Chapter 1 ~ New World

Kakashi will forever deny the very un-Kakashi-like screech that he makes.

In his opinion, his reaction was completely normal considering his situation. He was twenty eight!

In the mirror, instead of seeing how he was used to seeing himself everyday, he saw a teenager that looked no older than around sixteen? Or so? And Kakashi, of course, isn't used to seeing his sixteen-or-so year old self every day.

He takes a deep breath to calm down. Then screeches again.

He has three choices. One, he could find out why he was this way, and maybe ask Tsunade how to reverse it, because doesn't she know some stuff about looking young? He'd have to put up a henge, since there's no way he's going anywhere in public looking like this. Two, he could try and wake himself up from this horrible nightmare. And three, he could wrap himself up in his blankets and have a mental breakdown.

Kakashi weighs his options, and shrugs as he goes back to his bed.

Namikaze Minato was having a relatively normal day so far. Tsunade was babysitting Naruto with Jiraiya occasionally showing up to try and show Minato his seals. One of which Minato knows from experience to be very inappropriate. (And yes Kakashi,Tsunade getting pissed off at Jiraiya and breaking several bones as a result of his perviness, is normal now.)

He had the day off, so Minato decided to go check on Kakashi, because he knows he isn't on a mission today. (And his student probably hasn't had social interaction with anyone ever since Rin's death.)

You can only imagine his surprise when he hears what sounds like a rabid raccoon coming from Kakashi's (rather depressing, really) apartment.

His hand goes to his Kunai pouch, and he prepares himself for Plan Saving-Kakashi-With-Raccoon-Terminator-No-Jutsu.

He hides his chakra and proceeds to sneak to his student's apartment. Once he's at the window he peaks through it. He doesn't find a raccoon anywhere, (but maybe the sneaky thing is just hiding) and instead he sees Kakashi.

Kakashi, who at the moment is cuddled up into about five fluffy blankets (he didn't even know Kakashi owned) and… crying? Oh no. Someone is going to be hurt for making his 'unemotional' protégé cry like this. Horribly. He opens the window.

And Minato promptly forgets that Kakashi puts traps on any entrance of his apartment and around it. Ugh, he's proud of the great shinobi Kakashi is and all, but his traps are such a pain to get past.

About two dozen shuriken are coming at him. But he has Cool Shinobi Skills so he quickly gets a Kunai and blocks them all.

After getting past six more of his student's traps, he's finally in Kakashi's apartment.

When Kakashi is safely secured in his five fluffiest blankets, he starts to freak out even more.

OhmyKamiI'mateenageragain.

OhmyKamiwhat'sgoingtohappenifpeoplefindout.

OhmyKaminowIhavetolivemydepressinglifeagain.

At this point he's crying and probably having a panic attack.

Wait.

Maybe this is just a genjutsu. He opens his (Obito's) sharingan. Or well, he would've if it wasn't already open.

Kai

Sigh. Not a genjutsu. Ugh.

He looks over to his picture of his team, and panics when it's not there. It's not the strangest thing he's discovered today, but he hasn't kept his frame anywhere except there since he was-

Wait... is he still even in his own world anymore?

Confused, he starts to move to sit up, andlogically thinks this out.

Okay... What was the last thing you remember doing in your world? his Logical Inner Self asks him.

Uhh. Yeah, he doesn't remember that. (He can hear his Logical Inner Self sigh at his uselessness)

He doesn't quite expect a hand on his shoulder at that very moment. He turns around quickly, (okay maybe not that fast considering he is wrapped up in blankets) and he normally would've gotten the Kunai under his pillow or something, but he is stuck in a bundle of blankets at the moment. So he almost falls off of his bed onto the floor, then The Hand turns into arms which grab him and keep him from falling.

"Kakashi, are you okay?" Oh no. He recognizes that voice. And scent. And now the chakra. (He also knew the hand felt familiar)

Nooooo, how could this get any worse?!

He pulls the blankets over his head and curls up until he becomes a ball of fluff.

Then sensei's hand is rubbing his back and he is asking what happened.

And he doesn't know what to say.

Don't say something stupid like "Oh hi sensei I'm from the future where everyone is dead", he is reminded.

Yeah. Thanks for that.

You're welcome.

"I… I just had a nightmare sensei," okay, so not a complete lie. Just masking the real meaning of his words. Eh, Sensei wouldn't be able to tell.

Now he's being cuddled and comforted by sensei. Normally, he knows he would have shoved the man away, or something of the sort... but he's different now. He leans into the touch because ohmyKamiit'sMinatosenseihe'salive, but he wouldn't admit it if he was being tortured by Morino Ibiki.

Minato stays with Kakashi until the next morning.

3:04 AM

When he wakes up again sensei isn't there. That's probably good. He doesn't know if he can handle seeing his dead sensei again so soon. But wait... when Sensei died, Kakashi was younger than this... So Sensei should be dead by now. Right? Or is that just another change in this strange world.

He gets up. (He isn't wrapped in blankets anymore.) But he's still only in his plain grey boxers.

Oh. He was only in his boxers. He didn't even have his mask on. Oops.

He puts on a pair of black sweatpants, his black sleeveless undershirt that is connected to his mask and a plain dark blue T-shirt over it. His style apparently hasn't exactly changed much from this age, so it's not too hard finding things to wear.

He jumps out of his window, (he faintly noticed seven of his traps disabled) and he reassembles them quickly and professionally. He makes a few edits to some of them, then he's off.

Okay, so the first thing you should've done is find out how you got here, what the date is and how to get back. Instead of having a panic attack and having to be cuddled by your dead sensei.

Wow. His Logical Inner Self is such an asshole. But Kakashi is an asshole too so he guesses it's only fair.

He walks into a bar to try and find information about this world.

He doesn't really care that he's technically underage, he's a jounin. And he's mentally twenty seven. And people don't have the balls to tell him, a respected Anbu captain, to get out. Or maybe they just really don't care.

He tries not to draw attention to himself as he gathers information. After about half an hour, he now knows that it is about three years and ten months after Rin's death. So he's... in Anbu by now. Right? Sensei's personal guard, probably, considering the fact that he's still alive. And Minato sensei is the yondaime hokage.

He considers Gai, and a few other people he's grown close to over the years. Should he go see them? Then he remembers how he was like at this age. Or rather, what people tell him he was like at this age. (He doesn't exactly remember himself, since he spent most years after Obito and Rin's death dissociating, which only became even more often when he joined Anbu.) Apparently, he was an antisocial asshole.

Kakashi leaves the place, wondering what he's supposed to do from here.

He thinks about what happened last at his world. He remembers Tobi or Madara or whatever become Obito, so he's gonna have to check on that situation soon. He remembers the Akatsuki and the attack on Konoha. He remembers the war. He remembers becoming the Rokudaime (he really didn't want to become hokage, but Obito told him to, and he wasn't going to break another promise to his best friend) He also remembers all of the boring paperwork he had to do. (Yeah he's more fit for the job he has at the moment)

Wait. So does he have the chakra he has in this world, or in his world?

Okay. So he also has like over ten times the chakra he would usually have at this age. (That's gonna be hard to explain.) He'll have to keep hiding it unless he really needs it. So he'll still be able to use his jutsus. And since he knows he got the Mangekyou Sharingan after Rin's death, he wants to train with it.

Damn.

He's gonna be a way overpowered sixteen year old.