Luo Mang was sorting through his abilities and how to use them.
Sakura Haruno watched him quietly. When Luo Mang sighed, she felt sad along with him; when he smiled, her mood brightened too.
Her emotions rose and fell with the person she loved.
It was obvious, but the other three were not watching Luo Mang. Instead, they were...
Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Uzumaki, and Sasuke Uchiha stood beside a tree, questioning the securely bound Haku.
"Haku, just tell us. Look, your companion abandoned you. He sold you out! You ought to get back at him for that."
Naruto Uzumaki lowered his head and sighed, continuing to plead Haku's case and coax him into talking.
Kakashi Hatake said nothing. Naturally, he had his own interrogation methods.
They merely came with a few minor side effects. His Sharingan and some low-level genjutsu would work, though they were not particularly stable. The gap in their strength was simply too great.
The target could die or be left mentally impaired.
It was cruel, and normally reserved for spies from other ninja villages.
But if Haku really refused to cooperate, Kakashi had no qualms about using ninjutsu to interrogate him.
Meanwhile, Sasuke Uchiha was studying Haku from head to toe.
"Hmm... could you tell us what your ability is?"
Yes, Sasuke Uchiha was thinking about how to counter that technique if he encountered it again.
He had yet to spot a weakness in it. Was it because the technique was so powerful that they had been constantly on the back foot in battle, even facing death, that they had grown stronger?
According to the Diary, Mang-Mang had not been part of their team in the Prophecy it mentioned.
Their team had consisted of the three of them plus Kakashi-sensei.
If events had unfolded that way,