changes: new route part 1

team 7 wasn't that far from the gate as Haku woke up.

"where am I"

sasuke eyed him for a moment.

"well on the road back to Konoha"

"oh am I going to be jailed?"

"no way we're going to make sure you have a better life here right Kakashi?"

Naruto looked at Kakashi.

"well she'll have to be interrogated to see her loyalty but yes"

"you should have just let me die without Zabuza I'm no-"

Sasuke who decided to carry Haku by himself dropped him.

"don't spout nonsense like that you still have a future if he had a shred of humanity he'd want you to continue living so are you going to continue to live with a deadly view of life or will you carve your own path if the former..."

Sasuke tossed a kunai at his feet.

"get it over with just know he'd be disappointed"

Naruto was about to protest this but Kakashi stopped him. Haku picked up the kunai and aimed it at himself he struggled to move it forward taking in Sasuke's words but eventually, he tossed it aside.

'I'm glad I didn't have to talk that wise to stop him`

Sasuke walked up to him and patted him on the back.

"you made the right choice"

'though if he actually went with it I'd punch him to the ground and make him serve under me with my sharingan '

The tension that was created by Sasuke stunt calmed a bit as team 7 reached the gates of Konoha as an anbu flashed in front of them.

"is this the one you told us about Kakashi?"

"Yes he won't be too much of a problem I promise"

"if you say so Kakashi"

the anbu flashed beside Haku and took him away.

~timeskip~

Sasuke wasn't proud of what happened during that mission so he seeked out the blacksmith for giving him the cursed blade but when he went to the area there was just a old rundown seal manufacturer.

'what kind of poltergeist shit is this'

he thought as he suppressed the urge to burn the already falling apart building to the ground. He was so caught up in his shock he didn't notice Kakashi behind him.

"yo Sasuke what are you doing hanging around this place?"

"was there a blacksmith here once?"

Kakashi paused and went into the thinking pose.

"there was a very old one but it shutdown a month before the 3rd shinobi war ended due to a hinged spy assassinating the owner who was from a lesser known clan"

Sasuke frowned at this knowing that there was something severely wrong here but there was nothing he could do for now.

"why did you ask Sasuke you can tell me almost anything I am your sensei"

Sasuke and Kakashi started at one another before Sasuke conceded and unsheathed his blade.

"I got this from the same place but if it shutdown years ago then I wasted money on a ghost"

"I see that is strange but we'll figure it out later I have a special training ready for all of you today"

"really your not going to be lazy?"

Kakashi made a dramatic shocked expression.

"me!? being lazy I thought I was doing a good job as a sensei!"

Sasuke cringed at the dramatics.

"I was joking I'll be there"

Kakashi eye smiled.

"good see you there"

the clone poofed away.

"oh wait I should have asked about Haku hn I'll do it later"

Sasuke did a full speed run to the training ground 7 seeing Sakura and Naruto on the ground trying to pick themselves up. Kakashi turned with the same eye smile.

"glad you made it here put these on"

Kakashi yeeted weights wich Sasuke barely dodged.

"hn so this is what we're doing now"

"yep now put them on"

Sasuke tried to pick them up but dropped in a heap.

"oh you need help too don't worry I'll help"

Kakashi flashed beside him and put weights on his arms legs and waist which left him struggling to even move his arms.

"now that your all aquanted with the ground today all you have to do is make it to the post which has your lunch and before you ask no this wasn't something that came out of no where I was planning on doing this in the land of Waves but if course we didn't have the time"

Kakashi opened his book and layed Infront of the post and started reading.

"I swear I'm going to find a way to burn those books after this"

to be continued

(I know what a divergence but it'll all make since once the chunnin exams starts next chapter will be a surprise hint:2 fronts anyways vote comment and peace)