JOUNIN EXAM
"Kakashi, why look so nervous?" Aoi asked, as she checked her weapons and gear to make sure they were in top condition. "It's just another exam; you've been training me from sunup to sundown for this."
"I know, I know, it's just…." What they were currently talking about was Aoi's graduation exam to become a fully fledged Jounin, and that alone had Kakashi a little nervous since once she did so, she would be tasked with more dangerous missions where there was always a possibility she could get hurt…that and part of the exam was one big free-for-all amongst thirty or so other Ninja also taking the exam and Kakashi wasn't ready for that.
Aoi could see the changing emotions cross her boyfriend's face like a movie from experience of her three plus years of learning how to read him; he was pretty much an open book to her. "Kakashi, don't worry, I'll be fine… You taught me everything I know, after all."
"...Alright." It took everything in Kakashi to not hug his girlfriend when she gave him one of her bright smiles that he found so cute. Instead, he smiled back at her and told her when she came back with the Jounin vest in hand, they would go out to eat anywhere she wanted.
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"I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT, AOI!" How on earth Anko and Might Guy had even known where they were was a mystery Kakashi had not wanted to find out, preferring to watch Aoi have the time of her life with their friends as she wore her new Jounin vest proudly. The test had roughly taken about three hours with so many participants, with all of the little twists, turns, and jumping through metaphorical hoops that Aoi had to do, but she had completed them with a rather high score. At the end, Kakashi had waited patiently for her on the other side of the doors, kinda surprised when she had literally jumped him in an excited, spinning hug… off of the back of a rather large swan. Her cries of joy were well worth it though.
"Ack! Anko….Asuma, I think Anko is drunk…." Coming out of his daze, Kakashi looked to see Anko's face red with liquor as she leaned on Aoi, mumbling incoherent words that only she understood. "Please get her off me…" The smoking teen laughed as he helped pry the drunk teenage girl off of Aoi, who was trying to keep her vest away from the sake bottle in Anko's tight grip.
"So Kakashi, are you proud of your girlfriend?' Kurenai asked, smiling knowingly as her red orbs remained on the sight of Asuma fighting Anko's drunk body to sit upright as Kakashi huffed.
"She would've made Jounin sooner or later…"
"Yeah, but she did so in as little as three years… all because of your tutelage…." she told him, glancing over at him for the briefest moment before looking back at her two other friends. "She's grown with your teachings… She's combined what she learned in her home village with what you've taught her, and it's only made her stronger."
Kakashi couldn't help but smile a little under his mask at this, calming sipping his tea as he listened to the relaxing (i.e background noise) of his friends and Aoi's laughter. If this was what his future had in store for him, he could get used to this… Though he still wished his Sensei and teammates could've been here to enjoy it….