Naruto watched as Kakashi walked through the village reading his perverse book. He muffled a small chuckle as he saw both civilians and kunoichi glaring at him. He kept on his trail following him, seeing him go from store to store buying food or window shopping. He also occasionally did the other kind of window shopping if ya know what I mean.
After a while of pointless walking Kakashi turned around and shut his book, he closed his eyes and and turned towards the building Naruto was on. He then waved hello and motioned for Naruto to come closer. The spiky haired blond jumped off the building and stood right next to Kakashi.
"So, mind telling why you're following me?" The sliver haired jonin spoke. Naruto shifted uncomfortably and looked around to see if anyone was listening. "Can we uh go somewhere different?" He shyly whispered. Kakashi rose his eyebrow and shrugged. "Sure, lets go to the restaurant down the street, and next time speak up little" he lazily said.
They both walked down the road next to each other. The occasional chatter amongst the people made the day weirdly peaceful along with Hearing the kids laugh, the bright sunny yet fresh aired day and the smooth walk down the dirt road. It felt nice. A feeling Naruto barley feels anymore.
"Gah!" Naruto Yelped. A glass bottle had suddenly hit his head and shattered causing him to be dazed and fall.
"Get out here you bastard!" A man yelled causing other people to look. They recognized their favorite little demon had come to visit the district. Soon enough others started to crowd and yell at naruto.
"Burn in hell!"
"Show up here again and we'll kill you!"
Naruto got up and kept walking. He briefly touched his head and felt something wet. It was blood. He started to breath faster. He never liked too look at blood. The amount of blood he saw when he was young. It scarred him. The feeling of choking on blood, the feeling of the deep wounds gushing out blood. It made him sick. He felt a hand hover his head, he felt his wound being healed. Naruto looked up to see Kakashi using medical ninjustu and giving him his signature eye smile. "Come on, lets go" he spoke and ruffled Naruto hair to get out the glass shards in his hair as well as wiping the blood off his stained face. As they were walking Kakashi had to either block or get naruto out of the way of incoming objects that people threw. The crowd eventually calmed down and moved on seeing as it would be pointless since Kakashi was protecting the demon. As they walked Kakashi couldn't help but ask.
"Why don't you protect yourself? You know? Fight back."
Naruto sighed and looked at him. "I have to prove to them that I'm not what they think I am. If I strike back then..."
"It'll only make things worse. Life is complicated for you huh?"
Naruto smiled and nodded. They finally made it to the restaurant and stood in front of it. Before they entered Kakashi stopped Naruto. He looked confused. Why was he stopping him?.
"You know how to transform right?"
Naruto was extremely confused but nodded. "Great! Now do it or else they're not going to let you in." He said. Naruto understood and transformed into his instructor. Iruka. Naruto looked at the jonin only to see a disappointed Kakashi
"A girl with a little curve would've been more preferable" Kakashi muttered getting a confused expression from naruto. The silvered haired jonin glanced At him and just chuckled patting his head. "You'll understand when you'll older. Now, shall we?"
When they walked in They were immediately greeted by a man with a black and white suit. "Hello ther- oh! It's Kakashi of the sharingan! What brings you here!"
Upon saying that name people immediately looked at the entrance and got excited. Kakashi brought his hands up to his chest and chuckled awkwardly. "Let's not raise to much attention! I just want a table for me and my friend over here, like over there" he pointed towards the table to farthest side of the restaurant. the man happily nodded and wrote down their names. They walked down the aisle leading there, occasionally getting squeals or people to get off of them, well mostly Kakashi. once they finally made it to their table they relaxed. "I think you can de transform now"
"O-oh ri-right"
"Iruka" then suddenly disappeared and in came Naruto. "Now, what did you want to talk about? The silver jonin brought out his book and started to read.
"Could you maybe listen please" he said meekly but still loud enough for Kakashi to hear. "I can read and listen" he said waving his hand in the air. He sighed and shook his head "it's about-"
"Kakashi! My eternal rival!"
A man with a green jumpsuit and a bowl cut interrupted while the other ninja in his table told him not to yell. "Oh hey" Kakashi waved got up and walked over. "What brings you here? Thought you didn't like this restaurant" a fair-skinned woman of slender build said. She had long black untamed hair reaching her upper back, and very unique eyes that are red in color, with an additional ring in them. She wore make-up consisting of red lipstick and purple eye shadow. Her outfit consisted of a red mesh Armour blouse with only the right sleeve visible. It strangely resembled bandages with a pattern on it similar to those of rose thorns. Her hands and upper thighs were also wrapped in bandages and she wore the Konoha forehead protector and regular shinobi sandals.
(Thank you naruto fandom)
"Just came here to talk with one of my genin"
"And who would that be?"
Another man said with brown eyes, olive skin, short spiky black hair, and a black spiky chin curtain beard. Like all Jonin of Konoha, he wore the standard Jonin ninja uniform.
Kakashi moved out of the way to show the...only for the jonin to freeze. 'Thank you Kakashi' Naruto thought sarcastically while looking down. "Kakashi he's..."
"It's all right Kurenai he's not going to do anything just relax" he said getting closer to the woman known as Kurenai. She avoided eye contacted and looked away blushing. "O-oh okay" she stuttered
"We'll see you later" He walked back over and sat down Closing the sliding doors.
There was a silence
Kakashi stared off into space while Naruto found his fingers interesting. They sat there for what seemed like an hour before Kakashi cut the tension. "So what was your going to say before Gai cut you off?"
He took in a breath "it's about me when I was younger" Kakashi raised his eyebrow in interest 'where is this going?'
"You were that dog ANBU weren't you?"
This was something Kakashi was not expecting. How exactly do you respond to that?. "How do you-"
"Silver hair, your title of Kakashi of the sharingan and the little help of a friend. But all I want to say is...thank you" this again caught Kakashi by surprise, why was he thanking him? "Of course you were probably just doing your job but even so, you saved my life multiple times and sometimes stopped the pain before it started while others would've enjoyed watching me suffer"
Kakashi just looked at him pretty surprised. He wasn't exactly good at these things since he cut himself from socializing when they died. The masked man just coughed and rubbed the back of his head. "Oh...uh...your welcome?" He answered awkwardly. Naruto just chuckled and nodded his head.
"Oh yea about earlier" the golden haired boy asked "what did you mean by a girl with a little curve would've been more preferable?" Kakashi chuckled again and patted his head once more. "Like I said, you'll understand when your older. Now since we're here we might as well eat."
Naruto's face lit up and nodded ferociously.
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"*yawn"
The tired black sleeved wearing blond yawned. It was pretty cold and foggy outside considering it was late in the summer. Nature was weird. He woke up about 2 hours late from staying up with Kakashi until 1:43 am. And since he was already late he wasn't in a worry, the copy ninja was too laid back to do anything and was so far about 3 hours late to the 2 times they meet up so he was in no rush since he knew he would be late to this too. 'Here it is' the blond thought pulling up into trading ground 7. As he walked in he couldn't help but reminisce the event that folded here about 5 years ago. The pain that came from Kiba that day made his head hurt and his chest squeeze. 'That was long ago. I need to focus on now'. Once he made it to the big open field he saw both the wide awake Sayuri playing with a Kunai and a sleeping Kiba resting up against the 3rd wooden poll to the right. Sayuri waved to which he responded with his own smile.
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It was as he predicted. This man was late about 3 hours from when they were originally going to start. 'It would seem as this is going to continuously happen with him'
'I got one lazy jonin as a teacher huh' Naruto thought. Miraculously the silver headed man appeared from a smoke bomb like some kind of magic trick.
"Good morning you three"
"It's not even morning anymore it's 1 in the afternoon" an irritated Sayuri said looking at her sensei with anger. "L-lets cal-calm down now" Naruto said noticing the anger on her face "m-maybe he
h-ad s-somthing Im-important to do!" She looked at him then at Kakashi and sighed. "Well since I'm here now let's get started. Sayuri, if you don't mind could you wake up Kiba?"
She nodded and started to nudge Kiba awake. "No Sayuri, we can't be doing this" she immediately blushed and whacked him across the head making him hold his head in pain. "What the hell was that for!?" He yelled
She turned heel back to Kakashi and motioned him to continue. "Now, Your test is quite simple, all you have to do is take these 2 bells away from me and you pass, whoever fails to get one of the two bells will fail and be sent back to the academy. Easy right?"
They gulped. One of them needed to go.
"You all have until 5, the person who fails will be tied to that post and will watch me eating their lunch in front of them" he finished. Naruto sighed in relief ' I'm glad I didn't follow his advice about not eating'.
"Now we'll start in 3-" Kakashi instantly pinned Kiba's arm to the dirt. "Now, now. Let's not get to hasty, I haven't even started!" He eye smiled towards him. Sayuri looked at Kakashi surprised. She didn't expect him to be so incredibly fast. "I wasn't even able to see him!" She muttered. "Before I was so rudely interrupted let's start........now" he said as all of them scattered across the forest.
Naruto sat on a tree branch watching for any sudden moves that Kakashi would make. He felt tense. This man was an elite jonin. Even if he was able to see faster that wouldn't mean he would be faster. Kakashi started to reach into his side pocket. Naruto was sweating pellets. He finally took his hand out and took out a...book
'A book?' Naruto deadpanned expecting a kunai. 'Well since he's distracted why don't we give him a taste of metal' he thought before summoning his zanpakuto out of thin air and dashing off the branch and onto Kakashi. The jonin eyes looked to his left, his eyes spreading like saucers, he instantly shut his book, side stepping a blade as he reached for Naruto's wrist grabbing it and using the momentum to yeet him across the field. He quickly regained his posture and got into a fighting stance. 'He's extremely fast. Something I did not expect'
Sayuri stood there shocked watching them with her sharingan. 'Even with my sharingan I was barley able to see him' she said, starting to blush and unconsciously licked her lips. Oh yea. Naruto was going to be a VERY lucky man when he's older.
Kiba as well stood there shocked more than anyone. How the hell did this beta move that fast. Not even his mother, the clan head, was as close as naruto. 'Bastard'
Naruto quickly got up and dusted off his clothes. "Well Naruto I'm must say, your speed Is incredible, even had to shut my book." He gave a thumbs up. "But i'm afraid speed isn't to cut it. Lesson number 1: taijutsu" Kakashi instantly moved forward catching Naruto off guard. To what would seem instantaneous to any other, Naruto saw each move Kakashi was doing step by step, but unfortunately he wasn't fast enough to dodge or block, he had to take the hit head on. He sent chakra towards his face Lessening the pain he received from the punch. He was sent backwards, flying into a nearby river.
'Now's my chance' Sayuri swiftly went to attack Kakashi with a kunai in hand. He took out his book once again and started to read. "Take me seriously!" She yelled attempting to slash him. He sidestepped the first strike while ducking another one. Sayuri realized it was useless and jumped backwards making handsigns as she went. "Fire style: fireball no jutsu!"
Kakashi's eyes briefly widened at the size of it. It was huge! He quickly but smoothly weaved hand signs before disappearing. Once the fire extinguished from the air she looked around trying to find him with her sharingan. 'He's under me!' She thought, again jumping into another tree while watching the spot where she had just been. Kakashi's hands suddenly bursted out of the ground destroying the terrain around him. "Looks like your pink eyes saved you. Let's just see how long they'll be able to last you." She growled as he came out of the ground putting his hand in his pockets.
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