Chapter 267 : My most important thing
"Oh no!"
Naraku quickly put down the bento box and chased after him, timely grabbing a fist that was about to hit Kakashi's face, and stood in front of him with his arms spread wide.
"Don't!"
"Naraku, you're still protecting him? I saw you—"
"No, I didn't…" Naraku shook his head vigorously, blocking her tightly to prevent her from passing, "You must have seen wrong…!"
"…Rin?"
Only then did Kakashi slightly recover from the chaos.
He pinched his arm, found it excruciatingly painful, and performed several hand signs to dispel genjutsu, but everything in front of him remained unchanged.
Only then was he willing to believe that the person "resurrected from the dead" in front of him was not an illusion.
"Rin, you're really not dead? …This is just too good—"
Kakashi was so happy he almost jumped up from the ground, but then he saw Rin looking at him with fiery eyes, making him a bit confused: "What's wrong?"
During the short time Naraku waited outside the door, he was pacing anxiously in the room, repeatedly checking if there was anything wrong with his brain and thoughts.
Then he saw Rin storming in through the door.
The first time he saw her, Kakashi's mind went blank due to the shock, and his ears were ringing, so he didn't hear what she and Naraku, who came in later, were arguing about.
Therefore, he couldn't understand why his comrade was angry.
Naraku had his back to Kakashi, his face showing a panicked, pleading expression.
Rin's heart softened, she couldn't bear to embarrass Naraku, so she lowered her fist and explained to Kakashi in an exasperated tone.
"You're still asking me what's wrong? If you had listened to me and left back then, you wouldn't have almost lost your life."
"Kakashi, we were on the battlefield then, I didn't have time to waste words with you."
"Now that we've survived, you just wait for me to report you to Lady Tsunade, hmph."
Kakashi felt the skin on the back of his head tighten, and cold sweat streamed down his forehead. He apologized and tried to appease his teammate, while also wondering why Rin's temper had become so much more volatile recently.
—Ah, could it be…?
He turned to look at Naraku standing beside him, who was pursing his lips, silent, and staring blankly at the ground.
—Is it because Naraku was also injured?
Noticing Kakashi's gaze on him, Naraku, fearing that he might see something amiss, quickly gave him a comforting look, then spoke to change the subject.
"I brought lunch, shall we eat together? After we eat, Teacher Tsunade is waiting for our report."
…"Kakashi, come here."
Tsunade sat behind her desk, beckoning to Kakashi with one finger, while her other hand clenched into a fist, and her Chakra exploded with a "boom."
The three little ones standing in a row opposite were so scared they all shivered, their hair almost standing on end.
Especially Kakashi, looking at Tsunade's fully charged monstrous punch, he felt he might die here today.
"Relax, I'll be quick."
She squeezed out a terrifying smile with a dark face: "After I fix Kakashi's leg, I'll listen to you kids slowly explain everything from the beginning."
Minato tried to dissuade her helplessly: "Lady Tsunade, calm down, calm down… they just came back from the brink of death…"
"Teacher, it's not Kakashi's fault, it was all my own decision…!"
Naraku's first reaction was to take all the blame, revealing the full reason for his appearance on the battlefield.
"I secretly placed an anchor point on Kakashi and went there using the 'Blood Pact Teleportation Jutsu,' he didn't know anything about it…"
"Anchor point?" Tsunade paused, then asked incredulously after understanding: "Space-Time Ninjutsu!?"
Naraku nodded weakly: "Mm."
"Oh my…!"
Tsunade put a hand to her forehead, completely despairing of her little apprentice's "Kakashi-brain."
—To be able to save Hatake Kakashi in an emergency, this brat Naraku actually specifically developed a Space-Time Ninjutsu early on?
—Such a powerful and rare Ninjutsu talent, all poured into the Hatake Father and Son like this?
—Oh, not entirely, he also developed healing talismans for the Uchiha Clan… Tsunade, too exasperated to complain, leaned back in her chair and looked up at the sky, even forgetting about breaking his leg.
Although Kakashi didn't understand Space-Time Ninjutsu, he could understand the term "anchor point."
At this moment, he had an epiphany, and pulled out the amulet from his clothes, engraved with unknown incantations, with some bloodstains still remaining in the denseScratches and gaps.
"Is it this?"
"…"
Naraku acted like he had done something wrong, lowering his head and not daring to answer.
He also felt a rare pang of guilt, feeling like a rabid fan who installed a GPS tracker on his idol.
—Compared to that, I seem to be like a pervert…?
—No, I did this to protect Kakashi, I'm not like those sick perverts.
Naraku quickly adjusted his mindset, self-righteously excusing his behavior in his mind.
However, he still maintained a flustered and awkward expression, as if afraid Kakashi would blame him for it.
Even though Naraku didn't answer, Kakashi already knew the outcome. He clutched the amulet tightly in his hand, making his palm ache.
—This idiot, always doing unexpected silly things.
Kakashi didn't find Naraku's actions strange at all, as Naraku had worried; instead, he felt both sorrowful and touched.
He didn't want Naraku to take such risks for him again in the future, but if he were to dispose of or return the pendant, he would also be very reluctant.
This extremely conflicted expression, in Naraku's eyes, took on another meaning.
—Does Kakashi really think I'm a pervert?
—No way! I'm not a pervert, hey!
Naraku, who had been righteous moments before, was instantly struck hard. The little person in his heart faded and turned to stone, then cracked open with a "kaka" sound, dropping dirt and fragments.
Along with that, a few traces of genuine panic mixed into the fluster on his face, and he quickly tried to explain himself.
"This jutsu isn't perfect yet, the anchor point is, is one-time use… Once used, it can't be used again, so it's just an ordinary amulet now…"
Kakashi gazed blankly at Naraku's increasingly flustered demeanor, feeling that the current situation was somewhat familiar.
The amulet's string hung lightly around his neck, as if it could snap with a gentle tug.
—That's right…—I remember now… Kakashi couldn't help but tremble slightly.
On that night two years ago, Naraku also looked at him with pleading eyes, and then, personally witnessed the amulet, carrying his feelings, fall into the cold river water.
—Is he afraid I'll throw this one away too?
Kakashi lowered his gaze, not wanting Naraku to see the sorrow flowing in his eyes.
—What exactly was that sentence, covered by the thunder?
He knew better than anyone that the answer to this question was already unknowable.
"It's not just an ordinary amulet."
Kakashi carefully held the ceramic piece and put it back into his clothes, pressing it against his chest, warming it with his body heat.
Under Naraku's stunned gaze, he smiled gently, his eyes crinkling, and said,
"This is the most important thing Naraku gave me."
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