novel-bin 第200章 波风水门：我要1步1步，1步1步爬到最高！成为火影！
第200章 波风水门：我要1步1步，1步1步爬到最高！成为火影！
Chapter 200 Minato Namikaze: I will climb to the top step by step! And become Hokage!
"Hmph, so you're not calling me Kakashi-senpai anymore?"
Kakashi Hatake raised an eyebrow as he looked at Kitahara Kaede's diary, which described the match as 50/50.
That's really dog-like!
What impressed him most was that in such a short time, since he obtained the diary, Kitahara Kaede's strength had risen like a rocket, from an ordinary Chunin to someone comparable to a Jonin, to someone who could fight him to a standstill, and finally to someone who could contend with a Kage-level expert.
All of this happened in just a few months, which made him marvel at how outrageous the Uchiha clan's bloodline was, considering how long it had taken for them to awaken their Sharingan.
However, while Sasuke Uchiha, who also awakened the Sharingan, experienced a significant increase in strength, it was clearly not this outrageous; it was simply inhuman.
Kitahara Kaede is special; she must be different.
"The Mangekyou Sharingan..." Kakashi Hatake touched the scar on his eyelid. Kitahara Kaede had mentioned more than once that his eyes were the Mangekyou Sharingan, but he hadn't even said that he would awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan in the future.
However, Kakashi Hatake was unable to awaken the so-called Mangekyou Sharingan, so although he felt that what Kitahara Kaede said was probably true, he still had doubts in his heart.
In particular, since he has this Mangekyou Sharingan, how does he activate it?
Kitahara Kaede didn't say anything, so he couldn't pin his hopes on that matter. The only real path to success was to make a breakthrough in the Hatake sword technique.
But what does it mean by Obito's title mentioned here?
Could it be that Obito, who is already dead, can be summoned back to steal my Sharingan?
Kakashi Hatake couldn't help but think of this. He wouldn't normally have considered it, but the video showed Orochimaru summoning even the First and Second Hokage, which had already crossed the line between life and death.
So one day in the future, Obito might personally appear from the underworld to the mortal realm to take away my Sharingan?
Kakashi Hatake sighed as he thought about this, because he couldn't object and even felt guilty, since Rin was also entrusted to him by Obito along with the Sharingan.
However, he was forced to kill Rin. Even with a thousand or ten thousand reasons, he couldn't get past his own conscience. If Obito said he would take back the Sharingan that he had given him, he would have no choice but to hand it over.
However, he agreed with what Kitahara Kaede said: no matter how powerful the Mangekyou Sharingan was, it was possible for Obito to take it away, but the Hatake sword technique that he had mastered could not be taken away by the Sharingan.
This is his true skill.
"Kakashi-senpai..."
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Inside the Akatsuki's base, Itachi Uchiha looked at the contents of his diary, thinking about the scene when he first entered the Anbu, and the person who brought him there was Kakashi Hatake.
He already had a reputation as a child prodigy at that time, but Kakashi Hatake was an even more dazzling genius, becoming a Jonin at the age of twelve.
Although it was during wartime and procedures were simplified, his genius was still recognized throughout Konoha.
However, he stagnated, while I, after awakening the Mangekyou Sharingan, surpassed him. Now it seems that he has found the right path that suits him.
"Kakashi has finally found the right path."
Behind a rockery not far from a hot spring in Konoha Village, Jiraiya looked at the latest entry in his diary and was happy that Kakashi Hatake was getting back on track.
He felt somewhat guilty about Kakashi Hatake's situation, since Kakashi was technically his grand-disciple. However, the Naruto world didn't have such strict seniority distinctions, and the boundaries between student, subordinate, and disciple were often blurred and could change at any time.
Subordinates can also be students, and students may have the opportunity to become disciples.
Otherwise, Naruto Uzumaki should actually be considered Kakashi Hatake's junior brother, not his student.
Inside the ancestral home of the Uchiha clan, Sasuke glanced at the diary, but in his mind he was reviewing the battle that had taken place during the day—or rather, the battle that had come to an abrupt end.
Kitahara Kaede needed to accurately understand their strength levels, which is why he had them spar. However, it was enough to gather sufficient information.
He was unwilling to accept defeat. Although he felt he should still be able to fight, he was only knocked away by the Reverse Heaven attack and was not seriously injured. After all, the Reverse Heaven attack was only a defensive move with limited damage.
However, it was still a disgrace to him. He was the son of the Uchiha clan patriarch and a direct descendant of the Uchiha clan, while Hyuga Keiko, although also from a powerful family with a powerful eye technique bloodline, was only from a branch family.
He knew what the situation was like for the branch family of the Hyuga clan. They were restricted in many ways, and even if they learned Gentle Fist, they could not reach the top level. For example, in Gentle Fist's Baguazhang, the main family could learn sixty-four palms, while the branch family could only learn thirty-two.
So even though Hyuga Keiko was three years older than him, he still felt he had the upper hand.
He can't beat Kitahara Kaede, but he can't beat her?
Moreover, Kitahara Kaede is also of the Uchiha clan bloodline, so it's normal that he can't beat them. However, being humiliated by Hyuga Keiko made him feel very frustrated.
Are there really that many strong people in this world?
It's astonishing that a mere branch family member of the Hyuga clan could fight him to a standstill.
How can someone as weak and incompetent as me possibly kill Uchiha Itachi and avenge myself?
revenge!
For a fleeting moment, he thought that Kitahara Kaede, who also had Uchiha blood, had an obligation to avenge the Uchiha clan. However, this thought only lasted for a moment before he dismissed it. He couldn't cowardly shift the responsibility of revenge onto others.
"Does it really require awakening the Mangekyou Sharingan?" Sasuke Uchiha muttered to himself, somewhat uncertain.
But he immediately realized that his future self hadn't awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan either, yet he still killed Uchiha Itachi and completed his revenge.
This shows that the Mangekyou Sharingan was not the decisive factor in achieving revenge.
"My basic skills are still too poor."
Uchiha Sasuke thought of Kitahara Kaede's evaluation of him during the day. In fact, as the top graduate of the Ninja Academy, his strength had improved by leaps and bounds in a short period of time. His basic skills were not bad, but definitely excellent.
However, there's always someone stronger, and he encountered someone like Hyuga Keiko.
Or rather, the three members of Kitahara Kaede's group are all like that. In terms of talent, Class B is not as good as Class A, but they have been able to catch up with most of the students in Class A after several years of graduation because of their hard work and diligent practice. Even Xiang Tianyuanlong, who always complains about being tired, has never missed a training session.
Kitahara Kaede was ahead of most of the students in Class A, becoming a Chunin before them, purely by making up for the difference in talent through hard work.
So even though the Sharingan is superior to the Byakugan in terms of insight into specific details, Sasuke Uchiha doesn't have the advantage when it comes to taijutsu.
A draw was a disgrace for the proud Uchiha Sasuke, especially since he hadn't defeated the Hyuga clan's branch family.
He subconsciously felt that he had only disgraced the Uchiha clan.
Especially after the Uchiha clan was wiped out, as the only survivor on the surface, Uchiha Sasuke cared a great deal about the Uchiha clan's reputation.
In the past, Minato Namikaze returned to his home in Konoha. He was exhausted after dealing with a day's work, and he could hear Kushina Uzumaki running a bath.
Recently, the atmosphere between major powers has become increasingly tense, with various border frictions occurring frequently. As a newly promoted high-ranking member of the village, Minato Namikaze is participating in more and more meetings, often representing his teacher Jiraiya, who has disappeared again, to express the opinions of Jiraiya's faction.
Now he is gaining fame and has some followers, but they are all at a relatively low level and cannot be said to have their own major faction. They can only be said to be subordinate to Jiraiya's faction and appear as the spokesperson for Jiraiya's faction.
Jiraiya himself was also not good at dealing with these mundane affairs, so he simply dumped them all on him. He was so busy with training and attending various meetings every day that he barely had time to breathe.
He knew perfectly well that this was very likely the prelude to the Third Shinobi World War. Although Kitahara Kaede's diary did not explicitly mention the Third Shinobi World War, the fact that it mentioned the Fourth Shinobi World War meant that there must be a third one.
If I think about it, it should be this recent one.
Only through wars like the Fourth Shinobi World War could one achieve sufficient merit and even surpass Orochimaru to become the Fourth Hokage.
Otherwise, even with Jiraiya's strong support and the Third Hokage's secret backing, it would have been impossible.
Their support can only allow two evenly matched opponents to determine a winner, but it will never allow two vastly different opponents to ultimately decide the victor.
The Third Shinobi World War was also crucial for him. Now that he knew the Third Hokage would retire after the war, he had to make as many contributions as possible to facilitate taking over the entire Hidden Leaf Village in the future.
In particular, after learning about the dark side of Konoha's upper echelons, such as how Shimura Danzo almost drove the Uchiha clan to their deaths, he realized that to prevent Shimura Danzo and his elders from causing trouble for Konoha, he needed to have a higher level of prestige than in the original history.
In the future, infighting and power struggles will be inevitable in the village.
Therefore, he had been calculating the strength of his side. In terms of Kage-level strength, he was sure of three votes: himself, the future Fourth Hokage; Kushina Uzumaki, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki; and his teacher, Jiraiya. He could also try to win Tsunade's vote, as he believed she would not support Shimura Danzo.
After all, the existence of Root is too dark, and it has harmed so many people in Miyake. Could it be that no members of the Senju clan were harmed among them?