A Choice (and other things they lost along the way)

We're not in Kansas anymore

A/N: Hi, so, like, Yeah?? I watched Jujutsu Kaisen, and then I squinted at Naruto, and here we are? This is only like the very beggining and really more of a prolouge than anything else, so there isn't any big hints to it being in jjk rn. Thats not until like, chapter six.

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Starting to feel the burn of holding three sleeping children at once, Kakashi shifted and resolved to never let Sasuke and Naruto touch poisons again.

For some reason, he thought that it would be a good idea to train the kids on how to use and make basic poisons. It was a mistake.

Naruto, being the idiot that he was, decided that because he was able to flush one poison out of his system in wave, he was immune to all poison. He then proceeded to stab himself with and/or consume every single poison that Kakashi brought. For literally no reason.

Sasuke was only slightly better; he decided that poisons were to be tested for potency like you would check the edibility of your cooking. He stuck his finger in his recently made poison, licked the questionable substance off of of it, and then proceeded to attack anything that moved. The recipe that Kakashi gave him was a mild hallucinogenic that he somehow messed up so bad that it went from convincing you that everything was your ally to whatever it was that he created, though it could have also been the curse-mark acting up.

Sakura, his perfect, favorite child, was just ignoring the chaos of her teammates and basking in the attention that he was giving her. At that point in time, Kakashi was also ignoring the two boys and tutoring Sakura, and it wouldn't have been too much of a stretch to say that the girl was even more prodigious than him. After reading one or two textbooks on the subject, she was making her own poisons perfectly and even improving on some recipes.

So it really wasn't her fault when Sasuke mistakenly threw a kunai at her and she dropped like a fly. Then it was Naruto, who's poison misadventure finally caught up to him and he suddenly passed out. For Sasuke, Kakashi was forced to manually knock him out to prevent him from accidentally murdering everyone.

That was how he got where he was then, with Naruto on his left shoulder, Sakura on his right, and Sasuke on his back. Kakashi was struggling not to snap and throw them all off; the sensation of their unconscious bodies was giving him flashbacks to when he had to carry his entire team back to Konoha after he messed up a mission, which was not very fun. He could almost feel the eyes of his enemies on him, the adrenaline of being chased, the knowledge that he wasn't safe, he could never be safe and it was all his fault- No, this was not the time nor the place for that. He had to get the children to the hospital for poison treatment.

It started raining, the pitter-patter of the raindrops on the path and on his head making him want to flinch every time he felt them. Of course, he didn't because he was a better shinobi than that.

Just as he was about to get over his paranoia, he caught a whiff of an awfully familiar scent and Kakashi blurred off of the path. He knew, logically, that it was probably just his paranoia, but he just couldn't shake the feeling of being in danger; a lax shinobi was a dead shinobi, and life had done very well to teach him that lesson.

He put the genin down, preparing for a fight. He drew out a kunai, eyes narrowing while trying to find the perceived threat. It seemed that it was only his imagination (as so much was nowadays), because even after a good ten minutes of waiting the only thing of note was the slight snoring of his kids. Sighing, Kakashi picked up the children and walked back onto the path, still tense. Maybe I got a little of Sasuke's poison in my system, he joked to himself, attempting to stay calm. It didn't work.