Chapter 61

"Minato, you're back," Hiruzen said as he looked at Minato.

Shimura Danzo meanwhile simply stood by the side, not even giving a glance toward the young man and the kids behind him.

"Yes sir, I'm here to report about the completion of the Kanabi Bridge mission," Minato replied as he gave a bow toward the Hokage.

The three behind him, Kazuo included followed suit as they gave a respectful bow toward their leader.

"I see, well then What's the report," Hiruzen asked.

Danzo still didn't make any move to get out of the room, clearly showing his intent on listening to the report.

Hiruzen didn't tell him off either.

It was Kakashi who stepped up as Minato turned to give him a glance.

"Yes sir, the Kanabi mission faced some challenges however it was completed successfully, My team however had to split into two parts during the mid-section of the mission so I will only be able to give the first half of the report. The second half will be given by Chunnin Kazuo." Kakashi said, his turbulent emotions already under his control as he faced the military leader.

"I see, you may continue," Hiruzen replied as he gave a shallow nod of his head.

Kakashi followed with a nod of his own before starting his report.

"We were transported to a location close enough to the Kanabi Bridge by Minato Namikaze, after which my team consisting of Nohara Rin, Chunnin Kazuo as well as Uchiha Obito departed toward the Kanabi Bridge. After a while, we encountered enemy Iwagakure ninjas, one of which managed to kidnap our teammate Nohara Rin, after Uchiha Obito, Chunnin Kazuo and I eliminated the other, we decided to split off the team." Kakashi said before taking a short breath of air and continuing once more.

"Uchiha Obito and I would be going to save Nohara Rin from the kidnapper whilst Chunnin Kazuo would continue the official Kanabi bridge mission on his own. Uchiha Obito and I quickly traced the kidnapper using my summoned ninken and his Sharingan. After an intense fight, the Iwagakure ninja caused a collapse of the cave where we were in, this led to Uchiha Obtio's death as well as him giving me a parting gift." Kakashi said as he finally opened his left eye.

It was a stark contrast from his right eye which was pure black.

This eye was blood red with two tomoe swirling around a black pupil in the middle.

It was the Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan.

It was at this moment that the atmosphere in the office changed drastically.

Hiruzen's and Danzo's eyes immediately tightened as they gazed at Kakashi.

Minato meanwhile bore a shocked look that he quickly concealed a moment later.

"You're saying that Uchiha Obtio was fatally injured and gave you his Sharingan as a parting gift?" Danzo finally spoke up for the first time since the team had come inside the office.

Kakashi turned to face the man and gave a light nod.

"My eye was slashed during the previous encounter when Nohara Rin was kidnapped, Uchiha Obtio told us that he wanted him to continue seeing the world through me during his death," Kakashi replied, his voice becoming stone cold.

It was clear that this was a hard matter to talk about for Kakashi who had lost his teammate merely hours ago however it had to be done.

"I see. Well, then we will have to talk about this later on." Hiruzen said as he nodded his head toward Kazuo.

Walking toward the front whilst Kakashi headed to the back of the office once more.

Kazuo felt slightly dizzy, the situation was tense, especially after the reveal of the Sharingan.

"I Chunnin Kazuo will now begin reporting the second half of the Kanabi bridge mission," Kazuo said whilst giving Hiruzen a shallow bow of his head.

"After parting with team seven, I headed directly toward the Kanabi Bridge at the highest possible speed I could achieve, after arriving there I used the hiding-like-a-mole technique to set up explosion tags at strategic locations," Kazuo said as he described the scene clearly, his words concise and his expression a calm poker face.

"However during this time, I found out about a large army of Iwagakure ninjas heading toward the bridge, deciding that I didn't have time to stick around for long, I made a shadow clone jutsu and used it as both a distraction and a means to activate the explosion tags whilst I headed back toward the location Kakashi and I had decided to meet after the completion of the mission." 

Kakashi who was at the back nodded his head.

"After arriving at the location, I quickly asked Kakashi to signal Minato Namikaze that we were in dire need of help, with around a thousand enemy shinobi chasing after us, we had no way to run and thus I decided to bait for time. Engaging the Iwagakure shinobi into a heated discussion and enraging most of them, I managed to procure enough time to where there was only around a proximate twenty or so seconds before I thought Minato Senpai would appear." Kazuo said before his poker face cracked slightly.

It showed his stress as he talked about the situation however his fierce look told the story that he wouldn't bow down to the stress and would move on quickly.

This was an act from Kazuo.

He was indeed under immense stress at facing both of Konoha's old foxes at the same time however he had good enough control to keep up the poker face if he wanted to.

'I need to take more credit, even more.' Kazuo thought as he continued his speech.

"Using the body flicker jutsu, I jumped high into the air after seeing the enemy making hand seals and as they were Iwagakure ninjas, I determined that the most likely path for the danger to come from was the ground. Once in the air, I used the explosion tags that I had saved once I figured out about the enemy ninja, i made a large makeshift explosion ball of sorts which I used to defeat a decent amount of ninjas, i was going to use this as both a distraction as well as a means to create an escape if Minato Namikaze didn't show up on time. However before I even hit the ground, Minato Namikaze did show up and the rest can be given in report form from him." Kazuo said as he finished his report and gave a bow toward the two high-ranking officials of the leaf, before straightening up his body once again and having his expression change.

Now it clearly displayed the stress and uneasiness that Kazuo was feeling.

"I would also like to add on that the idea of saving Nohara Rin was mine, and I take full responsibility for that choice. I felt like making someone sacrifice a leaf comrade for a mission wasn't what the village was made for. I stand by this decision of mine."

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