Konoha: Starting with a sign-in for Hashirama cells

Naruto has a huge chakra reserve and can afford to use it up, but he can't.

Even if Naruto needs ten units of chakra to fight back, once he consumes one unit of his chakra, he still can't outlast him.

"This is clearly a war of attrition, what should we do?"

Facing the relentless attacks of shadow clones, Kakashi fell into deep thought.

Use ninjutsu to clear the area?

With so many clones, and they're not concentrated, it would take at least five or six ninjutsu techniques.

Are you planning to go to the hospital and stay there for a few days after the injection?

Using physical techniques that don't consume much energy?

Hmm, it's still the problem of having too many clones.

Naruto didn't swarm in all at once; instead, he attacked wave after wave, and each round wasn't a chaotic, unpredictable fight.

On the contrary, they cooperate with each other.

The feinting player creates opportunities, the main attacker seizes them, and the support player focuses on disrupting the attack; it's not something that can be easily resolved.

Physical strength alone is definitely not enough; chakra techniques are needed, and the use of chakra inevitably leads to its depletion.

Using taijutsu to eliminate all clones consumes an immeasurable amount of stamina and chakra.

"Alright, you win. Here, take this bell." Kakashi said helplessly, taking a bell from his waist.

The shadow clones, who were engaged in a battle of attrition, stopped simultaneously. One of the shadow clones spoke up, "We want both."

"So greedy?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow, then looked at the shadow clones around him that had increased rather than decreased, and sighed, "Fine, two it is. Take them."

"Could this be a trap?" Naruto pondered, gesturing to a shadow clone disguised as a tree branch not far away to go in his place.

To convince Kakashi that this was the real body, he specifically asked Kurama (the Nine-Tails) to do him a favor and share some of his chakra with the shadow clone.

In the story, the shadow clones communicated with Kurama and borrowed chakra from Kurama to fight against Madara Uchiha's Advent of the World of Trees.

It can be transmitted directly to the shadow clone without going through the main body.

"That's... the Nine-Tails' chakra!" Kakashi narrowed his eyes as he saw the shadow clone emerge from the bushes, its body covered in a layer of tailed beast chakra.

He was unaware that the Nine-Tails could transmit chakra to its clones, a blind spot in his knowledge that led him to mistakenly believe that this was Naruto's true form.

"Right here, throw it over here," the shadow clone said, standing dozens of meters away.

The other shadow clones spontaneously moved closer.

"Quite cautious, huh?" Kakashi smiled slightly, said nothing more, and tossed over the two bells.

All the shadow clones subconsciously looked at the bell in mid-air.

Just then, Kakashi moved, instantly appearing in front of the shadow clone wearing a cloak of tailed beast chakra, and pushed up his headband.

With a turn of the Sharingan, the genjutsu was activated.

"But...it's not enough." Kakashi muttered to himself as he caught the bell that flew towards him. "It's over."

The shadow clone, which was controlled by the illusion, was immediately awakened by the Nine-Tails. It reacted quickly and immediately controlled the Nine-Tails' chakra on its body, turning it into a chakra hand and grabbing Kakashi.

"It's not over yet!" the clone roared.

Surrounding Kakashi's two shadow clones, who had a chance to touch him, they all unleashed Rasengans, trying their best to pull him forward.

The friction and collision between the two Rasengans caused a massive explosion.

Boom!

When the smoke and dust cleared, a large crater was left on the ground.

Kakashi has disappeared without a trace.

Naruto darted out and reached for two bells not far from the edge of the pit.

"Huh? This weight?" Naruto was stunned.

In a wisp of smoke, the bell transformed into Kakashi, who grabbed Naruto's hands, twisted them behind his back, and pinned him to the ground.

"Is this the end of the road?" Kakashi said, letting out a long sigh.

This guy not only has Multiple Shadow Clone Techniques, but even his Rasengan...

If he hadn't reacted quickly, he might have really lost half his life.

"Hmph!" Naruto, who had been subdued, snorted coldly and transformed into a wisp of smoke, which turned out to be another shadow clone.

"..." Kakashi.

This didn't even trick Naruto into revealing his true form!

Speechless.

Looking at the time, there were still thirty-seven minutes left before it ended.

Through the previous exchange, I have figured out Naruto's cautious fighting style. I'm afraid that without using his shadow clones, it's impossible to defeat his real body.

And shadow clones…

Kakashi scanned the area with his Sharingan and discovered that the number of shadow clones hidden by the transformation had not decreased, but had actually increased.

So, Naruto has been secretly releasing shadow clones all along?

No, Naruto doesn't need to make them himself; he can use Shadow Clones, provided he has enough chakra.

Just now, the shadow clone used Nine-Tails chakra to trick him; the amount of Nine-Tails chakra...

They can't reach the back row main body, and there are so many summoned creatures.

Uh…

Kakashi pulled down his headband, thinking that his test had nothing to do with whether or not he could snatch the bell, and thus his desire to continue fighting faded.

He was confident he could save the bell if he continued, but the cost would be excessive chakra depletion and the possibility of hospitalization.

Not worth the candle.

"This time it's for real. Here's the bell." Kakashi placed the bell on the ground and patted it to prove that it wasn't a clone and that he hadn't used a transformation jutsu.

five minutes later.

The central area of ​​the training ground.

When Naruto's true form, carrying the bell, arrived, Kakashi was leaning against a wooden post reading a book and casually remarked.

"You have received two bells. According to the rules, you can choose to go through by yourself or bring one more person with you."

"Come on, what's your choice? Tell me."

“This is…” Naruto said, placing two bells next to the heads of Sasuke and Sakura, who were still asleep: “My choice.”

Kakashi glanced sideways: "Reason."

"I promised Sakura I would try to get her and Sasuke together," Naruto said.

"It would be inappropriate for me to either go through it myself or to choose one of them and break them up."

"For me personally, becoming Hokage is not something that can be achieved overnight. I am mentally prepared for a long-term struggle and am not in a hurry."

“In that case, they’ll be the ones who get through,” Kakashi said. “As the loser, you’ll be punished. It’s not too late to back out now.”

Naruto shook his head.

"Tie it yourself," Kakashi said, pointing to the rope beside his feet.

After Naruto used his shadow clones to tie himself up and confirmed that it was his real body that was tied up and that he hadn't cheated, Kakashi put away the book and woke up Sasuke and Sakura.

Kakashi smiled and told the two of them about Naruto's choice.

"Congratulations, you two have finally obtained the bells and passed this survival exercise. As for Naruto, as the rules stipulate, he will return to the Ninja Academy to repeat a year."

Chapter 28 Passed

"What!" Sakura exclaimed, staring wide-eyed at Naruto.

Sasuke was silent for a moment before speaking, "It's meaningless if I didn't take it myself."

"I don't want it either!" Sakura also refused, returning the bell to Kakashi.

"Then there's nothing I can do. You'll all have to go back to the Ninja Academy." Kakashi waved his hand dismissively.

"Why not? Aren't you going to kill someone?" Naruto said to Sasuke, then looked at Sakura: "And you, are you really going to give up this opportunity?"

"Idiot, if I could do it on my own, I would have succeeded long ago. It's only because I can't do it without you that I have to come along," Sakura rolled her eyes and thought irritably.

"To be honest, I've taken the test several times, and I haven't succeeded on any of them. Is it because I'm too serious and unreasonable?" Kakashi muttered to himself, looking troubled.

"If this continues, it will be difficult to explain to the Hokage."

"Alright, I'll give you another chance. If you fail again this time, I'll have a reason to explain to the Hokage."

"It has nothing to do with me. It's just that this year's genin are too weak. They failed both assessments."

Upon hearing this, Sakura and Sasuke were genuinely stunned, while Naruto was faking it.

"Listen carefully, I'll only say the rules once," Kakashi said.

"At 3 p.m., we'll do another survival exercise. If you don't want to accept gifts from others, then you have to work hard to earn them yourself."

"Here are two bento boxes, Sasuke and Sakura. There's no one for Naruto. As punishment for not having a bell, he'll have to participate in the afternoon's assessment on an empty stomach."

"Don't give him any. Anyone who violates this rule will be disqualified from the afternoon's assessment."

After announcing the rules, Kakashi glanced at the time, said he had something to do and had to leave for a while, and before leaving, he reminded Naruto again not to eat it.

After Kakashi left, Sakura and Sasuke, who were starving, exchanged a glance, opened their lunchboxes, and started eating.

After eating about half of it, Sakura carefully looked around, mustered her courage, approached Naruto, turned her chopsticks around, picked up a piece of rice, and held it to his mouth.

"Sakura!" Naruto thought Sasuke would be the first to suggest it, just like in the story, but to his surprise, Sakura was the first to act. It was quite unexpected.

"Eat quickly! Before he gets back!" Sakura urged, shoving chopsticks into Naruto's mouth.

Sasuke, who had also eaten half of his meal, stopped.

"Although I don't know how you managed to snatch two bells, it turns out that prioritizing filling your stomach and cooperating with you will increase the chances of success."