Naruto: I am Uchiha Shirou

Konoha

"Elders, there have been a lot of rumors circulating in the village lately. The village just went through a calamity and we’re at a critical stage of reconstruction,"

Kakashi was already overwhelmed with the struggles of rebuilding Konoha, and now rumors in the village were getting worse and worse.

Others might not notice, but Kakashi wasn’t just a ninja who knew how to kill.

Today, acting as the Sixth Hokage, Kakashi summoned the two elders, Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado, for a talk.

"Sixth Hokage, what exactly do you mean by this?"

Before Kakashi could finish his heartfelt plea, Koharu slammed the table and shouted, her anger flaring up even before Homura could react.

"Kakashi, everyone is busy with the village’s reconstruction. Do you think we don’t know about these rumors? What can we even do about them? Uzumaki Naruto sits in the Hokage office now, not us, and not you either, Kakashi! As Hokage, he can’t even handle these things properly. Are you sure everything being said in the village is just rumors?"

Koharu snapped, and Homura chimed in gruffly:

"Kakashi, no one can control what people say in the village. What matters is that Naruto’s recent behavior has been sorely disappointing. Because of his negligence, he broke his promise, and that’s why this disaster struck the village. And setting that aside, lately our Seventh Hokage has been getting more and more irritable, even arguing and yelling at civilians in public—how many times has that happened? Are we making that up too?"

With both elders questioning him, Kakashi’s face grew more and more grim. Finally, his face darkened as he replied in a low voice: