Kakuzu and Shisui Uchiha exchanged a glance at exactly the same moment.

For a brief instant, the same strange thought crossed both their minds...

After all, Kakashi had just said that the Sharingan had evolved into a Mangekyō Sharingan.

And apparently it could open some kind of Kamui Dimension?

And that dimension could store things inside it...

Didn't Sakumo Hatake always make Kakashi come home to clean out the cesspit? Well, in that case...

No need to go home for that anymore!

Kakashi, for Kakashi's part, felt thoroughly helpless about the whole thing. The old parent never missed a chance to send Kakashi home to clean the cesspit. Last time, Boruto Uzumaki had even told Kakashi that in the future Kakashi would carve out quite a name across the Shinobi World, as Kakashi the Cesspit Kid!

Kakashi still had no idea how things had gotten to that point. If it were purely a matter of the old parent sending Kakashi home to clean the cesspit, that alone shouldn't have been enough to earn such a notorious reputation.

Could it be that future Kakashi really went and did it?!

But how could that possibly be...

Kakashi was a Leaf Village technician. The 50/50 Konoha Scraper. A master of the grazing hit. How could someone like that end up cleaning cesspits?!

No, no, no...

That name, 50/50, couldn't be used anymore anyway.

It made Kakashi sound like Hirofumi Ito's kid.

Hadn't Boruto Uzumaki mentioned it before, that Hirofumi Ito was apparently going to name a future son Ito 50/50? That made Kakashi sound like the man's actual child!

So annoying...

Sakumo Hatake was watching Kakashi with a suspicious look. Sakumo knew perfectly well that Kakashi liked to sneak peeks at dirty magazines all the time, that was exactly why Kakashi's health had gotten so run-down in the first place!

But looking at Kakashi right now, the kid seemed completely drained, practically on the verge of collapse...

Could it really be that the Sharingan had evolved?!

If that were actually the case, then it was a good thing!

After all, the Mangekyō Sharingan's power was formidable...

And right at that moment!

WHOOSH!

Kakuzu and Shisui Uchiha appeared in front of Kakashi and Sakumo Hatake in an instant.

Both Kakashi and Sakumo Hatake froze for a moment.

"Hm? Is there something you two need?"

Kakuzu and Shisui Uchiha didn't answer right away. They just kept looking Kakashi up and down, a flicker of satisfaction passing through their eyes...

Then Shisui Uchiha spoke quietly.

"Senpai Kakashi! The Logistics Department and East Konoha Corporation have run into an extremely difficult problem. This is something that probably only Senpai Kakashi can handle...

I trust that Senpai Kakashi, as head of the Anbu, wouldn't refuse?"

Kakuzu nodded eagerly from the side.

"Shisui... I'm sure Kakashi absolutely won't refuse. After all, Kakashi is the Anbu chief personally appointed by the Hokage! A task this difficult could probably only be completed by someone in that position..."

Watching the two of them go back and forth, Kakashi felt a very bad premonition take root.

"So... what exactly is it you want me to help with?"

Kakuzu stepped forward with tremendous enthusiasm and grabbed both of Kakashi's hands!

"Kakashi! You're the only one for this job! Shisui and I thought it over for a long time, and this task really can only be completed by you. Otherwise, we'd have no choice but to ask the Second Hokage and the Fourth Hokage to step in themselves!"

That bad premonition was getting stronger by the second...

And just then, Kakashi kept catching a faint, elusive stench. Curious, Kakashi glanced to the side. The whole area was lined with row after row of public latrines.

What on earth were Kakuzu and Shisui Uchiha, the Logistics Department chief, doing standing outside public latrines for no reason?!

Years of ninja instinct screamed one thing: these two were absolutely up to no good.

"So..."

THWACK!

"Ow~~... Father! Why did you hit me?!"

"You useless child! All you ever do day after day is read those filthy books! Have you forgotten who you are?! You're not just a ninja — you're the head of the Hidden Leaf Village's Anbu!

As the head of the Anbu, no matter what the task is, if it can help the village, you carry it out without a moment's hesitation!

Did you not hear what the head of the Logistics Department just said?! If you won't do this, they'd have no choice but to find the Second Hokage and the Fourth Hokage...

Are we really going to trouble the Hokage over this?!"

Watching Sakumo Hatake standing there burning with righteous fervor, Kakashi gave a helpless wave of the hand.

"Fine... I understand, Father! But I at least need to know what the task is, don't I?!"

"Hmph! What, the task's too hard so you want to refuse?! You useless child! No matter what it is, you see it through without wavering! Even if that task were to go and kill the Fourth Raikage, you should still go!"

Kakashi's eyelid started twitching furiously.

Sakumo Hatake really does treat Kakashi like some kind of all-powerful instrument... What had Kakashi done to deserve being sent to kill the Fourth Raikage?! On what, the Chakra that got completely drained the moment the Mangekyō activated?!

Sakumo Hatake turned to Kakuzu and Shisui Uchiha.

"Please, no need for ceremony! Whatever you need Kakashi to do, there is absolutely no problem — with me here, there's no way this child would dare refuse!"

Hearing that, Kakuzu and Shisui Uchiha shared another smile...

Shisui Uchiha quickly stepped forward and clasped Sakumo Hatake's hands.

"Truly worthy of the name Senpai Sakumo Hatake! Truly a model for all ninja of our generation!"

"Indeed... truly worthy of being the Hidden Leaf Village's former Anbu chief!"

"Senpai Sakumo Hatake really is a person of brilliant wisdom and valor..."

"Dashingly handsome!"

"Elegant and distinguished!"

"Gallant and refined!"

"Of towering talent!"

"Standing tall like a jade tree in the wind!"

"..."

Kakuzu and Shisui Uchiha traded compliments back and forth, heaping praise on Sakumo Hatake in a relentless barrage, until Sakumo Hatake actually started to look a little embarrassed.

Kakashi stood to the side watching it all with resigned helplessness.

"Hey! You two — what exactly is this task?! My parent has already agreed on my behalf, so you can just say what it actually is now, right?!"

Shisui Uchiha let out a slightly sheepish laugh...

The two of them turned to the side at the same time, letting Kakashi see the public latrine behind them.

The door had already been flung open. The waste inside had not only filled to the brim, it had overflowed outward, and was steadily releasing wave after wave of stench.

Shisui Uchiha looked at Kakashi with a somewhat apologetic expression and said...

➤ Next: The Miserable Obito, and the Golden Splendor of the Land of Rain…

Chapter 254 - The Miserable Obito, and the Golden Splendor of the Land of Rain…

Shisui Uchiha gave a light cough.

"Ahem... it's actually not that important. It's just that all the public toilets are completely full, and the two of us genuinely have no idea how to handle it.

"Just now I heard you say, Kakashi-senpai, that your Mangekyō Sharingan ability opens something called a Kamui Dimension, right?

"So I was thinking — could we maybe transfer all this waste into the Kamui Dimension...?"

Kakashi Hatake stared blankly at Shisui Uchiha, unable to process a single word of what had just been said.

"You want me to go shovel shit?!"

Watching Kakashi's expression of pure disbelief, Shisui Uchiha hurried to explain.

"Kakashi-senpai, it's not shoveling! I'm only hoping you'd use the Kamui Dimension to contain everything — just take the toilets along with all the waste and draw them away together. No shoveling whatsoever!"

"Isn't that still shoveling shit?!"

Kakashi Hatake stared wide-eyed at Kakuzu and Shisui Uchiha.

Kakashi genuinely hadn't imagined it. The Mangekyō had only just awakened. Kamui had never been used even once. And the very first time it would be used... was to shovel shit?!

Son of a...

What kind of situation even is this?!

And in that moment, Kakashi understood. Understood why, in the future, that name would be known all across the Shinobi World, why even a bunch of kids would know the legendary title of Kakashi the Shit-Shoveling Boy!

It all started here, didn't it.

Suddenly, a voice drifted up from somewhere deep inside Kakashi's mind.

"Kakashi... when exactly did you become the Shit-Shoveling Boy?!"

"Starting today!"

The moment that thought fully formed, Kakashi's eyes went bloodshot. The Three-Tomoe Sharingan spun wildly and snapped into the Mangekyō pattern in an instant.

"Kakuzu! Shisui Uchiha! I'm going to kill you both!"

BOOM!

"You unfilial wretch! What do you think you're doing?! Assaulting the head of the Logistics Department?! Is that it?! Are you trying to become a Rogue Ninja?! You unfilial wretch! Nobody's asking you to literally shovel shit! All you have to do is load everything into your Kamui Dimension — how is that difficult?!"

"Father!"

Kakashi Hatake looked at Sakumo Hatake with the eyes of someone who genuinely wanted to die.

"Calling out to me won't help! Go load it up. Now!"

And so, under the old man's coercion, Kakashi opened the Kamui Dimension and began drawing one public toilet after another into the space. During the process, some of the waste inevitably spilled out.

Kakashi truly did not want to face any of this. There was nothing to be done. All Kakashi could do was watch helplessly as the filth passed through those eyes.

Wait, not my eyes. These are Obito's eyes!

Who even knew whether Obito's ability and this one worked the same way. If Obito ever found out that the eyes given away had been used to store sewage... would Obito spend the rest of time tracking Kakashi down just to scream obscenities?!

One public toilet after another was swallowed into the Kamui Dimension.

Lucky that there was enough space inside. Otherwise, several tens of thousands of people generating waste through an entire day and night might genuinely not have fit.

Meanwhile... the Akatsuki.

Tobi, that is to say, Obito Uchiha, had been in a foul mood lately. Collecting Tailed Beasts and activating the Eye of the Moon Plan was supposed to make it possible to see Rin Nohara again, yet those Akatsuki members had been vanishing one by one!

That Nagato was truly useless. Couldn't even hold an Akatsuki together!

Thinking this, Obito scratched at the backside, and suddenly felt an urgent need rising.

So Obito headed to the toilet, ready to enjoy a long, satisfying release.

Relief. Pure, unobstructed relief.

But then Obito stared blankly at the empty cardboard roll.

The toilet had no paper.

Fortunately, the Kamui Dimension had quite a few everyday supplies stored inside.

Toilet paper was something Obito had stocked up on in good quantity!

After all, Rin Nohara had a way of showing up in dreams, so it only made sense to keep some on hand for emergencies.

Without a moment's hesitation, Obito opened the Kamui Dimension.

In an instant...

Splash.

RUMBLE.

CRASH.

SLOSH.

Countless public toilets and tons upon tons of waste came pouring straight out of the Kamui Dimension, burying Obito Uchiha under a mountain of sewage and collapsing toilet stalls.

And it kept coming. The makeshift toilets and the filth surged out without stopping.

The pile around where Obito stood rose higher and higher, like a small mountain taking shape.

Whatever else Obito Uchiha might be, Obito was still a ninja. The moment the wave came crashing down, the reflexes had already kicked in.

"Damn it! What's happening?! Someone's actually attacking me?! And with a filthy trick like this?! Damn it, it stinks so bad!"

On pure instinct, Obito opened the Kamui Dimension and dove straight inside.

An instant later, Obito Uchiha came crawling right back out, covered head to toe.

"Aaaaaah! What in the world is going on?! How did all of this get into the Kamui Dimension?! What is happening here!"

In complete bewilderment, Obito had forgotten that the Kamui Dimension had been opened just moments ago.

And so the mountain of waste and public toilets swallowed Obito whole.

On this day, sewage ran rampant through the Akatsuki's base, spawning a mudslide of staggering scale that nearly drowned the entire organization.

And the Akatsuki happened to be located in the Land of Rain.

The Land of Rain was already a place of constant downpour and floodwater year-round. At this very moment a torrential rain was hammering outside. The mountain of waste mixed directly with the rainwater and began flowing outward in every direction across the Land of Rain.

On this day, in the Land of Rain...

Golden brilliance shone for thirty thousand li!

Its pungent radiance chilled all nineteen provinces!

The people of the Land of Rain stood there dumbstruck. Where had all this waste come from?!

On Nagato's side, the conversation with Konan had just ended, and Konan had already left. Nagato was preparing to personally control Pain and make a move. All that was needed now was patience, wait for the war between the Hidden Leaf Village and Kumogakure to end, then simply go pick off the weaker side.

But Nagato hadn't anticipated that Konan would come sprinting back in the very next moment, in a state of utter panic.

"Nagato! Something's wrong! The Land of Rain is under attack!"

"What?!"

Konan rushed to Nagato's side in a frantic scramble.

"Nagato! Outside right now it's all..."

Konan's words weren't even finished when Nagato saw it, something surging in from outside like a mudslide. By its color, it looked like Earth Release?!

Could it be that someone had come to attack the Akatsuki?!

Nagato didn't hesitate for an instant.

"Konan! Get behind me!"

"Nagato! Don't! What's outside is..."

"Konan! There's no need to worry!

"Watch me! Shinra Tensei!"

RUMBLE...

On this day, the rain in the Land of Rain fell especially hard.

And mixed into the rain was a golden-yellow hue and a certain distinctive odor. Most importantly, people couldn't shake the feeling that the rain was somehow... sticky.

Some curious souls opened their mouths to taste a raindrop.

A moment later, they spat out a watermelon seed.

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(Brothers! Ten more chapters delivered today!

I've been completely out of ideas lately...

Maybe this is the price of updating so much.

After all, this book is barely a month old and already over five hundred thousand characters...

Sometimes writing it is a real struggle!

But the author is truly happy, because of the support from every single one of you!

Thank you to all the brothers!

Gifts have been pitifully scarce these past couple of days...

Has the spirit of youth already died out?

Damn it...

Are there any more gifts?!

Good heavens! I can see them!

Wait... could this be a genjutsu?!

Damn it! When did this happen!

Kekekekekekekeke...)

➤ Next: 2.3 Billion in a Single Night!