"Hiss."
For some reason, Kakashi felt a chill around his backside. He turned his head and looked at Uchiha Gin, who was following behind him, his eyes full of confusion.
But very quickly, he shifted his gaze to Yamato, whose face was deathly pale, and raised his short little leg to kick the other boy hard in his vulnerable knee.
Thud!
"You're not honest at all, are you? Were you secretly cursing me in your heart?"
"Ka—I wasn't!"
With his Chakra sealed by Uchiha Gin, Yamato had suffered plenty of Kakashi's bullying along the way. Faced with the future senior's tyranny, Yamato, a proper Konoha man through and through, could only sadly choose to endure it.
"Thud!"
"Ahh~~!"
"You still dare talk back? There are only three of us here. If it wasn't you, could it have been my respected uncle?"
Expressionlessly withdrawing the little hand he had smashed into Yamato's other knee, Kakashi said coldly.
"It really, really wasn't..."
Yamato, his stomach full of grievances, had almost cried himself dry. Never in his dreams had he imagined that Senior Kakashi, whom he had always respected, had been such a nasty little devil pill when he was young.
"Something's coming."
Uchiha Gin, who had been watching with great interest as the two people displaced in time engaged in their "friendly exchange," suddenly turned his head toward a spot not far away. A small swarm of floating black insects was flying rapidly in their direction.
"They're Senior Shibi's Kikaichū."
Seeing this, Kakashi quickly put down the club he had been using to interrogate Yamato and raised his hand to catch the descending Kikaichū. Watching the swarm arrange itself in one meaningless-looking code after another in his palm, his little brows instantly furrowed hard.
"This..."
What was it saying?
After hesitating for