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Inside the Hidden Leaf Village. |Shifter_Master & EasilyAmused|

“A good book deserves to be savored” Kakashi stated haughtily as he slowed his tree hopping down to a genin equivalent speed. “And I did hear about the movie, rumor has it they are trying to get Yukie Fujikaze to play the female lead” he said with enthusiasm at the prospect of them getting such a famous actress to be a part of the series, seemingly oblivious to Airi’s internal debates.

The truth was a different matter however, as given their close proximity it was rather difficult for Kakashi to not notice his friends behavior. He could feel the extra heat that radiated from her face when she buried in to his neck. He could easily tell that what she had asked him wasn’t what she had originally wanted to from the tonal shift as she asked. There were a hundred other subtle clues that Kakashi could pick up on that told him she was nervous about the topic she nearly brought up.

If it had been anyone else Kakashi would have simple ignored their behavior, or directly called them out on it, but Airi was one of the very few people he could call a friend. Because of that he would let her bring it up when she was comfortable. That didn’t mean he wasn’t going to try and find out anyway, perish the thought. He was one of the most skilled ninja in the village, being noisy came with the territory. Airi being his friend just meant he wasn’t going to drill her for information, wouldn’t stop him from taking a third or fourth look over all of her actions to try and piece it together from those however.

“As for training…” Kakashi started before he realized a flaw in his original training plan. He was used to training other Anbu, or helping out newly minted Jonin, not Genin. He didn’t voice said realization however “I’m going to start working on group cohesion for the first half and cool down with personal training. Not going to worry about any particular structured plan at the moment.” As he explained his very impromptu training plan, he was working on breaking down his normal training regime for lower ranked ninja. He would worry about tailoring it to each of his students when he had a better idea about where they needed work; after all it’s not something he could learn when he was playing around with them during the Bell test.

‘You have started to get soft Inu’ He thought harshly, it was twice today that he had slipped up. Once with his daily schedule and just now with not realizing that he wasn’t treating his mission of training his team with the focus it deserved.

“What about you?” Kakashi asked dragging himself out of his self-depreciative thoughts, he would have time for those later “Have you ever thought of picking training back up?” he wondered casually. He knew that after she got out of the hospital her drive to be a kunoichi had crumbled, but that was years ago. Granted they tended to avoid the topic, but he was curious and it could be what she was nervous about.

Inside the Hidden Leaf Village. |Shifter_Master & EasilyAmused|

“Good to hear you bakery is still doing well” Kakashi replied “I would guess that the constant order from the academy are the reason for the upswell, lots of new Genin are now earning a paycheck and have had to smell your deliveries every few day” he added, the glint of satisfaction in his eye going unnoticed, after all he might have had something to do with the orders starting up in the first place, not that anyone was aware of that.

“I’m willing to try your baking recipes, but you’ll have to get someone else to test your new curry” Kakashi said as he waived waved at few Chunin as he passed them by, they just stopped and stared at him as he bounded across the roof tops, mainly because of the fact he had a civilian on his back. He still recalled the first time he had tried one of her new recipes’, she was fantastic with baked goods but it was more of a tossup with her other culinary attempts, at least until she had time to revise those recipes.

“As for a vacation…” he trailed off for a moment as he ran a quick review off all the places he had been in his life. “South isn’t too bad this time of year, you could also try for a trip to the hot springs in Hot Water” he offered. Konoha had peaceful connections with Yugakure, as did most of the Shinobi world for that matter, due to the fact that they were a prime tourist attraction because nearly all of their villages’ boasted fantastic hot springs. Not that Kakashi even got much of a chance to partake, seeing as he had never taken a vacation, but he had been through their land on a few occasions. “Still if you’re looking for sun, only place that gets more than us is Wind granted that is because they are a dessert”

He just hummed noncommittally at the last developments that Airi brought up. He was never sure how to respond when parents were brought up considering he never knew his mother and his father… Well it was never a good idea to dwell too much on him. “That reminds me, I need to find someone who can teach Naruto how to paint better” he said off handedly “Might be able to get him to calm down a little”

“As for me nothing all that exciting or new on my end, other than the fact that a team finally passed the Bell test, which means I’ve got my first Genin team to train” he explained as he moved off the roof tops and in to the trees “But you knew that already” And it was more or less true, since being removed from the Anbu and placed back in to the Jonin roster there hadn’t been many things of note that he could talk about “Oh! The new Icha Icha came out recently” Other than his beloved book series that is.

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Back at the academy Kakashi’s clone was reading through the various notes and old tests that his new students had taken and it was beginning to realize just how much work he had ahead of him. The notes on Sakura were exactly as the dossier had led him to believe. Sasuke’s was more or less the same; though it praised him more than the veteran Nin felt was justified. Naruto’s on the other hand, told a very different story.

Leafing through everything, it seemed almost as if the other instructors had tried to sabotage the blond genin, which considering Mizuki had turned out to be a traitor, might not be too far of the mark. His physical test scores were fine, outside of the atrocious taijutsu stance the kid had; it was in the academic side of things that Kakashi noticed the most issues. It almost seemed like Naruto had no idea about the basic concepts about Ninjutsu, chakra theory, or any of the theoretical side of being a ninja, that or a serious literacy issue. Kakashi wasn’t sure what was worse to be honest.

Running a hand through his hair the clone quickly set about making a copy of all the relevant paper work he had found. The original would want to review all of this in more detail when he had time, but it was not now, considering he had technically broken in to the records.

‘To think, getting lost on the road of life actually turned out to be useful’

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Kakashi didn’t even break his stride as Airi latched on to him from her jump, thought he did roll his eyes at her choice of actions. “I shall do me level best to see that you don’t fall” He replied as he deviated from just following the hallway and instead headed to the nearest window. Since he wasn’t going to be walking there was no reason to bother with heading to the doors.

He quickly opened his chosen exit and almost immediately was on the roof. He took a moment to make sure his orientation was still correct before he turned and started bounding towards Training ground three. He also made sure that Airi was securely held in place via subtly use of Chakra, he wasn’t planning on going his top speed, not even his cruising speed, but he knew that it was still faster than she had gone in quite some time.

“So” Kakashi started after settling in to his easy pace, it would get them there in a ten minutes or so “How has the past while been treating you?” He asked casually, figuring he could use this time to fill in the gaps that had happened since they had last had a chance to talk. It would also serve as a decent distraction from the proximity, not that Kakashi was shy or unopposed to it. It was just nearly impossible to not notice Airi’s scent while she was wrapped around him, just as it was nearly impossible to not notice how soft she felt.

Inside the Hidden Leaf Village. |Shifter_Master & EasilyAmused|

A countdown had started in Kakashi’s head after he mentioned the time he was supposed meet up with his team. Everyone who knew Kakashi knew he was late to everything, nearly without exception. The difference, and the reason for the countdown was-

“WHAT!? TEN? TEN AM?!? Kakashi it is ELEVEN THIRTY!”

Airi was the only person to still give him a hard time about it. And that always made him smile, a true and honest smile, which was never the less hidden behind his mask. Everyone else he knew had given up chastising him about it even the Hokage only ever grumbled about it occasionally. He figured that no one felt like doing anything about it because his overall reliability when it came to missions, one of the few things he was prompt for, but she never let him get away with it if she had any say about it.

It was why he always made sure to see how she was doing occasionally; she was the only person who seemed to care about him as a person, or at least that was how he saw it. Guy was his Eternal Rival yes, but only in regards to being the best ninja. Sarutobi cared for him, probably, but he cared for all of the ninja under his command. That was as far as most of his friendships went, comrades-in-arms, even Airi started out that way, but things had changed after she retired, possibly even before that.

Still, he was rather out of the loop, when it came to the goings on in her life.

The masked nin let offered no resistance as his friend went to yank on his ear. “Would you look at that, so it is” he said lazily as he glanced at the clock scratching at his chin as he did. Thinking about it a moment longer he stood up and made a single Shadow Clone, making sure not to have the smoke obscure him as he did so. With a nod his clone ventured off to get the copies he was intending to get, after all no reason to not get them since he was here.

Turning back to Airi he ran a hand through his silver hair and attempted to look sheepish “Well it seems to be that I lost track of the time” He wasn’t fooling anyone, but the tradition was to be upheld none the less “Guess I should head out to meet up with them, you’re welcome to join me, if you want” he offered as he half turned to the door, hoping she would, even if only for part of the way there. After all he hadn’t had a chance to talk with her in some time, and this was the perfect opportunity to do so.

The fact that it would mean he would be even later in meeting up with his team since he would be walking was merely a side benefit.

Inside the Hidden Leaf Village. |Shifter_Master & EasilyAmused|

Kakashi face went blank for a moment when Airi so easily agreed to pay for the ability to watch him train some brats. He had been expecting more protests with her adorable faux anger, before he relented with suitably dramatic flair. He was ever so slightly disappointed about that for the second it took him to notice the smirk she had adorned.

‘Either they are going to hate me, or Airi is going to try and embarrass me over that offer’ Kakashi mused, before giving an internal shrug. Either way it ended up was fine by him; his team could learn a few lessons from this either way. Sakura would see that there are options outside of being a kunoichi, Naruto would learn not to try and prank him and Sasuke… Well he would worry about that him learning anything later.

“Let me know when you have it submitted it so I can request it, would be a shame if you went through all that just to end up with…” he paused for a moment taking on a slightly exaggerated thinking pose as a few more treats disappeared from the table “Say team 10” he finally offered, figuring that they would have the most difficulty getting the mission done due to having an Akimichi on their team.

“As for my plans for the day, I just stopped by to pick up a copy of the files on my new Genin before meeting up with them at ten to start our first day of training” Kakashi answered cheerily, while also pointedly not looking at the clock in the room. He knew perfectly well that it was 11:30 and that he was late. Despite that, or perhaps because of that, he made no effort to hurry with his snack or to go get the copies that he had mentioned.

"THE MONSTERVERSE" - (A Kaiju Gijinka Roleplay)

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Inside the Hidden Leaf Village. |Shifter_Master & EasilyAmused|

Kakashi just eye smiled at Airi as he took the plate “Don’t mind if I do” he said before placing some Taiyaki and Suama on his plate. They were the easiest things to eat alongside his habit of keeping his face hidden. The reason for the habit was much more out of amusement now then its original purpose, but that didn’t mean he was just going to drop it.

“Indeed I have, it was only a matter of time I suppose” He answered neutrally as he took a seat at the nearby table “But it seems that Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha were able to pass my little test.” He explained before rolling his eye at his friend’s antics.

“Oh yes I’m getting positively doughy” he replied dryly, one of the Suama vanishing from his plate mid-sentence “Next thing you know I’ll be rolling down the street looking like an Akimichi” he shook his head lightly as another treat disappeared from his plate. If there was anyone else in the staff room, they would have been slightly surprised to see Kakashi so jovial compared to his regular standoffish self. But that had more to do with the fact that he was talking with Airi.

“If you want to know how I am at teaching you could always go and request a D rank or two, after all they will have to get used to them soon” Kakashi offered. D ranks were the bane of all Jonin instructors, as they are insufferably boring to the veteran ninja. The fact that they were useful for teaching the basics of how the mission are taken and for the basics of filling out after mission reports was irrelevant.

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KAKASHI HATAKE

Personality
Kakashi typically has a relaxed and almost bored attitude, not prone to getting too worked up about anything or by anyone. He is habitually tardy, showing up when it suits him, using excuses that convince nobody, and later leaving for equally poor reasons.

If someone proves they are a significant threat to his team, or to Konoha, he becomes a frighteningly cold individual. Singularly apathetic and incredibly blunt. Few outside the Anbu have seen this side of Kakashi, none that have been on the receiving end are still alive.

Backstory
Kakashi was born the son of REDACTED and REDACTED. He was born September REDACTED and is currently REDACTED.
*further reading shows that most of Kakashi's history has either been redacted or expunged from public record*

Kakashi's jutsu:
Raikiri- Kakashi's only original technique. It is an S rank lightning style justsu that is capable of piercing nearly any target. Rumored to be able to split a lightning bolt in half.

Other then his original technique Kakashi has over a thousand different justus he has copied from various Ninja through out the world covering all the elements and all ranges. To list them all would take more effort then is worth.

Inside the Hidden Leaf Village. |Shifter_Master & EasilyAmused|

First post is away and now I shall start on the CS for the Copy nin. expect it to be brief.

Inside the Hidden Leaf Village. |Shifter_Master & EasilyAmused|

Somewhere in the vast sprawling metropolis that is Konoha village, sits a moderate and unassuming house. This house belongs to one of the most infamous ninja know to the shinobi world, Kakashi Hatake. The sun is still hours from rising, but this man’s day is just about to start.

No alarm goes off, but at 4:15 am Kakashi opens his eyes, a moment later he closes his left eye again and pulls himself out of bed. He quietly and quickly showers, shaves, and gets ready for his daily exercise. Ten minutes later he steps out from his house and starts his morning jog.

Over the next several hours Kakashi diligently and silently went through the motions required to maintain his physique. He spends this time reviewing his plans for the day, as the exercise routine is so deeply ingrained in to that he can do it nearly without thought.
4:15 wake up
4:25 -7:50 morning workout
8:00 freshen up from exercise
8:45 check in with the Hokage
9:45 grab first missi-
He pauses mid-way through a pushup as he realizes that his old schedule isn’t going to work anymore ‘You finally passed a team’ he reminds himself before continuing with his normal workout.

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‘I’m supposed to meet up with Team seven at 10’ Kakashi muses as he takes a glance at the position of the sun ‘That’s in two hours, so I have four hours to spend’ he was tempted to spend the hours at the Memorial Stone as he usually would but seeing as that was where he told Team 7 to meet him today he would have to find a different way to kill the time.

With a mental shrug, he hopped to a nearby roof intending to actually make true one of his usually excuses and ‘Get lost on the road of life’ just to see what would come of it.

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Three hours later found Kakashi at the Academy, with the intention of pulling his students records and tests. While he had been given a dossier on them all, he felt like going to the root of the information anyway as he he had already restocked his groceries, bought a few new books, ran in to a few of his old Anbu Kohai who were off duty, put in a requisition request for more basic field supplies and played a few games of rock paper scissors with Guy. He could have gone to meet up with his team, and was in fact originally planning on it, but when he spotted the Academy changes his plans seeing as he found another way to “productively” waste his time. Plus from the smells he could gather wafting from the school, they had recently got a delivery of baked goods and he could use a snack before he dealt with his brats.

Thus the copy ninja chose to follow his nose as it leads him to fresh treats.

He arrived at the door to the sensei’s lounge shortly after Airi had finished setting everything up, silently he stood in the door way leaning up against the frame as he watched his friend climb up to the high shelf using a chair, of all things.

She was Kakashi’s only ‘Civilian’ friend and he often forgot just how it was that civilians dealt with everyday issues, and how more often than not it was wildly different from how a highly trained Shinobi would deal with it.

Such as how he didn’t bother to lock his front door, but always made sure his windows were locked every time he went out.

He was just about to speak out when he noticed she was going to fall, and was moving before Airi had even made a noise. To the untrained Kakashi would look like a blur as he moved from one end of the room to the other in the span of a heartbeat.

To the experienced, his movements were the equivalent to a lazy stroll as he moved in to position to catch Airi with one arm before she fell too far. And in a playful bid he had pulled out his book as he did so, making it seem like he had caught her by pure happenstance.

“Ahh Airi” Kakashi said with obviously excesses cheer, not turning away from his book “How nice of you to drop by”