Chapter 660

In these two-plus years, to what extent had the protagonists grown?

The familiar outskirts, the familiar wilderness survival training, the familiar bell-snatching battle.

When Kakashi brought Naruto and Sakura here, whether it was Team 7 in the show or the audience outside the show.

Their expressions were all quite complicated for a moment.

It was still the same place, but one person from back then was missing.

However, there was no time for sadness now.

Since they wanted to pursue Sasuke, they would inevitably have to fight dangerous figures like Orochimaru.

It was necessary for Kakashi to properly test how much his two beloved disciples had grown over the past two years. "Kakashi-sensei, not reading a book this time?"

"Or have you finished reading it?"

But seeing Kakashi put the new version of Icha Icha Paradise back into his ninja tool pouch, Naruto and Sakura teased him while twisting their wrists to warm up. "I want to save the last bit for later, and this time..."

Old Hu, who played Kakashi, pushed up the forehead protector covering his left eye slightly, revealing that Sharingan which was incredibly stylish and even bought by many chuunibyou teenagers as colored contacts in reality. "I'll be serious too." Kakashi said word by word.

To be honest, this battle in the original work, as the opening battle of "Shippuden," was somewhat unsatisfactory.

Although it showed the growth of the male and female protagonists, Naruto and Sakura, it was won by Naruto's "spoilers" in the end, which felt a bit anticlimactic.

Regarding this, Xu Feng made some slight changes.

At the end of the battle, Naruto, using the Rasengan, and Sakura, wielding her super-strength punch, attacked Kakashi from both sides, preparing to ambush him.

Although the two had grown a lot, it was still not enough to take the bells from Kakashi.

Just as Kakashi used his Sharingan to see through their movements and skillfully grabbed the wrists of the two, one on the left and one on the right, attempting to subdue them.

Poof! Poof!

The next instant, the Naruto on the left turned into white smoke.

Kakashi's expression changed in shock; were they all shadow clones?

And just then, the camera cut.

The sound of a whistling storm came from behind.

Wind Style: Rasengan!

It was Naruto!

Kakashi wanted to change his move to respond, but Sakura held one of his arms tightly.

By the time he turned around completely.

He saw Naruto and Sakura each holding a bell.

Naruto: "A ninja must never turn their back on the enemy."

Sakura: "Right, sensei?"

This sentence was originally taught to them by Kakashi during their first survival exercise; he didn't expect them to use it to tease him now.

After a brief moment of astonishment, Kakashi showed a helpless look and covered his forehead protector again, sighing inwardly: "You've grown up... especially you, Naruto."

The first episode ended here, and a group of old fans also showed the same gratified smile as Kakashi.

Sakura, who no longer felt like she would only hold them back like in the first season, and Naruto, whose personality was still carefree but clearly more reliable...

The growth of the two completely met the fans' expectations.

And they perfectly returned the teachings Kakashi had given them three years ago to their teacher.

Although it lacked a bit of explosive power compared to the second season of "Bleach," which started with the appearance of the Arrancar and Kurosaki Ichigo showing his strength.

But without a doubt, Xu Feng showed all the audience what they wanted to see.

And the explosive point also came in the second episode!

When they saw Gaara wearing the Kazekage uniform, countless fans who had been following since the first episode of the youth arc sighed endlessly.

That boy, whose hostility seemed to be overflowing from the screen back then, had now actually become the Kage of a village.

However, the audience couldn't laugh immediately after.

The duo wearing red-cloud black cloaks arrived!

And their target was none other than the One-Tail, Gaara!

Both of them showed Kage-level strength.

For Gaara, who controlled sand, the Sunagakure village, with its sky full of yellow sand, was undoubtedly his home turf.

With a wave of his hand, he created a tsunami-level sand wave, leaving Deidara struggling to cope.

The attack method of chewing clay with the two mouths in his palms and creating explosives with various animal outlines also made many audience members' eyes light up.

They secretly marveled that Xu Feng's imagination was truly big enough.

And through a tug-of-war battle, Deidara also discovered Gaara's weakness—although he could control sand, only the sand in his gourd infused with his own chakra had stronger power and speed.

And ordinary sand... was not worth worrying about!

Thinking of this, Deidara gave a sinister smile and threw a C3 bomb toward the Sunagakure village below.

Gaara's expression changed drastically upon seeing this, and he desperately controlled a large amount of yellow sand to turn into a wall, blocking this village-destroying explosion.

"Finally made it in time..."

At this moment, Gaara was covered in sweat; to create such a large barrier, even for a Jinchuriki, the consumption was truly too great.

However, just then, a "rustling" sound, like a crawling insect, reached Gaara's ears.

Gaara glanced to the side, and his expression changed accordingly.

It was clearly small spiders made of explosive clay, densely lurking on the other side of his sand wall!

"Art is... an explosion."

Deidara said his classic line while performing hand seals.

BOOM!!!

Gaara was blown away from mid-air, but before he could land, he was caught by Deidara and flew out of the village.

The final scene of the first day's update featured Deidara's faint declaration of victory: "One-Tail, capture complete."

And at this moment, the screen cut to Naruto, who was eating Ichiraku Ramen with Iruka-sensei.

Crack!

At this moment, the ramen bowl beside Naruto suddenly cracked.

Naruto's expression suddenly stiffened, and he thought to himself: "What's going on... this feeling of anxiety..."

In an instant, the explosive point and suspense were maxed out!

The first day's update ended, and when the ending theme played and the cast and post-production staff list were shown, the barrage had already exploded: 【Holy crap, after being heartbroken by "Fate/Zero," I thought I wouldn't have this worry watching "Naruto," but I still underestimated this dog Xu Feng.】

【Sacrificing a popular character from the previous part on the first day? Xu Feng, you bastard, are you even human?】

【Gaara, my Gaara! Just became Kazekage and reached the peak of his life, how can he be gone so soon?】

【Gaara can't die! His path of redemption has only just begun!】

【Gaara's life has truly been a tragedy, just as there was a turning point, this bastard Xu Feng wants to kill him, right?】

PS: It's chapter 300, thank you all for your support along the way.