A/N: Hey all -yawn- whazzup? Er... this is probably gonna be a oneshot...yeah. I’m just taking a little break from my D Files fic... (Sorry guys... XD) Well... here’s a YondaimeKakashi fic. And... Sasuke’s here... and he’s thirteen. (Deleting the idea of the two year skip and the Orochimaru arc and Sai and Yamato... kay?) Oh! And...

Note: I’m using Kayaku as the Yondaime’s name. Why? Because, out of all the rumors, I like that one the best! Not to mention it’s almost been proven... (Uzumaki as last name! duh...) X3

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I dun own ANY Naruto characters! If I did, I’d be the happiest person to walk the planet earth... (Masashi-sama’s so awesome!)

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“Yo...” Kakashi grunted as he poofed out of no where to the training grounds, reading the usual series.

“YOU’RE LATE! AGAIN!” Naruto screamed, pointing at his sensei with frustration.

“I know, I know... I actually have a good reason this time...” The jounin growled, putting the second book of Icha Icha Paradise away. Sakura and Sasuke took a hint something had happened this morning.

“Kakashi-sensei... um... Everything okay?” Sakura questioned, slightly apprehensive.

“Yeah, yeah... Just had a little run-in with Gai...”

The three genin knew that was their cue to change the subject. But, surprisingly, Kakashi beat them to it.

“Ah, but enough about that... I have a mission for you all...” Taking out a scroll and unrolling it, the three genin crowded around it and scanned the ebony kanji scrawled down the page.

Naruto’s eyes lit up and he grabbed the scroll.

“Well, let’s go! What’re we waiting for! We’ve got ground to cover!” He started to march off, but Kakashi grabbed him by the collar.

“Woah. Not yet,” He stated calmly. “I have to give you a briefing first...” Naruto groaned, but listened nonetheless when Sakura gave him a glare fitting of her inner self.

“Now. Seeing as the target we’re supposed to deliver these two scrolls-” He held up two differently colored and GIANT scrolls. “-to Iwagakure-” Saying that village’s name sent a shiver straight through him. Remembering how Obito had died there... it hurt more than anyone knew. He brushed off the feeling and continued. “-we’re going to have to be on full alert and keep to the middle roads where others can see us.”

“Wasn’t the point to not be seen?” Sasuke growled arrogantly. Kakashi eyed him with a warning not to use that tone with him and sighed.

“It usually is, but if we try that, we’ll be spotted soon enough and we will be suspected. So, therefore, if we let people see we are harmless and just there to deliver something, they’ll, even if they don’t know it, instinctively not suspect us of anything other than what we are there to do. Now...” Kakashi scanned his students, meeting all their eyes, then continued. “We better reach the village before nightfall, so let’s get going.”

With that, team seven set off to Konoha’s gates.

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“WOW!” Naruto marveled walking into the village. He sprung around from shop to shop in the village streets, looking addicted. Kakashi wasn’t paying attention. This village... and everything he remembered about it... had changed. When he had saw it, it was a battlefield, not a peaceful civilization.

“Kakashi-sensei?”

The jounin snapped back to reality at the sound of his name. He looked down to see all three genin slightly ahead of him, staring back in confusion.

“Ah... coming, coming...” He stated and caught up to them.

While walking he stopped them and turned.

“We’ll set up camp somewhere around here... We can’t make it to the center before morning, so we might as well stop now...”

“WHAT! Oh, come on! I could keep going forever! Dattebayo!” Naruto yelled loudly. Sakura hit him over the head with a punch.

“NARUTO, YOU IDIOT!”

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Kayaku yawned as night settled into Iwagakure. He was walking back to his house at that time, completely in disguise, using a genjutsu he placed on himself on everyday so no one would know it was him. When he had faked his death back thirteen years ago, he had fled to Amegakure, but had gotten no luck there in finding anything. So, he went to his least favorite place in the world: Iwagakure. Why? Because that was the place where he could disguise himself easiest. The hidden rock village had always been easy to fool with genjutsu.

Walking on the outskirts of a forest, he suddenly heard a bickering that caught his attention.

He leaned over a bush so he could hear better and listened as the bickering continued.

“Dobe...”

“WHAT’D I DO! NOTHING, DATTEBAYO!”

“NARUTO! YOU’RE ALWAYS CAUSING TROUBLE! JUST LISTEN TO KAKASHI-SENSEI FOR ONCE, WILL YOU!-?”

Kayaku perked up immediately at the mention on his former student’s name and his son’s name. “It couldn’t be... not here...” The blonde whispered to himself and leapt to the treetops to get a view.

He idled himself into a branch overhanging the clearing team seven was in and lowered his chakra to an unreadable level.

Both eyes shot open at the recognizable spiky silver hair and mask of the jounin.

‘Kakashi-kun...’ He thought, completely astonished. ‘So, it is him...’

“NARUTO, YOU JERK!”

Slap!

“OW! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!”

“For being a complete and total idiot with no sense of who’s in charge!” Sakura ‘hmphed’ and marched off to set up her own sleeping bag further away from the males.

“What’d I do, dattebayo...” Naruto whined, crying anime-style.

“Dobe...” Sasuke growled and walked over to his own already-set-up sleeping bag, sat down and glared at the blonde.

“Sasuke-teme, you little- oof!”

“Now, now... Could you two possibly get along for this mission?” Kakashi grabbed Naruto by the shirt collar casually and yanked the little genin backwards. Naruto immediately spun around and squinted at his sensei for as long and as hard as he possibly could.

“What?”

“You’ve been acting differently ever since we got into Iwagakure, dattebayo!” Naruto yelled, pointing an accusing finger in Kakashi’s direction. The jounin blinked, not understanding.

“What are you talking about?”

“Kakashi-sensei... I noticed it too...” Sakura piped up from a bush nearby. She walked out of it and stared at him with a questioningly-puppy-like look. Kakashi then understood what they meant.

“Ah, well... that’s a whole other story... Why don’t you three go to sleep?”

“It’s nine in the evening!” Naruto reprimanded.

“Ten, dobe,” Sasuke growled laying flat on his sleeping bag.

“Whatever, dattebayo!” Naruto yelled, completely pissed now. He turned back to Kakashi. “You’re avoiding the comment!”

“Avoiding, am I?” The jounin merely leaned against a tree with a relaxed and aggravated sigh and took out Icha Icha Paradise. “Yes, I suppose so...”

“GAH!” Naruto lunged at Kakashi, who instinctively pinned him to the ground on his stomach, pulling his hand backwards across his back.

“I’ll tell you this and only this. Iwagakure isn’t the place I’d prefer to be in... it... it brings back... some painful memories...” Kakashi completed and let Naruto go. He stood back and sighed, an almost pained look in his one visible eye.

Kayaku sighed at this, remembering the same things. He knew Kakashi well enough to tell he wanted to cry right now, but would never even dare to do so. He looked to Naruto, who looked oddly familiar to him, and cocked his head to the right, blinking twice in confusion and frustration. He was about to think about this, but a voice directed at him caught his attention.

“Whoever is hiding, you can come out now...” Kakashi growled boredly. Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke all looked at like he was insane, then the realized what he was talking about and looked around for some sign of another. Kayaku gulped.

“Damn...”

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A/N: I'm stopping it here... well, actually... I wrote about seven pages more than this, but decided that'd be too long and cut it down by half. And, here it is. So, no. This is not a oneshot after all... uh... Tell me to continue or not in reviews! Chapter two could be up any second now...