Kakashi chucked another kunai at the blond as he shifted slightly to grab himself another piece of chicken and narrowly missed the man's leg.
Sakumo pretended that he hadn't seen his son's latest attempt to do bodily harm to the stranger since waking up to find the man sitting in their yard and propped an arm on one of his legs and settled his chin in his hand and huffed. "So who are you and why are you here?"
The blond opened his mouth to speak when Sakumo cut him off in an impatient tone. "Try not to lie to me. I already know that you're a shinobi or at the very least had some sort of training or something." The younger man's mouth automatically snapped closed and he scratched one of his cheeks and looked around as he leaned back.
Another of Kakashi's kuni whizzed past the man's head this time.
Sakumo gave his son a dirty look and had to bite the inside of his cheek when he noted the look of utter frustration on the boy's face a second before he jumped up, kicked a rock- shattering it to pieces then flopped back down in a rather ungracefully and glared at the blond with renewed vigor. More determined than ever to do something horrible to him.
Oh he just hated that man! Which Sakumo found immensely funny.
The blond straightened his spine a bit and blinked and then looked in Kakashi's direction and said, "You shouldn't do things like that kiddo. You might put your eye out."
"It's not my eye that you should worry about-" Kakashi growled in a mean tone, his hackles raised. Sakumo waited for Kakashi to announce that he was aiming for the blond's eye or something and was pleasantly surprised when his son fell silent and changed tactics.
Whatever the elder Hatake may think about the stranger, he was putting Kakashi through his paces with a minimum of movement. Frankly it was fascinating to watch his normally calm and cool son, freak out like this. Though he didn't blame Kashi any for doing so.
This man, whoever he was- wasn't an normal man. He had to be a high ranking shinobi of some sort. Or at least that was the impression Sakumo got from him. The man took a small bite of the meat he'd just plucked from Sakumo's- correction, formerly Sakumo's chicken and swallowed it without chewing when Kakashi said,
"Thief."
Both the blond and Sakumo looked at the boy as he spat out the words, "You should be ashamed of yourself for taking what isn't yours." Sakumo glanced away from his son and said in a bored tone.
"He's right you know." To which the blond replied.
"Well, I consider this pay back for you trying to get me to walk off of the cliff last night. Funny joke by the way. Dangerous. But still funny." The blond said as he gave Sakumo a peculiar look as he grinned and shrugged his broad shoulders as Kakashi chucked a shuriken at the man, with a paper bomb attached to it this time. Sakumo opened his mouth to shout at his son when the shuriken hit the ground between the two men and they both got wide eyed looks on their faces before scrambling for cover.
There was a loud boom which sent pieces of chicken, dirt, flaming wood and other things flying into the air.
Two seconds later Sakumo let out this ungodly bellow that sent Kakashi scampering into the woods to hide as his livid father got up off of the ground fairly shaking with rage at Kakashi's inadverdent attempt on his life.
He was about to go traipsing through the woods after his little demon spawn when the blond man came walking out of the woods with Kakashi, disarmed, hogtied and tucked under one arm with a bemused look on his face.
"Here. He's yours." The man said as he more or less tossed the growling, hissing and spitting mad boy to Sakumo who caught him and gave him a feral smile that instantly had Kakashi quieting down and looking wary.
"Why, Kashi-" Sakumo said cheerfully, his sadistic side emerging a bit. Kakashi gulped and tried to squirm out of the ropes holding him. Maybe he thought he would stand a better chance with his arms and legs free, whatever he though didn't matter at that moment. Sakumo was good and pissed. And while he may not kill his son, that didn't mean that he had to go easy on him either.
"Dad, don't do anything rash. You know that I wasn't aiming for you."
"Oh I know. But that's no excuse. So I'm going to give you one chance; and one chance only to outrun me before I string you up and use you for target practice. Got it?" Sakumo said as he slowly started to work at the knots on the rope binding Kakashi and ten minutes later stopped and looked at the blond who was digging around in the crater where they'd been a few minutes ago and glared at the man's back.
The blond turned his head and looked at Sakumo with an innocent look on his face. "What?"
"I can't untie Kakashi."
"So?" The blond asked curiously. Apparently he didn't understand why not being able to untie his son was a mite upsetting to Sakumo. He'd be a horrible father to some unlucky tyke some day. Sakumo mused wryly.
"So how am I supposed to give him a sporting chance if I can't untie him?"
The blond snorted and muttered something under his breath then said loud enough for Kakashi to hear, "Fuck sporting chances. Just string the brat up and start throwing something." Kakashi let out an animal like growl, the sound vibrating in his chest as the blond climbed out of the crater and walked over to them and bent down at the waist and let out a low rumbling growl of his own.
Kakashi stiffened in Sakumo's grasp as his father studied the stranger while he straightened hsi spine and then said softly. "Ya see, I can do that too. And mine is far more intimidating than yours pup."
Kakashi bared his teeth and started squirming again, this time harder. He couldn't believe that the strange had the balls, the sheer audacity to try challenging him on his own terf.
Oh I am going to do such terrible things to you blondie.
Minato found himself smirking as he walked away from the two Hatake's. He hadn't expected the kid to be such a problem. The father yes, but not the kid. Still that didn't mean that he didn't relish the challenge of smacking down the youngest Hatake since he'd obviously been born with some of his father's gifts and talents.
Bring it on pup. I'll run circles around you.