Chapter 10: Just some fights, honey
"So you are telling me you are like, what, twenty to twenty five years from the future? I committed suicide after a failed mission and that we lost the Fourth Ninja war? And Minatos brat sent you here with a advance seal at the former Uzushiogakure?" Sakumo asked tiredly, they had after all been talking for almost two hours and been standing all the time.
"Yeah" Kakashi replied hoarsely, with a slow shake he grimly knew that his father didn't believe him. After all who would?
"Alright, I'm willing to believe you if you are able to tell me something personal about me" Sakumo crossed his arms over his chest, almost like a challenging pose.
And while Kakashi had an idea what to tell Sakumo, it would be a rather bad memory.
"My mother didn't die because of the childbirth, rather she died of a indirect maternal death just a few days later"
"Not quite good enough, while not a popular gossip it's a common knowledge among many how she died"
That actually put Kakashi off by two reasons, when he had asked several years later after Sakumo had died only Jiraiya and Hiruzen had an idea how his mother had died and had he his father always been so cold about her death.
"Alright, on your first date she slapped you. Twice" if this wasn't personal info Kakashi had no idea what would be, it was after all one of the few things that his mother had written in her diary before her death.
That got an expression from his father at least as he looked shocked at his (older?) child, he had made sure that his wife's diary was well hidden in the deepest vault he could find.
"That...that is good enough" he said and coughed in his fist to cover himself as he focused himself. "Well, now what? We have established that you are my son...older though...uurhg, this sure is confusing"
Kakashi chuckled at his father as the man in mock exasperation tried to pull his hair.
"Well, hopefully we can have a...good relationship? And you know...socialize sometimes?"
"Heh, that wouldn't be to much trouble to brat" Sakumo actually smirked at him and crossed his arms over his chest, and relaxed. "Who else knows about your 'true' story?"
"Only Hokage-sama for the moment, but Mikoto-chan knows about my Mangekyou Sharingan. Nobody except those two"
Sakumo crossed his arms once again and nodded.
"Good, the fewer the better for the moment" he then slowly grinned. "Mikoto-chan, eh? Should I expect grand-children in the near future then?"
While Kakashi didn't give a reply as he hasty left the training field, his blush answered Sakumos question.
"In order to see if you are ready to be sent to the front lines I have decided to arrange a spar for you against one of my student Jiraiya" Hiruzen said across the table to Kakashi once again inside his office, his chin resting on his crossed hands.
"And may I ask why you suddenly doubt the skills of both me and your hospital now, Hokage-sama?" while Kakashi spoke in his usual lazy tone, a edge could easily be found.
"No need for such hostile feelings against me, Kakashi. I personally believe you are ready to be sent out once again, and you are needed at many places, but others however are wary to send you out once again for various reasons" Hiruzen continued completely ignoring Kakashis tone.
"Danzo I guess?" while Kakashi never had trusted the man in his previous timeline he was not sure if Danzo actually deserved another chance.
"Among them, yes. But he is not among the stronger supporters for this"
This however was new to Kakashi but when Hiruzen didn't said anything more about he decided to ignore it for the moment.
"The fight will take place tomorrow at training ground 47 six in the morning. Be on time please"
'I won't make any promises' is what he wanted to reply but even he knew when push his leaders patience and instead settled for a nod before leaving the office.
The next day
Some people had gathered the next day to watch the fight between two of the stronger ninjas in the village, all of the watchers being in the council made sure that this would not reach outside sources. As the Hokage told the participator the two main rules not to kill each other and that he could stop the match at any time, everybody know that they are only fighting at half strength but you don't argue with a man who can easily kill you in three seconds, left handed and blind folded.
As the fight finally starts Kakashi immediately charge his opponent, while Jiraiya was far physical stronger his vast knowledge on jutsus and fuinjutsu are far worse. From his original world Kakashi knew that he needed all kind of advantages he can get against Jiraiya so he had put on his custom Anbu armor with the additional of 'Kyuubis' summoning contract above his sword so it diminish his capacity.
While Jiraiya also had metal armour on him, it was only on his arms and chest but it sure added more to his already impressive massive form.
The fight itself formally starts when Kakashi tries a left handed uppercut, and while it was faster then many Chūnin would have trouble seeing, but Jiraiya easily block with his right arm and in retaliation made a high sweeping kick with his left leg.
Despite knowing the risk Kakashi decided to take a risky move by putting his arms in a cross and blocked the attack before it actually came halfway close to him, the kick was powerful enough to lift Kakashi up from the ground.
Surprising Jiraiya and the others Kakashi grabbed hold on the leg and tried to kick Jiraiya in the face with his left leg added with lightning chakra for more effect.
But despite the element of surprise Jiraiya was once again able to block the attack with his right arm, now slightly numb from the lightning.
"Ninja Art: Needle Jizo!"
Kakashi immediately push away from the Sanin barely dodging the first needles coming at him and decide to use a jutsu of his own.
"Fire style: Grand Fireball!"
"Ah, so a fight between two ninjutsu user begins"Hiruzen mutter somewhat interested in the fight now, as a teacher it was always interesting to see how his student had grown on his own.
Beside him another person was paying more attention to the fight, or rather on one of the fighters. Despite having his daughters best interest in mid, Uchiha Hikaru also needed to keep the best interest of his clan close to heart.
Which is the biggest reason that he is currently watching this fight, judging if Kakashi is either a dangerous enemy or a potential ally.
And despite that he had defended Mikoto from the arrange marriage earlier, he was growing more interested to marry her to Kakashi for several reasons.
With himself growing older and weaker his daughter will soon have to take over the leadership of the clan and to secure her position as the heir she needed to marry somebody, preferably someone strong, and that she soon tries to get her own children.
And beside, he really wanted grand-children!
So with a renewed determination Hikaru watch his daughter's potential husband match more careful for more facts to go on.
Having just blocked to heavy punches from the Sanin Kakashi jumped backwards while shaking his arms to regain feeling in them, and when he landed he was ready to summoning chakra for a 'Lightning Beast' but decided to make a surprise for Jiraiya by channeling more chakra to it before he 'threw' it.
So when Jiraiya easily sidestepped the jutsu he thought it was over and could focus on Kakashi, who now was drawing his ninjato while charging him, Jiraiya knew that Kakashi wouldn't get the sword out in time if he charged now.
Which he would have done if not his instincts suddenly went hyper active, in a rush he threw himself to the right and a kunai had already left his hand and pierced the lightning wolfs head as it jumped past him and this time turned into static.
And now Kakashi was in front of him with his sword out and already in motion to slash him, growling deep in his throat in irritation he decided to show everybody why even Orochimaru always hesitated to use sword against him.
His left arm parried the attack with such a force that Kakashi actually staggered backwards, clearly surprised, and losing his balance for only a few seconds that Jiraiya immediately take advantage off. Taking a step closer closer to his opponent Jiraiya made a uppercut punch with his right fist making Kakashi once again stagger backwards, and with the same force spun on his heels and kicked him in the stomach. With ease Jiraiya summoned chakra for one of his favorite jutsus.
"Earth style: Swamp of the underworld" he thought to himself as he slammed his hands on the ground and immediately the ground around the stunned Kakashi became a sticky swamp, that despite Kakashi quick reflexes his right foot was caught and was now slowly dragging him down.
By now Jiraiya was completely into the fight and driven more by the adrenaline he summoned a medium sized toad.
"Give me oil, old friend!" he almost shouted as he jumped atop the toads head, who had no reasons not to comply to the request.
"Toad flame bullet!"
It was only when the swamp ignited from the flames that everybody understood the mistake of using flames on the swamp, as the now burning swamp quickly covered almost everything around Kakashi.
And while Kakashi had been closer to lava, something he didn't want to do again, it was actually starting to get pretty hot and despite the somewhat tricky situation he had two techniques that could get him out of here: Kamui or Susanoo.
'Sorry Obito, seems like I have to use your power again' Kakashi thought as he channeled a huge amount of chakra to his eyes, transforming them into his Mangekyō Sharingan. And quickly a thin golden skeleton armor appeared around him and with trained expertise the left arm reached out towards the ground outside the swamp. Once it had a firm grip he had himself pulled away from the burning swamp.
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In the same city at the same time a young boy screamed out in pain as his normally black eyes were forcefully changed into a black twisted shrunken form with red sclera. He was still screaming five minutes later when his caretakers entered the house, but lost unconscious as they shook him.
Ten minutes later he was at the hospital where the doctors were dumbfounded as they couldn't find anything wrong with his black eyes.
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A silver haired boy at the same time felt his eyes suddenly start to itch
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As Kakashi 'throw' himself towards the safe ground he was already dissolving his Susanoo before he even touched the ground, which was a good idea as Jiriya was canceling his jutsu.
And despite having felt the large amount of chakra Kakashi used they were all surprised that he didn't have a scratch on him or injury, they clearly expected some burns on him apparently.
"You are clearly ready for the field" Hiruzen muttered aloud as he started to head back to his office, glad though that he hadn't lost a good ninja. Meanwhile Hikaru had made his decision about the silver-red haired ninja.
Two days later
"So your first mission is actually a simple border patrol? You don't seemed disappointed though" Mikoto asked Kakashi as she was saying her goodbye at the east gate early in the morning.
Kakashi shrugged and adjusted his cloak while replying. "For the moment at least, the border towards Lightning country may have been calm for some time, but you can't be to sure". He then reached out and gently caressed her chin and with a blush Mikoto leaned forward, cherishing it for the lonely coming weeks to come.
"You better return soon and in one piece, mister" Mikoto replied with a smile as she and helped Kakashi adjust the stupid cloak. "I will miss you"
"And I you. Stay safe Mikoto and I will be back before you know it" Kakashi put their foreheads against each other for a few seconds, before turning around and disappearing by Shunshin and briefly wondered how everyone would have reacted if they knew he was dating one of the most prestige clans in Konoha?
Three days later
As Kakashi jumped away from from another lightning blast, which resulted in another destroyed tree, he wondered what god he had pissed off so much. The future Raikage, A, landed not so far away from him and Kakashi cursed as the fight once again turned into a taijutsu competition.
And what A had in raw strength and speed, Kakashi in turn had precision and nimbleness which in end somehow made it a stalemate between them. So when A once again started his attack with a straight right punch Kakashi knew that his options to win this fight were not many, he didn't want to kill a potential ally after all.
Despite the fact that he he among others had betrayed them in the end.
Leaning at the right A's attack barely missed his own left arm, which now shot forward towards the surprised Cloud ninja moments before A could pull it back and manage to catch it.
Kakashi right foot was soon on it's way towards his opponents stomach but despite the weird position it gave him A leaned forward and blocked the kick with his right arm, and taking advantage of Kakashis surprise he headbutted his opponent.
But despite being dizzy Kakashi pushed of the ground with his left feet and somehow manage to get his right leg around A's neck. Now sitting very awkwardly on A's shoulders Kakashi began the slow process of strangling him, or at least make him unconscious, while desperately trying to fend off whatever blows the future Raikage threw at him.
The first two he actually manage to block against his liver with his arms but the third one hit it's mark and made him once again stunned long enough for A to headbutt Kakashi in the groin.
Not letting go of his advantage go by, he threw himself backwards against a tree and rammed Kakashi against it and as result Kakashi lost his grip with A quickly jumping away to regain his breath.
As they glared against each and planned their next move two other people suddenly entered the small clearing they had created from their battle, Minato and A's battle brother B.
"Minato?" Kakashi asked surprised as Minato was facing him with a serious expression while B was staring at his own kinsman.
"Hokage-sama have issued a cease fire against Kumo ninjas as he have entered negotiation with the Raikage-sama" Minato replied seriously not letting his guard drop, veteran ninjas who had been fighting for longer periods of time often had trouble at times to calm down.
"That is right, big bro. Your father wants you there soon, ya know" Bee said to his brother which thankfully was not a rap this time around Kakashi found himself glad for that thought.
Omake: Hatake special handshake!
"If you truly are my, future, son I want you to show me something that only I would know about" Sakumos stern expression told Kakashi that this was it, either he would screw this one up or he would have chance once again with his father.
But how to convince him? He could tell him about Kakashi mother, something really vital to Konohas security...or he could always do it the old Hatake fashion.
Kakashi closed his right hand into a fist and held it up in front of him, a determined expression for once on him.
Sakumos first surprised face was quickly neutralized once again as he also pulled his closed right fist up.
As one they took a step forward, fists inches away from each other. Just to bump into each other, move to the right while opening their fists, claps them and with firm holding onto each other shook it up and down before left and right.
Here they let go and did a high five to each other dropped their arms, stepped past each other and clapped each other low before finally spinning on their heals and made the 'Seal of Reconciliation'.
The proud smile that Sakumo wore made Kakashi very pleased that he had actually learned the secret Hatake handshake but he really hoped that this time Kakashi wouldn't learn it because he sure wouldn't teach anyone it. It had after all taking him almost six months to get it right, after he had learned the Shadow clone of course, no way he would do it with somebody he knew.
Sorry for the late update!
Real life got in the way in many ways...I hope I will manage to post the next chapter sooner. Hopefully you all will like the chapter and the small Omake, if you have any suggestions for the story or questions I'm happy to reply ^^ Till next time people.
