The Reason Why Kakashi ...
...Secretly hates a certain Uchiha pupil of his. And it's all Mizuki's fault.
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There was a FINE line between hate and extreme dislike. Kakashi had been forced into teaching the damn Uchiha because he was the last Uchiha, and therefore the last with the potential to use the Sharingan, of which there was one left. His own.
Or so he was thinking. Whenever he mentioned his Sharingan as being the last in the village, there was always a flicker of something in his favorite pupil's eyes.
Ah, well, it didn't really matter.
Right now, he and his fellow senseis were watching the rookies eat and chat, Naruto and Kiba arguing. Sasuke was, as per usual, glaring, his two fangirls watching him. Neji was simply eating and watching the others around him, Lee trying to say something to Sakura, Tenten interjecting a word here or there in Kiba's and Naruto's friendly argument. Hinata was watching Naruto in a stalkerish way.
"Your Uchiha still hasn't gotten over the incident," Asuma commented.
Kakashi grimaced. "I'm sure with all the teachers mentioning it, and him living where his parents were killed by his own brother that he'll never get over it. I wasn't that big of a downer when I was his age, was I?"
He was sure someone had snapped him out of it, hadn't they?
"You were worse when you were younger," Gai replied in an inside voice. Kakashi winced. "But after... Well. You were much nicer when you were Sasuke's age, if in a depression."
Kakashi stared at Gai. "You don't have to tiptoe around that subject anymore. I know Obito's dead." His entire team was, but that didn't mean he had to tiptoe around him. He was twenty-seven, not eleven.
Asuma, Kurenai, and Gai all stared at him.
With a start, Kakashi realized that he hadn't spoken Obito's name since his death. Rin had given the mission report.
"Oh, well... I guess that chuunin teacher's doing you some good," Kurenai said with a grin.
Kakashi smiled under his mask. Iruka-koi was the best boyfriend anyone could ask for.
"Yeah, and his slightly-adopted child." Kakashi took a glance at Naruto. She'd turned into a him, which still struck the other teachers as 'odd'. Not Kakashi. "You should've seen Iruka's bedroom when Iruka came out of the hospital." Kakashi snickered as he remembered it. Naruto had painted Iruka's bedroom a horrifying pink, decorated it with cutout images of Kakashi's porn magazines, and Kakashi had slept on the couch for a week while Iruka and Naruto tore down the images and repainted it a more subdued blue. Hilarious at first, but then he hadn't gotten any dolphin cuddles.
He would never admit it to anyone, either. Well, he could to Iruka and Naruto, but not anyone else.
Of course, he had a sneaking suspicion the Sandaime knew... But the Sandaime was, like, the guy who knew what went on in the village. He knew everything.
"Was it pink and covered with -" Gai slammed his mouth shut as Kakashi glared at him. How Gai knew, Kakashi did not want to know.
"How do you know where I live?" Kakashi asked, seizing that - and instantly sighing as he knew the answer. Honestly, Genma just couldn't keep his mouth shut, could he?
Naruto appeared next to him. "Kaka-sensei, I have my lessons with Gekkou-sensei. Mind if I leave?"
Kakashi lazily gestured for him to go. Naruto left.
"I'm going training," Sasuke said, getting up and leaving without permission.
Kakashi's eye twitched.
"Naruto has training with an actual jounin, Sasuke-chibi. Sit, and finish." Kakashi's tone brooked no argument, his gray eye glinting almost angrily. Sasuke had been trying to follow Naruto for the past week, and Naruto had commented at dinner last night about it. Kakashi wouldn't put up with it.
"Why not let him go? Kurenai asked Kakashi.
Kakashi turned to his fellow jounin.
"He's been following Naruto for the past week for some reason."
"If she's being trained by a jounin -" Kakashi shook his head.
"Naruto knew a great swordsman, and he taught her quite a bit. What Hayate is teaching her would kill Sasuke," Kakashi said flatly. "I participated in one of her training sessions. I'm still sore from it, and it was two months ago."
"She was still in the Academy then..." Kurenai frowned. "Are you sure you should be letting her learn?"
Kakashi shrugged. "The Sandaime cleared it."
"Sensei, where's Sasuke-kun?" Ino frowned.
Kakashi stood up, his eye angry.
"That insolent little brat!"
He used a shunshin.
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Watching above an alley, he watched Sasuke talk with Naruto, who shook her head impatiently. Then Sasuke pushed forward, leaning forward and kissing her - Naruto shoved him off.
"I said no! Just - stop, okay? I don't like you like that!"
"But Mizuki-sensei said -"
"Mizuki is a traitor, Sasuke!" Naruto looked quite upset.
Iruka appeared next to him. Kakashi ignored that for the time being.
"But you'd help me restart my clan!" Sasuke pulled her in for another kiss -
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Kakashi said, walking off the side of the building and landing easily. Two story drop? Easy for a ninja. Plus, it was cool. Kakashi smiled at Sasuke. "Better run, Sasuke-kun."
Sasuke did.
Naruto looked confused and a little upset. "Did I do something wrong, sensei?" she asked Kakashi, who shook his head.
"No, kiddo! But let me ask you something. What do you say we do a little 'Uchiha-hunting'?"
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Sasuke screamed as he ran as fast as he could. People were chasing him! Him, the last Uchiha! How dare they!
He ran towards the Uchiha district - but no matter how far he ran, they always seemed to catch up, and the district never seemed to get any closer.
He kept running, his legs aching.
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"...are you sure putting the Uchiha in such a genjutsu is necessary, Kakashi?"
"Sandaime-sama, he kissed Naruto forcefully. Excuse me if I'm a LOT upset. It will wear off in another five hours, and then you can deal with the brat's whining and crying about how I'm a terrible sensei."
"...ten hours and then you stop. Deal?"
"I knew you'd see it my way."
"Don't push it."
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Short, I know. But I really couldn't think of anything... Any other requests?