Kakashi Gaiden Manga

~~youngbucks~~ · 07-15-2007, 10:19 PM

Kakashi Gaiden is a 6-chapter spinoff manga based on the popular manga Naruto, by Masashi Kishimoto. Kishimoto published the miniseries in place of the regular Naruto storyline in Shonen Jump, which lasts through chapters 239-244. The gaiden acts as an intermission between the end of the first Naruto arc and the brand-new story arc, which skips ahead two-and-a-half years into the future. This is a manga-only arc, as the anime series skipped this and went directly to the first arc of Naruto: Shippūden.

The story surrounds a 13 year-old Kakashi Hatake, who embarks on a mission with his team, which includes another boy named Obito Uchiha, from the same clan as Sasuke Uchiha, a medic kunoichi named Rin, and their teacher, the future Fourth Hokage. They were first seen in the team portrait from flashbacks at the conclusion of the Chunin Exam arc.
This arc answers many questions about Kakashi's past. It is learned how Kakashi receives his Sharingan, the identity of Obito, and when Kakashi became a Jonin. It also gives a first glimpse of who the Fourth was when he was still alive.