5 Family (Part-1)
"Alright, Be quiet brats, Listen carefully, I won't be repeating this"
Yasaki along with every one of the first year listens to the instructor.
"You will be fighting one on one so that we can see what to work on you guys", said one of the academy teacher
"Since this is your first day, don't worry, even if you lose you can climb back up in a year or next"
"Alright, First Match, Hatake Kakashi vs Uchiha Obito, please come mid-stage"
Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yaseki turned back to see a plethora of Girls cheering for the Charming Kakashi.
Rin was one of them. And Obito was sulking because of that.
Kakashi looked at the only person not cheering for him. Yasaki.
Obito too looked for the only person who could cheer for him. Yasaki.
Yasaki himself felt like he should dig a hole and die crawling in it.
Kakashi and Obito kept on looking at Yasaki.
Yasaki raised his hand, "Go... K-Kakashi"
He really should Die.
Kakashi gave a smug look to Obito who was fuming at Kakashi.
"Anything goes, First to lose the conscious, Admit defeat, or drop out of the stage will lose. No serious Harm or permanent Crippling of your opponent. You can harm them as long as it's not serious and the opponent can continue their daily activities. Clear?", said the Chunnin Instructor
"Crystal", said both Obito and Kakashi
Kakashi Kakashi Kakashi..!!
Everyone looked at Kakashi him being Hatake and being so mysterious. He also has a plethora amount of girls cheering for him. Yasaki looked at Kakashi and plead him to go easy on Obito with pity in his eyes...
"Make the Seal of Reconciliation"
They made the seal of Reconciliation, as Obito looked at Kakashi pouting, "I will beat your ass then Rin and Yasaki will only take my side instead of yours"
'Wow what a thing to say to a 3-Year-old', Yasaki thought with a sigh
"You are dumber than I gave you credit for", Kakashi said
"What do you mean?", Obito asked Gritting his teeth
"You are a dork"
'And Kakashi shouldn't have said it'
Obito gritted his teeth. Ready to bark at anyone with those big teeth
Kakashi ignored him. Annoying Obito even more.
"Ready. Set. Start"
Gyaaaaa, Obito ran towards Kakashi. Yasaki facepalmed, while Kakashi can't believe how bad this guy is.
Obito kept on running, While Kakashi looked bored standing there.
Kakashi looked at Yasaki who plead him once again.
"Tch"
At that very moment, Obito arrived and Kakashi took a sidestep the very last moment as Obito got tangled in Kakashi's leg and lost his balance to fall out of the stage.
"Match over. Record, 10 Seconds. The fastest match of my life"
Hahahahaha
The Students laughed, and Obito blushed
"///"
"S-Shut up, It was an Accident", Obito tried to dissuade the situation, but it had no effect
Obito looked at Kakashi with hatred. "Sensei, I want to challenge him once more"
"No"
Hahahahahaha
"Sensei", Obito waved his hand in desperation.
"Come out, You will have plenty of chances, this is just the start of the year", said the sensei
"Hmph, Dobe"
Kakashi came out of the stage. Obito gritted his teeth and come out as well.
"Second Match. Kurenai Yuhi vs. Anko Mitarashi. Come to mid-stage"
"Obito", Rin asked concerned, Yasaki was with her
"Oh, Now You both remember me, I Don't want to talk to either of you. Hmph", He went to another side
Yasaki signaled Rin to follow Obito and comfort him, and she did
Yasaki on the other hand made his way towards Kakashi
"What was that", He whispered
"What do you mean?", asked Kakashi
"You could have at least act like he was giving you a fight, before dropping him out"
Kakashi pouted, "Why should I have done that"
"Come on Kakashi, he was laughed all over the Academy"
"That's his punishment"
"For what?"
"For stealing my Nii san"
!!!
"What the heck are you talking about?"
"You didn't cheer for me"
'That's it?'
"I... Did"
"Not by heart"
Yasaki facepalmed yet again, "Kakashi, it's still too far going. Everyone is laughing at him. You should Apologize to him"
"Never"
"Kakashi"
"On one Condition"
"Whatever you ask, Ice cream? Ramen? what do you want"
"You teach me that After Image Technique"
"Kakashi that is, You are too young---
"You did it at 5"
"Yes, And It was an Accident. I don't think you are ready just yet. Not to mention, You haven't even learned the basic white chakra of our clan yet."
"You won't teach me then?"
"Uh... No?"
"I won't apologize to him then"
"..."
"Tou chan will teach you when You are ready"
"Apology"
Yasaki gritted his teeth, "Fine. But You better do it properly"
"Of Course Nii Chan", Kakashi Grinned
Yasaki Sighed, his Otou just blackmailed him and he could only gnash his teeth
"Pay attention in my match, I will use it without White Chakra"
Kakashi nodded
"Even though doing it without White Chakra is tough, I have already mastered it to the point of doing After Image without using the blinding white Chakra"
"Won't it be risky? Like Uchiha's will be able to steal it?"
"No, Sharingan can not steal our Clan techniques, They don't have our White Chakra"
Kakashi nodded once more.
"Everyone here might feel it as Magic trick, but you have to remain completely focus, Concentrate on my movements throughout the battle. I will try to drag it out for you"
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"10th Match, Hatake Yasaki vs Sarutobi Asuma. Please come on mid-stage"
"You better watch and learn, I will teach you how to interact politely with your Opponents"
"Of course"
Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yasaki got his own share of Fangirls, as he got startled but kept on moving towards the stage
"Hatake?", Rin whispered, Obito, Rin, and everyone made the connection of Kakashi and Yasaki in an instant
Yasaki who was looking at the sharp-eyed Rin who was obviously angry; Sighed
This day can not get any worse than it is.
"Hee, Hatake's name is overly hyped and praised, Don't forget if you are the son of White fang, I am the son of Hokage"
"Ok"
Yasaki didn't want to ignore Asuma, But what could he say to that, Insult in return? That might make it even worse.
"..."
"..."
"Uh... As I was saying. I am gonna destroy you"
"Got it"
Yasaki was in despair, He is as bad as Kakashi in it.
Kakashi who was in the crowd and learning etiquette, Chuckled
"They really are brothers" Obito muttered this attitude of totally ignoring and annoying the person in front of them. Maybe it runs in the family.
Asuma gritted his teeth in frustration.
"Ready?"
Asuma gritted his teeth and took out twin Kunais from his pocket as he took a stance.
Yasaki looked here and there, before Picking a tree branch from the side.
"Are you looking down on me?", asked Asuma
"I am a swordsman and a swordsman is never without a sword. A blade of grass, a branch, bamboo, and stone could all act as swords"
"Both Fighter ready?"
"Yes/ Yes"
"Set. Start"
"I AM GONNA KICK YOUR ASS"
"..."
He made hand signs in a blur, as he took a deep breath.
"Fire Style: Fire Ball Jut--
Yasaki pointed his tree Branch at Asuma.
"Blunt Meteor"
!!!
BOOOOMMM
A white great sword made full of white chakra fall on Asuma.
"..."
Everyone was silent at this point.
From the Dust Cloud. Asuma came out rolling, as he looked Yasaki with blood all over his body and torn clothes.
"Asuma", Both contestants looked towards the source of the voice, Kurenai, as Asuma stood up shakingly
"..."
RAAAAGHHH
He yelled a war cry and started running towards Yasaki.
Yasaki tilted his head in confusion, as Tree Branch turned into Little white Particles.
!!!!
Asuma gritted his teeth as he stopped and leaned back to dodge the Tree Branch that comes out of the ground right out in his path, But another one emerged from the ground scratching his back. One coming out of side scratching his arms, making him cry in pain and dropping his Kunai.
Yasaki waved his arm, and the Branches from the ground returned to the ground and the tree branch reformed in his hand.
If it wasn't Tree Branch but his usual Black sword, Asuma would have been heavily injured. If not Dead Already.
"That's enough Asuma", Yasaki said with his hands behind his back.
Yasaki although Promised Kakashi to use After Image on his opponent, But Asuma is just too pitiful.
"That's not enough, I will show dad and you geniuses that I am as powerful as any of you", He despite everything started running. And learning from his mistake the previous time, He Leaped at Yasaki.
"..."
With his legs slightly apart and the tree branch facing downwards, He lifted the sword and like a pendulum, He parried all the attacks at him like they were nothing.
*Tik
*Tik
*Tik
*Tik
Asuma landed on the stage, and In one quick motion hacked at the legs of Yasaki.
"..."
Yasaki swing his tree branch and slapped Asuma's cheeks before he could heck Yasaki's legs.
Asuma holds his red Cheeks with slight tears in his eyes. Looking at Yasaki with a slightly slimmer in his eyes.
"..."
"Um... Sorry? Are you hurt badly"
Asuma gritted his teeth even more as he stood up, and start running around Yasaki in the circle at full speed.
"..."
Yasaki stood there without moving
"Fireball Barrage", Asuma who was running in circles around Yasaki shoot fireball, after fireball at Yasaki's side and front.
Yasaki kept on standing there with his sword down. Without moving an inch.
The fireballs came and... got cut without even reaching near him.
!!!!
Asuma alongside everyone got shocked.
"What just happened?", asked Obito
"I- I don't know, He was just standing there, and then the fireballs disappeared before reaching Yasaki", said Rin
"..."
Yasaki calmly looked at Asuma, "Is that all"
Asuma gritted his teeth and was enraged even more. He ran in circles yet again and shot fireballs after fireballs at Yasaki.
"..."
He just stood there and the fireballs started getting cut left and right without a reason.
Asuma slid on Yasaki's back and Leaped at him to stab at him.
!!!
He felt like it's an Illusion, Yasaki was standing there, but at that moment when he was trying to stab Yasaki. He saw another form of Yasaki swinging the Tree Branch that was covered in chakra, in wide slashes. And another Yasaki, stabbing at him.
At that moment of truth, Asuma Sarutobi saw three Yasaki's at once.
He was standing, Blocking, and attacking at the same time without even moving an inch.
'What the hell is this Ninjutsu'
Gaahhhh
Asuma felt chest pain like never before, and got slapped on the neck and was thrown out in an instant.
"...."
To All standing there, Yasaki was just standing there without moving an Inch, and Suddenly, all the attacks on him started getting cut. Asuma tried to attack from the back, but he was flown out of the stage without Yasaki doing anything.
"Win Hatake Yasaki", the chunnin announced after sometime
There was no cheer for him as they all gawked at him after this.
"Did you see it clearly?", asked Yasaki
Kakashi nodded
"We will start with the basics, I have held my end of the deal, your turn"
"Yasaki Kun, what the heck was that?", asked Excited Rin
"You were so awesome, hey, can You teach me that amazing technique, Pretty Please?", asked Obito
Yasaki smiled at his friends.
Kakashi scoffed and was about to retort to that question. But Yasaki threw him a stern gaze making him quiet.
"Obito san", Kakashi said getting the attention of Rin and Obito
"I am sorry, I shouldn't have done that", Kakashi said sincerely
"Well. Hahaha, No problem, Hahaha"
Yasaki smiled, Kakashi really put an effort into that apology
"Instead, I should have gone easier on you, since you are so pathetically weak", finished Kakashi
"WHY YOU TEME"
Giggled Rin, as Kakashi ignored the ranting Obito
While Yasaki felt like he should just slam his head on some wall.
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Kakashi watched as Yasaki closed the door harshly and sigh with pained eyes that were closed.
"Nii san?" Kakashi asked and Yasaki's eyes opened tiredly as he tilted his head to look at Kakashi calmly.
"I'm sorry you had to hear that. You just focus on your studies okay?" Yasaki said as he put his hand on Kakashi's shoulder.
"..."
"I am going out for some time, I will be back before Dark"
"Piggyback ride?" Kakashi grinned and Yasaki laughed before he turned around and bent down and over a little as Kakashi climbed on…
Yasaki carried Kakashi down the road, which was painted orange by the setting sun.
"Why do you two always fight? Have I done something to cause this?" Kakashi asked as he rested his chin on Yasaki's shoulder sadly
"You haven't done anything Kakashi so I don't want you to feel bad or worry about our fights… Otou san and I are very different yet similar at the same time which is why we don't stick together well, like oil and water, remember I showed you once when I was cooking?" Yasaki asked and Kakashi huffed and put his head back on his shoulder.
"I remember… I just…" He began before he stopped as Yasaki put Kakashi down and knelt before him
"You can tell me otou…"
"I know that you and tou-san were… very hurt over Kaa-san's death, I can remember little details sometimes but things have just gone down from there ever since." Kakashi began, looking up at Yasaki who was looking down now with deep sadness in his eyes that seemed so far away.
"I remember what I saw in that picture with the locket, you and Kaa san, I never saw that look in your eyes. Nii san, I just want to see that look once... That look of yours that is truly laughing, smiling... the look that says that you happy"
"Please stop…" Yasaki whispered
"It's not just you, Otou san is the same, You two are always sad, I just"
"Kakashi", Yasaki whispered and Kakashi took a deep breath to say more and it froze in his chest.
"That look that you talk about, died the very day Kaa san died, years ago"
"...", Kakashi looked down
"As for Otou San, He adores me, I am his older son, How could he not? But he does it more so because I look a lot like Kaa-san and act like her too. I even practiced a longsword Kenjutsu with the black sword of Kaa san"
"Then why do you both always fight?", Kakashi whispered
Yasaki smiled sadly, "Because it hurts Kakashi"
Kakashi looked up with confusion on his face.
"Every day, he has to see me, a face that looks a lot like his lost love. And it hurts him more than any of us can Imagine"
"..."
"I didn't see my face in the mirror for months after her death, because it would remind me of her. But he had no choice but to see my face regularly"
"..."
"He loves me Otou, He loves me more than anything else, and I love him even more. We fight a lot, yes, But that's not because of you. It's because we loved Kaa san too much and because we are so much alike as well"
Kakashi looked down, as Yasaki poked both of his cheeks, as he Kakashi pouted and Yasaki Giggled.
"You don't need to burden yourself because of us Kakashi, I hope that you can live like a 4-year-Old kid. Not some Grumpy grown-up man"
"You are 6 Year Old too. And you act like a grown-up man", Kakashi pointed at Yasaki
Yasaki chuckled, "I can act cool because I am the big brother"
Kakashi pouted, "Not fair", Yasaki Giggled
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Sakumo kicked a small stone as he walked in the night air. He had sat in a dark room after Yasaki and Kakashi left and re-evaluated everything that had happened since Nozomi died…
Since his wife was hospitalized. Food was always on the table, his uniforms always washed to perfection and hung up in his closet, the house always clean and Kakashi always happy and taken care of. Yasaki was always just there.
He had thanked him for the food and his uniforms being washed and for taking care of Kakashi that one time he was terribly sick and Yasaki had stayed off of school to take care of him so Sakumo could continue his missions.
He hasn't needed to change anything he did once his wife died… Kakashi took Yasaki's once happy place of being the over-energetic and over-enthusiastic child, while, Yasaki took Nozomi's place of taking care of everything around the house.
When was the last time he just spent time with his son? Said 'thank you' for taking time out of his life to make sure he and Kakashi were happy and taking care of themselves?
When was the last time he saw Yasaki as his little adorable Kid and not just something as a servant? or a tool that grows in Kenjutsu way too quickly.
The only time he did spend with his son was when they train, ate, and talked about their days and when they argued…
Yasaki had grown too much and too quickly with responsibility which wasn't his to shoulder in the first place. He had been a terrible father to Kakashi but especially Yasaki and that thought alone made his tears sting.
He visited Nozomi's grave and sat there for hours.
He knew this needed to change. No matter how hard it was, or how much it hurt to see his love in his son, he needs to stop it or he'd lose Yasaki forever.
Spend more time with his family, and not just when Training him.
Yasaki is not a servant or a tool to be trained.
Yasaki is his oldest son, His son that was born with the girly face of his mother. The lost love of his life.
The Son he used to adore so much. The son that he used to love the most in this world.
These days, the moment they talk, they argue.
Laughter tickled his ears as he looked around and noticed it was late and he stood under the streetlights along the edge of the riverbank as he followed the familiar laughter.
Sakumo stopped between two streetlights and stood in the shadows as he looked on into the playground with a smile.
Kakashi and Yasaki were sparring and flipping in ways he had never seen.
Yasaki, as well as Kakashi, flip, and chargeback at each other with giggles, there were no serious hits or punches as it was more pushes than actual hits…
They seem like Kids... Normal Kids.
Sakumo wiped his tears, It's been years since he had seen Yasaki smiling like this, The day Nozomi died, Yasaki lost this look.
Today, he saw that look in Yasaki once more, and he stood there watching that smile. That laugh.
For a moment, he felt like, Nozomi came back to life through Yasaki.
The same face, The same Eyes, The way both laughed. The liveliness in their eyes.
"You were always here, weren't you Nozomi, It was just me that was so deep into the remorse that I ignored it"
Time passed and, they both fell on the ground, from playing too hard.
They stood up. As Sakumo frowned.
"You should both be at home by now…" Sakumo called out as the two children stopped and looked around, eyes sharp as Sakumo smiled further and ducked further into the shadows.
"Tou-san's voice?" Kakashi asked Yasaki, as they stood nearly back-to-back as they looked in Sakumo's general direction but couldn't see him.
"It sounded like him… I'm pretty sure it was him." Yasaki said as he stepped forwards, his protectiveness over Kakashi showing through as he held an arm out in front of him.
"I'll make a deal with you two," Sakumo said as they continued to look, closer to where he was standing.
"If you find me or make it home first, I won't give any punishment and I'll order takeouts for dinner but if I win… Well, you don't want to know." Sakumo said, grinning and laughing quietly to himself as both, Kakashi and Yasaki began to race home and Sakumo followed.
"Shouldn't we try to find tou-san?"
"Otou-san won't be found unless he wants to be and he knows that, this is our best choice or we could be out here trying to look for him while he sits at home smiling because he won," Yasaki explained and Kakashi nodded.
"True… Let's pick up the pace." Kakashi said as he sped up and caught up to Yasaki as they ran faster.
"We won!" Kakashi shouted through his giggles and they laughed harder.
"How do you think you've won? I made it home first." Sakumo whined as he closed the door and stood over the two laughing kids.
"You said to make it home…" Yasaki began as he sat up with Kakashi, both still wiping their sweat away.
"And we got into our home first, technically, the outside isn't home," Kakashi said as the two kids hi-fived and Sakumo chuckled in defeat.
As he bent down and kissed Kakashi forehead for which he pouted
Yasaki giggled at that.
!!!
Sakumo kissed Yasaki's forehead as well.
He didn't do that since Kaa san's death.
Yasaki's lips trembled, as tears began to fall on his cheeks.
Sakumo chuckled softly as he hugged Yasaki, and kissed his forehead once more, "I am sorry, Your Idiotic Tou Chan is so late. isn't he?"
"Yes", said Yasaki in mid tears as they hugged each other.
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Yasaki and Kakashi sat next to each other at the dining room table as they ate slowly, laughing and smiling with each other.
Sakumo never laughed so much for almost 3 years. Yasaki had his happiness killed 3 years ago.
But today, Yasaki had acted like a kid for a long time and Kakashi left his mask down contently as he ate and stole a piece of eggplant off of Yasaki's plate.
"Hey, that's my food, you thief"
"You should have paid more attention"
