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Naruto is a big chakra consumer and can afford to use it, but he can't.

Even if Naruto had to use ten portions of chakra to fight, and consumed one portion of his chakra, he still would not be able to win.

"This is clearly a war of attrition. What should we do?"

Facing the endless attacks from the shadow clones, Kakashi fell into deep thought.

Use ninjutsu to clear the area?

With so many clones and no concentration, at least five or six ninjutsu would be needed.

Are you planning to stay in the hospital for a few days after the injection?

Use physical techniques that don't consume much energy?

Well, it’s still the problem of having too many clones.

Naruto did not rush forward all at once, but came in waves, and each round was not a random fight without any rules.

On the contrary, there is cooperation between them.

The feint attacker creates opportunities, the main attacker seizes the opportunities, and the assistant attacker is responsible for interference. These problems cannot be solved easily.

Physical fitness alone is definitely not enough; chakra techniques are needed, and once chakra is used, consumption is inevitable.

Using physical skills to clear all clones would consume immeasurable amounts of physical strength and chakra.

"Okay, you win, here's the bell." Kakashi called a halt reluctantly and took off a bell from his waist.

The shadow clones that were fighting in a round-robin battle all stopped at the same time. One of the shadow clones said, "I want both."

"So greedy?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow, then looked at the number of shadow clones around him that was increasing instead of decreasing, and sighed, "Okay, two is two, take it."

"Could this be a trick?" Naruto murmured, motioning to a shadow clone disguised as a branch not far away to go over in his place.

In order to make Kakashi believe that this is the real body, he specially asked the Nine-Tails for help and give some chakra to the shadow clone.

In the plot, the shadow clone had talked to the Nine-Tails and borrowed chakra from it to fight against Uchiha Madara's tree world descent.

It does not need to go through the main body, but is directly transmitted to the shadow clone.

"That's... the Nine-Tails' chakra!" Kakashi narrowed his eyes when he saw the shadow clone walking out of the bushes, with a layer of tailed beast chakra on its body.

He didn't know that the Nine-Tails could transmit chakra to its clones, which was a blind spot in his intelligence, so he mistakenly believed that this was Naruto's real body.

"It's right here, throw it over here." The shadow clone stood dozens of meters away and spoke.

The other shadow clones spontaneously moved closer.

"Pretty cautious." Kakashi smiled slightly, without saying anything, and threw the two bells over.

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

It was at this moment that Kakashi moved, and instantly appeared in front of the shadow clone wearing the coat of tailed beast chakra, and pushed up the forehead protector.

As the Sharingan rotated, the illusion was activated.

"But... it's not enough." Kakashi muttered to himself, raising his hand to catch the bell that flew over: "It's over."

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

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

Surrounding Kakashi, there were two circles of shadow clones that had a chance to touch him. They all used the Rasengan and tried their best to push it forward.

The Rasengan rubbed and collided with each other, causing a huge explosion.

Boom!

When the smoke and dust cleared, a big hole appeared on the ground.

Kakashi is missing.

Naruto quickly jumped out and reached out to grab the two bells not far from the edge of the pit.

"Huh? This weight?" Naruto was stunned.

In a puff of light smoke, Lingdang turned into Kakashi. He clamped Naruto's hands, twisted them behind his back, and pressed him to the ground.

"Is there no hope now?" Kakashi said, letting out a long sigh.

This guy not only has multiple shadow clones, but also Rasengan...

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

"Hmph!" The subdued Naruto snorted coldly and turned into a puff of smoke, which turned out to be another shadow clone.

“…”Kakashi.

This didn't even trick Naruto's true form out!

Speechless.

When I looked at the time, there were still thirty-seven minutes before the end.

Through the fight just now, we have already figured out Naruto's cautious fighting style. I'm afraid that without clearing out the light and shadow clones, there is no way he can fight against his real body.

And the shadow clone...

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

So, Naruto has been secretly releasing shadow clones?

No, Naruto doesn't have to do it himself, Shadow Clone can use Shadow Clone, provided that there is enough chakra.

Just now, the shadow clone used the Nine-Tails' chakra to deceive him. The amount of Nine-Tails' chakra...

I can't cut into the main body in the back row, and there are so many summoned creatures.

Uh…

Kakashi pulled down his forehead protector, thinking that his test had nothing to do with whether he could grab the bell, so he gave up the idea of ​​continuing to fight.

If he continued, he was confident that he could save the bell, but the price would be excessive chakra consumption and the possibility of hospitalization.

Not worth the candle.

"This time it's real. The bell is for you." Kakashi put the bell on the ground and patted it with his hands to prove that it was not a clone and there was no transformation technique.

five minutes later.

The center of the training ground.

Waiting for Naruto's real body to arrive with the bell, Kakashi leaned against a wooden stake and read a book, and said casually.

"You have been given two bells. According to the rules, you can choose to pass by yourself or bring an extra person."

"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 not awake yet: "My choice."

Kakashi glanced sideways: "Reason."

"I promised Sakura that I would match her up with Sasuke," Naruto said.

"It would be inappropriate for me to pass it myself or choose one of them to break them up."

"For me personally, becoming Hokage is not something that can be done overnight. I am mentally prepared for a long struggle and will not rush into anything."

"In this case, they are the ones who passed." Kakashi said, "As the loser, you will be punished. It's not too late to regret now."

Naruto shook his head.

"Tie it yourself." Kakashi pointed to the rope at his feet.

After Naruto used his shadow clone to tie himself up, Kakashi confirmed that it was his real self who was tied up and that he was not cheating. Then he put away the book and woke up Sasuke and Sakura.

Kakashi smiled as he told the two of them Naruto's choice.

"Congratulations, you two finally have the bell and have passed this survival exercise. As for Naruto, as the rules state, he has to go back to the ninja school and repeat a year."

Chapter 28 Passed

"What!" Sakura exclaimed and stared at Naruto.

Sasuke was silent for a moment, then said, "I didn't take it myself, so it's meaningless."

"I don't want it either!" Sakura refused and returned the bell to Kakashi.

"Then there's nothing we can do. You all should go back to the ninja school." Kakashi waved his hand indifferently.

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

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

"Come to think of it, I've taken the test several times, but none of them succeeded. Is it because I'm too serious and inhumane?" Kakashi said to himself in embarrassment.

"If we continue like this, it will be hard to explain to the Hokage."

"Okay, I'll give you one more chance. If you fail again this time, I'll have an explanation to Hokage-sama."

"It has nothing to do with me. It's just that the Genin of this class is too useless. They couldn't pass the two assessments."

Upon hearing this, Sakura and Sasuke were genuinely stunned, but Naruto was just pretending.

"Listen carefully, I will only tell you the rules once." Kakashi said.

"At 3 pm, we will do the survival exercise again. If you don't want to accept gifts from others, then work hard to get them yourself."

"Bento, here are two portions, Sasuke and Sakura, they are yours. There is no portion for Naruto. As punishment for not having a bell, you will have to participate in the afternoon assessment on an empty stomach."

"Don't give him any food. Anyone who violates this rule will lose the qualification for the afternoon assessment."

After announcing the rules, Kakashi looked at the time, said he had something to do, and had to leave for a while. Before leaving, he reminded Naruto again not to give it to him.

After Kakashi left, Sakura and Sasuke, who were already extremely hungry, looked at each other, opened their lunch boxes, and started eating.

After eating about half of it and carefully looking around, Sakura mustered up the courage to move closer to Naruto, turned her chopsticks around, picked up a handful of rice, and handed it to his mouth.

"Sakura!" Naruto thought that Sasuke would be the first to propose it just like in the plot, but unexpectedly, Sakura was the first to act. What a surprise.

"Eat quickly! Before he comes back!" Sakura urged, poking the chopsticks directly into Naruto's mouth.

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

"Although I don't know how you managed to grab two bells, it turns out that by filling your stomach first and cooperating with you, we will have a greater chance of success."