It was about an hour later when Soji and Kakashi finally left the house and headed toward the Hokage Office Building.
Interestingly, the moment Kakashi left Soji's house, he kept cautiously looking around in every direction.
Anyone who didn't know better might have thought Kakashi was planning to steal something!
Soji was utterly baffled by this.
Still, he could tell that Kakashi seemed to be avoiding something.
So Kakashi was treating my house like a shelter? Soji thought speechlessly.
Fortunately for Kakashi, after staying at Soji's house for so long, he did not see that youth-obsessed idiot Might Guy again once he came outside.
That let him breathe a sigh of relief.
The two made their way to the Hokage Office Building without incident, and Might Guy did not suddenly appear as Kakashi had feared.
Soji and Kakashi's leave requests went quite smoothly. The Third Hokage did not make things difficult for them.
After all, whether Soji was in the village or not, he was always slacking off anyway. Even if he left Konoha for a short while, nothing would go wrong at the Ministry of Education.
As for Kakashi, the Third Hokage had seen his desperate work ethic ever since he joined the Anbu.
Now that he rarely wanted to take some leave, why would there be any reason not to approve it?
Besides, both Soji and Kakashi had clearly stated that they were taking leave to visit Hatake Sakumo in Daimyo City. The Third Hokage had even less reason to refuse.
The Third Hokage had always felt rather guilty toward Hatake Sakumo.
Although Danzo had been the one secretly fanning the flames and spreading those rumors back then, he had not stopped them. He had even tacitly approved of them.
In the end, Hatake Sakumo had become utterly