"Okay, let's get down to business. Where is it?"
"Right in front of you." Kakashi looked at Xiba who looked confused in a funny way, and pointed at the two forks filled with various chakras.
"I'm not blind! Of course I can see both ways. What do you want me to smell?" Xiba spun around in circles in anger and yelled at Kakashi speechlessly.
"Huh? Isn't it right here? Huh?" Kakashi raised his forehead protector, revealing his scarlet Sharingan, and looked at the two roads... but he didn't see the scene before.
"Chakra, it's gone." Xiba responded with a solemn expression. He knew Kakashi wouldn't make such a joke, and now was not the time to do so.
Then it can only be...something happened.
"Well, it's indeed gone." Kakashi nodded thoughtfully, propped his chin with one hand, and looked back at the three of them.
"Kakashi, what's going on now?" Shikaku observed the surrounding environment. Apart from traces of ninjutsu and various pits, there were no other clues.
"It seems that the remaining chakra has been absorbed..." Kakashi didn't know how to explain it, so he could only come up with an answer that might be closest to the truth.
"Shikaku, the small hole here doesn't look like it was made." Ding Zao was chewing potato chips while pointing at the two pits on the side of the battlefield in trance.
"Aren't there just two pits? The methods of the earth escape ninja shouldn't be strange, right?" Haiyi glanced at it from a distance and denied Ding Zuo's discovery.
"No, the location of the two pits is very remote, but close to the intersection of two roads...could it be said that this is the person who absorbs chakra?" Kakashi was preconceived, still focusing on absorbing chakra, and said directly made his own speculation.
"A person who absorbs chakra... an Earth Release ninja?" Shikaku glanced at Kakashi, with a hint of unnoticeable vigilance flashing in his eyes.
"Yes..."
"Why can't it dissipate naturally?" Ding Zuo said innocently, sat down on the ground, took out a bag of potato chips from the bag, patted them open, and started to eat them.
"Impossible! Natural dissipation can't be so fast and complete!"
"Maybe... it's the dispersion ability caused by the wind attribute chakra?"
"This... this is also... no, this is impossible! The same is Chakra Kara, how can it be possible to dispel such solid multi-attribute chakra?"
"Kakashi? Why are you... not normal today? This kind of reasoning is really not your style. There is obviously no clue to prove that Chakra The carat was absorbed." Although Shikaku did not deny this hypothesis, Kakashi's almost stubborn point of view was indeed different from usual.
When it comes to IQ, Kakashi is actually on par with Shikaku.
But at this moment...in this place, all he could think about was the two teammates he had lost, and all he could see was the scene from that year.
Earth escape ninja... The first possibility that comes to mind is naturally Iwagakure's ninja.
Everyone is a master of Earth Escape, and making these holes is just a matter of casual movements. It's just that they don't need to come here...
to absorb chakra...I haven't heard of anyone who has the ability to absorb chakra.
"I... No..." Kakashi scratched his hair in embarrassment, his eyes could only be lowered, staring at Xiba at his feet. It didn't matter whether he smiled awkwardly or not.
"You, are you thinking of something..." Haiyi stared at Kakashi's eyes and slowly formed two seals with his hands.
"Wait a minute, let him speak for himself." Lu Jiu noticed Haiyi's gesture, and this was clearly a special method used to face hostile spies... to forcibly extract relevant memories. "It's not that serious."
"Okay."
"You guys... well, you're in trouble."
Kakashi slowly sat down on the spot, brought Sibala over, put it on his lap, and ignored its desperate resistance. He slowly started stroking, covering his forehead, covering the Sharingan that didn't belong to him.
"You tell me." The three families of Ino Shika Die have no relationship with the big families in the center of Konoha. The three current family heads are also unaware of what happened back then.
"Yeah."
His eyes gradually became blurred, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly...
"The three of us... graduated at the same time, and were later assigned to the same team."
"You three... are you talking about you? Nohara Rin, and Uchiha Obito?"
"Hmm...that jackass, he couldn't learn anything back then..." Thinking of the past, Kakashi was left with only nostalgia and regret.
Only during that period did he feel true superiority and true happiness.
...
"Then...what happened?" After talking for more than twenty minutes, Kakashi didn't say anything important...it was just irrelevant reminiscing.
It seemed like...he was deliberately avoiding that matter.
"Later, I killed both of them."
"What?"
"For one life, I made a promise to another life... and in the end, I ended that promise with my own hands."
All the longing in his eyes disappeared. All that was left was the overwhelming self-blame.
"Kakashi... you..." The three of them still didn't quite understand. Ding Zuo was chewing potato chips in the distance, nodding and shaking his head, not knowing what to say.
After a long while, Shikaku spoke first: "Did Iwagakure do it?" "
..."
"These traces remind you of what happened before, right?"
"..."
"Are you afraid that Iwagakure will hurt you? Your student?"
"If it is really Iwagakure, I will kill him with my own hands!"
"Kakashi, please... don't get excited yet. Our target is Orochimaru, and it has nothing to do with Iwagakure." Shikamaru After analyzing Kakashi's heart for a long time, he finally touched the innermost knot.
"What if Iwagakure just wants to seize this opportunity, and directly... when we are not paying attention?" Kakashi refrained from speaking, and there seemed to be a trace of aggrievedness in his eyes.
As stubborn as a child.
"So, you are still worried about Yu Ling and the others?" Haiyi took action. Kakashi's mental state was really not conducive to the mission. If he didn't calm down, this team would probably die again.
"Well, probably." After hesitating, Kakashi nodded.
"Then you want to make the same mistake again? Maybe you can leave alone and regret it after what happened?" Haiyi's words made Kakashi's heart tighten, and he stared at Haiyi with his eyes wide open, as if he was Looks like a freak.
Of course, this sentence also attracted Shikaku and Ding Zao to look sideways, and Ding Zao even started to wink.
"Hai Yi, are you saying that a big blow to him?"
"He is too obsessed with it. He can't do it without trying to overdo it. Only when he is pushed to a certain level can he wake up." Hai Yi sighed in his heart. His tone, he himself didn't want to say such words.
"Okay, then you'd better be careful. After all, he's from the same village. Don't mess with him the same way you deal with spies."
"Repeat the same mistakes? No... no! It's impossible, I..."
Haiyi looked at Kaka. Xi's eyes froze for a moment, obviously not satisfied with this reaction.
"It seems that Kakashi has some resistance in his heart... No, the main thing is fear!"
"You're afraid."
"No, I'm not."
"You're afraid!" Haiyi raised his voice and spoke to the submissive Kaka. Xi received a wake-up call.
"No, no, no... I'm not afraid..." The round eyes slowly retracted. Kakashi raised his head slightly and looked directly into Yamanaka Haiichi's eyes, no longer dodging.
"Is this enough?"
"You're scared!" Haiyi raised his voice again and shouted in an almost roaring voice.
"I didn't!" Kakashi finally raised his head, puffed out his chest, and shouted confidently. The battle-hardened anger was released from his body, and there was even a trace of hatred in his single eyes when he looked at Haiyi.
"Then are you still going to stand by and watch? Or are you waiting for others to save you?" Hai winked at Shikaku, and the two of them cooperated and walked towards Kakashi, each standing aside.
"What...that look, it seems like he wants to show off...Ignore it, let's talk about it first." Lu Jiu accidentally forgot the secret code between the two...
"Don't forget, our mission It's support, to protect the safety of other team members!"
"Okay, no need to act. I just figured it out, there is no use in struggling here, it is best to seize the opportunity and kill Iwagakure. In the name of captain, I Order you to set off immediately! So what, Xiba, come here and smell it for me..."
Kakashi suddenly became normal...
"Kakashi, you..."
"I saw the look in your eyes just now, and then I realized Yes. I accidentally brought myself into a pit before. I won’t talk about that matter anymore, please.” Kakashi narrowed his dead fish eyes, chuckled, and turned his back to the two of them. He walked away, not forgetting to hold Xiba in his hand.
"You...are wasting our thoughts..." Haiyi finally recovered from the shock, turned around and waved, took out a handful of potato chips from the bag, and stuffed them into his mouth without looking at them.
"Kakashi, what do you want me to smell..." It was a question asked a long time ago, but Kakashi still ignored it.
"Oh! Sorry, sorry, go back, it's none of your business." Before he finished speaking, he punched Xiba on the back without any reason, sending him back to the tribe's habitat.
"..."
"Okay, let's move on!" Kakashi was unexpectedly resurrected with full health...
"Well, Kakashi, which way are we going?"
"Hmm... good question. I just observed After a while, a group of teams with weak chakra reactions but strong negative emotions came this way." Kakashi pointed to the direction to the left and described the situation he perceived.
"Weak chakra...it shouldn't be Captain Kushina's team. As for negative emotions...'Gen' doesn't have emotions, so it can only be Yu Ling's team." His mind turned around in a second. After a thousand strokes, Shikaku came up with the answer directly.
"That's right! Just go this way!"
"What...you already knew that?"
"It wasn't very early...two or three minutes ago." Kakashi chuckled, seeming to have forgotten all the previous gaffes. Putting it behind him, he took a step forward under the astonished gazes of three faces.
"Ah!"
Stepping into the pit...