"I can agree to fight you."
"But if you lose, Kakashi-sensei, everything you are will belong to me."
Outside the rocky shelter, rain poured down, accompanied by a faint, chilly breeze.
Inside, the atmosphere grew subtly charged after Naruto spoke those words.
Kakashi raised his head and looked at Naruto.
At that moment, the profile before him and that familiar, confident smile made Kakashi feel as though he were seeing Minato-sensei, whom he had once admired.
Leaving those words behind, Naruto strode deeper into the shelter.
The two were now roughly six meters apart.
"All right. If I lose in actual combat, I will follow your will and become your eyes and ears in the village."
There was both resignation and hope in Kakashi's voice.
He hoped Naruto could guide him as Minato-sensei once had.
As Kakashi rose, the presence and power befitting him burst forth.
"Naruto, let me make this clear first. I will give this fight everything I have... Although the village owes you more than it could ever repay, I still don't believe your current strength is enough to overturn this world's order. Rather than watch my teacher's only child walk a road of no return..."
As he spoke, Kakashi lifted his forehead protector, revealing his scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
"Bringing you back to the village to live a good life would be the greatest comfort I could offer Minato-sensei."
The instant his Three-Tomoe Sharingan was revealed, its three tomoe began spinning, gradually forming the curved pattern of a Mangekyō Sharingan.
Seeing the Kamui Mangekyō Sharingan, Naruto remained completely unruffled.
He merely took out a specially made kunai and prepared for Kakashi's attack.
"Come on. Let your student see what you can do."
Whoosh...
Before the words had fully left his mouth, Kakashi became a blur and appeared