The last time we left off, Kakashi had just been given the task of investigating the mysterious springs of Jusenkyo. Unfortunately, he has run into some unexpected trouble...

Revelation

'Damn it, damn it, damn it, Damn IT! this is Just My Luck! Just my Luck to have the only nin within 20 miles walk by the same depression that I'm sleeping in! And not trigger a single trap I set to wake me in case some one did! DAMN IT! AND HE BROUGHT FRIENDS TOO!'

As you might have guessed, this monologue was brought to you by Kakashi, who was currently in the vast mountains north of Stone Country. Ohh! Did I mention he was running for his life? Yes, the Famed Copy-nin Sharingan Kakashi was fleeing for his life from a mixed group of high level jounin from both Cloud and Stone countries.

'Since when were they allies? Yelp! figure that out later, concentrate on the nin trying to gut you now!' as he was thinking this he broke out of the under brush and found himself in a valley full of pools with bamboo poles sticking out of them. 'Don't bother jumping water-walk!'

Kakashi made it across a record ten pools before the Goddess of Jusenkyo noticed what he (and the nin behind him) were doing and said "HEY! They can't do that!" and set about rectifying that error.

(you know whats gonna happen next.)

MASS SPLASH! -- this is the sound of six nin who formerly could sleep on water and not get wet suddenly finding that, without warning, they, well, can't.

AAAAAHHHHHH! Gurgle! Choke! Rrrrriiiipp... and that was the sound of five of those nin finding out why you never, ever, bleed in the pools!

As Kakashi struggled out of the pool he had fallen into he got his first look at what had formerly been nin but now resembled something out of a grade A slasher film.

'Urk I could have done without seeing that... now what the heck did I turn into?'

He looked down at himself, 'Oookkay four paws, silver fur, about a meter tall...a timber wolf? But aren't they normally grey and 2.5 feet? Bahh I've always been different. Now what did Hinata say changed you back? Oh yeah! Hot water! Now where am I gonna find some hot water at this time of night? It's 2 o'clock in the morning! Every one should be asleep at this time of night, including me!' (AN: and me!)Kakashi spotted something across the valley. 'Is that a hut?' indeed it was.

The guide who had been roused by the screaming of the doomed nin had lit a lamp and steeped out side to see what had happened. Kakashi made his way over to the guide, surprising him when he stepped into the lamp light

"Ayaahh! Silver wolf! I not seen one since Sakumo fell in wolf spring 30 year ago!" The vertically challenged guide spoke in fractured Japanese.

"You knew father!" Kakashi yipped in shock, forgetting that he was in wolf form. "Wait, Father was cursed?"

The guide hearing surprised yips from the silver wolf in front of him remembered something his old friend had said the last time he had seen him.

"Ayaa! Is you Hatake Kakashi, son of Hatake Sakumo? Konoha White Fang?"

Kakashi nodded, silently wondering how this person knew his late father.

"Come in! Come in! Sakumo left journals in my possession if you come by! He say to give them to son if he not come to retrieve them. I ask what has happened to him?"

'Father left journals? What is going on?' Kakashi was confused by the sudden influx of information until he was snapped out of his trance by the sensation of hot water being poured over him. "Whaa?" he was human again.

"Please, please sit down, have some tea. Peach! Please make some food for our guest! Here, these are your father's journals."

Kakashi found himself ushered into a chair, given a cup of warm green tea, and presented with his father's journals while a young woman with peach colored hair came into the room and went into the kitchen. As he hesitantly opened the journals to the first page a page of paper slipped out. He unfolded it and read the following:

Kakashi, if you are reading this then I have passed on from this world and was unable to teach you of our ancestry. For this I am truly sorry. I do not know how my end has come about but know that I have always loved you, for you are my son, my last legacy, and you were the only thing that has kept me going since your mother's death. Within the pages of these journals you will learn of our family's heritage and our curse as was passes down to me by my father. May you grow strong and live a long and happy life.

-Hatake Sakumo

The note had a few tear stains on it, and was going to gain a few more if he didn't move it out of the way.


I'm gonna be real mean and end it right here.

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