The Jashinist's Son (Naruto Fanfic)

'To be bitter'

Third Person POV:

The rest of the afternoon had gone gone like this; first off Kakashi had forced Takeo to run around Konoha until he collapsed, but alas the boy had resorted to an extreme version of hide and seek to evade the punishment. Grudgingly, Kakashi only gave up after a blow to the head, curtesy of Takeo, that rendered him unconscious.

Upon reawakening, Kaka-baka found Takeo in his little emo corner as per Kurenai's punishment for knocking out his guardian. The two teams had trained under Kurenai's guidance whilst the copy cat ninja was out of it, Takeo practicing genjutsu which is his weakest of his jutsus.

Once training had finally finished, Takeo had been tasked in bringing his guardian home for lunch before he was to meet back up with team 7.

Later....

It had been ten minutes since Takeo had departed, dragging Kakashi behind him so that he could meet back up with the genin as soon as possible, at the desired place. Surprisingly, Takeo and Koneko had arrived before the genin, leaving the duo to wait patiently for their friends.

Meanwhile, Naruto turns around with a creepy look on his face as he swings around to face Sasuke and Sakura. "You know what I'm talking about. Kakashi Sensei's real face~" Sakura screeches and simultaneously punches the blond in the head, "What's the matter with you!?!" The pink banshee screams.

Sasuke turns away from the two bakas, annoyed that a certain silver haired boy was only a few minutes walk from where they were and yet, Naruto and Sakura were taking their sweet time. "Oh please, this is lame." He deadpans as his hands slip into his pockets. "Just count me out. We've already completed today's mission, I'm out of here." And just like that the Uchiha begins walking away from his comrades in the direction of his silver haired friend.

Sakura immediately backtracks after Sasuke's little speech, "yeah you're probably right." But on the inside she was really hoping that the ravenette would change his mind because she honestly thought that this would be fun.

Naruto frowns at his rival's disinterest before an idea comes to mind. He cups a hand to his mouth and whispers, "what if he has lips?" Sasuke immediately freezes midstep, "like a blimp~" Naruto finishes, allowing what he said to rattle the Uchiha's interest.

A disturbing image of Kakashi Hatake with a blimp lip makes the Uchiha sway in disgust, Naruto sees the eagerness radiating off of Sasuke to find out what is under their sensei's mask, and decides to give him one final push."What if he has buck teeth?"

A shiver goes up Sasuke's spine at the mere though before he turns around and marches his way back to Naruto and Sakura. "Okay what is the plan?" The other two begin dragging the Uchiha away to go find their sensei whilst babbling on about their concoction.

Meanwhile, a certain silver haired boy feels the trio's chakra departing the area where he was waiting for them to arrive- where the trio were suppose to meet him. With a sigh Takeo stands, careful not to knock Koneko off his head. "I guess they have better things to do." He says nonchalantly but the frown pinching his face says otherwise.

Takeo had done everything in his power to befriend these genin, besides allowing them to think that Kakashi had killed him and kicking Sasuke when angered......... But that's not the point. As much as he didn't want to in the beginning, he really had tried. Sure, he was still incredibly awkward at times. And yes, villagers and shinobi alike, threatened him on a regular basis.

But he never fought back. He never retaliated and never stooped to their level.

Koneko lets out a soft growl at her friends dismissal, "those bastards! Did they honestly think they'd just ditch us? I'm going to give them a piece of my mind-" "-No Koneko it's okay." Takeo cuts her off, lifting her off his head and instead, holds her in his arms. "It's fine. Really it is." He tries to reassures her, but comes across as just desperate to change the subject.