UK:GSW Chapter 313: Kakashi: You Guys—How Dare You Impersonate My Teacher!
"Kakashi! Kakashi! Get up! Wake up! You can't go down like this! Now, get up, quickly!"
Who? Who's talking?
Wait, this voice is…
Obito!?
Suddenly, Kakashi Hatake's eyes snapped open, and he reflexively tried to get up. What followed was a buzzing in his head, nausea, and a wave of weakness that overwhelmed him, making him slump back down.
This intense discomfort made Kakashi extremely miserable, a kind of misery he had never felt before—not even having his chakra drained dry or being severely injured felt like this.
Then a calm, hoarse voice suddenly sounded beside him. "Don't move, Kakashi‑kun. The damage from a subsonic weapon doesn't dissipate so easily. Even an elite shinobi like you will need some time to recover."
Hearing this voice, Kakashi didn't even register it. He just reflexively asked "Who?" Then he painfully turned his head to look, thinking that the voice sounded familiar.
When he saw who it was, Kakashi froze, and his visible eye's pupil contracted. Instinctively he tried to raise his hand to reveal his left eye.
But this violent emotional reaction and sudden movement directly aggravated the discomfort in his body, and another wave of dizziness and nausea hit him. He almost blacked out on the spot.
Standing by the bed where Kakashi was lying, Orochimaru, wearing a white lab coat and exuding a scholarly research aura, could only shake his head helplessly. "I told you not to get too excited. You need to rest. Also, Kakashi‑kun, I am not the Orochimaru you know, so you don't need to be so hostile to me."
After these words, Kakashi took quite a while to recover. During this time, Orochimaru observed him with great interest, comparing this Kakashi with the little Kakashi he knew.
Mm, confirmed—this Kakashi was very weak. Not only because that Sharingan in his eye socket didn't match him and caused his chakra to be overdrawn long‑term, but also because of other things that resulted in kidney deficiency.
Tsk tsk. If Sakumo‑kun saw such a Kakashi, there would definitely be something wonderful happening.
With a smile on his face, Orochimaru started looking forward to it. For him, occasionally seeing such fun was quite amusing.
When Kakashi came around, he was taken aback by what Orochimaru had said, then didn't believe him.
After all, for this parallel world's Kakashi, the Orochimaru of another world was an S‑rank rogue with a negative trustworthiness.
However, Kakashi didn't show it. After a moment of silence, he asked, "So… has Naruto already been captured by your Akatsuki?"
This question caused Orochimaru to freeze. But a genius's thought speed was fast; although he had been asked a puzzling question, after a bit of thinking he understood what was going on.
"So that's it. You saw Sasori before you fainted, and when you woke up you saw me, so you think I've 'again' joined the Akatsuki?"
Orochimaru spoke with a slightly helpless tone. He knew a lot of information about the parallel world. The Akatsuki organization was something he naturally knew about; after all, the trio of travelers had explained all this.
Hearing Orochimaru's words, Kakashi raised his eyes and asked, "Is that not the case?"
Orochimaru shook his head. "As I just said, I am not the Orochimaru you know, and Sasori‑kun is not the Sasori of the Red Sand you know. We have nothing to do with the Akatsuki."
Kakashi furrowed his brow. "What do you mean? Are you clones? Or is your current appearance a disguise from the Transformation Technique?"
Orochimaru chuckled. "It's actually not complicated to explain. But soon someone else will come to see you, and they will explain everything to you."
"After all, Kakashi‑kun, your level of trust in me is almost nonexistent. If I explained everything, you would most likely think I was spouting nonsense."
Saying that, Orochimaru turned to leave. Before leaving he reminded Kakashi to keep lying down; his miserable physical condition would recover in about half an hour, so he didn't need to worry.
As for the others who had come with Kakashi, they were currently kept elsewhere. They were fine, just unconscious, and needed to stay that way.
Orochimaru said no more. There was still a lot he had to handle.
Even though Kakashi had many questions and was very anxious to know the situation of Naruto and the others, in the current situation he was powerless. He could only lie there on the bed.
On the other side, after Orochimaru went out, he went straight to the Dragon Vein research center. There he found Sasori and Tobirama Senju—disguised as a white‑haired, red‑eyed maiden—working on the relevant data and materials.
Obviously, this place was the Dragon Vein research lab in the main world. After capturing the Kakashi five, leaving a bunch of puppet clones to monitor the situation at the parallel world's outpost, they had brought the people back to the main world.
Seeing Orochimaru return, Sasori greeted him with a smile. Tobirama Senju, who looked favorably on this junior, asked directly, "How is that son of Sakumo from the parallel world?"
Tobirama Senju knew Kakashi, the son of the excellent but foolish disciple Sakumo Hatake, and felt guilty about his death. Thus his concern now was all directed at Kakashi—this Second Hokage didn't care about the others. He even disregarded Yamato, the Leaf shinobi who could use Wood Style.
After all, there was a huge difference between Wood Style users. The gap between Yamato and Hashirama's Wood Style was like an amateur boxer seeing Mike Tyson, thinking Tyson was his opponent, but then finding Tyson was only the referee, and his real opponent was Ultraman Taro.
As for Yamato's Wood Style coming from ROOT's research into Hashirama cells, that was no big deal to Tobirama Senju, who had researched Hashirama cells.
After all, compared with the outdated Hashirama cell research, the topics they were researching now were clearly more important.
What? Why did Tobirama Senju know so much about the parallel world? Wasn't it because Uchiha Kei had given Tobirama the information? All the relevant content was recorded in it.
He even had reasons for the sources of the information—Sai was a ROOT member. Although he had been branded with the Tongue Seal, theoretically unable to reveal information about Danzo and ROOT, in this world ROOT had already been destroyed, and the method to remove the Tongue Seal had long been known. Lifting it from Sai was no difficulty at all.
And after removing the technique's restriction, it was only natural for Sai to reveal the information he had, because without that disgusting technique, the main world with many Hokage standing by was obviously more convincing.
Because of knowing these things, Tobirama Senju now only cared about Kakashi.
Facing Tobirama Senju's question, Orochimaru smiled. "He's fine. There are no sequelae. The chakra subsonic weapon Sasori‑kun developed is very effective. For ordinary shinobi, it's a brand new weapon they cannot resist."
Hearing this, Tobirama Senju looked at Sasori and praised his talent without hesitation. Sasori smiled modestly, saying it was all thanks to Lord Kei's cultivation. If it weren't for Lord Kei, he would never have learned such knowledge or been able to develop a cross‑epoch weapon.
Tobirama Senju could see that although Sasori was being modest, it was also his genuine thought. He had deep respect for Uchiha Kei.
This almost triggered Tobirama Senju's Uchiha PTSD. But thinking again, he realized that if not for Uchiha Kei, such an excellent talent would never have joined the Leaf and might have become its enemy.
Following that line of thought, Sasori's loyalty and gratitude toward Uchiha Kei was pretty good. In this respect, Tobirama was fundamentally different from his wayward disciple Danzo Shimura. If it were Danzo, he'd be classic "You dare be loyal to an Uchiha? You're worse than the other villages—go to hell!"
Then Orochimaru suddenly changed the subject. "However, this parallel world's Kakashi‑kun is really weak. Not only because his Sharingan doesn't match his body and can't be closed, constantly consuming his chakra, but also because Kakashi‑kun seems to have a rather strong… desire."
Tobirama Senju: "Desire?"
Orochimaru spread his hands. "Like the desire that my teacher and my friend Jiraiya have."
Tobirama Senju: "… I will tell Sakumo‑kun about this. I think Sakumo‑kun will correct this fine young man of the Leaf."
Orochimaru chuckled and said no more. Anyway, he just wanted to enjoy the show.
Then the three researchers pushed the matter aside and continued researching the Dragon Vein's crossing function. Now that they had succeeded, there were many things to handle and many problems to solve. They were very busy and had no time to worry about a few time travelers.
Anyway, someone else would handle it.
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In the blink of an eye, more than twenty minutes passed. Lying in bed, Kakashi felt a lot better and could finally get up.
However, Kakashi still felt very unwell, weak all over, as if his body had been hollowed out.
"What exactly was that weapon? Was it poison? But Orochimaru said it had to do with sound. Could it be a toad genjutsu like Lord Jiraiya's? Or an acoustic attack like those in the Hidden Sound Village?"
Kakashi tried to imagine what he knew. He had seen such things—Jiraiya's Sage Art, where toads' sounds created genjutsu impacts. The Hidden Sound Village also had sonic weapons, creating its own sound‑wave ninjutsu.
For example, when Naruto and his team took the Chunin Exams, they encountered ninjas from the Sound Village who used sound‑wave attacks.
Those two methods—one genjutsu, one a shock wave—were understandable. But today's method was completely incomprehensible.
When that sonic attack happened, there was no trace at all. The sound wasn't even loud. It looked harmless, yet it instantly took them out. He couldn't make sense of it.
The concept of infrasound was too advanced for a science‑illiterate like Kakashi. What's more, Sasori had added chakra effects when researching this weapon, giving it shinobi‑world characteristics.
As for the chakra effect, it was simple—increasing the frequency impact of the infrasound and increasing its penetration.
Combined, this meant that under the infrasound attack, invisible waves directly rushed into a person's body and churned around like a horse galloping, finally knocking each one down.
One could only say this weapon was too far ahead of its time. It was something that had never appeared in the shinobi world. Even someone as experienced as Kakashi couldn't tell what it was or how to deal with it.
Then, while Kakashi was pondering this, suddenly there was a knock on the door, and a gentle male voice rang out.
"Kakashi, you're inside, right? May we come in?"
This voice and question made Kakashi freeze. Then his pupils trembled, and he showed an expression of disbelief. "Impossible… This voice, impossible! How could it be? This is impossible!"
His expression darkened, anger brewing, because the owner of that voice was the person he respected most, and that person had sacrificed himself more than a decade ago. How could he appear here?
So the owner of this voice was definitely fake!
However, Kakashi was an experienced shinobi who had seen many big scenes. Even if the anger inside was uncontrollable, he didn't explode. He took a deep breath, spoke in as calm a voice as possible, and said, "I'm here, please come in."
When he said this, the door clicked open.
Then he saw a handsome blond youth and an equally handsome black‑haired youth walk in one after the other.
Kakashi didn't recognize the black‑haired youth and quickly ignored him. But at the blond youth, Kakashi couldn't help clenching his fists, his anger brewing but forcibly suppressed, his fury boiling.
"These guys… how dare they? They actually dared to impersonate my teacher! These guys!!!"
Inside, he was roaring, but on the surface he remained calm.
However, the reason for this anger was already clear: the blond youth was none other than Kakashi's teacher, the parallel world's Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage of the Leaf.
This hero of the Leaf had long sacrificed himself in the Nine‑Tails' Rampage. For him to appear now could only mean this was a fake!
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