What Are You Doing, Gangzi?

That utterly absurd scene nearly made Rin Nohara's brain crash.

She stood at the very front, her small hands nervously twisting together.

After swallowing hard, her pretty brows knotted into a tight frown. Her gaze swept back and forth over Obito, and she felt completely awful.

Rin murmured to herself.

"Why is Obito... constantly barking like a dog?"

Might Guy, standing beside her, shuddered all over when he heard that.

The two streams of passionate tears streaking down his face came to an abrupt stop.

Guy froze for a full two seconds, then scratched his head. His thick brows twisted like two braids as he sank into intense self-doubt.

Could it be... that those two cries Obito had just let out really weren't calls for the fire of youth to burn ever brighter?

Were they really just dog barks?!

At that moment, a deliberately profound, hoarse voice came from behind them.

"I think I've more or less figured this out."

Everyone turned around in unison.

Asuma stood there with a bruised black eye and fresh bandages wrapped around his head, looking like an injured patient who had escaped from the Medical Corps.

Although Kurenai Yuhi had pinned him down in the sand and beaten him senseless just ten minutes ago.

He still stubbornly kept both hands in his pockets, desperately maintaining the weathered dignity of a "mature man."

Holding an extinguished smoking pipe in his left hand and stroking his chin with his right, he analyzed the situation seriously in the tone of someone with experience.

"I remember that during special training, Ye casually mentioned that Obito was some kind of 'simp.'"

Asuma spoke solemnly.

"Think about it, could it be that..."

"The reason he kept barking like a dog and kneeling to Kakashi was because Ye taught him to