7.

"Yawn, Kakashi-kun, putting out a fire can attract beasts. Fuin can hide us from them, if he has to hide the fire, he won't last long without a constant supply of chakra and we can't waste our chakra right now." - Ichimaru said to one of his team members.

Yes, he was the legendary copy ninja Hatake Kakashi, the sixth Hokage and so on. But at the moment, he was just a student of the academy, although it wasn't right to use the word 'just'. When he applied to the academy at the age of 4, it was a bit surprising for everyone, because it's not common to meet a 4-year-old academy student. But when people found out that he was White Fang's son, they stopped overreacting.

But after 6 months, when he passed the exams for another 2 years, people noticed him and understood that he was not an ordinary student. So he was placed in our class, but I think next time he will skip either 4 more years or 3 and a half. And don't get confused, the academy entrance exams are held twice a year, the first in March and the second in September.

Three and a half more years to graduate from the academy. - Ichimaru said. - I could graduate earlier, but why? It's not like I'm losing anything except the real life experience and the ninjutsu above C rank. Some of the C-rank ninjutsus I was taught by my father and Dan. Not destructive ones, though. Father taught me the Mind Transfer Jutsu, which transfers almost all of your yin chakra into your opponent's mind and allows you to control him for some time. It can't be used in one-on-one combat, but it's good for gathering information.

 I can just put my mind into any animal, like a bird, and see with its eyes and control it. The only disadvantage of this technique is that I can't control my body and my opponent at the same time. But this technique is only the first step, after I master it, I will be able to control my opponent or animal without losing consciousness if I don't try to control more than one enemy. The third step is to control as many opponents as you can, it just depends on the mastery of your chakra and the technique,' Ichimaru sighed. - Ichimaru sighed in his mind.

In the past two and a half years, only four remarkable events have happened. The first is Kakashi's ascension (😊). 2nd is the fact that Shizune started going to the academy 1.5 years ago, she was very happy when me, my mother, Tsunade, my father and even Dan came to her entrance ceremony. She passed the entrance exams with good scores and was appointed to Class A. After her mother died 3 and a half years ago, she started living with Dan and Tsunade in the same house. At the moment, Dan can't have children, but Tsunade assures everyone that she will find a way to cure Dan's injuries, she even works a lot with Orochimaru on this project.

On the 3rd, I even began to study under Tsunade's tutelage. It's not that she's always available to help me, or that I have too much free time to study medicine. I just need to learn more about ninjas and how chakra can help regenerate almost anything, if you have enough chakra of course. When I come to her, I sometimes meet the snake. He's creepy, scary and mysterious, but his smile, oh my God, his smile can kill lab rats instantly, I saw it myself and it doesn't matter that this rat was poisoned, the fact is that it died right after he smiled.

And the last thing I wanted to do after reading his story, you might have guessed. I helped Hatake Sakumo, Kakashi's father. Oh, and don't think that I went with him on the mission and killed every enemy single-handedly, ha ha and ha. Of course not.

<< almost 2 years ago >>

"I can't get out of my body, no matter how hard I try." - A 6-year-old boy complained while sitting in meditation posture.

"Of course it's not easy to do. This technique is almost an S-rank jutsu. If it weren't for its biggest drawback, that you can't control your body unlike Mind Transfer Jutsu, this technique could be S rank. You, 6-year-old brat, wanting to learn S-rank ninjutsu is not possible. However, even your progress is amazing, you can already go out of your body for 1 cm, even if it's only for a millisecond, but it's already a good result," his uncle encouraged him. - His uncle, a slim man with long hair, encouraged him.

"Yes, Uncle Dan, but I have been trying to perform this ninjutsu for more than 2 years and my progress is only 1 cm for a mere moment." - Ichimaru sighed.

"You, brat, want too much, don't you?" - The woman said from behind him and punched him lightly in the head.

"Aunt Tsunade, you will damage my brain one day." - Ichimaru mumbled.

"What did you call your big sister..." - the helper said in an angry voice.

Oh s**t, someone cut my tongue. - "I'm sorry big sister Tsunade, it's just my tongue." - A river of sweat fell from his forehead in 1 second. Never say anything about a woman's age, NEVER. Dan just smiled at their interaction.

"HM, only this time, brat." - Tsunade said and changed her face - "Sakumo returned from the mission and failed to save his teammates." - Tsunade said with a serious voice. Dan's face darkened, he knew how it felt when someone loses their reputation, although his case was different from Sakumo's, but he could somehow understand him.

"It will be hard for him, but he must persevere." - Dan said.

"Yes, but I don't think he has a chance to be Hokage anymore." - Tsunade shook her head.

 So it happened. Yes, sometimes it happens when a ninja fails in his mission, but failing at C-rank and failing at S-rank are two completely different things. I don't think he can handle this situation. It's a lot more pressure on him than it is on Dan, and he doesn't have a family to support him psychologically. His 3-year-old child can't help him, and the ninjas like Sakumo won't go to our clan's psychologists to ask for help. I will try to help him somehow. I even have a simple plan how to do that.' - Ichimaru thought to himself and left Dan's house in 15 minutes to go to Sakumo's house.

It is good that I already found out where he lives, I can save time. - Ichimaru thought while using Shunshin on short distances. Shunshin was not a difficult technique, the dangerous part was that the person was running in one direction at a very high speed and it was not so easy to control its duration and speed.

When he arrived, he found a place to get out at the right moment. He waited for almost 2 hours until a depressed man with white hair and a young boy came to the shop near the house. He didn't think that Sakumo would recognize him. Because of his condition, the only thing he could notice was the way people looked at him.

When they approached him, Ichimaru came out of the shop and crashed into Sakumo. He felt the ground and said:

"Ite Ite Ite, man, look where you are going." - Ichimaru said.

"I'm sorry, boy." - Sakumo said in a low voice.

"Oh, wait, aren't you the guy who came back from an S-rank mission?" - Ichimaru asked and Sakumos face became even sadder, now even children know about his failure. They could understand him, his comrades betrayed him, they didn't support his decision in front of the Hokage and the elders, so his mood was somewhere below the void. - Oh, Uncle, you are so cool, when I grow up, I want to be like you. You didn't abandon your friends even for the price of the mission. You are my hero! If someone like you would teach us in the academy, it would be fantastic, eh, dreams deams". - The boy said with stars in his eyes and stood up, bowing to him and running away, leaving Sakumo frustrated in the middle of the street with a confused Kakashi.

After this event, Sakumo stopped being an active shinobi and went to the academy as an instructor. The ninjas, however, thought that he was just afraid to go out after failing in his mission. They treated him like a coward, but it was an S-rank mission, so not many people below Jonin rank knew about it, yes, there were a lot of rumors about him, but the fact is that he started teaching swordsmanship at the academy and he was doing great. But even if he could overcome the crisis, he could not keep track of his son.

Kakashi was not happy with his father's decision and started to learn on his own. Hokage saw his talent and advised little Kakashi to join the ninja academy to prove to others that his father wasn't a coward, but rather a strong ninja who only once failed his mission and to prove this, he had to always finish his mission perfectly, not like his father. So Hokage became a good old grandfather to little Kakashi, but that's another story.

<< End of flashback >>

Even if Kakashi's attitude remains the same as in the story, I'm still satisfied with what I've done. - Acho - 'I hate survival lessons!!!' - although Ichimaru and he tried to fall asleep until it was his turn.