Konoha.
In an open clearing in the middle of the forest.
Kakashi and Eruashi's powers were already at the level of the Chuunin, naturally they could not fight in the back of the house.
"Are you ready?"
Kakashi clutched a kunai in each hand, body slightly tilted forward, eyes watching Yeruashi's every movement with concentration, full combat readiness.
Eruashi clutched the white fang blade in his hand and looked at Kakashi calmly, "Here we go."
Whew!!!
As soon as Eruashi closed his mouth, Kakashi's figure rushed forward.
Quickly shortening his distance, Kakashi swung his arms sharply, striking with two kunai from both sides at once, Eruashi swung his short blade diagonally, calmly blocking Kakashi's double attack with one move.
Klang! Klang!
After a brief exchange of blows, Eruashi's eyes flashed and he struck a sharp blow with his blade, brutally bringing down a block of two kunai and piercing Kakashi's chest.
Poof!
Kakashi's figure turned to smoke.
Shadow clone!
"Katon!" fireball!
A voice was heard behind Eruashi, a large fireball rushed toward his back.
Yeruashi remained calm, he kicked the ground hard with his foot and rushed forward, avoiding a direct collision with the fireball.
Phew! Phew! Phew!!!
At that moment, eight shurikens flew out of the fireball, they were enveloped in flames and quickly overtook Yeruashi.
"Quite a skillful combination of ninjutsu and shurikens."
Yeruashi smiled, the white fang blade in his hand suddenly moving with tremendous speed, leaving a residual image in the air.
Impressively, eight shurikens shrouded in flame were shattered by Yeruashi in the blink of an eye.
Whew!
At the same time that Eruashi fended off the shurikens with his blade, the figure of Kakashi appeared from the ground less than a meter behind him with his back, his hand clutching the kunai quickly approaching the target's back and stopping.
"I win."
Droplets of sweat rolled down Kakashi's forehead, a bright light shone in his eyes; this was his first victory over Eruashi!
But.
Eruashi, standing in front of him, turned his head and smiled: "You think so?"
Pooh!
Yeruashi's figure took a step back, deliberately attacking Kakashi's kunai, and vanished in a flash of white smoke.
The scene startled Kakashi, a look of bewilderment in his eyes.
A shadow clone?!
"How is that possible..."
Before Kakashi could finish his sentence, there was the sound of air cleaving behind him, he turned sharply and raised his hands, reflexively blocking the attack.
A heavy leg kick landed on his hands, and Kakashi's figure recoiled a few steps back and stabilized.
"Just now, was that a shadow clone?!"
Kakashi looked at Eruashi disbelievingly.
During the battle, Kakashi watched his brother's every move closely. How could he use kage bunshin no jutsu unnoticed? There was no sign of it!
"No."
Eruashi shook his head, "It's a regular clone."
Kakashi was silent for a moment and sharply exclaimed: "Impossible! Ordinary clones aren't capable of attacking, how could he stop my flaming shurikens?"
"The shurikens were blocked by the main body."
Eruashi calmly replied, "Watch carefully, I'll show you."
He clutched a short white fang blade in one hand, and his free hand went up and quickly folded two combinations of seals."
Bunshin no Jutsu!
Kakavrimi no Jutsu!
"That's..."
Kakashi flinched and was silent for a while.
He combines cloning and substitution quite often too, for these are the most basic and easy to use ninjutsu taught back at the academy, it is not the combination itself that is amazing, but the speed of the Yeruashi seals that are put together!
With one hand!
And the speed is faster than his two hands!
Although Kakashi always knew that Eruashi was incredibly fast, much faster than him, but this time the speed of adding seals was too outrageous! That's not something a normal person can do!
"What was that...that speed, normal people aren't capable of that!"
Kakashi exclaimed in surprise.
Eruashi wasn't at all surprised by this reaction.
After all, this time he was using triple acceleration, adding seals twice as fast still wasn't beyond reason, but the triple speed of adding seals is not normal at all from an observer's point of view!
"...Who knows."
Eruashi shrugged, "Maybe my motor nerves are different from normal..."
Kakashi examined his brother and rolled his eyes as if to say "don't take me for a fool," even if his motor nerves are indeed unusual, it can't be that exaggerated.
"Hmm, you didn't stand out for speed before...it started about two years ago and you're getting faster all the time..."
Kakashi sank into thoughtfulness, remembering the past and assessing Yeruashi's speed, "It's too abnormal and already starting to resemble an improved genome, if you can move even faster..."
Improved genome!
This word is familiar to every shinobi, there are a huge variety of improved genomes in the world, the most common being the fusion of basic chakra types, leading to the formation of the elements of explosion, heat and so on. Improved genomes also include sharingan, byakugan and shikotsumyaku and so on.
Yeruashi's speed is actually slower than Joonin's, but the problem is that it seemed somehow unnatural, as if he were in some kind of accelerated mode.
Only an improved genome could come to mind.
The Hatake clan does not possess an inherited enhanced genome, their foundation has always been Hatake's Kenjutsu, passed down from generation to generation since the Warring States Era, but there have been cases of enhanced genomes being awakened by ordinary shinobi in the world as well.
This special state of Yeruashi's body might not be an enhanced genome, but if he can speed up even more...it's definitely some special enhanced genome!
"Well...apparently it is."
Eruashi thought about it and said, the improved genome is indeed a fitting explanation.
There are many different abilities in Naruto's world, there's even something completely twisted like Izanagi, an improved genome that allows increased speed doesn't seem too unusual.
Kakashi looked closely at Eruashi, thoughtfully, and said: "If you think so too, there should be no mistake, yet I've never heard of such an improved genome..."
Yeruashi stroked his chin, "Hmm, perhaps I am the first carrier of this improved genome, in which case I will call it...ghost release."
"Ghost?"
Kakashi thought about it and said: "Very fitting, this astounding speed does resemble a ghost."
Eruashi blurted out the first thing that came to mind, this is nothing more than a simple disguise, if this ability was really a genome enhancement it should have been called.... time release!