F-Five people?
As Chiba ran his eyes down the names on the list one by one, his brow slowly furrowed, a faint gleam flickering in his eyes.
T-That was astonishing! Kakashi actually had five people willing to work with him! Unbelievable! That Kakashi!
The Kakashi who became cold and ruthless during missions! And yet he had managed to pull in five carefree people like that. Sure enough, the ninja world could not be measured by the mindset from my previous life!
At this moment, Chiba's heart was filled with shock.
To be honest, although he had handed this matter over to Kakashi, he had not held out much hope. He had figured two or three people would be about right. After all, he knew Kakashi's attitude toward missions. During the Third Shinobi World War, Hirohiko had carried out missions with him and had once mentioned that Kakashi was like two different people on and off a mission. Outside missions, Kakashi was quite easygoing. But the moment a mission came up, he became a completely different person.
His cold attitude of "the mission comes first" clearly ran counter to Konoha's Fire of Will—or rather, to the common value held by most Konoha ninja that comrades must not be abandoned. That was bound to make him unpopular, extremely unpopular. It might not matter much in everyday life, but on missions, Konoha ninja definitely would not like someone who could abandon comrades for the sake of a mission. His credibility during missions was extremely low.
Chiba truly had not placed much hope in having someone like that recruit people for the mission.
Yet unexpectedly, Kakashi had managed to persuade five people. In one stroke, he had filled most of the gap. Now they only needed two more people before they could begin.
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