The bloody sight on the cross turned Sakura Haruno and Naruto Uzumaki pale, sweat beading on their foreheads.
Sasuke Uchiha watched Kakashi examine the body, memorizing and learning his procedure. Then he suddenly heard a voice pushing its way through the crowd: "Huh? What's going on here?"
"Wu Yu?!" Naruto pointed at him angrily. "Where'd you run off to so early this morning? Sasuke and I couldn't find you!"
Wu Yu came forward as if nothing had happened, circling around to look at the scattered pieces of Gato's body. "What do you mean, where'd I run off to? I got up early and went for a walk."
"This is Gato," Kakashi Hatake said. "He was an enemy of the Wave Country and Zabuza's employer. It looks like... he was assassinated by a powerful ninja."
More residents of the Wave Country, dressed in rags, came running from a short distance away. Their faces showed a mixture of joy and fear as they shouted to the crowd, "Over at the harbor! At Gato's mansion! All the samurai he had there have been taken out too!"
The crowd erupted into a clamor, asking one another:
"Are they all dead?"
"They're definitely dead!"
"Who did it?"
"Didn't the Konoha Ninja say? Other ninjas did it!"
"Rich bastards like him have enemies all over the world! He got what he deserved!"
"What about Gato's ships at the harbor?"
"Come on! Let's go see!"
The crowd, which had gathered in a noisy rush, surged away just as noisily, flooding toward the harbor.
Before long, only Tazuna's family and the Konoha group remained on the blood-soaked street.
"Aren't you going to go take a look?" Kakashi asked Tazuna curiously.
Tazuna grabbed the towel hanging around his neck and wiped away his sweat, smiling. "Nah. I'm just