Growing Up
Origin Of Sharingan Kakashi - Revealed!
13 years ago...
"Sensei!" A low growl in his throat, the door to the Hokage office was slammed open, the walls shaking. Kakashi stepped inside his eyes cold and dark as he stepped into the office of the great Hokage the Fourth. "Yondaime-Sensei!"
"Yes, Kakashi-kun?" The youngest of the Kage's beamed outwardly as he leaned back slowly in his chair. Fingers lacing behind his head as he stared up to his pupil.
"Why didn't you tell me that you were chosen as the new Hokage?" Slamming his fist on the desk, Kakashi couldn't hold back any longer, as he laughed full heartedly. This tough angry front too hard to keep up around his precious one.
The Fourth smiled, chuckling lightly. "I thought it would be better you didn't know,"
"Haha... I am ANBU, how long did you think I would go without finding out?" Kakashi smirked beneath his mask, falling back as he settled into the chair before the Fourth's desk.
"Heh... actually Kakashi-kun, I'm glad you are here. There is something I need to talk to you about," He smiled as he leaned forward slowly, gripping a quill in his fingers, he quickly wrote a note.
"What is it?"
"Kakashi, you are the strongest ninja in the village at this moment. Sarutobi-sama has retired, and with Orochimaru-san leaving exiled, Jiraiya-san disappearing to write his books, and Tsunade-chan taking her leave as well, and I taking Sarutobi-sama's place. You are the strongest the village has to offer... and for that. I have an A-ranked mission for you, that you and only you may accept,"
"And it is?"
"It's a choice..."
Kakashi fell silent as he rested slowly back into the chair, his eyes staring into Yondaime's with uncertainty, his hands balled into fists slowly. "What kind of choice..."
"It's about Uchiha Itachi... I think you know him, correct?"
"Yes... I taught Itachi-kun at the Academy before I was promoted,"
"His father is worried... Itachi is growing strong,"
"Why is that something to fear?"
"Itachi is... different, Kakashi. He is already preparing for the Chuunin Exams; he is 8 years old,"
"8 years old?"
"Uchiha-sama fears that Itachi may one day become a threat to the village. He is powerful and he knows it... Itachi has already mastered his Sharingan. His father says that he has already began developing his own jutsu,"
"Amazing..." His eyes showed his amazement... as well as the slight fear that hid beneath his face.
"Yes, but frightening as well... Kakashi, I will get straight to the point. Uchiha-sama would like to give you the Sharingan. If Itachi ever turns on the village, only a powerful ninja with a Sharingan will be able to stop him,"
"You mean, implant a Uchiha eye into my head?"
"Yes... it's a dangerous surgery... but if you agree to it. It may one day save the entire village,"
His shoulders lifted slowly, a slow long huff of a sigh shook his body as his eyes closed slowly. "Sensei... I don't know. I wasn't prepared to hear all of this during a simple visit. Now, you expect me to give you an answer right away?"
"No.. No, Kakashi-kun... take as much time as you need. This decision will change your life..." Standing slowly, Yondaime left his desk, moving slowly around to Kakashi he placed his head on the young ninja's head. "This would be a hard decision for anyone to make. Your young, Kakashi-kun. Fifteen and an ANBU member, you've lived dangerously already. As I said, this is a choice... take it or leave it,"
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Two Months Later....
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"Hold it back! We must wait till the Fourth arrives!" A rain of fire brunt through the forest of Konoha as tree fell with the hurricane brought by the swishing tails of the demon Kyubii.
Rolling along the ground, Kakashi heaved and coughed as he slammed against a tree. The power of the Kyubii beyond his imagination. Pulling himself up slowly, he body strained as he faced the demon fox. Bodies fell around him one by one... a young female ANBU dashed past him, racing at the giant with kunai drawn, only to be thrown back. His arms catching her quickly as he stumbled back falling to the ground once more.
"Kakashi... where is Yondaime-sensei? Why isn't he here?" The purple haired ANBU coughed, blood falling unto his chest as he held her.
"I don't know... where is Gekkyo? I haven't seen him since the battle began," Pulling himself to his feet, he held her in his arms, leaping over the fallen tree, he laid her there in the grass.
"The Kyubii... it got him. Gekkyo was the first to fall, Kakashi..."
"Dammit..." His eyes scanned the field where the once majestic Konoha forest stood. Finally he saw there in the rubble, Gekkyo ANBU team leader. His final trainer, his best friend... Hayate Gekkyo. Dammit, the Kyubii will pay! Where was the Fourth?! "Rest here.... I'm going to find Yondaime-sensei,"
Trees fall as the tongue of Bunta-Gama whipped over those who still lived... there atop the toad's head he sat. Yondaime... the Fourth Hokage. His hands sealing quickly as he stood toe to toe with Kyubii...
"Kakashi!" Screaming from her place of cover, Kakashi leapt away from the foot of Bunta joining her in the safety of the tree barrier. "You see those seals don't you?"
"No... What's he doing?" Kakashi panted heavily, wiping blood from his cheek as he leaned against the tree heavily.
"He's going to use it.... The final sealing..."
"What?"
Pulling himself back to his feet quickly, Kakashi stared up to the Fourth... his eyes wide with fear. Tears slowly began to fill in his eyes as Yondaime hit the final seal. "Sensei! Don't do it, we can still destroy it, and you don't have to use it!"
Leaping from the tree he leapt to one of the few still standing, nearly even with Yondaime. "Please! Sensei! Don't do this!"
"I am sorry, Kakashi-kun... this is the only way! The Kyubii is too powerful! If I don't Konoha will be destroyed!" His eyes closed as Bunta leapt forward, a trail of wind tossing the tree in which Kakashi held his footing within.
"SENSEI!"
Leaping onto the Kyubii, Yondaime's hands tightly gripped its fur. The arm of the death god moving through his body and into the Kyuubi's as slowly the soul of the beast was ripped from it's body. Kakashi stared in silence... his eyes wide with horror. Tears fell down the ninja's face as a scream of utter pain filled the night sky... and all was quiet. The earth shook one final time as the Kyubii fell to the ground... atop the giant beast, laying within the fur... the body of the Fourth Hokage... Yondaime.
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One Week Later...
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"How is the child?" Kakashi sat in silence in the office of the Hokage... his eyes low to the ground as he hid his red eyes. A ninja was never to cry... damn you Yondaime.
"He is fine... as long as the seal holds, the powers of the Kyubii will never again be released," Sarutobi's own head lowered, looking away slightly as the construction upon the Hokage monument began.
"I still don't understand... Sensei called upon the death god himself. Why does this child exist?"
"The chakra of both Kyubii and Yondaime was too much even for the death god. It could not be taken to the afterlife. Instead the two were merged into one... and Naruto was born,"
"Naruto... so that is what you named the child... why?" Kakashi leaned forward slowly; his hands slipped over his face as his hands cradled his head, fingertips disappearing into the mountain of hair.
"The swirl seal that appeared on his stomach. The name will always remind us of what Yondaime did... as long as the boy is around, he will never be forgotten,"
"Sarutobi-sama... I mean, Hokage-sama, I request permission to take on an A-ranked mission,"
"Oh?"
"I wish to watch over this boy, Naruto. He frightens me... the power of the Kyuubi all within that child,"
Sarutobi smiled lightly nodded as he light his pipe. "Granted..."
"I have a second request..."
"Go on..."
"In order to protect Konoha... and keep these people safe, with all my power and strength... I wish to accept the Uchiha's offer. I want the Sharingan..."
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Author's Note: If you don't like it... well too bad. This has always been my theory on Kakashi's Sharingan and how he got it. But I know until Kishimoto tells the real story, there will be a hundred different theories. But this one is mine; I like it so for my fic, that is how it happened.
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