Kakashi walked along the paths of Konoha. Hokage-sama has made it clear this wasn't an optional choice. He was to lead team 7, he was to personally mentor Sasuke as well as ensure the nine tails did not break free from Naruto. While Kakashi was incensed at first in truth he had begun to look at it quite differently. Here was a chance to repay his sensei the Yondaime Hokage for all that he had done. He would train his child to be a splendid shinobi in honor of Minato.
Kakashi was one of the privileged few to learn who Naruto's parents were. He had not been told until a few weeks ago. He had been irritated at being left in the dark but he understood the Sandaime's motives.
The elite jōnin wondered if he would still have been chosen if he hadn't turned his life around. After the deaths of all of his precious people, his father, his teammates and his sensei he had begun to exhibit signs of mental stress. He started showing up extremely late, he began reading his erotica openly in the public and he had become detached from everyone and everything.
He had not made close bonds with others but on one of his hour long homages to the memorial stone something had snapped inside of him. Would all of them have wanted him to be on this path? No they wouldn't, they would want him to serve Konoha to the best of his abilities. He had resolved to begin acting like a proper shinobi. To that end he began to train himself and work missions at a regular clip. His time in ANBU was marked with a high level of efficiency. His mission success rate was second to none.
”this should be very interesting” kakashi said to himself.
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(the bell test happened exactly as canon, so need to change it).
Kakashi's first impressions of his new team were not complimentary. Everything from attitude to abilities was a disappointment. Despite that they did eventually muster up enough teamwork for him to pass them.
'What did I get myself into here? Kami I better get started or they'll be annihilated on their first real mission.'
Kakashi gave his new team an eye smile. They were all pleased that they had passed the test. But it was no time to celebrate, their training was to begin.
"Congratulations you are all shinobi ready to take missions on behalf of the village."
He allowed them to bask in their satisfaction for a bit and then continued.
"Starting tomorrow you will be given a "D" ranked mission. It might mean walking dogs, weeding, or maybe even…"
Naruto interrupted with a jump and a yell, "WHAT? Give us a real mission!"
Kakashi had blazed forward with Lightning Speed and had Punched Naruto In the stomach though he had held back so he would not kill his sensei son.
”listen Genin, you are the lowest official rank in the system you will not make demands off me, I give the orders, you follow them, and when you are ready to take more dangerous missions you will take them but only you three had proved yourselves, understood”. Kakashi Said with a Dangerous Tone.
Sasuke & Sakura Actually Looked Sympathetic to Naruto They Both had different thoughts.
Sasuke Was Furious. He Could not be able to do real missions until these two deadweights had caught up with him, when he first Learned that Kakashi would be his sensei he was beyond pleased, Kakashi was one of the elites he was the strongest Jonin in the village and was in still in his prime and the only leaf shinobi stronger than him were The Sannin and The Sandaime.
Kakashi Had Notice the rage in the uchiha’s eyes.
“Any Problems Uchiha”
Sasuke Glared with all the force of an angry Lion “I shall follow the orders” Sasuke Announced “but this to deadweights will carry me down, and they are going to slow my training and I need to get stronger” Sasuke had announced again.
Sakura Had Shouted “yeah we are just to slow Sasuke-kun down…” Sakura Voice had drifted as she had finally realized that Sasuke had said that she also was going to slow him down.
Kakashi Was Laughing his arse off.
“Well Then Should what you need to do Sasuke” Kakashi told.
Sasuke was very confused.
”you have to train them till they get to your level” Kakashi announced.
Sasuke had narrowed his eyes, “I could get a lot further on my very own! Why the hell should I be wasting my time training the dead last!” Sasuke Had Said
kakashi moved and immediately Sasuke was the one on the ground.
“Because dumbass, this is a TEAM, a team as strong as it’s weakest link, success or failure will be determined by how will a team works together. On the road will you are asleep someone on the team will be watching over them just you will be watching them, do you want to be protected by weakling’s? By someone completely incompetent?” Kakashi angrily announced.
sakura had shrieked “what the f##ing hell is wrong with you sensei first you punch Naruto, then you push Sasuke to the ground!”
Kakashi Just released a Healthy Dose of killer intent on the poor girl, he didn’t even bother to hit the girl, she was curled like a ball.
“Hmm Damn This team will need a lot of discipline and strict obedience to get their heads straight, but it wound get to throw a carrot or two” Kakashi mused
Kakashi had made a mental list for what they each need to improve on.
’'Naruto is a mess. He has stamina and drive but is too impulsive. His taijutsu forms are abominable and he has no chakra control. On the other hand he has mastered the Shadow Clone. He can be brought up to speed fairly quickly if it was used as a training technique.'’
'’With Sasuke I need you to drill in teamwork and to care for his comrades. He's too arrogant to work with them right now. I'll have to hold out additional training as a reward for working with his team. He is a genius; he will pick up things quickly. His conditioning is good but it's not where it needs to be in order to be the best.'’
Kakashi thought about his 'eternal rival's' training techniques and decided to incorporate them.
'’And finally Sakura.'’
Kakashi inwardly sighed. She was toxic to their team dynamic.
'’I'll need to use her crush for the Uchiha boy as a means of motivating her. It feels wrong but a shinobi uses what he has available. Right now she is hopeless however the academy reports were glowing about her chakra control. Genjutsu training would be just the thing, both Naruto and Sasuke will be power houses in direct combat, a more subtle flair will help round the team out.'’
Let me make this clear. We are a team and I am your leader. You will follow my instructions, you will not mouth off, and you will respect me. More over you will respect your team. You are no longer in the Academy you are shinobi. You are part of the military arm of taijutsu and I expect you to compose yourself as such. Is that clear?"
All three genin hastily responded with "yes sensei."
Kakashi nodded firmly.
"Tomorrow we will begin rank "D" missions however the rest of today will be training. Kakashi brought his hands together and performed the Shadow Clone Techinque creating one clone.
The clone said, "Sakura, Sasuke over here, we will work on taijutsu."
The original Kakashi turned to Naruto, "Your scores at the academy were abysmal in everything so we need to do remedial work."
Naruto flushed and almost said something but his gut was still sore from the vicious punch.
'Good he's learning to keep his mouth shut.'
Kakashi touched Naruto's shoulder, "But don't worry I am your sensei so before you know it you will surpass all the other genin in Konoha."
Naruto shouted out in joy, "Yeah and then I'll be the Hokage, BELIEVE IT!"
Kakashi let out a groan. "Not so loud Naruto, you are shinobi."
Naruto was literally hopping up and down ready for his training.
“First make 30 Shadow Clones” Kakashi Order.
Naruto Concentrated and said “shadow clone jutsu” and then 41 Appeared.
”oops” Naruto mumbled.
Kakashi shook his head “your chakra control is pretty awful but for now it just works just well”
Kakashi pulled out four books from a storage seal. He handed one a book to clone and told him to read to a paragraph “ the village hidden in the leaves was found by”... The clone was about to say before Kakashi had stabbed it with a kunai.
“Wait-” naruto was about to say before He gained the clone’s knowledge.
”Naruto do you actually know when who founded the village” Kakashi asked
“Well” Naruto flushed “they were finally boring lectures” Naruto tried to defend himself.
Kakashi twitched. Did the academy teach him nothing at all?
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"Naruto, to shinobi information is life. Knowledge is more powerful than any jutsu, I have seen comrades die due to a lack of information and I have killed to suppress information."
Naruto looked ready to argue but Kakashi let out a small burst of killing intent quickly shutting the boy up.
"I expect you to learn Naruto; you will be the team's knowledge base and tactician. You will memorize the bingo book and know everything there is to know about the five major hidden villages."
Naruto's jaw dropped open, "T-that's impossible. I c-can't do it. Let Sakura-chan do it, she's super smart!"
“Naruto will be is more books-smart then you have something she cannot replicate”.
"Like what?"
Kakashi demonstrated by kicking the clone who had read the passage on the founding date. Naruto blinked, the clone's memory of reading came back and he knew the date. Naruto looked dumbstruck for a moment and then the light bulb went on.
"Wait anything my clones read I will know?"
Kakashi nodded, his pupil wasn't so foolish after all.
"Yatta! That means I never have to read anything again!"
Kakashi's eye twitched.
'Must not murder my genin. Must not murder my genin. Must not murder my genin,' Kakashi silently repeated in his head over and over again.
"More importantly Naruto, your chakra reserves allow you to read books faster than the quickest most intelligent shinobi. You will be a font of information to your team, you will be able to quickly identify threats and relay information to your team about what to on watch for. This will be one of the key roles on the team, can you handle it?"
Naruto shouted his response, "You bet I can! Believe it!"
Kakashi feared he would develop a facial tic, why couldn't the boy act like a shinobi? Suppressing a sigh he handed out the rest of the books to the clones.
One was a book on the history of the Leaf village. The 2nd book was actually a bingo book that the real Naruto was oohing over before Kakashi ripped it out of his hands and gave it to a clone. The third book was a book chakra control and finally the last book was a field manual on how to care for shinobi implements like kunai, ninja wire, kunai, scrolls and supplies.
After Kakashi handed out the books he had the clones start to read them while he turned to the real Naruto.
"All right Naruto up first is perfecting your chakra control."
Naruto grumbled, "When am I going to learn a cool jutsu?"
Kakashi had the urge to punch the blond haired brat again but he had learned how to control his emotions back when he joined ANBU.
"Naruto you cannot learn powerful jutsu without control. Once you have completed the tree walking exercise I will teach you a jutsu."
Naruto jumped, "Well then let's get started, I'm going to be the best tree walker ever!"
Naruto paused for a second and looked up at his sensei, "What do you mean tree walking?"
The older shinobi put his hands up, "First things first, the basic chakra control exercise, the leaf concentration exercise."
Naruto gave a heavy sigh, "That stupid exercise Iruka-Sensei tried to teach us in the academy? I'm a ninja not a little kid!"
Kakashi struck instantly, this time a brutal snap kick to his face. Naruto crashed into a tree.
"You are a shinobi Naruto that means obeying your military commander, me your jōnin instructor, I Am Resisting trying to kill you right.”
Naruto growled and stared up angrily with his blue eyes focused on the one exposed eye Kakashi had.
"Yes Kakashi-Sensei, I'll act like a shinobi."
Kakashi helped the boy up.
"All right then Naruto its time to do the leaf exercise, let me show you."
He took a leaf and placed it on his forehead. The leaf began to spin slowly in a circle.
"Now you try."
The young orphan took a leaf and placed it on his head and concentrated on it. The leaf did not move.
"Imagine your head has energy. Slowly concentrate on that energy and imagine it slowly spinning like water down a drain," Kakashi's voice spoke slowly and almost hypnotically.
Naruto concentrated and then felt the leaf leave his forehead. Kakashi saw the leaf blown away with quite a bit of force.
Kakashi gave an eye smile and said, "Now that you've felt the energy you know what to do. Next time focus on control and imagine the energy moving slower."
Naruto picked up another leaf and Kakashi shook his head.
"Remember Naruto everything your clones learn – you learn. Have your clones all work on the leaf exercise."
Naruto's clones quickly got to work and leaves were flying all over the place. Kakashi beckoned Naruto to follow him away from the whirlwind of leaves.
"All right Naruto two final items to your training that we will go over today. The first is your taijutsu. It reminds me of a drunken civilian brawl. Its sloppy, wasteful and the opposite of how my team will operate. We will spend the next two hours correcting your forms."
Naruto stifled a groan, Kakashi-sensei hit hard and he did not want to get hit again.
While Kakashi had gone over the training with Naruto his clone was working with Sasuke and Sakura.
"All right while the real me works with Naruto I will work with you two. First I want to see a taijutsu spar; first one down on the ground loses. Don't break any bones we'll be doing several spars in a row."
Sasuke smirked at the fan girl, this would be easy. Sakura raised her hands and took a hesitant step back. She had to fight her Sasuke-kun?
The clone raised its hand and brought it down .
"Begin."
Sasuke immediately rushed forward and sent a hard punch streaking towards Sakura's face. Sakura dodged to the right and tried to grab the arm but Sasuke quickly followed the forward motion of his punch with his body flipping forward and around causing his heel to smash into the kunoichi's head.
Sakura collapsed on to the ground clutching her head. 'Pathetic,' Sasuke thought to himself.
Kakashi agreed with Sasuke's internal thoughts.
"All right Sasuke why did she lose?"
"Because she is weak."
Sakura felt a stab of hurt in her heart.
"No, describe for me the physical mistakes she made in the spar."
Sasuke quickly analyzed what had occurred.
"She was slow on her dodge, if she was quicker she might have been able to grab my arm and throw me. And then when I flipped around she should have seen the move and jumped back."
Kakashi nodded, "Good that was a sound analysis of the spar. Again."
Sasuke readied himself as Sakura got up on wobbly legs.
"Begin!"
Sasuke surged forward again this time striking towards the abdomen with a kick. Sakura managed to block the blow with her arm but winced from the contact. She was shoved back a foot and lost her balance, catching herself right as Sasuke fired a kick towards her head. She barely had time to duck. Sasuke spun and fired another kick. Sakura still off balance could do nothing else but block and again she stumbled backward.
Sasuke sneered in disgust. This was pathetic. Even the dobe could do better than her. Sakura got back her balance and watched Sasuke wait for her attack. She tried a palm strike to his head which he deflected with an upward rising block and struck out with the same hand that blocked, catching Sakura in the throat with stiffened fingers. Sakura collapsed onto the ground struggling to breathe.
Kakashi frowned, "If you injure her so she cannot continue the training stops until tomorrow."
Sasuke scowled, while he had learned nothing yet he knew Kakashi could teach him.
Kakashi again had Sasuke analyze the fight. Sasuke went over the fight pointing out Sakura's mistakes.
"When you unlock your sharingan you will see even deeper than what you are pointing out now. This is good practice and by watching every movement closely it's theorized that you could unlock it sooner."
Kakashi saw Sakura struggle to her feet, "Again."
Sasuke raised his eyebrows in surprise. So that was the point of this little exercise, preparing him for the sharingan. Sasuke smirked a bit; maybe his sensei did know what he was talking about. They sparred and analyzed another five bouts. At the end Sakura could barely stand. She was bruised, exhausted and dispirited. The Kakashi clone looked at her and shook his head.
"Haruno your stamina is pitiful. What is your typical workout routine?"
"Kakashi-sensei I only worked out at during academy."
The clone twitched.
"Do you have any desire at all to be a shinobi?"
Sakura's inner voice shouted, "Yes, I need to be a shinobi to be close to Sasuke!"
Sakura wisely did not repeat those words out loud.
"Yes I do sensei… I just… I… didn't know I needed to."
Kakashi glared at her, "Before we meet in the mornings you are to get up stretch and run three miles. Every day – after we are done with training here you will work on taijutsu forms for one hour."
“Yes Sensei” Sakura Responded.
"I can do nothing else physically with you right now so take this leaf and work on your chakra control."
The clone went over what he wanted her to do and was surprised when she could rotate it on her first try.
"Add another leaf and rotate one clockwise and the other counter clockwise, keep working at it until it becomes difficult for you to move the leaves, at that point your chakra will be depleted and you will need to stop. Do not continue working this exercise once it becomes difficult, if you suffer chakra exhaustion you'll be useless for days."
Sakura went over to a nearby tree and begin to spin leaves.
The clone turned to Sasuke, "Walk with me."
They walked a bit away and Sasuke wondered what his next training was going to be.
"Sasuke you are no doubt this year's most gifted Academy student."
Sasuke didn't change his facial expression but inwardly he smirked.
"And as you said before the team is just going to hold you back."
Sasuke nodded and responded in a way that he thought Kakashi would want him to respond.
"You are right sensei that was my thought but I see the wisdom in having strong allies when a mission incorporates multiple objectives in separate locations. As well as when they are at watch during their shift at night."
Kakashi clapped his hands.
"You said exactly what you thought I wanted to hear. But I am not an academy instructor, I am not a chūnin, I am an elite jōnin. I am honed in the arts of deception. I can detect lies and half truths through minute movements in your breathing, your pulse and your speech mannerisms. And all of that tells me is that you are a liar."
A massive wave of killing intent forced Sasuke to back up before he tripped over his own feet.
"Right now I don't care if you feel they are holding you back or not, it is important for you to help them become stronger. I will not hurt you for having rational discussion on the subject but I will not put up with a false front. Tell me how you really feel."
Sasuke relaxed as the killing intent left. And then he grew angry. What right did this man have to lecture him! He was the last Uchiha and he had to avenge his clan!
"Fine sensei I'll tell you I feel. I'm stuck with dead last and a pathetic fan girl. She doesn't even do a minimal amount of conditioning! I am strong and they are weak and I must sacrifice my time and energy fixing their incompetence. The strong should not have to teach the weak!"
The Kakashi clone chuckled.
"If I follow your logic correctly then because you are stronger than they are you shouldn't have to teach them."
Sasuke nodded.
"So since I am stronger then you I shouldn't teach you then?"
Sasuke froze and then said, "That's different."
“Nope it isn’t Sasuke” Kakashi just shook his head.
"Your beliefs are your own Sasuke but if you want to learn the jutsu I have then you will help me bring them up to par."
Sasuke nodded, he had no choice he had to get more powerful, "Yes Kakashi-Sensei.
"Good now let's talk about your own conditioning."
Sasuke frowned, "I run plenty, I practice my taijutsu daily for hours and I even practice ninjutsu."
Kakashi stopped by the tree where he had placed the weights. Sasuke was a little unnerved that their conversation finished at the exact spot where the clone pulled out a package from behind the tree. That kind of planning was impressive.
"These are leg weights and a weighted vest. The vest weighs 20 pounds and each leg weight weighs 5 pounds. This is just a start but this will make your workouts more strenuous and will improve your speed when they are removed. I will caution you to be precise while you work with them. Fractures are more likely to occur when wearing additional weights."
Sasuke gave his trade mark smirk, "And I guess Sakura might last a bit longer if I'm slowed down by this."
Kakashi moved on to the next subject, "For the rest of today I want you to work on chakra control."
Sasuke frowned when he was not able to twirl the leaves in opposite directions on his first try.
Kakashi grinned under his mask, "Found something Sakura can do better then you?"
Sasuke scowled and redoubled his efforts.
"Meet in front of the Hokage tower at 8:00 AM. We'll do our first mission as a team and then it's back to training."
Sakura thought about the sparring matches. She had gotten destroyed by Sasuke and that was with him holding back. Sakura shivered, was she really that weak? She had seen the contempt that Sasuke had for her taijutsu. Sakura felt tears coming in but forced them back. She would not cry. She was a shinobi. She would do the conditioning and get stronger. For her team, for her Sasuke-kun… and for herself.
Naruto finished the taijutsu forms training. His stance and form had improved considerably but he had yet to even spar with it. Kakashi froze for a split second while his clone popped finished with Sakura and Sasuke. '
These genin are so frustrating! I'm going to have to report to hokage that the academy is failing this generation utterly.'
"All right Naruto dispel your clones."
Naruto complied and froze for two seconds as the collected memories and knowledge filled him. Kakashi lightly did a leg sweep knocking Naruto on the ground.
"In a battle you would have been more than dead, anything more than a fraction of a second is too long, Understood”
”yes sensei”