Konoha's task master

Konoha Village, inside the training ground No. 14.

Harano Rin, Uchiha Obito, and Mori Masako are playing a game of kick-the-can hide-and-seek.

This is a very simple and popular game. The person responsible for catching only needs to touch the other two people with his hand to win, and as long as one of the other two people kicks down the can, he wins.

This is the collision of protection and destruction.

Uchiha Obito originally thought that since Kakashi Hatake, who had a bug in the game, did not participate, he would win smoothly.

The ideal is always beautiful, but the reality is very skinny.

He has lost three times in a row, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't stop... Masako Mori kicked the can.

In terms of speed, reaction, and movement, he was completely crushed by this girl who was not very prominent in the class.

Uchiha Obito thought to himself, this is a game demon equal to...Kakashi, and what's more, she is not as beautiful as Lin!

"Obito, what are you thinking about?" Masako Mori suddenly leaned close to Obito and asked in a low voice.

"Masako Mori is not as beautiful as Lin..."

"Hey, no, why did I say it?"

Uchiha Obito woke up immediately and stared at the smiling Mori Masako with some vigilance. He seemed to have been absentminded for a moment just now and directly said what he was thinking.

"Snapped."

The tin can was kicked far away by Masako Mori.

"Obito, you lose again." Harano Lin said with a smile, Obito and Mori Masako also laughed, and for a while the training ground was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

"Ah, I lost again!"

Happiness is theirs...it never belongs to Kakashi.

He really didn't expect that Yakumo-san, whom he had defined as a swordsman genius a few hours ago, would have such poor learning ability.

"Remember whether the three links of steps, breathing, and moves are disordered, and the knife moves according to your heart, rather than in an overly rigid pattern."

"The pace is messed up, start over..."

"My breathing is messed up, try again..."

"Wrong...there is a problem with the connection!"

After Yakumo failed for the fifth time, Kakashi could only hold his forehead helplessly, his face under the black scarf covered with bitterness.

"This may be the process of cultivating the mind."

Just yesterday he told his father that a classmate in class secretly watched him practice sword skills. He did not expect that what his father cared about most was the character of that classmate, not the sword skills being secretly learned.

Kakashi told his father about Yakumo's recent experiences, and he gained new lessons.

"Inheritance should not be based on sectarian opinions. The most important thing for successors to consider is their character."

These are the original words of Hatake Sakumo.

Konoha White Fang has a big pattern...

"Teaching others sword skills to confirm what you have learned and seeking new breakthroughs is a lesson left by my father... but I didn't want it to be so difficult."

"When I first learned it, my father just practiced it briefly. Why couldn't he learn it?"

Kakashi looked at the forest in the distance with a heavy heart, especially hoping that a black bear would break out of it and have a fight with him.

"Kakashi, can you help me see where I went wrong?"

Yakumo's voice brought Kakashi's wandering thoughts back on track. Not far in front of him, the genius he defined himself was piecing together the Hatake Sword Technique with extremely messy movements.

"My breathing is messed up! I exhale with two knives, and inhale with two knives."

Hearing this, Yakumo immediately began to adjust his breathing frequency according to Kakashi's instructions.

After dozens of exercises, Yakumo's physical fitness reached its limit, and Kakashi's spirit also reached its limit.

"That's it for today, continue tomorrow."

Kakashi could see that Yakumo-san had reached the limit of his physical strength and spoke.

"I only need to rest for half an hour to regain my strength, and I can continue practicing for three hours." Yakumo replied. The sun in the sky had just fallen to the earth, and it was still early.

"Okay, I'll practice it for you a few more times, pay attention."

This "student" may be a little dull, but his extremely hard work reminds him of his father's teachings when he was a child.

“Never underestimate those who have made progress several times the hard work at any time. Even if they only make a little progress every day, their future will be extremely bright.”

Drawing out the short blade, Kakashi demonstrated the characteristics of Hatake's sword skills and steps step by step. In order to facilitate Yakumo's learning, he deliberately slowed down a lot.

In the blink of an eye...it was completely dark.

The day's practice ended here. At first, Yakumo planned to treat his friends to dinner, but found that all the shops on the road were closed, so he had to give up and they set off on their own way home.

"I really didn't expect you to persevere."

Masako Mori was very surprised by the continuous swinging of the knife for several hours. The boy's determination when swinging the knife under the moon was difficult to associate with the timid and cowardly image he once had.

"Maybe it's because I like it..."

"like…?"

"People are always willing to go for what they like, right?" Yakumo looked at the moon in the sky and decided to go home and continue practicing basic sword skills. After all, there were only two days left to complete the task.

Facing Yakumo, Masako Mori was a little silent for a moment. People will go for the people they like, not just things.

"Do you like practicing sword skills?"

"I like doing tasks." Yakumo answered truthfully.

"Does mission mean you become a ninja and accept missions?" Masako Mori continued to ask. It was a good sign that Yakumo was willing to talk to her.

"Nah."

…………

Saturday night, a familiar training ground.

It was a fun time of laughter and laughter on one side, and Kakashi was frowning on the other. Tonight, he proposed a new training method, abandoning moves and focusing on the coordination of steps and breathing, and then introducing moves after the two are unified.

Now Yakumo's progress is very obvious, and he can already guess the mistakes he made from the change in Kakashi's eyes.

After two hours, I finally mastered the coordination of breathing and steps. I only need to combine it with the moves to get started with Hatake Swordsmanship.

Slash, step, breathe.

Lunge, pace, breathe.

Yakumo practiced the Hatake sword skills at an extremely slow speed, but he was extremely accurate.

There is nothing wrong with Form 13.

There is nothing wrong with the 20th pose.

There is nothing wrong with Form 21.

There is nothing wrong with Form 24.

Perfectly, Yakumo completed the entire Hatake Sword Technique moves, steps and breathing exercises at an extremely slow speed.

"Congratulations, all you have to do in the future is to repeat the training countless times to make it instinctive and be able to use it as you wish in battle." Kakashi immediately congratulated.

Outsiders simply can't understand the hard work he put in these two days.

"I owe you a big favor." Yakumo said very solemnly.

"The Sharingan can perfectly reproduce movements and imitate the flow of chakra, and the Byakugan can also see through all the secrets of Hatake Swordsmanship. In other words, the training method of Hatake Swordsmanship is not a secret among the top management of Konoha."

"It's not that Hatake Swordsmanship made White Fang famous, but because of White Fang, Hatake Swordsmanship became a so-called secret technique. In fact, Obito also learned it for a while, but later he gave up because he was tired..."

This is the first time Yakumo has heard so many words from Kakashi, and the purpose of him saying so many words is to prevent Yakumo from taking the teaching as a debt.