"Okay the's go inside," Jiraiya said as he opehe door to the training area.

  As soon as the gate opehe lights of the training area turned on automatically. Ahree times the size of a football field came into view.

  "This is much bigger than I expected," Kaida said, entering the training area.

  "This is a training area for a Hokage. Of course, it's going to be big. Now, we're not here fhtseeing. Even though I've already read about your strengths and weaknesses in your file, that 't give me a true estimate of your capabilities. So let's do this the old-fashioned way. I won’t attack you for the 10 minutes. Yoal is to nd a siae. You HAVE to use your full power, like you're trying to kill me. If I feel you're holding back, you'll regret that decision quite a lot," Jiraiya said.

  "Okay, Sensei," Kaida said and quickly made a Shadow e, then another, and then another.

  "Hey, what are you doing?" Jiraiya asked.

  "I'm making Shadow es, Sensei," Kaida replied simply.

  "I see that, but why are you making them one by one?" Jiraiya asked.

  "I still don’t know the Multi-Shadow e Jutsu, Sensei. I had a bet with Yukihiro-sehat once I nded a sia him, he'd teach me, but I haven’t seen him in quite a while..." Kaida expined.

  "I don’t he full story. Also, why the hell hasn't aaught you that yet? You already know the Shadow e Jutsu. Sigh... Fine, I’ll teach you after this. Now carry on," Jiraiya said.

  Hearing that, Kaida tinued his preparation. After making 11 Shadow es, he finally faced Jiraiya.

  Then one of the es came o Kaida, used the Transformation Jutsu, and suddenly transformed into a sturdy, katana-like sword, pletely b color. Another e threw two smoke bombs on the ground. Due to being ihe mountain, the smoke quickly filled the eraining area. Even though the pce was fully vehe smoke bombs were made in such a way that the smoke wouldn't disperse on its own.

  ...

  Jiraiya allowed Kaida to use this trick. If he wanted, he could have easily used a k Wind Gale Jutsu to blow away the smoke. But since he couldn’t see in the smoke, he stealthily used Nature Energy to sense Kaida’s location. A normal chakra s couldn’t differentiate between a Shadow e and the real person, but with Nature Energy, it was easy.

  While he was sensing Kaida, the boy suddenly created a Shadow e and dispersed it. The remaining ten es went in different dires and started f a simple array. Within a mihe training area was covered with 20+ arrays, desigo absorb and store chakra.

  'Good, this will render 95% of sensors incapable of deteg his position,' Jiraiya thought, though even he had to trate a little more to find Kaida's location. As he was thinking, two kunai flew toward him at astonishing speed.

  'This is just a feint,' Jiraiya thought, and as he expected, the two Shadow es that had thrown the kunai dispersed themselves.

  Suddenly, the spot where Jiraiya stood was bombarded with dozens of Wind Bdes, but he simply used the Body Flicker teique to evade them.

  ‘He’s blog his vision too. This isn't good. If someone predict his location, the situation could reverse,’ Jiraiya thought. Just then, Kaida moved from his position, and for the first time, Jiraiya began f hand seals.

  Within milliseds, he smmed his hand on the ground, and a 1-meter thick earth wall emerged from the ground.

  Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!

  The reason for the wall became clear in a sed, as the meter-thick wall was sliced in half by Kaida’s chakra sword, which was overflowing with fire chakra. The earth wall was like butter in front of that sword, sliced ly in two.

  By then, Jiraiya had already moved, this time jumping instead of using Body Flicker. Kaida quickly seized the opportunity and shouted, "Fire, 30 degrees north in front of me!"

  Within a sed, before Jiraiya could nd, the position was bombarded by six Fireball Jutsu, while the remaining two es used Fire Breath Jutsu. The entire area near Jiraiya was engulfed in hot fire, and the smoke iraining area became even denser.

  trary to expectation, Jiraiya stood in the middle of the fire, pletely fine. But if someone looked closely, they'd notice his skin was slightly red, though not burned. Before nding, Jiraiya had quickly used the Iron Skin Jutsu a chakra to his clothes, which were covered in many protective seals.

  'This boy could see me... Wait a minute,' Jiraiya thought, releasing a small wind gale—not a jutsu, just wind. With his chakra trol and reserves, this was easy for him.

  The smoke surrounding him and Kaida cleared for a sed, and then Jiraiya saw twht red eyes focused ily on him, reading his every movement. For a moment, even Jiraiya felt a bit nervous in front of those red eyes, with three tomoe rotating in them.

  'Very nice. He's making full use of his advantage and creating an unfavorable enviro for the enemy. His basics are solid, and with his strength level, even ae Jonin could lose to him,' Jiraiya thought.

  But Kaida wasn’t done. He went for a direct kenjutsu match with Jiraiya, who simply used a kunai to deflect every strike. Both were using chakra to enhaheir ons: Jiraiya used earth chakra to make his kunai sturdier, while Kaida used fire chakra to make his sword deadlier.

  Then, with direct eye tact, Kaida used a teique he had learned during his spar with Itachi. He cast a simple genjutsu on Jiraiya to make his sword strike appear as a vertical ssh, while it was actually a simple waist-level strike, not deadly at all.

  "You’re 50 years too early to use genjutsu on me, boy," Jiraiya said, blog the attack with ease.

  But Kaida wasn’t disced. While they were fighting, one of Kaida’s es sneaked behind Jiraiya and used the Chakra Scalpel to attack him from behind.

  Before the attack could nd, Jiraiya’s hair suddenly became hard and spiky, peing the e’s hand, dispersing it.

  ‘Landing a hit on someone who could go against a Rinnegan user... easy task,’ Kaida thought sarcastically and titag. This time, he used chakra to increase the strength behind his attacks. By using Shadow es, a chakra sword, the Sharingan, and chakra-enharength, Kaida's chakra levels were dropping at an arming rate. In just 8 minutes, he was already down to half his chakra, as he poured as much chakra into his sword as possible.

  Kaida hoped to break Jiraiya’s on and nd a si, but no matter how much chakra he used, Jiraiya always increased his kunai’s chakra just enough to ter Kaida’s strikes.

  'This is going nowhere,' Kaida thought, creating a Shadow e and dispersing it a sed ter.

  The remaining 10 Shadow es got the memory and prepared. Five of them used the Transformation Jutsu to turn into swords. With swords in hand, five es were ready to join Kaida, but before they could move, Jiraiya said:

  "Time’s up. Even though you were uo nd an attae, I still got a good idea of your offense. Now it’s time to test your defense."