Heyo, first post here, but I came from a link on spacebattles and have been going thru the archives of this glorious semi-cracky thing for the past three days. I really should be doing something productive, but in all honesty this looks far too much fun to pass up.
If you guys will allow a random newbie to jump in so late in the game, I'd like to contribute to the fun-sanity. It's been a while since I watched or read any Naruto, and I admit I haven't seen any Lupin, but I have no doubt I'll be watching this thread anyway.
[X] I'd vote for "Show Out-classed, but thought could riffle the pockets" option, though I agree with Guile's idea of adding in that 'we have a bad habit of holding back.'
I'm not sure Kakashi will LIKE that answer, given that he's already done this kinda thing to his team on their first day, and I get the impression that he doesn't like his students giving the 'dumb-if-honest' solution...
But I think that "Misdirection" wouldn't be a good answer since we only tried to rifle his pockets... I think most ninja would kinda expect a simple gambit like that, and if we had a better plan, we wouldn't be telling him.
Anyway, feel free to ignore this if I've jumped in without permission, and I apologize if I got ahead of myself.
That would make things 1-3-5-1 though.