Minato Namikaze's team had lost another member!
Rin Nohara! Declared dead!
After Minato Namikaze arrived, the regret in his eyes was already unmistakable.
Every time, something happened while he was away on a mission. The first time, Obito Uchiha had died, and this time, it was Rin Nohara!
These successive blows made even Minato Namikaze wonder whether he was unsuited to being a teacher.
After Rin Nohara's death, Kakashi Hatake was like a puppet on strings, sitting blankly in the same spot. No matter what anyone else did, Kakashi Hatake simply sat there in a daze.
Before, Obito Uchiha had died because Kakashi had not been strong enough. This time, Rin Nohara had truly died at his hands, even though Kakashi Hatake himself knew that Rin Nohara had already resolved to die and had run over of her own accord to put herself in front of him.
But Kakashi Hatake simply could not get past that hurdle in his heart.
His teammate had died at his hands, and this former genius had begun to sink into dejection.
"Kakashi, why haven't you gone to sleep yet?" Night had fallen, and when Minato Namikaze pushed open the hospital room door, he found Kakashi Hatake sitting blankly on the bed, staring at the sky outside with lifeless eyes.
"Minato-sensei..." Kakashi Hatake turned to glance at Minato Namikaze, then looked outside again.
"The night sky is beautiful." Minato Namikaze looked at the night sky outside. The stars filling it gathered into the Milky Way, as though showing everyone that their radiance was no less than the moon's.
"Sōkū once said that people become stars after they die, and come out to watch over us in the quiet of the night," Kakashi Hatake murmured to himself.
Over these years on the battlefield, Kakashi Hatake had