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  Training ground 3 was slowly being a warzone. Sparks were flying as ons collided in the air. The ground aation were gettiroyed as the two high level ninjas fought each other as if their lives depended on it.

  Daichi was running through the forest evading and defleg the sharp ons ing at him. As he gripped his dagger and deflected another shuriken he found his enemy. 'There.'

  Finding Kakashi's location, Daichi increased his speed and rushed at him before the man could escape. Just as Daichi was on top of Kakashi a Rasengan formed in his hand.

  The man saw Daichi ing a mile away. With the Sharingan he saw how Daichi's chakra was beginning to gather in his hand. 'So he's going to use that huh.'

  The Jonihrough the seals and the sed Kakashi's arm lit up with lightning chakra. He focused his energy and increased its power. It looked like both of them were about to csh in a Ninjutsu strength test but something else happened.

  Kakashi smirked and instead of directly fronting Daichi's Rasengailted his body to the side at the st possible moment and caught Daichi's wrist in a firm grip. Without wasting a sed on useless banter he thrusted his lightning coated arm to Daichi's chest.

  His iion wasn't to pierce through Daichi but to incapacitate him. Kakashi swiftly pced his arm on Daichi's chest and before the boy could retaliate, the Joni lightning throughout his student's body electrog him.

  "Grr…" Daichi gritted his teeth for a few seds before vanishing in a puff of smoke. The man's eyes narrowed at this revetion.

  At that moment he felt several chakra threads eg to his bad the moment he had a taste of his own medie. Daichi was standing a few feet behind Kakashi and was eling lightning chakra through his chakra strings.

  Daichi ran lightning through the man's body for several seds. But the moment the Kakashi in front of him turo lightning and through the chakra strings ected, reached Daichi and struck him.

  Feeliricity course through his body, Daichi couldn't hold on anymore and vanished in a puff of smoke. Silence came as the short fight ended and the two fierinjas vanished.

  Memories of the two es came to Daichi who was oher side of the forest. 'That guy. He tried to fool me into thinking that he thought the oh the Rasengan was the real deal and was trying to knock him out. A feint in the hopes that I would personally show up to attack him from behind. Too bad for you it was a e that did that.'

  Kakashi, who was hidden deep in the earth, realized that his trap failed. He had switched with a lightning e at the moment Daichi's e vanished and was waiting for his bsp;'So he didn't take the bait huh… Almost 4 hours have passed sihe test began. I 't slow down now. I o push him and not give an inch.'

  The Jonin ninja, usih Burrow Jutsu, moved beh the ground and came up a short distance away. On top of solid grouook several deep breaths and steadied himself. 'I o get bato shape. I 't believe I let myself sck off so much since I left the Anbu. If a kid like him could force me to this state in just a few hours… Che! This is embarrassing. But no time to think about that now.'

  Kakashi took a small whiff and he sehat the stinky smoke had rgely dispersed. 'Time to find the little brat.'

  He sent chakra to his nose and ears and expanded his senses. He crouched doced his hands on the ground and closed his eyes as he trated. Several seds ter he began sensing his enemy.

  'Owo… Three…. Seven… I sense seven Daichi hidden throughout the forest. But none of them are moving. Strahey could all be es or one of them could be the real one. But as soon as I make a move on one of them the others will know and they might hide again. And I 't hit all of them at once… Well. Not without wasting some chakra anyway… A drum indeed.'

  After thinking about it for a short while he made a decision. 'This isn't ideal but I'll see what he's doing.'

  Creating 7 shadow es, he hid ahem to Daichi's locations. Each e soon reached their target and several small skirmishes began iraining ground.

  As the fight progressed one of his es was dispelled. Kakashi went through the memories and information he received. 'He was meditating but as soon as he saw me he engaged in bat. And his chakra. He was geing more chakra during his meditation… Is that what he's been doing? Expanding his chakra coils and increasing his reserves? That would expin some things… But why would he do something like that right now?'

  At that moment Kakashi realized something else. 'The chakra of the shadow es, they return to their caster. If he gee chakra and then…'

  The man's eyes widened in shock as he realized one of Daichi's abilities. 'He replenish his reserves with his shadow es in the middle of the battle and thus his stamina! So that's why he was ing at me with such ferocity from the start. He knows he outst me… 't let that happen.'

  At that moment he heard the sounds of ons flying and the csh of steel. The Sharingan ninja rushed to the location just in time to see one of his es vanish. The memories came and with it an important piece of information. 'Thats the real one.'

  Seeing the man ing directly at him, Daichi bolted from the pce with the Jonin chasing him.

  Daichi g the man catg up to him. 'He's got some extremely sharp seo find me so quickly. And with his speed… This was bound to happen sooner or ter.'

  At that moment Daichi was forced to quickly ge paths to avoid the shuriken his ehrew. His eyes took in the devastation the o in their wake.

  'Shit. He coated them with lightning chakra. This guy is seriously trying to kill me.'

  Kakashi was closing in and he began weaving seals. He stopped and pced his hands on the ground.

  Daichi looked behind him and was fused. 'What the heck is he doing?'

  The Jonin's chakra surged as he used his teique. 'Earth Style: Mud Wall.'

  A rge curved wall quickly sprung up in front of Daichi i on blog his path.

  Despite there being a thick earthen wall in front of him Daichi didn't slow down. He remembered Tsueags and gathered chakra in his fist. The moment he he structure he pu with all his might and released the chakra upon tact.

  "BOOM."

  Kakashi's eyes widened. 'He punched right through with that ease… To do something like that… He must have learhat teique from Lady Tsunade.'

  Daichi bsted the rge wall a ks of broken rocks flying. But the moment he passed through, he heard the sound of something simir to birds chirping. 'Is that what I think it is?'

  Daichi saw another Kakashi appearing with Chidori trated on his right palm ing for him. Both of them were moving at high speed and would collide ihan a few seds. Without wasting another moment Daichi created a Rasengan in his hand and got ready.

  Up iower the Hokage watg the battle tensed as he saw what was happening. 'Kakashi I hope you know what you're doing.'

  Chidori and Rasengan cshed the sed and with an explosive bang. The chaotic lightning and the tightly tained ball of chakra battled one another for supremacy. The ground cracked from the force of the jutsu impact. Lightning arched and wind blew all across the pce destroying the nearby trees, rocks and anything else in their paths.

  Daichi gritted his teeth and held his ground. When he looked at his teacher he saw a grim determination in those eyes that remihe boy of himself. But even in this moment he kept a vigince over the real Kakashi dozeers behind him. He o be ready when the man would unch a strike from behind.

  Though the worry Daichi had was unnecessary. The moment the real Kakashi took a step forward, he fell to one knee. He ched his Sharingan eye shut and had to take several deep breaths of air. 'This kid is f me to expend more chakra. So he must have already made a guess that the Sharingan costs too much chakra to maintain for long.' At that moment Kakashi's shadow es dispelled a firmation that all of Daichi's es were destroyed.

  Having made a decisioook a Ration pill from his poud ate it. A few seds ter he let out a breath of air feeling the pill quickly doing its work. Kakashi just khere resting for as much time as he could, looking at the frontation taking pce ahead.

  Daichi received the memories and chakra of es and grimaced. 'I didn't thiake out the es so quickly. But still… I got some chakra back. So that's a good thing.'

  At that moment the Sharingan wielding ninja with the chidori looked at Daichi and spoke. Even through the loud sounds of their battling jutsu, Daichi was able to clearly hear his sensei. "Your talent is undeniable. But to surpass me… It won't be that easy."

  "Haa…." Kakashi increased his chakra output and thus the strength of his lightning attad began pushing Daichi back.

  The ground cracked more around Daichi's feet and he began to slide backwards. Daichi increased the chakra throughout his whole body and poured some more to his Rasengan making it bigger. 'NO! I won't be defeated. I will never experiehat feeling again.'

  With the increase in power Daichi firmly stood his ground and gred at his foe. "I have a goal to quer. So no matter who it is that gets in my way, no matter how strong my enemies are, I will never let myself… BE DEFEATED!."

  Putting everything he had, Daichi pushed forward and because of the rge energies from the two teiques, the moment they violently exploded betweewo. A shockwave was created that spread throughout the training ground forest with the ground at the epiter of the explosioroyed and charred.

  Kakashi's e was destroyed and Daichi was blown backwards where the real Jonin was waiting for him.

  [-366 HP]

  [Debuff - Right arm temporarily paralyzed.]

  [ive Status - Bleeding, Several Muscles Torn, Burns.]

  Daichi's special bck gsses broke and some of his clothes got torn. But the major injuries were on his right arm. It was wounded in the csh and had burn marks, charred skin in several pces, bleeding and had a few muscles torn. His regeion powers were kig in and slowly healing the wounds but for the moment Daichi was reduced to fighting with one arm.

  Daichi used chakra strings to reorient himself and bleed off his body's momentum. He came to a stop a few feet in front of his sensei. Daichi looked at the man but was scious of his wounds and wao fight in a way that wouldn't aggravate them.

  'Even with all the damage redu effects, I still took this many injuries? Unbelievable… Still, I have some tingencies in pce if something like this ever happened.'

  Kakashi looked at Daichi and even though he inwardly bemoahe state he put the boy in, he didn't show it on his face. His expression was one of cold indifference. "I warned you to not get overfident. Now look at you. Down an arm and uo defend yourself."

  Daichi chuckled hearing those words. "Haha… True. I'm down an arm. But by no means am I defenseless."

  At that moment Kakashi noticed several green chakra strings ing from the forest. Thinking that it was an attack aimed at him, Kakashi jumped and gained some dista that was a miscalcution. The man's Sharingan showed that the chakra strings were not made from the 5 Nature elements.

  The Jonin took a closer look at those green strings of energy. 'What is that?'

  The strings quickly attached to Daichi's wounded arm and they began to do their work. In seds, small steam started to erupt from the arm and wounds began closing at a visible speed. The charred skin peeled off and was repced with new ones. Daichi winced as he felt some pain but he k would only st a short while.

  Kakashi was astonished with this new ability Daichi dispyed. 'Healing from a distance. And using e and chakra strings as a medium. That's actually brilliant.'

  He saw the wounds closing on the boy's arm and he focused his attention ba the battle. He quickly took off towards Daichi. Trying to stop him from pletely healing himself. 'Damn. I 't let him finish healing... How did a e escape my senses? I thought I got all of them.'

  Kakashi reached Daichi and thrust his chakra coated kunai at the strings. Daichi blocked it with his dagger but he wasn't able to stop the sed one due to his dition.

  Daichi quickly jumped backwards and gained some distance while the e that hid appeared and attacked Kakashi. Seeing his sensei distracted, Daichi used his speed skills and got away.

  Kakashi evaded the dagger swings and quickly broke through the e's defeurning him into smoke. The man looked around and sighed. 'Gone. And by the time I find him, I have no doubt he'll be fully healed… But still… I'm curious… How did this e avoid my dete when others didn't…'