Knock, knock, knock!
Knock, knock, knock!
Knock, knock, knock!
The sound of someone knocking on the window kept drilling into his ears, slowly rousing his sleeping consciousness.
"Hm?"
Chiba groggily opened his eyes and slowly sat up. Then he turned to look at the window beside him. After yawning, a hint of bitterness appeared on his face.
"I'm saying, Kakashi, you really can't use the front door, can you?"
Then, with that bitterness still on his face, he spoke weakly.
At that moment, a figure hung upside down outside the window by his bed, peering at him with half-lidded eyes. One hand was slightly clenched into a fist and pressed against the glass.
Knock, knock, knock!
While Chiba was speaking, he knocked three more times.
"Ah..."
Chiba let out a long sigh, then walked lazily to the window and opened it.
"Heh..."
After opening it, he slumped his shoulders and turned back toward the bed, glancing at the clock in the instant he turned around.
6:40.
The hour and minute hands together displayed the time.
Tch! I knew it. It's definitely not time for me to get up yet! That Kakashi!
Last night, he had not gone to bed particularly late. After helping Yukina deliver the little booklet to the office of the Defense Force commander and personally handing it to Watanabe Kenshin, who was still working overtime, he had returned to the Japanese-style wooden house.
Then, after refining the anti-spy training program, he had gone to sleep.
But it was not yet time for him to get up. With his biological clock acting up, he could barely even open his eyes.
Tap!
Just as Chiba climbed back onto the bed, Kakashi flipped down and landed, standing in front of Chiba's desk in a normal posture.
"What were you working