Chapter 316: Be Revived, The One I Love
The Hokage Council adjourned hastily.
Aside from someone as thick-skinned as Might Guy, everyone could see that the conflict between the Hokage and the Special Operations Unit had reached an irreconcilable breaking point.
The various clans and elite shinobi could no longer remain neutral.
They had to choose a side.
Otherwise—
the fate of the Uchiha clan, who had once staked everything on the Fourth Hokage and were utterly destroyed shortly after the Nine-Tails Incident, was a clear and tragic warning.
Even the Fourth Hokage's personal guard was exiled to gate duty.
In times like this, one needed to stay calm.
In a corner of the village,
mirroring how the Uchiha clan had once been treated, the Special Operations Unit had been assigned its own separate district.
Gripping the Resurrection Coin tightly, Kakashi could barely contain his excitement.
Sasuke coldly reminded him, "Kakashi, stay calm."
Noticing his own loss of composure, Kakashi scratched his head and said,
"Well, it's a Resurrection Coin—a tool that can bring back the dead. Anyone would be emotional.
Just like Naruto was when he revived his teacher."
"Only the weak say such things."
Team 7 had long since disbanded, and Sasuke no longer spared his former teacher any courtesy.
Haruno Sakura, standing nearby, said anxiously,
"Sasuke, don't blame sensei. He must have someone very important in his heart. That's why he's like this."
She often saw Kakashi standing alone by the memorial stone, silently lost in thought.
Having now experienced war firsthand, she was no longer the brash, arrogant girl of the past.
She understood the pain and cruelty of bloodshed.
Sasuke didn't even glance at her as he replied coldly,
"So noisy. No self-awareness at all. Sakura, you think I wasn't referring to you as one of the weak?"
In his eyes, no one in the entire Hidden Leaf was worth acknowledging.
Well… maybe one.
Naruto frowned. "Hey, Sasuke! Don't talk like that about Kakashi-sensei and Sakura. They're our teammates!"
He'd only just arrived and already saw Sasuke acting high and mighty.
Sasuke turned away, snorting, "I meant that if Kakashi keeps hesitating, someone else might snatch that Resurrection Coin."
As someone from the persecuted Uchiha clan, he had no affection for Konoha.
Though Itachi had done the killing,
the Hokage's hands were far from clean.
If not for Naruto's repeated interventions—
and the fact that, as a lone wolf without a clan, he lacked logistical support and resources,
he would've defected and launched an all-out assault on the village already.
Naruto, hearing that Sasuke's words had good intentions, still muttered,
"Can't you say it in a nicer way? You're so cold."
"So annoying. I get it."
Sasuke frowned, but didn't argue.
Nearby,
Sakura took a deep breath, her gaze shifting between Naruto and Sasuke,
a sour feeling bubbling inside her.
She had only spoken up in defense of Kakashi-sensei and was immediately met with Sasuke's scorn.
And Kakashi had brought Naruto along, probably to avoid criticism—
but Sasuke had singled her out as "the weak one."
So you only treat Naruto nicely, huh?
"…Ahem, Sasuke's right. If I wait too long, and something happens, I'd regret it."
Kakashi interrupted, breaking Sakura's spiraling thoughts.
He was the Fourth Hokage's student,
son of the famed White Fang, Sakumo Hatake—
a man once considered a shining example of Konoha's ideals.
But his father had been among those falsely implicated during Orochimaru's purge of Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Though Hiruzen later tried to make amends,
Kakashi's reputation within the Hokage faction never recovered.
He had slowly been edged out and eventually joined the Special Ops Unit.
Tsunade and Jiraiya soon arrived,
and the plaza quickly filled with onlookers.
Most came hoping to witness the Resurrection Coin in action.
Especially those like Tsunade, who longed to revive loved ones.
Seeing someone reunited with the dead would only strengthen their own resolve to hunt corrupted monsters.
"Let's begin."
Kakashi took a deep breath.
The Resurrection Coin in his hand began to glow.
From the day he became a ninja until now—
his classmates, comrades, teammates, subordinates, and teachers—
their faces flashed through his mind one by one.
Until moments ago, he still hadn't decided who to bring back.
His beloved father?
The White Fang of Konoha, a legend respected even by the Sannin.
But reviled after he abandoned a mission to save lives,
scorned until he took his own life.
Kakashi had always wanted to ask—
what really happened?
A trained shinobi, even disgraced, rarely took such a path.
Let alone a battle-hardened elite like his father.
But Kakashi wasn't ready yet.
That left only two people—
His dear friends: Rin Nohara and Obito Uchiha.
"I'll revive Obito first."
Kakashi made his decision solemnly.
"Rin… I still don't have the strength to protect her."
He remembered that last moment—
Rin, kind and gentle, throwing herself into his Chidori.
And he couldn't even stop her.
The world now was far more turbulent than the Third Shinobi War.
One misstep could mean death.
Kakashi's strength was only barely enough to protect himself.
He couldn't risk bringing Rin into such danger again.
So he would bring back Obito—
someone who, like Naruto, was loud, brash, but deeply loyal to his comrades.
Once both he and Obito were strong enough to protect anyone—
then he'd bring Rin back.
[Resurrection Failed: Uchiha Obito from the Ninja World is not dead.]
Black text appeared.
Kakashi's face changed dramatically. "Obito's not dead?"
The Reincarnation Game didn't make mistakes.
But at the Kannabi Bridge,
he had watched with his own eyes as Obito was crushed beneath a landslide.
No one could survive that. Not even Lady Tsunade.
What was going on?
Beside him,
Sasuke's eyes narrowed. "Kakashi… you wanted to bring back someone from the Uchiha clan?"
He glanced at the forehead protector covering Kakashi's left eye.
Beneath it was a Sharingan—
constantly draining Kakashi's stamina and energy.
Before the Reincarnation Game,
that eye gave Kakashi immense combat power.
But now, his own strength had surpassed what the eye could offer.
Yet he still kept it.
Clearly, it meant something more.
A friend from the Uchiha clan?
Sasuke was stunned.
He could hardly believe that someone from his proud, aloof clan had formed a bond strong enough to gift a Sharingan.
More shocking—
Obito wasn't dead. Which meant he was still out there?
Sasuke felt a strange warmth bloom in his chest.
Even though he didn't know Obito,
their shared blood tied them together.
A bond that could not be severed.
Perhaps Obito survived because he was away during the massacre.
If so—
He had to find him.
Together, they would uncover the truth and kill Itachi.
"When Rin and I left… did someone save Obito?"
Kakashi's thoughts were in chaos.
Naruto's voice brought him back to reality.
The Resurrection Coin had already been used. A choice had to be made.
If not Obito—
then it had to be…
"Be revived, Rin Nohara!"
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