Chapter 1: Adjusting to the place

You know I don't know how many D-Rank missions me and my team have done but what I do know is that they aren't enough. Trying to make Naruto and Sasuke develop a friendship before the Land of Waves is like trying to teach the Joker how to spend some quality time without doing a crime.

It just can't happen, no matter how much I try, no matter how many times I specifically make Sakura go do another thing with me, every time I return to see if they did their mission correctly. I always get an egg on my face, I don't know how many apologies I had to say to all the clients that had their properties damaged by the two. You would think that after all the destroyed field crops they would at least have a balanced relationship but no...it just became toxic.

I think it was even way more toxic than in canon...well at the beginning. Other than having to deal with the two main characters' relationship, I focused on Sakura, I tried to teach her a few stuff and try to at least stop her from dieting, SHE'S A CHILD FOR GOSSAKE! She needed all the nutrients she could get from a young age that way her body was healthy when she was older.

No wonder why Sarada wore glasses! Her mother didn't take care of herself when she was young. Now it makes sense why most people call her useless, she's useless at even taking care of her own body.

(Sigh)

But then again she is my new student and I have to teach her not to do this to herself. I'll try again tomorrow. In other news I've begun to learn more about this new world I'm in and should I say the library is stacked with a lot of information. There's so much information I'm surprised that most of it never came up in the show. Turns out that even the Third Kazekage had a name...what was it ...Takao?... damn it I forgot his name. Must be because he didn't exactly have a lot of impressive information about himself,

Anyway, being at the library is my new hobby, and I learned some pretty cool stuff. Turns out the Uchiha clan had 278 known clan heads, and most of the Senju clan had a curse that got them wiped out from the face of the Earth. Turns out that one time at one of the clan's get-together dinners, all the food at the banquet had enough poison to drown a whale. The poison was so deadly that after the Second Shinobi War most of the Senju were found dead and others went missing. It was never found out who was the one that had poisoned the clan but whoever it was they were nicknamed 'The Silent Poison' because it was never detected at the time when the Senju got poisoned it was only discovered by Tsunade when she was analyzing the deceased bodies of her kin.

It was pretty surprising that even her parents were killed by this poison which made sense why only she and Nawaki lived together. Anyway this has been another nice diary entry. Let's see what happens next that I will have to write.

I sighed heavily as I put my pen in the diary, settling it on the nightstand beside my bed, I got onto my feet as I went to the bathroom. After making my kidney sigh in delight, I changed out of my pajamas and into my Jonin uniform. Eating my cereal, I just began to think what exactly was I going to do to get Naruto and Sasuke be able to stand each other's presence.

'What exactly can I do? Come on kami, give me a sign.' I thought as I had another spoon of cereal.

Ping!

Looking down at my phone that was beside my bowl, it turned on as I saw a message,

It's time for Basketball training!

'Oh yeah, I forgot. I had basketball training with my team...but then again I'm in this new world...so I guess it's not going to happen.' I thought as I continued to eat, 'Wait! Hold up! I have a plan!' I got off my chair so fast, that I ran to the cabinets that were in the bathroom, I'm not sure why there were paper and pencils in there but I got them as I ran out of the house.

I ran through the village via the roofs of the buildings as I rushed to the Hokage office, after explaining to Hiruzen why my team can't do missions today, he stated it was alright since today there weren't a lot of D rank missions after that small detour I began heading to the team meeting point. We all were supposed to meet at the top of the Hokage Monument but when I got there, I only saw Naruto and Sasuke.

"Good morning." I greeted my genin as they all greeted back. "Where's Sakura?" both Naruto and Sasuke shrugged since they also weren't sure.

"Okay then. I guess she'll catch up later. Anyway today, I've realized that both of you seem to not be able to get along so today we'll be playing a sport." I stated as Naruto and Sasuke looked confused, well Naruto did as Sasuke just looked like he didn't care. "Wait? Aren't we going to do a mission?"

"Hell no! Forget about the mission today, we'll be playing a sport that will help you to be able to stand each other at least and this sport 'will' require you two to work together." I stated as I took out a scroll from my pocket. Unsheathing the paper I did the hand signs that the Weapons Shop owner showed me.

"Release!" I shouted hitting the paper with my hand, a puff of smoke showed up and out of the scroll was a Spalding basketball, a whistle, and some training cones. How these things showed up I'm also not sure, I remember that before I died I was coming back from the basketball court, I was holding all the equipment we used since my coach had to go somewhere, so I had to take the equipment. I guess they all came with me to this world just like my phone, but they were lucky enough to be sealed into a scroll.

"What are these stuff sensei?" Naruto asked "Simple, basketball equipment."

"Bas-ketball? What the hell is that?" Naruto asked as I just sighed. "Naruto this is one of the greatest sports made by Maester Naismith." I explained as the two genin looked confused. "Maester Naismith? Who's that?" Naruto asked as I just slapped my forehead and groaned. "Naruto didn't you just hear what I said?"

The blond blinked in confusion as I sighed. "Sasuke, please explain to our dear Naruto." the Uchiha huffed as he spoke. "It's the guy that created basketball, dobe. Kakashi-sensei just said it a few seconds ago," he stated as the blond just had a bright eye. "Oh...I kind of forgot." he smiled with glee as I just sighed. "Can we just go already?"

"Where are we going sensei?"

"To the court."

We traveled to the south-west side of the village and damn was I surprised that there was an actual basketball court there waiting for us, why was it barren was my question and who the hell made it, to begin with, well my question was answered as there was a stone tablet in front of the court.

This here court was created by Master Kaismith. he had planned to bring joy to the children of Konoha with the new sport he created but before he could even showcase it he sadly perished when the Nine Tails attacked the Leaf. In honour of his memory, the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi has named this court Kaismith Public Court. Sadly no one knows where his sport ended up but this court shall stand no matter if the sport has been lost.

'Wow.' was all I could think after I finished reading this. "Man! This is so boring, what's up with so many letters on one stone." Naruto complained as I punched him on the face. "Naruto show some respect, damn it. This court was made by a man who created the beautiful sport of basketball stop disrespecting the dead, look what Sasuke is doing."

The blond looked at his fellow genin who was currently bowing in respect at the stone. Seeing that Naruto did the same.

"Okay good. Now let me teach you the way of basketball!" I shouted as I ran onto the concrete of the court, driving to the hoop as I bounced the ball. It felt so nice to be playing the beautiful game but when I got into the paint I tried to do a two-step to set up my layup but I was going so fast that I ended up jumping into the air to only dunk the ball into the rim as I hang of it.

"Damn! Kakashi has vert!" I muttered to myself as I let go off the rim. Turning around I saw both Naruto and Sasuke looking in awe. "Sensei? Why is it that I feel...so excited after seeing what you did?" Naruto asked confused. "It's because Naruto...the love of basketball is seeping into your heart," I explained as I went to get the ball. "Catch!" I shouted as I chest passed to Naruto who caught the ball as he smirked.

"Okay! Look what I can do!" Naruto went to drive to the court, he was actually doing good with running with the ball but when he got into the paint. The blond jumped for the rim but sadly he couldn't reach so when he let the ball go it went over the backboard as he hit the ground on his butt.

"Airball," I stated as I went to get the ball. "Ouch." Naruto hissed slightly as he stood up.

"Damn it! I almost had it, it's just my shoelaces weren't tied." Naruto chuckled. "Your wearing sandals, dobe. You don't have shoelaces." Sasuke informed the blond who looked down and was dumbfounded by the fact he didn't have shoelaces. "Ahem. I kind of forgot." he sheepishly smiled as Sasuke just huffed. "Alright, Sasuke show us what you got." I passed to the boy who grabbed the ball as he held it.

"You can shoot if you want," I informed him as he did so. His ball went high up into the air as it hit the front of the rim returning to the raven-haired. Who tried again but this time he hit the square but due to the amount of force he added the ball just bounced out of the rim.

"Okay guys let's stop the shooting and start practise." I said as Naruto caught the rebound and handed the ball to me. "Okay today I'll teach you two how to do a two-step layup." I informed as I did a practical example. 'you two understand?" I asked as Naruto just nodded while Sasuke huffed. "Okay then let's begin."

Naruto tried to do a two step but failed as Sasuke joined him. "Come on guys, I said two step not whatever is that your doing."

"But Kakashi-sensei, how is this going to help us as shinobi?"

"Naruto do you really think that being a shinobi is all about training your skills and being a good ninja?"

The blond nodded as I sighed. "Well no even the likes of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha had to relax and play with their friends, sure they had to deal with the case of the Warring States but during those small interims to take a breather they had to do stuff that would make them happy." I explained to the blond. "Yeah but they had to train sensei, if I remember Iruka-sensei said that The First Hokage was so strong, that a lot of villages had to align themselves. So training is needed to become stronger." Naruto explained as I just looked surprised. "What the? Who the hell are you? What the hell did you do with my student, Naruto? I was sure he would have been winning, am I right Sasuke?" I sarcastically stated as Sasuke just huffed.

"Hey! I might act like an idiot sometimes but I have my own smart moments." Naruto retorted as he folded his hands and puffed his cheeks. "So that explains my theory you are 60% like your mother and 40% like your dad, sadly 30% of your father is your appearance yet 10% is your mental fortitude."

"WAIT! HOLD ON A MINUTE! Kakashi-sensei, you know who my father is?"

"Do I? Of course I do, Naruto, even you know him."

"Really but how come I've never met him?"

"You do talk to him, it's just he doesn't talk back?"

"What? How does that work?" Naruto questioned as I sighed "Naruto you should learn to not be dependent on others but since you're one of my cute little genin I'll give you a tip, read a history book in front of a mirror and make sure it has pictures, especially pictures." I stated as I ruffled the blond's hair, "Huh? Why so specific about the book?"

"Naruto its all up to you. Now let's get back to practise."

I'm not sure how many hours we spend on playing basketball but I have to say it was pretty nice teaching Naruto and Sasuke the way of playing Basketball, I could see that we all were bonding, and that was my plan. To try and make Sasuke have enough good memories that way when he needs to go to Orochimaru, I could intercept him before he left to just sway him into acting like he's a villian but he's actually good.

My plan was simple try to be a good enough father figure to the boy and Naruto, since he needs it. After all the potential girlfriends he could have got in Shippuden, he just needed some training before his time as a teenager that went all over the world wasting his time and energy just to save a friend who literally tried to kill him many times. That's what they called a star-crossed friendship just like how Romeo and Juliet's relationship ended, fate said it should have never happened. But then again eventually Naruto did get him back, only for him to put a bun in Sakura's oven and leave the village once more to stay out of Sarada's early life.

Sometimes I think that he did that so that he couldn't be on diaper duty.

Anyway, me and my two genin wrapped up our practise session, damn did Naruto and Sasuke stink, checking the clock that I brought just so I could time manage it read as 12:23, and our practise session began at nine so we trained for three hours straight which was a pretty successful session, since I saw that the two were learning as we went sure they were very far from the professional level of technique but I would say they were like Early Middle School level at least.

"Sheesh! It's so hot! Why is the sun so cruel, if you said in spring it was this hot, I would have taken you as a fool!" Naruto complained as we began to walk off the court. "Damn you right about that, Naruto. I'm not going to lie but I would kill for some ice-cream. You two down?" I looked at my genin.

"Down? What do you mean by 'down' sensei?" Naruto asked as we turned the corner as we know where on a street that had a few civilians walking up and down.

"It's slang for are you up for it?"

"Why didn't you just say that?" I just sighed. "Because it's cool that way Naruto." I explained in a chill voice. "Cool? Iruka-sensei said being cool is for losers."

"Is Iruka single Naruto?"

"I think...I've never seen him with any girl before." Naruto mused. "That explains it, now are you two down?"

"I guess...I'm down." Naruto agreed as I nodded. "Sasuke? Are you down?" the Uchiha just opened his eyes.

"Sure I need to cool down anyway, the sun's literally frying me," Sasuke added as it was agreed.

We all stopped at some ice cream vendor as I bought a chocolate-mint ice cream cone, while Naruto got vanilla and Sasuke got strawberry and flakes. Sitting down at the vendor's customer sitting tables. We all relaxed as we enjoyed ourselves.

Naruto was literally kissing his ice cream while Sasuke just licked it once every three seconds. "Naruto if you keep on kissing your ice cream like that you'll get a brain freeze," I informed as just then Naruto's face turned cold. "Ahh! Brain freeze!" the blond looked agonized by pain as he held his head in sorrow. "Haha. Told you." I stated as just then I realized I was in a dilemma.

I was wearing my face mask and the last thing I needed was to show off my face, it was literally Kakashi's trademark so the only way in which I could keep it intact was by excusing myself.

"I'll be right back you two, don't kill each other while I'm gone," I told the two as I walked behind the back of the ice cream beginning to enjoy my chocolate-mint flavored treat. It's so nice to enjoy cold things on a hot summer's day.

"Well hello there senpai." I heard a voice beside me, with haste I just pulled my mask up as I turned to the voice to see a woman with purple hair, wearing some grey gear. "Umm...who are you?" I asked since she was pretty much a blank figure. The woman looked shocked to what I have said as she looked angry.

"What!? You don't remember me?"

I just shrugged as the girl huffed. "It's me Yugao." she proclaimed, as I had to think for a minute. 'Who in the hell is Yugao?' was the question since it didn't ring any bells. "Sorry I don't know you." I replied much to her shock.

"You really don't remember your own teammate?" she stated even more shocked as I just paused for a second. 'Teammate? Kakashi never had a purple haired teammate, if I remember Rin was a brunnete... unless if she was alive and she was going through a rebellious teenager stage she would have dyed her hair to purple...but the again she's dead...I wonder if she has even a grave. I should probably visit her sometime, she most likely doesn't have any flowers on her grave.' I thought to myself. 'I feel like I'm forgetting something.' just then I felt something dripping onto my hand looking down to my limb I saw that my ice cream was melting!

I was quickly going to take down my mask so that I can down it quickly but that girl I didn't know was still here. "Why are you still here?" I asked nonchalantly as the girl huffed. "I'm still here because for some reason you're ignoring me. Why can't you for once notice me senpai?" the girl asked as I just looked confused.

"I do notice you, you're Yugao right?"

"That's because I told you that!" she exclaimed. "Okay...well Yugao where have we been teammates before?" I asked as the girl just pointed to the top of her right arm. "What's that?" I asked. "You know I can't say it, senpai so stop acting dumb." she pulled up her sleeve for me to see a tattoo that looked exactly like the one I had.

'Wait...an Anbu tattoo? Hold up, if she has an Anbu tattoo and she said she was my teammate and called me senpai. Doesn't that mean she was in Kakashi's team? Wait...NOW I REMEMBER HER! She was that dead coughing guy's girlfriend! No wonder her name didn't ring any bells. She was only a minor character.'

"Oh yeah, Yugao, hey what's up." I greeted with an eye smile. "Oh so now you're remembering me?" she stated sarcastically "Of course I do, your that guy with the cough's girlfriend." I assured "You forgot even your past classmate's name! His name is Hayate by the way." she stated as I just chuckled heavily. "Can you blame me? It's been a while since I've seen you guys, anyway, how's Hayate doing?"

"He's doing well. Right now he's just busy with some stuff."

"Oh I see. Well how's life as an Anbu?" the girl slumped as all the anger she had a second a go was wiped away. "It's so...tiring. To think I only get more work days then rest days is just a bother...you should have told me that I wouldn't have a life." she eyes me as I chuckled. "I couldn't say you wouldn't have a life, remember at the time Itachi left, and well we needed a replacement," I replied. "But look at the bright side you get paid well for all those high-ranked missions you're doing."

"Well yeah, but I don't have time to spend it nor do I have time to spend with Hayate."

"I mean like you could have gone on a date with him...oh I don't know right now." I stated as the girl slumped "I planned on doing the same thing but Hayate's on a mission right now, he'll only be back maybe in the evening."

"Oh well, that sucks."

"Yeah, anyway I came here to ask you something."

"Yeah?"

"How about we have a spar?"

"A spar?"

"Yeah, me and you. One on one, see how far we've come over the years."

"Okay now that's just unfair, it's not like I've been training like crazy, if you haven't noticed I work with kids that are out of the academy, whereas you have been doing S rank missions almost every day," I replied as an excuse since I didn't feel like fighting right now, especially an Anbu member, I didn't have any experience fighting whatsoever, she'd destroy me without breaking a sweat!

"Oh come on senpai, just a small spar nothing major, even better we'll fight in kenjutsu only."

'Kenjutsu? As in sword fighting? Wait did Kakashi ever do sword fighting? If he did how come he never used it in the Fourth Shinobi War?' I thought as I remembered the Fourth Shinobi War was coming and I had to prepare! 'Shit! I already forgot one of my goals, man do I have short-term memory...wait hold up...if I'm going prepare for the war then I can just prepare my team before it disbands.' I thought since it would actually benefit the war effort if Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were more experience than their canon selves even if it was slightly.

'Wait but if I train Sasuke correctly and he defects won't he just be more of a nuisance? Ugh so many problems after problems.' I thought as I remembered Yugao. "Oh yeah umm sorry Yugao, right now I'm kind of busy with my team. I need to go do a D-rank mission with them." I stated much to her dissapointment. "Oh man and I was really looking forward to this."

"Don't worry I promise to have a spar with you one day." I told the girl. "Well anyway I need to go. Don't be a stranger." with that she dissapeared in a puff of smoke. "Hew...that was close...but I should totally start getting into shape for Zabuza and probably train my team to be able to at least handle Haku...but how..." I mused as I looked across the roof tops to see Gai busy running through them. He was busy holding his weight bands by hand as he ran across blindfolded. "Okay now that's pretty dangerous." I muttered as I watched the man jump roof to roof without even falling one bit nor lossing is footing. "THIS IS THE TRUE POWER OF YOUTH! THE POWER TO RUN IN BELIEVE OF ONE'S INSTINCTS!" he stated that too early as he crashed into a wooden lamp post.

"Ooh!" I weezed as I saw him fall out of my site. "I hope he's alright." I muttered "But damn was Gai fast, those weights are really something else...I wonder whats up with anime and weight training, if it's not Lee getting faster in the Chunin Exams it's Goku and Krillin after they take off their turtle shells. Do those things really work? I mean like sure I'm in an anime but I'm sure it doesn't work by a hundred percent." I tried to lick my ice cream after I took off my mask but to my surprised I found nothing but air, looking down to investigate I was shocked to see that it had melted into my hand.

"NOOOOOOO!" my voice echoed through the entire village.

After my whole debacle with Gai and his weights I decided to take Naruto and Sasuke to get some weights of their own. Since Haku was pretty fast for both of them, we decided to go to a weapons shop but we took a detour to Sakura's house but to my surprise she wasn't home, when I asked her neighbours turns out the whole Haruno family decided to have a nice picnic outside the village. Now I could have went and got Sakura but it was better for her to bond with her family as I bonded with Sasuke and Naruto.

"Okay you two, I want to ask since for somereason I just remembered I gave you money to get some gear but for some reason your still wearing those things." I told the two as we walked side by side on the road, "So are you going to explain yourselves?"

Naruto decided to be the one to speak. "Oh well sensei you see I kind off had to pay my rent...so uhm sorry." Naruto said with a bright smile as he rubbed the back of his head. "Okay that's kind of understandable, Sasuke what about you?"

"I did buy gear, I refilled my pouch with more kunai and shuriken, thanks for the money by the way Kakashi-sensei." Sasuke stated nonchalantly. I just kept quiet as I slapped my forehead. "Stupid Kakashi! Stupid, stupid, stupid!" I said over and over as Sasuke and Naruto just looked at me. "What's wrong Kakashi-sensei? Why are you saying stupid over and over?"

"Because Naruto never send a child to do a man's job. I wanted you two to buy some new clothing since I've noticed that you both only have one pair of clothes." I stated "Wait...sensei you wanted to buy me clothes? I didn't know sensei...but that's...that's...the nicest thing any one wanted to do for me!" before I knew it Naruto was wailing as he brought me in to a hug. "There there Naruto there's no need to make a scene."

"B-but you wanted to buy me clothes...how did you know I only had one jumpsuit?" Naruto sniffed out as he continued to cry. "Well for a moment I thought it was you that stank but it's actually your clothes." Naruto looed embarrased to what I said as he let go of me. "I...ah kind of forgot to wash my clothes yesterday." he stated in embarrasement. "That's okay Naruto. I understand every day you need to wash your clothes and it's fine. Let's just go and get you two some clothes since Sasuke also you need some clothes."

"I don't need clothes, I already have clothes besides even if I needed them I don't need you to buy me some." the Uchiha stated "Can you calm down for a second, I'm trying to do a good thing here but you keep on denying me. For once just accept a gift."

"Yeah teme, can't you for once be grateful?" Sasuke just huffed. "Let's just get this over and done with." Sasuke huffed.