From undercover in Konoha, to I am the Hokage!

Chapter 231 Iris Thirteen
After everyone entered the dark tunnel, the originally dark vision quickly faded, and Kakashi and his group rushed towards the cave in front of them at the fastest speed. After making sure that no one was following them, they found a relatively spacious open space to stop and observe the surrounding situation.

Fighting in a closed environment has great restrictions for ninjas, who are equivalent to agile assassin professions. Not only are the combat aspects restricted, but also the factors of observation and selection after borrowing the enemy's help need to be taken into consideration.

After hearing the test questions, Kakashi began to think about how to conduct the next experiment.

The only thing to be thankful for is that Konoha was not completely unprepared.

"Everyone, open your special ninja tool backpacks."

"Yes."

After entering the mission state, even a troublemaker like Uchiha Obito would not hesitate at all when executing Kakashi's orders.

This is not a question of personal relationships, but a relatively serious issue of mission execution, which is the top priority in ninja school education.

When Konoha ninjas are in independent teams without any external influence or performing official missions, they often carry three ninja tool bags.

Personal use, medical, survival and special.

Among them, the backpacks for their own use are the ordinary ninja tool bags that they need to prepare on a daily basis. The main items carried are generally the main and auxiliary ninja tools, simple medicines, and three-day compressed drinking water. Some of them also contain sealing scrolls or other items. The village does not directly manage them.

However, the remaining three ninja tool backpacks were all distributed by the village in the form of universal capsules before the mission began, and after the mission was completed, they also needed to be included in the mission cost of the Konoha ninjas based on their usage.

Due to the need for post-war settlement, the Konoha ninjas are often very cautious in using these three backpacks to avoid the situation where the income is less than the expenditure after completing the mission, so that after completing the mission, not only do they have no income, but they have to pay money to the village.

However, when it comes to carrying out the World Chunin Joint Examination, a mission where one participates at the request of the village, there is not so much to say.

The village will reimburse you.

Among them, the special ninja tool packages contain, in most cases, various types of scientific ninja tools such as reconnaissance, combat, and protection. Occasionally, there are also some experimental products that require report feedback after free trial, which has made a significant contribution to the implementation of Konoha's high-tech industry.

The special ninja tool packs used in this Chunin Exam were distributed to many young Genin by Sawara Kiri himself.

"What is this?"

When the three of them opened the special backpack, Obito took out a metal sphere from the backpack with some confusion. The sphere was about the size of an ordinary person's finger and was round in shape. There was a faint red light flickering on the surface.

"The end of the crane."

Kakashi first complained with his dead fish eyes, and then explained: "The Iris XIII detection drone directly links with the perception ninja through chakra, and is specially used for multiple tasks such as perception, exploration, and reconnaissance."

"Give me that thing, you don't know how to use it."

After being mocked by him, Obito immediately jumped up with a red face, shouting: "Who are you looking down on? I have opened my eyes! My perception ability in this kind of terrain is much stronger than yours!"

"is it?"

"Why don't you try it?"

Kakashi stood by with his hands folded, looking like he was ready to let the other person decide for himself.

Obito was stunned on the spot.

He looked at this round little thing. He didn't even know where the switch was, let alone how to use it. He stood there awkwardly for a moment.

Kakashi Hatake didn't have that much time to waste, so he took the metal ball from his hand, completed the chakra certification, and then quickly made three hand seals according to the requirements.

The red light on the surface of the metal ball immediately turned from red to green, and then quickly disappeared. Finally, the whole ball turned into a gray appearance like a stone, completing the camouflage startup.

Obito stared blankly at his skilled movements, and even his tone was a little unnatural as if he was guilty, and he whispered:
"When did you learn this, you bastard?"

"Don't even know to tell me."

"Here, the user manual."

Kakashi pointed to a palm-sized piece of paper at his feet.

Obito's face immediately turned red.

hateful!

Aren’t you just learning this too?!
Kakashi is just a mere idiot, yet he is so arrogant!

Next time I must show my skills again when he is about to die and get back at him.

As they were talking, Lin next to them also took out a square card that looked like a bank card and was faintly flashing from a special backpack. She looked up with some confusion and asked:
"Did Mr. Wu tell us about this kind of thing when he was explaining the special backpack?"

Hatake Kakashi first frowned and looked at the square cards, exactly three of them, and seemed a little confused as well.

However, thinking about the special nature of this Chunin exam and the several monsters from other villages who had just displayed their strength, he seemed to suddenly understand a little.

Although he was a little dissatisfied with this method that was similar to cheating in an exam, he still said nothing and said calmly:
"It's probably a recorder or something like that, which will be used for post-grading by observing our examination process."

"In short, be careful with your words during this mission."

"Especially you, Obito."

"We are shouting in the cave, are we afraid that others won't find us?"

"you--!"

Obito was about to say something else, but when he thought of what Kakashi had just said, he suddenly felt weak.

Kakashi emphasized his tone, intentionally or unintentionally, and said:

"Obito-kun."

"You don't want to fail the Chunin Exam and end up not being able to go to a technical high school, do you?"

"Guh."

Obito immediately looked like a humiliated female knight, and covered his mouth with difficulty, trying to control the volume.

Kakashi couldn't help but curl his lips under the mask, but he quickly restrained himself.

He must not let Rin find out about his bad habit of teasing Obito.

When it comes to your own image, you have to be careful.

Turning around, Kakashi started using the drone that was floating in the air like a stone.

Almost at the moment when his consciousness connected to the interior of the drone through the chakra, a light blue panel that only Kakashi could see was reflected on the surface of his retina.

The use of this perception drone is also quite simple. You only need to give commands to the panel through your consciousness to ask the drone to complete various functions on its own.

However, the consumption of this drone needs to be provided by the user.

After mastering the use of the drone, Kakashi immediately followed the instructions on the panel and completed an extremely long hand seal with more than sixty changes in one breath.

Then, press your hands to the ground.

"Secret Technique: Echo Mapping!"

"Om-"

Subtle vibrations, like the chirping of insects, immediately spread from the inside of the drone into the cave. The sharp low hum at the beginning gradually turned into an inaudible sound, quickly exceeding the range of sound that the human ear could receive.

At the same time, the drone was floating along the deep tunnel inside the cave.

The tunnel map within three hundred meters ahead of them appeared in the form of light red threads in the center of the light blue panel reflected on Kakashi's retina.

"It seems that Teacher Wu had already guessed the test questions and prepared them for us."

After noticing this, Kakashi couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Although this subtle method similar to cheating in an exam made him, a top student who always got first place in the exam, feel a little uncomfortable, Kakashi felt relieved when he thought that he was a ninja who was carrying out an important mission for the village and needed to use any means necessary.

External objects?

For a ninja, there is no such thing as external things.

With this in mind, Kakashi continued to give orders quickly: "Obito, you wear the combat exoskeleton and take charge of the front to meet the enemy. Rin wears the concealment suit and takes charge of the flank support. Try to avoid the enemy as much as possible and move forward in a triangle formation along the prescribed path."

"do you understand?"

"Yes!"

Just as Kakashi started his mission.

In another tunnel, the Konoha team, who also chose to take out special equipment, also began their preliminary exploration. "There is a three-way intersection 300 meters ahead on the straight path, and there are 16 branches after about one kilometer."

"There is a special barrier on the surrounding rock wall path. It should be the shielding barrier of the Rock Hidden, which prevents candidates from spying on other paths. It has a certain impact on observation, and the observation distance is compressed to about thirty to fifty meters."

"But based on our observations before entering the venue, the absolute distance between different paths is not very long. If you have enough earth escape skills, you should be able to smoothly travel between the paths of different candidates."

The voice came from a short but very capable Hyuga ninja.

At this moment, hideous blood vessels were all over his temples, his pupils were condensed into nothingness under the condensation of chakra, and there was a white area on his empty forehead.

Following on both sides of him were Asuma Sarutobi and an Uchiha ninja.

"Thank you, Tokuma."

The Uchiha ninja who made the voice looked even younger than Asuma, with a pair of quite feminine peach blossom eyes, but his relatively obvious ball nose ruined the overall coordination of his facial features. He looked very kind when he smiled.

"It doesn't matter."

"Compared to Lord Sawara's grace in giving me a new life, I would not hesitate to sacrifice my life for it."

Hinata Tokuma, who looked only eleven or twelve years old, spoke with a mature and steady tone, and looked very serious.

Obviously, this is also a member of the former branch family who benefited from Sawara Kiri's "branch family liberation policy", thus eliminating the caged bird.

Unlike an ordinary team like Kakashi.

The three members of this Konoha team were all from the Anbu, and they were not formed into a team until the Iwagakure proposed the Chunin examination.

However, although they had only been formed not long ago, the three of them appeared to be very capable, with a bit of the swift and decisive style of the Anbu.

Asuma Sarutobi didn't say much.

It was not until Hinata Tokuma finished reporting the preliminary observation information that he took out a scroll from his waist and unfolded it, saying calmly:

"Now, announce the Hokage mission."

"For the other Konoha candidates, explore the hidden situation in the Red Earth Mountains and complete the report as soon as possible via the message card."

"If possible, kill the three candidates from other villages, Kirabi, Han, and Fei Liuhu, here."

The moment they heard about this mission, the other two people present couldn't help but reveal a solemn look on their faces.

Obviously, they knew long ago that this so-called "assessment" was not as simple as it seemed.

The fact that they were able to issue a request to kill geniuses and Jinchūriki from other villages must have meant that the village and these countries were, in some way, already at war.

Besides
The strength of the people on the opposite sides is definitely beyond the reach of ordinary people.

However, at this moment, there was no sign of wavering on Asuma's face.

As the son of the previous Hokage, he shoulders a heavy responsibility far beyond what ordinary people can imagine.

"Based on previous observations, the importance of Kirabi and Han is understandable."

"But, that Fei Liu Hu."

Hinata Tokuma's tone was slightly hesitant.

As one of the key figures, he had already completed many observations on that guy before the written test began.

But no matter how you look at it, the other party seems to be just a puppet whose power source is provided by the chakra of the Sand Village named Maki next to it.

He didn't understand why Lord Sawara took it so seriously.

"That's not what we're thinking about."

Asuma turned his head and looked at the smaller Uchiha next to him and asked, "Shisui, are you confident against that guy named Killer Bee?"

"give it to me."

Uchiha Shisui nodded heavily.

The Seven Swords Style is indeed very fast.

However, the only aspect in which he has absolute confidence is speed.

Just as they were thinking this, Hyuga Tokuma, who had kept his Byakugan open, suddenly raised his head and spoke quickly:
"Left! Up!"

"A total of three teams of chakra sources are using earth escape to outflank us!"

"Prepare for battle!"

Asma gave the order immediately.

"boom!"

Almost at the moment when the three men completed their battle formation, a light sound was heard from the rock walls on both sides.

Several figures intercepted Asuma's team in front of them at a rapid speed.

Looking at the forehead markings, they are all Iwagakure.

really.

The other party also came prepared.

"Oh, what luck!"

"The first one is a big fish."

The Iwagakure Genin who was leading the group looked to be almost twenty years old, with a body like a pillar with equal width from top to bottom.

Iwagakure is really shameless that they can even participate in the competition.

However, when it comes to deciding life and death, people don’t have time to think about such a small matter.

The nine Iwagakure on the opposite side had obviously communicated with each other through certain channels long before they began the action. They changed their formation almost as soon as they appeared. It was just because of the number of people that they were unable to maneuver in this narrow cave.

"The third Hokage's second son."

"Hey, remember to capture this guy alive!"

"Yes."

The group of rock hermits behind him responded in a deep voice.

However, the three members of Asuma's team did not show any fear at all.

Asuma even gradually cracked a smile on his face.

Let you guys take a look.

The ability of the son of the Third Hokage.

I don't know if it was the moment when a suspended stone fell to the ground, or the moment when a certain breathing sound paused.

The four teams on both sides did not hesitate at all. They charged towards each other in almost synchronous timing, causing a dull buzzing sound in the narrow cave.

In just a moment, the three figures in front of them suddenly disappeared from the sight of the nine Iwagakure ninjas at an unimaginable speed.

As the surrounded party, they all lost each other's figure in the center of their field of vision.

The ferocious smile on the face of the Iwagakure Genin who was leading the group had not yet faded away.

A ray of fire flashed at the edge of my sight.

"Uchiha Style Sword Jump Flame!"

Suddenly, his vision turned upside down.

In his somewhat blurry vision, a somewhat familiar headless body was reflected.

Before he lost consciousness, he heard a muffled sound.

(End of this chapter)