Kakashi was considered to be odd, even by ninja standards.

First was his excruciatingly tragic, and though everyone in the ninja world and their grandmother had a tragic past, Kakashi's was specifically among the more horrific.

You see on the day of his birth Kakashi had a mother and he had a father.

By the time he was five he had neither.

His mother had run off with a nuke-nin, tired of her prodigal son who hadn't saved her marriage and unresponsive work a holic husband. ( Kakashi doesn't know this of course, he thought she had died. Ironically he led the team of hunter-nin that killed her after he became a jounin at seven.)

His father, having become even more of a work obsessed father, committed suicide after a failed mission where he chose to rescue his friends instead of abandoning them, thereby starting a full scale war between Stone and Leaf which took nearly ten years to be settled, mainly in part thanks to the efforts of the 'Yellow Flash of Konoha'.

Said Flash soon became the fourth hokage after the completion of the war, and would go down in history for defeating the Kyuubi no Kitsune and surviving summoning the shinigami.

He was also in a deep coma.

Kakashi, the Flash's student who looked to him as a father and only remaining family (especially since both his team mates died very painfully, all within the span of five years), sat sadly beside his mentor's bed.

Several months ago it had been Kakashi's birthday, and Minato had given him a present neatly wrapped in gold foil with a blue bow on top, yet Kakashi had yet to open it.

The present now actually sat contentedly in Kakashi's lap, begging to be opened.

Sadly wondering if his mentor would ever wake up, Kakashi did just that. Thinking better now than never.

Carefully tearing through the packaging with all the grace of one of his dogs after a chew toy, Kakashi pulled out… a book.

There was a card stuck to it that said in his teacher's illegible scrawl, " Kakashi you need to laugh more. Hope you enjoy the book it's one of my favorites!"

A crude smiley face adorned the bottom after the exclamation point.

The cover of the book was blue and read, 'Funny Mishaps of the Idiotic Kind' in orange letters.

Let us rewind very briefly to when Minato was in the book shop to buy said book.

It was a rather large book shop carrying everything from technical manuals to porn.

In fact they had an entire shelf devoted to a super perverts orange little books.

Said pervert was there signing copies of his books and basking in his short lived fame, when he saw his favorite yellow topped student.

"Hey Minato! Come to see my new book?"

Minato who had just been heading to the till with Kakashi's gift stopped to chat.

"Go away you pervert, I'm not here to read your smut." Because Kushina would kill me. He added silently.

The great Toad hermit was offended.

He might have turned away, back to the gaggle of people asking for signatures, but then he got an idea. The pervert got a wonderful awful idea.

Quick as a flash he surreptitiously pushed a random bystander name Taki (the father of Taka, who was carrying a towering stack of hard cover books depicting the correct way to carry tall things) into an unsuspecting Minato.

They both went crashing to the ground, and their books went every which way.

Quick as a flash the toad hermit pulled the sleeve from Minato's book and stuffed his own orange masterpiece, which just happened to be the same size, into it.

He then tossed it back to a dazed looking blonde ninja, before running into the sunset cackling madly.

Minato gazed bemused at him, then looked at his watch and saw it was nearly lunch time, so he quickly bought and wrapped his student's gift and dashed away.

Later when Kakashi opened it, he read the first line and passed out from all the blood rushing to his face.

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Elsewhere, far away from hospitals where grey haired teens had nosebleeds and blondes slept peacefully, the bad guys plotted evilly like all bad guys do.

Unfortunately these bad guys, unknown to them, were actually' comic relief' bad guys and not 'furthering the plot very far' bad guys.

Oh well, more entertainment for us.

"The time for our revenge is at hand, the Yellow Flash of Konoha is fatally injured from his battle with the nine tailed demon! Now is our chance to kill him!"

The crowd of surrounding stone ninja roared its approval.

One person's hand went up.

"Yes Bakazu?"

Bakazu, third class ninja and all around nice guy who somehow through sheer dumb luck managed to survive the war stood up.

"Hey, ya, I was wondering how you planned on killing him, since , you know, he's proven himself more than capable of killing tons of our ninja without batting an eye, and he's just defeated the strongest of all the byjuu?"

The crowd silently looked at their leader.

"That is a very good question … and I will answer it in this way… but first- Oh my goodness what's that?"

He pointed off into a random direction , and while the crowd was distracted a group of black clad figures appeared suddenly behind Bakazu and whisked him away to never-never-seen-again-land.

"As I was saying. Death to konoha!"

The crowd roared in approval.

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Through all of this Naruto was having a nice long nap in a hospital bed, blissfully unaware of what he had landed himself into.