The message was not sent into the Space Medium immediately.
Kakashi first read its full contents aloud to everyone present.
Shisui checked for anything known only to the two of them that might be interpreted as a private agreement.
The Anbu recorder confirmed that every piece of evidence had entered the official files.
Far away at the border recording post, Itachi used a synchronized scroll to check whether the message presented a possible identity as a confirmed conclusion.
The first draft was sent back once.
Kakashi had originally written, "I know why you hate Konoha."
Itachi marked the problem beneath that sentence.
Konoha did not know everything the Masked Man had experienced.
Nor did it know whose accounts had fueled his hatred, what he had witnessed himself, or which events had been deliberately engineered.
"I know" sounded like understanding, but it still meant explaining the other person's experiences for him.
Kakashi did not argue.
He changed the sentence to, "Konoha is investigating what you experienced after Kannabi Bridge."
The second draft also had an apology removed.
Not because Kakashi felt no regret.
But because a single line saying, "I'm sorry I left you there," could easily reduce every issue to personal guilt.
The failure to conduct a search and rescue at Kannabi Bridge was the responsibility of Konoha's wartime decision-making and recordkeeping systems.
The choices Obito made afterward could not automatically be excused simply because Kakashi felt guilty.
The final message was divided into three parts.
The first part listed only facts.
Rin had transplanted Obito's left eye into Kakashi.
The whereabouts of his right eye had not been confirmed.
A goggle clasp, abnormal wooden supports, and a residual spatial opening had been found in the Underground Mine Tunnel.
The Masked Man's right eye and Kakashi's left eye exhibited paired