The Unsolved Mystery: Was Haku Male or Female?

What the hell did Masashi Kishimoto, that lousy manga artist, know about Hokage?!

Masashi Kishimoto? A manga artist?

Hatake Kakashi searched his memories carefully, yet he truly could not recall any manga artist named Masashi Kishimoto.

Not to mention what it meant for Masashi Kishimoto to know nothing about Hokage.

Why was this becoming more and more incoherent?

It was complete nonsense.

But then Hatake Kakashi noticed the mention of Uzumaki Naruto. Could Naruto grow into something incredible in the future?

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The Hokage's child would still become Hokage, while the Scapegoat's child would still be a Scapegoat.

Uzumaki Naruto was undoubtedly the Hokage's child. Did that mean Naruto might become the next generation's Hokage in the future?

For a moment, Hatake Kakashi's mind raced with countless thoughts.

And what was this Old Sly Bastard of the Shinobi World?

Any one of them could destroy heaven and earth?

Was that really necessary?

Wasn't that a bit exaggerated?

Hatake Kakashi could only conclude that Kitahara Kaede had been exaggerating.

Because if the description were taken literally, even a Kage Level powerhouse could not achieve the level of destroying heaven and earth that Kitahara Kaede had described. Only the destructive power of a Tailed Beast came anywhere close.

"Uzumaki Naruto? How far could he grow? That Dead Last?"

Second Pillar stared at what had been recorded in the diary in shock.

After absorbing and processing everything over this period, he was already certain that Kitahara Kaede had some channel through which he obtained information about the future.

In other words, would Uzumaki Naruto, that Dead Last, become a powerful shinobi in the future?

Powerful enough to earn even Kitahara Kaede's admiration?

And who was Masashi Kishimoto?

Why had he never heard of him?

As for the jab that the Hokage's child would still become Hokage, while the Scapegoat's child would still become a Scapegoat, Second Pillar did not feel much about it. He himself supported that theory—or rather, he had benefited greatly from it.

He had originally been the younger son of the Uchiha Clan's patriarch, the greatest clan in the Shinobi World. From birth, he had stood at a starting point ordinary shinobi could scarcely imagine.

So what was wrong with the Hokage's son becoming Hokage, and the Scapegoat's son becoming a Scapegoat?

Born as the patriarch's son, he was destined to restore the Uchiha Clan's glory. That was a mission carved into his bones.

Clearly, both Hatake Kakashi and Second Pillar accepted bloodline theory far more readily than Kitahara Kaede. Or rather, they themselves were beneficiaries of it.

Could Hatake Kakashi have become Konoha's Number One Technician without any connection to his father, Hatake Sakumo, the White Fang of Konoha?

Still, although neither side knew who Masashi Kishimoto was, that name had undoubtedly entered both their fields of vision.

[Next should be Ninja Academy graduation, right? Uzumaki Naruto really is the protagonist. Even graduating had to cause a huge commotion—he even stole the Scroll of Seals. Too bad I can't go watch, or I'd probably get killed!

Uzumaki Naruto could watch because he was Uzumaki Naruto. The network behind him reached throughout the Konoha Higher-ups. Other than Pot Kage Shimura Danzō, they were all his own people.

Now that's the treatment of a Crown Prince!]

The Scroll of Seals had been stolen?

Hatake Kakashi was stunned. The importance of the Scroll of Seals to Konoha went without saying. It contained many forbidden ninjutsu that ordinary shinobi had no chance of even glimpsing.

Even for an Elite Jonin like him, Konoha's Number One Technician, applying to learn a ninjutsu from the Scroll of Seals was no simple matter.

Yet it had been stolen because of Uzumaki Naruto's graduation?

How was that possible?

Given Uzumaki Naruto's knowledge, he should not have known about the Scroll of Seals at all. In other words, someone had egged him on?

Who could have egged him on?

This was dangerous. Who was that person, and what was their purpose?

What confused him even more was that, because the Scroll of Seals was so important, no one besides the Third Hokage had the authority to view it at any time. Furthermore, at least one Anbu squad was always stationed in the room where it was kept.

How could Uzumaki Naruto break through an Anbu squad's blockade and obtain the Scroll of Seals? Did that make sense?

For a moment, countless guesses flashed through Hatake Kakashi's mind.

But he did not deny the claim that Uzumaki Naruto's network extended throughout the Konoha Higher-ups. That was simply reality.

His father was the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and his future Jonin instructor would be Konoha's Number One Technician himself.

Jiraiya, the Sage and one of the Sannin, was his grandmaster, while Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage, was his great-grandmaster. Furthermore, his identity as a member of the Uzumaki Clan could also be linked to the now-untraceable Senju Clan.

It could be said that the reason he could cause trouble everywhere all day long, even scribbling all over Hokage Rock, was because those connections were protecting him.

If it had been anyone else, they would have died long ago.

Calling Uzumaki Naruto Konoha's hidden Crown Prince was not an exaggeration at all.

Of course, he was not Konoha's only Crown Prince. There was also Konohamaru Sarutobi, another descendant of the Hokage.

Only Second Pillar was utterly confused. What connections did that Dead Last even have? He was clearly an orphan nobody cared about, so what did it mean that his network reached throughout Konoha's upper ranks?

Even in the previous video, Uchiha Itachi had mentioned that he had returned to Konoha not for Sasuke, his little brother, but for Uzumaki Naruto—the so-called Fourth Hokage's legacy.

So Uzumaki Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto, it was Uzumaki Naruto again.

Just who was he?

[After the graduation spectacle, it should fast-forward to the Land of Waves, right? The protagonist group would face their first true test of life and death. Zabuza and Kakashi's Jonin battle was still amazing in the early stages. What a shame—after they were revived later, what the hell even was that?

Uzumaki Naruto and Second Pillar worked together seamlessly too. They really were the protagonist group; their first real combat performance was already pretty good.

But Haku was still a pity. There was one unsolved mystery, though: was Haku male or female?]

"The Land of Waves?" Hatake Kakashi analyzed the meaning of those words. Could a future mission involve the Land of Waves?

Their first test of life and death?

With Hatake Kakashi's strength, what kind of life-or-death test could there possibly be in leading a rookie squad on missions? Wasn't that looking down on Hatake Kakashi?

Yet the instant he saw Zabuza mentioned, he understood.

Ordinary missions could never involve a life-or-death test, but if Zabuza was involved, everything changed.

And Kisame Hoshigaki had said in the previous video that his future self had once fought Zabuza. That should have been this battle in the Land of Waves.