Tragic Timing

To be honest, given Qi's current strength and status, there were very few people who could make it impossible for him to refuse once they asked.

Setting aside the few friends his age and several elders, there was basically no one who fell somewhere in between those two groups.

The reason he said "basically" was because there really were one or two such people.

Unfortunately, Minato was one of them.

Leaving aside their bond as fellow disciples, Minato had once given him the Flying Thunder God Technique without holding anything back. Qi simply could not bring himself to refuse Minato. That kind of magnanimity alone was something he knew he could never manage.

Come to think of it, Uzumaki Naruto was already eleven or twelve years old. According to the original story, this was indeed the age at which he graduated from the Ninja Academy and became Kakashi's student.

But the original Kakashi had been bored to death, with enough time to read adult books for entertainment. Now, he had somehow become an incredibly busy man.

Meanwhile, he, Kagetsu Qi, had become the idlest person around...

No matter how hard Qi thought about it, he could not figure it out. Especially after giving it some serious thought, he realized that he really was absurdly free right now!

As the head of the Root... ah, the Anbu, all he really had to do was receive reports from his subordinates. Under normal circumstances, ordinary missions would not even reach him. To put it bluntly, ordinary missions simply could not afford to hire him anymore. In terms of strength, he belonged to Konoha's top tier of combat power. In terms of position, he was one of the heads of Konoha's three major armed divisions. Unless it was an important mission involving the entire