After Kakashi Hatake left, no one beside the campfire spoke.
The members of Team Shisui were fairly calm, but Obito and Rin Nohara seemed to have something blocking their throats. Neither made a sound for a long time.
After a lengthy silence, Obito suddenly raised his head.
"Something doesn't add up about Kakashi!"
"You said a lot just now, but there's one part you can't explain. The first team Kakashi joined wasn't Minato-sensei's."
"He was transferred to us because he couldn't get along with the others. But what about me? I'm an Uchiha, and Rin is a civilian with no clan background at all. According to your reasoning, how did either of us get into Minato Teacher's team?"
Obito still refused to concede.
He stared fixedly at Kazama Nara and the others, as though finding a single hole in their arguments would prove his dream wasn't a joke.
Rin Nohara looked up as well. She couldn't understand that point either.
She was simply quiet by nature. Though she usually seemed cheerful, she rarely voiced her true thoughts. Since Obito had already asked, she waited for an answer too.
Kazama Nara answered without hesitation.
"The village has plenty of shinobi who can't get along with others. When a war drags on, naturally, plenty of people develop psychological problems."
"Go back to Konoha and take a look. You'll see that those withdrawn, mentally troubled shinobi only end up taking one of two paths."
"First, they're sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder and die there. Second, they leave the shinobi ranks and return to the village as ordinary civilians. Either way, things don't end well for them."
He looked at Obito, his tone level, but each sentence more blunt than the last.
"But why was Kakashi allowed to change teams again and