At this moment, Kakashi and Might Guy, having finished their match, lay atop Hokage Rock, gasping for breath.
But they had barely lain down when Might Guy suddenly fired up again like a machine that never knew exhaustion.
"Yosh! As expected of my lifelong rival, I never thought you'd pull the score even again!"
"I've decided! Next time, I'll definitely win it back! To punish myself for this defeat, I've decided to do three thousand push-ups first. If I can't finish them, I'll do five hundred laps around Konoha on my hands!"
Kakashi looked utterly unsurprised and paid no attention to Might Guy's impossible task. After their recent match, both of them were already exhausted. And with those terrifying weights on Guy's body, he would not even last five hundred push-ups.
Right now, he only wanted to loaf around for a while and enjoy the sense of fulfillment that came after exhaustion. Do nothing, think about nothing.
"This was probably the life Father had struggled his whole life to achieve."
Before Kakashi could finish sighing, Might Guy's somewhat serious voice came from beside him.
"Kakashi, did something happen in the village? I'm not good at socializing, but ever since returning, I've sensed an unusual atmosphere in the village.
"And you too. You've always lacked motivation, yet you've suddenly become so driven. You even took the initiative to approach the Uchiha Clan. Was it because of the change brought by that young man just now?"
"An unexpectedly sharp intuition? You really can't hide anything from you." Kakashi glanced in surprise at Might Guy, who had already stopped training.
"Well, it's nothing too serious.
"The Uchiha Clan discovered the truth behind the human experiments from back then, then dug out and killed Shimura Danzō, who had coveted their clan's Kekkei Genkai and