In the hospital room.
Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, Might Guy, Kakashi, Rin Nohara, Kurenai Yuhi, and Shinku Yuhi sat around Asuma's hospital bed and presented their gifts.
Kurenai Yuhi went first.
"Asuma, it's been years. I don't know if your tastes have changed.
Here's a carton of 555 cigarettes. I hope you don't mind."
Asuma was delighted to see the cigarettes Kurenai Yuhi gave him.
Lying in bed, he reached out with some effort to take them.
Next was Rin Nohara. She had also brought cigarettes, a carton of Daqianmen.
Asuma accepted them with a smile as well.
Then came Kakashi.
But Kakashi didn't know him well, and with Asuma having spent years in prison, Kakashi didn't know his tastes.
So he gave him a kunai.
It was a fairly conventional gift.
Asuma didn't reach out to take it or show any enthusiasm.
"Put it on the table."
Then came Shinku Yuhi, who gave him some shuriken.
Asuma merely told him to put them on the table too.
Then Asuma, Kakashi, and the others turned their eyes to Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy.
Asuma sighed.
"Fine. Since you're here to visit me, let's keep things separate. Show me your gifts first."
Might Duy swallowed and looked at Asuma, feeling somewhat guilty.
"Well, Asuma, we actually weren't here to visit you.
Running into you was just a coincidence."
At that, Asuma's face flushed, then turned livid.
"Then what did you come here for?
To laugh at me?
Weren't you the ones who brought that Uchiha to beat me up a few days ago?"
"What?
They were the ones who beat Asuma up?"
Rin Nohara and Kurenai Yuhi were both shocked.
"Didn't they say the culprit was Uchiha Zhongfen?
What did Uncle Duy and the others have to do with