Obito Uchiha's answer left Kakashi speechless. More than ten years had passed, but there was no way he could look that old.
If he hadn't specifically used his Sharingan to examine Obito and found nothing wrong, he really would have thought someone was impersonating him. Besides, the Three-Tomoe Sharingan in Obito's eyes alone made it unlikely that he was an impostor.
But Kakashi remembered clearly that Obito had given him one of his eyes. Why were both of Obito's eyes intact now? There was also something odd about his age. Why did he look about as old as Naruto?
"Obito, I'm Kakashi," Kakashi could only explain.
"What? You're Kakashi?" Obito was confused too. After traveling through time to the Land of Waves, the first person he had run into was Kakashi from the future.
Kakashi, meanwhile, was curious about why Obito was here and why he looked like this.
Obito explained that after answering a question from the Inventory System, he had been sent to complete some kind of mission. But Kakashi and the others were a little confused by what he told them.
After hearing Obito out, Kakashi asked, "You're saying you're Obito Uchiha from the past, and you came to the future through something called the Inventory System? And this Inventory System also gave you all a mission?"
Kakashi instantly felt as though his entire worldview had been shattered. Traveling to the future and receiving missions sounded like something out of a fairy tale, yet it had actually happened to Obito.
While he was still marveling at it, Sasuke Uchiha suddenly walked over, pointed at Obito Uchiha, and demanded angrily, "Why are you wearing the Uchiha Clan's clothes? And why do you have the Sharingan?"
As far as Sasuke knew, everyone in the Uchiha Clan had been killed by that man. The person standing before him was actually wearing the Uchiha Clan's clothes. In Sasuke's eyes, that was an insult to the clan.
Kakashi hurried to calm Sasuke down and told him that Obito had once been a member of the Uchiha Clan, but later... He glanced at Obito, then finally decided to tell Sasuke that Obito had died in the Third Shinobi World War.
Naruto looked at the boy called Obito Uchiha before him, who had actually died in the war at such a young age.
Sasuke fell silent as well. Then, as if he had suddenly remembered something, he grabbed Obito by the shoulders and said excitedly, "You're from the past. Can you promise me one thing?"
Obito looked with some curiosity at the boy from the Uchiha Clan standing before him. He didn't know what had happened to make this boy named Sasuke so excited.
"Let go of me first, and tell me what it is!" Obito said.
Sasuke let go and said with a fierce expression, "Kill Uchiha Itachi!" Sasuke desperately hoped that Obito could kill Sasuke Uchiha. That way, that event wouldn't happen in the future.
"What? Why would I kill Little Itachi? He's so cute and so capable." When Obito heard Sasuke's request, he flatly refused. After all, he thought of Itachi as a considerate young genius with exceptional talent.
He didn't know why Sasuke would say such a thing, but no matter what, he couldn't kill Itachi. Otherwise, Uncle Fugaku would never let him off.
Just as Sasuke was about to say that Itachi had wiped out the Uchiha Clan, a warning suddenly sounded in his head. Then Sasuke found that he couldn't say anything about Itachi.
Kakashi watched Sasuke struggle to speak and realized that the Inventory System Obito had mentioned must have expressly forbidden them from learning this information when they came here.
In the end, Sasuke could only give up.
Naruto asked curiously, "So what's your mission? Can you show us?"
Sakura and Sasuke looked curious too. They had never heard of anything like this either and wanted to see it for themselves.
Obito readily took out the scroll, and everyone gathered around to look.
[Mission: The Land of Waves is a country without shinobi. It has been taken over by a man named Gato. Mr. Tazuna came to Konoha to hire shinobi so that he could build a bridge and bring prosperity to the country. This mission is to protect Mr. Tazuna until he reaches the Land of Waves safely and put an end to Gato's monopoly over the Land of Waves.]
After seeing Obito's mission, Naruto was surprised to find that it was similar to theirs. The only difference was that they didn't have to put an end to Gato's monopoly over the Land of Waves.
So he asked Kakashi, "Kakashi-sensei, does that mean we can go with Obito?"
Kakashi looked at Obito, wanting to ask what he thought. He also hoped they could go together.
"No problem. I didn't expect your mission to be the same as mine. We're really lucky!" Obito readily agreed.
Kakashi then walked over to their employer, Mr. Tazuna, who looked somewhat nervous.
"Mr. Tazuna, if I remember correctly, you commissioned this as a C-Rank Mission. But Chunin were involved just now, which greatly increases the danger of the mission. Yet you didn't tell us," Kakashi said sternly.
In an ordinary mission, an employer might conceal crucial information and deliberately choose a lower mission rank to spend less money. This was extremely dangerous for shinobi.
If he hadn't accompanied them on this mission, Naruto and the others could never have completed it on their own.
So the objective of this mission would have to be changed. If the situation became especially dangerous, Kakashi had the right to abandon it. Therefore, he had to make some things clear to Tazuna beforehand.
Tazuna knew he was in the wrong. Unable to come up with more money, he had commissioned a C-Rank Mission for a lower fee. C-Rank Mission work could mainly include participating in wars at the invitation of other countries, providing escorts, investigating a person's conduct, capturing or subduing wild beasts, and delivering confidential documents. The pay ranged from thirty thousand to one hundred thousand ryo.
But the situation before them was beyond the scope of a C-Rank Mission, however they looked at it.
After Tazuna agreed to a series of Kakashi's conditions, the group continued on their way with Obito.
Obito also told Kakashi that, besides him, Rin, Kurenai Yuhi, and Might Guy from Konoha were also on this mission. However, they had appeared in different places, and Obito hadn't found Rin after looking around.
The news that Rin would be coming too made Kakashi both worried and a little guilty. If Obito found out that he hadn't fulfilled Obito's request, Kakashi didn't know what Obito would think.