"This mission went smoothly again. We wrapped it up without much trouble."
Several Konoha ninja were cleaning up the battlefield, collecting kunai and shuriken. They looked toward their white-haired team leader, who was writing the mission report, and sighed appreciatively.
"Mostly because Kakashi was with us. With him around, even a B-rank mission is a breeze."
"B-rank? You're seriously underestimating him. I bet even an A-rank mission would be effortless for Kakashi. You weren't there when I went with him to track down that band of rogue ninja. I thought we'd spend ten days or half a month investigating, like usual. But before dawn on the second day, Kakashi told us we could get ready to head back to the village..."
"Right, right! The guard job for that rich merchant five days ago was the same. Apparently, he'd landed some big project and his business rivals had targeted him. We were supposed to protect him for at least six months to make sure the project went smoothly. Instead, Kakashi visited every one of his business rivals that very night... Before long, they all came to apologize to the merchant. I heard one of them was a thug who'd bullied him as a kid. Even the merchant himself had forgotten the guy existed, but Kakashi still tracked him down..."
"Seriously?"
"That's insane!"
"But when you remember it's Kakashi, it doesn't seem so strange."
"He is the strongest jonin in Konoha, after all!"
"Huh? But I heard the strongest jonin in our village was Naruto. He turned everything around during the Chunin Ninja Exams, and he and the Nine-Tails intimidated the entire shinobi world..."
"Idiot. Naruto-kun is strong, but Kakashi is his teacher. Naruto-kun is still young, after all. His experience definitely can't compare to Kakashi's."
"Good point..."
Amid their post-battle banter,