"Shouldn't ninjas put missions first? Aren't missions the most important thing?" After leaving the Hokage Building, Kakashi recalled Nagatomo Toda's expression in the office, feeling somewhat confused.
He had said that Nagatomo Toda was a qualified ninja for completing the mission, yet Nagatomo Toda had not been happy. There had even been a trace of anger in the way he looked at him.
If they had not been in the Hokage's Office, Kakashi felt that Nagatomo Toda might have said something.
But Kakashi did not understand why Nagatomo Toda was angry with him. It was not Kakashi who had killed his teammates; the enemies had. He had merely voiced his opinion.
Could a disciple's life and death really be more important than completing the mission? Kakashi thought.
If Nagatomo Toda really thought that way, then Kakashi felt it was probably for the best that he would no longer serve as an instructor. Someone with that kind of mindset was not a qualified ninja at all.
"A qualified ninja should complete the mission at any cost, even if it leads to a teammate's death..." That night, after returning home, Kakashi stared at the pitch-black house and murmured.
Once, Kakashi had also had a father who made him proud.
His father was Hatake Sakumo. He was extremely strong and had earned tremendous achievements during the Second Ninja World War, killing many ninjas from hostile villages. He had been respectfully known as Konoha's White Fang.
Kakashi had admired his strong and dependable father, always training hard with his father as his goal. He had graduated from the Ninja Academy at five and become a Chunin at six. All of it had been in pursuit of following in his father's footsteps.
But something that happened when he was seven changed Hatake Sakumo's image in