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Kakashi Hatake

Kakashi Hatake (はたけカカシ, Hatake Kakashi) is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Naruto created by Masashi Kishimoto. He is the leader of Team 7, originally consisting of Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno. After Sasuke defects, Team 7 receives Sai as a replacement.

Like his father, Sakumo Hatake whose skills have been compared to that of the Legendary Ninja, Kakashi is considered a genius shinobi, graduating from the Ninja Academy at age 5 and achieving the rank of Chunin at 6. A few years after these accomplishments, Kakashi's father was disgraced by the village for abandoning a mission in favor of saving his comrades, which cost the Land of Fire dearly. Deeply ashamed and ostracized even by those he had saved, Sakumo committed seppuku, leaving Kakashi to bear witness to the event. After his father's suicide, Kakashi began to adhere strictly to the rules of the shinobi – in particular the rule dictating that the success of the mission must come before the well being of one's team mates.

At the age of 13, Kakashi achieved Jonin status. As a reward for his accomplishment, he was assigned to lead his team on a sabotage mission to blow up a bridge in order to prevent enemy forces from attacking Konoha. Shortly after the mission started, Kakashi's teammate, Rin was captured by enemy shinobi. Kakashi's other teammate, Obito Uchiha immediately stated his intention to save her, but Kakashi said they had to focus on completing the mission, opting not to make the same mistake his father had. Though Kakashi believed that they had to complete their objective and they parted ways, a little reflection on Obito's words and Rin's prior kindness eventually convinced him that his father had done the right thing in saving his teammates. This revelation prompted Kakashi to turn back to join Obito in the rescue effort, although he initially claims that he did not believe Obito could survive on his own—a statement that is more or less supported by how his arrival coincided with saving his oblivious teammate from a ninja's attack. During their attempt to save Rin, Kakashi lost his left eye as a result of taking an enemy ninja's attack for Obito. To protect Kakashi in return, Obito managed to awaken his Sharingan and killed their assailant. Soon after saving Rin, a rockfall technique was triggered and a rock struck Kakashi on his blind side. He would have been buried beneath the rocks had Obito not pushed Kakashi out of the way, getting the right side of his body almost completely crushed in the process. Shortly before he died, Obito had Rin (a medical ninja) implant his Sharingan eye in Kakashi's damaged eye socket as a gift. As his first act with his new eye, Kakashi avenged Obito by killing the enemy ninja with his now-perfected Chidori technique, bringing the Kakashi of today into being. Years later, Kakashi became a member of the Konohagakure ANBU where he served as a squad leader. During this time, he had several kohai. It is unknown when or why he left ANBU, but he still wears his gloves, a characteristic of ANBU uniforms.

Using the Sharingan he received from Obito Uchiha Kakashi has been able to copy more than one thousand jutsu and thus being called "Sharingan Kakashi" and "Copy Ninja Kakashi". From the jutsu he has copied he tends to use water-based and earth-based jutsu. He rarely uses genjutsu and sealing jutsu, but during a training he is noted to be very good in taijutsu, being able to open at least one of the Eight Gates. His only jutsu called original is a lightning-based jutsu called Chidori (千鳥, 1000 birds), then upgraded and renamed Raikiri (雷切, Lightning Blade). During the time-skip Kakashi obtains (by unknown methods) the Mangekyo Sharingan, using this doujutsu Kakashi is able to create a localized interdimensional space-time warp, allowing him to target any object and send it to another dimension.The attack requires considerable effort to aim precisely and appears to leave Kakashi's chakra significantly drained; he collapses after using the technique three times in a single day. Because of his great ability, Tsunade considers that Kakashi may be the next Hokage.

Though his name is written in the manga using kana, Japanese syllabic scripts that carry no particular meaning, the family name "Hatake" can be written in kanji (Chinese characters) as 畑, or 畠 which means "field" or "farmland". The name "Kakashi" can be written in kanji as 案山子, which means "scarecrow". Understandably, Naruto uses a scarecrow look-alike of Kakashi to practice on the day before Team 7's first test, since he then considered Kakashi as the main one to defeat. Also, when Sakura spies on Kakashi so he would take off his mask, he replaces himself with a scarecrow to get rid of her.

Kakashi Hatake's Jutsus

• Chidori
• Copy Jutsu
• Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique
• Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique
• Earth Release: Earth Style Wall
• Earth Release: Underground Projection Fish Technique
• Eight Gates
• Evil Sealing Method
• Front Lotus
• Hidden Mist Technique
• Kamui
• Lightning Blade
• Lightning Hound
• Lightning Release Shadow Clone
• Multiple Shadow Clone Technique
• One Thousand Years of Death
• Rasengan
• Shadow Clone Technique
• Shadow of the Dancing Leaf
• Silent Homicide Technique
• Summoning Technique: Earth Release: Tracking Fang Technique
• Tornado of Water
• Water Clone Technique
• Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique
• Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique
• Water Release: Water Encampment Wall
• Water Release: Water Shark Missile Technique
• White Light Chakra Sabre