What Do You Call a Dream-Fulfilling Master (Tactical Lean Back)

"Why would I be happy to see you?"

Wu Yu wasn't afraid of trading barbs with a clone. Counting on his fingers, he said, "Go on, tell me—what can you do?"

"I know Medical Ninjutsu!" Right Mysterious Rin sat on the toilet, swinging her slender legs.

Wu Yu said, "My master is Tsunade."

Right Mysterious Rin said, "I'm pretty decent at Taijutsu."

Wu Yu said, "My master is Tsunade."

Right Mysterious Rin said, "My Water Style Jutsu is pretty good too!"

Wu Yu said, "My master is Tsunade."

Tsunade seemed to have both Water and Earth natures. Though she rarely used Five Elements Release, she should still be fairly skilled at it... Speaking of which, Wood Release was Water plus Earth. Maybe Tsunade couldn't use Wood Release and, out of embarrassment, took it out on Water Style and Earth Release... never using them again.

Right Mysterious Rin kicked Wu Yu and snapped, "Is that the only thing you know how to say? I know a little Genjutsu too!"

Wu Yu said, "I'm immune to Genjutsu."

[I should be immune, right?] he quietly asked in his mind, rubbing Jade Rabbit in his mental sea.

[Of course!] Jade Rabbit squinted blissfully as he petted her and giggled. [If you get caught in Genjutsu, Wu Yu, I'll wake you up immediately.]

"Haah..."

Right Mysterious Rin sighed softly, drew up her legs, and hugged her knees in dejection. "I really don't seem to be of much use!"

Wu Yu smiled. "Actually, you have one major use, and it's already taken effect."

"Oh?" Right Mysterious Rin curiously looked herself over, then hugged her legs and tilted her head, blinking her large eyes. "What is it?"

Wu Yu realized that while she was only an ordinarily pretty girl, and her facial features were not as striking as Sakura Haruno's outside, she possessed a naturally alluring blend of innocence and sensuality. Her temperament added a great deal to her charm.

No wonder Kamui Bro had been obsessed with creating a world with Rin in it. It hurt too much.

"That is, your appearance proved something to me..."

Wu Yu reached out and lifted Right Mysterious Rin's chin. "It turns out that even the dead can become my Mysterious Clone."

"Thank you for reminding me that I'm dead."

Right Mysterious Rin lightly swatted his hand away. "You're really strange. You actually flirt with your own clone."

Wu Yu joked, "Maybe I wouldn't stop at flirting."

Right Mysterious Rin said seriously, "Then you wouldn't just be strange. You'd be lewd, tasteless, and super weird!"

Wu Yu smiled. "You don't seem to be planning to refuse."

Right Mysterious Rin looked puzzled. "I'm a clone, aren't I? Why would I refuse my original body's request?" She added, "That is, if you really are a lewd, tasteless, super weird freak."

"Aren't you pretty weird too, saying something so suggestive with a straight face?"

Wu Yu shook his head speechlessly. He reached out, pressed down Right Mysterious Rin's legs, and felt toward her lower abdomen as he asked inwardly, [Little Jade, does she have the Three-Tails inside her?]

[A Tailed Beast? I don't sense one.]

"Just as Kakashi's Mysterious Clone doesn't have the Sharingan, although Rin Nohara had the Three-Tails sealed inside her before she died, the Mysterious Clone's mechanism doesn't consider it part of Rin Nohara herself..."

With that thought, Wu Yu withdrew his hand. An anxious diner began pounding on the bathroom door from outside, so he asked Right Mysterious Rin, "How long can your Shadow Clone Technique last?"

Right Mysterious Rin shook her head. "I never learned it."

Wu Yu said, "Then if you did learn it, how long do you think you could maintain it?"

Right Mysterious Rin thought for a moment. "I'm a medical ninja. Even if I practiced the Shadow Clone Technique, I'd only train it until it was useful enough—two hours at most. That would definitely be enough for emergencies."

Wu Yu said, "Then for these two hours, go do whatever you want. I don't have any demands for you."

"Hey! Are you done yet?!"

The person outside pounded frantically on the door. "What's taking so—"

Before he could knock again, the door opened, and two identical black-haired youths walked out.

Pretty handsome, huh? If you weren't a ninja, I'd have slapped you long ago! Hmph... Damn it, using some kind of clone technique just to use the restroom? What the hell is wrong with you?

Whoosh. One of the Wu Yus pulled open the window, preparing to climb out.

Wu Yu said to Right Mysterious Rin, "Kakashi is resting at his own home."

Right Mysterious Rin, transformed into Wu Yu, paused. "Thank you," she said softly.

Whoosh. She vanished through the window.

Wu Yu stepped forward and closed it. The last wisp of night wind swept up his black hair.

What did you mean, dream-fulfillment master? Tactical lean back.

"You took so long! Was it because you ate too much meat?"

Naruto Uzumaki and the other two, whose plates had long since been cleared, complained to Wu Yu when he finally emerged from the restroom. Of course, Naruto was the loudest—Wu Yu walked over and squeezed Naruto's head between both fists, making the latter shriek in pain.

Sakura paid the bill with the money Kakashi had given her. The three of them left the restaurant smelling strongly of food.

Night had already fallen. Konoha's countless lights illuminated street after street.

"Let's walk Sasuke home. His place is the farthest," Wu Yu suggested. "Then Sakura, and then I'll stay over at Naruto's for the night."

"Sure, sure!" Sakura Haruno hurriedly agreed.

Sasuke Uchiha immediately saw through him and laughed. "So you're going to Naruto's to mooch a meal this time?"

"Yep, I'm out of money! I'm just waiting to earn some wages by doing missions."

Sasuke was speechless. This guy's skin was as thick as an adult's.

Before long, Sasuke Uchiha walked back to the Uchiha Clan Compound through the night. He stopped and turned back, looking at Wu Yu, Naruto Uzumaki, and Sakura Haruno waving goodbye to him, a feeling he could not put into words rising in his heart.

He knew it was a grounded sense of fulfillment, light and faint, yet very happy.

But he also suspected it was something that would make him unable to resist relying on it, something that would make him weak. That thought filled him with panic and left his mind in turmoil.

Right Mysterious Kakashi squatted on the toilet lid in his bathroom, rapidly recording all the techniques he had mastered onto a blank scroll—this was the first time he somewhat regretted whether he had copied too many random ninjutsu with the eye Obito had given him. Was this his retribution now?

Suddenly, his nose twitched. He smelled his own scent approaching from the bedroom.

"I should have erased my scent already... Damn it, but it's me, after all. My vigilance is too high," Right Mysterious Kakashi thought. "Even while resting at home, I can notice anything unusual at any time. As expected of me."

Kakashi Hatake opened the bathroom door and, after finding no one inside and nothing out of place, kept his left eye shut and muttered to himself, "I'm too tired. Has my body become sluggish? Are my senses malfunctioning too? I really should get some proper rest..."

Outside the window, Right Mysterious Kakashi moved sideways along the eaves and walls, silently and lightly flipping onto the roof beneath the night sky.

Just as he was about to look for the original body, he saw it already approaching under the moonlight. After landing before him, it gave a faint smile, formed a one-handed seal, and with a Poof, reverted to Rin Nohara's original appearance.

"Kakashi, you're overworking yourself again, aren't you? Weren't you resting?" Right Mysterious Rin asked softly.

"...?!"

Shocked, Right Mysterious Kakashi's thoughts raced, and he quickly understood. This had to be the original body's Mysterious Clone. He held Right Mysterious Rin's hand and sighed. "Rin, you've got the wrong person."

"Hm?" Right Mysterious Rin tilted her head.

"The real empty-headed scarecrow is downstairs."

Splash!

Kakashi Hatake pulled down his mask and splashed cold water over his face. He touched his forehead. He felt dizzy—was it a little hot? Had he overused his ocular power and burned out his brain channels?

"Rin..."

Rin Nohara appeared in the mirror. Kakashi reached out and rubbed at the image, sighing inwardly. As expected, he had a fever. He was starting to hallucinate...

"Kakashi, so this is what you look like beneath your mask?"

Rin in the mirror smiled brightly. "If Obito saw this, he'd definitely be even more jealous of you."