This is a really short chapter... Mainly just to keep you in suspense.

Enjoy none the less haha.


Naruto and Sakura jumped upon hearing Hidans blood curling scream and raced towards the bathroom without so much as a glance at each other.
They threw the door open, fully expecting their sensei to have accidentally broken some stitches or fallen down.
Instead, they found him grasping his face and howling at the mirror painfully.
Alarmed, as he seemed to be in no obvious danger and didn't appear in pain, Sakura gasped,

"What's wrong, Kakashi sensei!?"

Hidan turned to them and they jumped back in fright as his hands clawed either side of his face and he made gasping moans.
He turned away and glanced back into the mirror briefly before crying out in horror all over again.
Motioning violently to his body in terror he cried,

"I have stitches everywhere, I'm wearing a mask and did I mention I have stitches everywhere!?-" at this point he motioned to the hospital gown outside the door before he continued, "-Its bad enough they made me wear a dress but now I LOOK LIKE FUCKING KAKUZU!?"

Naruto ground his teeth in silent sympathy as his sensei started sobbing with a sense of vanity they never knew he possessed.
The mans mask and Hitai-ate was still in place, he had made sure of that before they came in the room, and the 'dress' had been discarded as soon as the doctor had left, Hidan instead favouring to re-wear his bloodied pants, much to Sakuras disgust.
As per his usual habit outside Konoha, he chose to forget about donning a shirt, much to the delight of nurses that continued to find reasons to enter the room to tidy up this and clean up that, all the while quite obviously checking the man out.

His resulting outfit allowed him to see every single, tiny little stitch the doctor had made.
They had to admit…
He really did look like Kakuzu.
With a shaky voice and dismayed expression at her senseis discomfort, Sakura whimpered,

"D-don't worry sensei… It'll probably heal up like new…"

Hidan froze, his hands still grasping his head and his one visible eye gazing at her silently in contemplation.
He suddenly realized that she was right.
Overnight his scars would fade and he would be good as new.
He had spent so much time posing as Kakashi that he had begun to think he WAS Kakashi.
Sighing with relief at not being doomed to look like his partner for eternity, Hidan dropped his hands and spontaneously enveloped Sakura in a grateful hug, which he mused, was probably the first time he had ever hugged someone.
Shit, he thought, Konoha is turning me fucking soft…
Evidently, the girl was as surprised at his affections as he was and the embrace ended awkwardly as Hidan instead left the room and wandered back to the bed, deciding, much to the medic nins horror, to jump back onto it playfully, the bed groaning at the weight.
Naruto grinned at his senseis newfound energy and bounced over to him excitedly.

"Will you train me as soon as you get better, Kakashi-sensei!?"

Hidan, in a significantly better mood now that his vanity issues were resolved, grinned at the orange clad boy happily and nodded,

"As soon as I am better, seriously!"

"When will you be better?"

"Soon!"

"In a week?"

"Sooner!"

"In a day!?"

"Sooner!"

"Tomorrow!?"

"Set the date aside! We'll have the fucking best training session ever!"

"YEAH, DATTEBAYO!"

Kakuzus superior infiltration skills allowed him to sneak sneakily into the village and sneakily follow Hidan around like the sneaky sneak he was.
Little did the priest know that a cleverly disguised doctor was carefully watching his every movement.
This was how he overheard the Jashinists heated promise to Naruto.
He groaned and buried his head in his palms.
Hidan, he knew, had always had connection issues.
The man had never really belonged anywhere which was why despite his hatred of the group, Hidan so valued his status in the Akatsuki.
Now that two kids were looking up to him in admiration and showering him with love and gifts, the Jashinist was feeling a sense of connection to somewhere outside of his own world.
The way things were going, the man would end up ditching Akatsuki and killing the REAL Kakashi Hatake, just to retain his position as a beloved sensei to a bunch of people he barely knew.
It wasn't although he would get caught out either, it wasnt like anyone had actually seen the Copy Nins real face.
Kakuzu growled irritably at this new development.


Also this is unedited so I'll go back over it later - no fireplease.

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