Sensei and Student: The Bond of the Shinobi

The Fifth Hokage's first shift is triage: Kakashi unwound from Tsukuyomi's damage with a palm of green light, Sasuke pulled out of his seventy-two-hour loop of the massacre — and the hardest case saved for last. Rock Lee's diagnosis lands like a sentence: bone fragments lodged near the spine, surgery with coin-flip odds, and a ninja career officially over either way. Guy's response defines them both — if the operation fails, sensei and student will die together. Lee, crying, chooses the knife.