Anyone else would be rather worried when presented with the giant wave heading towards their island at breakneck speed.
Not so much the travellers. Giant waves either carrying a ship, cargo or created just for fun are common in this area considering the Kiri woman has firmly settled into her territory.
However, the giant red-bodied, grey-armoured turtle that appears when the water falls away is rather new.
Familiar mad cackling reaches the beach accompanied with a low and drawn out roar. Isobu, the three tailed beast, has arrived.
Kakashi is perched high up in a tree (courtesy of Hashirama growing an absolute forest) watching the proceedings on the beach below the rocky overhang. He is also avoiding Obito, who has been trying to hunt him down the past few days.
It's almost been a week, which means the three Ame kids will soon need to be prepared to see which one gets a tailed beast (because Kakashi has firmly and repeatedly rejected any attempt to have one shoved into him - he does not need that in his life, thank you very much).
Kakashi's money is on Konan, just because she looks like she's the only one who wouldn't misuse the power for something childish like stealing snacks.
No, Kakashi doesn't use his Sharingan to steal food from other people, that would be ridiculous.
He only uses that kind of power for Icha Icha.
"Sci~ssors, pa~per, rock!" Shukaku chants and throws out a tiny racoon fist at the three tails.
Kakashi has already made it very clear that no matter what happens, either during this childish game or behind the scenes where the tacticians drag their pawns around a bloody battlefield, Isobu is not being sealed inside Obito.
Which is ridiculous because Isobu didn't kill Rin - Kakashi did, shoved his hand through her chest, and it sometimes blurs together with all the other people he's killed even with the Sharingan memory in high definition and he just wonders sometimes if he ever truly cared or if it was just the thought of failure that tore at him-
But then the dissociation goes away and he builds himself a little memorial stone in the dirt because it makes him feel better, like a safety blanket where he can pretend everyone is still dead.
Good thing Kakashi is very practiced at taking all of these emotions and stuffing it down where it will inevitably break out one day and, in turn, break him. That's future Kakashi's problem. Hopefully he'll be dead before then.
Isobu went for scissors, though it is hard to see considering his front foot isn't very dexterous.
"Yes!" Shukaku roars, jumping up and down in the small pile of sand he's made on the Uzu council table, now freed from his pot thanks to the Uzumaki Edo Tensei traveller.
Konan purses her lips and it makes the little girl look very adult. "Should we really be deciding this through a scissors paper rock match?"
"A lot of things would be much simpler if we actually did this more often," Kakashi says sagely where he's squished between the Uzumaki and Tobirama, looking over the seal work. Kakashi is in fact thinking about Gai and Youthful Challenges.
"I want that one!" Shukaku demands and points at Yahiko. "I like his face."
"Thank you," Yahiko laughs. "I like your face too."
Isobu looks around shyly. "Does...anyone like my face?"
"Yours is nice," Nagato says politely. There's a brief pause and then he gently pets the turtle.
"But mine is the best," Shukaku cuts in, shaking his tail and flinging sand around.
Obito tilts his head, thinking very hard. "Technically, if Shukaku gets stuck inside Yahiko, then Yahiko would have the best face. Or does Yahiko downgrade Shukaku's face to just nice instead of the best?"
Yahiko splutters. "Why is my face a downgrade?!"
"We've revised the seals," Tobirama interrupts before the kids can derail this meeting even more. He's a bit snappy because the tailed beasts being this close means his sensor ability is giving him a migraine (Edo Tensei can't feel pain per se but it is very distracting). "Shall we move this to a more appropriate location?"
More appropriate as in an empty, smaller island because if something goes wrong, they don't want to have to rebuild Uzu for a second time.
Yahiko and Shukaku are already far too excitable by themselves. So it shouldn't have come to a surprise that together, they are even worse.
Uzu loses two islands, grows three new ones, and Nagekawashi comes in out of nowhere to start a fight because he got excited. Kakashi is doing his best to mitigate the damage, so at least the main island is untouched, however he can only do so much with his barely average chakra reserves.
He really needs to eat more.
Hashirama steps in to help separate the Yahiko-Shukaku combo and Nage because he's a good man and doesn't just watch from a safe distance like all the other asshole travellers currently present.
And then someone got the bright idea to invite B over so all the tailed beasts they've brought back so far can talk it out and discuss any possible weaknesses of Kaguya. Like the adults and ancient wise spirits they're supposed to be.
However, not even Hashirama can calm down B's violently enthusiastic rapping. At least it doesn't change the geographical landscape...too much. Unlike some others he won't mention again - Nagekawashi.
"Have you met the bug one?" Obito asks, when he finally corners Kakashi into a conversation while they're watching Yahiko and B go at it like collateral damage isn't a word in their collective dictionary.
A palm-sized Isobu pokes his head up from Kakashi's arms. "Do you mean Chomei?"
Kakashi pauses. "Oh shit, we missed the seven-tails."
"There's only nine, how did you miss the seventh?" Obito asks incredulously.
"We've had a lot on our plate recently," Kakashi admits. "You're lucky I'm not covered in blood right now."
There's a loud boom and Kakashi shoves Isobu down his shirt to an inner pocket before tackling Obito to the ground, barely managing to shield themselves from the brunt of the shockwave.
Two hours later, Kakashi arrives in Taki in a rush, spots the current jinchuuriki of the seven-tails and knows from the arm-cannon Taki traveller he accosted on his way out that this jinchuuriki is adamantly loyal and there's no point in risking their plan on trying to convince them to help.
Kakashi trips over in front of the jinchuuriki and...that bastard tries to walk around him. Rude.
Kakashi bursts into tears, sobbing loudly and everyone turns to stare. The jinchuuriki makes an aborted movement to keep walking but does lean down and helps Kakashi back up.
The Sharingan whirls to life and there's only a brief pause before the jinchuuriki lifts Kakashi and sits him on one hip. They leave together and after a brief walk down quieter and quieter alleyways, the jinchuuriki stands Kakashi on a crate.
"Hello, Chomei," Kakashi says.
And something foregin stares back at him through the jinchuuriki's eyes. "How are you doing this?"
"I can do a lot of things," Kakashi muses. Or more like, there was a lot of practice and three other scientists dictating at him. "Including erasing memories so don't bother tattling on me. We need to talk about your complicated family history."
The jinchuuriki's eyebrows start to pull together, a surprisingly human expression for what is essentially a giant beetle.
"I'm going to kill your granny, and at least five of your siblings are going to help at this point."
"I...don't really…" Chomei begins in confusion.
Kakashi jolts when something kicks against his stomach and he pulls Isobu out from under his shirt, where the tiny turtle had been tucked away inside an inner pocket that usually holds lock picks.
Kakashi had forgotten it was there when he left in a hurry to catch a ride on Tobirama's teleport seal, which is a further stabilised form of the Flying Thunder God technique that Minato finished from Tobirama's initial groundwork.
Isobu wiggles his stubby legs through the air. "Chomei!"
"What the fuck…" Chomei breathes out, and it sounds strange coming out of a human because bugs usually breathe through their abdomen. It conveys his bewilderment perfectly.
"I have so much to tell you!"
They end up talking for quite a while, so Kakashi also has Chomei treat him to a meal as compensation for his skimmed knees.