The Sandaime Hokage was a busy man. So busy was he, in fact, that he hardly, ever, found time to do something that he genuinelly liked doing. Like annoying the everloving crap out of the genin with D rank missions. That was one of the highlights of being Hokage. Their faces were always priceless.

What kept him busy was unnecessarily lenghty ANBU reports. After all, they were trained to be reliable and to actually take note of anything and everything that they deem important. Which usually involves many things that can safely be ignored. Some times, Hiruzen wished he could delegate this job to someone else, but the last time Root happened, so he wasn't willing to try.

And what infuriated him even more was having his time wasted like this, by an annoying jounin who showed up three hours late to give him a simple 'Oh, I failed my team, by the way'. Kakashi could've just shown up and gone back to the goddamn memorial stone.

Whilst contemplating ways to punish Kakashi for making him wait, Hiruzen leaned back against the backrest of his chair and continued to read his no doubt favorite student's masterpiece... But when he was halfway through a particularly interesting scene involving two girls and an... interesting way to use the water whip jutsu, Kakashi barged in. It's like the man LIVED to annoy the crap out of everyone he met. Which wasn't too far from Kakashi's intentions, all things considered. "Sorry, I'm late, I got lost on the road of life." Kakashi excused himself, grinning widely under his mask.

Hiruzen, at that point, basically gave up, sighed and stood up from his desk before circling it and standing in front of Kakashi. He held his orange book high and saw Kakashi's confused look. Nonetheless, the jounin accepted the book when Hiruzen offered it wordlessly.

"Uh... what is this, Hokage-sama?" Hiruzen smiled.

"A map to the road of life, Kakashi-kun." In hindsight, he only made the problem worse.