The next day,
Naruto's exclusive training ground…
"WHAT?!"
"You're telling me to train on my own?"
Naruto looked at Kakashi in front of him with an angry look.
He'd waited at the training ground all morning for his teammates, but Sasuke and Sakura never showed up. It was not until noon that Kakashi showed up.
This white-haired pervert said he wanted to take Sasuke for special one-on-one training.
As for Sakura, she went to Konoha Hospital to train Medical Ninjutsu.
"Well…"
"You were training well on your own before."
Naruto gritted his teeth and was very dissatisfied with Kakashi.
'While what you said is true, you, white-haired bum, are too biased.'
'And why this white-haired slacker attaches so much importance to Sasuke is 100% because of Obito...'
Thinking of this, Naruto found that he had another reason to kill Obito.
"Don't worry."
"Someone will train you."
Kakashi said with deadpan expression, and the image of Jiraiya flashed through his mind.
"Oh, by the way..."
"Naruto, do you still have that steak you gave me last time?"
"That thing should make the person who eats it dream about the deceased, right?"
Uzumaki Naruto: "???"
'Have you ever thought that...'
'The last time you ate that steak, you died on the spot, and then you went to the Pure Land and saw the deceased?'
Naruto's expression contorted violently after hearing what Kakashi said.
However, in order to honor his beloved Kakashi-sensei, Naruto still took out the suspiciously colorful steaks and thoughtfully took out a Totem of Undying.
At first, Kakashi was delighted when he saw the colorful steaks again, but he was dumbfounded when he saw Naruto pull out his weapon.
"Naruto, why are you…"
"Kakashi-sensei, if you want to see the deceased, you must hug this statue while eating the steak."
"What kind of logic is that!?"
Naruto's utterly serious delivery somehow made Kakashi believe him.
'But... why is this statue so versatile?'
'It can be used as a weapon, and it can also be used to see the dead...'
Kakashi didn't know what to complain about for a moment.
"Mmm... maybe the souls of the dead are drawn to its golden radiance?"
"Stop asking questions and just do it."
"I promise you will see the dead."
Naruto couldn't even believe the reasons he made up, so he simply gave up making them up.
Anyway, if he told Kakashi that he has to do that if he wants to see the deceased, he would definitely do as he is told.
Kakashi was stunned for a moment, but finally accepted Naruto's outrageous answer.
There's nothing he can do about it, as it's his own fault since he had only seen his father last time.
As he hugged the statue, his mind filled with images of Obito, Rin, his father, and Minato.
'I wonder who I will meet this time...'
Finally, Kakashi tucked the steak into his clothes, hugged the statue, and walked home with heart full of hope.
When Naruto saw the white-haired genius's departing figure, he silently drew a cross on his chest and mourned for him for a second.
'Well... Kakashi-sensei, maybe I forgive you a little.'
Still, Naruto felt a little angry when he thought of Kakashi favoring Sasuke because of Obito.
'Since that white-haired pervert is willing to die on his own, I should just go find Obito to collect some interest first.'
Naruto grinned, opened a portal, and came to Obito's grave.
The moment he arrived there, what catches his eye are the neat rows of tombstones.
All the heroes of Konoha Village who died in battle will be buried here.
Naruto felt disdainful of this.
However, there is nothing wrong with saying that Obito is dead.
When he was young, he had already died along with the boulder in Kakashi's heart.
The Obito who is now stirring up trouble behind the scenes in the Shinobi World is just the shadow of a certain long-haired hedgehog-head dancer.
Looking at the tombstone, there was a smiling photo of Obito as a teenager pasted on it, and in front of the tombstone, there were fresh fruits, a few skewers of dango and flowers.
Next to Obito's tombstone, Naruto also saw Nohara Rin's tombstone, which was also decorated with flowers and fresh offerings.
From the water droplets hanging on these flowers, it is not difficult to tell that these offerings should have been delivered by Kakashi today.
Moreover, these two tombstones are much cleaner than the tombstones of other people around them.
'Does that white-haired bum come to see Obito every day?!'
'No wonder he's still single at his age...'
'Could it be that he never married just because of Obito?'
Naruto looked around furtively, and after making sure that there was no one around, he plopped down cross-legged in front of Obito's tombstone.
He picked up an apple, wiped it on his clothes, then took a big bite, chewing as if the fruit in his hand was that damned Uchiha Obito himself.
After shamelessly devouring Obito's offering, Naruto looked at the flowers in the vase. His eyes sparkled with mischief as a plan came to his mind.
After double-checking that there was no one around, he walked over to the vase and started pouring 'water' into it.
Naruto even closed one eye during the process, trying his best to aim at the vase.
Even so, he still managed to splash some on the ground.
"Huh?"
"Have I been eating too much junk lately?"
With a couple of shakes, Naruto finally completed his self-assigned mission of 'fertilizing' the flowers.
He had no bad intentions, as he just wanted the help the flowers last a few more days.
"Hey! You brat!"
"What the hell are you doing!?"
At this moment, a booming voice suddenly rang in Naruto's ears.
Naruto, feeling guilty, quickly pulled up his pants and ran away. After just a couple of steps, he was about to open a portal to escape when he suddenly realized...
'Wait…'
'What am I even scared of?'
'Even if I get caught, what's the worst that could happen?'
'There is no one in the entire Konoha Village who could do anything to me.'
After realizing this, Naruto turned around, put his hands on his hips, raised his head arrogantly, and looked at the owner of the voice.
Then, he saw a hedgehog-headed old man wearing a forehead protector with the kanji 'oil' on it and wooden clogs running towards him with a 'clacking sound'.
Any one of these features alone would've been enough for Naruto to recognize this white-haired old man.
It was none other than one of the Legendary Sannin, Jiraiya.
And what's worth mentioning is...
The white-haired old man was also holding an apple in his hand.
'Seriously?!'
'This white-haired old man also came here to steal the offerings???'
"Hey, brat!"
"What were you doing just now?"
"How dare you disrespect a hero of the Konoha Village like that?! Have you no shame?"
Jiraiya pointed an accusing finger at Naruto, and then took a bite of the apple in his hand.
Uzumaki Naruto: "…"
"White-haired old man..."
"Why don't you put down the stolen offering in your hand when you say this?"
Naruto had imagined countless ways his first meeting with Jiraiya might go.
But he never expected it would happen while they were both stealing offerings at the cemetery.
"That's not the point!"
"Offerings are merely tokens of remembrance for the departed..."
"Rather than letting them rot here, it's better for a young man like me to enjoy them."
"Wait…!?"
"What did you just call me, brat!?"
Jiraiya had been speaking with a righteous tone when he suddenly realized that the yellow-haired brat in front of him actually called him white-haired old man.
'I am known as the White-Haired Young Man!'
'Since when was I that old?!'
"White-haired old man."
Making sure the old man heard him clearly this time, Naruto enunciated slowly and deliberately.
After hearing this, the veins on Jiraiya's forehead bulged and his fist clenched.
"Listen here, you little brat..."
"I am..."
Jiraiya struck a dramatic pose, ready to launch into his usual spiel, but Naruto didn't give him the chance. And without a second thought, he turned to leave.
Jiraiya, who was just about to start his prepared speech, had his words stuck in his throat and his expression twisted.
He had been traveling in the Shinobi World for so many years, but he had never met such an impolite brat.
"Hey, wait!"
"Kid, you don't want the Hokage to know that you did something like that in the resting place of Konoha's heroes, right?"
Naruto ignored the white-haired old man and his pace of leaving gradually became faster.
Jiraiya, who was behind him, saw that the boy ignored him and rushed up to him angrily, determined to teach him a lesson.
'What an insolent brat!'
'Can't he just listen to what I have to say?!'
Two figures dashed out of the cemetery, one after the other.
At this moment, the space in front of Rin's tombstone distorted, and then the masked man, Obito, appeared here.
He was holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand. After looking at Rin's photo for a few seconds, he leaned over and gently placed the bouquet in front of Rin's tombstone.
Just as Obito was about to say something to Rin, he suddenly noticed the damp flowers beside his own grave.
"That bastard Kakashi..."
Obito gritted his teeth, disgusted by Kakashi's gesture of leaving flowers for him.
'That guy was the one who killed Rin...'
'How dare he show his face here?!'
Obito walked to his own tombstone with dissatisfaction, grabbed the bouquet of flowers in the vase, and flung them aside in great disgust.
After shaking off the water stains on his hands, Obito suddenly caught a whiff of something strange.
He sniffed his fingers…
"Huh?"
"This smell is..."
He raised his hand and sniffed it carefully. Then, Obito was so angry that he threw his mask to the ground and stomped on it to pieces.
"KA! KA! SHI!!"
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?!!"