"No problem, no problem."
Naruto waved his hands repeatedly, then studied Kakashi closely. He realized that young Kakashi wasn't as lazy as he was when he grew up.
"Kakashi, Naruto's looking at you kind of strangely. Could he have fallen for you?"
Obito's ill-timed words made Kakashi back away several steps. Kakashi had already been exposed to Jiraiya's novels and no longer considered himself a naïve innocent. Obito's words made him react involuntarily.
"Naruto, what brings you to Rōran?"
Minato Namikaze asked. He urgently needed information about Rōran.
"I was sent by the Hokage to capture the Sand shinobi, the missing-nin Mukade. But Mukade forcibly broke the Fourth Hokage's seal, and I got sucked inside and ended up here."
Naruto told them everything he knew.
"What are you talking about? The Fourth Hokage? The Third hasn't stepped down yet, so how could there be a Fourth?"
Obito immediately sensed something was wrong and hurriedly berated Naruto. He suspected this guy was trying to take them for fools.
"But it's true! Granny Tsunade told me so!"
Naruto said indignantly. Why was he getting scolded for telling the truth? He didn't understand.
"What he says is true. He's not from this time."
Karot spoke up.
"What?"
Everyone looked incredulous. But Karot was the one who had said it. Belief and doubt battled in their minds, and they needed him to tell them more.
"Minato-senpai already figured that out, didn't he?"
Karot followed up with another bombshell.
Everyone turned to Minato Namikaze, who nodded.
"I only suspected it before. Now I've confirmed it. But how did you know, Karot?"
Minato asked.
"The Nine-Tails is inside his stomach."
"Ah!" x4
"How is that possible?"
"How do you know?"
As Minato's students, Kakashi and the others knew that Minato's girlfriend was the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki, and