a flower garden fit for a shinobi

the mission

Walking through the village Kakashi was headed home looking around at all the markets his silver hair swaying in the cool breeze.

As he finally started to get closer to his house market stalls disappearing as he got closer. These days he is thankful that he lives near the outer regions of the village as everything seemed to be loud and irritating.

Hours passed after returning home and Kakashi finished washing the dishes that once held a delicious meal on them as he turned and walk down the hallway towards his room passing the study.... His father's study...

Stopping his feet and glaring at the door that leads into the room he had found his father's body that traumatizing day. he was coming home from academy training, he had just gotten an award that day for being the quickest learner and was excited to show his father not knowing he would instead come home to find a lifeless body on the floor.

Kakashi's eyes slowly moved from the door in front of him to his back pocket, reaching into it and pulling out and old small picture book opening it to the only picture of the two paged miniature book.

Looking down at the picture before him, a black and white picture of his mother before her death, she looked around her late teens with mid length brown hair standing in a garden full of flowers and beautifully shaped bushes just behind the garden was what looked like an entrance to a ballroom with big glass windows and wooden floors.

Kakashi had found the tiny picture book on the floor scattered with everything else that had fallen out of his father's pocket his farther used to tell him stories about his mother with the picture just before six year old Kakashi drifted off to sleep.

He had always thought that the that picture was special that it had meant something as of how attached he was to it.

Finally turning away from the door and heading down to his own room he got ready for the night got into his pajamas and hoped into bed drifting off into a dreamless slumber.

The next day he awoke early as he always has and got ready for another dreadful day as a shinobi.

Upon arriving to the hogakes office as to get assigned a new mission for him and his team his sensei had seen him on the way there greeting him with a warm smile "how are you Kakashi? it's been a while since I saw you last," said the blonde haired man.

"I'm alright sensei we saw each other just last week" Kakashi replied his usual emotionless expression painted on his face although half of it covered by a mask hiss eyes showed no emotion at all.

"right" said Minato moving his eyes from his shortest student to the view in front of him, the hokages office without a second thought on whether they should wait for the other members of their team the two of them walked into the building.

An hour later three people waited in front of the hokages desk waiting for the last member of their team rin had showed up just a few minutes after Kakashi and Minato and is now waiting with everyone else for obito Uchiha the last member of the group to show up.

"Sorry I'm late !!" the figure running through the door yelled with as much sincerity as possible.

Turning around to look at the person the sudden loud voice belonged to Kakashi wasn't surprised to see obito.

The hokages face was tired and giving off the energy that he had had a long morning as he talk about how well team Minato was doing with completing mission and improvements in training his face seem to form a kind smile the lines and wrinkles on his face moving as he announced that their next mission would be to stop an attack on a trusted village.

They had been notifications from Anbu spies that an attack against the land of flowers was going to tack place around noon tomorrow.

The land of flowers was a trusted ally for the hidden leaf village gaining love and appreciation over so many years though not having much communication between the two villages both have mutual respect for the other.

The land of flowers was not any smaller than the hidden leaf village, but it did not work the same way the land of flowers had leaders instead of hokages. These leaders were not exactly kings and queens, but they were not far from it.

Just before embarking on their journey Kakashi did a once over for everything he needs making sure he had about just enough of everything and once he was sure and ready to go, they started their way to the land of flowers

Hiding in the trees Kakashi waited for the signal of approval to strike from his sensei.

Footsteps could suddenly be heard from below catching team Minato's attention quickly and with obito and rin following the plan and creating a diversion with shadow clones Kakashi and Minato were able carry out their part of the plan and strike in hopes of finishing one of the many enemies.

Kakashi had jumped down to another branch landing on the opposite side of the tree of one enemy this one had a large brunette ponytail and was glaring off into the village before them skimming over the town looking for his target...