The members of Team Uzumaki were all too busy recording the effects of the bizarre foods they'd ingested. They were all feeling so uncomfortable that they didn't even pay attention to Kakashi who suddenly came over to freeload a meal.
Kakashi looked at the steak in his hand that kept changing colors.
The rapidly flickering hues reflecting on his face gave him the strange illusion of being in some kind of… adult entertainment establishment.
He subconsciously swallowed.
The aroma was undeniably delicious… more mouthwatering than anything he'd ever smelled before.
'But why does it feel...'
'Something seems to be wrong.'
At this time, Kakashi remembered the potion that Naruto had given him before, and it seemed to be of the same aesthetics.
'Wait...'
'Is this another one of those 'special items'?'
Kakashi stopped hesitating when he thought of this. After all, nothing happened when he drank the potion before.
In fact, it had healed all his injuries in an instant.
'Besides…'
'Can a piece of meat kill people?!'
'Just look at the clone eating so happily beside me. It can be seen that everything is fine.'
Kakashi then took a bite of the steak. The moment it entered his mouth, he felt an unprecedented delicious taste blooming on his tongue.
And then...
Kakashi suddenly felt a little dizzy.
Kakashi, feeling a little uncomfortable, decided to stand up and move around.
Bang…
But the moment he stood up, Kakashi's body stiffened, and he fell straight to the ground as if he had been electrocuted, and then his whole body began to twitch continuously.
His eye rolled back and some white foam seeped out of his mask.
From his condition, he was one step away from entering the Pure Land.
Naruto, who had been deep in discussion with Uzumaki Stark about the Totem of Undying, suddenly noticed the twitching white-haired slacker lying on the ground, and looked at the seizure-inducing steak in his hand...
Naruto vaguely saw the word 'Death' flashing in red above Kakashi's head.
"Holy shi…!"
"Why didn't any of you stop him?!"
He pointed at the shadow clones next to Kakashi and started cursing, but just as he opened his mouth, those shadow clones couldn't stand the food they had just eaten and dissipated on the spot with a 'bang bang bang'.
Then, Naruto received the memories of these shadow clones.
These clones are really not afraid of death at all. On average, each clone eats six or seven portions of food...
'You guys really don't consider the feelings of me, the main body, at all!'
Naruto looked at the Totem of Undying, then looked at Kakashi, who was now dying on the ground. Without hesitation, he grabbed the Totem of Undying next to him, wound up like a javelin thrower, and hurled the totem at Kakashi with all his might.
Bang…
The Totem of Undying, which was about the same size as Naruto, slammed directly into Kakashi's stomach and created a hole in the ground.
Judging from the sheer force of the throw...
It is enough to see that Uzumaki Naruto is very worried about his Jonin Instructor.
The Totem of Undying also successfully connected with Kakashi's stomach.
However…
Naruto noticed that Kakashi seemed to have stopped twitching.
"Main body..."
"Why do I feel like... you smashed him to death..."
Naruto was so angry at what Uzumaki Stark said that he argued with a red face.
"That's impossible!"
"How can you call it 'killing' when I used the Totem of Undying?"
"You should have said that I saved his life in time."
Uzumaki Stark fell silent.
In his opinion, Kakashi could still be saved before...
After all, it looks like he still has one breath left, and the potions in the system may be able to save him to some extent.
But after Naruto's 'rescue attempt'...
Uzumaki Stark felt that Kakashi, who was still breathing his last breath, have been killed on the spot.
"KAKASHI-SENSEI!"
Sasuke and Sakura, who were training, suddenly saw this scene and immediately rushed to Kakashi, asking Naruto what had happened with a puzzled look.
"He's… dead?"
Sasuke stared at Kakashi's lifeless body in shock.
Judging by the scene before him, it is not difficult to determine that the murder weapon that killed Kakashi was the golden statue on his stomach.
For a moment, Sasuke struggled to process this.
He had always respected Kakashi's strength, and if measured by Battle Through the Heavens standards...
Sasuke guessed that Kakashi should at least be at the Dou Ling level.
So logically speaking, it is impossible for him to be killed by Naruto just throwing a statue at him.
Sasuke reached out and felt Kakashi's pulse on his neck. He then shook his head stiffly, sighed, and said to Sakura and Naruto who had arrived, "No pulse."
"He's gone."
At this moment, Sakura and Sasuke just felt that this world was so ridiculous.
Their Jonin Instructor, who was leading them out of the village for the first time to carry out a mission, had died just like that...
He didn't die in battle against an enemy, but died at the hands of his own student...
Sasuke was already mentally preparing for how he and Naruto would flee the village as Missing-nin.
After all, Naruto's act of killing Kakashi, their Jonin Instructor, was considered an act of treason.
"AAAHHH!"
"Wh-What do we do?"
"Naruto... this is a joke, right?!"
"You and Kakashi-sensei are just messing with us, aren't you?"
Sakura had completely short-circuited. She clutched her head, then grabbed Kakashi's hand, shaking it desperately, as if that would somehow wake him up.
"Relax."
"Kakashi-sensei's just taking a nap. Just wait..."
"He'll be alive… uh, I mean, awake soon."
Sakura's face turned pale by Naruto's words.
'Did he just say 'alive'?!'
'You're going to say 'alive', weren't you?!'
'So you did kill Kakashi-sensei!!'
'It's over! It's over!'
'Someone, please help! I don't want to be a Missing-nin!'
Naruto flashed a reassuring grin and patted both of his teammates on the shoulder.
Then, he carefully adjusted Kakashi's corpse into a more comfortable-looking position, ensuring maximum contact between the Totem of Undying and Kakashi's body.
Now, it seems that Kakashi and the Totem of Undying are about to overlap.
When Sakura saw this, her face turned even paler.
The image of Haku and Zabuza suddenly appeared in her mind again...
As for Sasuke, when he heard what Naruto said, he just nodded, without any doubt about Naruto's words.
Although Naruto's methods were batshit insane, but in the end, things always worked out.
…
"Kakashi!"
"Kakashi…"
Hearing someone calling his name, Kakashi slowly opened his eyes and was surprised to find himself sitting in front of a campfire.
And sitting opposite him was an extremely familiar middle-aged man with white hair.
At this time, the other party was calmly adding firewood to the campfire.
"Father?!"
"Why are you here?"
Kakashi shouted subconsciously, and then his expression became subtle.
'Wait!'
'Why am I here?'
'I remembered that I seemed to be eating Naruto's food!'
'And now I suddenly see my dead father???'
'Did I... die?'
'No way... right?'
Sakumo looked up at Kakashi and said seriously, "Kakashi, you shouldn't be here."
"It's time for you to go back."
"What?!"
Kakashi's mind was still like a mess and he didn't understand what his father said at all.
"Wait, Father..."
Just as Kakashi was about to say something, he felt the world spinning in front of his eyes and heard several voices calling his name.
After a while, he regained consciousness and slowly opened his eye. He then saw the three Genin squatting beside him.
"Kakashi-sensei, you're awake!"
"Ah! Kakashi-sensei, you're finally awake."
"…I'm going back to training."