Chapter Three
Heyo! Welcome back for another chapter of The Son Of Two Heroes. Had fun writing Kakashi in this, please enjoy and leave a review if you feel like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does. If I did, Kaka-Sensei would have taught his genin better.
Naruto was, for lack of a better term, extremely disappointed. "This? This is a Jonin? What the hell!" Said Jounin had been three hours late to pick his team up. Naruto was not happy and when the man walked in he simply leveled a light glare at the man. Sasuke bore a scowl and Sakura has a worried look after seeing the anger in her teammates faces.
Kakashi strolled into the room causally, but was met with an atmosphere of killing intent and worry. Looking to the two boys, he saw their glares and Sakura's worry. "My first impression of all of you is...you're extremely hostile." The Jounin stated with a bored tone, causing a sweat drop from all three fresh Genin. "Meet me on the roof in five minutes." He then disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Naruto smiled slightly but then he noticed something.
"Why does his chakra signature feel so familiar?" He mentally asked himself. Naruto quickly got up and walked out, making his way to the roof and prompting the other two of Team Seven to follow.
Arriving on the roof, the three new shinobi found their new sensei leaning against a railing. "Alright my cute little genin come sit down" he chuckled lightly. "Let's introduce ourselves then. Tell me about your likes and dislikes, and your dreams." Kakashi said.
"Can you go first as an example sensei?" The pink one asked.
"Does she really need and example for this?" Kakashi mentally sweat dropped. "Yeah sure I suppose" sighing he continued "my name is Hatake Kakashi. I like some things and I dislike others. My dreams are none of your business." He eye smiled at them.
"We only got his name." The genin sweat dropped at their sensei.
"Alright pinkie you're up first."
"My name is Haruno Sakura. I like.. I mean the thing I like-" she trailed off giggling and glanced at Sasuke. "I dislike Ino-pig, and foods that are too spicy." she giggled again. "Oh! My dream is to be a strong kunoichi, and one day start a family."
"Good enough I suppose, you're next whiskers."
Naruto grunted at the nickname but spoke anyway. "I have a name, It's Uzumaki Naruto!" He shouted. Calming himself he continued. "I like ramen, Ayame-nee, and my friends. I dislike traitors. My dream is to be Hokage. The greatest one yet, and to be faster than the Lord Fourth Hokage himself, as well as surpass my mother as a shinobi!"
"Alright duck butt. You're up."
"Hn." The last Uchiha grunted at the insult. "Fine. My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I like nothing and dislike a lot of things. I don't have a dream, but an ambition. I will kill a certain man, and restore my clan."
"You actually like tomatoes though. And training, and me of course!" Naruto said with an ear splitting grin.
"Hn. Shut up dobe." Sasuke retorted.
"Oi. Hey I resent tha-.." Naruto started.
"Alright alright enough banter." Kakashi interrupted. "Meet me at training ground seven tomorrow at eight in the morning sharp for our first team exercise. And you shouldn't eat breakfast. You might throw up." He said with an eye smile. And then he was gone.
"..." the three genin were silent.
"...so you guys wanna go get some ramen?" Naruto then broke said silence
"Fine. You're paying dobe." Sasuke replied.
"What why would I pay? You're the one with all the money!" Naruto retorted
"...Hn"
"Alright fine I'll pay damnit." The blond grumbled as they began to walk off.
A few steps down the stairs Naruto stopped and turned around. "You coming Sakura?"
"I can? Right sorry yeah I'm coming!" She replied lighting up at being included.
Kakashi stood in front of the memorial stone, collecting his thoughts. He stretched his chakra making sure he was alone and then sighed aloud. "Sensei... I have your son on my team. I'll train him well. I won't let what happened to our team happen again." Kakashi looked at the ground and smiled slightly. "...he wants to surpass you not only in strength but in speed and even more so as Hokage. I've no doubt that he will one day. It seems Lord Third has also told him of Lady Kushina. Guide me please sensei. I'm glad I convinced Lord Third to give me him and Sasuke."
Flashback
Inu stood before the Hokage. "Sir?"
"Stand and remove your mask Inu." The Professor ordered. "Kakashi you will take a genin team again this year."
"...sir, no team has passed with me before; why would we keep doing this?" Kakashi inquired.
"You will train Uchiha Sasuke. You're the only one who can." The old Hokage puffed on his pipe.
"Fine. but I want Sensei's son too." Kakashi made his demand. If he was going to do this, he was going to protect his Sensei's legacy.
"You cannot trai-.."
"Respectfully Lord Third, I won't miss my chance to train him. He needs someone who knows. How many years have you had me watch over him from the shadows? It's time sir." Kakashi demanded again, with more determination than the old Hokage has seen since the day Minato tasked Kakashi with overwatching Kushina's pregnancy.
"Fine. On the condition that you do not reveal his heritage to him." Sarutobi sighed. "He must not be told. Not yet. When the time comes Jiraiya will return to the village to help train the boy. Eventually he will tell him."
Flashback end.
Kakashi's thoughts wandered to Obito, wondering how things would be if they had traded places. "Obito...I'll look after Sasuke and try to save him from his hatred, like you once did for me. Thank you, Obito."
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The dawn of the next day saw three new genin stroll into training ground seven. Sasuke, stoic as ever, made no comment as they saw their Sensei was indeed not there yet. Sakura was looking quite annoyed with her sensei, and Naruto? Well he was currently snacking on a stick of dango and looked extremely bored.
"...Naruto, why are you eating, Sensei said not to eat breakfast." Sakura broke the silence.
"Nah," his mouth full of food was then swallowed and he cleared his throat. "He said we shouldn't eat breakfast. Not that we couldn't."
"That is absolutely..." A voice promising punishment started as Kakashi landed behind the genin. Tone suddenly softening he continued "...correct." Sakura nearly face faulted and Sasuke even deemed it worthy of a sweat drop. Naruto simply laughed.
"Alright!" Kakashi said clapping his hands together. "Time for your real genin test."
"What!?" Came the outraged shout of two out of the three students. Sasuke settling for a questioning grunt. Kakashi eye smiled at them and then pulled out a timer setting it on a post next to him. He then pulled out two bells and tied them to his waist.
"To become genin you must first take a bell from me. Any of you with a bell by the time this timer goes off, pass." He lowered his tone slightly and continued "However, anyone without will be sent back to the academy"
"But sensei there's only two bells?" Sakura questioned, "Does that mean-"
"Yes" Kakashi interrupted, "only two of you can pass this test. No matter what, one of you is going back to the academy."
"Shit high stakes then, alright let's get this done." Naruto stated.
"Come at me with the intent to kill. Otherwise you will not succeed." The Jounin stated. "Your test starts..now!" The genin immediately scattered and hid off in the trees.
Naruto observed the lazy Jounin with a calculating gaze. Wondering what exactly his game was. "This test can't be normal. Why separate from a three man squad to a two man squad? No... he intends to put us against each other. Hmm... I see. Alright, I'll play along." Naruto thought to himself. "Now who's going to make the first move? If I know Sasuke..."
The last Uchiha burst from the trees with a hail of kunai in front of him aiming at the Jounin. Speeding through hand seals he shot off a Jutsu "Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!" A large fireball left the boys mouth barreling at Kakashi. When the Jutsu cleared, all that remained was a burning log stuck with many kunai. "A substitution? He's good." Thought Sasuke.
"Weren't you ever taught not to play with fire?" Kakashi asked from behind him book in hand.
"Don't underestimate me, I'm an Uchiha!" Sasuke shouted. Immediately he engaged Kakashi in a bout of Taijutsu, eventually forcing Kakashi to stash his book away. "I'm no ordinary genin!" He continued, as he came down with a heel drop intent on caving in the jounin's skull.
Kakashi caught his leg and slammed him face first into the ground. "First up: taijutsu, Not bad." He then disappeared, allowing the Uchiha to flip back onto his feet. Sasuke wearily looked around trying to find the jounin.
"Earth Style: Headhunter Jutsu" Kakashi called out. His hand shot out of the ground grabbing his student's leg and dragging him into the earth, leaving only his head above the surface. "Second up: ninjitsu. Now stay here and think about what you did." The jounin said with an eye smile, subsequently disappearing.
Sakura snuck her way through the forest. Trying to find a good line of sight on the clearing.
"Third up: genjutsu." The jounin appeared behind the pink haired girl. "Demonic Illusion: Death Mirage Jutsu."
The girl found herself alone. "Sakura.. help...me" Sasuke said collapsing.
With that the pink haired girl fainted. Kakashi would be lying if he said he wasn't disappointed. That was way too easy. He would need to change that. "Alright blondie, you're up." Kakashi thought to himself, disappearing in a body flicker back to the tree at the center of the clearing.
Naruto had seen enough. He was ready. He was fairly confident the jounin wouldn't expect his kunai substitution, however he wasn't going to fall for it more than once.
Kakashi was just about to get bored enough to initiate the fight when a volley of kunai shot out of the trees at him. He dodged them and simply waited, and his wait was rewarded as twelve Naruto's came charging out of the trees all jumping at him, fists cocked back. They all fazed right through him. The clone being only an illusion.
Naruto came from behind with a burst of speed launching into a spin kick. The white haired man batted the boy's leg away but was almost stunned to see Naruto instantly transition into a handstand that brought his opposite leg back around, leveled at the Jounin's head. He quickly caught the leg, moving to throw Naruto, only for him to suddenly be caught holding a log as another volley of kunai came at him from behind. He dodged and simultaneously dropped the log only for Naruto to appear out of thin air, hand gliding across a bell, but not enough to get a grip.
Realizing he couldn't make the grab, Naruto transitioned into a handstand spinning in place to bring his leg around to stroke Kakashi in the side. When Kakashi moved to catch the leg, Naruto suddenly let his arm buckle a bit causing the height of his leg to drop from his Sensei's midsection to his hip, just enough to avoid the hand poised to catch his leg and connect the kick did, with a log.
Naruto ate the dirt. "A substitution with a kunai, impressive. Almost reminds me of Sensei." thought Kakashi as he slammed Naruto face down into the dirt. "Neat trick, certainly impressive, but you'll have to do better than that." He said to the boy. The blond craned his neck to smirk at his Sensei as a large fireball, courtesy of the last Uchiha, barreled toward them. Kakashi tossed Naruto out of the line of fire and quickly replaced himself with a log.
"Finally dug yourself out, eh? Sasu-chan" Naruto said with a grin.
"Shut up, loser I've got a bell to steal." said Sasuke with his ever so present attitude.
"No can do, sorry S'ke!" With that, Naruto grabbed Sasuke by the torso and dashed into the trees. Finally deep enough in, he stopped as the Uchiha has been kicking the crap out of him.
"Loser, what the fuck." Sasuke hissed.
"Quiet! You're really not as smart as you're thought to be, you know that right?" Naruto said with a quiet chuckle. "This is a test of team work, think about it. Or do I need to explain it to you bastard?
"Fuck, you're right. As much as I hate to admit it, it makes sense." Sasuke said begrudgingly.
"Of course I'm right dip shit." Naruto growled. "Anyway, we gotta find Sakura."
"Hn." Was his only reply.
Naruto stuck his finger to the ground and began spreading his chakra out over the clearing. Finally he locked into the pinkettes chakra signature. "Alright I've got her let's go!"
Kakashi stood unmoving in the clearing. "Hmm.. I didn't really expect that Sasuke would rescue Naruto. I think I'll wait and see what happens next, this could be interesting." The masked jounin thought to himself.
Just as he began to consider pulling out his book, a volley of shuriken came at him from the woods. Quickly turning, the jounin moved to deflect them when a hail of kunai shot out from the opposite side of the clearing. "A pincer?" Kakashi thought quickly, "One of those kunai might end up being Naruto in a second." The former ANBU deflected the shuriken, and quickly substituted with a log appearing across the clearing from where he had been standing.
"Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!" A fireball barreled toward Kakashi, ripping apart the clearing as it moved. Kakashi quickly dodged, then was confronted with a hail of shuriken. After deflecting them he then immediately caught Sasuke's foot as it moved to catch him in the shoulder. The jounin threw the boy away, who righted himself and threw another hail of shuriken at Kakashi.
As Sasuke landed, Kakashi called out, "you'll get nowhere doing this on your own!"
"I'm not alone!" The last Uchiha yelled back. In the back of his mind he thought, "I haven't been alone for a while now because of you ne? Naruto?" He landed and flashed through hand seals again, "Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!" He smirked as it burnt toward the silver cyclops. "Naruto! Now!" He called out to his friend.
Two hails of kunai ripped from the trees at the new jounin sensei. He deflected them all and dodged others. As expected, one suddenly became Naruto, who launched a new set of kunai at the instructor as he turned to face the new combatant. The jounin's eye widened and he substituted with a log to escape and create distance. "Good! But where's the other one?" He called out.
"Right here, sensei." Sakura called as Kakashi looked and saw her standing alone, with one hand held in a snake hand seal. "Explode!" She yelled. Kakashi's eye widened as the hundred explosive tags around the field began to glow, microseconds later they resounded with a ball of fire and a thunder-clap like boom.
Kakashi appeared behind Sakura and caught her wrist as she tried to swing a kunai at him. "Enough." He said, "well done all of you, you pass." He eye smiled at the genin.
"Eh?" came the voice of Sakura and Naruto. "But we didn't get the bells sensei?" Sakura continued.
"It was never about the bells my little genin, it was all about teamwork and you've shown you have that in spades. I'm proud of all of you and you are all ready to be ninja." Kakashi had them all gather around the three posts at the far side of the clearing. Here he let them help themselves to the bento lunches he had waiting. As they ate he contemplated what to say next.
Ushering them over to the memorial stone, he began. "Upon this stone, we engrave the names of the heroes of Konoha. These are all shinobi who gave their lives in the line of duty for the village. Many of my friends names rest upon this stone. Along with that of my sensei."
"Who was your sensei, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked gently.
He eye smiled down at her, "Minato Namikaze, or as you may know him, Lord Fourth Hokage."
"What! No way! My sensei was trained by the Fourth Hokage himself! You've got to be super strong y'know!" Naruto's hands clapped over his mouth at the surprise of letting his verbal tic go in front of his new teammates and sensei.
"Kushina would be very proud of you Naruto." He eye smiled at the boy, who looked oh so much like his late sensei.
"Wait you knew mom!?"
"Yes I did, and I can tell you that the verbal tic of yours comes directly from her." Kakashi replied in a cheerful voice.
"Thank you Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said softly with a huge grin plastered on his face.
The masked man looked to the last Uchiha. "Sasuke, you've done well by your clan's name, and if they were here right now I'm sure that they would be very proud of you." Sasuke's eyes widened and a rare flicker of pure emotion shined through. After a moment, he settled back into his nonchalant, uncaring demeanor once again.
"Hn, thanks."
The jounin finally turned to the pinkette, "Sakura you have potential but there are many things you need to work on. But I'm sure you do your family proud as well."
"Thank you Kakashi-sensei!" She said smiling widely.
"A very wise shinobi once taught me a very valuable lesson." Kakashi began. "Those that break the rules are trash. But those who abandon their comrades, are worse than trash." Kakashi sighed, remembering Obito "It's a saying that should be beaten into your heads at the academy, but that doesn't happen, so I'll do it myself" He eye smiled once again.
Over the next three months, Team Seven would meet everyday in the morning and do team and individual training until the early afternoon. After that, they would head to the Hokage tower and acquire and complete six D-rank missions. They quickly became Konoha's top rookie genin team with five hundred and forty six completed D-ranks under their belt. Adding to their feats, the instructor taught Sasuke and Sakura tree climbing and water walking. While doing so, he also helped Naruto complete his water walking training. Kakashi felt they would be ready.
Team Seven walked through the door of the Hokage's office. Kakashi eye smiled at the Hokage and gave a greeting, "Yo."
"Ah Kakashi, here to start your daily D-ranks?" Sarutobi smiled "I have a few here.." he trailed off while shuffling around papers.
"Ah actually Lord Hokage, I'm here to request a C-tank for my cute little genin."
"Oh? It is about time now, isn't it. Hmm, let me see here... bandits have been seen around Neba village, abnormally large wolves have been terrorizing Hashikawa village , there's also be-"
"Lord Hokage, we'll take the bandit mission sir." Kakashi interrupted.
"Alright it's settled. Team Seven is to dispatch immediately to Neba village in eastern Hi no Kuni. You will meet with the village elder, Iijima Tohaku." The Hokage gave his orders, and the team set out.
After exiting the tower, Kakashi turned to face his team. "Alright guys, I want you to go home, pack one weeks worth of gear and meet me at the east gate, understood?"
A chorus of "Yes Kakashi-sensei!" came from the three child soldiers.
He chuckled, "It's about a full days travel to Neba village, so be ready for a walk"
"Got it." The team scattered.
"Nice to meet you, mister Iijima." Kakashi said as he and his team bowed before the village elder.
"Thank you for coming to assist us, mister Hatake." The elderly man bowed. "We've had trade caravans and travelers reporting that they have been confronted by bandits all around the village outskirts. Please take care of this problem for us."
"Of course mister Iijima, we'll be off then. We shall report back when the mission is complete." The white haired man replied. The team turned sharp and headed outside of the village. The jounin turned to face his team. "I won't lie to you. It would be wrong to do so. There is a high probability that you will either witness a kill or directly kill someone yourself on this mission. I'm hoping you don't freeze up if you do so. However, don't worry as I will be watching over all three of you. Another possibility is that if the bandit group is large, there may missing-nin amongst them. So be careful. Understood?"
"Yes sensei" Came the reply of all three students. The masked man stared at them a minute longer before signaling for them to follow him toward a spot that a carriage had been attacked. Upon arriving at the day old scene, Kakashi began to investigate. Taking note of the area, he found a series of drag marks. With closer inspection, he deduced that chests of goods had been dragged sloppily back to the bandit camp.
"Come.," He said, "We'll follow this trail to the camp, scout it out, make a plan, and then take care of the problem. Understood?" The three genin all nodded their heads at him. With that, they took off along the trail. Team Seven was on the hunt.
And that's that! Hope you had a good time reading! Anyway, check out the story of one of my close friends, and the guy who keeps me from making these chapters be riddled with mistakes. His name is sour sensei. The story is Naruto Namikaze, Spark of the Leaf. Please give it a read! Anyway see ya next time y'know!