows, Sasuke saw that Kakashi had his back turned toward him.

Finally unable to hold himself back, he used a ninjutsu and hurled more than a dozen kunai and shuriken.

Kakashi was pierced into a human pincushion, but then there came a bang.

It was the Substitution Technique!

Sasuke was startled. Knowing his position had been exposed, he immediately got up and changed locations.

Sakura ran as well. With her small frame, how could she possibly outrun Kakashi? She was caught after only a few steps. Just when Sakura thought she was finished,

Kakashi suddenly vanished without a trace.

Sakura was instantly delighted, thinking she had shaken Kakashi off.

So she began searching for Sasuke, giving birth to another classic scene. Sakura pushed aside a patch of dense bushes and saw Sasuke leaning against a tree, covered in blood and riddled with kunai.

"Aaaaaah!!!!!"

Sakura fainted from fright.

Now, the only people in Team 7 who could still fight were the two Uchiha brothers.

Sasuke stopped hiding and stepped out from a thicket.

He had long since decided what he was going to do.

Without wasting time on pointless words or hesitation, Sasuke opened with five shuriken. Kakashi dodged all the way into the trap Sasuke had prepared in advance.

But even triggering it was useless, because Kakashi easily avoided it.

Sasuke naturally knew that method wouldn't work, so he directly used the Body Flicker Technique and engaged Kakashi in a round of taijutsu.

After unleashing a whole combo of punches, it had done absolutely nothing. But this was also part of Sasuke's plan. He stared fixedly at the bell before him...

Now's my chance!