Character Description: Kakashi Hatake
Kakashi is one of the Hidden Leaf Village’s “Jounin” (elite/top-level ninja), and Team 7’s trainer/teacher. He wears a ninja mask covering his face up just below the eyes and wears his headband skewed on his head, covering his left eye. At first Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke think he’s not much of a teacher nor ninja, but when Kakashi places them under his “Survival Training” course, the three “Genins” (rookie/first-level ninja) realize the value of teamwork in getting the mission done.
Kakashi’s unique ability is the use of the “Sharingan” in his left eye. It is an ability unique to the Uchicha clan (Sasuke also has a weaker version of this ability), yet Kakashi is not from Uchiha. The “Sharingan” allows the user to copy and predict the movements of ANY ninja technique used against him. Of course, you would have to SEE the ability/technique first in order to copy it, and using the Sharingan too much drains a lot of energy from Kakashi’s body since he is not from Uchiha.
Kakashi is not without his “lighter side”, though, as one of his “quirks” is reading some kind of adult books titled “Ichya Ichya Paradise” and “Ichya Ichya Violence”. Nothing, not even survival training, can stop Kakashi from reading through the pages just to “see what happens next”!
Note: Ichya Ichya Paradise was translated to “Make-Out Paradise” in the US version of SHONEN JUMP, but would be more closely translated to “Come Come Paradise” or “Flirting Paradise”.
Hatake Kakashi was the jônin assigned to train Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura for their real ninja education. He was chosen… because he has a talent for sniffing things out, whatever that means. He’s a cool looking guy that looks sort of like a slacker. I love his attitude, since it’s sorta similar to the way I act. He is very quick and is very good at ninjutsu. How good? Good enough to read a book while he’s fighting, providing that the fighter isn’t as good as Sasuke. However, he seems to have a strange taste in the reading matter. Weird guy, and I’m not asking.
He’s extremely strict, and has never passed anyone before, until Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura came…. He seems to empathize on teamwork, and had purposely made a test with instructions that would make them want to work separately. Afterwards, he gives them another chance, and tells Sakura and Sasuke that they may eat their lunch, but they cannot give any to Naruto after he attempted to steal them. However, when both of them gave their lunches to Naruto…. They passed! Kakashi’s a really strange guy…. I like him, he’s funny.
Kakashi possesses one sharingan eye. I repeat, one. This mirror-wheel eye allows him see through illusions and spells, and reflect those powers used to create those illusions and spells back at the one who cast them. It also allows him to discern and copy an opponent’s moves. Normally, he keeps his eye covered with his headband (for reasons that you’ll find out), and if he exposes his eye to fight an opponent… you know the opponent is going to be tough.
Kakashi apparently took this eye from another man who slashed Kakashi’s eye during some battle.
In the manga (Chapter 243), Hatake Kakashi’s sharingan was obtained in battle with some hidden stone ninjas. His team mate Obito was injured all over the right side of his body by a giant boulder. It was at this time when Obito decided to give his left eye (sharingan) to Kakashi as a present for Kakashi’s jounin celebration. With the help of their thrid team mate, Rin, they successfully tranfered Obito’s left eye into Kakashi’s. (Rin is a medical ninja thas was on their team).
