When the Injury Reconstruction Diagram was delivered to Kakashi, he did not open it immediately.
The sheet of paper was thin.
Yet it might show how someone he had watched die with his own eyes had survived beneath the rocks.
Shisui sat across from him without urging him on.
Kakashi first wrote "afraid to confirm" on the Status Sheet, then broke the seal.
The diagram did not show the Masked Man's entire face.
The Medical Squad had reconstructed only the injuries on the right side, using skin residue, blood tissue, and the opening Shisui had seen.
The cheekbone had caved in.
There was an old misalignment at the jaw joint.
The muscles on the right side had suffered extensive crushing damage, then been filled in from within by abnormal cells.
The Medical Squad had also reconstructed the approximate sequence of the repairs.
The abnormal cells had first replaced large patches of dead tissue in the right shoulder and side of the chest, then spread up along the neck to cover the face.
This had not been a brief course of treatment.
The injured person had undergone at least several months of adjustment, during which someone had needed to provide chakra, medication, and tissue control continuously.
Even if the Masked Man was Obito, the boy could not have accomplished all this alone after waking in the ruins.
Whoever had rescued and altered him was the deeper layer behind the death records that had yet to emerge.
The injury began above the temple, with the force driving down toward the shoulder and neck.
Kakashi took one look and closed his left eye.
When Kannabi Bridge collapsed, the boulder had fallen from precisely that direction.
He remembered the angle at which Obito's right side had been pinned.
He also remembered how close the