After the training, the five of them gathered at the dumpling shop again.
"Kakashi, where did you meet Minato-senpai this morning?" Obito asked impatiently.
"Have you asked Minato-senpai about Mu Yue-sensei's preferences? You won't have forgotten, right?"
Today was the last day they had agreed to come up with gifts, and they had to decide on the gift today no matter what.
"Do you think I am you? The reason I'm a little later than usual is because of this," Kakashi said with a nod, a little aggressive because it was morning.
Hearing this, the other three also looked at Kakashi, but Kakashi's next words made them a little disappointed.
"I asked, but Senior Minato didn't have the information we wanted." Kakashi replied.
"I don't know about Senior Minato either. Maybe Teacher Mu Yue only has two hobbies, calligraphy and education, and doesn't have any hidden hobbies." Obito sighed, feeling that his expectations were in vain.
He thought about it and realized that even the disciples they interacted with every day didn't know, so how could Minato Namikaze know anything?
"But I think what Senior Minato said makes a lot of sense. Just like what Xiaolin said before, just convey your thoughts." Kakashi said seriously.
"Think about it, is Teacher Mu Yue teaching us so that we can give him good gifts? No, as long as we practice seriously, he will be very happy."
Several disciples fell into deep thought, and Mu Yue said this to them all.
"As long as your strength improves, it will be the best reward for me." Might Guy's thoughts couldn't help but drift back to the time when he first won the first place in the class in the practical exam. Mu Yue said this to him at that time.
The longer he spent with Mu Yue, the more he felt that Mu Yue's words came from the heart and were not just nice words.
"That's right. The most important thing is to convey your thoughts." Might Guy gave Kakashi a thumbs up and said with approval.
"Indeed, Teacher Mu Yue probably doesn't want us to dwell on such things and delay our cultivation." Shisui also nodded.
"Then let's quickly discuss what to give away." Obito no longer hesitated.
Nohara Lin looked at the faces of the four people, and suddenly a good idea came to her mind, so she smiled and said:
"How about we make a few small statues for Teacher Mu Yue? Each of us can make one in our own image, and then we can all work together to complete Teacher Mu Yue's statue. We can make them as we normally do during training, and put them together when they are all finished."
Kakashi thought about it and thought that both the division of labor and the meaning of the gift were very good, so he said, "I think it's okay."
"That's simply great, Xiaolin, are you a genius?" Obito praised with a smile.
Might Guy and Shisui thought about it and nodded in agreement, thinking that this gift was very good.
"I just suddenly feel that this would be a good thing. Even if we are not with Teacher Mu Yue, our statues are with Teacher Mu Yue." Nohara Lin said with a smile.
With a unanimous vote, the gift for Mu Yue was decided. Each of them would complete their own statue in the first three days, and then everyone would work together to complete Mu Yue's statue in the next two days.
The issue of what to send was resolved, but Obito soon faced a new problem: this thing was not easy to do.
After buying the materials and equipment and returning home, Obito looked at the sculpture of himself, and finally sighed and threw it into the trash can.
"Shadow Clone Technique!"
Obito finally decided to use ninjutsu to help himself. He wanted to stay with Mu Yue. He didn't ask for him to be very good, but at least he had to be like himself.
Taking this into consideration, Obito specially bought a few more tools. The Shadow Clone didn't waste any time and started practicing as soon as it came out.
In addition to the gifts given by the group, Obito did not forget his own gift, and finally finished the drawings before going to bed.
"Fortunately, Xiaolin came up with a good idea, otherwise I would be too busy." Obito sighed in his heart.
Practicing sculpture is also helpful for him to make inkstones. If he changes one, he will definitely make one poorly.
"I wonder how everyone else is doing?" Obito couldn't help but think of other people's sculptures as he lay in bed.
The first one is Nohara Rin who gave him the rock phase. Nohara Rin has experience and should not be bad.
As for Kakashi and Shisui, Obito felt that they might be similar to him, after all, they also have Shadow Clones.
As for Might Guy, Obito couldn't say.
Three days passed quickly, and on the fourth day, the five disciples gathered together with their finished products to prepare for the production of the Mu Yue statue.
Since they needed to make something, the location was not chosen to be the dumpling shop, but Kakashi's house.
"Kakashi you are so awesome, how did you do that?" Nohara Lin immediately saw the lifelike statue of Kakashi on the table.
She looked closer and found that Kakashi had completed every detail. He had a mask on his face and a White Fang short blade in his right hand, as if he was about to rush forward and slash.
"Let me see." Obito, who had just walked in the door, heard Nohara Rin praising Kakashi and ran over immediately.
After seeing the sculpture of Kakashi, Obito swallowed back the words he had prepared in his mind. This level was really hard to criticize.
"What do you think, Obito? I really feel like Kakashi." Nohara Rin looked at Obito and asked with a smile.
"It's indeed okay and quite similar, but I feel like there's still a lot of room for improvement." Obito commented and replied.
If it was the work of Nohara Rin, he would say that it was simply invincible, so powerful that it couldn't be more powerful, and it was exactly the same as the real person, but this was the work of Kakashi, so Obito could only say that it was okay and still needed to practice.
"Obito, your requirements are too high. I feel that this is already very impressive compared to mine." Nohara Rin said as she placed her sculpture on the table.
Obito looked at the statue of Nohara Rin. Compared with Kakashi's, Nohara Rin's was indeed a bit rough. The facial depiction was okay, but the clothes and other things were very different from Kakashi.
"I think you did a great job, Xiaolin. You're not much worse than Kakashi, just with a different style." Obito praised.
Kakashi: ...
"After saying so much, Obito, why don't you take out yours and let me see it?" Kakashi asked indifferently.
He had spent a lot of time and effort to carve his sculpture using earth escape technique, and he didn't believe that Obito could do better than him.
"Ahem, mine is a little different in style from both of yours. It's a little more rugged." Feeling Nohara Rin's curious gaze, Obito put his own statue on the table as well.
Kakashi looked at the statue of Obito, which depicted himself using Fire Style. The statue had his palms together, with the pinky and ring fingers crossed, and the remaining fingers standing upright. This was the Tiger Seal, which is usually the last seal of Fire Style.
But Obito only carved the fingers, the face was processed very roughly, and the goggles that Obito wore on a daily basis did not appear.
"It feels pretty good, and the hand seals are very standard." Nohara Lin praised with a smile.
"It's not as good as yours, Xiaolin. After all, I haven't had much contact with it before." Obito laughed.
"Only the hand seals are okay. The rest are too crude. And did you forget the goggles on your head?" Kakashi commented directly.
Since his was just okay, he would use Obito's standards to judge Obito's statue.
"I carved a day when I didn't want to wear goggles." Obito said stubbornly. In fact, he couldn't handle this well so he simply gave up. Moreover, he spent a long time to get the finger seals right.
"Really? I was thinking that if you really don't know how to do it, I could help you. In that case, forget it." Kakashi said with a look of regret.
Although he was making crazy and sharp comments, Kakashi still wanted to make this gift for Mu Yue better, at least everyone should look their own way.
"Um...I..."
Obito wanted to see what Kakashi would do, but he couldn't bring himself to say it. Asking him to beg Kakashi for help would be a life-threatening thing.
"Actually, I forgot to wear it that day, not that I didn't want to wear it. Please help me, Kakashi." Obito finally spoke.
Although face is important, the gift given to Mu Yue is more important.
"My dear friend, sorry for the wait!" Might Guy walked in and greeted him.
Kakashi responded to Might Guy, then turned to Obito and asked, "I didn't hear what you just said."
Obito thought that Might Guy came at a really bad time. He felt very uncomfortable after being told once, and he even had to say it a second time.
"I asked you to do me a favor. The statue forgot to wear goggles. Thank you." Obito used all his strength to say this. After he finished speaking, he felt as if ants were crawling all over his body.
Kakashi raised the corner of his mouth and a deep smile appeared on his face. In fact, he heard it and said it on purpose.
Looking at the smile in Kakashi's eyes, Obito felt cheated for a moment, but there was nothing he could do. In the end, he could only give him a look that said "remember this for me" and watched how Kakashi operated.
Kakashi took out a piece of earth, then formed hand seals and used earth escape ninjutsu. Soon a pair of goggles was completed. Then Kakashi placed the goggles on the statue of Obito and used earth escape ninjutsu to adjust the size, and finally merged them together.
"So you did it with ninjutsu!" Obito was shocked, as if he had worked so hard to complete his homework, only to see someone cheating and copying it in a few minutes.
"What's wrong with using ninjutsu? Do you think it's easy to complete such a delicate operation using earth escape?" Kakashi said lightly.
Obito couldn't refute it, being able to use ninjutsu is also a skill.
In the end, all five people took out their own sculptures, and Obito found a statue that was even more rugged than his, which was Might Guy's.
The sculpture of Might Guy is himself using Konoha Tornado, with one leg kicked out.
"Akagi, do you want to work on your face again? It's a little blurry." Obito reminded.
"No need, I feel it looks quite like mine." Might Guy waved his hand and said.
"Indeed, with thick eyebrows and a watermelon-like head, he can be recognized at a glance." Kakashi gave his approval.
This Might Guy is indeed very rough, but all the necessary features are visible, and he is easier to recognize than Obito before he had goggles.
The statue of Shisui shows him practicing with a short blade, holding the blade in his right hand and stabbing forward.
"Shisui, your weapon is so exquisitely made." Nohara Rin discovered that the small short blade in the hand of the Shisui statue actually had quite a few details.
"It took a lot of time." Shisui nodded. The short blade on the statue was the one that Mu Yue gave him as a birthday gift. He spent most of his time on it.
"The head will be left to Kakashi, and the hands will be left to Obito..." Nohara Rin assigned tasks according to the strengths of the statues.
In addition to Mu Yue's body, there are actually other places to work on, such as the chassis of the statue and the scenes. For example, Nohara Lin wants to make a broken tree next to her statue to make the training scene more authentic.
With the efforts of several people, Mu Yue's statue was completed and the scene became richer.
Mu Yue stood in the center of the whole work with a warm smile on her face. Mu Yue was surrounded by five disciples. To the north was Shisui who was practicing with the short blade, and next to him was a wooden man who had been cut in half.
To the south is Obito, with the chassis in front of him making marks of an explosion, to the west is Might Guy, who seems to be kicking towards several large trees, to the east is Kakashi, with a chopped wooden stake in front of him, and to the southeast is Nohara Rin, next to her is a broken tree.
"Finally done, but it would be too difficult to carry such a big thing on my body." Obito said as he wiped the sweat from his head.
"Let's put it in the southern forest, and then give the gift to Teacher Mu Yue there," Kakashi suggested.
The other four people thought it was a good idea. If they brought such a big thing, Mu Yue would definitely notice something and the surprise would not be so great.
So the five of them went to the South Forest together at night, and Kakashi used earth escape to hide the gifts in a big box.
…
In the Land of Earth, Iwagakure Village, the meeting room of the Tsuchikage Building.
"Third Hokage, can such an action really allow Kumogakure to increase its military strength to deal with Konoha?" A bearded Iwagakure elder was somewhat puzzled by Ōnoki's plan.
Both great Jinchuriki were sent out, and a large number of ninjas were hidden in the ninja village.
"Don't worry, based on my understanding of Kumogakure, they must think that we really don't have the strength to fight against Konoha. In order to prevent us from withdrawing from the war, they will definitely send a stronger force to attack Konoha." Ohnoki, who was sitting on a high chair, replied with a smile.
"When the time comes that Kumogakure, Konoha, and Sand Village are all deeply involved in the war, that will be the time for us to go all out."
"But the relationship between Yunyin and us is not good, they should be on guard against us." Another elder pointed out the problem.
The ninja world has now entered into chaos, and the Hidden Cloud and Hidden Iwa are also at war.
"That's why I want the Kumogakure to underestimate us. The Kumogakure is reckless, and they definitely won't imagine that we still have an army of tens of thousands of ninjas." Ohnoki explained in detail the benefits of showing weakness to the enemy.
The Land of Earth is very difficult to invade due to its terrain. Even if he shows weakness, the enemies have to consider this. Faced with the weak and difficult Land of Earth, Kumogakure will definitely choose the Land of Fire and fight against Konoha.
Once they have figured out the background of other large ninja villages, that will be the time for their Iwagakure army to take action.
"Sagakure is weak, Kumogakure is reckless, and Konoha is also showing signs of decline. In the end, we, Iwagakure, will be the winner of this war!" Ohnoki said with confidence.
Once, their Iwagakure Village was humiliated when it went to Konoha to form an alliance. Ohnoki and his teacher, the Second Tsuchikage Mutsu, were both seriously injured. This time, he wanted Konoha to see the power of his Iwagakure Village and let Konoha be beaten so hard that it would take the initiative to ask for peace with his Iwagakure.
"Before that, we cannot withdraw from the war and must continue to send ninjas to fight." Ohnoki arranged the next actions.
If he just stopped fighting, the other ninja villages would definitely be secretly on guard against him.
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