"Is it just me, or is Sensei scarily good at sabotaging things?" Sakura asked, watching as Kakashi Hatake effortlessly fiddled with the cross-beams of the bridge they were taking out. He was humming, and he clearly wasn't very focused on what he was doing, since his one visible eye was closed.
"I looked up his record. Back during the war, most of the missions his team ran were sabotage of some kind. Bridges, paths, city walls, other villages traps, if it could be sabotaged, they did it." Sasuke answered, watching his sensei in interest.
"Really?" Sakura asked.
"Hn. From what I could gather, his sensei was trying to keep his team off the front-lines, and mostly succeeded." Sasuke nodded, then fell silent.
"Eh, is that why he looks like he's sleeping?" Naruto asked, studying Kakashi with his eyes almost squinted shut.
"Probably. If they really took that many sabotage missions, he probably can do this in his sleep." Sakura said in amazement.
"Hey, I wonder if we can get him to tell us stories, or something." Naruto said eagerly.
"Stories about what?" They all jumped and turned around when Kakashi spoke up from behind them.
"About your Genin team." Sakura said, watching him.
"Hmm... well, I was only on a Genin team for a few months." Kakashi rubbed the back of his neck, embarrassed. "There was an... incident, and I actually had to go back to the Academy for a bit because of it. Then I was apprenticed straight out. It was a few years before Minato-sensei got a couple of Genin to round out our team, but by then I was a Chunin."
"Oh... well, that team, then." Sakura said after a moment, not having expected their private sensei to even tell them that much.
"Hmm. Well, I suppose I can think of something." Kakashi said doubtfully, eyeing their eagerly expectant faces. "Now, come on. We need to hide." He said, and led his team into the trees surrounding the bridge, where they could watch from relative safety, just to make sure the mission was a success.
"By the way, Sensei, were you sleeping while you worked?" Naruto asked a few moments after the bridge collapsed, exactly how Kakashi had said it would before he started messing with it.
What little of Kakashi's face they could see turned a bright red, and he didn't answer.
He didn't think anybody could really blame him, either. He spent a little over two years doing almost nothing but sabotage missions.