In the rest area next to the training ground, the atmosphere in the room seemed a bit awkward at this time.
Kakashi and Rin Nohara looked at Kisame Hoshigaki who followed the room together in surprise, but their gazes did not make Kisame Hoshigaki embarrassed at all.
He even called her "Lin" his teammate. She was injured now, so he had to watch from the sidelines.
The room in the rest area blocked out the noise outside, leaving only silence between the three people.
Kakashi and Rin Nohara sit opposite each other. The distance between them is only one meter, but it seems like they are separated by five years of life and death.
Kisame Hoshigaki, on the other hand, was like a door god, leaning against the wall not far away with his arms folded. His small and fierce eyes never left Kakashi for a moment, and the scrutiny and unkindness in his eyes were undisguised.
[Huh, pretty boy.]
Kisame Hoshigaki snorted in his heart.
He couldn't understand how his "sister", who was a bit too kind, could get acquainted with this white-haired boy who looked like a delinquent. On the court just now, if Lin hadn't been soft-hearted, this boy would have been turned into a scum by Tailed Beast Bomb.
"Lin..."
In the end, it was Kakashi who broke the silence first. When he spoke, his voice was extremely hoarse, "What the hell is going on?"
Rin Nohara raised his head, and tears welled up uncontrollably again in his eyes that were also red and swollen.
She took a deep breath and seemed to be organizing her words to retrieve the dust-covered hellish memory from the abyss.
"That day... I sent Chen-kun and Kai away. I wanted to say a few words to you, but you left first..."
Her voice was very soft, with a hint of vibrato, and every word seemed to be beating on Kakashi's heart.
"I was walking home alone, and then... several Kirigakure ninjas suddenly appeared in front of me. I only had time to see the scratches on their Forehead Protectors before I was knocked unconscious."
Kakashi's fists were clenched tightly.
"When I woke up, I was tied to a stone platform in a dark and damp cave." Lin's body began to tremble slightly, as if she had returned to that desperate moment, "They... they performed a terrible technique on me..."
Her hand subconsciously touched her belly.
"They forcibly sealed Isobu into my body."
"What?!"
Although he had been prepared in his heart, when he heard this fact with his own ears, Kakashi's body was still shaken.
He shuddered just imagining the pain and mortality of sealing Tailed Beast into the body of an unprepared ordinary Chunin.
"But... that's not the scariest thing." Lin's voice became deeper and deeper, full of fear, "In order to ensure that my 'bomb' would detonate at Konoha, they also planted a spell on my heart."
"Charms?"
"Yeah. Chen-kun said it was a taboo spell." Lin nodded, with deep fear in her eyes, "It is forcibly connected to my heart and my soul. Once I have any thoughts of suicide, it will immediately Activate it immediately, deprive me of my will, turn me into a walking zombie that only obeys orders, walk back to Konoha step by step, and then detonate it in the village... and release Three-Tails in my body."
Boom!
Kakashi's brain went blank.
Such a vicious spell, while he is awake, allows the person who planted the spell to personally destroy the village where he grew up step by step.
How desperate was Rin Nohara at that time?
Being used as a tool to destroy their homeland, they were even deprived of the right to choose death!
In such a situation where a taboo talisman was planted, even suicide became a luxury for Rin Nohara.
"I... I'm sorry..." Kakashi's voice was extremely dry, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from his throat, "It was me... I didn't protect you back then..."
He promised Obito before he died...
He promised to protect Lin with his whole life...
But what was the result? He didn't even know what happened to Lin!
"No, it's none of your business, Kakashi." Rin Nohara shook his head, tears falling down.
"Back then, just when I thought everything was over...Chen-kun he... appeared."
At the mention of that name, a light seemed to suddenly light up in her dark eyes.
"He was like a meteor, directly smashing open the entrance of the cave. I only remember that he was full of murderous intent, and even I felt scared. He almost killed all Kirigakure Ninja by himself..."
"Then, he used Flying Thunder God Technique to take me away from there. I only knew that the surrounding scene was constantly changing. When I regained consciousness again, I had already seen Lady Tsunade."
"Lady Tsunade said that my situation is very bad. Three-Tails's Chakra is violently repelling my body. The charm on my heart is even connected to my life center and cannot be separated at all. Any method of forcibly removing it will cause me to die immediately."
Lin's voice gradually calmed down, with a hint of happiness about surviving the disaster.
"It's Chen-kun. He used a powerful sealing method to forcibly suppress the rampant Three-Tails in my body. Then, Lady Tsunade operated on me for a whole night before he brought me back from the brink of death."
"In order to prevent the mastermind behind the scenes from noticing that I am still alive, and in order to prevent Konoha from falling into panic because of my unstable Jinchūriki, Chen-kun decided to let me 'die'. It was announced to the outside world that I had no bones left in that battle."
Kakashi listened quietly. His hands on his knees had his nails dug deeply into his flesh.
"Chen..."
Senju Chen has actually done so many things for himself over the years.
As friends since childhood, Kakashi has always had complex emotions towards Senju Chen.
The other party has a noble status, strong bloodline, and amazing talent. He is the most dazzling existence in their group.
It was also the existence that he had always wanted to quietly catch up with.
It was also the other party who took the trouble to accompany him (and Kai) when he was in the most painful period of "losing his father", which helped him gradually come out of the shadows.
When I lost my teacher and my wife, it was the other party who gave me a goal (to protect my teacher's children). Otherwise, I don't know what I would have become if I had been confused all these years.
It turned out that when he was immersed in the pain and self-blame of losing his relatives and companions, Senju Chen, his childhood friend, had been doing so many things for him in the darkness that no one knew about.
He saved his father and Rin Nohara. He allowed himself, the "Lone Star of Heavenly Evil", to have relatives and teammates again after so many years.
That kind of kindness is as heavy as a mountain!
"Then... what happened next? Was the spell lifted? After it was cured, why... didn't you come back?" Kakashi raised his head.
"Because the spell was still there at the time." Lin smiled bitterly, "Although Lady Tsunade's treatment saved my life, the spell was so vicious that even Lady Tsunade was helpless. Chen-kun could only use a special Sealing Jutsu to temporarily suppress it so that it could no longer control my will."
"In the following years, I stayed in a very safe place arranged by Chen-kun. Chen-kun said that before a method to completely remove the spell was found, if I returned to Konoha, once the mastermind behind it was noticed, they would probably use a special method to detonate the spell, and then everything would be in vain."
"It wasn't until a few years ago that Chen-kun finally developed a method to completely remove the talisman. But..."
Speaking of this, Lin's eyes dimmed.
"But by that time, I had been away from the village for too long. Moreover, I had become Three-Tails Jinchūriki. Chen-kun said that once my existence was exposed, Kirigakure would never give up. They would hunt me down at all costs and take back Three-Tails. That would only bring endless trouble and war to Konoha."
"I don't want... to put the now peaceful village into danger again because of me."