Chapter 1: Hatake Kakashi

From the bowels of the Tower, the main elevator pinged on the third floor basement. The fluorescent lights inside the elevator seeped out into the dark concrete walled hallway. The man in the instructor's uniform and scar across his nose wordlessly stepped inside. There was one man already in the elevator who had his head down, single eye intently focused on a hand held electronic device. The new entrant made sure to pay as little attention to him, despite the unusually gravity defying white hair and fetching eyepatch with the Konoha insignia on an otherwise normal ANBU Konoha Special Forces dark black and blue uniform. The one eyed man had his face masked lending him an air of even more mystery. Because porn. The guy was watching porn. Over the building Wi-Fi. With the sound set on blast so much so that the sound of men, women and horses drowned out the generic muzak played normally in the elevator intercom. The white haired man giggled in between floors.

On the next floor, three other people wordlessly entered the elevator, taking care to make eye contact with the man publically watching porn. Everyone in the elevator stood stiffly, looking at the analogue marker of what floor they were on. The white haired man remained slouching in the back corner. On the last floor before leaving the underground, the elevator stopped again and this time two females, also with ANBU blue and black uniforms stepped in. They paid particularly little attention to the goings on in the elevator. Despite the sounds of men, women and possibly animals reaching a new crescendo. The doors finally closed, it would take possibly two or three minutes to reach the main lobby floor. Giggling one last time, the white haired man known as Agent 'Scarecrow,' real name Hatake Kakashi turned off the electronic tablet and put it inside a fold in his uniform's vest pocket. His eye looked around the small, now crowded, elevator room nonchalantly and lazily said "And I thought today would be boring."

All six other pair of heads turned to him, expressionless, in response. 'Scarecrow' burst into an immediate flurry of action. Hopping slightly into the man in front of him, he jabbed the red emergency stop button and then snaked that arm around the man's neck. The elevator shuddered to a stop as the six other people in the elevator immediately reacted to his actions. The captured man put his arms up to unhook the chokehold. The two women pulled out knives. Two of the men formed black bladed katana swords out of thin air while the other two pulled out large caliber, heavy magazine pistols. Kakashi pulled on the man's neck as he backed into the wall, his free hand freeing a kunai blade from the hostages own belt. Immediately the captured body reverberated with the impacts of two bullets attempting to breach the skin. But the man was a ninja and his body's chakra formed a shield preventing the bullets from going through. But the shots came at blank range, rapidly using up the body's reserve of energy. The two women lunged at Kakashi from the sides, trying to jab him with their knives. One went high aiming for his shoulder and the other aimed low to his legs. Kakashi quickly used his hostage as a meat shield, pushing him out and down to meet the female ninja who struck low. Her knife dug deeply into the man's ribs. Kakashi used his other hand that hand the kunai, not to block, but instead to wrap around the second female ninja's outstretched arm and pull her to him. The surprised woman's face looked pained as her body was impacted with two bullets. She didn't have nearly as much chakra as the first man did, so her body could not prevent the bullets from breaking her shield. Already having put her in an awkward body position, Kakashi didn't bother looking at her face as he unwrapped his arm from hers and stabbed her chest with the kunai. His movements were lightning fast and the lady ninja was dead standing up. The first man who he held hand his hands around the deeply embedded knife in his midsection, not able to pay attention to anything else. Kakashi took a quick survey of the situation. There were three enemy ninjas inside the elevator still in the fight. None of them had an instructor's uniform or a scar across their nose. Nor did any of them have a bandanna on their heads. "Huh."

A fraction of a second later two sword strikes aimed at Kakashi's limbs met the fake wooden interior of the elevator. The men who wielded these swords in a moment of surprise couldn't believe that they missed from such a close distance. Kakashi, still looking quite unbothered at this entire situation bull rushed to the other side of the elevator using chakra enhanced legs. On his way, he quickly stabbed one sword user in the neck. The man dropped his sword and gun as he helplessly grabbed his gushing neck. Kakashi crouched as the remaining woman launched herself in chakra enhanced kicks faster than an eye can see. The kicks all hit air or the elevator. The man who previously looked like an academy instructor moved the man with a knife wound to the stomach away from the elevator console and looked over all the buttons available. He jabbed the 'resume' button three times but the elevator remained still. Realizing that the elevator had its own code, he quickly tried all the ones he knew without a care to the carnage around him. Despite the three bodies in the floor, the man did not sweat. Kakashi grabbed the gun that fell off the man whose neck he slashed before it hit the ground in a smooth motion single motion as he went into the crouch. He shot at the swordsman still standing. It had no effect, not being able to get past the chakra barrier. This did not worry him, the move was to make the enemy concentrate on something other than him. Kakashi took this moment of hesitancy in order to fully concentrate on the female ninja trying to knock his head off. Timing his strike, Kakashi jabbed the kunai into the inside of her hamstring as it stretched out over him in a failed kick. The knife dug in deep and he heard the woman painfully shriek as she lost her balance. Her femoral artery was sliced open, the wound will be fatal. He saw her hand let go of the knife she was holding.

The swordsman charged at Kakashi going for a killing blow while the white haired, masked man was in a crouch. The sword came at Kakashi in a fierce downward arc. Kakashi shunted the blade aside with what looked like a slap from a glowing hand, crackling with lightning. The same hand after shoving the blade away from his body stood up quickly and used his knife hand to block a counter punch from the swordsman. Having spent both of his strikes and failed, the enemy had only a moment to look at Kakashi in surprise. He never had another thought as the lightning encrusted hand was shoved through his heart, having sliced through body armor and sternum as if they were nothing but warm butter. The white haired ninja, Agent Scarecrow, stood up straight and took his time to do so. There were two dying ninja on the ground and one furiously trying to make the elevator console work. By the time the elevator's power returned and it shuddered before going back towards the main lobby, multiple gun shots killed off whatever life remained in the ninja on the floor. The last remaining enemy, the one who looked like Umino Iruka, finally turned his attention to Kakashi knowing he needs to survive half a moment with the killer inside this box. He looked at the white haired ninja, now sporting two eyes one normal and the other blood red. The red eye had spinning black marks.

The elevator dinged open and out walked a white haired, masked ninja. His one eye was staring deeply into his electronic tablet with one hand and the other was pocketing a folded wad of notes. The tablet started playing porn. This time tentacles were involved. He exited the elevator giggling.