At his side, Sasuke merely turned his head at those words and gave Naruto a cool glance, his eyes brimming with undisguised disdain, as though he were looking at a brainless idiot.
The glance was casual, yet it stung all the more.
Naruto bristled instantly, glaring at Sasuke as he shouted in outrage, "Sasuke! What was that look just now?! What was that supposed to mean?!"
Sasuke remained aloof, his voice flat. He refused to indulge him and bluntly replied, "Nothing. It just meant I was looking at an idiot."
"Huh?!"
Naruto was dumbstruck. He stood frozen for two seconds, then started flailing wildly, nearly lunging at Sasuke to tussle with him.
"You've gone too far, Sasuke! You called me an idiot again!"
Their usual bickering looked exactly like the future Team 7: childish, yet full of life.
Beside them, Kakashi watched the noisy pair with his eternally half-lidded eyes and a helpless expression, then spoke up to stop them.
"Naruto, stop shouting. Quiet down."
"And I'm not your squad leader yet. Stop calling me sensei."
Naruto scratched the back of his head, looking utterly bewildered and completely unconcerned with such details. "Aw, isn't it all the same? You'll always be our Kakashi-sensei to me! We're going to be the strongest Team 7 in history!"
At that, Kakashi paused briefly, then shook his head and sighed helplessly.
"The strongest Team 7 is something for the future. You aren't there yet."
With that, he stopped dwelling on such minor matters. Setting aside his casual manner, he grew serious and explained the important business to the two of them.
"Moving you into new quarters and having you live together wasn't an arbitrary decision."
"The situation is unusual right now. You two are the Shinobi World's most important future trump cards-and its biggest