Kamiyo, who had been overjoyed by his overwhelming victory against Chiyo, could no longer feel happy.
The way Kakashi looked at him made Kamiyo feel very dangerous and insecure.
Kamiyo forced a flattering smile and said to Kakashi, "I'm just paying tribute to Lord Sakumo, this is purely a tribute! Kakashi, can you please relax your brows? I'm a little scared…"
Kakashi's brows were tightly furrowed, his gaze growing increasingly unfriendly: "Heh, you're scared? How reckless and arrogant were you just now? You even slapped Chiyo! And now you're telling me you're scared?"
Kamiyo chuckled dryly and explained, "She was an enemy, and I was flying so high she couldn't hit me. But now I have no strength at all, so…"
Kakashi sneered, "Because you have no strength now and can only be slaughtered, you're scared, right?"
Kamiyo quickly shook his head, "No, no, no, it's because I believe you, Kakashi, aren't that kind of person!"
Kakashi extended his hand, and Kamiyo, startled, closed his eyes: "Alright, don't hit the face! Hitting the face hurts one's pride! One punch is enough, don't hit too many times!"
However, the imagined pain did not arrive.
Kamiyo squinted open a gap and realized that Kakashi had no intention of punching him; he seemed to want to pull him up.
"Idiot, why are you still lying down? This is the rear of the Sunagakure Garrison, and it's still quite dangerous. Chiyo might go back and search this area for people. Let's retreat quickly!"
Kamiyo grabbed Kakashi's hand to help himself up and muttered, "You scared me, I thought you were going to lose your mind."
Kakashi was utterly speechless: "Lose my mind, my foot! Can your broken mouth be quiet for a while?"
"Kakashi, it's for you."
Kamiyo threw something, and Kakashi instinctively caught it. He opened his palm to look, and immediately his forehead was covered in black lines.
"Why are you giving me a tooth?"
Kamiyo said proudly, "This isn't just any tooth; it's that old hag Chiyo's tooth!"
Kakashi said with a dark expression, "I don't want anyone's tooth!"
Kamiyo said seriously, "Hey, how can you say that? This tooth is very memorable! Thanks to paying tribute to Lord Sakumo, I was able to slap Chiyo in the face, so Lord Sakumo deserves some credit here."
Kakashi, Obito, and Rin Nohara all twitched their mouths. He really was good at twisting logic.
Kakashi looked at Chiyo's tooth in his hand, recalled what Kamiyo had said earlier, and spoke in a somewhat low voice, "Hey, Kamiyo, you probably don't know about my father, do you? If you knew about my father's story, you might not think he was a hero."
Obito and Rin Nohara immediately winked at Kamiyo, signaling him not to say anything reckless.
They were both really afraid that Kamiyo's mouth would provoke Kakashi and make him shut himself off again.
Kamiyo put an arm around Kakashi's shoulder and said with a smile, "I know! It's precisely because I know about Lord Sakumo's deeds that I feel even more strongly that Lord Sakumo is a hero, truly worthy of being my idol!
The iron rule of a Ninja is to follow the rules. Not following the rules can lead to serious consequences, even affecting the success or failure of an entire mission.
This iron rule is indeed not wrong, but one cannot follow it rigidly. For example, if the Village ordered us to transport supplies, and these supplies absolutely must be delivered, but along the way, we encounter an enemy Village Jinchuriki intercepting us, should we not run and still try to deliver the supplies?"
Kakashi shook his head and said, looking down, "It's different. At that time, my father could have completed the mission, but saving his comrades led to the mission's failure, causing great losses to the Village."
Kamiyo looked earnestly into Kakashi's eyes and said, "Obito said something very good: In the world of Ninja, those who violate regulations are called trash, but those who don't cherish their comrades are worse than trash!
If Lord Sakumo had abandoned his comrades, then he would have abandoned his humanity as a person, becoming just a machine that only knows how to complete missions. But people and machines are different; people have humanity and their own thoughts. Everyone has something precious they cherish.
Lord Sakumo's precious thing was the camaraderie of his comrades. He was willing to break old rules for the sake of his comrades. He protected his comrades; he is a true hero. Therefore, Kakashi, you should be even more proud of your father!"
Obito tilted his head, his eyes filled with confusion.
When had he ever said such a philosophical statement as, 'In the world of Ninja, those who violate regulations are called trash, but those who don't cherish their comrades are worse than trash!'?
Rin Nohara looked at Obito in surprise: "Obito, I didn't realize you had such high awareness."
Then Rin Nohara looked very seriously into Kakashi's eyes and said, "I agree with what Obito and Kamiyo said. Kakashi, I've always believed Lord Sakumo is a hero too!"
Hearing Rin Nohara's praise, Obito gradually straightened his back, becoming more and more confident.
Kamiyo said it was him who said it, so it must have been him who said it!
"Cough~" Obito coughed once and then said, "That's right, my awareness has always been quite high, and Lord Sakumo is indeed a hero, there's no doubt about it!"
Kamiyo said fiercely, "Whoever dares to say Lord Sakumo isn't a hero, the few of us will directly put a sack over their head and beat them severely! Beat them until they say Lord Sakumo is a hero!"
Kakashi's gaze flickered as he looked at Kamiyo, Obito, and Rin Nohara.
Kakashi felt that the thorn in his heart seemed to be gradually disappearing.
Kamiyo patted Kakashi's shoulder and said with a smile, "So, Kakashi, you have to learn from Lord Sakumo. I'm your comrade, you can't bully me, you have to cherish me, protect me. If there's any danger, you go first instead of me, or cover my retreat, got it?"
Kakashi, who had just felt a little touched, instantly lost all emotion and rolled his Byakugan fiercely.
Bully Kamiyo? It would be good enough if Kamiyo didn't team up with Obito to provoke him.
Kakashi took a deep breath and said, "Alright, stop talking nonsense. You keep this tooth yourself."
Kakashi threw Chiyo's tooth in his hand back to Kamiyo.
Kamiyo asked Obito and Rin Nohara, trying to sell the tooth: "Do you two want this tooth? It's the tooth of Chiyo, the senior Advisor of Hidden Sand Village, the former Flower of Ninja, the sworn enemy of Hanzou who gave Lord Jiraiya and the other Sannin their title! It would make a great souvenir, it'd be a shame to throw it away."
Obito and Rin Nohara retorted, "Keep a tooth as a souvenir? Are we crazy?"
"Hmph, you don't recognize good stuff. Then I don't want it either. Let's go."
Kamiyo casually threw the tooth on the ground and returned to the Konoha Garrison with Kakashi and the other two.
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