Chapter 2 ~ Different Situations

Something is different in this world. Kakashi can just feel it. And he's going to find out what it is. Even if he has no leads as to what the difference is. It's not something major, or he definitely would've noticed it by now. At least, that's what he keeps telling himself.

I wouldn't be so sure.

Shut up.

Damn his Logical Inner Self.

He figures he must have somehow traveled to a different dimension. So basically, it's Kamui's fault. (Though he still wonders how Kamui would work when he lost the Sharingan but oh well.) So technically it's Obitos fault. The idiot probably accidently cursed him when he was playing hopscotch with ring in the afterlife. Or something. Ugh...

Damn you Obito.

Kakashi sighs. Enough thinking for now.

Naturally, he decides to go train.

On his way to the third training ground, Kakashi is approached by the horror known as Maito Gai.

"OI KAKASHIIII!" his Logical Inner Self winces.

As Gai stops by his self-proclaimed Eternal Rival, Kakashi just walks past him.

"My Rival, Are You Headed Towards The Training Grounds?"

He wishes he could just kamui out of here, but he can't just give away the fact he has Mangekyou Sharingan. He has to stay low, for now. But... he supposes there are still some things he could do.

"Gai." He calls out to the green blur running circles around him telling him to race him there so they can train together.

Sigh.

Gai hasn't changed at all.

"Fine. Go."

The race ends in a tie. (Kakashi probably could have won if he had gone full speed, but whatever.)

When Gai arrives with Kakashi at the training ground, he convinces his Eternal Rival to engage in his Youth and spar with him to release his Flames of Anger.

While he and Kakashi are blocking and dodging each other's attacks, Gai notices something. Something… different about Kakashi. His fighting stance and style is different.

Perhaps his Rival is just extra Youthful on this particular day. Or maybe he's doing a different training routine. Gai isn't quite sure.

Their taijutsu sparring is brought to a stop when an Anbu operate approaches the two of them.

"Hatake Kakashi, Hokage-sama requests your presence" he says to Kakashi, before using a jutsu to make a dramatic exit.

Ha.

Kakashi can make cooler exits than that.

"I Shall See You Once Again While You Are Experiencing The Flames Of Youth, My Eternal Rival" Gai says before running off. (On his hands, of course.)

Like he said before, he can totally make a cooler exit than that. But he doesn't risk the chance of using his Mangekyou Sharingan. (Yet, anyways.) So he uses the same jutsu the ANBU did and arrives at the Hokage's office.

"Ah, Kakashi, you're here" Minato says to Kakashi, when he sees him. He didn't even pause at the fancy entrance he used, which Kakashi tries not to pout about. "I'm assigning you to a mission in Iwagakure."

Kakashi nods slightly and Minato moves on.

"Your mission is to bring back an A rank scroll that has been stolen from Konoha as of yesterday. The expected length is about a week. More details are in this scroll." He hands it to Kakashi.

"Hai, Sen- Hokage-sama" Kakashi replies before making his way to the exit.

Kakashi jumps out of the window as an exit.

Minato smiles. How predictable.

He kind of regrets sending Kakashi away after seeing what distress he was in the other day. He's still not quite sure what that was all about, if he's being honest. Maybe he should give Kakashi a break, after this.

Kakashi uses a henge when he is near Iwa. He now looks like a younger teenager with brown hair and eyes, with regular Iwagakure civilian clothes. Everyone around him is completely unsuspecting.

"Nii-san?" a childish voice asks. "Can you help me find my lost doggy? his name is Biscuit." The girl is about eight years old. He then realizes that she was talking to him. Kakashi mentally groans. Seriously?

"Uhh…" is his reply.

Your genius is showing. Very much. It's really obvious how you are an ANBU.

He pointedly ignores his Logical Inner Self.

How does he deal with children at this age again? Oh no. The girl is crying now. He starts to feel a little sympathy. Not even for the crying girl, though. He feels bad for himself for not caring about the young girl. (He's selfish, he knows.) But he can still try. He likes dogs, at least.

"What does this... doggy of yours look like?" Now she's distracted by the sudden question as she looks down in thought. Kakashi quickly makes a shadow clone to deal with the girl as he runs off to complete his mission. No one notices what he did. The girl responds to the clone, but he can't hear what she said, he's too far away now. He releases the henge on his real self as he makes his way to the building which is holding the Super Important Top Secret Scroll.

Kakashi quickly slits the guards' necks, and goes inside the room. He grabs the scroll, opens it to comfort it's contents, and sticks it into his pouch. Reinforcements are probably on their way, so Kakashi makes his way out, making sure to cover any tracks.

His clone was suddenly dispelled, and he winces as he gains a few memories. Turns out, the girl wasn't even looking for a real dog. It was a stuffed animal. And it didn't even look like a real dog. It was more like a poorly designed llama.

Sigh. Children. He'll never understand them. (Which, probably is because he was never really was one)

He finished the mission in two days. He decides to secretly test out his Mangekyou Sharingan, because.. well. What could go wrong?

Once he's in an area where no one is around, he stares at a rock.

"Mangekyou Sharingan" he quietly says as he keeps staring at the rock. He feels the Sharingan shift from three tomoe to a flower like pattern.

"Kamui," he deamatically says, focusing intently on the rock. But nothing happens. The rock is still there. Did Obito's Sharingan ability change, or something? Because Kakashi should have been able to do that.

He holds the rock in the air and does it again. His eye is now bleeding. He's focusing extremely hard on the rock but of course the stubborn thing won't just get inside of his goddamn eye. It isn't even a big rock! It's only a bit smaller than his fist. But Kakashi doesn't really feel like it's the right time to be raging at a rock, (He's pretty sure he's insane enough as it is.) so he just decides to leave and head for Konoha. (After wiping the blood out of his eye, of course. Which, why was it bleeding? It didn't even do anything.)

"Mission completed, Sensei" Kakashi tells him as he hands in his mission report. Minato doesn't comment on his student's slip up. Mainly because Kakashi didn't even notice he did it.

"As expected of you, Kakashi. Good work. I'm giving you a month-long break starting tomorrow, alright?" He says to him. "You are dismissed."

Kakashi jumps out of the window and heads towards his apartment. As he's making his way there, he wonders what he's going to do on his break. He doesn't really get breaks very often, and when he does they're usually only a few days. Never an entire month. But perhaps Sensei was just concerned for him after Kakashi's... incident.

He's probably just going to train. Yeah. Training sounds good right now.

He heads to the training grounds. (He doesn't see Gai anywhere, so he takes that as a good sign.)

After practicing many of his jutsu, he can proudly say that he can use all of them. Well, technically he can't, because he's not from here and yadda yadda.

Now, though. Kakashi is bored. He's been training all day. So, naturally, he thinks of the next best thing to do.

The next day, he leaves to go find (steal) Tenzo, his little kohai.

Of course, all of the guards weren't a problem, they were quickly dealt with. The traps as well.

The traps were terribly set, in Kakashi's opinion. So after he placed a rather distressed Tenzo on his back, he blows the place up with an advanced Katon jutsu.

He always used to hate the look of this place. When it's burning, though, it actually looks pretty cool.

Anyways, Kakashi doesn't think normal people make friends by kidnapping them and trapping them in his apartment, so he puts his little (to be) kohai down.

His little kohai is… really distressed actually.

"LET-! WHO ARE YOU! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!?" Well, that's all Kakashi got out of it, anyway.

"Maa, I'm your new 'BFF', Tenzo" is his reply because he's approximately 94% Asshole.

"MY NAME IS KINOE! And I don't even know what that is!"