"No." With that one word, Kakashi wilted, falling to the floor. He moaned and groaned and writhed on the floor, before whispering,

"Why not?" Hiruzen glared at the man laying pitifully on his floor.

"Because I said so, and you have to listen to me, since I am the Hokage." Kakashi glared right back.

"At least get Hashirama and Madara off my team!" Hiruzen raised a brow.

"What about Tobirama?" Kakashi sighed, and lifted himself off the floor.

"He's fine. He's actually better than fine." Kakashi's lone eye filled with hope. "I know! You can make him the sensei of the team! Then I can go back into AN-"

"NO." Kakashi crossed his arms and started brooding.

"Why not!"

"Do you honestly believe I would allow a dead man, who is under Naruto's control lead a Genin team?"

"But he's much more sane than Hashirama and he's not as perverted as Madara!" Hiruzen glared harsher at him.

"I said NO." Kakashi pouted, not that Hiruzen could see under the silver haired man's mask.

"Fine." He turned and started to leave the room.

"And you better go to team training tomorrow." Kakashi slammed the door behind him, for once using it instead of the window.


As he walked (more like sulked) down the road to his apartment, Kakashi had a fleeting thought. 'Maybe I can go rogue?' He thought a bit on it, before realizing that the Hokage would send those two demon spawn and his supposed Genin team after him. Tobirama would, of course, just tag along to make sure Kakashi survives in one piece... 'Or would the Hokage ban Tobirama-sama from going on the mission and simply send those hell spawns?' Kakashi shuddered, and quickly unlocked his apartment. 'Better not chance it...'

He lay in bed later that night, and wondered to himself, 'How late can I be for "team training"...' He fell asleep soon afterwards, never noticing the shadows creeping around his apartment.


Madara smirked, and Hashirama and Naruto grinned. Tobirama, who had come along to figure out exactly what the three were up to, sighed.

"He's going to kill you guys, you know that?" Tobirama looked up to the mountain. "Hiruzen will too."


When Kakashi woke the next morning, he couldn't find his Icha Icha. Oh well, he'll just have to buy another copy later. He walked outside, out onto the road, before having the oddest urge to look at the Hokage Monument. He turned to it, and almost shrieked in rage. There, splattered across half the Hokage Monument, was the pages of his Icha Icha Paradise. There was nothing on the first two Hokage, but the pages covered his sensei's face and the Third's. And, written on Minato's forehead, were the words,

"KAKASHI-SENSEI IS A STINKY PERVERT!" And, under that in elegant script, which he placed as Uchiha from earlier encounters of Uchiha handwriting,

"IGNORE NARUTO, HE SUCKS AT INSULTS" And, to make matters worse, next to the Uchiha script was,

"HATAKE KAKASHI IS A BIGGER PERVERT THAN MADARA!" Kakashi could just make out that someone had tried over and over to cross out Madara's name. Kakashi glared venomously at the words, and dashed towards the training grounds. Those hell spawns were going to pay.