After a period of discussion, Kakashi, with his back to the three, raised his right hand and said, "Alright, dismissed."
"Oh, and don't eat breakfast, you'll throw up."
With that, he vanished with a Body Flicker Technique, leaving only a single leaf slowly falling to the ground.
"Alright, I'm going home."
"Then I'm going back too, sayonara (goodbye)!"
"Let's go."
The next morning, the three, who hadn't eaten breakfast, looked at each other with sleepy eyes and prominent dark circles.
Not far from the three, on a large tree, two figures watched them with smiles.
"Minato, look at Naruto, he clearly didn't get enough sleep. That Kakashi guy must have played a trick again."
Namikaze Minato heard Kushina Uzumaki's words and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. For the sake of his disciple's life, he decided to defend Kakashi.
"Well... Kakashi is probably doing it to train them."
"Is that so?"
Kushina Uzumaki turned her head to look at Namikaze Minato with a suspicious expression.
"Gulp... Probably... right."
Just as Kushina Uzumaki was about to say something more, a familiar voice suddenly rang out.
"Minato, you're defending Kakashi so much, did you receive some benefits from him?"
"Lord Chen? Captain Akame?"
The two looked in the direction of the voice, only to see Zhong Chen and Akame floating not far from them.
To explain why Akame is a captain: when Zhong Chen left the Shinobi World, out of mischief, he made Kurome the Second Rainbow Shadow, and Akame took on the role of Anbu Captain.
"You're back!"
"Lord Chen, because he had to avoid debt... Mmm mmm mmm..."
The somewhat naive Akame had no guard against her own people and immediately blurted out the reason for Zhong Chen's return to the Shinobi World, but before she could finish, Zhong Chen covered her mouth.
"Ahem... Didn't I just finish dealing with things over there? So I came back to deal with things here."
"So that's it. But it's really great that you're back."
Even without Zhong Chen, Rainbow Ninja Village was still recognized as the top ninja village in the Shinobi World, but that girl Kurome was actually very unqualified as the Rainbow Shadow.
She ate snacks all day, and all the actual official duties were handed over to Namikaze Minato, her assistant.
If it weren't for the fact that the ninjas of Rainbow Ninja Village were rotated in from the Empire's Army, the current Rainbow Shadow would have been impeached long ago.
"Hahaha, that girl Kurome must have given you a headache, right?"
Zhong Chen looked at Namikaze Minato, who seemed to have found a savior, and immediately thought of his predicament, unable to resist a gloating expression.
"Lord Chen, that girl Kurome doesn't do any work at all, making my Minato come home so late every day."
Kushina Uzumaki reported to Zhong Chen with a helpless expression.
Minato didn't have that much to do when he was Hokage, so why does he have so much work now as an assistant to the Rainbow Shadow?
"Hahaha, I'll have a good talk with Kurome. This is affecting people's marital life."
"Lord Chen, what are you saying..."
Hearing Zhong Chen's teasing, the usually fiery Kushina Uzumaki couldn't help but blush, while Minato awkwardly rubbed the back of his head.
"Heh heh, let's not talk about that anymore. I estimate Kakashi won't show up until close to noon."
"I don't want to wait that long."
With that, Zhong Chen waved his right hand, and the time in the entire world suddenly accelerated. In the blink of an eye, it was already noon.
"This... what's going on?!"
"Did you do all of this?"
It was just morning a moment ago, with the sun slowly peeking over a mountain, but in the blink of an eye, the sun was high in the sky.
This was simply a miracle!
"Hehe, these are just small tricks, not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning."
Although Zhong Chen said that, the smugness on his face was almost flying onto others' faces.
"Although I knew you weren't an ordinary person before, this is too exaggerated."
"Indeed. Even the God of Shinobi World cannot compare to you."
Akame, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke when she heard their comments.
"Lord Chen is a god, no, he is an existence that surpasses gods. That so-called God of Shinobi World isn't even worthy of carrying Lord Chen's shoes."
Zhong Chen looked at Akame with surprise after hearing that. This wasn't something Akame would say.
Your character is breaking, girl.
Actually, this was entirely because Zhong Chen didn't know his status in Akame's heart.
Since Akame joined Night Raid, she only had two wishes: one was to overthrow the Empire and let ordinary people live good lives.
The other was to find her sister and reconcile with her.
And both of these wishes were fulfilled by Zhong Chen, which led to Zhong Chen being a god-like existence in Akame's heart.
So when she heard Namikaze Minato compare Hashirama Senju to Zhong Chen, she eagerly spoke out.
"Hahaha, Akame, that's going too far."
"How can you say he's not even worthy of carrying my shoes? Carrying shoes is fine, it's just that too many people want to carry my shoes, and he's not even on the list."
Hearing Zhong Chen's words, Namikaze Minato and Kushina Uzumaki's mouths twitched involuntarily.
They couldn't help but inwardly complain:
"What you said is even worse than Akame!"
As Zhong Chen and the others chatted, a figure in the distance slowly walked towards the training ground.
"Yo, that Kakashi guy finally came over."
In fact, not only Zhong Chen, but Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura also saw Kakashi's figure.
The three ran up to Kakashi with indignant expressions.
"You're too slow!!!"
Looking at the three angry people in front of him, Kakashi cleared his throat twice to cover his embarrassment.
"Ahem, because a black cat crossed my path, so... um, what was it..."
With that, Kakashi took out an alarm clock and placed it on a log. With a "click," the alarm clock was set.
"Alright, set the alarm clock for 12 o'clock."
After speaking, Kakashi took out two bells from his pocket, jingled them in his hand, and accompanied by the crisp sound of the bells, Kakashi walked in front of the three and continued, "Your task today is to snatch the bells from me before noon."
"Those who don't get a bell won't have lunch and will be tied to that log, watching me eat my bento."
The three looked in the direction Kakashi was pointing, which was the log where the alarm clock was placed.
"..."
"How can this be!"
"So that's why you told us not to eat breakfast."
The three looked as if they had lost their parents, never expecting Kakashi to be so cunning.
Suddenly, Sakura seemed to remember something and blurted out, "But, wait a minute, why are there only two bells?"
Kakashi's visible eye was full of smiles:
"Only two, which means at least one person will be tied to the log, and that person will be disqualified for failing the mission."
"Then they'll be sent back to the academy. At least one, at most all of you might have to go back. You can even use shuriken."
Suddenly, Kakashi's tone became serious.
"Because unless you're determined to kill me, you won't be able to snatch the bells."
Upon hearing Kakashi's words, the three, except for Sakura, only had slightly solemn expressions and didn't loudly express unfairness.
"Minato, Kushina, Naruto has been taught well by you two."
"Heh heh, you flatter me. Naruto still has a lot to learn."
Hearing Minato's humble words, Zhong Chen shook his head with a smile...