A cruel war is the easiest environment for a ninja to grow quickly, only by participating in it and surviving tenaciously can one be called a qualified ninja.
This sentence was taught to Kakashi by his father Hatsuki Shigeru when he was a child. It turned out that he didn't fully understand this sentence until he followed his master Kato Mitsukaze to the front line of the Rain Village.
The situation of a ninja war is completely different from the hostile ninjas Kakashi usually encounters during his missions, it's much more tragic.
When Kakashi saw thousands of ninjas fighting each other on the battlefield for the first time, he was completely stunned.
First, it was a long-range ninjutsu attack, followed by a large number of explosive tags, and then the ninjas who were still alive fought in close quarters.
Shurikens flew, Senbonzai stabbed, Kunai swung, Katana slashed, all kinds of ninja weapons clashed, and blood splattered everywhere.
It's either you die, or I die, this is the war between ninjas.
After the first battle he participated in, Kakashi returned to the army camp with his comrades, he was still in a daze, he didn't even know how he survived.
The clearest image Kakashi remembered in his mind was that he took the white blade and reaped the lives of his enemies one by one.
The specific process of the battle, Kakashi only remembered that when he was in a daze, it seemed that his master Kato Mitsukaze's voice was shouting a few words to him in his mind, then following his body's fighting instinct, he pulled out his silver blade and began to fight until all the Sand and Rock Shinobi retreated.
The first battle Kakashi participated in was also the first large-scale battle between Wood Leaf and Sand Rock Shinobi in the 3rd Shinobi World War.
Kato Mitsukaze chose to place a large number of Wood Leaf troops on the western front, and chose to open a gap in the war between the Sand and Rock Shinobi, in addition to various objective reasons, there's also a reason to pick a soft persimmon.
In the last Second Shinobi World War, Wood Leaf's main enemies were the Sand and Rock Shinobi. In the face of the combined attacks of the Sand and Rock Shinobi, Wood Leaf had a relatively mature strategy to deal with them.
Moreover, in the end of the last Shinobi World War, Wood Leaf was the winner, ordinary Wood Leaf Shinobi will more or less have a psychological advantage as the winner of the last war.
Don't underestimate this psychological advantage, it may not have much effect on high-level ninjas above the Jonin level, but as the main force of the war, this psychological advantage will accumulate and sometimes even affect the morale of the Wood Leaf Shinobi.
For example, the tragic battle that just ended played a big role in the morale of Konoha's Shinobi.
After the scouts found out that the Rock and Sand Shinobis had joined forces, Kato Mitsukaze changed his original plan of attacking the Rock and Sand Shinobis one by one.
After several months of stalemate between Wood Leaf and the Sandstone Army in the Rain Country, Kato Mitsukaze initiated the first large-scale battle between the two sides due to pressure from other fronts.
The battle that had just ended was beyond Kakashi's imagination, but in the eyes of the commanders of both sides, it was at most a test between the two armies.
The battle just now was mainly dominated by low-level ninjas below Chunin. The high-level ninjas above Jonin on both sides didn't participate in the large-scale battle.
Kato Mitsukaze was quite satisfied with the result of the battle. Wood Leaf Village had fought against two enemies at once and forced the Sandstone Army to retreat. During the most intense part of the battle, Wood Leaf Village even managed to break through the enemy's defensive line for a short period of time.
As the supreme leader of the Wood Leaf Ninja Army on the front line, Kato Mitsukaze has been very busy since the end of the battle. The defensive deployment of the front line, the discussion of tomorrow's attack strategy with the staff group, the arrangements for the withdrawal of wounded soldiers, all kinds of miscellaneous matters need Kato Mitsukaze to worry about.
Kato Mitsukaze was busy until nightfall. Only then did he have some free time to visit his precious disciple, Hatake Kakashi.
For Kakashi, Kato Mitsukaze adopted a completely different training strategy from Shengshu's three apprentices.
At the beginning, Shengshu's three apprentices followed Kato Mitsukaze to the battlefield. In fact, in the early part of World War II, Shengshu's three apprentices had been doing nothing. Kato Mitsukaze used his authority to arrange relatively safe battlefield tasks for Shengshu's three apprentices. It wasn't until the later part of World War II that Wood Leaf Village gained the advantage on the battlefield, and Shengshu's three apprentices also had enough strength, Kato Mitsukaze relaxed his protection of them.
In contrast, Kakashi's treatment was simply not like that of the same master. He faced the most tragic scene in the war.
It's not that Kato Mitsukaze is biased, but that he is more optimistic about Kakashi's ability to quickly adapt to the battlefield environment and grow up quickly.
Moreover, Kato Mitsukaze doesn't really care about Kakashi's safety. When he commanded the battle today, he always kept a Soul Clone, always paying attention to Kakashi's performance and secretly protecting him.
To be honest, Kakashi's performance on the battlefield today is really worthy of his title as a genius ninja of Konoha. Apart from the fact that he was a little stunned at the beginning of the battle, Kakashi's performance after that, even Kato Furukawa wouldn't dare say that he could do better than Kakashi.
When Kato Mitsukaze saw Kakashi, the kid was lying on his bed, staring at the drizzle outside the window in a daze. He raised his salted fish eyes and looked at Kakashi's salted fish eyes, which were exactly the same as his, and his worries about Kakashi were reduced by half.
"What are you thinking, kid?"
This apprentice is definitely in a pure daze, not sad about the cruelty of war.
The moment he saw Kakashi's salted fish eyes, Kato Mitsukaze, as a salted fish, thought so.
"Master, you're here. Thank you for today on the battlefield."
Kato Mitsukaze guessed right. At this time, Kakashi had calmed down from his muddle-headed state. When he heard his master's voice, he sat up like a carp. His first reaction was to thank Kato Mitsukaze for reminding him on the battlefield.
"Okay, you still know to thank me. It seems that you are not scared."
"When the battle first started, I was really scared. If Master didn't wake me up, maybe I would have died …"
"With me here, how can I let you die so easily? What's more, today's battle is just over. A more intense battle has just begun."
Kato Yukaze did not let Kakashi finish his sentence. He interrupted him and said, "Also, your performance at the end of the day was really good. It was much better than your father's first time on the battlefield."
"Father? Master, tell me more about my father's performance on the battlefield. "
When Kakashi mentioned his father, he naturally picked up the White Tooth Knife that Hatsuki Shigeru gave him from the knife rack on the side.
Shing.
It was the sound of the White Tooth Knife being unsheathed.
The white blade was polished by Kakashi to a shiny silver light. Under the slightly dim light in the barracks, it reflected a touch of cold light.
Seeing his old friend's knife, Kato Mitsukaze thought that today this ninja knife in the hands of Kakashi drank the blood of the enemy. He felt that his decision to throw Kakashi directly on the front line of the battlefield was the most correct way to train him.
"Your father, he was a bad-tempered guy. His story is a long story …"
That night, accompanied by the sound of dripping rain, Kato Mitsukaze told Kakashi a lot about Hatsuki Shigeru.
Telling Kakashi these memories about Hatsuki Shigeru, in Kato Mitsukaze's view, is more important than teaching Kakashi ninjutsu. These memories, in Kato Mitsukaze's view, are part of Hatsuki Shigeru's ninja inheritance, just like the White Tooth Knife in Kakashi's hand.
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