"Fihen, I will go and che Kakashi," Shisui said a out of the room.

  After Shisui left, Kaida began thinking about the best way to approach Kakashi. He knew gaining Kakashi's trust would not be easy, especially given the Uchiha 's history with him. However, Kaida was determio make him his ally as soon as possible, even if he had to use Naruto's mistreatment as a way to find on ground.

  'Kakashi may have issues with the Uchiha, but he 't possibly ighe misery of his sensei's son,' Kaida thought. 'If I vince him that I want to help Naruto, that I'm disgusted by how he's beeed, then maybe he'll be willing to hear me out.'

  Kaida spent the few hoing over different versation sarios in his head. With the additional mental capacity provided by his 3 tomoe sharingan, Kaida's mind was w better than normal, like a regur car modified into a rag car. He used that enhanced processing power while trying to anticipate Kakashi's potential reas and responses.

  He knew he'd have to tread carefully, as Kakashi was one of the smartest characters in the anime and would not be fooled easily.

  That's why Kaida was not pnning on lying to him extensively, following the simple principle of 'The best lie tains a of truth.'

  This was his pn for the meeting, and ohing he was sure about was that no matter how much he prepared, the e would be quite different, and he would have to make many ges on the day.

  When Shisui returned after 1 hour, he informed Kaida that Kakashi was indeed in the vilge and had agreed to meet, albeit relutly.

  "He didn't seem too enthused about it..." Shisui said with a pause, trying to build suspense, but seeing no ge in Kaida's expression, he clicked his tongue and tinued, "But mentioning it involved the Fourth Hokage's son piqued his i enough to say yes. He asked you to meet him at the restaurahe Hatake pound at 4 PM."

  "Okay brother, what are you going to do now?" Kaida asked.

  "Obviously, I am going to escort you to that restaurant. The vilge is almost at its boiling point. I don't want to take any risk with your safety, especially when yoing out of the 's pound. Also, you plete this meeting in 2 hours, right?" Shisui asked.

  "Yeah, but why?"

  "Oh, I mao get the head to e to our bathhouse today for a trial. Since we would o make some preparations for the bathhouse, we would o e back by 6 PM so that by 8, all the preparations are done."

  "Wow brother, how did you aplish something so impressive?"

  "Talent. Now focus ohing at a time. After your meeting is done, we will talk about the bathhouse," Shisui said.

  "No need, brother," Kaida said and quickly made a shadow e with 30 pert of his chakra. Even though the e only tained 30 pert of Kaida's chakra, it was almost the same amount as many jonins. With this much chakra, sustaining the shadow e for 1-2 days was no problem at all, though the mental burden when he would get those memories would be quite a lot. For this reason, Kaida had never done something like that until now.

  "Fine," Shisui said and also made a shadow e, but it only tained half the amount of chakra pared to Kaida's e. Seeing the questioning look in Kaida's eyes, Shisui said, "It's not like the es are going to fight. No one is stupid enough to attack me in the Uchiha pound. No one."

  "Okay, brother," Kaida nodded.

  So while his and Shisui's es were discussing and pnning about the bathhouse, Kaida prepared to head out for the meeting.

  Before half an hour from the time of the meeting, Kaida went over his mental preparations once more, refining his approach. Finally, it was time to head out. With Shisui by his side, the two made their way across the vilge towards the designated restaurahe Hatake pound.

  When they were 100 meters away from the restaurant, Shisui said, "Okay, since you want to talk to him alone, I will be staying here. If anything happens, don't fet to send a signal, and this time, the moment you sense something is off, you will send the signal. Am I clear?"

  "Yes, sir," Kaida said while bowing respectfully like a soldier in front of his senior. Shisui smiled and patted Kaida's shoulder. "Go."

  Upon arrival, Kaida took a calming breath before entering. He spotted Kakashi's unmistakable silver hair, one dark bck eye visible while the other was covered with a headband, and the famous mask c his fatil his nose, almost immediately in one of the er booths. As expected, the jonin had chosen a location that gave him sightlines on all exits - the hallmark of an ever-vigint shinobi.

  Kaida made the best possible smile he could while suppressing his excitement at meeting Kakashi in real life.

  "Kakashi Hatake," Kaida greeted calmly. "Thank you freeing to meet with me."The jonin's single visible eye narrowed slightly. "I'm only here because you mentiohis having to do with Minato-sensei's son. Out with it - what's this about?"

  'Yup, this version of him is not the cold and collected one we saw in the anime. Until now, he is still not mentally stable enough, that's why Danzo was able to trol him until now,' Kaida thought, listening to Kakashi's reply. While maintaining the smile on his face, Kaida sat on the chair in front of Kakashi.

  While sitting, Kaida thought, 'Now that I'm looking closely, he is not that strong at the moment. Well, he still has 8-10 years to increase his strength before he bees the sensei of Naruto and the gang. Even though he doesn't train enough, since he possesses such monstrous talent, getting ae jonin rank even without being serious is not difficult for him.'

  Kaida mentally clicked his tongue in annoyance. 'Some people have everything others would kill for and still don't care about it,' Kaida thought, remembering how difficult it was for him to get to this level of strength, and this boy in front of him became a jonin even without giving his best. Life is totally unfair.

  But without any ge in his facial muscles, keeping his expression ear, Kaida sat down. 'Here we go...'