Hours passed from the time of Kakashi's meeting with Hiruzen and Danzō in the Hokage's office. Kakashi had now returned to training ground, chuckling at the reminder of today's events.
"...Haha..."
Danzō's way of manipulating Kakashi's report that he defeated Zabuza miserably, and Zabuza now returned back to Kirigakure, into something that didn't make any proper sense.
Why would Zabuza even come after Naruto, especially when they all know the current situation of Kirigakure. Kirigakure has no resources for such a matter.
Plus Kakashi knows for what reason Zabuza with Haku returned to Kirigakure, and definitely wouldn't come after him later, and not for Naruto, whom he didn't even know is the Jinchūriki of Kyūbi.
However, Kakashi knows that every great nation, by now has guessed that Naruto is Jinchūriki of Kyūbi, all thanks to rumours about him being Nine-Tail's reincarnation, which itself were spread by Root of Danzō.
But about these things, Danzō and even Hiruzen didn't seems to care, while about Kakashi and Zabuza's talk back then, they aren't aware of, and the way Danzō used this thing, to put his Root in the job of monitoring Naruto, Kakashi felt it was creative of him.
However the dissatisfaction he felt from Hiruzen today, really disappointed him in Hiruzen.
He knew that Danzō won't talk in a direct way, but in a way to manipulate conversation in his favor, however Hiruzen is also a veteran in conversation, how can he easily agree with Danzō initially.
Plus his worry for Kyūbi before Naruto deeply disappointed Kakashi, this opened his eyes, seeing the real Hiruzen, not the one he knows from anime and his memories.
"The old saying is correct, don't judge anyone from what they say, but by what they do."
Kakashi then waved these thoughts off, not wanting to dwell any further, and took out a large green mat from his Inventory Seal, three cups and a tea bottle and few Riceballs.
"Naruto, Sasuke, take a rest, and have some snacks." Kakashi said aloud, calling them, where he sat, under the large tree's shade.
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"Sensei, Looks like I need more water balloons, I only left two now," Naruto said, while taking a huge bite of Riceball.
"And you are practicing with 50 Shadow Clones, it's was obvious, alright I will take you more water balloons later." Kakashi said in a soothing tone, already knows Naruto's overuse of multi shadow clone jutsu like him.
"Well, even then, he can't be able to master Rasengan before I master Chidori." Sasuke stated, giving Naruto a competitive glint.
"Oh, Really!" Naruto asked, narrowing his eyes at Sasuke, passing him an equally intense competition gaze.
Kakashi looked at their usual competitive bickering, which also goes to show their slowly increasing camaraderie, through proper training, which anime Kakashi never bothered with.
However Kakashi didn't laugh it off as usual, his mind, despite not wanting to dwell on the conversation he had in the Hokage's office, still thinks about it.
'I initially thought of letting Sasuke train and evolve his Sharingan to Three-Tomoe by himself,' Kakashi thought.
'But that might take a lot of time, maybe even several months to a year, and Danzō, I thought of using his name and deeds to have Sasuke gain Mangekyō Sharingan just like Obito did in the anime.'
This was the initial plan Kakashi thought of, and when Sasuke reached Three-Tomoe stage, just like how Obito told him the truth of Itachi and the Uchiha massacre, Kakashi also use it, but only and completely blame Danzō.
Of course, Kakashi didn't care if Itachi would have been dead by Sasuke's hand by then or not, he knew once Sasuke found the full truth behind the Uchiha massacre, his emotions will be in complete turmoil, evolution of Sharingan is obvious.
Waiting for him to reach Three-Tomoe stage, that's just to make sure that the chances for Mangekyō awakening for Sasuke are higher.
At the current stage of Two-Tomoe, there can be chances that Sasuke only reaches Three-Tomoe or a little bit close to Mangekyō, or maybe not, if Kakashi were to tell him the truth of Uchiha massacre now.
But Kakashi didn't want to risk it.
However, now he doesn't want to wait for that long, several months for Danzō to continue scheming, which in the long run are just bothersome for him and his Team.
Afterall, Kakashi is focusing on training Team 7 diligently, so that they can grow stronger early, and take down bigger fishes like Akatsuki, Black Zetsu, Toneri on Moon and others.
Danzō in this is just a small fish, but a very irritating one, which Kakashi knows better about from his anime knowledge.
'Chūnin exams are going to be start in around two months from now,' Kakashi mused. 'If Sasuke evolved his Sharingan to Three-Tomoe stage before that, then I didn't need to do anything, but if not, then I might have to use Orochimaru for this matter during the forest of death part.'
He nodded to himself, finalizing his new uncrafted plan and then glanced at Sasuke who was silently sipping his tea, purposely ignoring Naruto's taunts.
Another thought came into his mind upon seeing Naruto, who was munching his Riceball, while with a grin taunting Sasuke.
"Naruto," Kakashi called him, in response, Naruto stopped taunting Sasuke, looked at Kakashi, mouth full of Riceball.
"Zesh, Tatasei-sionsei?" Naruto said, mouthful, can't even speak properly.
Kakashi said, "You have been living in that compact apartment room, right?"
Naruto nodded, a little confused, of why Kakashi suddenly asked this out of the blue.
"You no longer have to stay their," Kakashi stated. "You will be staying at my house, my place atleast is big enough, take anything from that small place of yours and shift in my place, I have empty room for your use."
"HUH!!!"
Hearing this, Naruto was surprised, eyes widened, a few pieces of Riceball fell from his mouth, Sasuke was also surprised, paused to look at Kakashi, both confused, with what Kakashi suddenly told.