"Yes. His soul, his presence, his past, his very name - all have been rewritten. He is still your rival, but the rivalry itself is far more serious. He is also a Papa Wolf."
"A 'Papa Wolf'?" asked Kakashi.
"It is when he is protecting someone that he is at his most formidable. More, because he IS so formidable, he is as famous as you are though the attitudes are a bit different."
"The past was changed too?" asked Kakashi.
"We're taking over this village!" said the bandit leader. "We're all wanted missing-nin, so you lot better not get any ideas!"
The tavern was completely quiet, most of the men present backing away from the crowd.
"If you give up your valuables without a fight, we may be merciful!" said the leader, looking for any signs of trouble. The only possible one was this large guy in a hooded cloak sitting in the corner, but that was no biggie with his group.
"Please sir, this is a poor village," said a little girl of about six.
"SHUTUP!" said the leader, knocking the girl down and preparing to stomp her into the ground.
"Excuse me," said a deep voice. "You don't want to do that."
The leader blinked at the large guy in the hooded cloak and then glanced at the table. Hadn't he been all the way over there a minute ago? Still he could feel the unease in his men so he needed to show off he wasn't impressed if this guy just had a little speed. "I'd like to see you stop me!"
The descending boot was stopped by the light touch of the cloaked man's own foot.
"WHY ARE YOU JUST STANDING THERE?! GET HIM!" demanded the leader.
Two of his enforcers stepped forward, grabbing the cloak and ripping it away.
"GAK!" said one of the enforcers, his eyes bugging out.
"Oh HELL," said the other enforcer, beginning to tremble.
"K-k-k-Kenshiro. The Might Guy of Konohagakure?!" squeaked someone in the pack of bandits.
A faint smell of urine wafted from somewhere in the pack.
"Leave," said Kenshiro, cracking his knuckles.
"W-w-w-w-we're not afraid, right men?" said the bandit leader.
"We're all going to die, aren't we?"
"I didn't want to be a bandit, I wanted to be a lumberjack."
"Now I'll never get to taste hosenfeffer again. Never be able to eat those dango from Moritake's again."
"WAHHHHHHH!"
"I heard he once killed one hundred bandits - and THEN he switched hands!"
"I heard an S-Class Missing-nin killed an orphan in front of him. That was ten years ago and they're STILL finding pieces of the guy."
The little girl blinked at the bandits. "Uhm. I'm an orphan."
Someone in the pack of bandits screamed like a little girl himself.
"C'mon you cowards! He's just one man, what can he do?" asked the leader.
"Huh," said Kenshiro, holding up one hand, index finger extended.
"He can't get all of us, let's get him!" said one of the enforcers.
Kenshiro Guy managed to look both bored and sad as the bandits attacked.
"And I'll just kill this little nuisance," said the leader, pulling out a knife and jumping towards the girl who started scuttling backwards.
"Ah-TU! AH-TA! Ahhhhhh-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta. WAH-TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"They're not going to explode, are they, Mister Guy?" asked the little orphan girl. "Cause I got to clean this room you know."
"No, I just hit their anti-aggression points," said the large man.
"Can I learn that?" asked Kakashi.
"No. The Sharingan cannot copy manuevers of this school for much the same reason that the Jyuuken cannot be copied."
"So Guy is more formidable? That's kind of scary," said Kakashi.
"Alone and under orders, he is as talented as you remember. When protecting something? He is sufficiently formidable that Hiruzen Sarutobi tried to retire and hand off the job to him."
"Gak!" said Kakashi, picturing a village fed on the fires of youth. Then realizing that this particular Guy didn't do that sort of thing.
"He turned it down because he wants to teach genin and sees potential in Rock Lee. If he took the Hokage position, he would be unable to train Lee to be his successor in Hokuto Shinken."
"Oh?" asked Kakashi.
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