When Kakashi, who was more than twelve and a half years old, was rescued from the brink of death and regained consciousness, his companion named Nohara Rin had been buried in the cemetery under the arrangement of Konoha .

Rin's family is long gone, so it's their teacher, Bo Feng Shuimen, who has a good relationship with her, who goes to watch her lie down in a coffin that looks a little smaller than an ordinary person, and bury her in the ground.

Jiu Sinai also specially changed Lin into a new dress with brighter colors.

- "She always dresses very modestly, and she is obviously such a cute girl. ”

Kushina, who had come to visit Kakashi, pulled up the sleeve of the Watergate shirt that had come with her, and rubbed her reddened eyes with her other hand.

Kushina told him that Rin used to wear clothes that were more convenient for movement, and that she had changed her into a dress that would stumble for ninjas.

——“…… It's a good fit for her. ”

Kakashi listened silently to Kushina's broken thoughts.

He couldn't imagine Lynn wearing a long dress.

He didn't think the white scarf tied around his waist was a skirt.

Watergate reached out and patted Kushina's shoulder.

Kushina looked up, and Watergate shook his head at him.

No matter how appropriate Kushina said, Kakashi was out of sight.

Kushina sniffed, stood up and pressed the water gate on his seat, shouting that he was going to wash his face first, and ran out.

"That's not your fault."

Mizuto put his hand on the back of Kakashi's hand, trying to comfort him, "I can understand you, there are still some remnants of the Tailed Beast Chakra in Rin's body, and Konoha at that time really didn't have the strength to suppress the uncontrolled Tailed Beast...... You protected Konoha. ”

Kushina didn't just stay in the village and do nothing.

As a ninja with the blood of the whirlpool, and at the same time a human pillar that has accepted Mito's thoughts and controlled the tailed beasts well, she is also quite a strong fighting force.

Konoha is understaffed, and even children have to go to war, let alone an adult.

Even if her surname is Uzumaki.

It's just that you can't show the strength related to the tailed beast when fighting, unless you can guarantee that you won't leave any people alive.

“…… I'm fine, more of your concern. ”

Kakashi smiled politely at the water gate.

In the eyes of Watergate, it is an unusually mature kind of smile.

Mizumon touched Kakashi's hair.

He rarely does this, except often when confronted with Obito.

Because although Obito is older than the other two, it is obvious that he is a child.

Kakashi and Obito are not the same.

But he was also a child of only twelve or thirteen years old.

“…… Mr. Watergate......"

Kakashi shook Mizuto's hand, and when he said that, he felt like crying.

How long ago was the last time I met with a teacher?

It was so long that he couldn't remember it clearly.

He grabbed the palms of Watergate, which were thicker than a child, with his two small hands, and pressed them against the clothes on the outside of his lungs.

There is a temperature.

"I'm sorry, we didn't think it through when you received so much information shortly after you woke up, but Kushina wants to come and visit you as soon as possible anyway."

——“…… I'm in the same mood. ”

Mizuto could feel Kakashi's heartbeat gradually increasing due to his emotional agitation, and he could see the circles under his eyes that were also starting to turn red.

Obviously so sad, but he still smiled and said that he was fine.

"Thank you for your hard work, let's take a good rest these days."

Watergate leaned over and gave Kakashi a big hug on the hospital bed.

Kakashi put his face in the arms of the water gate, covering his eyes and nodded.

…… It made him want to cry even more.

-

Kakashi was recuperating at Konoha Hospital for about a week, and Mizuto and Kushina saw that he was not so weak before they discharged him.

However, he is still in a state of serious injury that has not yet healed.

Because the situation before he woke up, it was really bad.

The night Kakashi returned home, he changed into clothes without white trim, and ran to the cemetery where Rin was buried while most of the residents of Konoha had already fallen asleep.

{Lynn isn't dead yet...... }

Kakashi's experience in suppressing the Nine-Tails with a seal charm in his previous life gave Rin a seal that could suppress the Tailed Beast Chakra's riot, and at the same time sealed Rin's heart, causing her to enter a state of suspended animation.

Although he didn't use it when facing Naruto in his previous life, he didn't use any of the ones given to Yamato.

But piercing his right lung is a real situation, and Kakashi can only use his ninjutsu to create the illusion of death.

The lightning scorched the right side of Lynn's penetrated flesh in a circle, and while Lynn may be in pain, it will stop Lynn's blood.

So that she will not actually die due to excessive blood loss in a state of suspended animation.

Lin's blood in a state of suspended animation is coagulated, and she can't break the seal at once, so she can only slowly return the heart and blood in her body to normal work little by little.

Kakashi crouched down next to the tombstone with the words "のはらリン" written on it, apologizing to Rin and the sleepers around him, gathering Chakra in his hands and carefully digging the ground beneath the tombstone.

A coffin about 1.7 meters long gradually revealed its appearance.

Kakashi brushed aside the soil from the lid little by little, took out the water and washed the dirt off his hands before lifting the heavy lid with some nervousness.

“……”

Lynn wasn't in there.

"How could it be ......?"

Kakashi was stunned.

At the bottom of the coffin were a few strands of tan that looked inconspicuous in the moonlight, proving that Lynn had once been lying here.

- She's gone, what do you want!!

Kakashi's body was flung into the distance.

He only heard a low roar, and then lost consciousness again.

——————————————

“——…… When I woke up again, it was already dark, Lynn's grave had been filled in as if it had never been dug up, and I was ...... It was found by the people who got up early in the morning to clean the cemetery and dug it out of the ground. ”

Kakashi looked at the window on the wall in the distance.

“…… Are you buried? ”

Naruto was so surprised that he could stuff a light bulb in his mouth that he couldn't pull out.

- "But you're not dead, it's amazing." ”

Naruto piapiapia clapped his hand a few times and gave him a thumbs up.

He was listening to Kakashi talk about what had happened before, in more detail.

"I didn't bury my whole body at that time, almost half of my body was buried, and the pit was only about a meter deep, so I think it was probably because he was ...... There's no time to leave me alone after you've filled in the grave. ”

Lynn's tomb looks intact and even has a small sprig of flowers.

The grave sweeper thought it was Kakashi.

When Mizumon found out about this, he felt that Kakashi's mood might not have stabilized, so he took Kakashi to the hospital again.

He couldn't explain why he knew that the man was Obito, and he didn't tell Watergate if he was just guessing, so he didn't tell Watergate.

and silently admitted other people's conjecture that he 'collapsed after sweeping the grave and then planned to bury himself but was tired on the way'.

When Kakashi heard that voice, it was different from the Obito in his impression, not like the old Obito, not like Obito disguised as Madara, only a little bit like the former boy Obito.

He felt that Obito might have been in the period of voice change.

"Okay, that's why you think he took Sister Lin away, right?"

Naruto tapped the table with the back of his fingers, sorting out the information he had gotten from Kakashi in his mind.

After Kakashi's request was accepted by Naruto, they cleaned up around the table and poured two more glasses of water to continue the conversation.

"I can't think of any other possibility, because the teacher had already said that they were looking at Lynn ...... The coffin was buried. ”

Kakashi was sure that his guess was correct, but he was very sad at the same time.

——“…… If it were someone else, there was already an existing grave pit over there, and there was no need to fill it in and dig another pit and bury me. I think he probably didn't want me to bury 'her' with her, even though the coffin was empty. ”

He has been here again, and he can more or less understand Obito's feelings.

Obito just doesn't understand the truth of the matter yet, that's why he did so many incorrect things.

{Unfortunately, it still failed to stop the teacher from ......}

Kakashi let out a long sigh.

"I have a general understanding, but there is one last question."

Naruto sternly raised his index finger at Kakashi and made a one-to-one.

Seeing him look so serious, Kakashi thought about it and realized that he didn't seem to have anything important but didn't say it, but he still waited for Naruto to speak.

"You were in the hospital at the time......"

Naruto's voice grew quieter and quieter, as if he was saying something he didn't want outsiders to hear.

“……？”

Kakashi couldn't hear clearly, and leaned his upper body towards Naruto as he leaned on the table.

Naruto grabbed Kakashi's ear.

“——…… Did you cry at all? ”

He was very curious.

“……”

Kakashi's hand slipped and didn't hold the table, and his head slammed onto the mouth of his water glass, causing his head to hurt.

"I ...... I cried, but only a little tear. ”

Kakashi pulled the glass off his head and rubbed his forehead, which was a little sunken.

“…… It's you, there's no other problem for the time being......"

Even if he knew Naruto's preferences very well, he couldn't have predicted what the mind was thinking differently all the time.

At least he knew that the man was thinking differently than ordinary people.

"No, two weeks later, I'm ...... I'll go find him for you, but before that happens, you'll have to fulfill my last wish." ”

Naruto snapped his fingers and counted them silently, holding up nine fingers at Kakashi.

“…… I'll try to satisfy you, but you're not going to die, so ...... Don't say that. ”

Kakashi squinted and smiled at him.

It's very sad.

"Okay, then I'll start with my first wish."

Naruto withdrew one hand and the other four fingers.

Kakashi listened intently.

"You can do the first thing here, so ......"

- "Right now—"

- "I want to see how you cried back then. ”

After Naruto finished speaking, he stared into Kakashi's eyes.

I'm looking forward to it like a child on the eve of a spring outing.