Hinata, Stop Pretending

Baki smiled and said to Kakashi, "Let's enter the village first. We can continue discussing this operation in detail once we're inside."

Led by Baki, the group headed straight to the rest area Sunagakure had specially prepared for guests.

As for what came next, Baki would lead Kakashi and Yagi Rei—who had traveled with Kakashi's group but remained hidden in the shadows, clearly a man of few words—this mysterious elite jonin of high standing from the Hokage's faction, to discuss the specifics of their upcoming cooperation with Sunagakure's representatives as Konoha's Hokage's envoys.

After several hours of intense discussions, Naruto and Sakura, who had been waiting outside and were already growing drowsy, finally saw Kakashi and Yagi Rei.

However, Yagi Rei seemed to have received a new mission. After nodding to them in greeting, he chose to leave immediately.

Kakashi clearly had no intention of telling Naruto and the others where the jonin was headed next.

Instead, he gathered the three of them in a room and, with a solemn expression, described every detail of the matter.

After giving them a brief introduction, Kakashi said with utmost seriousness, "Everyone, although you should still be considered newly graduated ninja..."

"...the mission you—and that includes me—will be undertaking this time is only a simple outer-perimeter assignment. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be much danger."

"Nor should you have to bear any serious responsibility. But I still need to tell you that this mission is not child's play."

"The matters involved are extremely complicated. Even a slight mishandling could directly become the beginning of the Fourth Great Ninja War."

"Under these circumstances, I hope you remember that this mission is absolutely not something you can decide on your own."

"If I find out otherwise, I'll strip you of the very foundation of being ninja.