Kōsei

Kōsei

The next day, Kakashi, whose shadow clone had just stepped out the door and had yet to begin training, saw Orochimaru and Jiraiya walking together into his courtyard...

Guessing their intentions, Kakashi bowed to Orochimaru and the other, and welcomed them inside.

"Thank you, Teacher Orochimaru."

"You and I don't need to be so formal. The scroll is here. Sign your name in blood, and I will teach you the summoning jutsu." As he spoke, his fingers danced, and the summoning scroll was summoned, unrolled, and placed before Kakashi.

He bit his index finger open and wrote his name.

"Remember this, the hand seal sequence is: Boar-Dog-Bird-Monkey-Ram. This jutsu also uses your own blood as a medium for the summoning, and you must not get the sequence wrong, otherwise unknown dangers will arise. Not everyone is so fortunate." Having said that, Orochimaru cast an amused glance at Jiraiya beside him.

"Hahaha, I am a child of destiny. Blessed with great fortune. You can't envy that, Orochimaru." Jiraiya naturally understood Orochimaru's subtext.

The two had originally planned to go together to find Tsunade, as today was the anniversary of Tsunade's younger brother Nawaki's death. Orochimaru had already obtained permission from the village head last night to let Kakashi contract a summoning beast. He had detoured over this morning so Kakashi wouldn't make a wasted trip looking for him later.

Taking advantage of the fact that the wound on his index finger had not yet healed, Kakashi walked into the courtyard and formed the seals in order. Following the sequence of the hand seals, he guided the chakra within his body to circulate. After finishing the seals, he channeled more than half of his chakra into his right hand and slammed his palm against the ground.

"Summoning Technique!"

"Poof!" Amidst a cloud of white smoke, a huge dark shadow appeared.

"Oh, it's him. Truly not bad, for the first time..." Orochimaru seemed to recognize the dark shadow in the smoke, murmuring with interest.

The smoke dissipated, revealing a large red snake, fully seven to eight meters long and thirty centimeters thick, standing before Kakashi.

This large snake was far inferior in size to Orochimaru's personal summoning beast Manda, but it had its own unique strengths. It was one of the upper-tier large snakes in Ryūchi Cave, and its disposition was relatively gentle. For a beginner, it could be considered a very good summoning partner.

"Hiss... hiss... Do you have any tasks for my summoning, Lord Orochimaru?" After sweeping its cyan snake pupils across the scene and realizing they were not on a battlefield, its tense nerves relaxed, and the big snake asked Orochimaru.

"It was I who summoned you. First meeting, my name is Hatake Kakashi. I am Teacher Orochimaru's disciple, please look after me!" Kakashi signaled to the large snake before him that he was the one who had summoned it.

"Hmm? Very well, Kakashi-kun, I am Kōsei. Please look after me from now on." Upon seeing Orochimaru nod, the large snake Kōsei also politely greeted Kakashi.

"Then you two get to know each other, we'll be leaving first." With that, the figures of Orochimaru and Jiraiya successively vanished.

"Kakashi-kun, my specialized combat style is pupillary vision. I can use my pupils to release genjutsu, causing enemies to lose their combat capability within a certain period of time. This genjutsu is primarily based on natural energy, so most enemies who have not come into contact with senjutsu find it very difficult to avoid. The drawback is that the natural energy I store is not much, and basically the number of times I can use it in each battle is just once. As for other moves, whether it's binding or venom attacks, my abilities can only be considered relatively ordinary within Ryūchi Cave." Kōsei was slightly modest. Those who could be called large snakes were basically existences whose comprehensive abilities were not weak; it was just that compared to snakes of even greater size or those specializing in venom, Kōsei's two abilities were not top-tier, but they could by no means be described as ordinary.

Hearing Kōsei introduce its own abilities, Kakashi was pleasantly surprised. Wasn't this a one-shot Sage Art: Frog Song! And in terms of practicality, it was even better.

Looking closely at the body of the large snake Kōsei, it had a suit of smooth, even red snake scales, with bulges in only two places. One was slightly behind the snake's head, and the other was near the snake's tail.

Looking at these two places, Kakashi asked with curiosity.

"Kōsei, your ability is very effective, and I look forward to fighting side by side with you! It's just that the little bumps on your head and near your tail, what's going on with these two places?" He pointed with his finger.

"Kakashi-kun, these two bulging places on my head and tail are sacs where I store natural energy. At first, I tried absorbing and storing natural energy in my tail to cast senjutsu. Once I noticed something was wrong, I could immediately sever my tail to survive." At this point, Kōsei shook its tail with a hint of pride.

Put that way, a closer look revealed that the bump on the tail was indeed somewhat larger than the one on the head.

"After I gradually succeeded, I began trying to develop a second storage sac on my body. The location was placed on my head. At first, I didn't dare choose this spot."

"I see. That's truly amazing. Are there many snakes in Ryūchi Cave that have mastered senjutsu?"

"As far as I know, apart from the White Snake Sage, only the three maidservants under her command have mastered the ability to use senjutsu." Speaking of this, Kōsei looked slightly proud.

Everyone likes flattery, and buttering someone up to deepen ties has a hundred benefits and not a single harm.

"Then you really are amazing, Kōsei!" Kakashi wanted to test the power of Kōsei's ocular genjutsu right now, but he was troubled by the lack of a suitable reference target. As for why he didn't use himself for the experiment, as a Genin he certainly couldn't withstand it; whether it lasted three seconds or five seconds would have zero impact on the battle outcome. The crucial point was knowing where the upper limit of Kōsei's jutsu lay.

Just as sleepiness brought a pillow, a figure appeared beside Kakashi at that moment.

The newcomer looked travel-worn, and seemed to carry an air of sharp killing intent.

For a moment, Kōsei also focused its attention on the suddenly appearing White Fang.

"Ah, you've come at just the right time, Father. This is my summoning beast, Kōsei. He has a genjutsu move, could you help test its approximate power?" Kakashi asked with pleasant surprise. Using White Fang's strength as a reference was absolute perfection. First of all, White Fang did not know senjutsu and was unfamiliar with natural energy, but his strength was overwhelmingly formidable, and because his swordsmanship had returned to simplicity, his intuition was extremely keen, and his genjutsu resistance was also very strong.

"Very well, go ahead and unleash it."

Out of trust in Kakashi, White Fang didn't overthink the rest, and signaled Kōsei to cast genjutsu on him.

Hearing this and saying nothing more, Kōsei knew Kakashi's intent, and deduced from the aura of the human before it that this person was no weaker than Orochimaru. Kōsei stared hard with both pupils, executing senjutsu with all its might.

"Senjutsu: Bewilderment!"

A shockwave resembling invisible laser light shot from Kōsei's twin pupils, instantly striking White Fang.

White Fang's figure flickered slightly, followed by a flash of white light.

Kakashi looked closely again, and White Fang's short blade had already returned to its scabbard. This was White Fang's combat instinct overreacting. Kakashi had seen that flash of white light many times.

"A good jutsu, even I got caught." White Fang nodded in evaluation. In that very instant, he had also dazed for a moment, and that was with knowing in advance that the opponent was going to cast a genjutsu.

"Father, then..." Kakashi looked at White Fang with slight anticipation.

"Hmm, anyone below Jonin would probably have no way of exempting themselves from this jutsu. A Jonin would take about one breath. It is not ruled out that someone with particularly strong willpower might have an even shorter capture time." Knowing what Kakashi wanted to ask, White Fang turned his head to glance at Kōsei again.

"I can sense that the reason I broke free so quickly from this jutsu is that your own energy was insufficient. If you could output continuously, this would be a very powerful jutsu." Seeing that his son could possess such a powerful summoning beast, White Fang was also happy for him.

"Lord White Fang is truly formidable, seeing through the flaw of this jutsu instantly. I will also continue to work hard to help Kakashi-kun more." Upon seeing White Fang's short blade combined with the name Kakashi, Kōsei recognized that the man before him was Konoha's renowned God of Death, White Fang, and its tone became even more polite.