Author Notes: This is my first story. I've been reading stories on this site for a while now and wanted to try my hand at it kinda nervous hope everyone likes. Its going to follow most of the canon story with a few changes here and there hope you enjoy
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its character.
'Talking'
"Thinking"
*expression*
-Chapter I-
A new day begins in konoha for many it means just a normal day in a ninja village. For one such person it almost never normal.
"..."
Kakashi Hatake had just finished an ANBU mission and had gone to the Konoha Cemetery to visit Rin and Obito's graves along with visiting the Memorial Stone to pay his respects to his late Sensei when all of a sudden Maito Gai came crashing into the scene.
"Ah here you are Kakashi I hope for ready for today's challenge." Gai says with a cheer
Kakashi softly sighs while staring at the Memorial Stone.
"Aw come on Kakashi can't you get a little pumped for our challenges" Gai says
"huh you say something?" Kakashi says finalling looking at Gai.
Gai gets frustrated "darn you and your cool and hip attitude!"
"Hai hai. Alright Gai it's your turn what will it be?" Kakashi says in a calm tone
Gai grins and points to the Hokage Mountain "A race from the gate to the mountain top first to get the flag wins!"
"sounds simple" kakashi says while waiting for the twist
"heh not only must we race but well be doing it from the gate to around the edge of town while juggling water balloons!" Gai says loudly
"...water Balloons?" kakashi says while staring at Gai like he lost it
Gai suddenly produced eight water balloons and gave kakashi four "you have to keep juggling while running not only do you have to watch where you're going you also have to make sure not to lose a water balloon" Gai says
Kakashi stares at the water balloon 'this might be a little hard' he thinks
Gai sees kakashi's staring at the balloon "come now think of this as training!" he says cheerfully
"tell me how running at high speeds while juggling water balloons is helpful?" Kakashi
"It helps for situations where your can't use your hands!" Gai says
"then why can't we just hold them? Better yet why don't we just tie out hands up and run that way?" kakashi says
"that sounds boring this way is much more challenging!" Gai yells
Kakashi sighs again
Gai see kakashi signing "come now I also add that the loser must buy the winner lunch as well." Gai says with a cheer
That gets Kakashi a little motivated 'been a while since I've had Ichirakus'
"alright Gai you convinced me lets get to the gate and get this over with" he says calmly
"that's the spirit!" Gai yells 'yosh curry here I come!' he thinks and starts running to the gate
Kakashi looks at the Memorial Stone one last time, bows then follows Gai to the gate.
-Konoha Main Gate-
Izumo and Kotetsu both recently promoted chunnin were bored out of there minds
"Hey Izumo how long do you think we'll be used to watch the gate?" Kotetsu asks his friend
"Don't know. Not very long I imagine. I mean were chunin now and while Gate duty is considered a B ranked daily mission they'll rotate us out for another pair soon enough" Izumo says confidently not knowing that they will pretty much be living there for the next few years.
Just then Gai comes running up to the gate and makes his Nice Guy Pose to the two
"Izumo! Kotetsu! I trust your both having a very youthful day" Gai says loudly
"As much as guarding a gate gives us Gai" Kotetsu says
"So what brings you here Gai?" Izumo asks
"Today's challenging with my eternal rival of course. Ah here he comes now." Gai points over to Kakashi walking to the gate
"So what's the Challenge?" Kotetsu asks interested
"A youthful race from here around the side of the Village to the top of the Hokage Monument to get the flag while juggling water balloons!" Gai says while making a point by juggling his balloons a couple of times
Both the gate guards stare at Gai like he's grown a second head. Izumo was about to ask about the water balloons part when Kakashi cut him off
"No need to ask just accept what's already going on and life is generally easier to deal with" Kakashi says
"ready Gai? Remember loser buys winner lunch." Kakashi says while standing next to Gai and starts to juggle his water balloons slowly
"Of course soon you'll be tasting the bitter taste of defeat while ill be tasting Curry!" gai yelling as he gets ready while juggling his water balloons
"Izumo if you'll please" Gai says
Izumo walks around the gate and picks up a small rock "when the rock hits the ground start" Izumo then tosses the rock in between the two and as soon as it touches the ground both go running leaving a large cloud of dust behind them
"*cough*...*cough* And there they go" Izumo says while waving dust away from him
Kotetsu grabs a binocular and looks at the top of the mountain "I can see the flag he was talking about...wanna Bet who wins?"
"100 ryo on Kakashi" Izumo says while walking back into the gate both
"alright ill take Gai then" Kotetsu says while watching the flag
-halfway to the Mountain wall-
Gai and Kakashi were neck and neck running. Gai was grinning while juggling with ease while Kakashi was actually focusing on maintain the balloons while running
'he had to of practiced this before the challenge this is annoying to maintain while running' Kakashi thinks
While running something catches Kakashis' eye while normally he'd just shrug it off what he caught was a kid climbing into a dumpster. Suddenly braking while still maintaining his water balloons Kakashi stops and turns around to check out what he saw. Gai sees this and stops as well while maintaining his water balloons
"Kakashi what's wrong?" Gai asked
Kakashi says nothing and walks up to the dumpster. He hearings shuffling sounds coming from inside the dumpster Kakashi stops next to the dumpster and kicks it a couple of times making the shuffling sound stop suddenly.
"Alright who's in there? Come out please" Kakashi asks calmly as Gai catches up and stands behind him "what is it?" Gai asks
They wait patiently for a few minutes with nothing happening Kakashi finally takes a step to the Dumpsters and pecks inside. What he sees nearly casing him to drop the water balloons he's juggling.
Inside the dumpster was a small boy covered in dirt and grime dressed in dirty clothes but that's not what shocked Kakashi the most. What shocked Kakashi the most was he recognized the boy.
A/N: And thats it for my first Chapter I plan on doing at least 2 more of my own chapters before jumping to the Academy Grad Test part(the first episode/Manga) helps get the feel of writing stuff like this. Anyway please leave a comment on what you think so far and maybe some advise on how to improve hope you enjoy this story.