Naruto: Team 7

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Kakashi smiled at the little troublemaker. Well, his eye seemed to, "Anou..."

"...You really think the way of shinobi is just one big game... right?" It was as much a statement as a question.

A dark eye caught a pair of playful blue ones, "Naruto. You ignored every command I gave you today, every instruction. You ran out like a spoiled little child and almost caused the worst kind of trouble to your teammate." Kakashi glared sternly at the boy before moving on.

"And Sasuke." the man's gaze narrowed, getting the point across that the Uchiha was far from out of the woods, "You could have stopped Naruto. You could have sounded your nightbird call for us, and yet..." his eye wandered to the Uzumaki, "there you were, running rings around our little star here."

"Those weren't the actions of Konoha Shinobi." Kakashi breathed, eye falling to a close, "those were the actions of nothing but scum."

The sharp words hung on the air like daggers of ice in a deep, dark cavern.

After a moment, the sensei finally murmured, "Well..."

The last Hatake's eye reopened, all laziness washed away in favor of utter cold harshness. The gaze of shinobi. The finality of a killer, "it's not good enough..."

"I've seen all I need to..." A gloved hand reached out, hand had Naruto back the back of his headband, dragging him towards the dark-eyed shinobi.

"As you are now, you don't stand a chance in the world of shinobi..." He slammed the golden-haired genin down over a raised knee, chest resting there, preparing a makeshift chopping block of sorts, presenting the vulnerable back of the kyuubi-host's neck.

"I'll show you mercy now..." The hand on the back of Naruto's head tightened, holding the boy in place.

"The Lord Hokage will not miss a pair of little brats." the liberal hand lowered to the shinobi's hip, perhaps towards his jagged kunai-holster...

There was a glint of metal, and for a brief, shocking instant the young avenger seemed to bear witness to the beheading or dismemberment of the happy-go-lucky teammate. The copy-ninja's powerful arm raised, muscles defining, chakra-rich flesh strong enough to pummel through stone, before it was brought down solidly.

CRACK!!!

Kakashi-sensei's open palm collided with Naruto's upturned, orange bottom, the force of the blow sending the boy further over the jounin's lap, to rest (almost)comfortably, wayward rump held high.

( -kun = friendly, used for the ending of boy's names. Sakura uses it to familiarise herself with Sasuke.
-chan = the equivalent of -kun for girls. Naruto uses this for Sakura.
-sama = highest form of respect. Used for lords, royalty, leaders, or simply those who one respects greatly

"anou" is something Kakashi uses in his lazy drawl. It's somewhat like "um... ah... so... you know...")

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Naruto dropped his arms when Kakashi asked if he thought it was a game, surprised by the question. The man went on to scold him for ignoring commands and almost getting Sakura hurt and he visibly deflated, he’d been trying to forget that part. “But, Kakashi-sensei…” He started to protest, but shut up when the man turned to address Sasuke instead.

Sasuke for his part felt uneasy when Kakashi started talking to Naruto, not liking the vibes he was getting off the copy ninja right then. The man turned to him then, his visible eye narrowed and Sasuke had to fight the urge to gulp nervously. The man told him he could have stopped Naruto and he scoffed, feeling like that was a totally unfair accusation. “He wouldn’t listen…” He started to try and explain things but the man talked over him and he shut up since he knew it would be disrespectful to interrupt his sensei and because he knew the man’s words were true. He should not have let Naruto goad him into disobeying orders, he should have alerted Kakashi to what Naruto was doing and waited for instructions.

Both boys flinched when the copy ninja went on to say they had not acted like Konoha Shinobi, but scum. That was a low blow to both of them. Naruto loved the leaf village and he wanted to be the next hokage, so the words hurt. Sasuke was full of pride and wanting to avenge the deaths of his family, who had been loyal to the leaf so he felt that Kakashi’s words attacked his honor.

A long moment of silence stretched after Kakashi finished speaking and both boys remained silent, unsure what was going on and sort of freaking out. Kakashi was being really weird, and sort of scary right then. The man spoke up again, grabbing Naruto by the headband and and dragging him closer. Naruto yelled out in surprise, his hands flying up to Kakashi’s to try and get the man to let go.

Kakashi kept talking but Naruto didn’t take any of it in since he was too concerned with trying to get free from Kakashi’s grip, then he was distracted by his chest coming into contact with Kakshi’s knee hard enough to shock him. What the hell was going on! “Ka-Kakashi-sensei, what are you doing?” He asked, his voice betraying his fear. If it had been anyone but Kakashi doing this he would be fighting them tooth and nail, but he trusted Kakshi.

Sasuke watched what was going on, shocked by the change in the man. Where had this cold, dangerous version of Kakashi come from? And what the hell did he mean by the Hokage not missing them? When the man pinned Naruto down and reached for his kunai-holster Sasuke reacted without thinking. He yanked his kunai out convinced that the man was going to try and kill Naruto or something.

Sasuke had no idea why the man was acting like this, maybe it was a test or something had possessed the man, but Sasuke had no intention of standing by and watching his team-mate be hurt or killed. He threw one of his kunai blades at Kakashi, aiming for the hand that should have been holding a blade but was shockingly empty, just as the man brought his hand down to deliver a hard blow to Naruto’s backside. Because of the movement Sasuke’s blade harmlessly flew past since Kakashi’s hand was no longer there to be hit by it. Sasuke stared at the man, his other kunai still in his hand and half raised, and he had the most shocked disbelieving look on his face. He couldn’t believe Kakashi had just spanked Naruto.

Naruto remained ignorant of Sasuke’s scare, not being able to see what Sasuke had thought was Kakashi reaching for one of his kunai. He was struggling to get back up but the man’s grip on him prevented it. When Kakashi’s hand suddenly crashed down on his backside he yelled out in surprised pain, his body jerking forward to rest against the man’s leg in a more ‘classic spanking pose’. “What the hell, Kakashi-sensei!?” He yelled, almost too shocked to realize what had happened. A second later the pain from the blow registered and he reached back with both hands to cover his backside “Ow!” he yelled out, rubbing furiously.


[I know this is a long reply, but my excuse is that it's two characters lol. Please dont feel like you have to reply the same length, you're only doing one character so it makes sense for your reply to be shorter Though if you want to post the same length I wont stop you lol. And thanks for explaining the suffixes to me, I'll try to use them now ]

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Kakashi's gaze rested on Sasuke for just a moment, conveyed not a single emotion but cool, unperturbed silence.

A pretty good shot. Though his jounin-class senses were not overly flustered by the stray blade, he had had to part his thumb and forefinger slightly to give way for it. He expected nothing less from a budding Uchiha.

In truth, the fact that the boy had anticipated a bad move and reacted in the way that he had really endeared the the kid to him. Just as he had the first time they met - offering his lunch without a second thought for himself.

Well, well...

Maybe these two weren't just selfish brats after all...

Maybe they were just plain old brats.

... But they were his brats, and that seemed to make sense. Even to a burned out jounin who had thought he'd seen it all.

He made a lazy, mock blink all the same, giving his hand a tilt then looking deliberately at the boy's discarded blade, making a sound of surprise, before turning back.

"Aah. I haven't forgotten you, Sasuke. You'll get a turn soon enough," he said apologetically from under his mask, "just try to be patient, hm?"

Naruto began to squirm about wildly, like a fish on his knee, and the Hatake was forced to grip the boy a little more firmly, moving back and taking a seat on an upturned wooden bucket that they were to use in the traditional japanese bath that the villa sported.

"As I was saying..." Kakashi breathed, positioning Naruto easily, though the boy was fighting a bit, "The Lord Hokage will not miss a pair of little brats... so I'm free to beat the brattiness out~" he said cheerily, patting the blond's bottom trice, "consider this a little extra lesson from sensei," the man tilted his head, and his eye smiled, "Let's do our best to learn from it, hm?"

He then looked to Naruto, who had covered up his vulnerable butt with both hands, "Naruto-kun, you won't be able to learn a proper lesson with those hands in the way... Let's just move them for now," and that he did. Soon the Uzumaki's thin wrists were grasped up in his sensei's firm hand.

"Now, where were we..." the copy-ninja murmured darkly, as he raised his powerful palm once again.

His gloved palm thwacked down again and again upon Naruto's upturned behind, his hand raising and falling, allowing a little elasticity to his wrist that he'd built up from years of kunai tossing to add a little extra burn to each and every smack.

(sorry for the delay! )

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Sasuke was a little worried when Kakashi looked at him after he’d thrown his kunai. He hadn’t actually been aiming for the man, just for whatever was in the mans hand but since nothing had been in the mans hand it had nearly struck the flesh instead. He never would have attacked Kakashi if he didn’t think that something seriously bad was about to happen to Naruto. He vaguely wondered if Kakashi had done it on purpose to see what he would do, but he dismissed the idea because he didn’t think that even Kakashi would be willing to risk being attacked just to test him.

He watched as Kakashi tilted his hand and cast a very deliberate look to the kunai that was sticking out of the wall and blushed, quickly putting the one in his hand away as a sort of peace offering so Kakashi would know he had no intention of attacking him. The man spoke up then about him getting a turn soon enough and he reddened a bit more, embarrassed by the idea of his sensei spanking him. He had the brief thought of leaving while Kakashi was distracted with Naruto, but he dismissed it almost as soon as he’d thought it. He wouldn’t be able to avoid the man forever and running would probably make it worse.

Meanwhile Naruto sort of ignored the going-ons between the other two, focusing on trying to wiggle away from Kakashi though his attempts were unsuccessful. Soon enough he found himself lifted up and carried over to a wooden bucket where Kakashi put him over his knees again. He still had his backside covered and was trying to wiggle away. Kakashi spoke up then and Naruto listened as the man said this was an ‘extra’ lesson and he was free to ‘beat the brattiness’ out and Naruto sweat-dropped. “Ka-Kakashi-sensei, you don’t really mean that, right?” He asked, though the tone of his voice made it obvious that he believed the man but was scared by the idea.

Naruto felt his wrists grabbed up and secured at his back and whined, not at all liking how vulnerable this was making him feel. He was so surprised he didn’t know how to react and then Kakashi started spanking him and he yelped loudly, kicking his feet with each stinging swat. It didn’t take long of this before Naruto was squirming around on the mans lap, trying to escape the blows though he wasn’t fighting tears yet. “O.k. Kakashi-sensei, I get it you can stop. This isn’t funny!” He protested, pulling hard against the restraining hand on his wrists, thinking that if he could just get his hands free he could make shadow clones and they would stop this from happening.

(It's fine, RL gets in the way sometimes )

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The last Hatake seemed to almost read Sasuke's mind, his dark gaze not shirking for a moment. He was very serious.

Sasuke was going to find himself right over the copy-ninja's lap just as Naruto was now.

He glanced back down to the brat in question.

"We're only just starting, Naruto-kun," the silver-haired sensei said kindly, swatting his hand down several more times, covering the entirety of Naruto's bottom in chakra-burning warmth.

Kakashi-sensei tugged Naruto's orange pants down, and letting them snap back beneath the boy's sitspots. The green briefs soon were tugged down as well, exposing the Uzumaki's bare behind to the entire villa. Kakashi blinked, noting the fade of red that was slowly diminishing into a hot pink. Ah. Must be the kyuubi's chakra... well... looks like he had better pick it up a little...

Raising his hand, the copy-ninja splayed his fingers, before slamming his leather-clad palm back down across the genin's naked glutes. The sound was like a weapon the young shinobi had never heard before - it was like a gunshot. Loud and strident. A meaty, fiery sound. And when Kakashi's palm raised again, a hot imprint of red was branded across the troublemaker's bare rump.

Anou... maybe that was a little too much... Kakashi bowed his head a bit in sympathy for his cute blond student, before tucking the boy against his flak-jacket clad stomach, and settling back into a more gentle rhythm. Although, Naruto may not have thought it was so gentle, with how his butt was soon bouncing and reddening under the firm, no-nonsense claps of the jounin's palm.

"A shinobi never turns his back on his team mates," the sensei murmured firmly after twelve more rump-trembling swats, punctuating the statement with three sharp slaps to the bubbly curve where Naruto's bottom met his thigh, "A shinobi does not play games with his team mates' lives... and a genin does NOT disobey their sensei..." the slaps halted, though the copy-ninja's hand was poised to impart a little more sting to his naughty student's tender behind, "Do you understand, Naruto?"

Kakashi narrowed his eye sternly. Though he had a soft-spot for his genin, right now, it was clear.

He really meant business.

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Sasuke decided he did not want to watch what was going on as he saw Kakashi tugging down the other boy’s pants. Both because he hoped that by not watching Naruto would give him the same courtesy when it was he that was over their sensei’s lap, and because he did not want to see just what he could expect to receive when his ‘turn’ came around. He walked out of the villa, sitting on the railing to the porch in clear sight of the door so that Kakashi would be able to tell he wasn’t trying to run away. He stared out toward the woods surrounding the villa and tried to ignore the sounds he could hear from inside.

Naruto groaned when Kakashi told him that they were just starting and yelped a bit for the hard swats that he was receiving. When his sensei pulled his pants down his struggles grew more frantic, the man’s hand hurt plenty with his clothes on, he didn’t want to feel the swats with no protection. “Kakashi-sensei, please don’t.” He pleaded, not really expecting it to make a difference and so he was not surprised when the man tugged his boxers down to join his pants. The first blow to his unprotected backside made him shout out in pain as tears came to his eyes, that had hurt damn it! Kakashi pulled him closer to the mans body and he settled, not wanting any more of those super hard swats and thinking that the man had done it because of his struggling.

The man resumed spanking him and he yelped and squirmed around as the heat in his backside grew. Still, he was taking it pretty well until the man started talking, pointing out how a real shinobi would not have done with Naruto had done and the guilt he felt over his actions made the tears start flowing more so than the pain from the spanking. “I’m sorry, Kakashi-sensei.” He said, his voice quiet for once as he cried and thought about how his actions could have hurt Sakura and Sasuke. He hadn’t meant for that to happen, but he still felt guilty about it. Kakashi went on to say that as a genin he should not have disobeyed the man and asked if he understood, Naruto barely noticed that the man had stopped spanking him and he nodded “Yes” He answered dutifully, hoping that the man would stop the punishment soon because his backside was really starting to hurt.

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The gloved palm rose up for a moment, and then twitched. The soft, trembling defeat of the kid had really gotten to him. Those tears were... so familiar. Too familiar. The copy-ninja's hard heart pounded in his chest like a drum. Guilty wires constricting it.

Was he really doing this? Laying down the law just as his own sensei had so long ago...? He looked at his hand briefly, and then the trembling young shinobi over his lap. Heaving a inaudible sigh, Kakashi brought his hand down once more, but it was no more than a flimsy 'pat' really.

The digits that had grasped up Naruto's wrists relaxed, and let them fall to the boy's back, gently rubbing in a large, calming circle. He didn't say anything. His mind was lost in memories... the twinge in his gut at the kyuubi-host's tears. Really... having students was messing up his half-assed image.

"All paid up." He rested a palm on the boy's barbed hair, and gave it an affectionate ruffle. "You don't want to go up the deadly mountain again, unless you want to pay the toll, hm?" though he was smiling, and radiating token affection, he still conveyed a fair bit of severity, "Because if you don't start acting like the fine shinobi of Team 7, this won't be a one-time event."

After sending Naruto to send Sasuke back in, Kakashi's shoulders slumped a tad. It was like he'd forgotten he had to go through this more than once...

With powerful arms folded, the copy-ninja studied the Uchiha solidly. He waited for a spell, before he began. He had known Sasuke too well - he knew the boy hadn't initiated the wrong move, but acknowledged that the boy had acted against his orders in pursuing his rival. He told Sasuke this, the air growing heavy despite the calm understanding in his voice.

After he'd finished, he stared at his sandal-clad toes for a moment, "And also, Sasuke-"

"... In the hands of the enemy, you don't have the option to look away." He said simply, gaze returning, full of a rare despondency. Flashes of the Past.

Sasuke was bright enough to understand what that meant, in what context the mysterious ninja was drifting in.

The sensei gave pause for just a moment, snapping out of it, before patting his lap, "Sa. Let's get it over with."

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Naruto slumped against the mans lap when he suddenly stopped spanking after a final swat that even Naruto could tell had been little more than a pat. He just laid there and cried, angrily wiping the tears from his face when Kakashi released his wrists since he was sort of mad at himself for crying like a baby over a spanking. The man rubbed his back and Naruto slowly started to calm down enough that he was able to listen to what Kakashi was saying.

He couldn’t help but chuckle a little at the reference to the troll, but sobered right back up again when the man warned him that this would not be a one-time thing if he didn’t shape up. “No! No, I’ll work harder, I promise.” He said, desperate at the very idea of this happening again. He was finally allowed up and he fixed his clothes, rubbing his backside and sniffling when Kakashi told him to send in Sasuke. He nodded and went out to tell the Uchiha that their Sensei wanted him and he leaned against the railing outside trying to get his breathing back under control.

Sasuke did not hesitate to go back inside, not wanting either of them to think of him as a coward. He stood by the door and met the man’s visible eye without flinching, even though he was sort of nervous about what was going to happen in a few minutes. Kakashi sat there and just looked at him, making Sasuke more nervous and he clasped his hands together behind his back so the man would not be able to see that they were shaking a little. He was way too stubborn to let anyone see him in a weak moment, not even Kakashi.

Sasuke listened as the man told him why he was in trouble, having already known this he did not protest he just nodded once to show he understood. He was determined to be stoic about this. When the man went on to add the bit about not having the option to look away he flushed, understanding the underlying context to the man’s words. "I understand." He said, acknowledging the mans warning. Kakashi was right; in different circumstances a weak moment on his part could hurt his team. He wouldn’t let it happen again. When Kakashi suddenly sat up and spoke, patting his lap Sasuke hesitated for only a moment before walking over to the man. He didn’t drape himself over the mans lap, couldn’t quite make himself be that helpful, but he didn’t fight the man the way Naruto had either.

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The silver-haired jounin's expression was warm as he watched the young blond troublemaker leave. Heh. They were pretty cute, his students. Hanging on his every word. Maybe being a sensei wasn't so bad, after all...

Even so.

Kakashi was tentative when reaching out for the Uchiha. He was struck by an inner lack of confidence in what he was doing right now. Did Sasuke really deserve this? At the very least, he didn't deserve the blistering that Naruto had earned... the copy-ninja narrowed his gaze, forcing his hand. He lay his palm upon the young Uchiha's upper arm, and gently but firmly guided him down and over his sensei's warm lap.

The kid was so like him when he was a brat that it was unsettling. It was as though Kakashi knew the boy's thoughts, his insecurities, his little happiness. This was hard for him to submit to, just as it had been so difficult for the young Hatake. The fact that the boy had so readily complied was one of the few things that had really surprised the jounin.

Maybe Sasuke was worlds more mature than he had been as a kid, and he'd never noticed.

Yet his hands still trembled. Kakashi's eye warmed slightly.

He wouldn't be as hard on the Uchiha. Not today.

His other liberal hand fell and rested at the small of Sasuke's back, pushing the azure blue shirt up just a bit, so that the entirety of the genin's white short-clad cheeks were presented to face the penalty of his slip-ups.

"Are you ready, Sasuke?" Kakashi raised his hand.

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Sasuke was too nervous, and still sort of shocked, to realize that Kakashi seemed tentative about the whole thing. This was the first time that Sasuke had ever been spanked, he'd been a well behaved child so his parents had never used it for him, and so he wasn't sure what to expect. Most of the time he tried to act more mature and grown up than he really was but he was still just a kid when it came down to it and he was bound to mess up now and then. And he did know that he had messed up this time, and that he probably deserved what Kakashi intended on doing to him for it, but it was still hard for him to just submit to it because of his stubborn pride.

When Kakashi grasped his arm Sasuke allowed himself to be guided over the mans lap, though his cool and reserved expression wavered to show a glimpse of the frightened child that he was usually so good at keeping hidden. It only lasted a moment, but it was probably obvious enough that Kakashi was bound to have seen it. Soon enough he was in position and he tensed as Kakashi shifted his shirt a bit to fully expose his backside. He'd expected Kakashi to just start swatting, the way he had with Naruto, so he was surprised when Kakashi asked if he were ready. He took a deep breath, forcing his nerves back so he could answer in an unwavering voice. "Yes Sensei." then he tensed, waiting for the first blow.