"Kakashi..."
Might Guy opened his mouth, but he had no idea what to say to comfort his eternal rival, his lifelong best friend.
He knew Kakashi Hatake's left eye was a keepsake from Obito Uchiha.
He also knew how Kakashi Hatake had lived all these years.
Though Might Guy was usually carefree, he actually understood better than anyone.
Kakashi had never escaped the shadow of his past.
No matter how many years passed.
Kakashi Hatake remained that lonely, guilt-ridden man living in the shadow of his father's, his comrades', and his teacher's deaths.
Now, Obito Uchiha's eye was gone.
What did Kakashi have left?
Might Guy could vaguely sense it.
Kakashi Hatake seemed to have stopped caring about anything...
It was a truly frightening state to be in.
Just then.
A figure appeared out of thin air beside the hospital bed.
Might Guy reacted extremely quickly, instinctively throwing a punch.
But once he saw the newcomer's face, he forcibly stopped his fist halfway through the swing.
"Minamoto-Advisor, sir!"
Uchiha Minamoto looked at the fist suspended before him and couldn't help raising an eyebrow.
"Guy, sir, that's quite a novel way to welcome someone."
"Advisor, sir!"
Might Guy withdrew his fist and bowed deeply to Uchiha Minamoto.
"Thank you for saving Kakashi!"
"It was no trouble."
Uchiha Minamoto waved a hand, signaling that Guy needn't stand on ceremony, and approached Kakashi Hatake's hospital bed.
"Kakashi, how are you feeling?"
"Still alive."
Kakashi Hatake's dead-fish right eye shifted slightly.
Though he said he was "still alive," he looked as though he barely had any life left in him.
"Kakashi, I came to tell you a few things."
Uchiha Minamoto paid no mind to Kakashi Hatake's cold attitude and spoke calmly.
"The war on the Eastern Front is completely over...
"But the Fourth