The new world.
While Obito vented his emotions above Kage Rock...
Kakashi's days in the Land of Water had not been easy.
This was not because old Danzo treated him poorly, but because of the conflict and struggle within Kakashi's heart.
By now, Kakashi had grown into a young man, no longer the child-sized boy he had been at Kannabi Bridge three years earlier.
But the dejection on Kakashi's face had only grown more apparent...
The warm morning sunlight filtered through the thin mist unique to the Land of Water and fell across Kakashi's face in his new home.
But rather than illuminating the trembling lashes of someone about to wake, it lit up a lifeless eye.
Kakashi had stayed awake all night. The gentle sunlight did nothing to warm his cold heart.
Especially with his best friend's eye constantly draining his chakra, even when he closed his eyelid and covered it with his forehead protector, denying it even a sliver of light.
The forehead protector...
The forehead protector on his head no longer bore Konoha's spiral emblem, but the flame emblem exclusive to the New Land of Water.
A flame...
How ironic...
A faint stirring suddenly arose in Kakashi's still heart.
Having betrayed Konoha, am I still qualified to carry Obito's eye?
That guy must be making a fuss in front of Minato-sensei right now...
Do I regret it?
No...
Kakashi reaffirmed his resolve.
He recalled the classified Konoha documents that Root ninja had risked their lives to place before him at Lord Danzo's direction;
They recorded in detail the cause, course, and outcome of the death of Konoha's White Fang-Hatake Sakumo, his father.
Kakashi had read them carefully, over and over, committing every word to memory.
In the end, he had reached a "terrifying" conclusion.
His father's death