After some time passed, Asahi noticed people giving him more attention, some said he cheated or that he just won through some unscrupulous means but a win was win after all.
"Next match, Senmei Asahi vs Sarutobi Asuma..."
"Wait a minute sensei!" He shouted before Yamamoto could finish talking "Yamamoto-sensei, I want to challenge Hatake Kakashi!"
"This..." Yamamoto looked at Asahi and then at Kakashi, and his heart felt a little distressed for a moment.
For this past half a year, Asahi had not encountered Kakashi in actual combat, and the only reason why it was such because of a little selfishness on Yamamoto's part. In his mind, Asahi had a good enough talent, but there was still a big gap compared to Kakashi, the son of Konoha's White Fang.
So Yamamoto didn't want to arrange a battle between Asahi and Kakashi, fearing that his defeat would hurt Asahi's confidence. After all, a child's heart is vulnerable.
"Wow!" Obito heard that Asahi was going to challenge Kakashi and jumped out immediately, pointing at his future teammate with a smile, "Kakashi, are you afraid to accept his challenge?"
"I accept your challenge." Kakashi took a step forward and agreed to the match without a second though.
Yamamoto was actually going to refuse Asahi's request, but he got distracted by Obito words, and that gave Kakashi enough time to agree, and now he could no longer find a reason to stop it.
What reason could he use?
It was Asuma that was secretly relaxed at the moment.
As the youngest son of the Third Hokage, he had been arrogant and despotic since childhood, and even came to Asahi to find trouble on his first day of school. At that time, two of his friends got their arms fractured.
"Thank god." Asuma murmured
Now that Asahi came into contact with chakra, even if there was an elite Jonin guiding him in training, he still felt gradually left behind by Asahi.
Especially in the recent months, on every actual combat lessons, Asuma would be beaten by Asahi with ease, and naturally he had been sad about it, it's even not rare anymore for him to start hard training every day after returning home.
(T.L Note: So the teacher cared about Asahi's mental health but was fine for Asuma get beaten every match XD)
"Okay! The next match, Senmei Asahi vs. Hatake Kakashi, please step forward!" Yamamoto said.
Asahi stepped forward and stood opposite to Kakashi.
"First make the Seal of Confrontation!" Yamamoto said as he looked at Asahi, thinking secretly, 'Asahi-kun is all right, but just a little arrogant. Its okay, this time I'll let Kakashi give him a lesson, and I will console him later so he would not lose his confidence.'
After doing the hand seal, Asahi took out wooden kunai and looked straight at Kakashi.
Although Kakashi was only five-years old this year, ninja couldn't be measured by common sense. A five-year old child might even be able to kill a robust adult.
Although Kakashi was still young, he had learned a lot through the guidance of Konoha's White Fang.
"What was that? Illusion?" Asahi glanced around away from his opponents eyes, secretly wondering.
Maybe it's because of the transmigration, or because his mind was too vigilant, Asahi would always have a vague premonition about the changes in the surroundings like this time.
Whether someone was hostile to himself or someone was looking at him, Asahi could feel it. It's just that, this feeling was it, Asahi could not really tell where it comes from.
Just now, Asahi felt that someone seemed to be looking at him, but turned around and found nothing.
"Keep it up! Kakashi!" This was Rin cheering for Kakashi with a flushed face full of excitement.
"Humph!" Obito saw this, and shouted, "Asahi you can do it! Punch that bastard Kakashi in the face!"
"Let's make this an interesting match!" Asahi didn't care about the sound around him, he quickly took out two shuriken with his left hand and threw them at Kakashi from a tricky angle.
Then he himself quickly rushed towards Kakashi.
During the run, Asahi threw two more shuriken towards Kakashi.
*Puff*
*Puff*
To Asahi's surprise, Kakashi was hit by the shuriken while he was still in midair.
"Kakashi!" Rin's worried cry came out in surprise.
"Aah! Asahi, Did you just killed Kakashi!" Obito exclaimed in horror.
"Be quiet! Don't interfere with their match and watch quietly!" Yamamoto shouted from the side.
*Bang*
As soon as Yamamoto's words ended, the Kakashi, who was originally injured by shuriken, turned into a piece of wood.
"So fast! It was Substitution Jutsu!" Asahi frowned.
Seeing that his objective had become a log, Asahi responded directly and pointed his kunai in the direction behind him.
Sure enough, Kakashi's attack came from there.
He saw Kakashi's right hand's wrist rotate slightly, and the kunai in his hand sketched a perfect curve in the air. It appeared in the blink of an eye before Asahi's throat.
"So fast!" Asahi was almost unable to respond to it.
After evading Kakashi's attack, Asahi shot the kunai in his hand and forced Kakashi back.
After widening the distance between them, Asahi and Kakashi glared at each other's eyes with a clear and serious look.
Asahi did not expect that Kakashi could have such an excellent fighting instinct at only the age of five, no wonder he would become the most shining genius of this era.
And on the other hand, Kakashi didn't expect that despite following his father's strict training, facing the commoner ninja in front of him, he would also feel a little problematic.
*Bang*
*Bang*
*Clang*
Just a few moments later, Asahi and Kakashi started colliding again, and a fierce taijutsu confrontation started.
They were fighting each other, and the sound of kunai collision was being constantly heard around in the air. The silhouette of the two people were flashing quickly, and clearly neither had the intention of giving up.
At this time, and after testing Kakashi's hand to hand combat ability, Asahi had to admit that, in terms of all aspects, Kakashi was indeed stronger.
Asahi was training very hard, but it's just that...
Asahi had learned too little compared to what Konoha's White Fang tought Kakashi.
However, Asahi also had his own advantages. Asahi had the mind of an adult and would not feel nervous easily when fighting. He could control his own mentality well, at least in terms of that he was several tiers above the current Kakashi.
Many of Kakashi's styles, Asahi, although had not seen before, could think of how to resolve them one after another on the spot.
Although Kakashi was extremely talented, he was too young. If these moves were to be used by someone with enough combat experience, Asahi would most probably end up dead already.
Kakashi, at least right now had too little combat experience, which gave Asahi a chance to win.
"Kakashi! You got this!"
"Asahi! Keep it up!"
All around were cheering sounds one after another, cheering both Asahi and Kakashi! This was personal battle, but it was making everyone's blood boil.
"It seems that to defeat Kakashi, I must think of some method or something..." Asahi engaged on combat while secretly thinking about countermeasures in his heart.
"Asahi keep it up, beat him to the ground!" Obito seemed to enjoy seeing Kakashi being beaten, and kept cheering for him.
If someone didn't know them, they might think that Obito and Asahi had a deep friendship, but in this time of school, they probably had not spoken more than two words to each other.
"Huh?" Asahi glanced at Obito, his eyes got narrower for a moment, and secretly said in his heart, 'That's it!'
*Boom*
Sending Kakashi back with a slamming force, Asahi retreated quickly, and at the same time, his hands began to quickly make hand seals.
"That... that's my…!" Obito saw the hand seals performed by Asahi, and suddenly got shocked, because the seals in his hands were exactly the same as Fire Style ∙ Great Fireball Jutsu that Obito still didn't fully grasp.
"No way!" Obito was shocked, "When did he learned this jutsu?!"
Kakashi and Obito had a great friendship, and with a wealth of family knowledge, they naturally recognized the hand seals made by Asahi.
Immediately Kakashi put on his guard, he didn't dare to be careless against an offensive ninjutsu, his hands also began to quickly form hand seals.
The Great Fireball's concept was very simple. After the hand seals were completed, Asahi was about to spray the fireball.
At the same time, Kakashi's hand seals were also completed and he pressed both hands to the ground.
"[Earth Style ∙ Earth Shore Return]"
An earth wall came out, but the Great Fireball from Asahi did not arrive.
'I won!' Seeing that the earth wall rose in front of Kakashi, blocking his sight, Asahi rushed up immediately, crossing the earth wall, and threw six shuriken at Kakashi in an encirclement.
*Puff*
*Puff*
*Puff*
*Puff*
*Puff*
*Puff*
Six consecutive sounds, six shuriken, made Kakashi's turn into a hedgehog.
"Kakashi!" Rin yelled with anxiety, and stepped forward to check his injuries.
*Bang*
Just then, the Kakashi stabbed by shuriken turned into a log in a burst of smoke.
[Substitution Jutsu]
"He's very alert." Asahi said lightly with a smile.
Although this time his attack got discovered by Kakashi, he's only five-years old, no matter how high his talent was, he should not have too much chakra. With ninjutsu being used twice in a row, he should have already exhausted his small chakra reserve.
*Shou*
*Shou*
Two kunai shot from a big tree on the side, Asahi dodged, while fighting back with kunai on his own, forcing Kakashi into hiding in a big tree.
"Hah…hah…hah…"
Kakashi was already showing his fatigue. He released ninjutsu two times in a row, and even decided to use a C-rank ninjutsu, right now he had no chakra to spare. Even his physical strength had been consumed to near exhaustion.
Looking at the just slightly tired Asahi, Kakashi was very much shocked.
Had it not been for a moment of vigilance in that last minute, Kakashi would have lost just now to him. He secretly said, "I should have noticed it from the beginning, how could he learn Great Fireball Jutsu without anyone guiding him."
In fact, at the beginning, Kakashi also held a little doubt in his mind, but the thought that since Asahi could clash on strength with him without anyone's guidance, it might not be impossible to learn the Great Fireball Jutsu.
It was because of this idea that Kakashi fell into Asahi's plot.
However, Kakashi was not willing to lose, or maybe it's just that the identity of son of Konoha's White Fang's does not allow him to lose.
Taking out a kunai, Kakashi rushed towards Asahi again.
When the kunai crossed the illusory shadow of Asahi, Kakashi was suddenly surprised: "Clone Jutsu?! Not good..."
*Boom*
"Arghh!"
Taking advantage of Kakashi's unsteady footing, Asahi hit Kakashi's face with a punch and knocked him into the ground.
Kakashi tried to resist, but his body was too late in reacting, so he got hit by Asahi and flew out.
"Dammit! I didn't even realized that it was a clone!" Kakashi fell to the ground, struggling to stand up, but found that there was not a single trace of chakra in his body, and even the hands supporting his body were trembling slightly, he was out of strength.
"You lost!" Asahi touched Kakashi's shoulder and said lightly.
Kakashi looked at Asahi's face, silent, not saying a word.
Kakashi, who had always been high up on the sky, was defeated by Asahi at this time, the blow was as imagined.
After all, Kakashi was only a five-year old child, and his thinking was immature. This time being defeated by Asahi. It would take a long period of time to recover from this.
Asahi could only say sorry about this.
He and Kakashi have had no problems in the past, and they had no issue in recent days, especially since he doesn't envy Kakashi's fame. Asahi just wanted to beat him to attract the attention of Konoha high-level and make his future better.
Therefore, he must not relent.
"You are so shameless, you used my own ninjutsu to cheat Kakashi!" Obito said to Asahi angrily.
Kakashi got defeated, Obito felt that he should be happy. But seeing Kakashi's lost look, Obito couldn't feel happy. Instead, he still had an urge to care about Kakashi.
"Ninja should be calm and judge carefully. Before using any jutsu, you must first conceal the senses of your opponent, and then think about the possible response of their opponent. If you don't understand this, I don't think you need to be a ninja." Asahi indifferently said.
It's really felt amazing to fight back with what was said in the original anime.
"I ... of course I know that!" Obito said stubbornly.
"Kakashi, are you okay?" Rin raised Kakashi and asked with concern.
"I'm okay!" Kakashi struggled to get rid of Rin's support, and looked at Asahi said, "This time you won, but next time you won't have the chance."
"If you have want a rematch, I'm always welcome to the challenge." Asahi said.
"This winner of this match was Senmei Asahi. Now both parties are required to conclude by making the Seal of Reconciliation!" Seeing that victory and defeat have been decided, Yamamoto directly announced the result of the battle.
Asahi walked in front of Kakashi, and the forefinger and middle finger of both of their right hands were held together.
After the spar was completed, the Seal of Reconciliation was a traditional etiquette of the shinobi world. The belief being that fighting would make both sides hostile to each other, and this seal could eliminate this hostility and change the relationship between the two from hostile to competitive.
"It was a wonderful match! Everyone, I want you to learn from Asahi and Kakashi and train hard."
Yamamoto applauded while instructing his students.
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