"Did you enjoy your day off?" Akio asked as he looked down on Kakashi from his kitchen window
"If you call training Naruto a break then I had a blast" Kakashi answered as he stood up and dumped his cup into the sink
"Go get dressed, you're running late" Akio sighed as he sat down on the couch. Kakashi simply nodded and entered his room, closing the door behind him.
After fifteen minutes Kakashi emerged in a plain black shirt and pants.
"Summon yourself to the dragon world" Akio ordered
"How?" Kakashi asked as he sat lazily on the couch as well
"By getting your lazy butt of the couch first" Akio answered
Kakashi sighed dramatically and stood up again. "Happy?"
Akio resisted the urge to punch his apprentice and decided to jump to the catch. "Tell me what you know about summoning a summon"
"Are you serious?" Kakashi asked dumbfounded
"Does it look like I'm kidding?" Akio asked raising an eyebrow, his eyes daring Kakashi to argue. Kakashi ran a hand through his hair.
"Nervous, Kakashi?" Akio asked smirking
"What makes you say that?" Kakashi asked
"You need to break that habit of yours" Akio replied "It's too obvious"
Kakashi snorted but didn't comment any further.
"Explain summoning to me" Akio ordered again "I don't like repeating myself, this is your last chance"
"Fine" Kakashi grumbled as the sheer craziness of Akio's request "You sign a contract with an animal, you do the seals, the animal comes to you, simple enough"
"What about teleportation?" Akio asked
Kakashi groaned yet answered all the same "You do the seals and attempt to make your body jump at a high speed. Like when you jump and enemy, your incredibly fast, faster than in a normal fight. That's because you collect chakra for a single boost. It's the same with teleportation although you require seals to jump long distances."
"Can you do that for vast distances?" Akio asked
"How vast do you mean by vast?" Kakashi asked
"The under haven" Akio said stoically as if it was a normal thing
Kakashi was confused. He stared at Akio making sure he was serious. Finding out that Akio was waiting for his answer, Kakashi hesitated yet answered none the less.
"Umm… I don't think anybody can…" Kakashi answered perplexed
"I can" Akio stated. When Kakashi didn't answer, Akio attempted to explain.
"It's simple, you can summon Kioshi, she can summon you, correct?" Akio began
"Yeah" Kakashi answered waiting for Akio to get on with it.
"Once you are closely connected, you can send signals to Kioshi to summon you" Akio explained
"So you can't teleport that far, it just seems that way" Kakashi smirked
Akio hit him on the head "I am teaching you a useful skill and you try to make fun of me?"
Kakashi chuckled nervously while rubbing the sore area. Akio disappeared and Kakashi soon found himself in the under haven.
"Good morning. Tsubasa sama" Akio greeted where as Kakashi simply bowed
"You are late, Akio" Tsubasa reprimanded
"Well you see, the idiot beside me has trouble with time management" Akio replied
Tsubasa in turn looked at Kakashi with an amused glint in his eye
"Actually, the hot water broke and I couldn't take a shower this morning" Kakashi apologized "I waited for the water for twenty minutes before I realized the trouble, it won't happen again"
Ryuu laughed wehile the others were debating whether it was true or not.
"You explained it to him?" Tsubasa went back to the matter at hand
"Yes" Akio nodded "All that's left is for them to form a connection"
"And how do we do that?" asked Kioshi
"It's rather simple actually" Tsubasa answered "Combined Jutsu"
"So it'l like learning two techniques at once" Kakashi summarized
"Exactly" Tsubasa smiled "I knew you were intelligent"
Kakashi thanked him briskly while Akio moved on
"What we will teach you is a fire blast" Akio informed them "In our situation, Ryuu forms the fire and I add the wind. However, since Kakashi doesn't have a wind affinity, he will form the fire and Kioshi will add the fire"
"Wouldn't that be weaker?" Kioshi asked "A dragon's fire is way more strong than a human fire"
"True" Akio nodded "However, you have the dragon gust to increase Kakashi's fire ten folds, where as I can only make them thrice the power"
"My fire isn't that weak" Kakashi muttered silently. Kioshi heard him but decided to ignore it
"You both need to muster enough chakra for the technique, form the seals beforehand but do NOT execute the jutsu. Once you sense Kakashi's flame beginning to form, you need to immediately add the wind. Mind you, if you use to much wind before Kakashi's jutsu is ready, the fire will disappear"
"Don't use it to early since the fire will disappear and not too late for it not to have a good effect" Kioshi muttered "Got it"
"And I simply execute the jutsu?" Kakashi asked
"Yeah" Akio smiled "The fire gets the easy go on this jutsu"
"So let's start already" Kioshi complained as she dragged Kakashi to a cliff away from any population as in not to harm anybody. Kakahsi jumped on her back.
"You ready?" he asked as he prepared the seals
"Yup!" Kioshi answered then started to concentrate hard. Kakashi formed the fire and Kioshi immediately blew some wind into it. The fire settled into a pathetic spark.
"Not too quickly" Kakashi told her
"I know" she growled "Got excited that's all"
Kakashi did the seals again yet this time Kioshi waited a bit to long before adding the gust of wind. The fire stayed the same, neither getting stronger, nor diminishing.
"DAMN IT!" she snapped
"It's fine" Kakashi reassured her "It's only your second try.
By noon Akio kept hearing the same things over and over
IT's not working!
It's fine really
Not it's not, Kakashi!
Calm down
DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN! I AM CALM
Kakashi was getting frustrated that it is taking so long, although he told Kioshi otherwise. He was used to mastering thing very quickly, yet apparently Kioshi was like Naruto. Determined and incredibly powerful yet needed time to grasp things. I guess things make up for other things.
By the end of the day Kioshi and Kakashi finally mastered it.
"Finally did it?" Ryuu smirked at the two
"Shut up before I dismember you!" Kioshi shrieked and flew away
Akio hopped down and smiled a Kakashi "Not used to things out of your control, huh?"
"Not in the slightest" Kakashi sighed while running a hand through his hair. Akio reminded him of his habit yet again.
"If you keep this attitude up you won't form the connection, you need to be able to synchronize with Kioshi" Akio scolded him as they sat down next to a lake
"She's gonna kill me tomorrow" Kakashi informed Akio
"Why's that?" Akio asked
"Tomrrow you are teaching us another combined justu, although this time im the one that has to time it, right?" Kakashi asked
"Yes" Akio nodded "I'm teaching you mud jutsu and she is the one with the earth affinity"
"If I master it faster than she does, she'll get angry" Kakashi noted
"I'm sure she won't" Akio reassured him "You're over thinking things like usual"
"Hmm" Kakashi replied "So when are we going back?"
Akio nodded and teleported home taking Kakashi with him. They started walking through the park for no reason
"Can I ask you a question?" Kakashi asked
Akio nodded
"Were you a Konoha shinobi?" Kakashi asked
"I was" Akio nodded "Until I started the dragon riders"
"Why's that?" Kakashi asked
"Because the dragon riders were ninja from various nations and cities and we attacked anybody who was causing problems. It would've been difficult to remain in Konoha when I killed some of my allies. However, it was for the good of all" Akio explained
"Must have been difficult" Kakashi mused
"My turn to ask you?" Akio smiled
"What's this, a series of ask twenty questions?" Kakashi asked
"Maybe" Akio joked "But If I know more about you it might be easier for me to understand your complex lazy perverted mind"
"Very funny" Kakashi mumbled
"Who was your sensei?" he asked
"Nimakze Minato" Kakashi answered, the name weird on his lips.
"Oh the fourth" Akio smiled "Must have been a man of great patience to put up with you"
Kakashi chuckled "You have no idea". He thought of the many times he and Obito fought, How many times Kakashi trained by himself causing Minato to freak, the attitude he had of life, being closed up and his sensei trying to make him open up and become more of a child and many other situations.
"I can only imagine" Akio smirked "How was your childhood?"
"That's not relevant to anything what so ever" Kakashi replied hastily
"How come? A childhood shapes up a person" Akio demanded
"Not important" Kakashi was obstante.
Akkio dropped the subject for now hoping to get the information from Jiraya later. "Tomorrow I will only take you to the dragon world and leave you to train with Tsubasa"
"Why's that?" Kakashi asked
"You're not a child, you can train by yourself" Akio reprimanded
"That's not what I meant" Kakashi growled "You were always there, so why stop now?"
"Two reasons" Akio replied "One, you can take of yourself in the dragon world. Two, Jiraya and I need to plan a strategy to take on Akatsuki in a week"
"That soon?" Kakashi asked
"Now's better than later" Akio answered "Besides we are ready"
"I guess" Kakashi mumbled
"A lot of Konoha shinobi will accompany us" Akio smiled "And some from Suna and the lightning capital"
"How did you get the lightning nation to help?" Kakashi asked confused
"They have their own jinchuriki they need to protect as well" Akio answered
"The eight tails" Kakashi remembered
"Well see you tomorrow" Akio said as they reached the end of the park
"Ya" Kakashi mumbled and teleported away