Hidden Otsutsuki

"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 just dissipate naturally?" Ding Zuo said naively, 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 cannot be so fast and complete!"

"Maybe... it will be the dispersion ability caused by the wind attribute chakra?"

"This...this is...no, this is impossible! It is also chakra, how can it be possible to dispel such solid multi-attribute chakra?"

"Kakashi? Why are you... not normal today? Such reasoning is really not your style. There is obviously no clue to prove that chakra has been absorbed." Although Shikaku did not deny this hypothesis, But Kakashi's almost stubborn point of view is 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...

Absorb chakra... I haven't heard of anyone having 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 yet."

"good."

"You guys...oh, you're in trouble."

Kakashi slowly sat down on the spot, brought Sibala over and put it on his lap. Regardless of its desperate resistance, he slowly stroked it, covered its forehead, and covered the Sharingan that did not 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.

"Um."

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?"

"Well...that crane tail, I 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, leaving only heavy self-blame that couldn't be resolved.

"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?"

"..."

"Do these traces remind you of what happened before?"

"..."

"Are you afraid that Iwagakure will hurt your students?"

"If it is really Iwagakure, I will definitely 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." Shikaku analyzed Kakashi's heart bit by bit, and finally touched the innermost part of his heart. 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.

"Haiyi, is it too much of a blow to him to say that?"

"He is too obsessed, and he can't do it without trying to overdo it. Only when he is pushed to a certain extent can he wake up." Haiyi sighed in his heart, and he himself was not willing to say such a thing.

"Okay, then you'd better pay attention to your sense of propriety. After all, he belongs to a village. Don't mess with him the same way you deal with spies."

"Repeat the same mistake? No... no! It's impossible, I..."

Haiyi looked at Kakashi for a moment, obviously not satisfied with this reaction.

"It seems that Kakashi has some resistance in his heart... No, the main reason is fear!"

"You're scared."

"NO, I have not."

"You're scared!" Haiyi raised his voice and shouted at the submissive Kakashi.

"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 make a fool of himself...Ignore it, let's talk about it first." Shikaku accidentally forgot the secret code between the two...

"Don't forget, our mission is to support and protect the safety of other team members!"

"Okay, no need to act. I just figured it out. It's useless to dwell here. It's best to seize the opportunity and kill Iwagakure. In the name of captain, I order you to set off immediately! What, Xi? 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 it. I accidentally brought myself into the pit before. That matter... I won't talk about it anymore, please." Kakashi narrowed his fish eyes. , chuckled lightly, turned his back to the two of them and 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...

"Um, Kakashi, which way are we going?"

"Hmm... Good question. I just observed that a group of teams with weak chakra reactions but strong negative emotions came here." Kakashi pointed to the direction to the left and described what he perceived. Condition.

"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's not very early...two or three minutes ago, maybe." Kakashi chuckled, seemingly forgetting all the previous gaffes, and took a step forward under the astonished gazes of the three faces.

"ah!"

Step into the pit...