"Then I'll go."
After watching the Anbu Ninja for a moment, Kakashi blinked in slight puzzlement. He glanced once at Chiba, handed the form scroll back to him, left those words behind, and followed the Anbu Ninja away.
"Oh, go ahead."
Chiba took back the form scroll and, after saying that, watched the two leave.
At a time like this, someone was looking for Kakashi?
What could it be? After watching them depart, Chiba stood there for a while before returning to his desk and sitting down, a slight frown forming between his brows.
The ten-day stay-in-camp period had only just ended, and the Anbu had come for Kakashi. No, it should be Minato Namikaze who had come for Kakashi.
This...
Could something have happened in the village?
Or...
Was Kakashi going to join the Anbu?
This... did the Anbu have such a great need for manpower that they wanted to recruit Kakashi? As his brow furrowed, Chiba began turning the matter over in his mind.
At this stage, if the Hokage was looking for Kakashi, then either something had happened in the village and Kakashi was needed to cut short his leave and deal with it, or it was the plot from the original story. In other words, the gears of Kakashi's fate were about to start turning.
He was going to join the Anbu, and quite possibly become an Anbu captain.
Kakashi was still officially on leave. The reason he had come here to help Chiba was certainly, first, because of Chiba, and second, because Kakashi needed something to ease his grief. This busy work could count as one way to distract himself.
The Hokage had granted him this long-term leave. Unless something happened in the village that absolutely required Kakashi's presence, no deployment order could summon him—except