Kakashi Hatake, son of Konoha White Fang's Hatake Sakumo, disciple of the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, and a true elite of Konoha.

Before all his team members died, causing him to become completely decadent, Kakashi's resume was unmatched.

Even the famous Uchiha Itachi could only follow behind him in terms of time in becoming a Chunin and a Jonin.

Itachi Uchiha was able to come from behind and win because he awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and also because he was accused of a false record of single-handedly annihilating the entire clan.

Later, all the people Kakashi cared about died. He thought he was an unlucky person and became depressed. Coupled with the burden of the Sharingan, he made almost no progress in more than ten years.

But this is just the impression people get when contrasted with Kakashi's rapid progress in his youth.

In fact, Kakashi Hatake has been improving all the time, he's just not improving that fast, but much faster than ordinary ninjas.

During these years, he awakened his two-magatama Sharingan into three-magatama, learned thousands of ninjutsu, strengthened his foundation and eliminated the hidden dangers left over from his youth, becoming the most powerful ninja among the elite jonin.

From a certain perspective, Kakashi Hatake is the number one ninja under the Kage level. Anyone who can beat him is almost a Kage level ninja.

Of course, Danzo, who defeated the Kage-level ninja gatekeeper, would be more convincing.

Now Zabuza Momochi is going to challenge the number one person below the Kage level. He wants to use this battle to verify his strength and confirm whether he has reached the Kage level.

This will determine when he returns to the Hidden Mist Village.

The two have completely different fighting styles. Hatake Kakashi's physical skills pursue precise coordination, and when combined with basic E-level ninjutsu, it is flawless.

Zabuza Momochi's attack was frenzied, showing his madness in making the enemy bleed even at the cost of serious injury himself.

But at every critical moment, Zabuza would use defensive water-style ninjutsu to deflect Kakashi's attacks or reduce the damage caused by the attacks, turning a suicidal situation into a life-and-death struggle.

Yes, Kakashi must die and Zabuza must live.

Ninja battles usually end immediately after they meet, but the fighting styles of these two people were so aggressive that they unexpectedly ended up in a stalemate.

It wasn't until Haku on the other side stopped Team 7 and demonstrated his absolute level of jonin that the situation on the battle changed dramatically.

As the instructor of Team 7, Kakashi Hatake is well aware of the special status of the members. Except for Haruno Sakura, whose life or death is not important, nothing must happen to the other two children.

Uzumaki Naruto is not only the son of Minato Namikaze, but also the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails.

If Naruto died, the Third Hokage would have no face to live on, and Konoha Village would also lose its biggest trump card.

Uchiha Sasuke is the "last" surviving member of the Uchiha clan, and the benchmark for the Konoha Ninja Clan to test the Third Hokage. Most importantly, he is Uchiha Itachi's younger brother.

Hatake Kakashi was once Itachi Uchiha's Anbu boss. He knew this guy's strength and madness, and he knew his feelings for Sasuke even more.

If Sasuke died, all the ninja clans would become alienated from the village, and Uchiha Itachi would definitely go crazy.

Uchiha Itachi was able to kill members of his own family, even children, with his own hands, so he was half crazy.

If he went completely crazy, he would definitely launch a crazy revenge on Konoha Village, and might even start by killing villagers at random.

Konoha Village could not withstand such an attack.

For this reason, Kakashi was distracted.

Then he was kicked hard in the abdomen by Zabuza and was almost killed on the spot, but he also fell into a completely passive position, struggling to hold on.

But Uzumaki Naruto exploded, creating hundreds of shadow clones with the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique and began to counterattack.

Although Bai used the Rain Thousand Instincts to quickly destroy the shadow clones, he was unable to withstand the speed at which Uzumaki Naruto created his own shadow clones, and he made up for the losses with more shadow clones.

Uzumaki Naruto's shadow clones became more and more, not only forcing Bai to retreat continuously, but also working together to dismantle the cage made of ice crystal magic mirrors, releasing Uchiha Sasuke who had extremely strong attack power.

The two Genin teamed up, controlled the situation with hundreds of shadow clones, and attacked with fire-style ninjutsu, but they were defeated and ended up at a disadvantage.

Now it was Zabuza Momochi's turn to be distracted, and Kakashi Hatake accurately seized the enemy's weakness and almost knocked off Zabuza's jaw with one punch.

As Zabuza fell into a disadvantage, his taijutsu style focused on momentum and attack, and was not good at defense. He was hit by Kakashi Hatake's repeated attacks and suffered damage again and again.

Zabuza was at a disadvantage, but Bai threw aside all his worries and launched his strongest secret technique.

Ice escape technique, magic mirror ice crystal, prism maze

Three-sided icicles rose from the ground, turning the battlefield into a mirror maze.

These mirrors reflect each other at an angle of 120 degrees. One can see everyone present through the mirrors, as well as countless copies of oneself.

Everyone was confused and didn't know how to deal with it.

Hundreds of Uzumaki Naruto's shadow clones were divided. Although a few of them encountered and fought with Bai, he just didn't know where the enemy was, nor did he know where he was.

Haruno Sakura's mental state was already very bad, and at this moment her eyes rolled back and she fainted.

But the family member most affected by the Prism Maze is Uchiha Sasuke, because he has the Sharingan.

The Sharingan collected a huge amount of wrong information, and his experience was not enough to eliminate the interference. Uchiha Sasuke didn't even have time to sneer before he completely lost his direction and position.

Soon he felt a splitting headache and shouted in pain: "Naruto, protect Sakura, I will use ninjutsu to destroy these icicles!"

Uchiha Sasuke quickly formed hand seals, and the bead in his Sharingan spun rapidly, strengthening his chakra control ability, and the chakra in his body gathered in his chest like flowing water.

Fire Style: Great Flame Bullet Technique

Just as Sasuke puffed up his cheeks and prepared to launch a large fire bomb, Bai's figure appeared on the mirror in front of him.

Bai actually drilled out from the two-dimensional mirror and traveled to the mirror behind Sasuke at a speed that even the Sharingan could not see.

As Bai flew past at high speed, he overshot three ice thousand swords, all of which nailed Sasuke's body and hit the meridian nodes where chakra was circulating.

Bai's attack was not a ninjutsu of the Hyuga clan and could not interrupt the flow of chakra, but it was enough to interrupt the ninjutsu that Sasuke was performing.

The damage of the three Senbons was nothing; the runaway chakra was the main reason for knocking down Uchiha Sasuke.

The out-of-control chakra caused serious damage to his meridians, and Sasuke had to use secret techniques to quickly release the chakra out of the body to avoid causing greater harm to himself.

The chakra was instantly emptied by the secret technique, and Sasuke's Sharingan was no longer able to maintain its power. The blood-red color in his eyes faded and returned to its usual black color.

He collapsed to the ground in exhaustion, losing control of his body.

Bai half emerged from the other ice mirror and said softly, "The power of the Great Flame Bomb is too great. I don't want to be attacked by such a violent fire escape."

"So I'll just ask you to take a rest."

"Now I'm saying this one last time. Stop your meaningless resistance, or you will all get hurt."

Uzumaki Naruto's shadow clones were separated, but he did not stop creating shadow clones, and let each shadow clone run around, and now they covered the entire battlefield.

Near the mirror where Bai was, there were several shadow clones of Uzumaki Naruto.

They saw Bai emerge from the mirror and shouted in surprise: "Wow, he figured it out from the mirror!"

He threw the shuriken out without thinking, and then pounced on him, but it was unclear whether he wanted to punch Bai or take off his mask for the final confirmation.

However, with Bai's strength, it was impossible for him to be caught by Uzumaki Naruto. He easily stepped back, slid smoothly into the mirror, and then disappeared from the mirror.

The next moment, Bai appeared in another mirror, and the three clones of Naruto Uzumaki that formed a straight line between the two mirrors turned into white smoke.

Naruto Uzumaki's shadow clone fed back his memories and feelings, but he only knew that he felt severe pain in his abdomen, chest and head, but had no idea what was going on.

The next moment, the memories and feelings of at least twenty shadow clones' deaths came back to him, and the injuries spread all over his body, especially around his neck, where the stinging pain was the most severe. The intense accumulated pain caused Uzumaki Naruto to feel slightly dizzy.

This is because Uzumaki Naruto is special enough. If another ninja experienced 20 shadow clones being killed in a row, he would definitely not feel any pain. He would be killed by the instantaneous outbreak of fear of death before he felt the pain.

Even the senior ninja Hatake Kakashi, even the developer of multiple shadow clones, the second Hokage Senju Tobirama, could not bear such a death experience.

However, for ninjas of their level, even shadow clones are not so easy to be killed instantly, let alone so many shadow clones being wiped out in an instant.

Even if they encounter enemies that are beyond their reach like Nagato or Six Paths Obito, who are completely invincible, they can actively remove the Shadow Clone before receiving fatal damage and avoid getting hurt themselves.

If Tobirama Senju had the endurance of Uzumaki Naruto, he wouldn't have to go to so much trouble to develop some kind of technique to multiply the detonating talismans. It would be enough for him to just create a shadow clone and rush forward with the detonating talisman.

Even if it is an explosive tag, the power is completely different when it is detonated by ninjutsu and when it is detonated by a master of forbidden techniques.

In the hands of Senju Tobirama's shadow clone, the detonating talisman can explode with more than ten times the power. Even when targeting Susanoo, there is no need to consume so many detonating talismans.

But Senju Tobirama had no choice. He could not bear so many death experiences, so he continued to develop the technique of multiplying detonating tags and the technique of Impure World Reincarnation.

The negative effects of shadow clones are extremely dangerous, which is why the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique is listed as a forbidden technique.

Only in the hands of Uzumaki Naruto, with his unparalleled tenacity and abundant chakra, the power of the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique was fully demonstrated and became a magical skill to defeat enemies above his own level.

Bai shuttled between the ice mirrors dozens of times in a very short period of time, defeating hundreds of Uzumaki Naruto's shadow clones.

But when he felt extremely tired and had to pause his attack, he was shocked to find that the prism maze was extremely crowded and there were more shadow clones of Uzumaki Naruto.

The Uzumaki Narutos wearing orange sportswear were crowded together and noisy. There were so many of them that there was no room to stand. There were even people stacked on top of each other, and shadow clones were stacked to form a second layer.

Bai was stunned, and a strong feeling of powerlessness enveloped him.

He had clearly tried his best and his killing efficiency was extremely high, but the number of enemies kept increasing.

Australians who see a floor full of rabbits will understand the despair of killing not keeping up with growth, as will Southerners who see a house full of cockroaches.

At this time, Uchiha Sasuke also recovered. He extracted chakra again, transformed into the appearance of Uzumaki Naruto, and blended into the huge crowd of shadow clones.

Sasuke is a very special person. He will grow when he suffers a loss, and he will become proud when his strength increases.

Sasuke, who had suffered a lot, had made progress. He lurked among Uzumaki Naruto's shadow clones, patiently waiting for the recovery of his chakra.

Even after reopening his Sharingan, Sasuke did not launch an attack rashly.

Following Kakashi's instructions, he used the Sharingan to observe Haku's movements, summarized the patterns of traveling between the mirrors, tried to predict his movements, and designed an ambush.

Thanks to Uzumaki Naruto's powerful chakra, Sasuke had plenty of time to prepare, and his efforts paid off as hoped.

He determined Bai's pattern of movement and found the opportunity to attack, but with his level of Genin, the window for attack was too small.

Ninjutsu is definitely not going to work. Any ninjutsu that Sasuke has mastered would not be able to attack Bai who is moving at high speed.

So he took out the steel wire and kunai, tied the steel wire to the ring of the kunai, and counted silently in his mind.

[…3, 2, 1, get started! !]

Six kunai, with 12 hair-thin steel wires, flew to the motionless side. The moment after the kunai flew past, Bai's figure appeared in the ice mirror.

Sasuke's Sharingan accurately captured Bai's figure and immediately tightened the steel wire, turning the thin wire into a sharp blade that was invisible to the naked eye.

The next moment, a figure in white clothes crashed into the steel wire. Under the blessing of high speed, the steel wire was like the sharpest blade, cutting the human body into four pieces.

Sakura Haruno, who had just woken up, happened to see this scene and fainted again with a burp.

Uchiha Sasuke was satisfied to see that his careful design had achieved the greatest result, so he stood up proudly and cancelled the transformation technique.

He snorted with disdain: "The Ice Release Jonin from the Hidden Mist Village is no more than this."

Seeing the enemy being killed, Uzumaki Naruto's expressions darkened.

But seeing Sasuke's Versailles attitude, the shadow clones raised their hands again and shouted in joy:

"Sasuke, you cocky guy, you're actually pretty awesome!"

"But you did a great job this time!!"

"Next time it's my turn to take the spotlight."

Several shadow clones also ran to the bottom of the corpse, ready to catch the enemy's body. They wanted to confirm whether this masked enemy was the kind big sister.

Just then, outside the Prism Maze, Hatake Kakashi shouted, "Be careful! That's a clone, an ice clone!"

The Uzumaki Narutos did not catch the body, but were hit on the head by many ice cubes and had bruises all over their heads.

Uchiha Sasuke also recognized that what he dismembered was not a human body, and the blood plasma splashed was ice water that had been changed in appearance by the transformation technique.

He was cheated!

After Uchiha Sasuke realized this, he quickly realized that his position was exposed and the enemy's attack was about to be directed at him.

But it was too late. A white figure flashed past him, and four ice thousand shells had already nailed Sasuke's wrists and ankles.

"ah--!"

Sasuke, who fell backwards screaming, was not let go. As he fell, his elbows, knees, shoulders and hips were hit one after another by Ice Thousand Bones, completely depriving Sasuke of his ability to move.

It was not until this time that Uzumaki Naruto and the others reacted and threw themselves on Sasuke, using their bodies to protect him. More than a dozen shadow clones were exploded by the Ice Senbonsha that followed.

But the number of shadow clones was so great that they soon completely obscured Uchiha Sasuke.

The shadow clones cooperated with each other and with the help of their own cover, they quickly transferred Sasuke and made Bai lose his target.

Bai's battle with the three Genin had been going on for several minutes, and he already knew that if he couldn't find Uzumaki Naruto, he would be dragged to death by the Shadow Clones.

Although he lacked combat experience, he knew that he could not continue like this. Since Sasuke, who had the strongest attack power, had fallen, he decided not to attack Uzumaki Naruto's ice clone anymore.

[There's no way to finish the fight, so I might as well use an ice cage to trap them all to death and wait for Mr. Zabuza to finish the fight. ]

Bai came to the center of the maze, mobilized the chakra in his body, and slowly formed seals with his hands.

Ice Release: Ice Rock Hall No: Circle

All of the ice mirror prisms began to glow and began to grow or extend, gradually connecting with each other at the top, first forming a grid-like dome and then quickly sealing it.

The outermost prisms extended to both sides and connected with the dome, forming a huge hemisphere that captured Konoha's Team 7 and most of the shadow clones.

Then, Bai emerged from the ice dome and said to Momochi Zabuza: "Mr. Zabuza, I have controlled Konoha's Genin. They will not disturb your mission."

Zabuza laughed loudly: "Great! As expected of a descendant of the Snow Clan, your Ice Escape is so powerful!"

"I have completed my task beautifully. I have to work harder and finish you off quickly, Kakashi!"

Kakashi was already injured at this time, his left hand hung down, blood dripping down.

Because Sasuke was distracted by being knocked down by Bai, Kakashi was suppressed by Zabuza. He was even shocked by Bai's large-scale ice escape just now, and actually revealed a flaw that should not have appeared.

Although Kakashi realized his mistake quickly and immediately concentrated his attention to lock onto Zabuza again, it was already too late.

Zabuza seized the fleeting opportunity, pulled out a kunai from the ninja tool bag on his waist, and shot it into Kakashi's left arm, crippling his left hand.

Konoha's Genin was trapped, and their shadow clones, numbering over a thousand, tried desperately to attack the ice wall, but they couldn't even knock down any ice chips.

The only jonin, Hatake Kakashi, was suppressed by Zabuza and even lost an arm.

Class 7, danger!