"Hey, Kakashi, I'm really lucky to meet you here. My subordinates and I have made an appointment to have a special training tonight. How about you come too..."
Kai's familiar loud voice sounded in Kakashi's ears again, and the latter couldn't help but sigh in his heart--
It's really hard to even have a good dinner.
"It's better to spare me today."
Kakashi complained weakly.
Ignoring the dissatisfied looks from the other guests in the izakaya, Kai, who looked excited, thought it was an old friend's usual perfunctory treatment, and was about to do some ideological work on his old friend.
However, when he sat down, he noticed that the other person was not wearing the usual Ninja decoration, but was wearing casual clothes, and he was not using his dominant hand for eating, and a bandage was exposed on his right shoulder.
"Are you hurt?"
Kai was surprised. "Are you still on a mission today? It shouldn't be the subordinate you are responsible for... is it Naruto Uzumaki?"
Seeing Kai's expression of disbelief and an expression that seemed to have thought of something, Kakashi nodded helplessly.
"It's just what you think."
"No way!"
Kai's suddenly high-octave voice made the surrounding guests focus their attention again.
"Don't disturb others, it's time to eat."
"You... you should have kept it, right?" Kai whispered quickly.
"Eight Gates Released Formation has been used."
"..."
For a moment, there was a dead silence between the two, with only the sound of Kakashi knocking on the table.
After all, he had finished eating and was ready to leave before Kai came to sit down with him.
Although I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, no one could see Kakashi's true appearance even while eating.
If it were normal days, Kai would definitely be thinking about how to schedule another fateful competition with his old friend, but at this moment, Might Guy, who was so shocked by the information he said, almost forgot about the training time scheduled with Rock Lee.
"So, the strength of Naruto-kun has reached or even surpassed the level of Jonin?"
"Yes."
"So..." Kai finally understood what Kakashi said to him before, "Are you going to suggest to Lord Hokage that Naruto be directly promoted?"
"It's not even interesting now." Kakashi stood up holding his shoulders, "But I do have this plan. According to his current performance, all he needs to do is..."
Then he stopped explaining, looked at Kai's thoughtful look, and pointed to his shoulder. "You see, I'm like this, and you don't help me and take me home? It's just a few steps, can't it delay the agreed time between you and your subordinates?"
"Hey, is it really true? Is it because my youth is not enough? I can't keep up with the new generation. It seems that I need to burn more youth!" Kai saw that Kakashi interrupted him on purpose. After all, there are many people here with too many mouths and it is not suitable to talk about this. "What about Kakashi, why don't you wait until the next time? It doesn't matter if you are injured. I will practice on your back!"
"You just treat me as your burden, right?" Kakashi complained, and then watched Kai stand up and skillfully put his other arm on his body.
As soon as he walked out of the izakaya, Kai seemed to have thought of something.
"Oh, that's right, Kakashi, I heard before that after you performed the mission at Kirigakure, what's that name... what is that Kirigakure Ninja. I've been to the village several times, saying that I was notified of the mission about Konoha, but every time I ask for your name."
"Why are you asking for someone else's name if you don't even know it?"
"I'm not asking. At first I thought you were out to offend others and they were here to seek revenge. But Hong is very concerned about this matter. You said that only a female Ninja can understand a female Ninja..."
"Then since Hong said so, are you a female Ninja?"
"No, I, Might Guy, am a decent young man!"
"Then you definitely don't understand. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, right?"
"Ah? It seems to make sense..."
night.
Neji Hyuga sat there with his eyes closed and meditated, while Rock Lee, who was supposed to be practicing every day, disappeared today for the first time.
But I can guess where he went. He must have made an appointment with the tutor who was full of youth and passion to go to Training.
Neji couldn't help but think of the expressions on his and Tenten's faces when they saw his Team Jonin Might Guy today. He and Tenten thought they had met Rock Lee's father!
Moreover, the two of them are still so familiar with each other. To be honest, although the memory is a little blurry, it seems that I did not have one-tenth of the closeness with my father back then...
"Sand."
As the wind howled in the night, a slightly abrupt sound of footsteps sounded.
"You're here." Neji looked at Sasuke, then raised an eyebrow, "You are well prepared."
"After all, you are so confident, so it can't be just a small fight. And... I already learned a lesson this morning."
Sasuke, dressed in a martial arts outfit, came to Neji. His wrist was wrapped in a bandage, his leg was hung with a knife bag, and he also brought Forehead Protector with him.
"Taijutsu or Ninjutsu? You can't play Genjutsu in front of Uchiha, right?" Sasuke, who has played against Neji countless times, said.
"Of course it's still Taijutsu, but it's a little different." Neji couldn't help but squinted his eyes and saw that Sasuke seemed to be different from yesterday. At least the arrogance that he usually showed off was much restrained.
Sasuke understood, then he closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the double Tomoe's Sharingan had already started!
The number of times the two of them have played against each other has almost become countless over the years. Both of them regard Naruto as their goal. Once they have new moves and ideas, they will find each other to verify the effect. Over the past two years, the number of times they have played against each other has exceeded that of sparring with Naruto. The strength of both sides has been catching up with each other.
And Neji also activated Byakugan, and then reminded, "Go all out, because with the suggestions of Rock Lee and my instructor, I made some modifications to this move. Of course, the damage cannot be controlled well."
"Hmph, you're talking as if you can definitely hurt me!"
Training Ground Kakashi's teachings in the morning were like a needle piercing Sasuke's heart, constantly reminding him of his shortcomings, but he had to admit that he was a little dissatisfied inside.
It's just that at this time, Sasuke understands better than the average person that his dissatisfaction only stems from his own problems. That so-called pride has no value, and he will not offend others because of it.
After all, a long time ago, after constantly losing to Naruto, he had already realized that there are people outside the world.
He was more dissatisfied in his heart and was just blaming himself for poor performance.
"Gentle Fist·Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!"
Under Neji's Byakugan, a huge hexagram opened at his feet, and nothing in this hexagram could escape his subsequent attack like a violent storm!
"I thought it was some new trick, isn't this just your old trick..."
When using Sharingan to capture the charging figure of Neji, Sasuke let out a sneer, and when he was about to use Chakra to speed up and dodge backwards, an equally familiar voice suddenly sounded from behind him--
"Eight Trigrams Two Palms!"
Another Neji Hyuga suddenly appeared in the absolute blind spot of Sasuke and launched an attack on him!
An inevitable blow!