Escape From Konoha

At the end of December, winter came.

Snowflakes floated in the sky of Konoha, and the surface of the river was also covered with ice.

After completing the last mission of the year, Liuli stayed at home.

If nothing special happens, this situation will probably continue until mid-January of the next year before considering accepting the task.

Opening the door, you can see that there is also a thick layer of snow on the ground in the courtyard outside.

Baishi sat opposite Liuli, with a table between them.

After the shadow dancer put the tea and pastries on the table, he retreated to the side without saying a word, staring at the two of them secretly from time to time with curious eyes.

For her who is less than half a year old, sometimes, she really feels that the relationship between human beings is too complicated.

Take her family as an example. When she observed others, she found that others were just a father and a mother.

And her father did have only one, but the 'mother' had two.

Moreover, her elder brother, General Tu, has a strange body. I often use the shadow blade to take its head down and observe, trying to find out why it can always jump alive and not die.

But after observing for a long time, no mechanism was found inside.

The outside of its body is no different from the inside, they are all made of soft soil, other than that, there doesn't seem to be any special substance.

Not only is the body shape different from normal humans, but even the words that come out of the mouth are babbling, making it impossible for people to understand the meaning of the words, and even to communicate normally.

These things are indeed difficult for her who is less than half a year old to understand.

"I heard something about Kakashi in the village recently. He seems to have conflicts with many teams."

Liuli picked up the teacup and took a sip of the hot tea lightly.

"Isn't this kind of thing a matter of course? Ignoring the safety of your companions and only focusing on the task to be completed will definitely make the companions in the team feel dissatisfied and exclude him."

Shiraishi shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Sometimes, I really can't figure out what those high-level people are thinking. Kakashi has become like this, and they themselves are also to blame."

Liuli snorted coldly.

In her opinion, Kakashi's thoughts were indeed a little extreme.

But what pushed Kakashi to this point, if you think about it carefully, wasn't it also caused by the inaction of those high-level officials?

"In order to maintain the balance of all forces in the village, our Hokage-sama cannot take the initiative to take on these responsibilities. Therefore, the existence of the roots will become meaningful."

Shiraishi looked at the snowflakes flying in the yard and falling towards the ground one after another. While admiring the beautiful snow scene, he said this with a smile.

In order to better manage Konoha, Hokage, as an identity, must maintain his glorious and righteous side in many cases, and become a model and exemplary figure in the eyes of all Konoha ninjas and villagers.

But among such huge leaves, it is impossible to be completely free of filth. Where there is light, there must be darkness.

Therefore, with a bright and righteous Hokage, someone must bear the opposite of light—darkness, so that the interests and order of the village can be better maintained.

As a result, the root organization, which bears all the darkness and sins of Konoha, was born smoothly and timely under the unanimous promotion of the high-level people.

As soon as this organization was born, it enjoyed the worst reputation and did the dirtiest work. Its leader, Danzo Shimura, was a ninja known as the "Darkness of Tolerance".

It is because of his cruel and ruthless style of acting, in order to achieve his goal, he will do anything by any means.

Such an incomparably dangerous character has gathered ninjas with the same extreme thoughts under his hands. He has dealt with so many dirty things in secret over the years. The name of "Ninja Darkness" is worthy of its name.

To be honest, for this alone, Shiraishi still admires the political vision of the third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

This arrangement, from a strategic point of view, can't find any major problems.

But the problem is that after the third generation of Hokage, a series of measures were taken, which can be called a typical failure——

Overindulging the growth of the roots, not restricting the roots thoroughly when necessary, and not having a strong hand that can control this huge darkness, these are the problems.

For the senior officials who committed major mistakes, they could not immediately give any practical punishment, and at the same time, they failed to appease the subordinates whose interests had been violated, which directly led to serious indistinction between their private affairs and the village's official affairs, and lost their credibility.

Therefore, the balance can only be maintained based on the premise of pampering the roots. Not only will this strategy not bring benefits to Konoha, but in many cases it will continue to consume the internal vitality of Konoha, and the future of Konoha will fall into a kind of reverse growth. embarrassing situation.

Once the ninja world war breaks out next, Konoha is likely to fight very hard, and even threatens to be destroyed.

As for whether a great hero will appear in Konoha to turn the tide, Shiraishi can't predict it.

The future is too unpredictable.

And Shiraishi himself is obviously not very interested in this kind of thing.

At that time, he had already left Konoha, and whether Konoha was destroyed or ushered in a new life was just a matter of watching from the sidelines.

"By the way, you can take this thing, I have already made it, it really took a lot of time."

Baishi remembered something at this moment, took out two black metal rings from his pocket, and put them in front of Liuli.

"This is?"

"It's similar to the Chakra limiter you gave to the ninja training in the team before. But the difference is that this is a specially strengthened Chakra limiter, and only the jnin can adapt."

Baishi emphatically reminded this sentence.

If the lower ninja and the chunin wear this level of chakra limiter, although there will be no danger to their lives, they will not be able to perform ninjutsu, physical and illusion smoothly.

These three types of fighting methods must rely on the circulation of Chakra in the body to achieve release.

Especially for physical arts, the faster the chakra flows in the body, the stronger the power of physical arts. Conversely, the slower the flow of Chakra, the harder it is for Taijutsu to exert its due ability.

Ruri wears one of the black metal rings on her left hand.

On the surface, there is no change in the body, but only Liuli knows that the flow speed of the chakra in her body, although not in a static state, is also not much faster than the crawling speed of the tortoise.

Based on this bad state where the flow rate of Chakra is severely restricted, it is by no means an easy task to train the flow rate of Chakra in the body to be the same as normal.

Afterwards, Liuli looked at the second metal ring, wondering what would happen if she wore the second one.

One has already made the flow of Chakra in her body so slow, after wearing the second one, it may really make the Chakra in her body fall into a 'stationary' state.

Shiraishi seemed to have seen through Liuli's thoughts, took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "It's better to follow the steps step by step. Even if it's you, wearing a chakra limiter now is the limit. After you get familiar with the first one, put it on again." It’s not too late for the second limiter training. Anyway, you have to rest in the village next time. With your ability, it shouldn’t be difficult to completely overcome the first chakra limiter within a month.”

"One month? Does it take so long?"

Liuli doesn't quite agree with the time of the month.

She expects to complete the training in about half a month.

"This is a conservative estimate, because the ninja with more powerful chakras needs to control more chakras, and the difficulty of overcoming the limiter will naturally be higher."

Shiraishi explained a little bit.

"Then I'll try it out now. How about it? Do you want to come together?"

Liuli stood up from her seat and invited Baishi to go to the training ground to test how much strength she could retain under the restricted state.

"I'll forget it, I still have work to do."

Shiraishi shook his head and refused.

"You are really getting lazy. If this continues, I'm really worried that your strength will degenerate. Last time, your physical skills were already much rusty."

Liuli frowned, somewhat dissatisfied with Baishi's current attitude of being lazy in coping with cultivation.

"This kind of thing doesn't matter, don't worry, the shadow dancer can protect me."

Shiraishi said with a smile.

Although he is proficient in the chakra nature changes of many attributes, it is all for his own research.

Dedicated to practicing all kinds of escapism, and proficient in mastering it, will instead distract one's energy, which is not worth the gain.

Because whether it is the general or the shadow dancer, they are all 'parts' of themselves, and strictly speaking, they are also a manifestation of their own strength.

Shiraishi believes that this is his own unique way to become stronger.

Since one's own strength is insufficient, it is enough to create a "clone" that can adapt to any environment and can fight the enemy.

As long as this power is in your own hands, it will be fine.

Seeing that Baishi was still unmoved, Liuli snorted softly and went to the training ground alone.

Watching Liuli leave, Baishi just continued to drink the hot tea in his hand, admiring the snowy scenery outside.

"Okay, back to work."

After Baishi finished speaking, he slowly stood up.

And the moment his body stood up, the shadow dancer turned into a black shadow and ran across the floor like lightning, actively blending into Baishi's shadow and disappearing.

As Baishi's only personal guard at the moment, Shadow Dancer followed Baishi inseparably most of the time, protecting the life of Baishi, the creator.

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Konoha 42, February.

At this time, the ninja school will be on vacation for about a few days, so you don't have to go to school.

At the end of last month, that is, not long after the end of the New Year Festival, Liuli had resumed her role as a jounin and went to the Hokage Building to pick up the mission.

Among the people around him, Baishi seemed to be the only one in a state of doing nothing.

Occasionally, the cute little girl Nohara Rin would come to him and ask for some medical ninjutsu knowledge.

Of course, behind this cute little girl, there will always be a guy named Obito Uchiha, who can be called a goddess licking dogs.

This guy seems to be in the same class as Kakashi, and Shiraishi can often hear words from him that he wants to surpass Kakashi.

But Shiraishi felt that such a thing was a bit unrealistic.

Kakashi graduated from the ninja school at the age of five and became a Chunin at the age of six. The word "genius" is not enough to describe Kakashi's outstanding talent.

As for Obito, this brat said today that he would work hard to cultivate, but because he often met an old lady who was in trouble on the road, the cultivation matter was left behind.

Shiraishi didn't know how to complain about the physique of this little ghost, Obito, saying that he was a murderer... But why are all the old ladies attracted by him?

Or in other words, those old ladies attracted him?

100% encounter the old lady's physique?

No matter which way you look at it, it is a very strange little devil.

"Hey, Obito, it's already so late, don't you really need to go back?"

Shiraishi raised his head and shouted to Obito, who was standing upside down on a tree branch covered with thin snow, doing physical exercise.

Shiraishi, who has nothing to do these days, sometimes trains with Obito.

Going out to relax once in a while is good for your physical and mental health.

He didn't want to be bald at such a young age.

"Don't be wordy, I've only been practicing for less than an hour now."

Looking at the sky, it should be some time before it gets dark, and Obito did not give up exercising.

"It's not because of the many indescribable things that happened between you and the three old grandmas in the afternoon."

"It's up to you! You can go back alone, anyway, you're just a softie, what are you being arrogant about?"

While breathing heavily, Obito performed pull-ups while standing on his head.

Seeing that he was sweating profusely in the cold weather, it could be seen that he was indeed training seriously.

"One hundred and ninety one... one hundred and ninety two... one hundred... ah!"

Shouting in panic, Chakra, who was attached to the bottom of his feet with soil, had an accident, separated directly from the branch, and fell headfirst to the ground.

His head sank into the snow, his body twitching slightly.

Baishi lightly blew a breath of white air between his palms, then rubbed his hands together, and stood there watching, without going up to help.

The vitality of this idiot has always been very vigorous and energetic.

"Ahem!"

Sure enough, Obito struggled out of the snow, spit out all the snow in his mouth, coughed violently, and his face was flushed.

"Damn it! It's only eight to two hundred!"

Obito said with a face of resignation.

"Give up, Kakashi was able to do better than you two years ago. Now the gap between you will be even bigger."

Shiraishi said so.

"Isn't it Chunin? I will definitely graduate from Ninja School next year!"

Obito uttered such bold words.

Although Shiraishi doesn't think Obito can have such a talent, his belief in not admitting defeat and striving to catch up is worthy of approval.

"Then work hard, if you open Sharingan in the future, maybe you can really do it."

Shiraishi also didn't want to dampen Obito's self-confidence.

This guy is positive and optimistic, but because of this, there is always a string in his head. It is useless to rely on slogans for cultivation.

Because Kakashi tempered himself harder than Obito.

Genius is not terrible, what is terrible is that geniuses work harder than ordinary people.

Therefore, according to the normal trajectory, Shiraishi doesn't think Obito can catch up with Kakashi.

When Obito heard Baishi say this, he was about to show a smile, but Baishi suddenly said: "But I think with your talent, you probably won't be able to open Sharingan in your life. After all, it is the tail of the crane in the school. Writing Wheel The eye is a pupil art that only elite Uchiha ninjas can open."

"You bastard! How dare you look down on me! Taste the wrathful iron fist of our Uchiha clan!"

Obito jumped up from the snow and punched Shiraishi fiercely.

It was really troublesome to deal with this little brat with little brains.

However, as a play object when bored, it can bring a lot of joy.

Without even thinking about turning his body sideways, let the menacing Obito lie on the snow in an embarrassing posture like a dog eating shit.

"I've said it many times. If you can't control your body, don't punch in such an exaggerated way. It was the same when you first dealt with me. In battle, this is undoubtedly a fatal act, and it is easy to be caught by the enemy. Focus on the weak point, one hit will kill."

"It's not that you said that I will never be able to open Sharingan in my life!"

Obito sat on the snow like a normal person, folded his hands on his chest, and turned his mouth away, as if he didn't want to pay attention to Shiraishi.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems to be the same.

For those working as ninjas in the Uchiha clan, if they cannot open Sharingan, it means that they are the real crane tail.

Obito has always wanted to work hard to prove his own strength, and Sharingan is the embodiment of the strength of their Uchiha clan.

No wonder he was angry when he was told that.

"I mean, it's a good thing for you because you don't open Sharingan."

Shiraishi came over, pulled Obito up from the snow, and said those words.

"Huh? Why?"

Obito looked bewildered.

"Because you're an idiot. Once an idiot opens Sharingan, wouldn't that be the end of the world? Think about it, isn't that the truth?"

Bai Shi said seriously.

"You bastard who eats soft food, give me another iron fist of anger!"

In the snow, there was an earthy roar.

...

"Don't think that if you invite me to eat meatballs, I will forgive you! Tell you, after I open Sharingan, it will be your death! Be prepared!"

On the way back, Obito viciously ate the meatballs that Shiraishi bought him, while threatening Shiraishi fiercely.

"It doesn't matter, Liuli will protect me, your Sharingan has no effect on me."

Shiraishi moved out his most powerful shield at present-Uchiha Ruri.

"..."

Obito didn't know why, but there was an indescribably bitter taste in his mouth, a little astringent.

"Hey, can't you accept my challenge like a man?"

Obito really has nothing to do with the man in front of him.

In terms of the thick skin of the other party, he Uchiha Obito would like to be called the strongest.

"I'm a medical ninja, and I don't need to pay attention to the cultivation of strength. Of course, if you want to compete with me in medical ninjutsu, I will accompany you at any time."

Shiraishi smiled indifferently.

"..."

Obito took a deep breath.

calm down.

calm.

Can't be angry.

When you really think about it, there's nothing to freak out about.

I should learn from this man, how calm and calm he is in the face of any difficulties.

Think like a mature adult.

But... as expected, he was still very angry.

Just when Obito was about to say something, suddenly two Chunin were talking on the side of the road, and one of them said loudly in an uncontrollable angry voice: "Let the captain remove Kakashi from the team! He has endured to the limit!"

"Although I agree, I heard that Hokage-sama values ​​Kakashi very much."

"But if this continues, we will have to worry every time we carry out the mission. This guy is not suitable to be a ninja at all. Every time we send a support signal, he ignores it and says that we are slowing down the progress of the mission."

The Chunin's complexion was very bad, his eyes were full of anger, which had reached a critical point and needed to be released.

"To be honest, I'm almost at the limit. Let's go to the captain and explain it together. I thought that after the next year, he would change his temper. It seems that we really can't have any expectations of him. That guy only has a mission in mind. There are no such companions as us.”

Another Chunin also made up his mind.

If this continues, the task is really impossible to do.

A guy who is always indifferent to his companions really cannot give him a reliable sense of trust.

One day they die, maybe the other party will not shed a tear.

"Well, may I ask, were you talking about Kakashi just now?"

When Obito heard them mention the name 'Kakashi', he stepped forward with curiosity and asked the two senior Chunin.

"Yeah, what's the matter? Do you know him?"

The Chunin who spoke first stared at Obito with an ugly face, and his attitude was very unfriendly.

"Uh... no, I don't know."

I really want to say I know each other, but if I admit it, Obito is really afraid that this guy will beat me up.

"Then why are you asking these questions?"

Chunin was even more dissatisfied.

Obito felt dizzy for a while, with cold sweat streaming down his face, he stammered and said, "Well, I just think that the influence of two seniors talking about one person in the street is not very good."

"We wouldn't be so irrational if we couldn't bear it. In short, this has nothing to do with you, don't meddle in your own business, Uchiha kid."

Knowing that Obito and Kakashi knew each other, but the Chunin didn't intend to do anything to Obito.

He didn't want to vent his anger on innocent people.

What's more, this is a student of a ninja school.

Watching the two Chunin leave, Obito's face suddenly became serious, as if he was thinking about something.

"What's wrong?"

Shiraishi came over and asked.

"I was thinking about Kakashi."

"do not you know?"

Shiraishi asked back.

"what do you know?"

Obito is weird now.

"I heard that since June and July of last year, Kakashi has changed many teams because of disagreements with his teammates. Now many ninja teams in the village don't want to accept him."

Shiraishi put his hands in his pockets and said.

"What's going on here? Isn't Kakashi a genius? He was a Chunin last year, right?"

Obito can't understand.

For such a talented person, many Jnin teams should be scrambling for it.

"The reason is that he was in the mission, and when his teammates were too injured to fight, or even caused drag, he did not choose to save his teammates, but chose to continue to complete the mission."

Shiraishi said these words flatly.

Obito froze for a moment.

Reminiscent of the unfavorable words of the two Chunin against Kakashi just now, I suddenly understood.

"No, Kakashi is not such a person!"

Obito firmly believes so.

In his impression, Kakashi was definitely not such a cold-blooded person who would not save his companions.

There must be something wrong.

"Then you want to visit him?"

Shiraishi asked Obito this way.

"Is this okay? Will it bother him too much?"

Obito hesitated a bit.

"It's okay, that kid has nothing to do at home."

"Little devil, do you know Kakashi very well?"

Obito asked politely.

"I don't know him well, his father is the former boss of me and Liuli."

Bai Shi smiled calmly.

"Eh? The former boss of you and Senior Ruri? Is Kakashi's father such a powerful person?"

Now it was Obito's turn to be surprised.

Leaving aside the inconspicuous medical ninja like Shiraishi, Uchiha Ruri is the most proud genius Jonin of their Uchiha clan today.

To become her mentor Jonin, Obito thinks that Kakashi's father must also be a great ninja in the village.

"Okay, don't be in a daze. After watching Kakashi's kid, I still have work to do when I go back."

"Oh okay, I know."

Obito immediately caught up with Shiraishi and followed him towards Kakashi's house.

It was a detached Japanese-style courtyard, with the word 'Flag Wood' printed on the door plate.

Obito knew that this was where Kakashi lived.

"Why are you here?"

Kakashi looked at the two people who appeared at the door of his house, showing doubts.

"I'll bring your friends to visit you, and have dinner by the way, how about it, don't you welcome it?"

Shiraishi touched Obito's head and smiled at Kakashi.

"If you want to eat takeaway with me, I don't care."

Kakashi's tone didn't fluctuate at all, and his attitude was neither hot nor cold.

Shiraishi didn't think much of it, after all, Kakashi with this attitude was already quite kind.

"Kakashi, I..."

"Since you're here, come in."

Kakashi shook his head and walked away, not giving Obito a chance to speak.

Obito's smile froze on his face, his hands were in the air, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

"What the hell happened to this guy?"

Obito put down his hands and muttered a little depressed.

Compared with the Kakashi in his impression, the current Kakashi is like switching to another person.

Following Shiraishi into the living room of Kakashi's house, after sitting there, Kakashi brought up the tea set and a pot of hot water.

He said to Shiraishi and Obito, "If you want to drink tea, make it yourself."

"..."

"I haven't finished my practice today. I will order takeaway by dinner time. Please help yourself."

"..."

Obito watched Kakashi leave without much exchange of ideas, his face was stunned.

Shiraishi picked up the tea set calmly, not dissatisfied with Kakashi's indifferent attitude, so he made himself a cup of hot tea and drank it.

"I'll go upstairs and have a look."

After leaving this sentence, Shiraishi also left here.

Obito's face suddenly turned black, you two bastards are enough! Don't leave me here alone!

(PS: The Kakashi chapter will end tomorrow... If I ship the original God faster tomorrow, maybe I can double update...)