Kakashi and Rei sat up on the Hokage's mountain and watched the sunrise, grinning to themselves. There were screeched and screams all across Konoha from every gender and every age and it just made the teens grin wider and look through binoculars they brought with them to watch their masterpiece at hand.
"So what's the deal between you and Rin? I go away for two weeks to find you two are now dating?" Kakashi asked, looking through his binoculars and laughing at what he was seeing.
"Well she had a fight with her mom about a week back and I went up to check on her because I've never seen them talk like that to each other. I listened and reasoned with her and she was sitting up, red eyes all puffy and smiling a little when she leaned forwards, gripped my chin and planted her lips on mine and of coarse being the teenager I am, I responded and asked her out… Oh my god! Kakashi, look over there quickly!" Rei said, tapping Kakashi's shoulder and pointing to the right as they both replaced their binoculars on and were just about rolling on the ground with laughter if they could just tear their eyes away for one second.
There was one angry looking man walking down the street. He had pink spiky hair sticking up all over the place and wearing a green dress that went down to his shins since he was taller than what was suppose to fit a woman. He was stomping towards the Hokage's office with his fists balled tightly, you could see his knuckles go white from where they were sitting.
"I'm so glad we decided to leave Kushina's clothes in tact if what I've heard about the Red Hot-Blooded Habanero is true plus it made revenge on Minato that much sweeter because then he had to go into work wearing that green dress as well as his hair pink to deal with the complaints… Perfect man." Rei said, hi-fiving Kakashi before turning back to their binoculars to see people coming out in their towels to complain.
"I can't believe you talked me into leaving Rin's clothes in tact even though she's not here." Kakashi whined and Rei laughed, both still watching the angry people. "I swear, if you hurt her I will break your face, she's still my friend." Kakashi growled and Rei smiled.
"Gee, after I was so helpful in getting your sensei back after he dyed your uniform pink as Hokage and made it the new uniform colour for a week for everyone… I'm sure people are secretly thanking us after seeing the state he's in…" Rei said before he heard a serious and threatening growl from Kakashi and he sighed. "I'll do my best but I can't promise anything with my memories." He said truthfully, both looking at each other after pulling the binoculars away.
"Alright then I can't make the same promise about your face." Kakashi said, flicking his nose before he covered it with both hands and pouted.
"HATAKE KAKASHI AND REI, YOU TWO ARE BOTH IN BIG TROUBLE!" They froze when they heard Minato's voice ring out across the village and looked at each other before grinning.
"Take our little battle to the training ground to hide away from Minato-sama?" Rei asked and Kakashi nodded before grabbing his shirt and he suishinned them to the training grounds.
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It was noon before Minato had finished writing and filing the complaints away and finding the correct transformation jutsu for his head. It couldn't have been just plain hair dye when it came to Kakashi and Rei, no it was permanent and screwed up any transformation jutsu done on it until Minato tried a seal on the back of his neck and finally worked, putting his hair back to blonde until it grew long enough to cut out.
Kushina and a few other moms got together and kindly put everyone's clothes back together for free within four hours and now the village was back to working order, he could go and track down the two trouble makers and scare them to an inch of their lives.
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Kakashi had thrown the last punch before Rei caught it and swept his legs out from under him but he was brought down with Kakashi and landed across his stomach, facing down.
"Stop breathing, it's hurting my shoulder." Rei complained tiredly, panting.
"Stop your shoulder from hurting, it's hurting my ribs." Kakashi whined before they both realised what he said and began laughing.
"That doesn't even make any sense." Rei laughed out and he felt Kakashi had stopped laughing.
"Um Rei… I don't think this was a good idea…" Kakashi said swallowing as a shadow of a man loomed up on them and they could feel doom creeping upon them slowly. Minato was grinning down at them like a Cheshire cat and Kakashi knew that didn't bode well for them as they both looked up at the man who was back to normal already.
"Bummer." Rei mused as they were picked up by the scruffs of their shirts and flashed away to their doom.
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Kakashi sighed into the dark and dingy cell and wondered if the prank was worth it. Minato had flashed them into the T&I Department and chained them up by their wrists against a stone hard wall and now his wrists were chaffing and he had lost feeling in his hands. He looked over to Rei who's head was drooped down and he was sleeping, it made Kakashi's heart ach slightly at the thought of what he had endured to be able to sleep through being hung up like this.
Then again, Minato's torture was maddening and tiring as they found out who knows how long ago. Their shirts and shoes were removed and Minato had made a shadow clone then he grinned and whipped out a long white feather. They had been laughing for hours before they gave Minato the instructions on how to get rid of his hair dye after seeing it up close and laughing further, Rei had fallen asleep almost instantly afterwards. He found himself tracing each of his scars on his chest and torso with his eye and guessing where each one had come from when he saw a certain long and deep one running along his back when he twisted in his sleep slightly. He looked closer through his sharingan at the tip showing now on his left hip and wondered where it came from before his eyes widened… It was an old whip mark and Kakashi could see another coming over his right shoulder and to his collarbone and he frowned.
He was broken out of his dark thoughts when he heard a moan that turned into a whimper and looked at Rei's face to see it scrunched up in pain as he mumbled in his sleep. Kakashi began to panic when he saw him struggling in his bonds, making them cut into his wrists and he was bleeding heavier and heavier by the second as his muttering got louder and what seemed more angrier. His breathing picked up as he gasped it through his mouth and mutterings and his body was beginning to sweat with Goosebumps appearing where the droplets ran along his skin and mixing with his blood dripping down his body.
"I'M NOT YOUR TOOL!" He shouted out, eyes snapping open angrily as a flash of white lightning struck his bonds with a chinging sound and his body began falling to the floor but the dull thud of the floor never came as there was a flash of yellow to catch him.
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Minato smiled to himself now that his hair was fixed and he was back to doing work after leaving Rei and Kakashi a little 'caught up'.
"I see you finally got the pink out of your hair." Jiraiya said as he climbed through the window and stood calmly by the edge of his desk.
"Four hours of your famous tickle torture and they gave in… I just left them there for good measure." Minato said, smiling happily to himself.
"Who is 'they'? They did a pretty damn good and clean job if I say so myself." Jiraiya said and Minato smiled fondly.
"It was Rei and surprisingly Kakashi. I left them hanging in the T&I department for good measure." Minato answered with a wave of his hand but then he felt Jiraiya stiffen up next to him and he looked up to see his mentor looking like he had just seen a ghost.
"We need to get him out of there now!" Jiraiya stressed with slight anger and fear and Minato didn't even wait for an explanation as he flashed to them just in time to catch Rei falling from his bonds and Kakashi struggling in his.
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"Why forty-five? You were such a good boy, why have you started questioning so early?" A man cried, emphasising his words with a whip to Rei's back as he let tears fall but bit his lip to keep from crying out.
"I told you I just wanted to know this one answer and I'd never talk again!" Rei cried out, his voice being higher with pain and his youth while the whipping continued and his fingernails dug into the palm of his hand as he pushed his face closer to the wall in front of him to hold back his cries, he knew he was pretty high off from the ground.
"Never! Never ask questions, they poison your mind!" The man was out right sobbing as the stinging on Rei's back intensified. "Just a tool, never talk back. Just a tool, never talk back!" The man was chanting and Rei had had enough without answers and his chakra flared, the whipping coming to a stop as he turned his head and narrowed his eyes at the man behind him. His eyes as gleaming and deadly as a weapon flying for your heart as his chakra sparked out.
"I'M NOT YOUR TOOL!" He shouted out, eyes snapping open angrily as a flash of white lightning struck his bonds with a chinging sound and his body began falling to the floor.
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"Sensei…" Kakashi said, eyes wide as he saw his teacher holding Rei with regret in his stone hard face that only a few people would see. "He was sleeping and mumbling something in his sleep before he began to struggle and he sliced the cuffs open." Kakashi explained quickly as Jiraiya came sauntering, not looking impressed.
"He's going to be okay Kakashi, he's just remembering a memory. Do you know what he was mumbling?" Minato asked, sitting on the ground with the kid resting between his legs and in his arms as his body shivered and shook, a cold sweat breaking out on his skin, head tossing from side to side and Kakashi landed on his feet as Jiraiya released him from the chains.
"He said something about not being a tool before his chakra lashed out but I couldn't hear what he was saying before that… Are all of his memories this painful?" Kakashi asked, his throat constricting at the thought.
"They are but he's usually in a bed at home so he just wakes up from them. We think that the poison that caused his memory loss makes him experience all the pain the memory holds and a little more, Inoichi tested the theory on his first session… This is all my fault, I should have remembered he wasn't normal and alright to just play around with." Minato said, brushing back Rei's sweaty midnight locks away from his forehead still furrowed in pain.
"It wasn't your fault Minato, you didn't know what I know and I should have come to you sooner instead of doing some research along the way." Jiraiya piped up, standing with his arms crossed and brows furrowed in concentration.
"Let's get back to my office and you can tell me what you know…" Minato said, standing up with Rei in his arms.
"You come too Kakashi, I think you should hear this." Jiraiya said, tossing Kakashi his shirt, shoes and Rei's clothes as well as they headed back up to Minato's office.
