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This is chapter 3! Enjoy!
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Chapter 3: Gai's Motivation
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Iruka smiled at his reflection in the mirror. He put his hitai-ate leaf headband on his forehead and tied to underneath his ponytail. Though he didn't really change in appearance by the adding of the headband, the smile seemed to grow. Iruka had finally become a genin.
Iruka took one more glance at the mirror before he slipped his blue shirt on. Today was a special day in Konoha village, all the graduates would be assigned a teacher, and Iruka prayed that Mizuki would be on his team. After turning the corner and running down the hallway, Iruka found his kitchen vacant.
"Oh yeah. They both got missions." Iruka laughed at himself for forgetting his parents had left after their over exaggerated goodbyes they had given.
He went into the kitchen and grabbed some mix to make breakfast. He put on two mittens and an apron to keep himself from getting dirty and placed the flour and eggs in the pot.
"Iruka! Let me in!" The door started to bang rapidly.
Iruka ran to the door throwing off his mittens and swinging the door wide.
"Mizuki!" Iruka let his friend in the house and quickly shut the door so he could go back to the kitchen. "Why are you here?"
"Iruka." Mizuki blushed slightly before pointing to Iruka's chest.
Iruka looked down and felt his face turn a bright red. He read 'I'm a bad Momma' with a small cartoon of a woman suggestively winking. Even if that hadn't been there Iruka would have blushed from the pink lace and frills that decorated the edges of the apron.
"S.sorry. My dad got this for my mom as a joke." Iruka took off the apron and shoved it in the nearest closet.
"You should probably start reading your aprons before you put them on." Mizuki smirked as Iruka ran into the kitchen. "I was wondering since your parents are out if you wanted to go get breakfast with me?"
"Sorry Mizuki. I'm already making some waffles! You can stay here if you would like." Iruka put some mix in the maker and pressed it down.
"Nah. I have to eat with my dad before he leaves for his mission, we were just wondering if you could join us." Mizuki waved as he headed for the door.
Iruka waited for the door to close before he let out a sigh. Mizuki was most likely his closest friend and Iruka hated to be embarrassed in front of him. It wasn't long before another knock came to the door as Iruka had finally sat down to eat.
"Who could it be know?" Iruka mumbled and checked to make sure he wasn't wearing any inappropriate apparel.
"Hi Iruka-kun. I was wondering if any of you parents your home?" A tall teen pushed his sunglasses back and smiled.
"No Ebisu-san. I'm sorry I couldn't be of any help. Why are you looking for them?" Iruka felt short next to the teen but had to remind himself that this guy was a chunin and in fact a tad bit more than a few years older than Iruka.
"Some of our villages shinobi have been declared missing on their way back to the village. We are just checking to see who is here and who isn't. Tell your parents to go straight to the Hokage when they get home." Ebisu smiled then headed in the direction of other shinobi homes.
/ Weird. I hope mom and dad are okay. /
Iruka went back to the table so he could finally eat his waffles. After he had cleaned up the mess he made in the kitchen he looked at the clock to see he would be leaving soon.
/ I was told to meet my new sensei at the academy around 9 am. So I should leave in 5 minutes so I can stop by the bakery and buy a snack. /
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An older man ran through many traps as two Anbu teams quickly followed him. They made it to an abandoned building far from the Leaf Village. He slammed the door opened and gazed upon corpses of many well-known shinobi from the village.
Their bodies were mangled and had obviously been experimented on. The older man glared as he saw a pale figure's back shaking before letting out a loud laugh.
"I was wondering who could have made it through my traps.only you and your lackeys" The pale figure turned around showing two gold eyes that seemed to belong to a serpent.
"Orochimaru! What have you done?" A strong voice yelled at the pale creature.
"Hehehe. Why sensei what does it look like?" Orochimaru smiled at the Anbu team and his old sensei that stood before him.
"This is a forbidden Jitsu!" The Older man yelled. "Orochimaru, why?"
"Why you ask me sensei! Why? I want the ultimate power. I want to put you to shame for choosing that blonde brat over me! I will live forever and watch this village fall!" Orochimaru threw kunai at the Anbu teams.
"You are only proving my decision was right." The older man whispered before the squads attacked.
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"Kakashi! Open your door now!" The pounding on the door almost shook the whole apartment.
"G.Gai? What do you want? I just got back fro." Kakashi was pulled out of his apartment.
"We have to hurry! Orochimaru has been caught in espionage against the Leaf. He escaped when they found him and now the Village is on alert!" Gai briefed his friend on all that he knew about the occurrences.
"What does the Fourth say?" Kakashi had finally fully awakened.
"He wants you in his office now. The rest are going on patrol in groups. I don't think that would help much though because he is a legendary three- nin." Gai started to trail off and they went straight for the watchtower.
Gai had left with a group of 4 other Jounins and Kakashi walked inside the Fourth's office.
"Sensei.Hokage-sama you asked for me?" Kakashi looked at his old teacher who had his emotionless face staring out the window.
"They call you a genius among the jounin rank. I need you to accompany Jiraiya-san. He is waiting for you at the bottom. Go!" with that the Hokage's old pupil vanished into smoke.
"I'm afraid we are too late." The Fourth turned his chair around to a figure in the room.
"He was my mistake. I'm sorry." The older man's eyes were filled with grief.
"No one could've prevented this Third-sama." The Fourth started to head to the door, "Now I'm going to make sure no more innocent blood spills. No more of the Leaf's blood will spill by his hands."
With that the Fourth was gone and the Third smiled before he disappeared. It was a long day in the village. Orochimaru had vanished taking his student Anko with him. No one knew where they went but Anko was found a month later with a cursed seal on her neck.
The Hokage had managed to seal in the curse, but there always remained a fear that Orochimaru would come back again.
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Kakashi glared at his calendar. It was a beautiful sunny day with nice cool crisp breeze. He slowly turned to face the window and sighed. Kakashi got up from where he was sitting and headed for the door. There was a small slam to show he had left and then the apartment was quiet again.
His calendar appeared to have this day circled in a thick red marker. September 15th.
"I wonder what everyone is doing today?" Kakashi said aloud to himself. It seemed that he was just about to sigh when he felt someone tap his shoulder.
"Hey Kakashi! I'm not doing anything today, do you have plans?" Iruka smirked before his hitai-ate leaf headband fell on his face. He didn't tie it tight enough.
It took Kakashi a while to stop laughing at his friend before they heard someone coming at a very fast speed. Kakashi seemed to get worried and pushed Iruka to the sidewalk.
"Yo Gai! Why are you moving so fast?" He yelled at the green blur headed his direction.
"Let's fight!" The blur stopped directly in front of Kakashi revealing it truly was Gai and he seemed to be bored. "There haven't been any missions recently so I'm bored stiff."
"But the score is already 15 to 12. Plus I have plans today." Kakashi glared at his friend.
"One more fight please! It won't take long I swear. We can do something simple like running a 20 kilometer dash or.or."
"Flip a coin."
"Yeah flip a c." Gai stopped and glanced over at Iruka. "Iruka I didn't see you there and no not flip a coin! We need to be challenged with our skills not luck!"
Iruka just rolled his eyes before he sat on the ground. This would be the fourth match that Iruka would actually be able to witness. He had no doubt that Kakashi would win because all the matches Iruka had ever seen Kakashi always seemed to be the superior.
"Let's play knock out." Kakashi smirked under his mask.
"Knock out?" Gai and Iruka looked at him confused.
"Yeah you see I'll draw a circle and the first one to get knocked out loses. It's simple and quick. Pretty much perfect since I need to get going." With that Kakashi grabbed a small stick that was on the ground and started to draw a circle.
"Hey Gai. Are you sure about this? I mean you always lose when I'm around. Should I leave?" Iruka whispered to Gai.
"No it's okay Iruka. I need to prove that I'm stronger and better than Kakashi in front of people." With that Gai did a pose.
"Is that your only motivation?" Iruka glared at him.
"Yeah what else should I be motivated for?" Gai looked confused.
"I thought you guys always fought each other to train yourselves. Yeah I knew you also wanted to prove who was better but I thought it was training also." Iruka sighed.
"WOW that's a great idea!" Gai beamed.
"What is?" Kakashi finished the circle and joined the conversation.
"I'm going to start using this as training! If I lose this match I will do 500 laps of flips around Konoha! Thanks Iruka, your right I just needed motivation to win!" Gai did a pose then ran into the circle.
"But I didn't mean."
"It's okay Iruka. He's an idiot." Kakashi smiled and went into the circle.
To Iruka's surprised the fight didn't last long at all. In fact Gai had barely let Kakashi move before he slammed the jounin in the ground out of the circle. Iruka just stared wide eyed and prayed that wasn't his fault.
"I won.I WON!!! Hahahahaha NOW IT'S 15 to 13!! Take that you gray haired wannabe!" Gai started doing a little happy dance and ran around to different areas so he can say he won. He ran back over to Iruka and grabbed Iruka's hands.
"Thank you Iruka! You were right, all I need is motivation to win, and I would defeat Kakashi." He smiled and let go of the boy's hands.
"Gai! I didn't mean it that way I was trying to tell you that." Iruka stopped when he noticed Gai wasn't paying attention.
Kakashi the whole time picked himself slowly off the ground and stared at his rival. After he had dusted himself off he started to walk in the original direction he was going. Iruka ran up to catch up with him.
"Kakashi wait for me! I am heading this way also." Kakashi slowed down his walk and they both left Gai talking to himself.
"So what are your plans today Kakashi?" Iruka grinned as he thought of all the cool missions Kakashi could possibly get.
"Nothing." Kakashi stated very plainly.
"But you're a jounin! Don't you have some cool mission or something exciting to do today?" Iruka had disappointment in his voice.
"No I asked off for today."
"You can ask off? Why would you want to ask o." Iruka was interrupted when he saw a young man approach them.
The man had a long ponytail and wore a hitai-ate leaf headband on his fore head. He had pale skin and dark hair. He smiled at Iruka before he glanced at Kakashi. His red eyes seemed to glow even in the daylight.
"Hey Heidaki. Can I do anything for you?" Kakashi gave his older friend a bored stare.
"Hey Kakashi. Sorry to interrupt but I wanted to wish you a happy birthday." Heidaki smirked and gave a small bow. "I didn't buy a present though.maybe I could get you some ramen next time we are on duty together."
Kakashi was surprised that Heidaki remembered.scratch that he was confused on how Heidaki even knew it was his birthday.
"Yeah that would be cool." Kakashi nodded receiving another smirk from Heidaki before the young man disappeared.
"You're 13 now!" Kakashi turned around to see Iruka looking at the ground. "I'm sorry I forgot."
Iruka felt really bad. He had known Kakashi for almost 5 years and they had been through a lot. It wasn't one of those I felt bad because you're my best friend, because in reality Iruka never told anyone everything. There was always a bad feeling that he would get hurt in the end.
The feeling that Iruka felt right now was different. It felt like he betrayed the boy who saved his life. It felt like he had disappointed his parents. All of these thing he had never done in real life but this feeling seemed like it didn't matter how good he had been because he had nothing to give the boy standing in front of him.
"S'okay." And with that Kakashi continued to walk in the direction he was heading.
Kakashi had taken a few steps to see Iruka wasn't walking with him. He turned around to see the boy just staring at the ground.
"Iruka? Are you okay?" Kakashi was about to walk up to his friend when Iruka looked up and he saw the brown eyes stare into him.
"I forgot your birthday! I am the worst friend in the world!" With that Iruka took off past Kakashi.
Kakashi decided to let Iruka run and watched him go away.
/ Gai is the person I should be mad at. He challenged me on my birthday.and won. /
Kakashi started to walk again when he realized he had no idea where he was going. He just continued to walk the direction he had originally headed towards and found himself on top of the Hokage Monument Mountain.
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Iruka found himself in the field where Gai would normally train, and sure enough there was the jounin doing several martial art attacks against a huge wooden log. He walked up and sat on the ground to watch his friend.
"Something wrong Iruka?" Gai continued to hit the long but looked over at the boy.
"Did you remember today was Kakashi's birthday?" Iruka hoped that he wasn't the only one.
"Nope. So today is his birthday.maybe I should have let him win the match." Gai sat down next to Iruka.
"Don't you feel bad? What if he hates us now?" Iruka looked over at Gai with a worried expression.
"Kakashi probably doesn't really care. He doesn't do big things on his birthday and never has." Gai got up and started to kick the log.
"But I feel bad. I mean he saved my life Gai! The least I could would be remember his birthday." Iruka pulled his knees close to him.
"Well you do have a point." Iruka looked up like he was going to cry.
"What?"
"Well he did save your life. Man you should feel bad Iruka." Gai smiled to show he was joking but realized Iruka wasn't taking it as a joke.
"Oh man! Just kill me Gai!" Iruka ran in front of the log. "Pretend I'm the log."
Gai just stared in disbelief at the boy.
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Kakashi leaned forward on the railing. He had been standing on the mountain for a while watching all the villagers going on with their lives. He turned around when he felt someone's chakra.
Heidaki was walking up to him and just stood there smiling at Kakashi. The red eyes were now covered by their curved eyelids showing that he was in a good mood.
"Kakashi." He took a spot by the young jounin.
"Hey Heidaki. Why are you in such a good mood?" Kakashi's voice seemed a little annoyed but he was glad that he wasn't alone anymore.
"The Hokage sent me to give you some news." At that Kakashi smiled under his mask. It had been a while since he had seen his old sensei; he couldn't help but feel some pride whenever people referred to his sensei as Hokage.
"They want you to become an Anbu. Hokage-sama said he would like your answer before tomorrow." Heidaki ruffled Kakashi's hair receiving a growl from the boy. "Hey you're a teenager now, it's about time you started getting adult jobs."
Kakashi had to agree. He had been a jounin for about 2 years and had already received recognition as a genius. The Hokage knew this, Kakashi knew this, but better yet the village knew this. He sighed and leaned on the railing of the mountain again. He would say yes.
"Do you by any chance know whose squad I'm going to be under?" Kakashi really didn't care but he just wanted to see.
"Yeah, mine." Heidaki laughed, as Kakashi seemed to be taken back by that.
Heidaki Uchiha had become leader of an Anbu squad yesterday, at the age of 20. He got to choose a jounin to add on his squad when one of the members retired. He chose the 13-year-old Kakashi Hatake, a genius of Jitsus.
"Kakashi I chose you because you are the best we have now, and I know personally that you have never failed a mission. I hope you will consider the offer, Even Hokage-sama thinks you are a good choice. Tell me after you have time to think about it." Heidaki started to walk away.
"Yes."
Heidaki turned around and smiled at the boy. "Are you sure you don't want to think about it?"
"I was going to say yes even if you weren't my squad leader." Kakashi put his hands in his pockets.
Heidaki smiled again then vanished leaving Kakashi alone on the mountaintop. Kakashi looked up the sky. If that counted as a birthday present then Kakashi was happy. He glared at the setting sun realizing he had been there longer than he realized. He wanted something to do.
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"Iruka get out of the way! I need to train." Gai hit Iruka on the head.
"No Gai! I have to make amends." Iruka glared at Gai who was starting to get annoyed.
"I don't have time for you games Iruka-kun. Remember I'm 14 and a jounin. I could hurt you so please move."
"I hope you could do more than hurt me if you're a jounin." Iruka said this in a taunting voice.
"That's it Iruka! The sun is starting to set and you ruined the rest of my training today. I hope you're happy." Gai grabbed Iruka's arm.
"I'm not leaving yet Gai!" Iruka tried to pull back.
Gai glared at the boy and tightened his grip on the boys arm.
"You are leaving now!" with that Gai picked Iruka up and started to swing the boy in the air. After Iruka started to get dizzy because Gai had sped up he let go sending the boy in the air. Gai watched Iruka fly away with a small grin on his face before he frowned. He forgot that Iruka was a genin and hadn't learned how to escape that kind of attack yet.
"Crap!" Gai yelled as he ran towards the village to see if he could find where Iruka had landed.
Iruka seemed to keep getting higher and higher. He looked down to see trees zooming by him before he came up on the village.
"Hey that's my house!" Iruka yelled before he started to feel faint. He wasn't supposed to be able to see his house. He could die from the impact of this fall.
Iruka couldn't move because of how fast he was moving. He felt his hitai- ate leaf headband start coming loose and began to worry. He tried to fix it but his body wouldn't let him so he slowly watched his headband fall to the ground and he headed toward the Hokage Monument Mountain.
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Kakashi went over the rail where he could stand on the edge of the cliff. He let his arms rest at the view of the city. Kakashi had just received the most exciting news of his small lifetime and yet he felt incredibly bored all of the sudden.
/ This must be because tomorrow I will be an Anbu and I just want to do one more thing as kid. /
Kakashi laughed at his thought. Technically he was no longer a kid when he graduated into a genin but at the age of 5 it was very unlikely he was an adult. Kakashi thought about it. He grew up so fast because he wasn't like other kids. He didn't want to play and slack off, he wanted to grow up and make a name for himself.
"Just give me something fun to do!" Kakashi cried out over the mountaintop before he noticed a figure flying towards him.
He couldn't make out what the figure was because it was moving so fast but he obviously couldn't dodge it, so Kakashi prepared to catch it.
He flew backwards a few meters and landed on his butt. He looked down to see Iruka.
/ The man upstairs is a pervert. / Kakashi thought of what he asked for and stared Iruka.
Why was this boy so cute? Kakashi messed with Iruka's bangs that were in the boys face before he realized how stiff the boy was. Iruka seemed to be stuck in a ball, but his body slowly went limp.
"Iruka! Iruka! Hey come back to earth!" Iruka slowly looked at Kakashi before fell unconscious. Kakashi thought he had given the boy a soft landing but Iruka had hit his head on the ground.
Kakashi picked him up and tried to think where he should go. Iruka's dad was on a mission in the Hidden Sand village, but Iruka's mom should be home. Kakashi decided he didn't want to get blamed for Iruka being in this condition and headed for his house.
Kakashi saw Gai squatting on the ground with tears running down his face. Gai was staring at a hitai-ate leaf headband.
"Gai? What's wrong?" Kakashi approached his rival.
"I think I killed Iruka-kun!" Gai wept as he turned around to see Kakashi holding an unconscious Iruka. "He's alive!" Gai ran over to the boy.
"You're the one who did this?" Kakashi glared at Gai.
"Iruka was getting on my nerves and so I ." Gai decided to shut up from the look he was getting from Kakashi. "Do you want me to take him home?"
"No it's okay. I'm taking him to my apartment. He should wake up soon I figured he could go home in a better condition than this after some rest." Gai agreed with Kakashi then laughed.
"Sorry I forgot it was your birthday." Kakashi smiled under his mask and started to head to his place.
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Iruka opened his eyes in an unfamiliar surrounding. He sat up to see he was in someone's bed. There weren't any significant pictures in the room, just one of the Fourth with three students. Iruka looked around and saw that there really wasn't much beside a shoebox on top of the dresser. He got up and opened the shoebox to see a copy of Icha Icha paradise, some shurikens with a weird design on them, and a few other small objects.
The shoebox didn't help Iruka with any questions of where he was so he went to the picture. It was the Fourth but a few years younger with two boy students and a girl student. Iruka noticed only one person but it didn't make sense.
"Am I at Kakashi's place?" Iruka crept to the door and slowly opened it to see Gai and Kakashi laughing.
He slowly walked to where they were trying to remain unnoticed but he knew that at least one of them knew he was there. They both stopped their conversation to look at Iruka.
"Feeling better?" Kakashi gave an emotionless glare.
"Yes, thank you." Iruka looked around the apartment. It was small and really only made for one person or maybe two.
"I'm sorry Iruka." Gai did a bow and stopped when Iruka reassured him it was okay.
Iruka looked at the time and got scared. He was supposed to be home and hour ago and his mom never let him off not even if he was a minute late. He grabbed his headband form Gai and told Gai and Kakashi he would see them later as he ran towards his house. Kakashi and Gai had never seen someone move so fast.
Iruka was surprised to see his mom had fallen asleep waiting for him and decided to just get his punishment in the morning. He put a blanket over her and made it to his room where he just fell on his bed to fall asleep.
That day Iruka developed a traumatizing fear of falling to his death while Gai learned that motivation always helped out in competition, and Kakashi learned that when you ask for something you might get it.
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That was chapter 3!! I hope you all enjoyed it. The only thing I can really reply to from the reviews I got is that Iruka will get his scare next chapter.or the one after next.or so I have planned but you know how that works. Thank you all for reviewing, I get really motivated to write so I can see how you guys respond! So please R&R!!!
* Does good guy pose * I am p-sama7!!!!!
This is chapter 3! Enjoy!
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Chapter 3: Gai's Motivation
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Iruka smiled at his reflection in the mirror. He put his hitai-ate leaf headband on his forehead and tied to underneath his ponytail. Though he didn't really change in appearance by the adding of the headband, the smile seemed to grow. Iruka had finally become a genin.
Iruka took one more glance at the mirror before he slipped his blue shirt on. Today was a special day in Konoha village, all the graduates would be assigned a teacher, and Iruka prayed that Mizuki would be on his team. After turning the corner and running down the hallway, Iruka found his kitchen vacant.
"Oh yeah. They both got missions." Iruka laughed at himself for forgetting his parents had left after their over exaggerated goodbyes they had given.
He went into the kitchen and grabbed some mix to make breakfast. He put on two mittens and an apron to keep himself from getting dirty and placed the flour and eggs in the pot.
"Iruka! Let me in!" The door started to bang rapidly.
Iruka ran to the door throwing off his mittens and swinging the door wide.
"Mizuki!" Iruka let his friend in the house and quickly shut the door so he could go back to the kitchen. "Why are you here?"
"Iruka." Mizuki blushed slightly before pointing to Iruka's chest.
Iruka looked down and felt his face turn a bright red. He read 'I'm a bad Momma' with a small cartoon of a woman suggestively winking. Even if that hadn't been there Iruka would have blushed from the pink lace and frills that decorated the edges of the apron.
"S.sorry. My dad got this for my mom as a joke." Iruka took off the apron and shoved it in the nearest closet.
"You should probably start reading your aprons before you put them on." Mizuki smirked as Iruka ran into the kitchen. "I was wondering since your parents are out if you wanted to go get breakfast with me?"
"Sorry Mizuki. I'm already making some waffles! You can stay here if you would like." Iruka put some mix in the maker and pressed it down.
"Nah. I have to eat with my dad before he leaves for his mission, we were just wondering if you could join us." Mizuki waved as he headed for the door.
Iruka waited for the door to close before he let out a sigh. Mizuki was most likely his closest friend and Iruka hated to be embarrassed in front of him. It wasn't long before another knock came to the door as Iruka had finally sat down to eat.
"Who could it be know?" Iruka mumbled and checked to make sure he wasn't wearing any inappropriate apparel.
"Hi Iruka-kun. I was wondering if any of you parents your home?" A tall teen pushed his sunglasses back and smiled.
"No Ebisu-san. I'm sorry I couldn't be of any help. Why are you looking for them?" Iruka felt short next to the teen but had to remind himself that this guy was a chunin and in fact a tad bit more than a few years older than Iruka.
"Some of our villages shinobi have been declared missing on their way back to the village. We are just checking to see who is here and who isn't. Tell your parents to go straight to the Hokage when they get home." Ebisu smiled then headed in the direction of other shinobi homes.
/ Weird. I hope mom and dad are okay. /
Iruka went back to the table so he could finally eat his waffles. After he had cleaned up the mess he made in the kitchen he looked at the clock to see he would be leaving soon.
/ I was told to meet my new sensei at the academy around 9 am. So I should leave in 5 minutes so I can stop by the bakery and buy a snack. /
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An older man ran through many traps as two Anbu teams quickly followed him. They made it to an abandoned building far from the Leaf Village. He slammed the door opened and gazed upon corpses of many well-known shinobi from the village.
Their bodies were mangled and had obviously been experimented on. The older man glared as he saw a pale figure's back shaking before letting out a loud laugh.
"I was wondering who could have made it through my traps.only you and your lackeys" The pale figure turned around showing two gold eyes that seemed to belong to a serpent.
"Orochimaru! What have you done?" A strong voice yelled at the pale creature.
"Hehehe. Why sensei what does it look like?" Orochimaru smiled at the Anbu team and his old sensei that stood before him.
"This is a forbidden Jitsu!" The Older man yelled. "Orochimaru, why?"
"Why you ask me sensei! Why? I want the ultimate power. I want to put you to shame for choosing that blonde brat over me! I will live forever and watch this village fall!" Orochimaru threw kunai at the Anbu teams.
"You are only proving my decision was right." The older man whispered before the squads attacked.
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"Kakashi! Open your door now!" The pounding on the door almost shook the whole apartment.
"G.Gai? What do you want? I just got back fro." Kakashi was pulled out of his apartment.
"We have to hurry! Orochimaru has been caught in espionage against the Leaf. He escaped when they found him and now the Village is on alert!" Gai briefed his friend on all that he knew about the occurrences.
"What does the Fourth say?" Kakashi had finally fully awakened.
"He wants you in his office now. The rest are going on patrol in groups. I don't think that would help much though because he is a legendary three- nin." Gai started to trail off and they went straight for the watchtower.
Gai had left with a group of 4 other Jounins and Kakashi walked inside the Fourth's office.
"Sensei.Hokage-sama you asked for me?" Kakashi looked at his old teacher who had his emotionless face staring out the window.
"They call you a genius among the jounin rank. I need you to accompany Jiraiya-san. He is waiting for you at the bottom. Go!" with that the Hokage's old pupil vanished into smoke.
"I'm afraid we are too late." The Fourth turned his chair around to a figure in the room.
"He was my mistake. I'm sorry." The older man's eyes were filled with grief.
"No one could've prevented this Third-sama." The Fourth started to head to the door, "Now I'm going to make sure no more innocent blood spills. No more of the Leaf's blood will spill by his hands."
With that the Fourth was gone and the Third smiled before he disappeared. It was a long day in the village. Orochimaru had vanished taking his student Anko with him. No one knew where they went but Anko was found a month later with a cursed seal on her neck.
The Hokage had managed to seal in the curse, but there always remained a fear that Orochimaru would come back again.
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Kakashi glared at his calendar. It was a beautiful sunny day with nice cool crisp breeze. He slowly turned to face the window and sighed. Kakashi got up from where he was sitting and headed for the door. There was a small slam to show he had left and then the apartment was quiet again.
His calendar appeared to have this day circled in a thick red marker. September 15th.
"I wonder what everyone is doing today?" Kakashi said aloud to himself. It seemed that he was just about to sigh when he felt someone tap his shoulder.
"Hey Kakashi! I'm not doing anything today, do you have plans?" Iruka smirked before his hitai-ate leaf headband fell on his face. He didn't tie it tight enough.
It took Kakashi a while to stop laughing at his friend before they heard someone coming at a very fast speed. Kakashi seemed to get worried and pushed Iruka to the sidewalk.
"Yo Gai! Why are you moving so fast?" He yelled at the green blur headed his direction.
"Let's fight!" The blur stopped directly in front of Kakashi revealing it truly was Gai and he seemed to be bored. "There haven't been any missions recently so I'm bored stiff."
"But the score is already 15 to 12. Plus I have plans today." Kakashi glared at his friend.
"One more fight please! It won't take long I swear. We can do something simple like running a 20 kilometer dash or.or."
"Flip a coin."
"Yeah flip a c." Gai stopped and glanced over at Iruka. "Iruka I didn't see you there and no not flip a coin! We need to be challenged with our skills not luck!"
Iruka just rolled his eyes before he sat on the ground. This would be the fourth match that Iruka would actually be able to witness. He had no doubt that Kakashi would win because all the matches Iruka had ever seen Kakashi always seemed to be the superior.
"Let's play knock out." Kakashi smirked under his mask.
"Knock out?" Gai and Iruka looked at him confused.
"Yeah you see I'll draw a circle and the first one to get knocked out loses. It's simple and quick. Pretty much perfect since I need to get going." With that Kakashi grabbed a small stick that was on the ground and started to draw a circle.
"Hey Gai. Are you sure about this? I mean you always lose when I'm around. Should I leave?" Iruka whispered to Gai.
"No it's okay Iruka. I need to prove that I'm stronger and better than Kakashi in front of people." With that Gai did a pose.
"Is that your only motivation?" Iruka glared at him.
"Yeah what else should I be motivated for?" Gai looked confused.
"I thought you guys always fought each other to train yourselves. Yeah I knew you also wanted to prove who was better but I thought it was training also." Iruka sighed.
"WOW that's a great idea!" Gai beamed.
"What is?" Kakashi finished the circle and joined the conversation.
"I'm going to start using this as training! If I lose this match I will do 500 laps of flips around Konoha! Thanks Iruka, your right I just needed motivation to win!" Gai did a pose then ran into the circle.
"But I didn't mean."
"It's okay Iruka. He's an idiot." Kakashi smiled and went into the circle.
To Iruka's surprised the fight didn't last long at all. In fact Gai had barely let Kakashi move before he slammed the jounin in the ground out of the circle. Iruka just stared wide eyed and prayed that wasn't his fault.
"I won.I WON!!! Hahahahaha NOW IT'S 15 to 13!! Take that you gray haired wannabe!" Gai started doing a little happy dance and ran around to different areas so he can say he won. He ran back over to Iruka and grabbed Iruka's hands.
"Thank you Iruka! You were right, all I need is motivation to win, and I would defeat Kakashi." He smiled and let go of the boy's hands.
"Gai! I didn't mean it that way I was trying to tell you that." Iruka stopped when he noticed Gai wasn't paying attention.
Kakashi the whole time picked himself slowly off the ground and stared at his rival. After he had dusted himself off he started to walk in the original direction he was going. Iruka ran up to catch up with him.
"Kakashi wait for me! I am heading this way also." Kakashi slowed down his walk and they both left Gai talking to himself.
"So what are your plans today Kakashi?" Iruka grinned as he thought of all the cool missions Kakashi could possibly get.
"Nothing." Kakashi stated very plainly.
"But you're a jounin! Don't you have some cool mission or something exciting to do today?" Iruka had disappointment in his voice.
"No I asked off for today."
"You can ask off? Why would you want to ask o." Iruka was interrupted when he saw a young man approach them.
The man had a long ponytail and wore a hitai-ate leaf headband on his fore head. He had pale skin and dark hair. He smiled at Iruka before he glanced at Kakashi. His red eyes seemed to glow even in the daylight.
"Hey Heidaki. Can I do anything for you?" Kakashi gave his older friend a bored stare.
"Hey Kakashi. Sorry to interrupt but I wanted to wish you a happy birthday." Heidaki smirked and gave a small bow. "I didn't buy a present though.maybe I could get you some ramen next time we are on duty together."
Kakashi was surprised that Heidaki remembered.scratch that he was confused on how Heidaki even knew it was his birthday.
"Yeah that would be cool." Kakashi nodded receiving another smirk from Heidaki before the young man disappeared.
"You're 13 now!" Kakashi turned around to see Iruka looking at the ground. "I'm sorry I forgot."
Iruka felt really bad. He had known Kakashi for almost 5 years and they had been through a lot. It wasn't one of those I felt bad because you're my best friend, because in reality Iruka never told anyone everything. There was always a bad feeling that he would get hurt in the end.
The feeling that Iruka felt right now was different. It felt like he betrayed the boy who saved his life. It felt like he had disappointed his parents. All of these thing he had never done in real life but this feeling seemed like it didn't matter how good he had been because he had nothing to give the boy standing in front of him.
"S'okay." And with that Kakashi continued to walk in the direction he was heading.
Kakashi had taken a few steps to see Iruka wasn't walking with him. He turned around to see the boy just staring at the ground.
"Iruka? Are you okay?" Kakashi was about to walk up to his friend when Iruka looked up and he saw the brown eyes stare into him.
"I forgot your birthday! I am the worst friend in the world!" With that Iruka took off past Kakashi.
Kakashi decided to let Iruka run and watched him go away.
/ Gai is the person I should be mad at. He challenged me on my birthday.and won. /
Kakashi started to walk again when he realized he had no idea where he was going. He just continued to walk the direction he had originally headed towards and found himself on top of the Hokage Monument Mountain.
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Iruka found himself in the field where Gai would normally train, and sure enough there was the jounin doing several martial art attacks against a huge wooden log. He walked up and sat on the ground to watch his friend.
"Something wrong Iruka?" Gai continued to hit the long but looked over at the boy.
"Did you remember today was Kakashi's birthday?" Iruka hoped that he wasn't the only one.
"Nope. So today is his birthday.maybe I should have let him win the match." Gai sat down next to Iruka.
"Don't you feel bad? What if he hates us now?" Iruka looked over at Gai with a worried expression.
"Kakashi probably doesn't really care. He doesn't do big things on his birthday and never has." Gai got up and started to kick the log.
"But I feel bad. I mean he saved my life Gai! The least I could would be remember his birthday." Iruka pulled his knees close to him.
"Well you do have a point." Iruka looked up like he was going to cry.
"What?"
"Well he did save your life. Man you should feel bad Iruka." Gai smiled to show he was joking but realized Iruka wasn't taking it as a joke.
"Oh man! Just kill me Gai!" Iruka ran in front of the log. "Pretend I'm the log."
Gai just stared in disbelief at the boy.
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Kakashi leaned forward on the railing. He had been standing on the mountain for a while watching all the villagers going on with their lives. He turned around when he felt someone's chakra.
Heidaki was walking up to him and just stood there smiling at Kakashi. The red eyes were now covered by their curved eyelids showing that he was in a good mood.
"Kakashi." He took a spot by the young jounin.
"Hey Heidaki. Why are you in such a good mood?" Kakashi's voice seemed a little annoyed but he was glad that he wasn't alone anymore.
"The Hokage sent me to give you some news." At that Kakashi smiled under his mask. It had been a while since he had seen his old sensei; he couldn't help but feel some pride whenever people referred to his sensei as Hokage.
"They want you to become an Anbu. Hokage-sama said he would like your answer before tomorrow." Heidaki ruffled Kakashi's hair receiving a growl from the boy. "Hey you're a teenager now, it's about time you started getting adult jobs."
Kakashi had to agree. He had been a jounin for about 2 years and had already received recognition as a genius. The Hokage knew this, Kakashi knew this, but better yet the village knew this. He sighed and leaned on the railing of the mountain again. He would say yes.
"Do you by any chance know whose squad I'm going to be under?" Kakashi really didn't care but he just wanted to see.
"Yeah, mine." Heidaki laughed, as Kakashi seemed to be taken back by that.
Heidaki Uchiha had become leader of an Anbu squad yesterday, at the age of 20. He got to choose a jounin to add on his squad when one of the members retired. He chose the 13-year-old Kakashi Hatake, a genius of Jitsus.
"Kakashi I chose you because you are the best we have now, and I know personally that you have never failed a mission. I hope you will consider the offer, Even Hokage-sama thinks you are a good choice. Tell me after you have time to think about it." Heidaki started to walk away.
"Yes."
Heidaki turned around and smiled at the boy. "Are you sure you don't want to think about it?"
"I was going to say yes even if you weren't my squad leader." Kakashi put his hands in his pockets.
Heidaki smiled again then vanished leaving Kakashi alone on the mountaintop. Kakashi looked up the sky. If that counted as a birthday present then Kakashi was happy. He glared at the setting sun realizing he had been there longer than he realized. He wanted something to do.
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"Iruka get out of the way! I need to train." Gai hit Iruka on the head.
"No Gai! I have to make amends." Iruka glared at Gai who was starting to get annoyed.
"I don't have time for you games Iruka-kun. Remember I'm 14 and a jounin. I could hurt you so please move."
"I hope you could do more than hurt me if you're a jounin." Iruka said this in a taunting voice.
"That's it Iruka! The sun is starting to set and you ruined the rest of my training today. I hope you're happy." Gai grabbed Iruka's arm.
"I'm not leaving yet Gai!" Iruka tried to pull back.
Gai glared at the boy and tightened his grip on the boys arm.
"You are leaving now!" with that Gai picked Iruka up and started to swing the boy in the air. After Iruka started to get dizzy because Gai had sped up he let go sending the boy in the air. Gai watched Iruka fly away with a small grin on his face before he frowned. He forgot that Iruka was a genin and hadn't learned how to escape that kind of attack yet.
"Crap!" Gai yelled as he ran towards the village to see if he could find where Iruka had landed.
Iruka seemed to keep getting higher and higher. He looked down to see trees zooming by him before he came up on the village.
"Hey that's my house!" Iruka yelled before he started to feel faint. He wasn't supposed to be able to see his house. He could die from the impact of this fall.
Iruka couldn't move because of how fast he was moving. He felt his hitai- ate leaf headband start coming loose and began to worry. He tried to fix it but his body wouldn't let him so he slowly watched his headband fall to the ground and he headed toward the Hokage Monument Mountain.
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Kakashi went over the rail where he could stand on the edge of the cliff. He let his arms rest at the view of the city. Kakashi had just received the most exciting news of his small lifetime and yet he felt incredibly bored all of the sudden.
/ This must be because tomorrow I will be an Anbu and I just want to do one more thing as kid. /
Kakashi laughed at his thought. Technically he was no longer a kid when he graduated into a genin but at the age of 5 it was very unlikely he was an adult. Kakashi thought about it. He grew up so fast because he wasn't like other kids. He didn't want to play and slack off, he wanted to grow up and make a name for himself.
"Just give me something fun to do!" Kakashi cried out over the mountaintop before he noticed a figure flying towards him.
He couldn't make out what the figure was because it was moving so fast but he obviously couldn't dodge it, so Kakashi prepared to catch it.
He flew backwards a few meters and landed on his butt. He looked down to see Iruka.
/ The man upstairs is a pervert. / Kakashi thought of what he asked for and stared Iruka.
Why was this boy so cute? Kakashi messed with Iruka's bangs that were in the boys face before he realized how stiff the boy was. Iruka seemed to be stuck in a ball, but his body slowly went limp.
"Iruka! Iruka! Hey come back to earth!" Iruka slowly looked at Kakashi before fell unconscious. Kakashi thought he had given the boy a soft landing but Iruka had hit his head on the ground.
Kakashi picked him up and tried to think where he should go. Iruka's dad was on a mission in the Hidden Sand village, but Iruka's mom should be home. Kakashi decided he didn't want to get blamed for Iruka being in this condition and headed for his house.
Kakashi saw Gai squatting on the ground with tears running down his face. Gai was staring at a hitai-ate leaf headband.
"Gai? What's wrong?" Kakashi approached his rival.
"I think I killed Iruka-kun!" Gai wept as he turned around to see Kakashi holding an unconscious Iruka. "He's alive!" Gai ran over to the boy.
"You're the one who did this?" Kakashi glared at Gai.
"Iruka was getting on my nerves and so I ." Gai decided to shut up from the look he was getting from Kakashi. "Do you want me to take him home?"
"No it's okay. I'm taking him to my apartment. He should wake up soon I figured he could go home in a better condition than this after some rest." Gai agreed with Kakashi then laughed.
"Sorry I forgot it was your birthday." Kakashi smiled under his mask and started to head to his place.
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Iruka opened his eyes in an unfamiliar surrounding. He sat up to see he was in someone's bed. There weren't any significant pictures in the room, just one of the Fourth with three students. Iruka looked around and saw that there really wasn't much beside a shoebox on top of the dresser. He got up and opened the shoebox to see a copy of Icha Icha paradise, some shurikens with a weird design on them, and a few other small objects.
The shoebox didn't help Iruka with any questions of where he was so he went to the picture. It was the Fourth but a few years younger with two boy students and a girl student. Iruka noticed only one person but it didn't make sense.
"Am I at Kakashi's place?" Iruka crept to the door and slowly opened it to see Gai and Kakashi laughing.
He slowly walked to where they were trying to remain unnoticed but he knew that at least one of them knew he was there. They both stopped their conversation to look at Iruka.
"Feeling better?" Kakashi gave an emotionless glare.
"Yes, thank you." Iruka looked around the apartment. It was small and really only made for one person or maybe two.
"I'm sorry Iruka." Gai did a bow and stopped when Iruka reassured him it was okay.
Iruka looked at the time and got scared. He was supposed to be home and hour ago and his mom never let him off not even if he was a minute late. He grabbed his headband form Gai and told Gai and Kakashi he would see them later as he ran towards his house. Kakashi and Gai had never seen someone move so fast.
Iruka was surprised to see his mom had fallen asleep waiting for him and decided to just get his punishment in the morning. He put a blanket over her and made it to his room where he just fell on his bed to fall asleep.
That day Iruka developed a traumatizing fear of falling to his death while Gai learned that motivation always helped out in competition, and Kakashi learned that when you ask for something you might get it.
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That was chapter 3!! I hope you all enjoyed it. The only thing I can really reply to from the reviews I got is that Iruka will get his scare next chapter.or the one after next.or so I have planned but you know how that works. Thank you all for reviewing, I get really motivated to write so I can see how you guys respond! So please R&R!!!
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