Disclaimer: Witty I-don't-own-Naruto? I think not!
Summary: They were a family, a team, so much more than anything anyone could think of. They were Team Seven, and these are their stories.
Summary of Chapter: Leader's should be fair and kind. Too bad Kakashi chooses not to follow this rule.
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There are two types of mentors. One takes the children under their wings and moulds them into great men and women who fight for what is right and never back down. The other doesn't see talent, they see power and take only the powerful ones and mould them. Kakashi likes to think he's the first kind, but they know he isn't.
He doesn't train Naruto or Sakura, he leaves them on the side to bleed, and he ships Naruto off to Jiraiya and doesn't check in on him. Sakura he leaves to fend for herself. Kakashi reasons with himself, Naruto is too like Obito, with his prankster mentality and bright laugh. Sakura is Rin-incarnate. With her beguiling smile and healing hands.
So he trains Sasuke, only seeing the good, ignoring the bad. He gives the boy-monster his most powerful technique and just barely lives long enough to regret it. Especially when he finds Naruto in the Valley of the End, a gaping chest wound and dull eyes.
There are two types of mentors, one is wonderful and powerful and wise. The other is pitiful and ignorant and blindblindblind. Kakashi likes to think he is the first, but they know he is the second.
Too bad Kakashi realizes this too late.
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