"Good job, Guy, Shisui. You can go and rest, I will report the mission completion. Guy, let's spar after tonight."
"YOSH!"
"Then let's meet again, Kakashi-senpai, Guy-senpai."
It's been almost six months since I came to this world and became Kakashi.
While nothing major has happened, I have continued training to become stronger.
Sadly, I can't use Naruto's method of Shadow Clones easily. So, when not on missions, I usually train with my real body, and have one clone study fuinjutsu and one clone to master Purple lightning, and Kirin, all in Mount Myoboku.
Well, Kirin and Chidori variants were relatively simple to master, I haven't had much success in Purple lightning till now.
There are mainly two colors of lightning release known in the world. Yellow, which means less powerful lightning. And blue, which is high level of lightning.
Purple lightning must require the intensity of lightning chakra to be even higher.
I sighed as I headed towards the Hokage Office.
After Kiri's sudden withdrawal, the possibility of Iwa pulling something decreased dramatically, and the conflict with Kumo has decreased to skirmishes.
It appears that Kumo is wary of Iwa doing something as well. Afterall, they killed the Third Raikage with chakra exhaustion in the middle of Third Ninja War. Who knows, while Kumo is busy with Konoha, Iwa might attack.
So the missions my squad takes are mostly A-rank missions like killing missing nins, finding traces of infiltrators from Kumo, etc.
I entered the Hokage Office, and Hiruzen was discussing some things with his friends, including Danzo.
Danzo still hasn't given me Nue's research.
So, I will not report about Shisui. Not that he needs it anyway.
"The mission was complete."
I handed over the report scroll to Hiruzen, and was about to leave, but Danzo stopped me.
"Kakashi."
Saying it, he tossed me a scroll.
I opened it, and it looked kind of ancient, with the seal of Nue. Why is he giving me this now? In front of everyone?
Hiruzen puffed his cigar, and asked me, "How is your progress going with Flying Thunder God?"
I have understood all the concepts and theory, but theory and practical are different things.
If anything, I should be able to perform Flying Thunder God Formation with the help of two Shadow Clones soon enough.
"It will take me about 3-4 years to learn. But, it won't be much effective without the required chakra to use it."
Minato-sensei had a lot of chakra. Afterall, he was able to learn Safe Mode perfectly, though he wasn't much proficient with it and couldn't maintain it for long. And Second Hokage was a Senju, so he obviously had a ridiculous amount of chakra.
While my chakra has increased in these six months, it is only enough to maintain three shadow clones for a day.
"Kakashi, I know that you aren't well rested, but I am assigning you an S-rank mission. Orochimaru has just deserted the village. Your mission is to capture him-"
"I refuse. It is a mission only Third Hokage can do."
"Kakashi, you won't be doing this mission alone. ANBU will be coordinating-"
I looked at him like he is an idiot.
First of all, Orochimaru has left the village?
Oh. So Danzo backstabbed him, and that's why he gave me this research now. So he must have already gotten Yamato.
The intent of this mission is probably to either eliminate me using the excuse of Orochimaru doing the job, or to somehow frame me for co-operating with him.
And even if there isn't any hidden intention behind this mission, I, even with several ANBUs, am not match for Orochimaru right now. And I am not sure that he will ignore me because of the look in my eyes like in the og series.
"Third Hokage, I still refuse this suicide mission. In the whole village, only you can perform this mission."
"And as I said, ANBU-"
"Even if you throw a hundred ANBU, they can't do anything against a Hokage candidate but get killed without being of much help.
Only you can do this mission. Or perhaps even your able-bodied advisors."
Shutting up Hiruzen, I left the office, not bothering to listen to those two old coots shouting. If Hiruzen didn't say anything to me about my behaviour, it's fine.
"I am home."
I returned home, and started reading the scroll.
Nue, is a mythological beast that is worshipped in a temple in the Land of Swamps.
The research on it was started by Second Hokage, as expected, for the creation of an artificial tailed beast that can subdue a tailed beast.
Second Hokage's intention was that if no one could handle First Hokage's cells, what if a summoning animal is created? Whose main job will be subduing tailed beasts?
It would make use of a Chimera Technique, which was theorized by Second Hokage, to create a summoning beast by combining Dark Release obtained from the original Nue, Hashirama cells, and somehow creating a soul for it.
But, Chimera Technique isn't stable enough. Hiruko was working on it, but he defected along with his genin team just two days after the battle of Kannabi Bridge ended and Minato-sensei killed a thousand Iwa Shinobi.
I opened the storage scrolls, and there were two glass bottles in front of me.
One was with white Hashirama tissues, and the other was with black tissues, of Nue.
I put them back inside the scroll, and sent them to Mount Myoboku.
Why would I receive these things so easily? The information is one thing. The cells of Nue is one thing.
But Hashirama cells?
That is a whole another thing. I doubt that these are even Hashirama cells, though they have incredibly dense chakra according to my Sharingan.
What are those geezers' intentions?
If Danzo gave this to me in secret to bring me to his side, and to later backstab me and steal the fruits of my efforts, that would have been understandable.
But giving me this in front of Hiruzen...
Is it to test my loyalty? By baiting me, to see if how far I am willing to go?
Maybe to have me find Hiruko, and eliminating him? No. Hiruzen could have just issued me the mission if that was the case. I am confident enough that I can beat a Special Jonin, though there is a possibility of the puppet curse that is on me.
There is one thing that is confirmed from this though. Some fillers are real. Still, there is no way the Mecha Naruto filler is real.
So there is a puppet curse in my mind huh.
I closed my eyes, and entered my mindscape.
There wasn't anything unusual though. I have looked through my mindscape a lot of times, and arranged my memories so that I don't have to worry about a Yamanaka ROOT.
Guess it's time to try using Mangekyo Sharingan.
Well, I do hope that I wouldn't get bedridden.