When the intense white light appeared, everyone except Mu Yue was startled.
Obito instinctively shielded Nohara Rin behind him. Might Guy gathered a large amount of Chakra at his fingertips, ready to use Golden Horizon Line at any moment, while Kakashi nearly flung the egg away.
If this Ninja Beast egg had not been a gift from Mu Yue, Kakashi would have definitely thrown it away immediately.
He had never heard of a Ninja Beast egg glowing when it hatched. Usually, light this intense meant an Explosive Tag trap with quite a few Explosive Tags buried in it.
Mu Yue looked calmly toward the center of the white light. The glow rapidly faded, revealing a light-brown puppy with a large white tail in Kakashi's arms.
Kakashi stared blankly at the puppy in his arms, feeling as though his worldview as a ninja had taken a heavy blow.
Why had a dog hatched from an egg? Weren't dogs mammals?
And why did this dog have so much fur the moment it was born? Shouldn't newborns only have a little baby fuzz?
Kakashi's mind was full of question marks. He did not know whether he had read too few books or the wrong books.
Sensing Kakashi's friendly gaze, Rockruff looked back at him with its blue eyes. Man and dog stared at one another.
Although it was Rockruff's first time seeing Kakashi, perhaps because Kakashi had kept the egg with him for so long while incubating it, Rockruff did not find him unfamiliar at all. Instead, it felt especially close to him.
"Rock!" Rockruff happily stuck out its tongue and licked Kakashi's face.
Kakashi, caught completely off guard: ...
Under normal circumstances, Kakashi would have been able to dodge it. But the shock of a dog hatching from an egg had been