“Good to hear you bakery is still doing well” Kakashi replied “I would guess that the constant order from the academy are the reason for the upswell, lots of new Genin are now earning a paycheck and have had to smell your deliveries every few day” he added, the glint of satisfaction in his eye going unnoticed, after all he might have had something to do with the orders starting up in the first place, not that anyone was aware of that.

“I’m willing to try your baking recipes, but you’ll have to get someone else to test your new curry” Kakashi said as he waived waved at few Chunin as he passed them by, they just stopped and stared at him as he bounded across the roof tops, mainly because of the fact he had a civilian on his back. He still recalled the first time he had tried one of her new recipes’, she was fantastic with baked goods but it was more of a tossup with her other culinary attempts, at least until she had time to revise those recipes.

“As for a vacation…” he trailed off for a moment as he ran a quick review off all the places he had been in his life. “South isn’t too bad this time of year, you could also try for a trip to the hot springs in Hot Water” he offered. Konoha had peaceful connections with Yugakure, as did most of the Shinobi world for that matter, due to the fact that they were a prime tourist attraction because nearly all of their villages’ boasted fantastic hot springs. Not that Kakashi even got much of a chance to partake, seeing as he had never taken a vacation, but he had been through their land on a few occasions.  “Still if you’re looking for sun, only place that gets more than us is Wind granted that is because they are a dessert”

He just hummed noncommittally at the last developments that Airi brought up. He was never sure how to respond when parents were brought up considering he never knew his mother and his father… Well it was never a good idea to dwell too much on him. “That reminds me, I need to find someone who can teach Naruto how to paint better” he said off handedly “Might be able to get him to calm down a little”

“As for me nothing all that exciting or new on my end, other than the fact that a team finally passed the Bell test, which means I’ve got my first Genin team to train” he explained as he moved off the roof tops and in to the trees “But you knew that already” And it was more or less true, since being removed from the Anbu and placed back in to the Jonin roster there hadn’t been many things of note that he could talk about “Oh! The new Icha Icha came out recently” Other than his beloved book series that is.

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Back at the academy Kakashi’s clone was reading through the various notes and old tests that his new students had taken and it was beginning to realize just how much work he had ahead of him. The notes on Sakura were exactly as the dossier had led him to believe. Sasuke’s was more or less the same; though it praised him more than the veteran Nin felt was justified. Naruto’s on the other hand, told a very different story.

 Leafing through everything, it seemed almost as if the other instructors had tried to sabotage the blond genin, which considering Mizuki had turned out to be a traitor, might not be too far of the mark. His physical test scores were fine, outside of the atrocious taijutsu stance the kid had; it was in the academic side of things that Kakashi noticed the most issues. It almost seemed like Naruto had no idea about the basic concepts about Ninjutsu, chakra theory, or any of the theoretical side of being a ninja, that or a serious literacy issue. Kakashi wasn’t sure what was worse to be honest.

Running a hand through his hair the clone quickly set about making a copy of all the relevant paper work he had found. The original would want to review all of this in more detail when he had time, but it was not now, considering he had technically broken in to the records.

[i]‘To think, getting lost on the road of life actually turned out to be useful’[/i]