Kami Is An Ass.
Chapter 4:
"-Oh! This is amazing! And look at you! You look so adorable! And- what do you think? Should I take a picture? Oh, of course I should! You're going to school for the fist time! AND NOW YOU'RE BLUSHING-"
"DAD!-"
"I'll be the envy of the village! With a son as adorable and talented as you! That Nura brat couldn't do half the things you can! Duy's mouth will be throthing when MY child graduates before his! That Asuma kid will probably be held back a couple years, don't you think? And-"
"You're being rude-"
"I think I'm ganna cry!"
Kakashi paused for a second before asking, "Are you done yet?"
Sakumo looked slightly confused for a second, before- "Yes. Yes, I'm done."
"Well, good." Kakashi sighed. "I'm ganna go to school now. Don't want to be late on my first day!-"
"Ok then! Let's go!"
"Yeah, let's- What, you're coming?"
Sakumo nodded, smiling like an idiot. "Well, yeah! You didn't think I'd let my adorable son go to Ninja school ON HIS OWN! There could be ruffians, or thugs! Or-"
"I'm going to Ninja school! I don't need you to walk me!"
"I'm going with you."
"What? NO- what? Oh, fine. Whatever, just don't do anything stupid."
Sakumo didn't say anything, but by the look on his face Kakashi could tell that Sakumo wasn't going to listen to him. He rolled his eye's and turned towards the door. "Lead the way." He sighed. Sakumo held out his hand, still smiling. "I'm not holding your hand." Sakumo didn't answer, and he didn't put his hand away. He just kept smiling. "I WILL NOT hold your hand." Sakumo held his hand out a little more. "Why? Why do you always feel the need to enbarise me!" Kakashi whined.
"You're my son. It's my job. I will always be there to enbarace you!" Sakumo chirped, grinning like the fool he was.
Kakashi paused for a second, just staring at his dad. His job? Kakashi didn't get it. "Let's just go!" He whispered, smacking his face with his hand. "Ok, ok!" Sakumo whispered, grabbing Kakashi's hand in a tight grip. "Now, remember what I told you to do if someone you don't know comes up to you and talks to you?"
"Kick him where it hurts."
"That's right!"
It didn't take long to get there. In fact, it only took about 2 minuets, if that. This time, unlike the last time, he hadn't even seen anyone he knew. Maybe... They weren't in the final year too.
Ofcorse, that doubt was crushed the second he entered his 'new' class. He could see them all, alive... Actually alive! Asuma, Gai, Shikaku, Choza, Inoichi, Rin, Obito, Anko, even bloody Gai was here! And... Was that Izumo?
His eye's stung. But, he would not cry.
"Hey, Chibi! Ya' lost or somethin'?" Oh god. He knew that voice. It was a voice that had haunted his life since age 9. A voice he had missed so much. A voice he forced himself to react normally to!
"I'm not lost! And If you really must know, I'm joing the academy, final year. I've been assigned to this class! I bet I could beat you're ass into the ground, so don't get cocky," He snaped. Holy sh** he was an asshole. But... F***ing hell! Obito was annoying. It was endearing, but still annoying as f***.
"Well," Obito sighed, "someone clearly hasn't taken their nap!"
"Ohh! I was so... So... Sassy as a child, wasn't I?" Obito's voice moaned. Kakashi had to stop himself from rolling his eye's.
"Whatever, cry-baby!" He replied, smirking. Oh, how he missed this.
/
"Oh! This is such a BORE!" Kami cried, swinging back on her golden throne. "I thought that doing this would be more interesting! And that Kakashi-gaki isn't really doing ANYTHING entertaining, is he?" She asked herself. But, strangely, got no reply.
"Maybe I should make it more interesting! But... How?"
She thought for a second. THAT'S IT!
"Oh ho ho! This is brilliant! I truly am a GENIUS!"
She laughed, a long, insane, laugh.
"You may have mastered Shadow Travel, BUT IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH TO STOP ME! A GOD!"
The throne cracked.
"Oh, my time will never come, but yours will. In the most painful way imaginable."
She laughed again. What fun was to be had!
With a snap of her fingers, it was done.
/
"Did you see him?!"
"Oh, I know! I know! Can you believe they even let him back in the village?"
"Ya' know, I herd that he abandoned the mission, and that's why we're still at war."
"Really?"
"Yep. Who'da thought it? And, apparently, his brat is going to the academy now!"
"Oh, god. I don't want a child like that near my kid."
"Can you imagine what his kid's like? What he must have become under the influence of a man like that?"
Sakumo turned them out. He had done what he had to do! So, he chose his friends over the mission. So what?! It was the right thing to do! And this is what he got in return? This hatred? This... Coldness?
He shook his head, almost violently. He couldn't think like that. If he did... He may...
No! He would think positively! For Kakashi! He had to stay strong!
He turned his head away. He would stay strong, for Kakashi, for the Hokage, for the village! And for... For...
He couldn't remember.
/
"Ok, class! I know it's still the first day, but even so- we will be sparing next! Because a lot of you prefer to spar certain people, I will be picking the pairs for today." Aramiki-sensei announced.
Kakashi smiled under his mask. Aramiki-sensei was just like he remembered. The aged chunin had brown-gray hair and pail blue eye's. He had a thin face and wrinkles had started to form on his forehead. Even so, he acted anything but old. Sometimes he even acted like a 4 year old, or a rebellious teen. It was funny to watch and, sad to say, he had never payed attention to the man while he was alive. Aramiki had died in the war just before he made jounin, at 9.
"But sensei, that's such a drag!" Shikaku winned, leaning back on his chair and stretching his arm's.
"Yeah! This is stupid! How can we fight each other when we don't KNOW anything yet? You're a sucky sensei." The Uchiha shouted.
Aramiki-sensei pouted. "Awww! You're such cruel chibi's!" he whined, sobbing. But Kakashi could tell that Aramiki-sensei's teary eye's held more amusement than anything else.
"Anyway," Aramiki-sensei continued, seemingly back to normal, "First up! Obito-chan and Kakashi-chibi!" He announced.
"AWW, WHAT?! WHY DO I HAVE TO FIGHT HIM, HE'S LIKE, 3!"
"I'M 5!" Kakashi shouted at the young Uchiha. Oop's, he lost his cool.
"JUST GET TO FIGHTING!" Aramiki-sensei screeched. Holy sh**, he'd forgotten how scary he was! Like... Like... Like Kushina when she was pregnant. Oh god, a bipolar, pregnant Kushina was sure death. One wrong move and BAM! Dead.
Obito flinched back and looked at Aramiki-sensei with a new found respect, Kakashi, however, just got into a taijutsu stance. It wasn't too advanced, he didn't want to make people suspect him.
"Ok! So, rules!... What were the rules again? Oh, right! You can do anything that doesn't kill or seriously injure each other! Good luck, START GAKI'S!"
Obito had gotten into a taijutsu stance across from him, the Uchiha stance, if he remembered correctly. He vaguely remembered doing something like this before- in the old timeline.
His eye's narrowed. He could NOT underestimate his opponent. Obito would probibly be at the same level he was at 12 in the old timeline- high genin level. Which meant he couldn't go all out -not that he ever would against Obito- but he couldn't hold back too much. With his chakra control and newly mastered Shadow Travel, he was high chunin level- at least. If he held back completely, he would lose, and that would damage his near non existent pride beyond repair. But... It would be ok if he showed off a bit, right?
He flung a couple smoke bombs at his feet, a vindictive smirk on his face. This would be good.
With a mumbled "Shadow clone Jutsu!" he was off, sword in hand, and his clone hidden in the dirt. Obito, however, looked to be prepared. He quickly dodged one of Kakashi's strikes, he didn't even seem to be trying!
"That little trick won't get me!" Obito whispered, grinning slightly. Without hesitation, he began forming hand signs. But- that's the sign for-
"Fire stile: Grand fire ball Jutsu!" The fireball- about the size of a small house- looked about 10 times bigger as it stretched towards Kakashi. Holy F***!
He slammed his hands into the ground, charging as much chakra as he could into his hands.
"Earth stile: Mud wall Jutsu!" He wisperd, grinning as the fierball barly cracked the tall wall, ignoring the gasps from the crowd of pre-genin. Oh, he had missed this more than anything! He felt so- so- so alive! More so than he had in years!
Quickly forming the correct hand-seals he announced, "Lightning stile: 12 beast attack!" Well, it was something he had made himself, so no one knew how to do it or counter it, but it wasn't all too powerful. It was meant to be a diversion, but it could knock someone out if even one of the beasts hit its target.
12 huge animals - 3 large foxes, 3 huge bears, and 6 massive wolves- formed around him -in under a second- and launched themselves at Obito.
Obito looked about ready to sh** himself.
"WIND STILE: WIND KNIVES!"
An invisible barrage of almost solid wind ripped his attack to shreds. Awww! But it would have been so cool!
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?" Aramiki-sensei exploded- oh shit his mouth was throthing!-
"AN ATTACK LIKE THAT COULD HAVE KILLED OBITO-CHAN!"
Kakashi slowly started to back away, his hand ruffling his hair nervously.
"YOU AROGENT LITTLE SHIT! GUGH! AND YOU JUST HAD TO BE ADORABLE AS HIGH HELL! ITS SO FRUSTRAITING! I just want to snap your little neck, but then I'd get in trouble!"
/
"So, how was your first day of school?"
"I- I don't even want to talk about it."
"Why not, Kashi-chan?"
Said 'Kashi-chan' was not happy, not at all. His day at school had been... Eventful. He hadn't learnt anything- of course he hadn't! But still- and he hadn't done anything too taxing on his chakra (like Shadow Travel- something he had mastered in his long training hours, the day before the academy started). But...
Holy f***ing sh** was Aramiki-sensei scary!
"Aramiki-sensei is..." He trailed off, what to say?
"Oh, I know!" Sakumo said, strange thing was, he was giggling! Well, no one ever said Konoha's White Fang was manly. He may be stronger than the sannin, but he was a girlish man who was afraid to death of spiders- not very manly- is it?
Sakumo ruffled his messy hair.
"Huh?"
Sakumo just smiled at him
/
It was the third day... When it happened...
/
Nearly home now. He couldn't wait to get there, to see Sakumo greet him at the door, like any father would. To have dinner with him, just like any normal family would.
It was with an almost exhilarated laugh that Kakashi Hatake opened the door to his home.
No welcome. No cheerful 'hello'.
He scowled. But... Maybe Sakumo was sleeping. After all, his dad had always been quite lazy when it came to anything other that his ninja duties.
But... Sakumo had been acting... Odd, recently. He would be happy one second, sad the next. He would forget things. He had clear bags under his eye's and he... Well... Something was just off.
He searched the, nearly, the whole compound when he saw it.
Blood.
It seemed to leak from under the door to Sakumo's study. What?...
He had slowly walked up to the door, the Iron-like scent that came with blood growing by the second. His dread grew. No... It couldn't be...
When he put his small hand on the doorknob, he was downing in his own denial. It just couldn't be! He would never...
The door creaked as he pushed it open. No! No No No NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
With a trail of dried blood behind him, Sakumo lay on the ground, his face pale and hollow, eye's closed and a happy smile on his face. His hands, on the hilt of the his chakra blade, similar to the one he had given Kakashi 2 weeks prior.
The blade itself was...
Was...
No! NO NO NO NO NO!
"REALEAS!" He hissed, but it did nothing. The image - because it couldn't be anything more- remained.
Kakashi pinched himself.
Nothing changed.
So does that mean?...
No...
NO!...
"Well," Obito's voice hissed, "Maybe this is karma."
Sakumo Hatake was...
"After all, fist you kill Rin..." Obito continued. NONOOOONONONONONONO
Sakumo had...
"And now..."
Sakumo was...
"Sakumo Hatake, you're farther is..."
No!
"Dead."
NO HE WOULD N'T BELIEVE IT!
"And it's because..."
NO!
"Of..."
IT'S A LIE! IT'S ALL A HORRID LIE!
"YOU!"
He let out an almost inhuman howl of despair. BECAUSE IT COULDN'T BE TRUE!
But it was. Sakumo Hatake had killed himself. And Obito was... Right.
It was because of him.
His legs gave out under him, but he still crawled over to the body of his- now dead- dad.
Why?... No... This couldn't be... Isn't real.
He clung to Sakumo's now limp arm like a lifeline. Please... Let this be a dream!
But it wasn't a dream.
Please... Oh, Kami, why?! Please, Kami, have mercy! Let this be a dream!
Because this was reality.
And...
OH GOD WHY!?
Kami Is An Ass.
That's why it wasn't a dream.
/
Why couldn't it just be a dream?
/
He had stayed like that for hours. Just... Being with him. It hadn't consoled him in any way- but that didn't matter too much in his fuzzy mind. The sun had long ago risen, when he had finally sat up.
He hadn't slept.
He hadn't ate.
He had just... Sat up.
He had watched at the glow of the new sun had danced across his fathers body- illuminating it like never before.
He hadn't cried.
His eye's seemed much too empty to make tears.
He seemed much too empty to do... Anything.
The academy would be starting soon, he knew. So, he had forced his arms to move, to get up and get ready for the day ahead. He hadn't changed his clothes. He hadn't washed his hair. It was still stained in his -dad's- dry blood. Blood that would never again become alive. Never again flow.
No... It would be forever cold...
Forever dead.
It sickened him, but he couldn't bring himself to remove- or at least clean the blood he had gotten on himself.
He had opened the door to the Hatake Compound, then began his walk to school, just like he normally would.
He was already late, he knew. But it didn't really matter, not anymore.
He left the door open, swinging on its old hinges.
But it didn't matter, he knew.
When he had finally reached school, he was greated by no-one. After all, he was already an hour late. But it didn't really matter, did it?
He had stumbled into his class, seeing but not hearing. It was all... In the background.
Because it didn't really matter, did it?
When he had sat in his seat, he had begun to tremble. Or... Had he been like this the whole time.
He starred at his hands in horror, yet he didn't quite know why.
His hands were bloodied.
Stained.
Tainted.
"Kakashi! Can you hear me?! Are you-"
He cut Aramiki-sensei off with a detached:
"It doesn't really matter, does it?"
Because it didn't really matter.
Nothing mattered right now.
He had failed.
And because of that, Sakumo Hatake had died.
"It doesn't matter: I'm worse than trash now." He muttered. He had a feeling the others heard him, but it didn't matter.
Because those who cannot protect their friend's, are worse than trash.
(A/N) Hello! First things first: sorry about how short this chapter is. I will make the next chapter extra long though, Just for you guys~
And can you tell me if this chapter surprised you, because I had it planned from the start! Also, if this isn't sad enough, the next chapter will be. I got inspiration from the ep where Shikimaru is dealing with his sensei's death. I cried a river. So, next chapter will be OMG sad. Well, as sad as I can do. I am not very confident in myself. Also we will be seeing some of Kakashi's Di Angelo powers soon! Not much, but he will practice them in training I will not show.
I will not write much training for one reason. This story is not about Kakashi getting stronger. It is about exploring Kakashi's character and seeing what he would be like when his emotional walls are DESTROYED. This chapter was needed for the story.
Sorry.
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Published 2/10/16