Those words sounded outrageously arrogant, leaving Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha, and Naruto Uzumaki at a loss for words.
Kakashi Hatake thought, Actually, he's not really bragging... This is such an unusual ability, and he's willing to tell us about it. That's pretty touching... But choosing to tell us right before we return to the village means Wu Yu must have prepared for the worst. If we... Well, mainly me. If I, a Jonin, reacted harshly after hearing him out, he might just run away...
Kakashi thought of many things.
A lot of things seemed to make sense all at once.
Why had Lady Tsunade suddenly returned to the village after so many years away, and taken Nakamori Wu Yu, a Ninja Academy student she'd had no reason to know, as her apprentice...
Going by what Sasuke and Wu Yu had just said, Wu Yu's ability had summoned completely random targets at first... Could it be that he'd summoned a clone of Lady Tsunade?
Wu Yu spread his hands toward the four of them. "If it's always completely random, I don't feel guilty at all. Whoever gets summoned, it's not like I did it on purpose, right?"
"But once you're able to choose who you summon, you gradually start to feel uncomfortable about it," Kakashi Hatake finished for him. "It's like taking something without permission—the kind of shady behavior you despise. Is that it?"
"Exactly!" Wu Yu nodded.
"So you're telling us because..." Naruto Uzumaki scratched his head.
Wu Yu grinned. "I'm asking for permission!"
"No! Way!"
Sakura Haruno was the first to object. She crossed her arms. "You can't summon my clone! That'd be so weird! It'd be me, but also your clone! Th-that—ugh!" She rubbed her arms. "I just feel like you'd do something really weird to a clone!"