"Hey... hey, hey..."
Watching Kakashi and Hirohiko utterly ignore him as they flipped through the scrolls, Chiba slowly narrowed his eyes, and the corner of his mouth nearly twitched. Unable to help himself, he called out twice more to remind them of his presence.
Still, despite the irritation in his voice, the restlessness in his heart had somehow eased considerably.
But those two attempts to make his presence known were ruthlessly ignored. Kakashi and Hirohiko did not so much as raise their eyelids, continuing with what they were doing and paying Chiba no attention whatsoever.
"Uh..."
Chiba's mouth twitched again.
Honestly, he had not known this thing would be so captivating—especially to people like Kakashi and Hirohiko. He felt that ordinary shinobi might find it astonishing, perhaps even shocking.
But for smart people like Kakashi and Hirohiko, at most they should have marveled at it a little. There should not have been any greater reaction.
Yet those two had completely shut him out.
Was it really that incredible? Chiba wondered helplessly.
To him, a plan of this caliber was nothing remarkable. Given an entire day yesterday, writing it down had not been difficult. Besides, with nothing else to do, he had been far more focused than usual, so it was perfectly natural that he had managed to write it.
Seeing the expressions on Hirohiko and Kakashi's faces—faces that seemed to say, "How could a person possibly write something like this?"—he began to suspect that he really had written something extraordinary.
Though he himself did not think much of it. When he had come up with the Fate Alteration Plan, he had racked his brains far more than he had writing this.
"I mean... how long are you two planning to keep reading? Shouldn't we think of a way to deal