Looking through the barbed wire fence of Training Ground No. 44, you can see a large number of hired carpenters repairing the land and trees in the Death Forest.

Because of the battle a few months ago, the Death Forest was the one that suffered the most serious damage.

The destructive power of large psychic beasts and the baptism of a large number of luxurious ninjutsu are the major reasons why the Death Forest has not recovered to this day.

Just looking from the outside, you can imagine the intensity of the battle that night.

Like a crater formed by a falling meteorite, trees for several miles were uprooted and cleared away, leaving only a bare wasteland.

For now, the amount of money Konoha has invested in repairing the Death Forest is an astronomical amount of money for ordinary people. The manpower and material resources used are also things that cannot be disclosed lightly.

Kakashi is practicing alone in a certain edge area of ​​Training Ground 44. In order to achieve a certain goal, he must make himself stronger.

To be honest, joining the Minato team didn't significantly improve his strength.

His future path has already been determined through the preparation of a certain man.

Whether it is during the Chuunin period, or after reaching the Jonin level, or at a more distant level, a complete and orderly plan has been made.

And he just followed the advice that man gave him and kept going.

Therefore, it is natural that joining the Minato Team will not increase your strength too much.

His growth in strength cannot bring about any breakthrough using ordinary methods.

Even Namikaze Minato, who possesses space-time ninjutsu, is the same.

Kakashi sat in front of the wooden stake, with his back facing the wooden stake, just sitting calmly on the ground, with the unsheathed White Fang dagger placed flat on his legs, performing the so-called 'man-sword-in-one' state, and

In this state, you can feel the breath of nature.

After a long time, he slowly stood up from the ground, holding the White Fang dagger in his hand. On the dagger, a layer of light blue shimmer had been attached for some time, making it look very inconspicuous.

That is the change in the nature of thunder attribute chakra.

The White Fang dagger has an extremely powerful property-changing chakra absorption effect, and its own lightning escape lies in strength and speed, that is, thrusting.

Once it is unsheathed, it will definitely kill all the enemies with lightning speed.

Immediately, he waved the White Fang dagger in his hand, turned around and slashed at the wooden stake behind him.

White Fang's short sword passed through the wooden stake without leaving any trace, as if the swing of the sword just now was just an illusion.

But if you look carefully, you can still see hair-thin cuts and a little splatter of sawdust.

"Failed again?"

How to make the blade pass through without leaving traces of incision is very difficult.

But this is the training goal that Kakashi wants to achieve right now.

In order to perfectly control the changes in chakra properties of the thunder attribute, this is an exercise that must be completed.

But currently, his training results in this area are far from satisfactory.

"Kakashi, are you here? We are leaving..."

There was a voice from behind, and Kakashi raised the White Fang dagger without hesitation and started attacking the person behind him.

In the end, it just hit the air, and the person behind him had already used the teleportation technique to dodge in advance.

"Now is not the time for actual combat drills, Kakashi."

Minato stood behind Kakashi, patted his shoulder with his hand, and smiled at him.

"I'm just curious about how fast Minato-sensei is."

"So, are you satisfied?"

"The gap is still huge."

Didn't notice Minato's movements at all, space-time ninjutsu? No, that was probably just a technique caused by the teleportation technique.

For someone of his level, there is no need to use space-time ninjutsu. If that were the case, it would be overkill.

"It's very rare to have such strong strength at your age."

Minato comforted him.

Geniuses will inevitably be a little arrogant, and Minato understands this very well.

It is impossible to make a genius like Kakashi comply with ordinary methods. Exposing one's own strength by chance is also conducive to the cohesion of the team and gives Kakashi a sense of identity, which can then slowly affect him.

Kakashi shook his head, said nothing, put the White Fang dagger back into the scabbard, followed Minato out of the 44th training ground, and started to gather at the gate of Konoha.

"Minato-sensei, what is our mission this time?"

"A-level mission."

Minato sighed.

"?"

Kakashi was a little confused.

It's not that he is afraid of the difficulty of A-level missions. Since graduation, he has encountered A-level missions no less than ten times in his mission career.

Although A-level tasks are very difficult, they are not impossible for him to complete.

What he was confused about was that there were two almost pure newcomers in the team.

Obito and Lin.

Although it took a period of time to get used to it, most of the missions it carried out were D-level and C-level missions. I had never even been exposed to B-level missions. It was a bit incomprehensible to suddenly have to carry out A-level missions.

"The front line is tight. A while ago, the village sent another troop to support it. In addition to the ninjas who have to stay in the village, there are also fewer and fewer teams that can accept assignments for outing missions. Otherwise, how can such missions be carried out?

It's impossible for our team to suffer."

Minato explained.

Kakashi understood. To put it simply, there was a slight shortage of manpower. Even a team of pure newcomers could no longer move as leisurely as before.

After all, due to the internal turmoil a few months ago, the number of jounin in Konoha suddenly dropped significantly.

In terms of personnel transfer, corresponding changes will naturally be made.

"and……"

"and?"

"nothing."

Minato's face was full of worries, he was obviously worried about something.

The signs of Kumogakure in the Land of Thunder are suspicious, and they may be harmful to Konoha.

In the previous Jonin meeting, the Hokage revealed a piece of information to them. If Kumogakure also intervened in the battlefield on Konoha's side, Hiruzen, as the third Hokage, would personally go into battle to stop Kumogakure's Third Raikage.

By then, the village's power will become even more empty.

The battlefield force that Konoha has invested in Iwagakure and Sunagakure is close to half, but the forces of Sunagakure and Iwagakure have not yet been fully suppressed. Although the third Kazekage is missing, it has given Konoha a good signal.

However, Iwagakure's third-generation Tsuchikage, known as the 'Two Scales', the successor to the Dust Release Ninja, has not yet appeared on the battlefield, but the intimidating power of this third-generation Tsuchikage is not far behind that of the tailed beasts.

At the gate of Konoha Village, Lin was already waiting here, but she did not see Obito.

Needless to say, I must have lost my way again on the road to saving the old lady who had stumbled.

It wasn't until it was almost time to set off that Obito arrived late, panting and standing in front of the three of them.

"Every time you arrive last, can't you give your love later to those old ladies who are lost on the road of life?"

Kakashi stared at Obito with dead fish eyes.

"Okay, Kakashi, don't talk about Obito like that, as long as you're not late."

Minato relieved Obito.

But Obito still snorted at Kakashi and stood aside with a stinking face, expressing that he didn't want to stand in the same position as him.

The four members of the team began to embark on the mission, rushing through the huge forest outside Konoha.

"Minato-sensei, what is the content of the A-level mission we are performing this time?"

Obito asked excitedly.

You know, this is the first time in his life that he has performed a difficult A-level mission, which is very memorable.

Besides, he has now started to perform A-level missions, and S-level missions are not too far away.

Become a Chuunin, a Jonin, then a Hokage, and then, hehe...

Thinking of something, Obito coughed quickly and pretended to be serious.

"Intercepting the enemy along the coast."

"coastal?"

"The specific reasons are very complicated. We will know when we get there."

After Minato finished speaking, Obito stopped asking.

"But, are the four of us really enough?"
To be continued...