Tsunade picks up the book and starts reading.

Chapter 5 Chūnin Exam (2)

After the genins calmed down, Ibiki explained the meaning of the tenth question.

"The first nine questions were made to test your information gathering skills. The tenth question is the primary test for this part of chūnin exam."

"What! That's real sneaky and underhanded" complained Obito.

Feeling stares directed at his person, he looks at the occupants and observe their expressions.

Disbelief and humor were the main emotions in the room.

"Two words" Sasuke started.

"Chunin" Sakura continued.

"Exam" Naruto drawled.

"Obito, you do know that this is their Chunin exam, they don't have a war to rise up in the ranks, so this is a substitute for that, we just haven't gotten to the fighting part yet." explained Kushina, taking pity on the young Uchiha.

"Ohh! well why didn't you say so before" Obito complained at the smiling red headed.

"Did someone say fight, I heard fighting?!" said a no longer sleeping Zabuza.

"No, we were finishing up the written exam" replied a snickering Haku.

"Damn it Haku!" grunted Zabuza.

After a few chuckles they resumed.

Seeing several genins with confused looks, he continued, "the final question simulates a mission. When you are tasked a mission, you may or may not have any information. There are cases where your clients lied.

'Foresight…' thoughtTeam Kakashi.

There are cases where you are betrayed.

Zabuza and Haku shared looks.

Naruto thinks back to the traitorous snake bastard and curls his fist in memory.

However, as a shinobi you mustn't allow such fear to hold you back. As a shinobi there is only one answer to the question. Take the mission. Those who take the mission deserve to call themselves Chunin.

"I give his speech a 7 out of 10." Itachi cheekily said while looking at a certain blonde.

Naruto just gave him the stink eye for his troubles.

"That's being polite, and I gave it a 6 he has no business giving speeches, he's not important enough to the story." said Jiraiya earning a few weird looks.

"To all of you candidates. Remember this, information is important. It is what decide a mission success or failure. Protect it with your lives."

Naruto nods a few times thinking back to how Tsunade tutored him when he was younger.

Ibiki put on the bandanna again. Then he narrowed his eyes as a shadow smashed through the window.

"Is it an attack?" asked Rin

"Whose attacking!" questioned asked Obito

"At the written exam…" Orchimaru humored blankly.

"Is this a part of the test?" asked Young Kakashi.

Team-Kakashi just shook their heads.

Itachi just grabbed the bridge of his nose.

Two kunais launched to the sides, revealing a banner. 'Second Stage Proctor Mitarashi Anko!'

"Yo brats! Don't look so happy just yet!" a woman shouted, appearing in front of the banner.

The genins blinked in confusion.

As did Team Minato, Kushina, Tsunade, Zabuza and Haku.

Ibiki shook his head, "...Anko, bad timing..."

"Haahha same ole Anko" said Kakashi-Sensei causing everyone to laugh.

The woman, Anko ignored him.

"Naturally" drawled Itachi.

"Yep that's Anko alright" chipped in Tayuya.

She scanned the genins, "...26 teams Ibiki? You must be losing your touch."

Ibiki smirked, "there are several outstanding candidates this year."

"Can't argue with that one" mumbled Naruto.

"Oh well... anyway you brats! I am the Great Mitarashi Anko! ("Oh god! Not another Kakashi!")

The entire room shivered briefly except for Jiraiya and Kakashi-Sensei.

Then everyone were in stiches at the very true statement, well everyone except the dramatic sensei in question.

'One day they'll see, the greatness that is I, Kakashi, Sharingan Cyclops Supreme!'

Seeing the idiotic expression on his other's face, Young Kakashi couldn't help but cover his face in his hands and cry a little.

'Why?!, Why do I become such an IDOIT!?'

Your second proctor! And I will cut your numbers down at least to half," she declared with a smile.

"How ominous my protege" Orchimaru said with a brief smile.

The genins were stunned by the bold declaration.

'At least half? A duel? Tournament? No, the tournament stage is usually reserved for the final part of the exam,' closing one of his eye, Naruto decided to stop guessing about the exam and scanned the leftover genins.

"Hhahha you make them sound like they were dinner" joked Rin.

"Who said they wasn't?" Naruto questioned her with a straight face.

Everyone was watching the exchange with trepidation and confusion.

Naruto began to review what he knew.

'The four I watched, here. The snake, here. Konoha genins this year, here. Strange creature, here.'

"What" said Tsunade.

"I'm lost" said Haku.

"What creature" Rin echoed.

"I think he means Rock Lee" Orchimaru deadpanned

"Are you seriously going to keep calling him a strange creature?" questioned Tayuya

Naruto just shrugged his shoulders at her.

She could only shake her head.

"Follow me brats!"

His observation cut short, he looked at his teammates.

They stood up and followed the proctor.

To wherever the second stage is.

...

"Wait, what did you say Hime?" asked Jiraiya.

Tsunade raised an eyebrow but did as he asked and repeated herself.

To wherever the second stage is.

...

"Why does it say, dot, dot, dot, dot?" asked Rin.

"It probably signifies that someone is thinking." suggested Kakashi.

Everyone just shrugged their shoulders.

That was what went through Uzumaki Naruto's head.

"That makes sense now" several people remarked.

And he was sure his teammates also have the same thought.

A familiar forest.

Team Kakashi all gasp, but for different reasons.

The same forest Kakashi took them to when he asked for a more intense training.

"You trained them there?!" several voices spoke out.

"Can't really say I'm surprised" commented Young-Kakashi.

"You know me so well Little-Me!" gushed Kakashi-Sensei, right before glomping his younger self.

"I hate me, sooo freaking much" the younger of the two complained.

The Forest of Death as the bastard scarecrow called it.

For them, this is the Forest of Pain. The place where they suffered for one week under the damn cyclops' 'watchful' eye.

"...I'm going to kill that scarecrow..." Sasuke muttered as he looked at the forest with slight anxiety.

"Later," he told his teammates. "We still need him.

For now."

Sasuke and Sakura nodded.

As did the rest of the room.

"That's right punch his teeth in only after he taught you the new Justus." Supported Kushina with a fist pump.

"No need for the hostilities my cute little genin" smiled their sensei.

"WHERE NOT GENINS ANYMORE!" shouted his team.

"Jeez, that's my ear your screaming in" snarked Obito.

Seeing The Forest, their desire to kill (or at least maim) the scarecrow intensified.

"Welcome to the Forest of Death! Or as I call it, my playground!"

"This confirmed he had a few screws loose" Sakura told Sasuke.

Sasuke of course agreed but, decided not say anything when he considered the other 'non-shinobi' things he picked up from his sensei.

Naruto heard a genin make some mockingly scared noise. He ignored the genin.

They would soon learn to fear The Forest.

"As they all would" Kakashi-Sensei said dramatically.

"...this is going to be hell isn't it?" Sakura asked sadly.

"Do you expect anything else?" Sasuke asked back.

"No, and that is the sad thing," the pink haired one answered.

"They're acting like they were on death-row" says Zabuza.

"This coming from the missing ninja?" Naruto responded.

"Does 'the darkness that shrouds my village will forever be a reminder of the demon that lives inside us all', rings any bells?" Kakashi-Sensei says with a scoff.

"You took that completely out of context!" Zabuza attempted to defend himself.

"Ok but what about when you said, 'I adopted Haku into the life on the run, the life of the missing ninja, condemning her to more despair and death then she had previously known" Sasuke unhelpfully egged on.

"I'll remember that Uchiha, next time you want to take Haku out on a date!" The former Missing-Nin declared with folded arms.

"Despite how entertaining it is to know about the live-action diaries of Zabuza we still have to finish this chapter." Said Tsunade getting everyone back on track.

"...Let's just get to The Tower as fast as possible," Naruto advised them. They nodded.

The Tower as they call it, is the only safe place in the forest.

"Truer words never been spoken" said the formerly quite Itachi.

"Safe from what, we never been there?" questioned Obito, with Young Kakashi and Rin nodding their heads.

Exchanging looks Team-Kakashi just shook their heads.

Naruto just sighed before answering "You'll see".

Safe from giant worms, giant bugs, poisonous swamp, poisonous plants and other unmentionables in the forest. Naruto was quite sure if the 'Lurker at the Threshold'

"How you even know about that?!"

"How do you think, Baka-Obito!"

(he read from a book)

"Of course!"

appeared in the forest, it would be at home.

"I need you brats to sign this form! This declare us not responsible for your death."

"...that's a familiar form. The damned scarecrow made us sign that too didn't he?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes he did," Naruto nodded.

Everyone in the room looked at Kakashi.

"What? If I didn't and they all died I would have had Hokage-sama, Kushina, and all three Sennins after me. No thanks on that shit-storm." Kakashi said with a small grin.

"That's probably the most responsible thing I've seen you do since we started reading." Deadpanned Young-Kakashi.

They signed the form without saying anything. Looking at the genins who signed the forms with a laugh.

"...we won't see them again, right?" Sakura asked.

"We won't. Uzumaki, what are you doing?" Sasuke stared at his blond teammate who shut his eyes while muttering something.

Naruto opened his eyes, "it is only polite to pray for the soon to be deceased."

They nodded and joined him in his prayer.

"That's so considerate Naru-chan!" Kushina praised before hugging him tightly.

"I thought it was a bit sarcastic." deadpanned the Toad-Sennin

"I doesn't matter what you think" both Uzumakis yelled at him.

Other praises rang throughout the room for the team.

Rather his blush came from the praise, the nickname or the hug was anyone's guess.

All he could do was remember the faces of the ones who dared to snicker at his moment.

Even Itachi-Sensei…

Never noticing how other genins looked at them strangely.

Later, they were given a heaven scroll and was tasked to find an earth scroll to finish the stage. The time limit is five days but Naruto and his teammates knew that the faster they finish this stage, the safer they would be.

Currently team seven of Konoha are moving like hell possessed through the forest.

"What happened now" worried Rin.

"Move faster!" Sasuke shouted.

"Go! Go! GO!" Sakura shrieked.

"...it is getting nearer..." Naruto calmly stated. Though for Sakura and Sasuke, they could sense slight tremor in his tone.

"Even you Ruto?" asked Tayuya who was really getting into the story.

"Yes, even me" said Naruto with a small smile.

It is their mortal enemy in the forest of death.

It is a creature.

A snake to be precise.

"Orchimaru attacking them!" sneered Jiraiya

"Really? Foolish Toad, don't be stupid."

And the snake is large enough to eat a tree in forest of death in a single gulp.

Naruto called it, Níðhöggr.

"NERD!"

"Really Yuya?"

They are quite glad it is Níðhöggr who attacked them though.

"Hell yeah, kill some shit kid" Zabuza barked out, barely containing himself.

"There's more huge creatures in there?!" several voices spoke out.

"You have no idea Team-Kakashi and Itachi answered for them.

At least they have yet to find Veðrfölnir and Ratatoskr.

Last time they met those three at once...

"That's really horrible luck" said a grimacing Rin

"You telling me" said a sighing Sakura.

"How did you survive?" asked an interested Tayuya.

"You'll see" Naruto responded.

Let's just say that they are glad Itachi is a protective brother.

The room occupants spare Itachi a few glances.

Sasuke tried to sneakily do the same but of course he was caught.

'Foolish little brother'

Without the help of a Hokage, a former Hokage, and several high level jonin, they would not have survived.

Several mouths gasped at the firepower used against the creatures.

Sandaime Hokage told them that when Shodaime Hokage made the Forest of Death, those creatures migrated to the forest.

Naruto commented on the irony of the three creatures of the Tree of Life that would migrate to Forest of Death.

"Only he would bring that up in that situation" laughed Rin gaining a few snickers from the others.

Sandaime told him that it has something to do with 'that mad scientist Tobirama who thought that the squirrel was cute.'

By the way, for those who don't know Norse mythology, the squirrel is Rataoskr, the Veðrfölnir is an eagle.

"...Sasuke, Sakura, go to the tower. I will stop this thing here," Naruto declared.

'So Heroic'

'Awesome, I taught him well'

'Just like Sensei'

'So cool'

"No Naruto! That's a death flag!" Sakura screamed.

"...don't worry Haruno. He won't die even if it kills him,"

Everyone in the room nodded their heads in agreement.

"Sasuke that was kind of redundant" chimed in the formerly silent Ice.

Sasuke grabbed Sakura and they ran faster to the tower.

Naruto watched them disappear deeper to the forest. Then he looked at the beast.

"...He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious," Naruto quoted from a book he read. "And it is clear that I will not win now."

"To think, you guys had a Sun Tzu equivalent." Remarked Ice.

The Níðhöggr moved to eat him. The moment it's jaw closed, 'Naruto' exploded.

"No!"

"What!" the room exploded into shouts.

"Sochi!" Kushina shouted before promptly hugging him tightly, much to his embarrassment.

Hold up everyone, there's more here" Tsunade reminded them.

Sasuke and Sakura stopped as they heard an explosion from the direction which they came from.

"...Naruto..."

Feeling several stares on his person was normal. However, receiving them because they think you are hurt or dead is not. He twitched slightly under the scrutiny.

Sakura quietly watched as smoke rose from the forest. "What are you doing behind us?"

"That was a clone," Naruto stated. "Let's go."

Sakura sighed. The current Naruto is more human than the old one but his jokes are rather unique.

A few turned toward Sakura. "You make it sound like he does this often?" questioned Orchimaru.

"He does" deadpanned Naruto's three teammates.

"Haruno, let's go before Veðrfölnir or Rataoskr come."

Sakura nodded and they continued their path to the tower.

"...by the way, weren't they supposed to be contained?"

"Yeah, I never figured that out.", pondered Sakura.

"Brother, how did they get free?" questioned Sasuke.

"The book will more than likely explain it." Was Itachi's answer, but if they had looked closer you would see him slightly cuing his eyes at Kakashi.

Deeper in the Forest of Death, Anko cursed.

"Who the hell released the beasts?" she shouted at a group of sheepish looking jonins and Kakashi who kept reading his book.

"Kakashi!"

"What?"

"You Idiot!"

"Well, I was about to lock them away, but my book caught fire so I panicked and let the seal go," Kakashi reported.

"I knew it!" declared Haku.

Zabuza blinked and looked at his surrogate daughter. "You are really getting into this"

"Definitely Sensei's fault."

"It's not my fault, my silly students." Kakashi tried to defend himself. Only to receive a small fist to his ribs courtesy of his younger self.

"…. Bastard-Sensei…" anyone's guess who said that.

"That was my fault actually.

Many eyebrows rose at that revelation.

Kurenai startled me and I accidentally dropped my cigarette," Asuma continued.

"You told me to stop him from smoking, Anko. So I grabbed him," Kurenai informed her.

"Incompetent all of them." Sneered Kushina.

"I was going to say foolish, but sure lets go with that." Itachi calmly replied back.

Anko was about to shout but her voice was drowned by the sound of an explosion.

"What was that?" Kurenai asked, looking at the smoke.

"Judging from the chakra, that would be Naruto," Kakashi closed his book, "clone explosion probably.

"And that is?" Anko asked.

"Let me continue. The new Icha Icha Paradise came out today!"

"Kakashi!"

"Stupid-Older-me!" hollered Young-Kakashi.

"Be serious Kakashi!"

"Fine."

"Ha, he actually listened."

"Shut up Obito"

He forgot that the monsters were unchained that day.

He just sent his cute little genins to a forest where those three monsters dwell.

Of course he would not let them die.

As fast as lightning he informed his 'findings' to the Hokage.

He could testify that he had never seen the Hokage move that fast.

Not as fast as the Great Kakashi of course.

Tayuya rose an eyebrow at the last sentence. She turned to Naruto and asked "Is he deranged or clinically insane"

Surprisingly Team-Kakashi along with the newer readers all chimed in "We, really don't know.

"That's kind of freaky." said Rin blinking in disbelief.

"Riiiight that's freaky, try being hugged to suffocation by your vastly immature, man-child, older-self!" Snarked Young-Kakashi.

"He has a point" agreed Orchimaru. With the other adults nodding in agreement.

"Point to you" Rin said with a victory sign.

"You need all the wins you can get at this point kid." Said Jiraiya pointing to the older Kakashi who was currently holding his younger self not unlike a 6 year old would hold their giant teddy bear.

"...Kakashi..."

With his new party members, the Hero Kakashi accepted the main quest.

Main-Quest: Save the Genins!

"Did this become an rpg-video game?" Asked a confused Sasuke.

"This reminds of when Sasuke was playing online and ragged quit to that 8 year old" said Haku rubbing her chin in thought.

"Haku we swore to never bring that up again." He snarked at her much to the amusement of their audience.

"We didn't swear anything that was only you" she replied with a smile.

"Continue reading please" he said through gritted teeth.

He and his party journeyed to the murky Forest of Death.

Lo and behold!

He saw his cute little genins working together to survive against the three dangerous beasts.

He shed a tear, proud of how they managed to bond together just in a short while inside this forest.

"Dumbass, help them!" hollered Kushina.

However! Those monsters cannot be allowed to terrorize his genins anymore! (He conveniently forgot that he was the cause of their trouble.)

"Yes, yes he did "said Sakura aiming a glare at her Sensei.

Kakashi-Sensei in the room, wisely chose to hide from the increasing glares directed on him. It was convenient that he had a meat shield that was small enough to block his face. Yes, convenient indeed.

'That was kind of negligent and a dick thing to do. This might be worse then what I did to Naruto during their graduation test.' He thought.

The Gallant Kakashi jumped to the fight and heroically saved his students from danger.

After that, he finally got his new Icha Icha Paradise as the quest reward.

"Kakashi..." Kurenai sounded empty.

Exactly how the readers felt.

"...wow... just wow..." Asuma shook his head. Is that a tear Kakashi saw from his eye?

Anko was speechless.

As was the occupants of the room.

'He really is insane' ran through several minds.

'He lives in his own world, they just have to share it with him' thought Ice with a smile.

Indeed. They must be stunned by the tale of Heroic Kakashi. The Kakashi Quest XXI.

"Well, let's just seal them back, shall we?" Kakashi asked with an eye smile.

"It must be Kakashi's fault," Sakura concluded.

"Yes, the scarecrow's," Naruto agreed. Usually he would wait for some evidences before concluding something however, he instinctively knew that this must be the one eyed bastard's fault.

"Hatake's," even Sasuke agreed.

"We'll never go wrong blaming him" said Naruto receiving nods from his teammates as well as, Tayuya, Zabuza, Itachi and Haku.

Suddenly, Kakashi felt a sudden urge to cry.

"Whatever it was, I hope it hurt" said an unforgiving Kushina.

"Meanie..." Kakashi immediately shut up after receiving a glare.

"Brats! Surrender your scrolls!" an Amegakure gennin demanded. Unfortunately, the gennin wore an eyepatch covering one of his eye. Even more unfortunate is that his teammate wore a mask and have spiky hair.

"No way" started an excited young-Kakashi.

To add another insult to the injury, the last teammate of theirs read an Icha Icha book while giggling.

"...hn, Hatake might not be here but..." Sasuke began.

Sakura cracked her knuckles

"...close enough," Naruto jumped.

"Yes way" said everyone else, just as excited

The Ame team stood no chance.

Everyone cheered briefly.

After a few minutes they settled down enough for Tsunade began again.

When they entered the tower, they were surprised to find another team there. The woman with blond hair and black eyes that Naruto saw, a man with similar blond hair and black eyes and the last a man with tanned skin, white hair and black eyes.

They scanned each other.

"Kumogakure team..." Sakura observed.

"...Sasuke, Sakura, they are dangerous but, the woman is the most dangerous one. Be careful," Naruto advised.

"...understood," Sasuke knew that Naruto must have a reason to tell them that. Naruto is not the type to tell them anything unless he is sure about it.

Naruto's mind flashed to the card Kabuto gave him.

Jinchūriki

His mother is one. He knew better than most how dangerous they are.

"There's so many of them in the village I bet the elders were a real pain in the ass?" asked Jiraiya.

Itachi just grimaced "you have no idea."

His mother told him stories about how when raged, she would lose consciousness and woke up finding the area destroyed.

Some in the room spare her looks to see that he eyes were closed, as if in memory.

"...Nibi..." he muttered. He saw the woman's eyes widen. '...didn't expect such enhanced hearing. Could be dangerous. But could be useful.' A plan forming in his head to fight the Nibi's jinchūriki.

"Let us go, Sakura, Sasuke."

Team seven entered the tower, being watched by the Kumogakure team all the while.

Naruto sat in the room provided for the candidates.

"Naruto," Naruto looked up to see Sakura handing him a glass of water. "We have five free days in here."

"...the beasts?" he asked. It would be troublesome if the beasts raged around while the exam progressed.

"Contained, sensei told me when I saw him," Naruto gave a sigh of relief.

"He is here?"

Sakura nodded.

"...I will talk to him," he stood and left the room.

Just as he closed the door, he was greeted by the person he was looking for.

"Yo!"

"Sensei. We need to talk," Naruto motioned him to follow.

Kakashi grew serious,

"What?!" Rin questioned.

"No way" said a disbelieving young-Kakashi

"Lies!" offered Tayuya

"Blasphemy!" chipped in Obito.

"Ok brats we get it, shut up already!" yelled Zabuza.

Haku snickered off to the side, she whispered into Sasuke's ear "Now he's really is getting into it.

anything that can make Naruto call him sensei must be serious.

"Jinchūriki."

From anything that Kakashi expected, this was not one of them.

"That was a definite surprise" said slightly more serious Kakashi.

"...which one?" Kakashi asked.

"Kumogakure, blond haired woman, Nibi. Sunagakure, red haired boy, Ichibi. Takigakure, green haired girl, Nanabi. Kirigakure, black haired man, Rokubi," Naruto listed.

"How did you come across this information?" Kakashi asked.

"...when I saw them, I thought they felt familiar. It was probably because mother is one."

Everyone thought on that thinking it made a bit of sense. Naruto knew different.

'If only it was that simple' he thought to himself.

"So you can sense jinchūriki?" Kakashi asked for confirmation.

"...perhaps..."

"Yes, he can" Tayuya answered for him, though she forgot she was talking to a book.

"That is an incredible skill to have." Orchimaru praise him, much to his delight.

Jiraiya nod along with Tsunade and a reluctant Kushina.

"I will inform Hokage-sama. How dangerous are they?"

"Unknown, Nibi's jinchūriki is at least low jonin."

"Can you subdue her?" Kakashi asked.

"I have some seals Jiraiya gave me.

"How come I don't get a sensei or a sama on my name?" The toad Sennin questioned

"You know why" said a frowning Orchimaru.

If they used their bijū, I can stop them," Naruto's eyes answered the rest.

"...but you may not survive?"

"Possible."

"We should call Jiraiya."

Naruto said nothing, already knowing that it is the inevitable result of their conversation.

Side Story:

"There's more?"

Níðhöggr, Veðrfölnir and Ratatoskr

"I remember them from earlier"

"Yes, so do we now shut up Toady"

"Damn you, you slimy snake!"

"…..terrible comeback Super-Perv.."

After Konohagakure was built, Senju Hashirama brought Senju Tobirama to the forest he had grown.

"Look Tobirama, beautiful is it not?"

Tobirama watched the forest in boredom, "...boring. There's no cool animals around. Can you bring some giant monsters around? Like a lizard that can breathe fire or a giant bird of prey?"

Hashirama laughed, used with his brother's eccentric self.

"He didn't sound very eccentric?" said a confused Rin

I did not know that great-uncle Tobi was such a mad-scientist" ponder Tsunade.

"Why don't you find some? You can bring them here if you want," Hashirama told him.

He regretted it when he saw Tobirama's eyes glowing.

"Really?"

However, as an older brother, he must act like a man. "Yes, you can bring anything here. I promise."

"Alright!"

Six month later, Hashirama regretted his promise.

"good everyone can't be crazy" said Naruto while shaking his head.

'Says the one hearing voices' rang in his head, much to his irritation.

"...where did you find a squirrel this big?" Hashirama asked, looking at the giant creature in front of him.

"It was in the big tree overseas. It seemed lonely so I brought it here. You promised right?" Tobirama asked like a child.

"Aren't they adults?" asked Haku.

"I mean look at him" said Sakura pointing to her Sensei who was staring at the ceiling, counting the hanging lint strings.

"Technically at this time they were older teenagers." Said Ice.

"Schmenatics" said Tsunade drawing focus back to the book

Hashirama wished he could scream to his brother and demanded what insanity spawned him.

"Exactly!" serval voices rung out.

However, he realized that this brother of his is the mad scientist who created a resurrection jutsu

"A what!?"

"Orchimaru get out of my ear, damn it!"

just because his pet cat died. (That jutsu would later be found and used as a tool of war while that cat would later be found and named Tora.)

"OH MY GOD NO!"

"...fine! Just make sure it does not harm anyone."

With that said, Tobirama placed the squirrel into the forest.

Some years after that, the population of the forest grew larger with additional large snake and large eagle.

To this day, no one but the Senju know where they came from.

"Now we do too!" cheered Obito

"Shut it kid, theres another side story."

Seeing the interested looks Tsunade gave them a once over then began.

Side Story:

Kakashi Quest XXII

The Hero Kakashi was given a dangerous quest.

Kakashi-Sensei received glares that he of course ignored.

To defeat the raging monsters inside the Forest of Death.

To survive this dangerous task, the Hero Kakashi made a party.

"Fantasy game anyone?" asked Haku

"Definitely" replied a few people.

The party is consisted of:

The Smoker Asuma ("...Smoker?")

The Bondage Mistress Kurenai ("It's Genjutsu Mistress!")

"Ohh Kinky! The super-perv agrees Kakashi…"

The Snake Charmer Anko ("Not bad.")

"She would like that." Smiled Orchimaru.

And That Man.

That Man who have survived hundreds missions.

That Man who lived within the hearts of many women.

"I highly doubt that."

"Forreal.."

"Be silent peasants"

That Man who is very kind and caring towards his cute little students.

"No, No you are not!"

The Great and Badass.

Kakashi The Hero!

….

"Um…"

Together with his servants, Kakashi The Hero moved through the deep forest, their eyes seeking the targets.

Suddenly he sensed a disturbance in the force.

'This isn't Star Wars'

It is as if a group of Amegakure genins suddenly screamed in terror and were silenced.

"Fun times"

However! Slaying (read: Sealing) the Foul Beasts is his main mission.

The sub-quests could wait until later.

"They are here."

As his party faced the Terrible Three, Kakashi thought about how proud his students will be when they knew how heroic he looked now.

"You suck" Sasuke grinned.

"We hate your guts" Sakura smiled

"Die in a whole" Naruto gave a lazy peace sign.

"Nau-chan that's very mean" Kushina chastised.

"Doesn't mean he's not right" came Tayuya's voice.

"Not you too"

In another part of the forest, Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto sneezed.

They blamed Kakashi.

The room exploded into laughter.

"Haahha, We always knew." Declared a smug Sasuke.

"Just never had proof" agreed Sakura, getting a nod from Naruto.

"Finally that's over" complained Tsunade handing the book to Jiraiya

'I hope I'm not making a mistake.'

Sorry for the wait, life happens and I have been very busy. I am very close to graduating college with a bachelors in broadcast communication and a minor in theater. My new personal goal is to update at least once a month, perhaps more if spare-time is willing.