Chapter 628

On the outskirts of Konoha.

Two figures were fighting fiercely.

One of the figures was bathed in blue chakra, it was the three-tailed Chakra Mode, and the chakra of the three tails converged into a chakra blade in Nohara Lin's hand.

Ding Ding Dong Dong!

The person fighting against Nohara Lin was Kakashi.

Kakashi was bathed in lightning, and the White Fang in his hand was constantly crisscrossing, colliding with the chakra blade in Nohara Lin's hand.

Wouch!

After several collisions, Lin's figure flickered, and when she waved the chakra blade in her hand to suppress Kakashi's White Fang, a chakra was suddenly thrown from behind, turning into a huge tail that swept towards Kakashi's body.

Kakashi's face slightly changed, and with a low shout, he forcefully blocked Lin's chakra blade and retreated to the back, and then waved the White Fang in his hand, cutting off the chakra tail.

"Huh … Huh …"

Kakashi retreated not far away, and panted heavily.

On the other side, Lin's forehead was overflowing with a little sweat, and her chest was slightly undulating. Controlling the three-tailed chakra is also a huge burden for her.

The duel between the two of them ended in a draw.

In the previous confrontations, it was Kakashi who suppressed the three-tailed Chakra Mode Lin.

But this time, Lin's strength was basically equal to Kakashi's, and even began to cause a lot of pressure on Kakashi. Between the two of them, it was obvious that Lin had the upper hand.

On the other side.

Maple was standing in an open space, and there were two wooden stakes in front of him. The wooden stakes were engraved with strange patterns, it was Maple's Flying Thunder God Jutsu.

Staring at the position of the two wooden stakes, Maple sensed the position of the patterns he engraved, and then operated the chakra in his body.

Wouch!

His whole body fell on one of the wooden stakes in an instant.

But although he passed.

Everything else was left in place.

Maple instantly felt his entire body turn cold when he landed on the wooden pole. Then, without any hesitation, he flashed back to his original spot. With a blur, he instantly put on his clothes that had yet to fall to the ground.

Because this wasn't the first time he encountered this problem, his movements were very familiar.

The difficulty of moving with clothes and just moving with one's body are two completely different concepts. Even after practicing at five times the speed for almost a month, this kind of situation still occurred occasionally when he used the Flying Thunder God, but the number of times it happened was very few, at most once in ten times.

"This should be enough …"

Maple murmured.

His talent in the field of space was slightly better than Kakashi's, but it was only by a little bit. Using the Flying Thunder God still required about one second to perceive the position of the Jutsu, and with this one second delay, the Flying Thunder God was basically useless in battle.

The strength of the Flying Thunder God was that it didn't require any hand seals, and the one second delay was enough to release two Substitution Jutsu.

However, for Maple, who wasn't using this technique to fight and was simply using it to teleport over a long distance, the delay didn't really matter to him.

The main point was his perception of long-distance Jutsu.

Since his talent in space was slightly higher than Kakashi's, he was also able to perceive the position of the Flying Thunder God Jutsu from a long distance. It was just that the distance was rather blurry, and the longer the distance, the longer it would take for him to lock onto the Jutsu's position.

According to his judgment, if he left a Jutsu in Roran, he would need about ten seconds to half a minute to lock onto the Jutsu's position and then teleport over.

That was more than enough.

Maple stopped practicing, and his figure flickered several times before he arrived where Kakashi and Lin were fighting. He stopped their fight and said:

"Alright, let's stop here for now."

After ending the fight between the two, Maple looked at Kakashi who was obviously in a worse state and said with a smile: "Finally, I can't win against Lin anymore, Kakashi."

The previous confrontations were basically won by Kakashi, but as Lin became more and more proficient in controlling the Three-Tailed Chakra, the situation gradually changed, and this was the first time that Kakashi was at a disadvantage against Lin.

Kakashi calmed his heavy breathing and sighed: "If it's a life or death fight, I can still win."

Lin's combat experience is still very poor.

If it was a life or death fight, he wouldn't care about injuries, and he is confident that he can kill Lin while he is injured, but that kind of tactic is only used against the enemy.

Lin dispelled the Three-Tailed Chakra and said indifferently: "Kakashi is still very strong, I just borrowed the power of the Three-Tailed Chakra."

"Come on, let's go eat."

Maple smiled at the two of them and walked towards the direction of Konoha.

Lin and Kakashi also followed behind him.

Just as the three of them disappeared, a ninja wearing a mask fell from a treetop about a hundred meters away from here.

Kuroto looked at the direction where Kaede left for a few seconds, then his figure flickered and quickly entered Konoha from another direction, quickly arriving at the underground of Konoha.

This is the base of the Root Organization.

"Danzo-sama."

The ninja who was monitoring Maple entered the base and knelt down on one knee and reported: "Hatake Kaede, Hatake Kakashi, and the Three-Tailed's Jinchuriki are still training at the previous place, there is no abnormality, but the Three-Tailed's Jinchuriki's control over the power of the tailed beast has become stronger, and its combat power seems to have surpassed Kakashi's."

Listening to the report of his subordinate, Danzo paced back and forth in the room with a calm face.

The Three-Tailed's Jinchuriki has become stronger, this is not good news, because the increase in his strength means that it will be more difficult for Maple to control.

If the Three-Tailed's Jinchuriki grows further and reaches his level, then it will become a great threat to Danzo, and it will become a huge obstacle for him to deal with Maple.

'I can't wait any longer!'

A cold light flashed in Danzo's eyes.

So far, Sarutobi hasn't agreed to Danzo's plan to control Maple, and only sent the Anbu to monitor Maple's actions, this kind of indecisive behavior will become a disaster sooner or later.

'For balance? But Maple's uniqueness is difficult for you to balance, Sarutobi … '

Danzo made a decision.

It's time to act.

As long as he can control Kaede and make him part of his power, then he can immediately reach the level where he can stand on equal footing with Sarutobi, and his opinion will occupy the absolute dominant position in the upper echelons of Konoha, taking away the power held by Sarutobi and Minato.

Next, he can gradually and completely control Konoha, and then start the war again, and truly begin to implement his plan to unify the world!