Chapter Two – Minato

Graduation

The Academy absurdly easy – it only took him a year and a half allowing him to graduate at the young age of five – so he wondered the other graduates, all several years older than him, were still so immature.

But after meeting his new sensei, Namikaze Minato, Kakashi realized that maybe most ninja were like that – if the loud yellow-haired man had actually been apprenticed to one of the Sannin.

Blunt

Kakashi wasn't a normal kid and didn't think like one. (But then again, most almost four year olds don't sign themselves up for the Academy.) Minato learned this quite well by their third meeting.

Minato had held up a blunt senbon and asked how many ways Kakashi thought he could kill with it. When the kid was still going strong after two minutes, Minato stopped him, face now pale. Upon hearing that Kakashi and his father only rarely talked, Minato wasn't sure if he wanted to go get drunk or go parental on the kid. One thing he did know, however, was that no matter how much potential Kakashi had, it didn't feel right to train a five year old how to kill someone with blunt objects as efficiently as possible.

Nightmares

Most ninjas learn early in their careers how to be light sleepers – because it can mean the difference between coming home from a mission and dying. Minato, having been an apprentice to the legendary Jiraiya, learned to sleep lighter than most.

So when his apprentice awoke with a muffled gasp, it could've been a scream for how loud it seemed. But once he finally got an explanation about the nightmare from his student, he was reminded of just how different Kakashi was.

Why would a green light terrify his student?

Summons

The first time Minato meets one of Kakashi's summon dogs, it had been tracking him down. When the little pug informs him that he is late – in the middle of a meeting with the Hokage – he is torn between staring in shock or laughing, fleetingly feeling that this is ironic. The next day he shows up to training with a gift for Kakashi, grinning like he's just won the lottery.

Kakashi, however, isn't amused. Because the gift turns out to be a stuffed dog toy – cheerfully named Pakkun by Minato.


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AN:

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Edited: 2/26/12