Chapter 108

"You became a Chunin, Rin? That's great, Kakashi will no longer be able to lead us around." Obito asked while smiling, seemingly unconcerned. But in reality, he felt envy being the lowest ranked human on the team.

"This is mainly because of Takeshi," Rin said, her voice tinged with shame. "Without him, I wouldn't be promoted to Chunin."

She felt that her strength was not worthy of being a Chunin. If it hadn't been for Takeshi, she wouldn't have been able to defeat her opponent so easily. Of course, this was her opinion.

In this regard, Kakashi said he had something to say: "Rin, you also defeated your opponents and you were promoted, while this loser wasn't, then there must be something wrong with him. Don't comfort him. It's best to let this low-level person to focus on bettering himself."

Obito bared his teeth and screamed, "Kakashi, I'll fight you!" He had been suppressing his emotions, but Kakashi's words immediately made him explode. 

Just as Obito was about to take action, at this time, Kakashi formed a hand seal, and the light on his hand flashed, with lightning flickering around.

Facing a threat, Obito could only... "Bah, if you're a man, just fight with taijutsu, let's go out and fight me like a man!"

"There's no need for taijutsu battle. Let's have a battle using all our abilities." Kakashi responded immediately. 

Obito was stunned for a moment, and the scene of the duel between Kakashi and Guy appeared in his mind.

His face suddenly turned red, and he said, "I won't follow along with your bullshit, like Guy and fall for this stupid duel." 

"Oh? Are you afraid? Is your Sharingan not working? Want some eyedrops loser?"

'That's right; you are still a loser, so it is natural for you to be in awe of me'. Kakashi retracted his hand calmly, saying, "I was actually a little surprised. Obito is actually coward enough not to accept my duel."

Just when Kakashi thought that Obito might've improved, Obito shouted at him.

"Come on let's fight, we'll see who's a coward!?" 

"..."

'This Uchiha idiot fell for it again.' Takeshi watched from the sidelines, silently praying for Obito. Rin vaguely felt that something was wrong, but she didn't know what the duel between Kakashi and Guy was. She was also a little curious about what was going on.

Immediately afterwards, she saw Kakashi and Obito standing one step apart. Obito opened his Sharingan, and Kakashi also had a solemn expression. 

The tent was filled with tension. Takeshi squatted on Rin's shoulder and stared at the two of them with disdain.

At this time, Aburame Shima opened the tent door curtain, and when he saw two of them standing opposite eachother about ready to fight.

He immediately stepped forward to stop them, but the next moment, both sides took action. 

Whoosh~ 

Scissors versus scissors.

Uh... Shima's raised hand stopped and expression were frozen, and the parasites that flew out also flew back into his sleeves - 'you two looked so serious, just for playing rock, paper, scissors?'

Whoosh~ 

The two of them kept going at rapid pace. The rock-paper-scissors fight was so dizzying that neither Rin nor Shima could see their movements clearly.

Ten seconds later... "Humph, loser." Kakashi stopped his hand, looking relaxed. 

Although the opponent has Sharingan, after rounds of tests, he can find out what Obito's reaction time is. As long as he changes his gestures within Obito's reaction time, he can win. 

At this time, Takeshi jumped down. When he landed, he had turned into the appearance of Minato, half-crouching on the ground, almost as tall as Kakashi.

"Huh?" Everyone looked up in confusion and looked at the "Minato" that Takeshi had transformed into.

"Meow~ let's duel!" Takeshi stretched out his hand and stared at Kakashi.

"..." Kakashi felt tired. In the past, he only had to deal with Guy alone, but now he not only had to deal with Guy, but also Obito and Takeshi.

The most terrible thing was that these two were teammates and would be with him all the time during the missions... It was uncomfortable. Sure enough, he should have dealt with them all long ago.

Then, he slowly stretched out his hand. "Come on." This time the atmosphere was not solemn at all. 

Takeshi was relaxed and comfortable, while Kakashi was very stiff. He felt like he was going to lose. 

The next second, the two opponents charged out their hands at the same time. After taking action, they quickly changed hands gesture according to opponent's gestures.

They changed hands several times in the blink of an eye, Then finally... paper versus rock. Kakashi was silent for a moment and then stopped, kept his expression dull and said, "You win."

"Meow~ Looosserrrr~!" Takeshi held his head high and made the same expression as Kakashi before. 

"Good job, I'll treat you to a barbecue when I get back!" Obito was very excited, and after getting excited, he made a promise that was enough to make his income from two missions return to zero. At this moment, any hatred or resentment he had for Takeshi before was gone.

Takeshi licked his paw. Compared with the reaction speed of hoomans, this cat is not afraid of anyone.

The next second, a head squeezed in from the door. "You are... uh." Minato looked at Takeshi, and the second half of his sentence was stuck in his throat. 'What's happening?'

"Meow! I was just playing around, and the cat's paw can't do hand gestures, so I transformed." Takeshi immediately changed back to his original form and explained.

"Let's not talk about this for now. Get ready, we have a mission." Minato's expression turned serious. 

"Yes Sensei!" Everyone took action immediately. They were all ninjas. They didn't bring many things with them when they went out on missions. With the medical kit taken along, Minato's squad was ready to go.

Shima was envious, but also vaguely worried about Obito. Although Obito is quite strong, with Minato leading the missions means that the mission level is not low, and with how things are currently, he guessed that the mission likely has to do with Sunagakure Village...

Not long after, humans and a cat gathered outside. However, in addition to Minato, there is another person coming along for mission who makes Takeshi and Obito a little afraid, one of the three Sanins, Orochimaru.

"Orochimaru-sama, my team members are all here."

"Then proceed as planned." Orochimaru licked his lips, and then his figure turned into a puddle of mud and disappeared. An Earth Clone.

"Sensei, what is our mission?" Obito swallowed. They were doing Orochimaru-sama's mission. They are so young, are they qualified to participate in such a high level mission?

"Meow!" Takeshi was also not calm. It's not clear what Orochimaru wants to do, but any mission involving the Three Sanins is definitely life-threatening for ordinary ninjas.

"Don't worry, everyone. Our mission is not to sneak into the Land of Wind. The outward purpose of this mission is to assist in the protection of the Land of Rain. While in reality, it is to monitor the movements of Sunagakure and Iwagakure. We are responsible for Iwagakure," Minato said, detailing the mission. 

Kakashi and Rin nodded thoughtfully. Sunagakure and Iwagakure were moving at the same time, and their army strength was divided into two directions.

No matter what two villages said, this situation was definitely suspicious.

As for the disappearance of the Third Kazekage... this may be true, but it may also be just a cover to attack Konoha. 

Sunagakure are known for their backstabbing nature. Of course, Takeshi knew very well that this time the Third Kazekage was indeed dropped dead, but he couldn't say that. 

He wanted to avoid drinking tea with Danzo, and along with, becoming new test subject in Orochimaru's laboratory.

In addition, even if he says it, it will not bring about any changes. The triggers of the war have already occured, and the event itself is no longer important.

He squatted on Obito's shoulder, adding weight to him for exercise, paying attention to the scents around him, and distracted himself by looking at the system store. Takeshi's points are ten thousand seven hundred.

The natural energy has been digested to almost the same level. While he could consume another packet of Luxury cat food, but if he ate that, he would fall asleep for a day or two, which will delay the progress of the mission.

He shopped around and bought two packs of Ninja cat food. For the time being, Ninja cat food is guaranteed to be eaten for three meals a day. 

For now focusing on raising the total amount of his chakra and physical capabilities, as for Ninjutsu, it seems that it is enough for now.

Higher-end Jutsu's cannot be used even if they are bought without chakra anyways.

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