"Kakashi!!!"
Kakashi looked on with black lines practically hanging over his head as Might Guy came running over in tears, looking utterly heartbroken and miserable, tears streaming down his face.
After reaching him, Guy tightly grabbed Kakashi's shoulders. He brought his tear-blurred, terribly ugly face right up close, then said something that made Kakashi feel deeply uncomfortable.
"I heard that the Sharingan made you impotent!"
"..."
Even though he had mentally prepared himself already, hearing Guy cry out something like that still hit Kakashi hard.
That was right. Kakashi had already heard those rumors—that the Sharingan caused impotence, that the Uchiha Clan was impotent because of the Sharingan, and that he, Kakashi, had suffered terribly because of the Sharingan and had become impotent as well.
The first time Kakashi heard those rumors, he had been deeply shaken. What consoled him somewhat was that the rumors were not aimed at him alone; the entire Uchiha Clan, with their Sharingan, was sharing the burden with him.
At the same time, though, he felt somewhat guilty. After all, he roughly knew that the source of the news getting out was probably himself.
He could probably guess that it had happened when he went to buy medicine at the pharmacy last time.
He had happened to run into the village's strategist, one of the few truly intelligent people in the village—the Nara Clan head, Shikaku.
If the Nara Clan head had deliberately looked into it, he surely could have guessed something. Then, after letting a little slip, the rumor had spread, becoming more and more outrageous along the way... In the end, it was still his own carelessness.
Because of him, even the Uchiha Clan's reputation had been damaged.
"Kakashi! Waaaaah! What are you going to do? You're impotent—you're no longer a man!" Guy