How he became the person he is

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Chapter 6:

Arashi went straight to the Hokage's office after leaving Kakashi in the training area. He wanted to have get some advice from the Hokage.

"I'm sorry for bothering you this late, Hokage-sama." said the young jounin, entering the room, and bowing to the elder man.

"Already the first report? Have a seat. Did you have any problems with Kakashi?" asked the Hokage.

"Not really, sir. We had a short training session today. He learns very fast." He smiled. Sandaime Hokage chuckled.

"Hmm...no wonder he made it this fast in the academy. I really want to know how did Sakumo do it."

"But Hokage-sama. Do you think he will be okay training at that age?" asked Arashi, a little worried.

"I'm pretty sure everythingwill be fine. Did you test his skills?" asked the Hokage.

"Yes, he's indeed skilled. He didn't think that I was suitable to be his sensei, so I made him take the genin test. He took the bell from me, although it was a stupid mistake from my part. I was impressed that he did it without the help of teammates. I guess that that's going to be another problem for when he does have a team. He will want to do everything by himself."

"Well, that's something to worry about later." said the Hokage, smiling.

"I'm leaving, Hokage-sama. I'm gonna go back and see if he's gone. Yesterday he stayed extra hours training by himself." said Arashi as he got up. He bowed politely, and left.

"I guess that's how everything starts. No one is perfect, Arashi. I'm sure you will become a good sensei." said the old man, as in his thoughts.

The next morning, Kakashi woke up, and headed to the training area.His sensei wasn't there, so he decided to warm up a little on his own. Arashi arrived just in time, and saw that Kakashi was really serious about training.

"Kakashi! Come here!" called Arashi, in a much nicer way than he treated him the other day.

"Good morning, sensei." said Kakashi as he was reaching his sensei.

"Aah.Today I'm gonna teach you how to control your chakra. As you may know, being able to control your chakra is very important. This training will help you to do so more easily."

"What is it, sensei?"

"Walking up a tree. Like this." Arashi walked up a tree and let himself hold on to a branch on his feet, upside down. "See?"

"That doesn't look hard."

"Most genins say the same thing. I said that too. It took me an entire day to reach the top the first day."

"I see. How are you supposed to do it?" Kakashi looked confident.

"You have to gather the right amount of chakra in your feet, and the amount has to be stable. Otherwise, you will fall."

"Okay." said Kakashi as he stood in front of a tree.

Arashi expected his student to go running his way up, but Kakashi just stood in front of the tree, and concentrated on the amount of chakra. Next, he put his right foot on the tree and checked if it sticked to the tree. It didn't stick, so he put his feet together again, and gathered a different amount of chakra. He kept doing the same thing until his right foot did stick to the tree. Then he started walking up slowly, and once his feet were too tired to keep going because of the stress he put in them, he jumped off and landed safely.

'That's a smart idea. That way you don't get tired as easily. I wonder why I didn't think about that when I was learning this.' thought Arashi, as he watched the boy doing his training.

And, yes. Kakashi reached the top by mid-afternoon, after a few more tries. Arashi was observing him all day, lying down below a tree.

"Well done, Kakashi. Let's go get some ramen." offered Arashi, smiling at the boy.

Kakashi didn't answer, but followed his sensei.

On their way, Arashi told Kakashi about the importance of controlling chakra once again, and that the next day they would do another kind of training of chakra control.

"Sensei, when are we starting with the missions?" asked Kakashi, who was eager to start them any time soon.

"When you become a chuunin." said Arashi, as he ruffled the kid's silver hair. He knew that the kid wouldn't become a chuunin for a few more years. (Or at least that's what he thought.)

"Why?" He knew that ninjas in Konoha started their missions when they became genins.

"Because I say so. You aren't ready for missions." Arashi. He wanted to leave the part of "too young" for the last.

"I was the best in my class, sensei." said Kakashi, trying to convince Arashi that he was also a shinobi of Konoha.

"That's the way senseis see you in the academy. Now you are under my tutelage. Thus, I decide what you will do, as long as you are my student. Besides, you are too young, kid." said Arashi, trying not to laugh.

After that, Kakashi didn't say a word. He looked weary, didn't talk until they got to the ramen place. Arashi enjoyed looking at his student in that mood, because it showed that he was a kid. He tried to look at him through the corner of his eye when he was finishing the soup, and realized that Kakashi was staring at him with his eyes narrowed and a very unpleasant smile. Kakashi pushed his sensei's bowl so that all the soup would fall in his face. This not only made him choke, but his face was really hot. Kakashi couldn't help but laugh at his sensei's face.

"Kakashi, boy, you're paying for this, kid." Arashi had a malignant smile on his face, and he just pressed Kakashi's head to his own bowl of ramen. A few seconds passed by until Arashi released his hand from Kakashi's head. Kakashi didn't look happy at all. But then...

"Ne, he who laughs last, laughs best!" said Kakashi, and threw the remaining soup of his bowl to his sensei.

Being the distance between them just a few inches, Arashi couldn't dodge the hot bowl like all the kunais he avoided when in battle. All this happened so suddenly, that they didn't notice all the mess they created. Of course, they didn't even notice the owner's anger.

"Arashi, I'm not gonna sell you another bowl of ramen until you clean this mess, boy!" said the owner, knowing that Arashi would die if he couldn't eat ramen. After all, Arashi was a teenager, too. Mature, but not mature enough to be an adult.

"I'm sorry, sir. This kid over here will clean up everything." said Arashi, giving another malignant smile to the young Kakashi.

"What?" said Kakashi trying to stop a drop of soup from entering his eye.

"You heard what I said, Kakashi. This is training also.I laugh better than you, kid. Start now." His joy at the boy's astonishment was obvious.

"I don't think so, Arashi. I want you to clean it. I'm sure it will be much cleaner if you do it. Kids can't clean, you know. Get started, boy." said the owner, giving an evil smile, and handing him a cloth.

"But..." Arashi couldn't say anything. He saw Kakashi sticking out his tongue. His student went to the restroom to wash his face, and he stayed in the table scrubbing and wiping everything Kakashi threw. 'This kid...' Arashi swore that he would put a curse on the kid as soon as he was done with the wiping.

After he was done, he said he was sorry to the owner once again, and went to the restroom. He was expecting to see Kakashi, but all he saw was a note that said,

"See you tomorrow at 7, Arashi-sensei. If I don't go home now, my dad will get worried. Good night.

P.S.: Thanks for the ramen. I laughed last. "

All Arashi could do was rip the note and curse himself. But then, he just smiled. It had been a long time since he had that much fun. And he was relieved that Kakashi was a kid, after all.

A/N:

I decided to put a fun scene! Thank you for reading!