AN: This fan fiction divergence point is Kakashi's response to the loss of his comrades and sensei. What if he was able to put it behind him and focus on being the best shinobi he could be? In this story Kakashi has never tested genin teams unlike in cannon. His first genin team will be team seven. He takes the team on orders from the Hokage and resolves to make team seven the greatest team since the Sanin.

The story will start as minor AU and will shift dramatically. I don't intend on describing every character that is in the anime, everyone is hopefully aware of how they already look.

Updated: 10/30

Prologue

Kakashi walked along the paths of Konoha. Hokage-sama has made it clear this wasn't an optional choice. He was to lead team 7, he was to personally mentor Sasuke as well as ensure the nine tails did not break free from Naruto. While Kakashi was incensed at first in truth he had begun to look at it quite differently. Here was a chance to repay his sensei the Yondaime Hokage for all that he had done. He would train his child to be a splendid shinobi in honor of Minato.

Kakashi was one of the privileged few to learn who Naruto's parents were. He had not been told until a few weeks ago. He had been irritated at being left in the dark but he understood the Sandaime's motives.

The elite jōnin wondered if he would still have been chosen if he hadn't turned his life around. After the deaths of all of his precious people, his father, his teammates and his sensei he had begun to exhibit signs of mental stress. He started showing up extremely late, he began reading his erotica openly in the public and he had become detached from everyone and everything.

He had not made close bonds with others but on one of his hour long homages to the memorial stone something had snapped inside of him. Would all of them have wanted him to be on this path? No they wouldn't, they would want him to serve Konoha to the best of his abilities. He had resolved to begin acting like a proper shinobi. To that end he began to train himself and work missions at a regular clip. His time in ANBU was marked with a high level of efficiency. His mission success rate was second to none.

Kakashi was not considered to be at the level of the Sanin or the Hokage but he was considered close. No other jōnin in the village was at his level. Kakashi chuckled at the thought of Gai's angry denials of his 'eternal' rival being on a higher level than him. But simply put he was. And now he was a jōnin in charge of three cute little genin.

Kakashi had been hailed as a genius. Now he would bend his incredible abilities to being the best possible sensei he could be. There would be no wasted time. He would make them shinobi Minato would have been proud to fight with.

'This should be interesting…'