</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (XwingRob @ Dec 19 2003, 01:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> He&#39;s late because he has to comb his hair&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

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haha. well stay in there, if you tell everyone will murder you

this is a highly sensitive spoiler ready topic, so everyone please restrain yourselves a bit...

I think that kakashi (being late constantly) forgot to leave enough time for them to travel back from the rocky place thingy in time to get to the arena...makes sense to me