Kakashi quotes from Naruto: Shippūden

Kakashi

[About Naruto and Sakura] I miss the cute students who'd react to every little thing I say.

Kakashi

[On Kankuro] Making a success from a failure. You are indeed a shinobi of the sand.

Kakashi

So looks like the Fifth Hokage has been teaching Sakura more than just medical ninjutsu.

Jiraiya

That same quick temper and monster strength. Tsunade's turned Sakura into a mirror image of herself.

Sakura

Kakashi Sensei, found you didn't I?

Naruto

I really should stop acting like such an idiot when I'm around Sakura. If I don't she's gonna kill me.

Naruto

If I can't look left and right at the same time all by myself, then I just need to create more clones. They can look left and right for me and then I can divide up the responsibility.

Kakashi

So my shadow clone earlier gave you a hint huh? Of course only Naruto has both the chakra and the shadow clones for a method like that to work. I couldn't accomplish that. I bet even the Fourth Hokage couldn't. But him... Just what I expect from a ninja like you, Naruto. You're full of surprises. I'm not sure how to say this, but I think I've started to take a liking to you kiddo!

Kakashi

[On Naruto] Jutsu that were beyond the Fourth Hokage are well within his command. I guess it's time to finally pass the torch. He's surpassed me. Can you sense it? You're the one who's always before his eyes inspiring him. It's you who makes him strong. You know that don't you Sasuke?

Yamato

Kakashi, time to move.

Kakashi

Yeah.

Choji

Think you can make it?

Yamato

Alright everyone, we're heading back to the Leaf Village.

Ino

Where's Kakashi sensei?

Yamato

Tying up loose ends.

Kakuzu

[last words] Defeated by a pack of brats. Incredible.

Kakashi

You did fight the First Hokage. No wonder you see us as brats, but it cuts both ways. To our eyes, you're just an old geezer whose time is over. So here you are dying, hugging the earth like a worm. One by one the next generation will catch up to you, and in the end they'll surpass you. [Kakashi finishes off Kakuzu]

Kakashi

Whatever the circumstances, one person alone makes the decisions to keep the team together. That's why we have the rule that says all team members must obey the captain without question. Obito, you have no power. That's why I'm the captain of this team and you aren't.

Then why won't you try to save Rin yourself? It means you have the power to rescue your teammate, isn't that right Kakashi?

Kakashi

If you give in to your emotions for even a moment and fail your mission, you'll regret it sooner than you know. That's why Shinobi have rules. That's why we're taught that we must suppress our emotions. You should already know that.

But Rin, she was so concerned for your well-being that she put together that special med kit for you. She even sewed a protective amulet inside it!

Kakashi

The med kit and medical ninjutsu are great systems that the Hidden Leaf developed to increase the success rate of our missions. But like I told you yesterday Obito, better nothing at all than a useless burden.

Useless burden?

Kakashi

To carry out a mission a ninja must only have tools necessary to the task at hand. Useless things like emotions only get in the way.

Do you really mean that? Do you honestly believe that stuff Kakashi?

Kakashi

[remembers his father] Yes I do.

Just forget it. We'll never agree. We're like oil and water. I'm going to rescue Rin.

Kakashi

You don't understand, Obito. You don't know what happens to people who break the rules.

I believe that the White Fang was a true hero. You're right. In the ninja world, those who break the rules and laws are regarded as scum. But those who would abandon even one of their friends are worse than scum! [Kakashi is shocked] I'm scum anyway, so I'm going to choose to break the rules. And if doing that somehow makes me less than a true Shinobi, then I'll just go and crush all the so-called Shinobi!

I totally forgot that I was the only one who didn't get you a gift for becoming a Jonin and being named captain. I thought about it and didn't know what would be good, but I do now. Don't worry, I remember what you said before. I'm not giving you something useless. I'm giving you my Sharingan. Whatever the Village or anyone else may say, I think that you are a great Jonin. It's true. That's how I really feel. Please accept this. Rin, please use your medical ninjutsu and have my Sharingan, the whole eye, transplanted to Kakashi's left eye.

Kakashi, come quick. We have to do this now.

I'm about to die. I'll be your eye, keeping watch over what the future brings you.

Still alive huh? Man you're stubborn kid. But then you're just a brat. A real Shinobi doesn't cry. Let's settle this you big crybaby. [Kakashi reveals his new Sharingan] There's something different about him now.

Kakashi... Take care of Rin.

Kakashi

I will.

Choji

Pa, you tried to save me.

Kakashi

Cry later, Choji. If you can still move, you must report about Pain's powers to Lady Tsunade and have her set up countermeasures.

Choji

But Kakashi sensei you-

Kakashi

Mourn later. You must hurry. Run!

Choji

But I can't just-

Kakashi

Don't let Choza's sacrifice be in vain!

Pain

You sure are stubborn.

Kakashi

Damn he's still- He's aiming for Choji!

Choji

Pa quick! Pa, thank you for everything you've done. Just you watch.

Kakashi

Run Choji! [he does] With the chakra I have left it's impossible to destroy his entire body. And if I use that Jutsu one more time, I'll exhaust all my stamina and chakra. Without a doubt, I'll... This information must get to those who still live. Right now this is the only way to save the Hidden Leaf Village! [uses Kamui]

Pain

Of course. He must have used that ocular Jutsu to divert that attack too.

Kakashi

[dying] Well it seems that this is it for me too, Obito, Rin. Obito, this is as far as it goes. Me being your eyes. I couldn't even protect Rin. I broke my promise to you. Please forgive me, Obito, Rin, Sensei. I guess I'll be joining you now.

Gaara

Naruto. I will have you know that this is also a battle to protect the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails, mainly you. So for the sake of the shinobi world and as Kazekage, I will make sure to protect you at all costs. And if as an Akatsuki subordinate, Sasuke were to stand against our Allied Shinobi Forces, I will not show mercy. [flashes back to his confrontation with Sasuke] I'm afraid that Sasuke doesn't see you anymore. The only thing he sees now is darkness. Naruto, you told me that you would become Hokage one day. Well I've become Kazekage. And if you've truly resolved to become a Kage, then you're going to need to do what must be done as Sasuke's friend.

Temari

We've said everything we came here to say so let's go, Gaara. We're going to head back home to our village now. Kakashi Hatake, the Sand will proceed as if you will be confirmed as the Hokage. As an ally we ask that there be no confusion in communications.

Kakashi

Understood.

Gaara

[to Naruto] I consider you a friend. In the past, "friend" was just a word to me. Nothing more, nothing less. But after meeting you, I realized something. What's important is the meaning of that word.

Kakashi

Sasuke, I've told you this before and I don't like to repeat myself, but I'll say this once more. [flashes back to saying these words] Let it go. You've got to forget about revenge.

Sasuke

[Laughs maniacally] Itachi, my father, my mother, my entire clan! Bring them all here to me! Do that and I'll quit right now!

Kakashi

I don't want to kill you.

Sasuke

Do you really think you can kill me at any moment you wish? Stop acting like you're still my sensei! Go ahead and try something if you like, I'm just itching to kill you, Kakashi!

Kakashi

I think deep down you know the truth.

Sasuke

[insane] All the laughter, every one of you is laughing! Itachi sacrificed his life but you're still laughing, cackling together like fools you're just ignorant of EVERYTHING! I can hear nothing but contempt and jeering in your voices. I want to change those laughs to screams and wails of misery!

Sasuke

Not long ago I finally got my revenge on the one behind Itachi's betrayal. I took down a high ranking Hidden Leaf elder right here, the one called Danzo.

Kakashi

What? Sasuke killed Danzo all by himself?

Sasuke

I've never felt like this before. I can feel the tainted Uchiha name becoming cleansed, I feel the Uchiha at last being freed from this rotting shinobi world. You couldn't even begin to understand it. And besides, isn't what I'm doing exactly what you Leaf shinobi have wanted all along? You've always snubbed and put down the Uchiha clan, so I'll simply help erase the Uchiha from your memories... by killing all of you and then destroying the Hidden Leaf Village! Severing all bonds with the Hidden Leaf will be the ultimate purification and that shall lead to the Uchiha's true restoration!

Gaara

[to the Allied Shinobi Forces] In the name of gain and profit for one's nation and village, Shinobi have hated and hurt each other for many years. From the first to the third ninja war and the conflicts in between. All of that hatred cried out for power, thus I was born. In the past I was hated, and power, and a Jinchuriki. I hated this world, and all its people, and thought about destroying both. That's exactly what the Akatsuki is trying to do now. But then a single shinobi from The Hidden Leaf Village stopped me. [flashes back to his times with Naruto] He cried for me. I was his enemy, yet still he cried for me! And he called me his friend even though we had battled! He saved me! We were on different sides, but we were both Jinchuriki. Between those who have experienced the same pain, there can be no hate. There are no enemies here now because each one of us bares the pain of having been hurt by the Akatsuki! The Sand, the Stone, the Leaf, the Mist, and the Cloud are no more. NOW THERE IS ONLY SHINOBI! And if you are still unable to forgive the Sand, you can come back and face me after this war is over!

Kakashi

The looks on their faces have changed.

Gaara

The friend I spoke of who saved me is the target of our enemy! If he falls into their hands, our world is finished! I want to protect my friend, and I want to protect this entire world! But I'm too young and inexperienced to do that. So I ask you, all of you, please lend me your strength for this fight!

That day on the bridge, you were supposed to finish me off and send me to hell. When I came to I was in the same place as Haku. And I thought something was off. It seems that this is neither heaven nor hell.

Kakashi

This is the world of the living. You shouldn't be here.

Neji

Long ago those words of yours freed me from the shackles of fate.

Naruto

Why would you go so far for me? Even give up your life? Why?

Neji

[last words] Because you called me a genius... [thinking] Father, I finally understand the freedom you felt, choosing to die to protect your comrades.

Didn't you say you wouldn't let any of your comrades die? Naruto! You said "I'll never let my comrades die". Those were your words. Now look around you and try to say it again! I said try to say those words again! As the bodies of your comrades grow cold in your arms, take in their deaths!

Hizashi, forgive me. Neji is...

This will just keep happening and all your flippant words and ideals will become lies. This is the end result of ideals and hopes. This is reality. Naruto, what is there for you in this reality? Your mother and father are gone. Your master Jiraiya too. And if you keep standing against us, you'll lose all your friends one by one. This shall become a world where no one that acknowledges you will exist.

Kakashi

Obito.

The only thing that awaits you is your worst nightmare, which you know very well. Solitude!

Madara

You have become almost exactly like the old me, Obito. Naruto will fall shortly, which will break the will of the Allied Forces.

So why keep living in this reality huh? Now come join us, Naruto!

Hinata

[slaps Naruto to snap him out of it] Neji just said that in your hands you hold more than one life. Do you understand what he meant? Do you? "I'll never let my comrades die". Those words and the conviction behind them are not lies! For he stored them in his heart and lived them out til the end. Neji really did. It isn't just you, it's all of us. We all hold those words and feelings in our hearts. They're what bind our lives together and make us comrades. If we were all to give up and just discard those words and feelings, Neji's act will have been for nothing. And that is when your comrades truly die, for you are no longer comrades then. That's how I feel. So please stand up together with me Naruto, because never going back on one's word... That is also my ninja way!