Chapter 487: Kakashi's Training
Haruno Sakura slept very soundly after returning home.
Early next morning.
She was awakened by the aroma of her mom's loving breakfast, only then realizing she had slept until broad daylight.
"Oops, late!"
The girl jumped up from the bed like a carp.
Finishing breakfast, washing up, changing clothes with a speed surpassing her previous life, skipping the effort of dressing up and makeup, the manly Sakura-sama rushed hurriedly to the Anbu building.
"Sorry, I overslept!"
The girl tried hard to press down her upturned hair while saying.
The masked young man stood at the entrance of the building, put away the Make-Out Paradise in his hand, glanced at her lazily, and laughed: "Rare for me to be on time once... I thought you were taking revenge for my frequent lateness and wouldn't come this morning."
"Eh eh," the girl laughed naively twice, "How could I!"
Cleared her throat twice, Haruno Sakura said seriously: "How about it, are preparations for the training ready, Kakashi-sensei?"
"Just waiting for you!" Kakashi adjusted his forehead protector, his expression also becoming serious, "I've already applied for a week's leave from the Fifth... should be enough for me to develop the ability of the Mangekyo."
"Let's go, let's go to a more remote training ground!"
Saying that, Kakashi led Haruno Sakura towards the outside of the village.
A moment later, outside Konoha Village, beside the Forest of Death, by the Naka River.
Konoha Training Ground No. 43.
The terrain outside Konoha Village wasn't complicated.
Looking at the map, searching down along the Naka River—the river where Shisui committed suicide by jumping—a branch of the big river flowed into Konoha Village, while the main stream flowed past Training Ground No. 39, inserted into the Forest of Death, passed the central tower, meandered out, then crossed Training Ground No. 43, and converged towards the sea.
The circular Forest of Death was surrounded by a cluster of super-large training grounds. From No. 39 to No. 48, each training ground had a boundary line several kilometers long, rarely visited by people, most suitable for practicing large-scale ninjutsu.
"Let's start here!"
Kakashi walked into Training Ground No. 43, stepped on the solid mud under his feet, nodded and said.
He pushed up his forehead protector, revealing the three-tomoe Sharingan.
"First is the Mangekyo Sharingan..."
The white-haired young man held his breath and focused, pouring chakra into the Sharingan with effort, slowly converting it into pupil power; driven by chakra, the tomoe began to rotate, initially just swimming slowly, then accelerating continuously, until the tomoe connected into a piece... turning into a strange pattern of a triangular boomerang.
"I'm still very unfamiliar with this move, kept you waiting..." Kakashi panted slightly, fine beads of sweat appearing on his forehead, saying, "This is my Mangekyo Sharingan."
Haruno Sakura frowned slightly. It seemed that just the action of activating the Mangekyo Sharingan consumed a considerable amount of Kakashi's stamina.
"Is activating the Mangekyo Sharingan so strenuous, Kakashi-sensei?"
The girl tilted her head to examine Kakashi's new eye and asked doubtfully.
When she used the clone to activate Shisui's Mangekyo, she didn't see it being so troublesome!
"Perform high-intensity and high-purity Yin Release nature transformation on chakra, then pour a large amount into the Sharingan, can't you easily activate the Mangekyo? It's not necessarily that only Uchiha clansmen can exert the ability of the Sharingan!"
Kakashi just smiled bitterly upon hearing this.
Theoretically, only the Uchiha clan can fully exert the ability of the Sharingan.
But in fact, the essence of the Mangekyo secret technique is mostly converting chakra into pupil power with highly Yin Release nature transformation, converting it into materialized Susanoo, Izanagi, etc., with the "creation out of nothing" characteristic of Yin Release.
So if a ninja's Yin Release cultivation is deep and subtle enough, and their spiritual power is tyrannical and pure enough, they can also ignore this rule and manipulate the power of the Sharingan freely.
This is a crushing advantage in technique.
Sounds simple, but the only person who can easily do this is Haruno Sakura.
"Can you not talk about Yin Release nature transformation as such a piece of cake?" He resisted the urge to roll his eyes at his student and said helplessly, "Not everyone has your perverted chakra manipulation ability and spiritual power!"
"Although you call me a genius, compared to you, I'm just a mortal..."
Haruno Sakura laughed dryly twice: "Okay, my bad."
"However, in that case, before practicing the Sharingan, should we complete the Yin Release nature transformation training first?"
Kakashi really rolled his eyes this time.
"Please, although this can solve the problem once and for all, but talking about Yin Release, let alone a week, even if you give me another month or year, I can't complete this training!"
He paused, touched his chin and said: "By the way, why are you so familiar with the Mangekyo Sharingan?"
"Is it data obtained from Danzo? If possible, copy a set for me, your teacher!"
Haruno Sakura hesitated.
"It's not data... Can you keep it a secret for me? Including Tsunade-shishou, don't tell her!"
Kakashi frowned, but still said: "If it's harmless to the village, of course I can."
Haruno Sakura looked at him steadily for a few moments.
"What I got from Danzo is not data..." Saying that, Haruno Sakura's gaze swept across Kakashi's face, landing not far behind the man on the Forest of Death which was still pitch black in broad daylight. A thought moved in her heart, she said, "Wait for me here a moment!"
Before Kakashi could say anything, Haruno Sakura disappeared into the Forest of Death with several Body Flickers.
In a short while, the girl drilled out of the forest again, flashed a few times, and returned in front of Kakashi.
"S-Sakura?!"
Kakashi looked at the girl in front of him, shouting in surprise and uncertainty.
Changed into a plain clean outfit, bare white tender feet, and the chakra aura also had some subtle changes.
More importantly, those familiar emerald-like eyes actually turned into a pair of black and white clear eyes.
"Hn, it's me."
The clone—this was the second one—nodded lightly and said: "But I'm a special clone... let's not talk about this first."
"She is here to guide you in practicing the Sharingan."
The one speaking was another Haruno Sakura who popped up suddenly—Kakashi recognized at once that this was the main body.
"How so?"
Kakashi didn't dwell on Sakura's strange Clone Jutsu, subconsciously staring at the clone's eyes and asking directly.
Haruno Sakura didn't answer, just exchanged a look with the main body, turned her head and smiled mysteriously at Kakashi.
Then, she blinked.
Those clear black pupils instantly turned into three-tomoe scarlet eyeballs.
Blink the eyelids again, and the tomoe rotated frantically, twisting and connecting into a strange four-cornered windmill shape!
This, this is...?!
Kakashi widened his eyes, staring dumbfounded at the girl's ever-changing eyes, speechless with shock for a moment!
"M-Mangekyo?!" The white-haired young man calmed himself and said, "How do you also have the Sharingan?"
"Is having the Sharingan very strange?" The girl snorted, curled her lips and said, "Danzo has dozens of Sharingan in his hands!"
"Danzo?"
Kakashi's mind turned quickly, recalling the conflict between Haruno Sakura and Root a few months ago, immediately realizing: "This is Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan you snatched from Danzo a few months ago!"
"No wonder Shisui's eyes couldn't be found on Danzo..." Kakashi muttered.
Haruno Sakura smiled without speaking.
Kakashi's guess was one-third correct; the two from Itachi and the other world's Danzo, Kakashi would probably find hard to guess. But Haruno Sakura didn't speak. Kakashi was a smart person and would make up a reasonable explanation himself, so let him misunderstand for now.
Explaining many things about her one by one would be too troublesome.
"I will teach you some experience about the Mangekyo in this form... Kakashi-sensei." Haruno Sakura stared with a pair of strange bloody eyes and said lightly.
"Start from the most basic activation and deactivation of the Mangekyo Sharingan."
Kakashi's Mangekyo Sharingan training proceeded with extremely high efficiency for a whole day.
With Haruno Sakura's main body helping to restore stamina and chakra, and the clone capable of using the Mangekyo skillfully demonstrating personally and teaching one-on-one, the highly talented Kakashi progressed rapidly, having initially mastered the knack of activating the Mangekyo.
At dusk, Kakashi reluctantly bid farewell to his cheat Haruno Sakura, and the two left separately.
Before going home, Haruno Sakura went to the Hyuga residence first.
In the martial arts hall, the girl unsurprisingly saw Hinata, the eldest lady, sparring with her father Hiashi.
The head-on confrontation between Hokuto Shinken and authentic Gentle Fist was a fierce battle between dragon and tiger, exceptionally intense. Even the specially treated extremely sturdy floor and walls were blasted with cracks and several holes!
Before a winner was decided, Hiashi saw Haruno Sakura walk in and voluntarily stopped.
"Let's stop here for today, Hinata... Good afternoon, Haruno Sakura."
Hiashi bowed and said, the etiquette was very sufficient, almost calling her Sakura-sama.
"Good afternoon, Uncle Hiashi." Influenced by the atmosphere of the Hyuga family, Haruno Sakura also became solemn, kneeling on the floor meticulously, greeting seriously, exchanging pleasantries, chatting a lot of nutritious polite words.
After a long time, she entered the main topic: "...Uncle Hiashi, I have something to discuss with Hinata."
Hiashi sat upright in a standard manner, nodded upon hearing this, then signaled Hinata could leave.
Dragged by Hinata into her pink boudoir, avoiding that excessively serious atmosphere, Haruno Sakura felt the breath stifled in her chest finally eased.
She took out a scroll kept close to her body and handed it to Hinata.
"Please, Hinata-chan!" She said solemnly, "Open the scroll when you reach the Land of Snow. The clone knows how to complete the mission herself. You just need to keep an eye on her for me... I can only go to the Land of Snow next week. Sorry for the trouble before that!"
The scroll contained another clone, possessing extremely high autonomous action ability—so high that someone must watch her to be reassured.
"Rest assured!"
Hinata said with a brilliant smile.
"And it's not troublesome. I'm just taking advantage of the vacation your master finally gave out of conscience to travel to the Land of Snow... and help you do something by the way."
"Anyway, rare vacation, resting anywhere is fine, except staying at home where I can't rest."
Speaking of this, Hinata curled her lips, looking disgusted.
Thinking of Hiashi's serious appearance, Haruno Sakura also nodded with lingering fear.
"Anyway, thank you."
"Being polite with me..." Hinata shook her head, saying too many thanks between friends seemed hypocritical, "If anyone should say thanks, it should be me thanking you."
"You helped me so much." The black-haired girl hugged Sakura and laughed, "Little girl has no way to repay, only offer myself!"
Soft fragrant warm jade facial cleanser came covering her face.
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