Admittedly I've been sitting on this chapter for a while now but kept forgetting to update due to not feeling it. Which is a terrible excuse but a very true one.
So thank you to my team again since this will be a chapterly thing.
So this is the real point of the whole AU thing is happening here where Kabuto is talked about being adopted by an oc, by the name of Yakushi Yasu instead of the whole Yakushi Nono thing happening. Also a friendship between Kakashi and Anko with background.
warnings: canon hints to child abuse, possibly Kakashi being an asshole as usual?
Kakashi had to make the most of teaching genin and he did so in many ways. Like now he had already checked into the hospital for his joint appointment with Sasuke and was currently on the side of the hospital looking down at Sasuke, and coincidentally Sakura as well who was just leaving.
Sakura managed to catch Sasuke while he was standing in front of the hospital; she wasn't as animated as usual. Kakashi hoped that there wasn't something wrong with her, she was crucial to his team and he would miss her if she died or something. Maybe. At the least he would mourn her and tend to her grave if she had one occasionally.
Sasuke was waiting for Kakashi to 'show up' actually but he didn't seem to consider the fact that Kakashi could be anywhere and not just in the usual linear directions that normal people came from. What a pity.
Kakashi lightly hummed as he decided what to do.
Doctor Akira Matsuoka was not a man you wanted to keep waiting for an appointment and by this point Kakashi didn't really trust any other doctors. Doctor Akira had been his doctor for such a long time that the guy was probably going to outlive Kakashi as well. So he could be on time for the appointment and not make the nurses look everywhere for him.
Or, he could get his kicks from watching Sasuke gradually grow more annoyed with life and enter the hospital by himself, or possibly with Sakura, and at that point use a Shunshin to arrive earlier in Doctor Akira's office then Sasuke.
Choices, choices.
Sasuke looked up and for a second he thought Sasuke had saw him before realising that he was checking the sun and headed inside the hospital. Sakura looked like she was going to go back into the hospital with Sasuke before walking away depressed that she didn't succeed in seducing her teammate again.
The split seconds he watched this happen a small amount of disappointment flooded him leaving him astounded. He didn't know he was that emotionally invested in the welfare of his genin team. You learn something every day.
That also made his choice.
Teleporting directly into room one hundred and fifty-one he was greeted with the sight of Doctor Akira doing paper work and a kunai on his throat. Kakashi resisted the urge to kill whoever had the kunai at his throat.
"Kakashi-san. I thought I told you to stop teleporting directly into my office after the last time." Doctor Akira's voice was low and turned gravelly every now and then due to his throat injuries that Kakashi definitely didn't know how it happened. Files at the hospital were so easy to get into especially when you were a patient. The hospital should update their security.
There was the sound of a rhythmic clicking on a pen; five times.
Doctor Akira must have been startled quite a bit.
"Kabuto-kun, let him go."
The kunai withdrew from his throat and Kakashi got a good look at 'Kabuto-kun'.
It was eerie.
'Kabuto-kun's' hair was a similar colour to his own though a bit darker and had eyes almost as dark as his as well. It was the fact that Kakashi didn't need glasses and his hair was shorter and more gravity-defiant that really reassured him that he didn't actually have blood relatives. However the uneasiness was still there.
He really wanted to make 'Kabuto-kun' to perform a jutsu where his chakra would light up just to prove that they weren't related. Later. He had time to stalk 'Kabuto-kun' later.
"Ah. I didn't realise that you had an assistant, I thought you didn't like people looking over your research?"
"I don't. Kabuto-kun was assigned to me by the director."
"The director? You mean Yakushi Yasu-sensei?" asked Kakashi. He didn't actually need clarification. Yakushi ran a tight shift within the hospital and basically everything could be contributed to them.
"Yes." said Doctor Akira tightly. Something was wrong here.
"Sorry about that, Yakushi Kabuto, nice to meet you Kakashi-san,"
Oh. Right.
"Ah, like wise. I didn't know that Yakushi-sensei had a kid. Nice reflexes by the way,"
What Doctor Akira wasn't saying was that it was nepotism at its finest that got Kabuto his shift with Doctor Akira. Yakushi probably wanted to solidify their power within the hospital by having Kabuto be a respected theoretical doctor as well.
Kabuto ducked his head and rubbed it, "Thank you," before he looked up and away, "It's an honour to hear that from you," before going back to Doctor Akira. Kabuto's body language was odd. Enough spine to stand straight but not enough spine to look people in the eye while talking to them. Very odd.
There was a knock on the door making Kabuto turn back to the door but Kakashi beat him to it. Opening it just wide enough all the person on the other side could see was Kakashi.
Sasuke was glaring about leg height, then frowned quickly.
He looked up and made an enraged sound like he was going to go wild and attack Kakashi. It was what Kakashi lived for by this point, honestly.
"Ah! Sasuke-kun you're late," said Kakashi cheerfully. He always wanted to do that since most of his students kept doing it to him. The look on Sasuke's face was priceless.
"You didn't meet me at the front!" shouted Sasuke. It was glorious.
"You didn't meet me at the front, honestly what is the use of teaching you to walk up trees if you don't even walk up the side of the hospital to meet me?"
Kakashi slightly wished that he had his headband uncovered for this. He wanted it in his memories forever.
He opened the door wider to let Sasuke into the room.
Doctor Akira looked unamused by this all while Kabuto looked a bit uneasy and possibly confused.
Doctor Akira cleared his throat and said, "To the patient bed," they both start walking to the bed, "Sharingan revealed." Kakashi took time to take off his headband while Sasuke just stopped heading towards the bed.
"What?" asked Sasuke. Kakashi turned to Sasuke. Now that he has his Sharingan out he could finally see all the fine details of his face like the fact that Sasuke was adorably confused.
"Ah. Akira-sensei is the only theoretical Sharingan doctor in Konoha. He needs to check it," said Kakashi. It was the reason why Doctor Akira was even his doctor and for so long as well.
"What does theoretical doctor even mean?" asked Sasuke frowning and being broody in general. There goes Kakashi's personal amusement.
"He has theories about the Sharingan that can't be explained yet." piped Kabuto before freezing as three sets of eyes locked onto him. Poor kid was nervous. Sasuke made a 'tch' sound before glaring away.
There was a moment of silence before Sasuke turned back to the bed. Doctor Akira followed suit and turned to Kakashi.
"Well would you look at that? How cute," cooed Kakashi as Kabuto went to the desk to grab a clipboard for Doctor Akira.
"Eyes at me," said Doctor Akira flashing a light in his eyes. Kakashi dutifully followed the light as best as he could.
"So what's the theoretical part of the Sharingan?" asked Sasuke as he watched Doctor Akira running his hand over Kakashi's temple and forehead without touching him. It was a chilling sensation.
"It's more to do with a theory that I have about the Sharingan and the way it works. If I'm correct about my theory then I'll be working with you when you're older." If Doctor Akira was any less controlled he'd probably have a manic light to his eyes that Kakashi knew all too well and took the clipboard from Kabuto to write things down, from where Kakashi could see he saw that everything was healthy with 'acceptable chakra loss from Sharingan' and 'no deviance from usual Sharingan'.
"My theory is that the Sharingan -the Saimingan version of it- can be used to treat long term illnesses and diseases like chronic pains, asthma or possibly even cancer. It would be revolutionary if it works for treating existing conditions that have been gained over time -also gaining more ninja into the forces," said Doctor Akira distractedly as he checked Sasuke over.
"Through hypnotism?" asked Sasuke sceptically. Kakashi was going to grow so proud of his genin team when they finally start questioning everything they know and decide that they'd rather not do anything about the system and the way it is systematically designed to create endless military. So proud.
"Be still," scolded Doctor Akira, "Well, it -the Sharingan- is special when it comes to hypnotism and genjutsu...but yes, through hypnotism if you control the mind then you could theoretically control the body."
"It's quite groundbreaking if it does do what Akira-sensei wants it to do, especially with those that have been injured during the Hidden Wars," exclaimed Kabuto as he watched Doctor Akira look over Sasuke.
"Yes..." Doctor Akira started a new page to write things down like 'developing nicely', 'healed left wrist tai fracture' and 'possible checkups each quarter year?', "You two may go now. Everything is fine -oh, Sasuke-kun don't train for another day just in case,"
Sasuke opened his mouth to start to argue but Kakashi got in a cheerful "Bye Akira-sensei!" as he guided Sasuke out of the room by his shoulder. Everything was going to be fine. Just fine. Now he had one less worry.
Sasuke struggled as he was escorted out the room and down the corridor before Kakashi turned him around, "Don't argue with him." warned Kakashi.
"Why not?"
"Because he's likely to be the only Sharingan specialist you'll ever have for your entire life and you only want one doctor. Especially if you want to keep your clan secrets a secret. Okie dokie, Sasuke-kun, this is where I leave you, remember no training for a day," said Kakashi as he waited for Sasuke's noise of agreement before he left. It was for the best.
He actually had to get things ready for Naruto's mock mission. Chakra paper was so expensive.
Kakashi sighed as he played around with his shallow cup, debating on whether or not he should just let the other have it instead. Anko hummed suspiciously as she took a sip out of her own cup. There was two empty bottles of sake on the table with a third bottle slowly being emptied on the table, there was also a bowl of salty snacks in between them. She didn't even make a pretence of seducing him using the snacks but all that showed was probably how comfortable she was sitting in the seat opposite him.
The bar that they were in, the Rusty Kunai, had just the right amount of low level noise and bitter smell of alcohol. It was a modern bar that opened up a few years back, and the way you could tell was the fact that there were more chūnin and career genin than the average bar.
"So what was so urgent that you invited me to my favourite bar so early in the evening and willing to pay for it?" asked Anko between chews. Her posture was lazy, as much as his own currently was, but her eyes were wary like she was expecting the worst.
Kakashi sighed again, mainly for show but some of it was real stress, "One of my students has a mock mission soon but I haven't got arrangements for the other two yet," Anko winced out of sympathy and chewed more snacks, "I need someone to take at least one of them."
"No. I'm not good with kids." Anko pointed the cup in her hand in a way that was definitely threatening even if Anko hadn't voiced the threat yet.
"Come on, it'll just be two weeks and two days." Kakashi definitely didn't whine, because Kakashi doesn't whine despite what Anko might think. Also Anko was a filthy liar when it came to Kakashi and spreading rumours.
Anko shook her head in refusal, "Why don't you ask Gai-sensei if you're so desperate?" Kakashi gave her a look to try and say how bad that idea was and Anko winced again before sighing, "I'm sorry I ever even voiced that thought."
"It's fine, I thought of it too but the thought of Gai-sensei doing that disappointed thing is too much to bear," They shared a collective sigh and went back to slowly nursing their alcohol.
"You know I can't do it. I just can't," There was raw agony in her voice that said there was more than one issue with her not handling a student. A shared agony. How did one being manage to screw up so many lives mused Kakashi, "Damnit, now I need alcohol."
Kakashi hummed.
"I wanted you to take Sakura-chan, I think she needs to be more murder happy and less civilian seductive."
Anko let out a bitter laugh that held more edges to it than a shuriken, "More murder happy, huh? I'd ruin that girl if you gave her to me. Why can't you teach her later how to be more murder happy?"
"I just felt it would be inappropriate if I told her off for not wanting to focus on the other aspects of being a kunoichi than the seduction side."
Anko let out the bitter laugh again. Her eyes lost in painful memories that she barely showed anyone. Kakashi didn't know if he was privileged or not for seeing this side of her, sometimes he wished he didn't know her at all to get away from their shared background. Other times he knew he needed her the same way she needed him.
"Why don't you send her to Asuma-sensei?" she asked, her mind only somewhat focused on the conversation but Kakashi didn't mind. It wasn't the first time she'd done this and Kakashi had done the same back to her as well before.
"And be in his debt?"
"What did you do this time?" There was an accusing tone that Kakashi knew he deserved but pretended that he didn't.
"I don't think I like that accusing tone of yours, I haven't done anything to him." Anko snorted inelegantly and the faded look in her eyes was going away. Good.
"So you don't want the little prince to have one of your students and Gai-sensei isn't an option either. You're really screwed."
"Thank you so much for pointing that out." Anko laughed, the tone was much happier than it was before.
"You're welcome," Anko's tone was so sugary sweet that Kakashi could feel his teeth starting to rot, "But I'll ask around for you; to see if anyone is willing to take on one of your students on so short notice."
Kakashi tried to give her a honest smile, he wasn't sure if it turned out alright or if she even got the message that he was grateful but he figured he did something correct since she smiled brightly in return before he remembered he hadn't emptied the third bottle yet so he let Anko have the rest. She would probably appreciate it more.
"Awwwww, you know just how to get to a woman's heart." teased Anko and promptly downed her cup before refilling her cup again with the last of the bottle.
Kakashi placed his arm on the table to hold his head up staring past Anko to look at the pretty waitress that was talking to her co-worker, "Like you don't have people plying you with drinks."
Anko stuck her tongue out. Kakashi could smell the faint sweetness on her breath, probably dango, that was covered by the strong smell of alcohol and tried not to make a face.
Anko looked amused like she knew what was bothering him, probably knew as well, "People like sweets unlike certain freaks." she knew him all too well, this was the problem with Anko. It was also a problem he was never going to find the solution to because he didn't want to.
"Most people also don't become interrogators unlike certain freaks." Kakashi shot back immediately.
Anko mock gasped and used her empty hand to cover her heart as if it was the first time he'd made that argument. He has been making that argument since the day she first started in T&I and he doubted it was going to be the last time he made it as well.
"Anko-san?" A woman voiced the question from behind Kakashi, it made the hairs on the back of his neck rise, while Kakashi pretended that it didn't. It wasn't that he didn't hear or smell her behind him but the close proximity to him made a small part of him say to make sure he kept her in his sight from now on just in case.
"Oh, Kurenai-chan, how many times do I need to tell you it's just Anko," purred Anko and made eyes at the woman behind Kakashi and since Kakashi was still in Anko's eyesight he was treated with a look that made him feel violated even when he knew that Anko didn't actually mean anything, "Please do join us."
"Oh, I couldn't, I could find someone else to drink with." A sweet but not overly sweet tone, and unfairly polite. Must be the one the Hokage was complaining about a day ago going by the name and attitude.
Slowly Kakashi turned to see what Asuma had been refusing to marry or date for a while. The first thing he noticed was red eyes. He almost tensed before reminding himself that the Uchiha clan had been massacred for a while leaving only two survivors, not three. The next thing he noted was her lipstick was the same shade as her eyes and that her hair was a mess of long spikes that seemed to have a mind of their own. The famed Kurenai Yūhi.
Kakashi put on a cheerful one eyed smile that could be interpreted as friendly. The other interpretation was aggressively passive-aggressive. Not that he was aggressive, or passive-aggressive, he had nothing to be aggressive of. Especially not in a little bar with Anko sitting opposite him. Nothing to be protective of there.
"I don't think we've met before." said Kakashi with as much gusto as he could, Anko subtly kicked him under the table and like a good ninja he didn't let any hurt show but he swears she lines the edges of her sandals with hardened steel.
Kurenai looked bewildered before faintly blushing, "Oh, I apologise. I'm Yūhi Kurenai, team leader of Team Eight."
Kakashi decided to turn up the charm a bit, "Hatake Kakashi, pleasure to meet you," He watched distantly as Yūhi blushed a slightly deeper red. Anko kicked him again and he could feel the weight of her staring him down, "Please join us, we were just about to get more bottles of sake."
Yūhi looked unsure before deciding that free drinks was worth what was probably going to be an awkward outing, "Thank you for the invitation."
Well, she was willing to have free drinks at least. His opinion of her was increasing.
She sat down next to Anko, which was probably for the best; it was much easier to keep her in his sight.
Anko fake pouted, "I see how this is, when I invite you to anywhere with me you're like 'Oh no, I couldn't possibly!' but when Kakashi-kun asks you, you practically fall over to say yes. I thought we had something special!"
Kurenai sighed, "Anko-san, we met as drinking buddies. I don't think that counts as special. Also I didn't want to interrupt your outing." Anko pouted for a few more seconds before she cracked up in laughter that was more show than actual laughter, the pretty waitress shot looks of concern towards their table. Kakashi sent the waitress a wave to reassure her that everything was fine and that there was nothing to see here.
"Yes, I can see how you two have something special. Drinking makes very special bonds indeed." Kakashi make sure every word as lazy and long sounding as possible just to show how much he thinks of the special bond. Anko did her cackle laugh again while Yūhi looked unimpressed.
"We were just talking about how one of his kids-" "They're my students, not my children." interjected Kakashi, more of a token protest than anything else, "-got a mock mission!"
Yūhi looked startled before a warm smile blossomed across her face, "Congratulations! How long have you had your students for?"
Anko cackled again, more of a mocking tone than anything else and judging by the looks that Yūhi was shooting her she knew it too. Kakashi looked towards the pretty waitress again, making sure that she wasn't shooting more concerned looks their way but she seemed to be ignoring their whole table, which was a pity. He needed more alcohol for this.
"I got them last academy graduation."
"W-what?" Yūhi looked shocked, "Usually they'd have to be chūnin level to gain a specialisation like that!"
Kakashi nodded slowly, like he didn't know this already. His opinion of Yūhi just lowered a bit.
"Yeah, unfortunately his other two kids don't have anywhere to go when he trains the kid for the mock mission." chimed in Anko. Kakashi sent her a look that quite clearly said he knew what she was doing and how did she even get to be in T&I in the first place. Anko shot him a cheery grin that was as fake as her laugh was but that was okay, sometimes people forget how to smile sincerely, Kakashi forgot how to many times before. It was fine.
Yūhi made an inquiring noise as she started to pay more attention to Anko. Kakashi called over a waitress, not the pretty one that was ignoring their table, to order a cup for Yūhi and another few bottles for the table. If Anko was going to go the whole way in trying to get Yūhi to take in one of his students then the least he could do was ply both women with more alcohol.
"Oh yeah, the mock mission is really soon and Kakashi-sensei, here, didn't even prepare for it. Can you believe that?" Anko barely waited as a pause before she started to talk again, "So now he has two kids that are probably going to be stuck on 'self-training' for like a week."
Yūhi worried her lip for a bit, "I guess...I could help take them both in, one of my students is going to be out for a week, it is only for a week, right?"
Kakashi hummed, "Two weeks, actually. I would prefer it if I could keep my other two little students separate. They are..." Kakashi thought about how to make this diplomatic but really couldn't think of any better word than 'problematic', "problematic together."
"How problematic?" she asked, her red lips tightening together until it was a thin line and Kakashi tried not to wince. He knew he wasn't the best teacher in the world like his teacher was but he was trying.
"One is trying to seduce her teammate, her tactics aren't the best but I'm not worried about her. Sooner or later she'll be murder happy."
"Murder happy." deadpanned Yūhi. Kakashi nodded as if she was asking a question even though he knew she really wasn't. Anko, not the one to be ignored, chimed in an enthusiastic "Yeah!" like she didn't dismiss that option not even ten minutes ago.
"Yes, so as soon as she can do that she'll be set. However it's my other student, he has some issues with teamwork."
"Are you sure you don't want me to take both? It's only two weeks." Yūhi curled her mouth into a friendly smile that looked at home on her face, it was inviting but Kakashi had known more tempting women in his life so this smile barely registered. Kakashi shook his head.
"No, I want Sasuke-kun to learn more about teamwork."
Yūhi turned white, it only served to make her eyes and lips to stand out more.
"Sasuke-kun as in Uchiha Sasuke-kun?" she questioned.
Kakashi nodded to say yes, "Are you sure you still want to take my student?"
Yūhi bit her lip, silently watching as a waitress placed a cup near her and a two new bottles of warm sake on the table. Yūhi curled her hand around the new cup while Anko ignored the mood as she eagerly poured the new bottles into empty cups.
"I'm not sure I should," Yūhi peered into her cup like it held the secrets to the world, "Do you know the history of my clan?" asked Yūhi.
Kakashi thought about what he knew about the Yūhi clan and could honestly say not much. They had red eyes and black unruly hair, it was probably a coincidence but if she was mentioning it in conjunction with Sasuke then it probably wasn't a coincidence.
"I assume your clan had a history with the Uchiha clan?"
"Kakashi-sensei, you make it sound so dirty." interjected Anko, giggling and eagerly grabbing the bar snacks to eat them suggestively as if she was making a point, which she was because she was kid like that. Both he and Yūhi ignored Anko's actions with ease. She must have been drinking with Anko more often than he thought.
"Mah, mah, it's only your imagination."
"No, Kakashi-sensei is correct. My clan were originally retainers to the Uchiha clan."
"That doesn't sound so bad, you're embarrassed that you didn't help Sasuke-kun after the massacre?" asked Kakashi, and really not helping the last of a clan didn't actually sound that terrible. Was it dishonourable? Yes, but not terrible.
"One of my ancestors eloped with an Uchiha clan member," Okay, that was terrible from what he knew of the Uchiha clan, "Ever since then my clan had been dishonoured. Luckily for me and my father this was only clan legend from before the Warring Era but my clan hasn't been near an Uchiha since as far as I know." Kakashi winced. That was terrible. In fact it was worse than he thought.
"Do you think this would affect you working with Sasuke-kun?"
Yūhi took a few sips of her alcohol before getting a snack as well to nibble on, "I don't know. I can try but it would depend if he feels comfortable working in my presence in a professional capacity. "
"Just don't tell the kid and everything will be fine." said Anko, waving her cup around in the air. A fair bit of the alcohol spilled out of the cup and onto the table but she didn't seem to mind in the least, it was at that point Kakashi realised just how tipsy she was.
"Anko-san! I can't lie to a student like that! He at least deserves the truth!" Actually, lying to Sasuke was almost a past time for Kakashi. Kakashi tried not to think about it that much and what that said about him or the fact Anko had the same idea.
"Call me Anko." pouted Anko, the edge of her lips jutting out just a tad more than her usual pouts.
"I don't even call my teammates from my genin days by their first name without prefixes."
"Maybe you should loosen up, I know a few things that could help with that." Anko had hooded eyes and licked a snack like she wished that it was something else. She was definitely drunk, which was odd because despite how drunk she usually acts while drinking she doesn't normally have that much nor did she usually act that seductive either.
"Anko-chan." warned Kakashi, sure he could watch and enjoy the show that Anko was putting on in making people uncomfortable but he did need Yūhi's help in taking in Sasuke. Anko stuck her tongue out, all stick and gross and she knew that it was gross. Brat.
Yūhi raised an eyebrow, the smile on her face was like a shark scenting blood in the water, "You two sure are close."
Kakashi could hear the connotations of a romantic relationship within her words and from Anko's expression she heard it too.
"Ha! As if I'd ever like a guy like him," Anko laughed it off, looking a bit ill, almost like someone was killing the thing she loved the most. Kakashi knew if he looked under the table Anko would be curling her toes inside her sandals in an attempt to calm down.
"We've merely known each other for a while," Kakashi took pity on Anko, he didn't mind the rumours of relationships that weren't true but he did know that Anko minded, "practically raised together."
"You two were in the same genin team?" asked Yūhi surprised. Anyone would be surprised considering both his teammates were dead and the fact for many years people knew him as 'Friend-Killer Kakashi'.
"Nope," Kakashi made it sound as casual and calm as he could, "I don't think that we've ever been in the same team before, I don't know why though." Kakashi did actually know why he and Anko ever never on the same team before, he was also pretty sure Anko knew the reason as well.
He was fine with that. It was for the best.
Yūhi looked surprised at that information.
"My genin teammates are still alive and kicking. One even has a genin team of his own, has for a while and Kakashi-sensei recently saw him about a week back, the other is a Hyūga." Yūhi smiled sympathetically towards Anko.
"The Hyūga clan aren't that bad, some of them are quite nice." said Yūhi still smiling but a much strained one this time.
"Urgh, just because you got the one good Hyūga doesn't mean that the rest aren't a bunch of bastards with a spear lodged in their-"
"Anko-san!" scolded Yūhi sounded scandalised.
"-asses who only think-"
"So will you do it?" interjected Kakashi. He needed her consent, not bantering with Anko about whether or not the Hyūga clan were assholes. The general consensus was that they were assholes, anyway.
Yūhi looked towards him, all red and black and white, he could have had kicked himself for not going with his assumption of Uchiha when he first saw her.
"Only if he agrees to it," she said after a bit of a pause.
"Excellent," Kakashi gave her the cheerful one eyed smile that drove Sasuke crazy, "well I need to go so I can tell my adorable team in the morning," Kakashi saw Anko open her mouth, "and yes I remember that I need to pay so don't worry."
Anko gave him a wolfish grin and a parting kick to his legs before she happily went back to tossing back her drinks. Kakashi was pretty sure he was going to have deep purple bruises on his legs for days thanks to Anko. The woman was a menace and he was grateful for it.
Kakashi sighed and got up to head to the counter in his usual lazy walk, getting his wallet ready and possibly his quick fingers as well.
The bartender, different from the pretty waitress, that was behind the counter was perky with a hint of a sly grin that spoke volumes if he thought about cheating her out of her money. She would make a good loan shark mused Kakashi, she had sharp eyes as well that watched his every hand gesture; probably a side effect of being in a ninja village and getting cheated out of money before.
Kakashi made sure to give Anko and Yūhi a wave goodbye before he left the bar, just in time see Yūhi's hesitating wave goodbye, her face a mixture of a frown, a smile, and concern before they turned to each other to talk again.
It looked like Anko was going to be just fine making her way home tonight.
It was probably nice having normal friends. Too bad the normal people around him become abnormal sooner or later.
So I wasn't too sure what I was going to post as my fact of Narutoverse for this chapter before one of my betas mentioned that they had to look up what Saimingan part of the Sharingan is. So this part is dedicated to how OP and terrible having the basic full tomoe Sharingan is without going into the evolutions.
So the basic Sharingan is made of 2 parts; the Saimingan, which places people under hypnosis to make it appear that the user can see into the future, and the Dōsatsugan, which is the main part of the Sharingan bullshit that memorises like everything and can see chakra.
So already the Sharingan is a pretty valuable dōjutsu from just having the basic there.
Apart from the fact there are drawbacks from the Sharingan without the whole possible going blind thing that the users seemingly have going from them (the only basis of this is Itachi, Sasuke, and Sarada) and the whole "clan of hatred" thing that the Uchihas have got going for them. Kishimoto really wanted to make the Uchiha clan the most depressing clan ever.
Drawbacks of having the Sharingan:
1) The Sharingan makes the user try to keep up with what it's seeing, meaning that the user suffers from over stress their body just to keep up. That means more broken bodies unless you're careful.
2) It's tied to emotion, meaning that you can activate it from will alone but god forbid you enter a highly emotionally charge argument and not activate the Sharingan by accident. See point 3 for further reason why that's bad.
3) You remember everything you've recorded from it. Not sure for how long you remember it for, it's kind of implied for Kakashi he remembers everything that his Sharingan has recorded and jesus that is nightmare fuel right there. Like every time you've killed people you end up remembering that because your Sharingan was on? That's a hard nope. No wonder the Uchiha clan were insane.
4) Apparently when it first activates you're temporarily blinded. Because that's exactly what you want when you've had a shock to the system through an emotionally fueled time, being blinded. I think it may also be implied that if you're an Sharingan user just gaining it for the first time on the battle field that you might just die instead and if you don't see point 1.
5) Apparently the Sharingan glows in the dark according to some characters (Kisame to Obito ch 507, p 12 & Obito to Madara ch 602, p 1). Which is like a really bad idea when you're hiding from someone and your eyes are giving you away. Like one way street to dead kind of way.
6) According to Itachi in his novel when you use the Sharingan you see in red. Like that is the most confusing colourblind ever and also the best joke ever of "seeing red". Like how did Kakashi juggle seeing just a world of red in one eye and a not world of red in the other?
7) While this seems obvious, but also having 1 eye that has the Sharingan is implied to be only half as good as having both eyes containing Sharingan.
8) Gaining the tomoe is slow going since people generally start with 1 tomoe or in case of genii, they get 2 tomoe to start off with.
So those are the reasons why the Sharingan is crap to have. Not to mention the chakra draining that it does when active, particularly to those that are not of Uchiha clan.
The reasons of why the Sharingan is great is already shown constantly within narutoverse through the manga, anime, and any other thing they push out without me going through the reasons why.