"Hmph! Rin, it's Kakashi who is so annoying." Obito said haughtily.
"Hah, Obito, you two have been arguing for more than twenty years now, but you are still not tired of it." Rin said helplessly.
"Okay Rin, I'll listen to you. Hmph, Kakashi, I stop arguing with you just because Rin said so."
Obito said Kakashi as he turned his head away from Kakashi.
Kakashi just smiled and didn't argue with him.
If Obito wasn't caught in the accident at the Kannabi Bridge, he might be like this now.
Still pursuing Rin, his gradually improved to become a truly outstanding Shinobi, and then step by step conquered Rin's heart.
"Kakashi, you still haven't said what to do here so late," Rin said curiously.
"It's nothing, I'm just going out for a walk. But you guys, it's so late now, why are not back home yet?"
"Ah? This is ah, um, right, Obito wants to send me home." Rin said and her face turned even redder.
Hearing this, Obito is also a little embarrassed.
It feels like a young student couple who are on a date getting caught by their teacher.
"Then Obito, you can send Rin back, I have to go first."
"Hmph! You don't have to say it, I will definitely do it."
Obito said as he looked at Kakashi's leaving back.
Seeing this, Rin said in doubts: "Obito, do you think Kakashi is weird today?"
"Weird? When is he not weird anymore? That nasty guy." Obito curled his lips and said, seeming to not care about what Rin said.
But after thinking about it, he also feels that something is not quite right.
'The current Kakashi is indeed somewhat different from before.'
Thinking of this, Obito is a little worried.
Hearing this, Rin said helplessly: "Hah, you are really still the same as ever."
"Hey, Rin, I will send you back first. It's still not too late." Obito scratched his head and said.
"Okay."
Under the moonlight, the two figures gradually moved away.
Kakashi sat quietly by the lake while looking at the moon in the lake. At this moment, he is thinking about a lot of things.
'This world is really good. My parents still alive, they love each other peacefully, and together they fulfilled their promise of growing old together.'
'There are also Obito and Rin. Although they have not officially in a relationship yet, I can see that it is only a matter of time before they get together.'
'If I didn't guess wrong, Minato-sensei and Kushina-nee should also live happily together, yeah, and Naruto too.'
'Presumably he also has a happy family and a happy childhood.'
These are things that his original world didn't have.
And these are exactly what Kakashi cares the most.
The people he loves can live their happiest lives.
These things are simply impossible to achieve in the original world.
But here, it was easily realized.
He doesn't even need to change anything himself.
Such a world is indeed really wonderful.
It's so good that Kakashi didn't want to go back.
"What should I do?"
Kakashi murmured softly. He had never felt so confused before.
One is a heaven-like illusion world, and the other is a cruel real world.
'Which of the two did I want?'
Kakashi grabbed his silver-white hair, feeling loss for a while.
At this time, he is not Konoha's Anbu Commander and the top expert of the Shinobi World. Right now, he is just a confused traveler.
Plop!
A stone entered the lake, forming layers of ripples.
Kakashi was taken aback, and then a familiar voice came from behind him.
"Ah, Rin said that something is not right with you today. I thought that she is too worried, but I did not expect that something really is not right with you. Hey, Kakashi, are you okay? Are you crying?"
Kakashi turned around when he heard this. He saw Obito looked at his face.
"It looks like you are not crying. Then, what are you doing?" Obito said as he seemed a little disappointed.
"It's nothing. Didn't you send Rin back?" Kakashi said as he calmed his feelings.
"Of course, but I come over and see if you are crying. If it is true, then I will be able to tease you a long time about it."
"I'm so sorry that I let you down." Kakashi said with a flat tone.
"Hmph, you're really boring." Obito said uncomfortably, and immediately sat next to Kakashi.
Kakashi was slightly surprised, but did not say anything.
"Hey, I said, what's wrong with you? You didn't go back even after so late. Did I come here to think about life?"
As Obito said that, he threw the stones on the side into the lake.
Kakashi shook his head and said, "Obito, what would you choose?"
"Choose what?"
Obito was baffled by Kakashi's strange question.
"All the people around him are happy, or all the people are unhappy."
Hearing this, Obito turned around and looked at Kakashi like an idiot.
"What kind of nonsense is that? Of course I choose all people are happy. I want to be Hokage, and that is to bring happiness to everyone in the village!"
"What if this happiness is fake?" Kakashi asked.
"Fake? Fake happiness is also happiness, it is better than being unhappy." Obito said inexplicably.
"Is that so?"
"Kakashi, I think you are really weird today. We are working hard to live a happy life, right? Why do we want to choose to be unhappy?"
"Yeah, happiness is the most important thing, isn't it?" Kakashi sighed and said.
"For such a simple question, why do you have to think about it? Okay, I will go back home to sleep first. Ah, I'm sleepy."
Obito said as he yawned and then stood up.
"Kakashi, you should rest early too."
After Obito finished speaking, he waved his hand and left.
After seeing Obito leave, Kakashi picked up the stones on the ground and threw them into the lake.
With a thud, a small splash of water splashed.
The ripples are formed layer by layer.
"Illusory happiness, or cruel reality? It's really a difficult question to choose between it."
Kakashi suddenly remembered a story from his previous life.
In a world, everyone is living happily.
But one day, a person suddenly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with that world.
He desperately searched for the loopholes in that world, and finally, he woke up.
What he saw when he woke up is the end of the world!
Everyone lives in pain using the nutrient solution.
And he is no exception.
But they all showed a happy smile.
Because their consciousnesses are living in that happy world.
This is reality, and that is illusion.
At that point, there are only two choices before the protagonist.
One is to take the red pill, becomes fully awake, and faces this cruel world.
And the other is to eat the black pill and re-enter the illusory world again, a world where there will be no pain and sorrow.
It seems to be an easy choice to make.
But one is to be sober while facing the cruel world and the other is to be indulged in happiness.
Stick to yourself, or indulge in illusion.
Kakashi was also in such confusion at this time.
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