Word Count - About 1,400

Incidents

(Alternate title - A lot of Weird Shit Goes on With Minato's Family. Sigh. Poor Minato)

"That doesn't explain how at all! You can't just be taken by some old man then come out with the ability to use Mokuton!" Tenzo shouted. A few seconds later, he realized the irony of what he said and awkwardly shifted his feet.

"Okay." How is he supposed to explain this to an eleven year old? "Well let's just say, I became half plant. So the plants helped me."

"How specific." Kakashi retorted.

Tenzo was very upset. Scary Obito-nii wasn't telling him how he got Mokuton, after Tenzo told him how he got his. It wasn't fair. He resisted the urge to pout. And when he thought he was going to get information, he would just get told 'Watch out for scary old men that might be your great-great-grandfather', 'I became half plant' or 'The plant gods gave me this power'. He really doubted all of the answers he was given.

"Kakashi-senpai, how did Obito-nii get his mokuton?" Kakashi-senpai would definitely know.

"Well, did you know he was supposed to die?" Tenzo shook his head, intrigued. "Well. He survived. I guess Kami-sama shines down on idiots." Obito offensively squawked.

"WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN, BAKAKASHI!?"

"Hn."

He later realizes that Kakashi just avoided the question he asked. How did Tenzo not realize earlier? Now he's never going to know. Well, there's still another question he needs an answer to.

"Obito-nii, can you train me with the Mokuton?"

"Eh? Oh. Uh. Yeah, I guess."

-Literally Twenty Minutes Later-

"Obito. Stop stabbing Tenzo with the stick." Kakashi sighed in exasperation. Tenzo was relieved at his Senpai's words. Obito was grumpy at them.

"He needs to start from somewhere!"

"Obito. When you first start training as a genin, are you repeatedly attacked with swords and kunai?"

"... No… but isn't this kid a chuunin?" Kakashi sighs.

"I give up. I'm done. I wash my hands of you two. Bye. Leaving." Kakashi shunshined away.

Minato, for once, was working on paperwork. He had to get it all done. He just had to. He then heard a crash and immediately jumped from his seat. Shards of glass flew everywhere. What the hell? He stared at the window. The broken window. Shattered. All over his floor that his nice assistant cleaned for him about an hour ago. Then he sees a... body? It rolls over smoothly as it lands, who prevent damage. Minato is confused.

"Yo, sensei!" Oh. Okay. So it was his thoughtful little student who decided to shatter his window just to talk. He hoped he didn't hurt himself...

"Kakashi. Any reason why you had to break my window? There's a nice door right over there," he motioned towards the door, "that works perfectly fine, and it's used for the same reason." Minato sighed, slightly annoyed.

"Well. I got worried. I tried to open it, but it was locked. I also knocked. In case you would open it. ANBU were just waiting for me to try and pick the lock, so they could annoy me by asking stupid questions. So I had to be quick, so what better way then to break it?" Huh. Minato didn't even notice a knock. He must've been more focused on his paperwork than he originally expected. And how did Kakashi know there were ANBU watching him?

"The door, Kakashi."

"Why use a door when there's a window?" Minato sighed. He supposes he has to get used to Kakashi's… quirks… even if they involve broken windows. "Anyways. Can I have a month long mission?"

Minato blinked. "Why so long?"

"Obito is training Tenzo with his Mokuton. It's probably going to take about a month for them to even start training productively." His student scowled. "I don't want to be around for it right now."

"I… see." Minato thinks for a moment. "Well. I did need you for a specific mission. It's to investigate… what happened to one of Iwa's mountains. It shouldn't last a month though."

"What… happened to... their mountain?" Kakashi asked, confusedly.

"It seems to have… disappeared. Coincidentally, it disappeared the week you were on a mission there. It caused tons of damage to that side of Iwa. The Council wanted someone to find out what did that damage to something so huge and unmovable. Especially without anyone noticing. The only bits of information we do have heard aren't that reliable. But, a few people supposedly sighted a 'strange swirl that ate up the mountain, kind of like a tornado.'"

"Huh. That's strange." Kakashi seemed to be extremely deep in thought. Then his student seemed to come to some conclusion and paled. Maybe he was just thinking about something that happened back at his house. But still…

"Kakashi." His student's head whipped towards him. "Do you recall anything particularly strange, that week?" He's pretty sure it happened about the same time as when Kakashi was on his way to Konoha, so he doubts Kakashi has any knowledge of it.

"Not… particularly…" Minato raised an eyebrow at his student's uncertainty, but didn't outright question him. Instead, he smiled.

"You are dismissed, Kakashi." His student then shunshined out of his office. He looked at the window. Well, what was left of it, anyway. He shakes his head, and smiles fondly. For some reason he can't seem to be truly mad at what happened. He sighs. What am I going to do with that Brat?

Kakashi was pretty sure he knew what happened to the mountain. It's not like it was Kakashi's fault though. He didn't know he had bad aim at kamui-ing things. And he just so happened to be facing the mountain. And his undivided attention was strictly on the small rock. So he didn't even notice the complete destruction caused to the place. Then, when he failed at getting the rock in his eye, all he did was frown then turn to head back to Konoha. No wonder his eye started to bleed a lot…

Great. Now you have a goddamn mountain in your eye.

Kakashi ignores his Logical Inner Self and sighs. He guesses it's vacation time for him, then. He never liked vacation. They're always so boring.

Well maybe if you didn't decide to "train" your Mangekyou Sharingan, you would have a different mission, Dobe.

What's he going to tell Sensei? 'Oh, yeah that mountain. I have it right here in my eye dimension. I can give it back if you want'? Yeah… Minato already questions Kakashi's sanity enough. With pretty good reason, he should add.

"Okay. Enough training for today." Tenzo sighs in relief. "But you still haven't improved at all in your stick fighting skills." Tenzo rolls his eyes at that.

"Where'd Kakashi-senpai go?"

"Dunno. He never told me. Hey wanna go get ramen?!"

"Sure…" The two went off to eat ramen. They ordered their usual, and began to eat.

"Did ya know Kakashi's birthday is next month?" Tenzo shook his head. "Yeah. The fifteenth, I think. He's turning fourteen."

"How old are you?"

"Uh… fourteen."

"Hmmm…" They continued to eat in silence.

Twenty seconds later, their silence was interrupted. By his sensei, who should be in his office. Instead, he was sitting with them while grinning happily.

"Sensei? Why aren't you in your office?" He asked curiously. Minato-sensei's smile deflated a little.

"Ah. I completed most of the paperwork, and I saw you two over here so I wanted to stop bye! And… I was hungry." He grinned again before ordering his three precious bowls of ramen.

"Oh. Have you seen Kakashi? He left us." Obito said. (Pouted)

"Ah, yeah I have. He's on a mission. He told me about your… training. How's that going?"

"Good!", "Terribly." The two said in sync. Minato deadpanned at them.

"How long should the mission take?" Obito asked.

"Probably two weeks. But since it's Kakashi… probably a week."

"Hmm… What is the mission?"

"To um… investigate what happened to Iwa's mountain." Obito blinked. Iwa's mountain? What the hell? Minato must've read his thoughts, because he started to explain further. "Well, one of the mountains seemed to have… disappeared. It's unexplainable." Obito's eyes widened. He almost choked on his ramen.

"Wh-what?" He gaped.

"I know. Strange, isn't it?"

Minato could've sworn that he heard Obito say something that sounded suspiciously like, "So that's where Bakakashi got that mountain from." but he couldn't be sure. Strange, strange children…

AN - Sorry I haven't updated in a while... But here's the next chapter! Please review!