"So what do we do now? Help them sort things out first, or what?"
Tilting his head to glance at the Fourth Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura, who had collapsed into a sitting position after saying his piece and was now surrounded by Mei Terumi and the others, Naruto poked Sasuke in the side.
"Kakashi-sensei, what do you think?" Sasuke poked him back, but rather than answering, he turned to Kakashi beside them.
After a moment's consideration, Kakashi saw Genji being helped over from a distance and shook his head.
"I think standing up... ahem. The Fourth Mizukage lost the people's support ages ago. If our arrival hadn't made them unite against an outside enemy, they would have torn the Mizukage apart already.
We don't need to get too involved now. Just leave them to handle it internally."
Kakashi felt it was best not to interfere too much in another village's internal affairs, though what they had already done was rather out of line: barging into someone else's village and beating its Kage half to death...
Ahem. I have a feeling the Third Hokage's going to chew me out when we get back.
His head aching, Kakashi gazed speechlessly at the sky and once again missed his teacher.
What kind of son did Sensei and his wife bring into this world? And what kind of friend did that son make?! These two little bastards stirred up trouble every single day. I wouldn't even be surprised if they brought Sensei and his wife back to life one day.
"Then let their own people handle it. We've still got something important to do. Once this is over... oh, right, Zabuza might return to Kirigakure, too. Where did you dump him?"
Halfway through speaking, Sasuke suddenly remembered Zabuza and quickly turned his head. Naruto froze