Guy: Go back and tell Kakashi I originally saved that move for him

Tsunade walked up to Naruto Uzumaki with a helpless look and parted her red lips.

That afternoon.

Naruto Uzumaki smiled and greeted Kakashi Hatake and Sakura Haruno, who had been waiting at the village entrance for some time.

"Sorry I'm late. I had to help an old lady cross the road."

"Naruto, it's fine if you're late. We're not going to blame you. You don't need to make up such a weird excuse."

Sakura Haruno grinned at him.

"No, Sakura..."

"Other excuses might be made up, but helping an old lady cross the road is no strange excuse."

Hearing Sakura's words, Kakashi Hatake offered a serious explanation.

"I once had a dear friend who said he'd been delayed helping an old lady cross the road every time he was late."

"I didn't believe him at first, but later I found out he was telling the truth."

"He was once known throughout the village as the old ladies' friend."

"But as those old ladies passed away one after another, my friend's reputation gradually faded from memory..."

"If you're wondering who that friend was, sorry, I can't..."

Halfway through, Kakashi Hatake noticed that everything around him had gone quiet.

Puzzled, he looked up from the copy of Icha Icha Paradise in his hand and found that Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno were long gone.

"Well... Those two have less and less respect for their elders."

"Obito, if you had students like them, you'd be shouting your head off, wouldn't you?"

Kakashi sighed as he looked up at the blue sky.

Then,

He touched the Forehead Protector covering his left eye and rushed after them.

At the junction of the Land of Fire, the Land of Frost, the Land of Waterfalls, and the Land of Rice Fields stood a town that had