Sunny Days
Chapter 3
A/N: Hi guys ! sorry for the late update! I started college and I've just been settling in. I'm trying to come up with a normal update day for this fic, and I'm thinking Fridays maybe? Well, anyway, Here's Kakashi and Minato on their mission!
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It was the break of dawn in Konoha. Minato had received a mission scroll. He grinned to himself as he leapt across rooftops to the village gate. Kakashi had grown so much in the past month. Minato had begun to learn his quirks and habits, and in return, the 5 year old was gradually becoming more comfortable around Minato, despite the high walls he put up with everyone else. Scanning the ground he noticed a small boy sitting by the gate, backpack on the ground next to him. "Good morning Kashi-chan!" Minato had flashed to the spot behind the boy, using the marking he had placed on him.
Kakashi instinctively jumped up at Minato's sudden arrival. "M-minato-sensei! Don't call me that!" Kakashi huffed indignantly as he crossed his arms in front of his chest. Minato thought he was positively adorable. "And you're late."
"About that. It took a while getting a decent mission from the Hokage. We're going to be doing a simple infiltration mission. We're going to a checkpoint between Suna and Konoha, and we're retrieving files." Minato said as he pulled the mission scroll out of his flak jacket.
"If this mission is infiltration, why is it only a C-rank?" Kakashi questioned.
"Good question. It's because the checkpoint isn't a military one. It's a merchant checkpoint, where goods are inspected before passing into a different territory. Our mission is to retrieve a jutsu scroll that was confiscated by Sunagakure at that checkpoint. There shouldn't be any armed guards, and the merchants who run the checkpoint and just merchants. They're all civilians. So really, there is little to no chance of us even seeing action." Minato said rolling the scroll up and returning it to his pocket.
Kakashi looked visibly disappointed at the prospect of not fighting. "What's the use of training so hard if we aren't going to fight? What good is a tool that isn't used properly?" Kakashi's voice had grown loud. The young boy stared hard at the ground.
"Where did this all come from?" Minato thought. "Kakashi. Look at me." Minato's voice was stern. Kakashi continued staring at the ground. Why did this boy see himself as a mere tool of the village when Minato saw him as something so much more? Minato's voice softened. "You aren't a tool. And no one sees you as one." No response. Kakashi's gaze was fixed on the ground. Minato sighed. "This is your first C-rank, so we're taking it easy. It might even be fun. Okay?" He walked over and ruffled Kakashi's hair, to which Kakashi routinely swatted at his hand playfully, which Minato took as a good sign and laughed. "Let's head out." And with that, they took to the trees.
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They had been travelling the entire day. Minato saw the sun begin to set and glanced over to his young student, who was keeping pace beside him. "We should make camp. We'll get there in the morning."
"If you're stopping because you think I'm tired, I can keep going. You don't need to baby me." Kakashi said. He may have said that, but Minato knew exactly what his limits were.
"No, I'm saying we should make camp so we can rest and make a detailed plan. Infiltration may sound easy, but we need to plan things through perfectly. I see a clearing up ahead." Minato said. Kakashi would be no good if he was falling asleep throughout their mission tomorrow. They needed rest.
Upon setting out their mats. Minato pulled out a pouch of soldier pills. "Here, I'm sure you've read of soldier pills. The nutrient packed 'food' shinobi eat to sustain themselves during missions. Tell me, Kakashi. Why do we eat soldier pills?" Minato had decided he might as well continue teaching.
"Soldier pills contain the vitamins and minerals needed to sustain our bodies. As well as taking up a very small amount of space, they are odorless which prevents shinobi from being detected." Kakashi said as he picked up one of the round pills. He sniffed it, and pulled down his mask to eat it before quickly pulling it back up again. He wrinkled his nose in disgust. "They are also known to taste horrific."
"Correct! It's the price we must pay. We're shinobi, after all." He grinned. "It's almost like we're camping. Jiraiya-sensei used to take me on his travels a lot when I was young. You know Jiraiya, right? He was a friend of your fathers." Upon mentioning Kakashi's father, Minato knew he had made a mistake. Kakashi visibly stiffened and turned away.
"...Are you going to keep running away, Kakashi?" Minato said gently. There was no response. "Kakashi. Say something." Kakashi, who was still turned away, gave a slight shake of his head.
"There's nothing to say. I'm not running away from anything, ..man...is no father of mine." Kakashi's voice had an icy edge. Minato could feel the rage and hurt almost physically emanating off of Kakashi. "I'm going to scout the area." Kakashi took off without looking back at Minato. Minato shook his head and sighed. He wanted to talk to Kushina. She would know what to say, what to do. He could almost imagine Kushina giving him hugs so fierce that he wouldn't be able to squirm away. He smiled to himself. He wanted Kakashi to be happy. He looked up at the night sky, spotted with stars. He relaxed for a while and waited for Kakashi to return.
When it had been a while he focused on locating Kakashi's chakra. He was a little way out from camp. Suddenly the Kakashi's chakra flared, and Minato jumped up. Two chakra signatures he hadn't recognized had appeared and seemed to be attacking Kakashi? A trap? Panicking, Minato sped off in the direction of the Kakashi's chakra. He would not let anything happen to Kakashi.
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Kakashi walked along the forest edge angrily. He hadn't meant to snap at Minato-sensei. But thinking of his father made him so angry and confused that he had taken it out on Minato. He shook his head and furiously scrubbed his eyes of any possible tears. Shinobi don't cry. It's against the rules. He thought of Minato-sensei. And how he made everything seem warm and friendly and happy. Minato hadn't pushed him off to the side even with his cold demeanor and stoic personality. Minato made him feel like he actually was a child rather than just a weapon of the village, which he hated but sometimes secretly enjoyed; which he would never admit. Suddenly, he sensed two people. Two very powerful people. His head whipped around. He couldn't locate them, but they were close. Had they been following him and Minato-sensei this whole time?
"Hey kiddo, we know you sense us now. No need to be so sneaky." From up in a tree, a shinobi spoke. Another one one sat on the branch next to him. They weren't wearing headbands.
"Who are you?" Kakashi asked. He knew they weren't friendly, but he had to make sure before he engaged them in a fight.
"Now, that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that you're the student of Konoha's Yellow Flash. And we need him for something. So we're gonna take you with us, and your sensei will come see you at our base. And then once we get what we need we can all go our separate ways. How does that sound?" The same shinobi spoke again. He looked like a rogue nin, as he didn't wear anything that was from a specific village.
"Why are you using me as ransom? Why are you following us?" Kakashi was buying time as he examined their weapons. He could try and gauge what kind of shinobi they were and how fast they were among other things. Anything that could give him an edge.
"That's just rude. Didn't your parents teach you any better, Hatake Kakashi? Oh that's right, you're mother is dead and The White Fang killed himself. The Hidden Leaf is adorable, by the way. Just about anybody could waltz in and request a mission. And getting access to your files wasn't hard either." The man was grinning now, although his grin was full of an evil malice. The other ninja next to him continued looking bored.
"The entire mission was a trap? They want to get to Minato-sensei?" Kakashi thought. He had to escape and warn Minato-sensei. Kakashi decided to take off into the woods and head back to the campsite. Right when he began dashing off into the woods as fast as he could, he felt a ninja wire wrap around his ankle.
"Well, that was a little too easy. Kenta, use the sleep toxin. I don't want him doing anything tricky."That was the last thing Kakashi remembered before everything went black.
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A/N: ooh ~ cliffhanger! Thank you everyone for reading and sorry again for the late update! Please remember to leave a review if you liked it! and the two rogue nin are Kenta (the quiet one) and Shu (the loud ~witty evil one)!