As Kakashi shouted One Thousand Years of Death, Sasuke felt something strange in his lower body. With a sudden force from Kakashi, Sasuke let out a pig-like scream.
"..." Sakura stood there, stunned. It seemed that she had witnessed something extraordinary.
No, I saw nothing. I saw nothing. Sasuke... I didn't see... Sasuke...
Sakura was hypnotizing herself, trying to convince herself and wipe out what she had just seen from her mind.
"Ah—" Sakura let out a loud roar and rushed straight towards Kakashi. At the same time, she was shouting in her heart: How dare he treat my Sasuke like this. It's absolutely unforgivable.
Kakashi just gave Sakura a simple look, and Sakura suddenly felt as if an electric shock had run through her body. When she came to her senses, she saw Sasuke lying on the ground covered in blood.
At this moment, Sasuke looked extremely wretched. He was lying on the grass with his butt sticking up high. After being hit by the One Thousand Years of Death technique, blood kept flowing out of his butt, soaking his entire pants red.
Seeing this scene, Sakura suddenly felt weak all over. Her mind went blank as if there was a short - circuit, and then she fainted.
"It's Kakashi's Genjutsu." Naruto was hiding in the grass. When he saw Sakura suddenly faint, he immediately guessed that Sakura must have been hit by a Genjutsu.
Naruto turned his gaze to Sasuke. Sasuke's situation was no better. After being hit by the One Thousand Years of Death technique, Sasuke buried his face deep in the soil. His body wasn't badly injured, but his heart seemed to have been tortured hundreds of times, and he didn't want to get up for a long time.
"What a terrifying Taijutsu." Naruto said in fear, "The physical damage is negligible, but the psychological damage will take a lifetime to heal."
Naruto touched his own butt. Fortunately, he had hidden until the end. If he had been the first to challenge Kakashi, he probably wouldn't have escaped this move.
"Next, there's one more." Kakashi stood up and looked around, as if looking for Naruto's hiding place.
Naruto immediately felt nervous, and especially, his lower body involuntarily tightened.
"Found you." Kakashi disappeared from the spot. When he reappeared, he had teleported to the front of the grass where Naruto was hiding, and his whole face was pressed against the grass.
"Ahhhhh—" Frightened, Naruto quickly crawled out of the grass.
Kakashi said, "The Kunai that was thrown at Sasuke just now was thrown by you, right?"
"Ha ha." Naruto let out an embarrassed laugh and said, "I just couldn't aim right. I missed. I originally wanted to throw it at you, Teacher, but it ended up hitting Sasuke."
"Really?" Kakashi said with a gloomy face, "But to me, it clearly seemed that you wanted to hit Sasuke with that Kunai."
"Hahaha..." Naruto continued to say awkwardly, "Teacher, you must have misjudged. Sasuke is my comrade. How could I attack him with a Kunai?"
At the same time, Naruto thought to himself: I had no choice. I had to let Sasuke take the One Thousand Years of Death for me. So I had to throw the Kunai at Sasuke to force him to expose the weakness of his back so that you would use the One Thousand Years of Death on Sasuke...
"Oh, is that so?" Kakashi said with a relieved look, "Sasuke is your comrade?"
Naruto quickly said, "Yes, Sasuke is my comrade, and so is Sakura. We're in the same group."
"Don't try to fool me!" Kakashi flashed behind Naruto and said with a gloomy face, "You're clearly trying to use Sasuke to test me."
"Damn it! Let's go all out!" Once Naruto realized he couldn't fool Kakashi, he decided to take him on. Immediately, he lowered his body and took advantage of his small size to slip under Kakashi's crotch. Seeing the area between Kakashi's legs, he imitated the gesture of One Thousand Years of Death.
I'd rather use One Thousand Years of Death on you than let my poor butt take it. That's what Naruto was thinking right then.
"One Thousand Years of Death!" Naruto aimed at Kakashi's position, joined his palms together, with four fingers pointing forward, and stabbed straight.
"This doesn't feel right..." Naruto felt his fingers hit something hard. Looking closely, he found he'd stabbed a broken piece of wood. He exclaimed, "It's Substitution Jutsu! He got away! What a fast speed!"
"Eh—you're the most unexpected one." Kakashi emerged again. It seemed he was praising Naruto, yet also belittling him as he said, "I thought you'd be the first one to be taken out today."
"I'm screwed!" Naruto let out a wail. He didn't expect he still couldn't avoid it in the end.
"Konoha Taijutsu Ultimate Art - One Thousand Years of Death!" Kakashi's eyes showed a fierce look. When he used this move on Sasuke just now, he only used 20% of his strength. But since Naruto dared to imitate this move and use it on him, Kakashi decided to use 50% of his strength.
Naruto had no way to avoid it at all. He took Kakashi's move right in his lower body. Just as before, Kakashi joined his palms together, with four fingers pointing forward, and stabbed straight at Naruto's butt.
Clank!
Kakashi noticed something was wrong with the feel. It seemed his fingers had poked into something hard. Immediately, he thought: The feel is off. One Thousand Years of Death didn't hit Naruto. Could it be that Naruto used Substitution Jutsu like I did before?
Kakashi looked closely and found it wasn't the case. Naruto hadn't used Substitution Jutsu, and his four fingers had indeed poked into Naruto's butt, but the feel was very strange.
Naruto quickly jumped away, creating a distance between him and Kakashi, and watched Kakashi warily.
Kakashi stood up straight and said, "Why is your butt so hard?" At this time, Kakashi felt a burning pain in his fingers, and his whole fingers were already swollen and red.
Naruto took out a steel plate from his pants and said, "Because I put a steel plate behind my butt."
"..." Kakashi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why did you put a steel plate in your pants? Could it be... you knew my taijutsu move in advance?"
"Definitely not. How could I have known in advance." Naruto took out steel plates from his chest and back respectively. In total, he took out three steel plates from his body and explained, "As a ninja, it's quite reasonable for me to carry some steel plates for self - defense, right?"
"..." Kakashi was speechless. His attention was distracted by Naruto's three steel plates, and he was in a daze for a moment.
Kakashi thought to himself: Is it reasonable for a ninja to carry steel plates?
It seems to make sense, but there's always this nagging feeling that something is wrong. What on earth is the problem...
"Come on, Sasuke!" Naruto suddenly shouted.
At this moment, Kakashi finally came to his senses, but it was already too late. Sasuke had adjusted his mindset and rejoined the battle, sweeping his leg towards Kakashi's cheek.
Kakashi didn't have time to dodge and had to take the blow head - on, raising his left arm to block Sasuke's sweeping kick.
Naruto immediately followed up, closing the gap in two strides and reaching straight for the bell hanging on Kakashi's waist.
Naruto roared inwardly: Bell, oh bell, I'm gonna grab the bell and wrap up this test pronto. I don't want to face Kakashi's One Thousand Years of Death anymore.