Chapter 38: Kakashi's Transition from Frugality to Extravagance [Part 1] 

"Don't be so nervous, have you forgotten? I can fly!"

Sakura reminded them. Regardless of whether they could win the fight or not, they could just fly up into the sky and no one would be able to catch them.

"Uh..."

Only then did Kakashi remember this. It was mainly because in the process of executing missions in the past, he had never seen many people who could fly. His habitual thinking had led him into a dead end.

"Uncle Kakashi, may I ask, how long can you continue to use various ninjutsu to carpet bomb them?"

Sakura asked. Recently, she had developed a new technique that she could test on Kakashi.

"A few seconds!"

Kakashi gave the answer without needing to calculate. His chakra was not too little, but unfortunately, he had the Sharingan, which was a big consumer of chakra. The Sharingan constantly consumed his chakra, causing the chakra that he could use to release ninjutsu to be very limited. If he kept using ninjutsu, he could only last for a few ninjutsu at most.

"Stretch out your hand!"

Kakashi silently stretched out his right hand, and Sakura pointed her index finger at Kakashi's wrist. A green light formed several strange rune patterns and imprinted them on Kakashi's right wrist.

"Uncle Kakashi, all you need to do next is to keep using ninjutsu to attack them. As a copy ninja, you should not lack ninjutsu, right?"

"I do not lack ninjutsu, but I lack chakra!" Kakashi looked at the green rune for a while but still couldn't figure out what it was for. He could only tell the truth.

"Don't worry about chakra. The rune I set on your wrist is used to solve this problem. After the rune is activated, every few seconds, when the chakra in your body is exhausted, it will instantly activate and bring your body back to the time before you released the ninjutsu. Similarly, your chakra will also return to that time. Unless I stop it actively, Uncle Kakashi, your body will keep repeating within this small period of time. In a sense, it is also infinite chakra!"

This was a skill that Sakura came up with based on the method that Doctor Strange used to deal with Dormammu in Marvel. It should be very suitable for Kakashi, who was a big consumer of chakra. However, Sakura reminded him again.

"Although even if you are injured, after the time rune is activated, you will return to the beginning time period, but you will not forget the feeling of pain. And continuous backtracking in time will also cause some pressure on your spirit, so I hope you can hold on!"

The rune that Sakura made could only trace back the time on Kakashi's body, not his soul. In other words, after the time rune on Kakashi's body was activated, his body time would continue to return to the beginning, but his memory would not be affected. The memories from the time before the time backtracking would reappear in his mind after the time backtracking. If the number of times was small, it would not be a problem, but if the number of times was too many, memory collisions could cause mental disorders.

"This thing is quite amazing!"

Kakashi said so, but he was very shocked in his heart. What did time backtracking represent? It meant that as long as Sakura was willing, a dying person could instantly recover to their peak state, and even achieve immortality.

"Uncle Guy, Brother Shisui, put out your hand, I'll give you one too!"

Sakura also set a rune on Might Guy and Shisui, but she secretly tampered with the one on Shisui to prepare for his life-threatening crisis in the future.

"Kill her..."

The leading ANBU glanced at Kakashi and others, confirmed that they were the targets to be killed, and without hesitation, drew out a short knife and rushed up. Although Sakura was just a child, for them who were accustomed to killing, whether she was a child or not was not important, as long as they completed Danzo's mission.

"Shisui is responsible for protecting Sakura. Guy, you and I will attack together, no need to show mercy!"

Although Root was also a force of Konoha, now that the other side wanted to kill them, Kakashi could not foolishly show mercy. He immediately pushed up the forehead protector that covered his left eye, revealing the blocked Three Tomoe Sharingan.

"Understood, my youth tells me that I should go all out..."

Guy took a deep breath and directly opened the Eight Gates. "Eight Gates Release. Third Gate: Life Gate...!"

Might Guy, with bulging veins on his forehead, rushed out and kicked a Root Ninja in the face with a flying kick.

"Konoha Senpuu...!"

"Lightning Release - Lightning Cutter...!"

Kakashi, who chose to believe Sakura, used his signature ninjutsu directly at the beginning. Although the Lightning Cutter at this time was far less proficient than in later stages and had fewer variations, it was still Kakashi's best move at the moment.

There were more than twenty Root Ninjas responsible for intercepting them, and due to their hostility towards the Uchiha, Danzo was willing to risk everything. If all these more than twenty Root Ninjas were lost here, Danzo's Root would be seriously damaged, and the cultivation of Root was very troublesome.

Might Guy was not good at using ninjutsu, and all his attacks were various physical techniques. After opening the Eight Gates, he could only dodge the opponent's ninjutsu and directly attack the enemy.

There were also Root Ninjas who wanted to use genjutsu to subdue Might Guy, but ordinary genjutsu had no effect on him. Genjutsu usually created illusions by interfering with the opponent's chakra flow to trap the opponent. There were only a few genjutsu that could harm the opponent's spirit.

It was easy to dispel genjutsu. As long as someone around disturbed the chakra flow of the target, the genjutsu would be dispelled. However, Guy had already opened the Eight Gates, and after opening the Eight Gates, the chakra flow in Guy's body became extremely violent, and the genjutsu used by these Root Ninjas were directly broken.

Facing so many Root Ninjas, Guy did not dare to be careless. He had already opened the Fifth Gate: Limit Gate of the Eight Gates, and the violent chakra flowed out of his body, causing his skin to become congested and red.

On the other side, Kakashi's predictive ability of the Sharingan allowed him to easily avoid attacks and see through the enemy's moves. When in close combat, he condensed the Lightning Cutter, and when the distance between the two sides increased, he stopped using the Lightning Cutter, formed hand seals, and threw out the ninjutsu he had copied during his missions, changing his fighting style from being precise to being fierce.

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