[ Of course Kakashi isn't going to answer. That'd give away his location(s) far too easily.
Being that he activated a kage bunshin, he can't put a seal on his chakra in order to hide his position as easily, and had expected that Sasuke most likely would have activated Sharingan. As such, the best thing to do in this current situation is to have the clone act as a decoy, which the clone sets about doing without Kakashi even needing to signal, moving surreptitiously through the trees as the real Kakashi backtracks a little and begins to set up traps. But instead of exploding tags or other more lethal marks, Kakashi's traps are triggered to release either big piles of snow from shaking limbs, or send a few smokebomb-sized snowballs flying.
This is actually more fun than he'd initially expected.
The clone sends some random, carefully aimed snowballs -- not at Sasuke, but at the branches above Sasuke in an attempt to knock snow off the branch and onto him. ]
THIS IS SO NOSTALGIC OMG. IT'S LIKE BELL TEST 2 FOR SAUCEKAY
Being that he activated a kage bunshin, he can't put a seal on his chakra in order to hide his position as easily, and had expected that Sasuke most likely would have activated Sharingan. As such, the best thing to do in this current situation is to have the clone act as a decoy, which the clone sets about doing without Kakashi even needing to signal, moving surreptitiously through the trees as the real Kakashi backtracks a little and begins to set up traps. But instead of exploding tags or other more lethal marks, Kakashi's traps are triggered to release either big piles of snow from shaking limbs, or send a few smokebomb-sized snowballs flying.
This is actually more fun than he'd initially expected.
The clone sends some random, carefully aimed snowballs -- not at Sasuke, but at the branches above Sasuke in an attempt to knock snow off the branch and onto him. ]