Prescripto13: Sadly we knew next to nothing about the White Fang expect that he was one of Konoha's heroes and made suicide out of disgrace. And it would be fun to see Kakashi as Hokage.

I wanted to finish this chapter yesterday but I was too tired (a headache didn't help either).

Chapter 7

"Great, mystery solved" Kakashi said, finally relaxing. Until now he wasn't aware how tense he was. It was no wonder since there was so much new in such a short time. "What's next?" He asked the leader of Konohagakure. "Now you're going back to work. Come after lunch to the mission room and bring your team. I think I have the perfect mission for you" She answered and smiled in a scary way. It was obvious that she was up to something but Kakashi had no clue what that might be. "Sure" He said and shrugged. He'll find out what this was soon enough.

Instead of using the door he hopped out of the next window and went looking for his team. After a quick search at the usual points he found them at the top of the Hokage's heads. "You're late!" Naruto and Sakura yelled angrily and Kakashi remembered that he forgot to tell them that training was canceled today. "Didn't I tell you that we'd take a day off today?" He asked innocently. "NO!" Came the furious reply. He gave them an eye smile and a "Sorry" instead of an explanation. "How's that, I treat you for lunch before we go to the mission room?" All three of them looked surprised as they didn't expected a new mission. "Tsunade-sama gave us a new mission?" Sakura asked. "Yup. That's what I said" Kakashi said and walked already back to the village. "Lunch?" "I want ramen!" Naruto yelled, looking excited. "Since I'm going to pay for it I'll decide where we got to" Kakashi smashed the blondes hope. "My last barbeque was too long ago so we go there." Naruto still looked a bit disappointed but followed nonetheless. In reality he liked barbeque too.

Team Kakashi had a nice time at the barbeque and chattered about this and that. Well, Kakashi didn't participate that much like usual. While eating his food in a crazy speed he listened to the bickering of the three with one ear. The rest of his mind was focused on the task to use his new found bloodline limit to the best. That it had it's own chakra supply was a surprising extra. That way he could use his normal chakra for ninjutsu. After the loss of his sharingan his stamina should be much higher too. It would be really nice if he wouldn't go to the hospital as much as before caused by chakra exhaustion.

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Tsunade glared at the four stunned figures in front of her. "A diplomatic mission, Tsunade-sama?" Kakashi asked after a while. Normally the jounin didn't question any mission he got but Tsunade knew that he wasn't a fan of diplomatic missions. To troublesome in his opinion (he and Shikamaru had a lot in common in some aspects). "Yes. Suna and Tani had a disagreement short after the war and are now asking for help. They want us to mediate between them. This will be your part, Kakashi. The rest of your team will guard the area of the meeting" She explained and left no room for an argument. Sighing in defeat Kakashi nodded. "What was this disagreement about?" "They don't like it that the Suna-nin use their country to travel to Konoha without asking them. Since both of them are on good terms with us and we found an agreement long ago they want our help. And now go!" Tsunade finished and waved them off.

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"Um, Kakashi-sensei, what is Tani?" Naruto asked after they left Tsunade's office. "Tanigakure is the shinobi village of Kawa no Kuni, the land of rivers. As you probably know, Kawa is between Kaze no Kuni and Hi no Kuni. Now grab your stuff and meet me at the gates as soon as possible."

Kakashi was the first one to arrive at the gates as he wanted to end this mission fast. One after the other his team arrived and they left. "Where will be the meeting place?" Sai asked after a while of silent travel. "At the border between the two countries." Knowing that they would need at least two days to reach that point they chose medium speed. "I wonder why this disagreement came so suddenly" Sakura mused after two hours. "I think Kawa suppressed it for a long time. But there must be a new development, a new point added to their list and they felt it was the right time to voice it. But since they bottled their feelings up for a long time it was more explosive as they meant to." Kakashi answered immediately as he thought about it since they left.

They traveled until nightfall and settled around a camp fire. They decided who would take the first watch (by drawing lots) and laid down. The unlucky Naruto settled himself on a rock and stared into the dark forest. Early in the morning Sakura woke her team and they continued their journey, still rubbing the sleep out of their eyes. It was a boring journey. Nothing disturbed them, not even a wild animal.

Sai was the first to spot the desert between the trees and pointed at it. Everyone was glad that they reached the border and were now looking for the right place. A few kilometers to the left they found the stony area that was described in their mission scroll. They couldn't see anyone there and assumed that they were the first to arrive. Pulling out some storage scrolls they set up a large tent that was meant to be their conference room. It included also a large table with comfortable seats around it.

After they finished their task Kakashi decided to use the spare time for a bit more training. Tsunade hadn't said anything about what they should do in their free time. Sai and Sakura were too tired to train. At least they said it was the reason why they decline but Kakashi doubt that. It was more like they didn't like it that they couldn't keep up with his new found speed. Naruto, on the other hand, was better suited to cope the disadvantage of his lesser speed: by blocking Kakashi with many kagebunshin. The boy tried to catch his teacher while Kakashi disabled one clone after the other in a frightening speed (Naruto almost couldn't produce new clones fast enough to compensate for the destroyed ones), leaving Sai and Sakura watching at the sidelines, making fun of Naruto. Kakashi stopped using ninjutsu after a while and pulled out the tanto his father left him after his death. Sure, it was destroyed in this fateful mission but Kakashi decided a week ago that he wanted to use it again and gave it to a skillful weapon smith. It was far better suited for his height than the sword he used in this B/S-rank mission. He let his chakra flow into it and lightning crackled around it. The destruction scale of it was impressive and let the real Naruto stay away from Kakashi as far as possible. The body memory of his disabled kagebunshin were worse enough to avoid a direct hit of it. To his luck Kakashi didn't tried to hit his former student with it as he knew of its power.

When the representatives of the two countries arrived they faced this surprising scene. The Suna-nin were already used of the sight of several Narutos but to see them destroyed in such a fast speed was rare in these days. "What's going on?" Temari asked Sakura and stopped next to her. Kankuro and Gaara, the Kazekage of Sunagakura, stopped at the sideline too. "Naruto and Kakashi-sensei are training" The pink-haired kunoichi explained matter-of-factly. "I can't see Kakashi" Gaara said with a confused expression. Normally they should be able to see the silver hair of the jounin but all they could see were a mass of Narutos. Sakura and Sai sweatdropped as none of them thought about that they hadn't told anyone outside of Konoha of Kakashi's condition. Standing up Sakura put her hands next to her mouth and yelled: "Naruto! Kakashi-sensei! The representatives are here! Stop fighting!" Both of them stopped immediately and Naruto canceled his kagebunshin-no-jutsu, leaving the blonde and silver-haired boy standing alone in the sand. Rushing to the rest of the group Naruto greeted them enthusiastically while Kakashi gave just a small wave with his hand and his usual "Yo".

"What happened to you Kakashi-san?" Gaara asked perplexed. The Tani-nin looked confused as well but didn't interrupt as they didn't knew the Konoha-nin as good as the Suna-nin. "There was an incident two and a half weeks ago that made me shrunk" Kakashi said and shrugged. For him it wasn't a reason to make a big fuss out of it anymore as he was already used to it. Mostly. "But I'm not the topic in this meeting, right?" He asked and turned to the Tani-nin and welcomed them in a more proper way. To be rude wasn't a good start. Kakashi led the representatives into the tent and glanced briefly at his team to make sure they took their part in this mission. Satisfied he saw that they got to their guarding points immediately.

Kakashi placed himself at the top of the table while the two groups settled right and left from him, opposite of each other. Refreshments and snack laid in the middle of the table. "The topic of this meeting is the disagreement between Kawa no Kuni and Kaze no Kuni. The first one do not agree with the unasked travel of the Suna-nin through their country. We'll try to reach an agreement both parties can agree." Letting his voice stay neutral he mustered both groups. Sunagakura decided that this meeting was important enough that the Kazekage himself came. Tanigakure didn't send their leader as they had the better points already at their side. Suna would've to come up with something to satisfy the other village. Sighing inwardly he pointed out the rules of this meeting and let the discussion begin.

Outside of the tent the teens stand guard and wondered how long this would go. They readied themselves for a long, boring watch duty. None of them expected something to happen but it was better to be safe than sorry. After hours, right before midnight, the members of the meeting left the tent and walked to their tents for the night. Kakashi asked if something happened what his team declined.

The next morning the group returned to the conference tent and continued their argument. To everyone's surprise they came to a conclusion that satisfied every party this evening. Sometimes such a disagreement could took weeks to solve. The Suna-nin and Tani-nin left into different directions, letting the Konoha-nin clean the place.

"What a boring mission" Naruto whined midair. They decided to travel as long as they could before going to sleep. "Shut up, Naruto. Mission is mission and are important disregarded how boring they are!" Sakura hold against but wasn't as furious as other times. She was tired and bored as well but would never admit it. The rest of their journey home they didn't talk much, too tired of their boring task.

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Tsunade listened to the report the tired Team Kakashi gave her and dismissed them soon. She was glad that it didn't came to an armed conflict between to the two countries. The world wasn't ready for another war so soon. She knew already for some time how smart Kakashi was and that discussion were one of his many strong points, if he wanted to. The problem was that mostly he didn't want to. Shaking her head at the stubbornness of the Hatake she returned to her paper work.