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Well, here's a oneshot about something that leads to Kakashi bashing…

Naruto Uzumaki turned bright blue eyes towards the single uncovered eye of his silver haired sensei, glaring at the seemingly uncaring Jonin.

"Kakashi-sensei, why did you give me that useless pervert Ebisu as a sensei and went off and trained Sasuke-teme for the entire month?" Naruto voice was nearly a growl as he spoke, doing little justice to the sheer rage he felt at his sensei for leaving him to train Sasuke-teme.

Naruto's tone seemed to catch Kakashi's attention as the Copy-nin sighed as he closed the book he was reading before turning to Naruto. His expression, well at least his eye, was blank as he focused on Naruto.

"Naruto, tell me how hard it is for you to beat Neji. And make this your honest opinion about the match." Kakashi's voice was bland as he spoke and Naruto, instead of simply shouting about what Neji did to Hinata, thought about everything and compared him and Neji.

"It would actually be pretty easy. I was thinking about the match he had with Hinata and I would guess I could beat him pretty easily. I can wear him out with my Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and after that I've got plenty of Chakra to fall back on to risk getting in close with him." Naruto's words were met with a nod from Kakashi who then crouched down to his level as he nodded towards the waiting Sasuke, the Uchiha looking nervous as the match below him played out, Shikamaru vs. Temari, as his eyes flickered from them to the waiting Gaara across the stadium.

"Now, think about Sasuke going up against Gaara. You don't have to since I've already looked into it long before you came to talk to me about training. Gaara is, in a few words, a homicidal powerhouse who basically promised to kill my student when they fought. I knew that you would wipe the floor with Neji once I researched him and if I didn't train Sasuke then he would be dead in seconds."

"But why couldn't you train us both? I would have worked with teme if you asked me to!" Naruto's shout was merely met by a raised eyebrow from Kakashi who pointed towards Sasuke and then nodded towards Lee, sitting in the stands in bandages.

"You, are a powerhouse pure and simple. You are uncontrollable and unpredictable in combat and top that off with that unrelenting determination I've seen in you, well, there's no fight between you and Neji and my training would have only made you beat him harder. Moving onto Sasuke, he has a bit of skill but none of it was right to actually survive against Gaara. I put him through hell this last month and I'm still not sure he even stands a chance against that kid. I had to push him to his limits for most of the month just to get him to Lee's speed and we had to head to the hospital almost every day to heal him afterwards. Next I had to teach him a technique to get through to Gaara once his sand came into play and I'm pretty sure even that will fail despite the speed I pushed him to gain. Moving on from that, I then had to get his Sharingan to evolve to the second stage or else he would have been slamming into a wall the moment he tried to use it." Kakashi's words were met with steadily rising understanding from Naruto who looked down towards Sasuke.

The Uchiha was hiding it but he was definitely shaking, even his eyes were fearful as he looked down at the ongoing match, most likely reaching its conclusion and meaning he had to fight soon.

"So, what you're saying is that you had to train Sasuke or else Gaara would kill him?" Naruto's question was met with a quick nod from Kakashi as the Jonin's visible eye crinkled in amusement as he laid one hand on Naruto's head.

"Got it in one. I sent you to Ebisu to learn how to move your Chakra to free your tenketsu if Neji managed to block them." Kakashi turned his attention back to the arena in time to see Shikamaru give up after trapping Temari and in a few minutes it was time for Sasuke and Gaara to fight.

Kakashi slid his book into his pocket as he noticed Naruto talking with Sasuke and giving the Uchiha a quick encouragement that seemed to work as Sasuke walked down into the arena with a grin.

'Alright Sasuke, let's see if all that training actually gave you a chance in this fight.'

Oneshot complete.

So, does that make any sense to you? Sasuke wasn't trained by Kakashi from favoritism on Kakashi's part, it was to keep the kid alive because compared to Naruto he was going to die.

Naruto had the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, is a great strategist in battle, unpredictable, and has unwavering determination that already stacked the deck against Neji. His promise to defeat him after he hurt Hinata only doomed Neji to lose.

Sasuke through had nothing that could actually beat Gaara so Kakashi trained him the month to keep the kid from dying in the fight against a legitimate psychopath who enjoyed killing people. Even with all this Sasuke would have still lost if the invasion hadn't begun because Gaara would have, pardon my language, lost his shit and unleashed Shukaku to kill Sasuke.

So, will this put an end to Kakashi bashing? Probably not but at least something like this is out there to contradict it.


AN: Well, how was it? Does it make sense or not? Leave a review on your opinion.