Hatake Satoru and Kakashi walked out of Ichiraku Ramen, and Naruto followed. The three of them strolled through the streets in harmony. Hatake Satoru felt a bit sentimental.
This was the first time he'd had such a normal day with Kakashi, it was really relaxing. Naruto felt the same. Before, he hoped to get attention by being naughty, but it only made the whole village avoid him. But who would have thought that the kid from back then would soon become Konoha's hero.
"Satoru-sensei is really similar to Kakashi-sensei, such strange brothers."
Naruto was still curious about what the two brothers looked like. Hatake Satoru had taken off his blindfold before, but Naruto wasn't there at the time, so he hadn't seen it.
Now, Naruto was planning to try and take off Hatake Satoru's blindfold, because in his mind, Hatake Satoru was weaker than Ka-Kakashi.
"Hey, Naruto. Have you been training with Jiraiya-sensei lately?"
Hatake Satoru was starting to wonder about Naruto's training progress. Nagato's attack on Konoha was coming. He was the main fighting strength, and even though he could beat Nagato himself, he still needed Naruto's power to convince him. As students of the same master, they might have similar ideas.
But right now, Nagato was influenced by Obito, and his understanding of peace was twisted.
"Oh! Of course I've been training, I'm learning a really strong 'thing' right now. I'll definitely show it to you when I'm done, Satoru-sensei!"
Naruto was full of energy, and even teased him a little. What he didn't know was that Hatake Satoru knew he was training in Sage Mode as soon as he asked. Kakashi even more so, as Naruto's team leader, he knew about it too.
Naruto was acting a bit like a clown now.
"Haha, I'm really looking forward to it."
Hatake Satoru pretended not to know anything, his tone was clearly playing along.
"Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I went to the hot springs. Before, when I went with Jiraiya-sensei, he would always peek into the women's bath, it was a bad experience."
Naruto pretended to be annoyed, but he really wanted Hatake Satoru and Kakashi to go to the hot springs with him. Hatake Satoru was already planning to relax before Nagato attacked Konoha, so he wouldn't refuse.
Naruto looked at Kakashi, who didn't seem too keen on going. He was about to apologize and run away when Hatake Satoru put his arm around his shoulder.
"Come on, come on, I've never been to the hot springs with my little brother before. Don't refuse this time."
Kakashi was also surprised, his brother had been overly enthusiastic lately. Maybe he was like that with Shisui and Itachi too.
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Inside the hot springs, the three of them each had a towel on their heads, leaning lazily against the edge of the pool, enjoying the tiredness and physical relaxation brought by the hot springs. Even though Hatake Satoru had just woken up after eating ramen, he still felt waves of sleepiness when he got into the hot spring.
"Yo!"
A voice came from the entrance of the hot springs behind Hatake Satoru and the others. Accompanied by a dog's bark, a person and a dog plunged into the hot springs together.
"Hey, Kiba! What are you doing, you ruined the atmosphere."
Only the Inuzuka clan would bring a dog to the hot springs. Kiba and Akamaru stuck their heads out, and Kakashi next to them was soaked.
Hatake Satoru stayed to the side like nothing had happened.
Didn't the splashing water hit him? Kakashi was confused by this.
Akamaru was clearly not used to the temperature of the hot springs, and started twisting around wildly in the pool. Water splashed everywhere.
"Hey, hey, no one wants to soak in a hot spring full of dog hair."
Kakashi complained.
A few minutes later, Akamaru got used to the temperature of the hot springs. The four people and a dog were harmoniously soaking in the hot springs, of course, it would've been better without the dog hair.
"Kiba, why are you here alone? Where's Shino?"
"That guy's busy with his bugs, and the other two teams are out on missions."
"It's lucky to run into you guys, otherwise it would be lonely with just me and Akamaru."
Kiba chatted with Naruto, their relationship had been pretty good since the Chunin Exams. But Hatake Satoru didn't really like it.
Hatake Satoru had Limitless active so he did not have to leave the pool. He really didn't like dogs.
After soaking for a while, Kakashi sat on the edge of the pool and asked Naruto to pour water on him. Kiba then said he wanted to too, so the three of them got out of the pool.
Hatake Satoru had felt something was wrong since just now, but he couldn't tell what the discomfort was. But since they were in the village, he didn't pay much attention to it.
Suddenly, Hatake Satoru felt danger and quickly stood up. He was about to move to avoid it, but it was already too late.
The camera turned to Kakashi and Naruto. Naruto had just raised the bucket and was about to pour it down, when Kakashi was punched away by a fist that appeared in the space next to him.
Hatake Satoru moved behind Kakashi and stopped him, preventing the damage.
This was the worst possible outcome, he had to find a way to save Naruto first.
Kakashi and Hatake Satoru faced off against Obito. The two of them were only wearing towels, the scene was tense but also humorous.
"What do you plan to do? If you kill the Nine Tails Jinchuriki here, your plan will be affected."
"Why would I kill him?"
As soon as Obito finished speaking, he threw a huge Fuma Shuriken from the Kamui space and used Great Fireball Jutsu to block Hatake Satoru and Kakashi.
In the ruins, Hatake Satoru pushed away the wooden planks on top of him. He quickly got up to check. Obito had disappeared, and Kiba and Akamaru were also buried under the ruins. Naruto had been taken away.
Turning around, Kiba and Akamaru were being controlled by the Sharingan's genjutsu. Obito was choking Naruto's neck, looking at Hatake Satoru in the corner of the room. He was more interested in his brother than Kakashi.
"Don't move, if you don't want these two kids to die."
How did he come here? Hatake Satoru was surprised to see Obito in front of him.
Hatake Satoru didn't understand why Obito would come to Konoha at this time. Hatake Satoru saw Naruto being choked by Obito, and the plan became clear.
He planned to capture Nine Tails himself, without going through Nagato.
Kakashi went over to release Kiba and Akamaru from the genjutsu.
"Kiba! Quickly notify Lord Hokage, Naruto has been taken away by the Akatsuki organization."
Kakashi was still calm, ordering Kiba to notify Tsunade first.
"Kakashi."
After Kiba left, Hatake Satoru stopped Kakashi who was about to chase after them.
"Don't chase after them, it's too late now."
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