A/N: Well, as much as I adore (read: worship) One Piece I need to exercise in other fields too. XD

This is a story told in short little bits and pieces, drabbles more than anything and a writing exercise at its' core.

Prompt: Other ways Sasuke could have reacted to the massacre.

1: Team Seven.

Kakashi, despite what the average civilian on the street thought about him, was a genius. The part that people seemed to surprisingly forget was that he was a genius ninja.

Being a childhood prodigy and an extremely high profile figure did nothing for his work though. It's hard to be subtle when you weren't an Uchiha despite possessing a single sharingan eye that you need to uncover to use, and had the distinctive hair and heritage of the 'White Fang'. It did present additional barriers to his work but it was inevitable when you achieved that level of infamy. When you get to the stage where people run screaming at your appearance in battle you know you've reached the big leagues. (But this also meant every bounty hunter and person of equalling strength would be gunning for you.)

Thus Kakashi set out to broadcast his eccentricities and allow himself to be underestimated as much as possible. People rarely took Jiraiya seriously what with his blatant voyeurism and smut publication or Gai with his relentless proclamations of youth and ridiculous training methods.

Kakashi consequently paid tribute to Obito and his sensei by turning up insultingly late to everything and of adopting the 'Icha-Icha' fandom as his own. It worked surprisingly well for the most part but Kakashi was vaguely wondering if it had been somewhat too successful when he looked upon his latest genin team.

Was the Hokage insulting him with this less-than-subtle parody? The brooding genius, the fangirl and the one-with-something-to-prove? It was glaringly obvious to anyone who knew. Feeling slightly miffed he wondered if he could get away with failing them on principle.

The kyuubi-kid, Naruto, was shorter than he'd expected. He hadn't been near the kid in years but the Hokage had assured him the boy was unharmed. Physically maybe but his file had screamed of 'isolation' and 'emotional neglect'. More importantly he never stopped moving. Seriously, the blonde was practically vibrating. Did he have ADHD or something? 'Lovely,' he thought 'that's certainly going to be fun.'

The pinkette (for a ninja? Are you joking?) was a fangirl. Kakashi wondered somewhat wearily if it was too late to swap with Kurenai. The Hyuuga girl had problems but she worked hard while Sakura seemed to have a critical lack of muscle tone. She clearly lacked any real concept of what a ninja actually does. 'Kurenai would put manners on her and correct those misconeptions' he mused.

The final member was the much lauded 'Last Uchiha. Kakashi eyed him speculatively. There was conflicting intel into how exactly messed up the bratling was. 'Probably obsessed with his brother.' He snarked internally as the last genin introduced himself.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke, I like Tomatoes, genjutsu and medicine. I dislike needlessly violent people and senseless death. My dream? It's irrelevant. I want to be a medic-nin."

Kakashi blinked. 'Well, that was definitely not what I was expecting.'