Blow Your Dog Head to Pieces for Real

Ding-ding-ding—

The dismissal bell rang. It was lunchtime.

Hideki and Obito arrived at the rooftop of the school building, where Kakashi had already been waiting for them.

"Thanks," Hideki said, demonstrating traditional virtue.

Obito turned his head aside, looking thoroughly tsundere.

"No need," Kakashi said coolly. The dead-fish eyes he cast at the two of them carried an unusual gleam today.

A serious gleam.

"I heard the two of you defeated a ninja."

"And beat him badly enough to land him in the hospital."

Hideki froze, and Obito turned to look at him as well.

Clearly, neither of them had expected Kakashi to bring this up.

Hideki had actually wanted to say coolly, "That was just teaching him a lesson!"

But at that moment, the image of that strange old man pressing the two of them into the dirt surfaced in his mind again. Hideki's face darkened, and he merely nodded halfheartedly.

"Yes."

"What is it, top student?"

There was more than a little personal resentment in that answer.

Kakashi's expression immediately darkened.

Sure enough, this guy had been hiding his strength.

Was he mocking my position as top student!?

The person Dad and that man valued really did have something special about him.

At that moment, countless thoughts flashed through Kakashi's mind.

But in the end, they all turned into one sentence.

"In that case." Kakashi's gaze turned cold. "Fight me!"

"I really want to know just how far someone who's been hiding his strength has gone!"

Kakashi erupted with intense fighting spirit.

Hideki saw it, but before he could react, Obito beside him had already entered battle mode.

"Bring it on! You think I'm scared of you!"

When it came to fighting, Obito never backed down and never missed a chance to join in!

Not only was he still simmering with anger after that strange old man's treatment, but he had also perfectly used the Great Fireball that morning!

His chakra was brimming, his fighting spirit high, and since his opponent was Kakashi, Obito was overflowing with confidence.

"I don't engage in pointless fights with defeated opponents."

Unexpectedly, Kakashi frowned and refused Obito's challenge.

His gaze fixed directly on Hideki. Those were still dead-fish eyes, yet like a sharp compass, they looked rigid but were actually piercing.

"Damn it! What do you mean by that!?"

Obito immediately got upset, but Hideki stopped him. "It's fine, Obito."

Hideki looked calmly at Kakashi. "Perfect. I've wanted to fight this so-called top student for a long time too. But... are you sure you want to fight here?"

Kakashi did not care. "It's fine. I'll end this battle in the shortest possible time."

"Damn, impressive." Hideki curled his lip and gave him a thumbs-up.

"You don't care, you're so noble, but if the teachers catch us, we'll be punished... You're the class's top student, the son of White Fang, but Obito and I are different."

"Neither of us has the title of top student, nor do we have a superhuman father like White Fang to back us up. If we get punished, we'll be the ones losing out."

Hideki rattled all that off in one go, leaving Obito beside him completely baffled.

He always felt like Hideki was insulting someone, but he had no proof.

Kakashi's gaze grew increasingly unfriendly...

"Then what do you suggest?" Kakashi asked coldly. "Find a suitable place to fight, or pick a time... Fine, we'll do it your way!"

Kakashi was getting anxious. He was really getting anxious.

Kakashi looked carefree, but he actually had a strong sense of pride.

He wore a mask to hide his handsome face, and kept it on all the way into Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, all because his father had once said the beauty mark by the corner of his mouth was cute.

After White Fang's death, Kakashi's Dead-Fish Eyes became even more wooden, but the boundaries in his heart also grew clearer and clearer.

"There's no need to make it that complicated." Hideki spread his hands, though his eyes narrowed slightly.

"I have a better and more straightforward way to decide the winner."

Hideki wanted to fight Kakashi too, but it would not be wise.

The two of them were not on the same path... Setting aside Kakashi's future, right now he mainly relied on White Fang's swordsmanship and taijutsu.

He was basically taking the warrior-plus-assassin route.

And those happened to be Hideki's weak points.

He did have experience fighting the Uchiha brats, but that experience was obviously not enough. Otherwise, Obito would not have been dead last.

Although Hideki had now mastered a close-range weapon like the Rasengan, strictly speaking, he was merely a mage.

Well, a half-baked mage.

After all, Minato had developed the Rasengan to increase the lethality of his Flying Thunder God tactics.

Under such circumstances, going head-to-head with Kakashi, whose childhood was practically a protagonist template, was truly unwise.

But whether it was wise or not was one thing. Whether he dared was another.

Hideki had no other virtues, but he possessed the fine qualities of staying calm while daring to fight and take risks.

Scared? Not a chance.

"As a ninja, you know at least one ninjutsu, right, Kakashi?" Hideki said calmly. "You didn't use it when fighting Obito, but I saw through it long ago."

How did he know!? I hid it so well!

Kakashi was startled inside, but his expression remained unshaken. That might have been one of the benefits of wearing a mask.

"That's right. So what?"

"Then this is easy." Hideki raised an eyebrow and spread his hands. "Use the ninjutsu you're best at. As long as you can withstand one attack from me, you win!"

"If the teacher asks, we were only sparring. We didn't use kunai, and Obito can testify for us. How about it?"

To be honest, Kakashi hesitated at first.

Something about this felt wrong. He had come to challenge Hideki, so why had it turned into him having to take one of Hideki's attacks?

But... whatever.

He did not know many ninjutsu, but every one he knew was extremely solid.

Kakashi was confident he could steadily block Hideki's ninjutsu attack.

It should be Fire Release. First Uchiha Beiying, then that ninja—Hideki probably specializes in Fire Release.

Kakashi thought rapidly.

If that's the case, then I'll use this move...

"Ready?" Hideki asked calmly.

Kakashi nodded. "Make your hand seals!"

Kakashi's understanding of a ninjutsu clash involved hand seal speed, ninjutsu quality, and the artistic flair of the ninjutsu.

The last one was purely personal preference.

But Hideki's response was: hand seals? Not happening.

Not only did he not need hand seals, he even had the spare energy to show off.

"You make your hand seals first. I'm afraid that once I attack, you won't have a chance to resist."

What arrogance!

Kakashi's eyes turned cold. How had he never noticed before that this guy had such a punchable face?

Forget it... Kakashi took a deep breath and calmed himself.

His hands formed seals, his movements incredibly smooth and precise—far more pleasing to the eye than Obito's Great Fireball seals.

Then Kakashi pressed both hands against the ground. "Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!"

An earthen wall bearing a dog head rose from the ground!

Obito:!!!!

At that moment, Obito's hatred for Earth Release reached its peak!

"Oh?" Hideki raised an eyebrow. It was his first time seeing Kakashi's Dog-Head Earth-Style Wall in person.

It really did have artistic flair. It felt as though it gave the ninjutsu a soul.

"Your turn!" Kakashi shouted coldly.

Hideki, meanwhile, walked forward at an unhurried pace. He formed no seals and made no unnecessary movements.

When he reached the earthen wall, he knocked on that silly-looking dog head with his hand.

"Oh, it's pretty hard." Hideki gave a small sigh of admiration.

Then chakra burst from his palm!

"Excuse my poor showing!"

Hideki formed a Rasengan within three seconds, then slammed it directly into the dog head on Kakashi's earthen wall!

Boom!!!!

That silly-looking dog head was smashed to pieces on the spot, and a huge hole was blasted through the earthen wall along with it!

He had truly blown that dog head to pieces.

Kakashi stood frozen behind the earthen wall. The violent chakra had come within inches of him. Even with the wall blocking it, he could still clearly sense its power!

If that move had hit his body, then...

Minato never would have imagined that Hideki could master the Rasengan so quickly.

Otherwise, he never would have taught it to the two boys.

In truth, Minato knew that although this technique looked simple, it still took considerable effort to master.

And that was for ordinary ninjas with a certain foundation in chakra.

What he did not know was that some people might not be ninjas, but they were far from ordinary.

By that logic, Hideki was someone developing Kekkei Tōta!

Bloodline limit or not did not matter, but the "elimination" part was absolutely guaranteed!