With questions in their minds, Hideki and the other two followed an ANBU member away.
Along the way, Kakashi and Obito bickered without stopping.
Obito: "Do you know what this is? The Sharingan—the Sharingan, man! You don't believe what I saw, so what the hell do you want?!"
Kakashi: "Then why didn't you catch them?"
Obito: "Huh!? Like you caught them yourself!"
Kakashi: "Nope. I don't have the Sharingan. If I did, wouldn't I have caught them?"
Hideki: "...Cut it out..."
Obito (worked up): "Damn it! Fine, take my eye and go catch them for me! Go on, go!"
Kakashi (worked up): "Too late. They're already gone. Besides, that eye of yours is practically blind—no dog would want it."
Obito (One-Tomoe Sharingan): "You bastard... Kakashi, draw your sword. Right now! This instant!"
Kakashi (drawing his sword): "You think I'm scared? Whoever loses crawls home!"
"..."
Unable to take it anymore, Hideki could only pull out his ultimate move: "Little Pepper is here!"
Obito & Kakashi (instantly): ┗( T﹏T )┛
Konoha had Little Pepper, capable of making children stop crying at night.
Hideki roughly understood what Kakashi and Obito had run into.
Following the shopkeeper's directions, the two had chased after them all the way. With their familiarity with Konoha, they had actually managed to catch up.
But then a problem arose.
Obito saw the father and daughter in the east, while Kakashi saw the same figures directly ahead.
Both were nothing more than backs swallowed by the vast crowd.
Obito trusted his own judgment, and so did Kakashi.
So they split up, but the result was destined to be the same—they were quickly thrown off. Obito had even nearly been hit by a shuriken.
Kakashi had actually guessed that the enemy must have had accomplices. It was no surprise that