The day that Sakumo and Kakashi had learned that their new Hokage had been staying with them was the day that Kakashi saw a blue white dragon. Not an imaginary one but a real honest to god dragon! Coiling it's way around Minato's body as the man had stepped between Kakashi and certain death when a group of assassins sent by someone with political power within the Leaf village.
Sakumo had gone to the market earlier that morning to get some milk and a few odds and ends. Leaving Kakashi alone with Minato for a few hours during which Minato decided to run Kakashi through the woods in an effort to see what Sakumo had been teaching him about evasive maneuvers and defensive attacks. Kakashi's attacks and defenses were abysmal compared to the blond's.
He just couldn't lay a finger, kunai, shuriken, paper bomb on him! It was vexing to say the least. Even more so when the excerise ended.
Minato had chased Kakashi through the tress and on the ground at speeds that were far to fast to be normal and had just managed to grab and subdue the boy when the first five guys came out of no where.
Kakashi barely had time to blink let alone react before Minato grabbed him by his shirt and hauled him to his feet and told him to run. But Kakashi was as stubborn as he was wild back then.
He refused to run and decided to stay close and help Minato take the baddies out.
Which hadn't seemed like a bad idea until...thirty more guys with bigger and badder weapons and jutsu's suddenly swarmed around them. And the blond had glanced over at Kakashi with this funny sort of look that the boy had interpreted as an, What the hell are you doing to me kid? Sort of look before he'd backed up a step or so and grabbed Kakashi and pushed him back into a tree and hissed at him.
"Climb up and stay out of the way."
Which had pissed Kakashi off to the point where he hissed back angrily, "Fuck. You."
He wasn't running no matter what the man may say or do to him; he wouldn't run. He wasn't a coward after all. Minato rolled his eyes and muttered something under his breath that sounded suspiciously like, "Goddamn brat is going to make me lose my temper. One of these days I'll throttle him. I swear to fucking god." As several guys stepped forward, cackling like hyena's as they flew through some hand signs.
Kakashi gaped at the lot of them in horror, knowing that there was no way in hell that he and the blond would be able to avoid the attacks. He was so engrossed with his own thoughts that he didn't notice the temperature in the air dropping until he could see his breath in front of his face when he breathed.
He shivered as a chill ran down his spine and looked at Minato as he stepped forward and rolled his shoulders as his eyes turned an eerie glowing, icey blue color and he said in a very calm almost growling tone. "You boys need to go back to the village and forget your fools mission before you really piss me off."
They ignored him and Minato said something about flowers then extended one arm and focused his chakra into his palm, spinning and twisting it this way and that until he had a quickly spinning spiral in the palm of his hand. Kakashi blinked and stared at the spiral as it grew and gained more mass and quickly scrambled up the tree to the very top limb and held on for dear life knowing that something horrible and monumentous was about to occur.
It was like a series of bombs went off. One second everyone was standing there and the next- BOOM!- and there was a blinding light as trees, rocks, bodies and other things went flying every which way leaving behind nothing but scorched earth, flames and ravaged trees and bushes. Jesus Christ! Kakashi thought as he looked around for any signs of Minato and found him reclining against the tree he'd climbed with hsi arms crossed over his chest and a bored look on his face as Kakashi's dad suddenly appeared looking a little frazzled.
One of his shoulders was on fire and he was absently patting himself out as he picked his way across the suddenly barren land and growled, "What the fuck happened here?"
A good question- Kakashi thought as he took a moment to force his fingers to slowly loosen so that he could scamper down the tree to his father's side and climbed him like a monkey.