"Teacher Sakumo, I'm here to visit you."

In a room on the second floor, Shiraishi whispered to the photos on the shelf.

This is a photo they took together when Class 5 was first formed.

Ayane and Liuli were also on top, and when I was taking photos, I was sandwiched between them. It was really hard for me to think about it at that time.

Sakumo stood behind the three of them, carrying a White Fang dagger and wearing a ninja forehead protector, showing a hearty and happy smile.

Just as Shiraishi was recalling these things, the door suddenly opened.

"I told you, when you enter someone else's home, don't you know you can't just run around?"

Shiraishi felt a headache when he saw Obito walking in so carelessly and without covering up anything.

"I still want to talk to you. What's the matter with leaving me alone there?"

Obito responded with the same annoyance.

"I just came up to take a look."

"Then I'll come up and take a look."

Obito learned wisely and followed Shiraishi's words.

Later, he also discovered the existence of the photo and stared at it carefully. Although it was taken when Shiraishi was twelve years old and was a bit different from the current Shiraishi, Obito recognized it immediately. This was the past.

of white stone.

"It turns out you were like this before. There's nothing special about you."

Obito made some embarrassing remarks.

Then he looked at others.

"Those eyes belong to the Hyuga clan. Then this one here must be senior Ruri. As expected of a senior, he gives people a reliable and powerful feeling at such a young age."

Looking at Ruri in the photo, Obito immediately turned into a little fanboy and said in an admiring tone.

"Hey, who is this white-haired uncle? Is he your instructor jounin?"

Obito asked with curiosity on his face.

"Yes, he is also Kakashi's father, a ninja known as 'Konoha White Fang'."

Shiraishi nodded. This kind of thing can be known by just asking around. It is not a secret.

"No wonder it looks so similar to Kakashi... But, Konoha White Fang... I seem to have heard of it somewhere... Strange, where did I hear of it?"

Obito tilted his head and began to think.

I vaguely remember that it was a few months ago.

What exactly it was, Obito couldn't remember clearly.

"It's not a good thing for you to know this kind of thing."

Shiraishi interrupted the topic.

Rumors about Sakumo are basically only spread among adults. It is normal for students like Obito who are still in school not to know much about it.

I guess I just know the name and what happened, but I don’t know much about it in depth.

What's more, after Sakumo committed suicide, many people kept silent about the matter and acted as if it had never happened.

But the scars have been exposed. No matter how you try to make up for it, the wounds will not disappear, they will only hide deeper.

"What? I'm not a child."

Obito said dissatisfied.

"Okay, let's go down."

Shiraishi took Obito downstairs and returned to the living room.

There, the takeout ordered by Kakashi had been delivered, and Kakashi himself was sitting there, waiting for the two of them to come over and have dinner together.

"Kakashi, you haven't been eating takeout all the time lately, have you?"

Obito frowned and said when he saw that there were many takeaway boxes in the trash can that had not been cleaned up in time.

"Um."

Kakashi nodded.

In addition to his work, he spends a lot of time exercising at home every day. He has no time to cook and can only survive on takeaways.

Seeing Kakashi's nonchalant reply, Obito frowned even more.

When he was about to say something, he swallowed his words when he saw Kakashi's eyes that showed no desire to argue.

Kakashi like this gave Obito an indescribable bad feeling.

It feels like no matter what I say to him, I can't get close to him.

Even if he wanted to ask Kakashi why he had a dispute with his companions on the mission, is it true that as those people said, the value of the life of his companions, to him, is lower than the value of the mission...

In the end, Obito hesitated for a long time and was unable to confess to Kakashi the issue he was most concerned about.

Kakashi's home gave him an unusually deserted and uninhabitable feeling.

What happened to this guy after he graduated? Obito wondered in his heart.

Kakashi sat at the dining table, took two bites of takeout, and then closed the takeout box.

"I'm full. You can go back after eating. I have nothing to entertain you here."

Kakashi threw his uneaten takeout directly into the trash can next to him, and walked towards the yard with the White Fang dagger on his back.

"...Did we come at the wrong time?"

Obito glanced at Shiraishi with a guilty look.

Baishi replied: "This has nothing to do with you, don't think too much about it."

"is that so?"

Obito was doubtful.

After the two of them quickly ate the takeout, Obito also thoughtfully took away the garbage bags filled with many takeout boxes and disposed of them. If they were left here for a long time, they would definitely become moldy.

"It's really amazing. Have you practiced Bai Ya's sword skills to this point?"

While Obito was going to dispose of the garbage bags, Shiraishi came to the yard and looked at Kakashi who was constantly trying to swing his sword, feeling filled with emotion.

Although in his eyes, Kakashi's White Fang sword skills are completely incomparable to Sakumo's, and there are many flaws. But the sword's power is already a bit like Sakumo's, and it is definitely not that big against chunin-level ninjas.

question.

If you continue to accumulate like this, relying on your own talent and hard work, passing the Jonin exam before the age of twelve is a matter of course for Shiraishi.

Kakashi was unmoved by Shiraishi's emotion and just focused on his sword training.

"Why, it's been so long and you still haven't calmed down completely?"

Shiraishi leaned against the courtyard wall and asked Kakashi with a smile.

Kakashi's movement of swinging the sword suddenly stopped, and the air became condensed.

"As a chuunin, you shouldn't be so fragile, right?"

"what do you want to say in the end?"

Kakashi turned his head and sighed helplessly.

I don’t know why, but I always feel that there is something in Baishi’s words.

But the other party is his father's old subordinate, so he is not rude to him.

"I promised Teacher Sakumo that I will take good care of you after his death."

"As you can see, I'm doing very well now."

Kakashi replied nonchalantly.

Compared with the so-called care taken by Shiraishi, he believed more in the power brought by the blade in his hand.

"Having said that, if you continue like this, there will be fewer and fewer Jonin who can accept you, until you can no longer gain a foothold in Konoha. In this case, do you still want to insist on your mission-first philosophy?"

After experiencing so many changes, even a fool should understand that some of them are obviously very contradictory.

My father gave up his mission in order to save his companions, so he was ostracized by the people in the village. Unable to bear the slanderous rumors, he committed suicide.

But he chose another path, and his mission was greater than that of his companions. As a result, he was still ostracized by his colleagues in the village.

This is a fact that Kakashi has realized personally and is by no means a random imagination.

Although Kakashi concealed his expression very well, there was still a trace of hesitation and hesitation in his eyes.

He is doubting the real cause of his father's death.

Facts have proved that...both the choice of tasks and companions are wrong.

It was probably not the reason why his father committed suicide.
To be continued...