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<div style="color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 3px 0 1px 0;">Kakashi Hatake</div>
<div style="color: #EC7124; font-size: 0.92em;">はたけカカシ · <i>Hatake Kakashi</i></div>
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| Manga: chapter 4<ref name="ch4">''Naruto'', chapter 4 (Shueisha, ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', 1999).</ref><br>Anime: episode 4, "Pass or Fail: Survival Test"<ref name="ep4site">"Pass or Fail: Survival Test." ''NARUTO OFFICIAL SITE'' (official). [https://naruto-official.com/en/anime/naruto1/list/01_228 naruto-official.com/en/anime/naruto1/list/01_228]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref>
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| Kazuhiko Inoue (Japanese)<ref name="jpcast">''Naruto'', episode 4 on-screen cast credits (Studio Pierrot / TV Tokyo, 2002).</ref><br>Dave Wittenberg (English)<ref name="encast">''Naruto'', episode 4: "Pass or Fail: Survival Test" English-language broadcast credits (VIZ Media, 2005).</ref>
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| [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]]
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| Jōnin — an elite ninja<ref name="databook">''Naruto: Hiden — Rin no Sho, Character Official Data Book'' (Shueisha, 2002).</ref>
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| Sixth Hokage of the [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]] in the post-war years; succeeded by [[Naruto/Naruto Uzumaki|Naruto Uzumaki]]<ref name="kakashinovel">''Naruto: Kakashi's Story — The Sixth Hokage and the Failed Prince'' (Shueisha / VIZ Media). [https://www.viz.com/read/novel/naruto-novels/product/7129 viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref><ref name="vizboruto">"Boruto: Naruto Next Generations." VIZ Media (official). [https://www.viz.com/boruto viz.com/boruto]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref>
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| Lightning Blade<ref name="databook" />
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'''Kakashi Hatake''' (はたけカカシ, ''Hatake Kakashi'') is an elite ninja of the [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]] in ''[[Naruto]]'' and the leader of Team 7, the squad formed by [[Naruto/Naruto Uzumaki|Naruto Uzumaki]], [[Naruto/Sasuke Uchiha|Sasuke Uchiha]] and [[Naruto/Sakura Haruno|Sakura Haruno]].<ref name="ep4site" /> He is famous under the name "Copy Ninja" for the implanted [[Naruto/Sharingan|Sharingan]] eye that lets him mimic other people's techniques.<ref name="v23">''Naruto'', vols. 2–3 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> He hides most of his face behind a mask and most of his history behind a bored expression. He is the most important adult in the main characters' lives, and the series keeps finding heavier things for him to carry.

== The teacher of Team 7 ==

Kakashi enters the story as the teacher nobody would choose. He arrives hours late to his own first meeting and drawls that his first impression of the team is that he hates them.<ref name="ch4" /> He then presents a survival test that only two of the three can pass.<ref name="ep4site" /> The official record adds the detail that matters: no team he has ever tested has passed.<ref name="ep4site" /> The bell test that follows is rigged so that individuals fail, and Team 7 passes only by breaking his rules to feed a captured teammate. That is the answer he wanted, and he states his code plainly: ninja who break the rules are trash, but ninja who abandon their friends are worse.<ref name="v12">''Naruto'', vols. 1–2 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref>

== The Copy Ninja ==

The team's first real mission shows the students who has been babysitting them. Confronted by the assassin Zabuza in the Land of Waves, Kakashi uncovers the eye hidden under his slanted forehead protector. His enemy recognizes him on sight as the Copy Ninja, the man said to have mimicked a thousand techniques with the Sharingan.<ref name="v23" /> The eye is not his by blood, because the Sharingan belongs to the Uchiha clan, and how Kakashi came to carry one is a story the series holds back for years. His one original creation, the Lightning Blade, is a concentrated lightning strike graded among the elite techniques of the village.<ref name="databook" />

== His past ==

Part I closes with a flashback story devoted to him. As a boy genius, Kakashi served under a teacher of his own, the future Fourth Hokage, beside a teammate named Obito Uchiha, whose relaxed attitude he despised.<ref name="v27">''Naruto'', vol. 27 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> The mission that killed Obito ended with Kakashi carrying his friend's Sharingan and his friend's values: the rule-obsessed prodigy became the man who never abandons a comrade.<ref name="v27" /> Nearly everything odd about the adult Kakashi, from the buried grief to the visits to a memorial stone, traces back to that story.

== Part II ==

In Part II, Kakashi's fingerprints are on Naruto's growth as much as on any enemy's defeat. It is his design that turns shadow clones into a training method, compressing months of practice into days.<ref name="ch315">''Naruto'', chapter 315: "Special Training!!" (Shueisha, 2006).</ref> When Pain destroys the village, Kakashi dies holding the attacker off, and he is restored only when the beaten Pain undoes the damage he caused.<ref name="v46">''Naruto'', vol. 46 (Shueisha / VIZ Media). [https://www.viz.com/read/manga/naruto-volume-46/product/2187 viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref><ref name="v48">''Naruto'', vol. 48 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> The Fourth Great Ninja War then turns personal in the cruelest way available. The masked man behind it is revealed to be Obito, alive, the friend whose eye Kakashi has carried for decades.<ref name="v63">''Naruto'', vol. 63 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> Their reckoning is one of the war's emotional centers.

== The Sixth Hokage ==

After the war, the man who spent a lifetime dodging responsibility takes the biggest job in the village. Kakashi serves as the Sixth Hokage through the years of rebuilding, a title the official novels carry on their covers.<ref name="kakashinovel" /> By the series epilogue he has handed the office to the Seventh Hokage, his own student Naruto, and settled into a well-earned retirement.<ref name="kakashinovel" /><ref name="vizboruto" />

== Personality ==

Kakashi is a study in misdirection. He is perpetually late and always armed with a transparent excuse, he reads a series of adult romance novels in public without embarrassment, and he treats most emergencies with a bored drawl.<ref name="v12" /> The manner is camouflage. He is the most reliable adult in the series, strict about exactly one thing, and his students learn the priority quickly: missions can fail, rules can break, but comrades are not left behind.<ref name="v12" /> The laziness, the mask and the jokes sit on top of one of the saddest backstories in the story, which is precisely why the series trusts him with its children.

== See also ==

* [[Naruto/Naruto Uzumaki|Naruto Uzumaki]]
* [[Naruto/Sasuke Uchiha|Sasuke Uchiha]]
* [[Naruto/Sakura Haruno|Sakura Haruno]]
* [[Naruto/Sharingan|Sharingan]]
* [[Naruto/Shadow Clone Technique|Shadow Clone Technique]]
* [[Naruto/Minato Namikaze|Minato Namikaze]]
* [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]]

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''NARUTO OFFICIAL SITE'' (official). [https://naruto-official.com/en/anime/naruto1/list/01_228 naruto-official.com/en/anime/naruto1/list/01_228]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref> |- style="border-bottom: 1px solid #f6ddc4;" ! scope="row" style="background: #000; color: #EC7124; text-align: center;" | Voice actors | Kazuhiko Inoue (Japanese)<ref name="jpcast">''Naruto'', episode 4 on-screen cast credits (Studio Pierrot / TV Tokyo, 2002).</ref><br>Dave Wittenberg (English)<ref name="encast">''Naruto'', episode 4: "Pass or Fail: Survival Test" English-language broadcast credits (VIZ Media, 2005).</ref> |- style="border-bottom: 1px solid #f6ddc4;" ! scope="row" style="background: #000; color: #EC7124; text-align: center;" | Affiliation | [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]] |- | colspan="2" | {{Collapse|text="'''[ Details — full series ▾ ]'''"|color="#EC7124"|style="width:100%;"}} |- style="border-bottom: 1px solid #f6ddc4;" ! scope="row" style="background: #000; color: #EC7124; text-align: center; width: 36%;" | Rank | Jōnin — an elite ninja<ref name="databook">''Naruto: Hiden — Rin no Sho, Character Official Data Book'' (Shueisha, 2002).</ref> |- style="border-bottom: 1px solid #f6ddc4;" ! scope="row" style="background: #000; color: #EC7124; text-align: center;" | Status | Sixth Hokage of the [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]] in the post-war years; succeeded by [[Naruto/Naruto Uzumaki|Naruto Uzumaki]]<ref name="kakashinovel">''Naruto: Kakashi's Story — The Sixth Hokage and the Failed Prince'' (Shueisha / VIZ Media). [https://www.viz.com/read/novel/naruto-novels/product/7129 viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref><ref name="vizboruto">"Boruto: Naruto Next Generations." VIZ Media (official). [https://www.viz.com/boruto viz.com/boruto]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref> |- ! scope="row" style="background: #000; color: #EC7124; text-align: center;" | Signature technique | Lightning Blade<ref name="databook" /> {{Endcollapse}} |} '''Kakashi Hatake''' (はたけカカシ, ''Hatake Kakashi'') is an elite ninja of the [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]] in ''[[Naruto]]'' and the leader of Team 7, the squad formed by [[Naruto/Naruto Uzumaki|Naruto Uzumaki]], [[Naruto/Sasuke Uchiha|Sasuke Uchiha]] and [[Naruto/Sakura Haruno|Sakura Haruno]].<ref name="ep4site" /> He is famous under the name "Copy Ninja" for the implanted [[Naruto/Sharingan|Sharingan]] eye that lets him mimic other people's techniques.<ref name="v23">''Naruto'', vols. 2–3 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> He hides most of his face behind a mask and most of his history behind a bored expression. He is the most important adult in the main characters' lives, and the series keeps finding heavier things for him to carry. == The teacher of Team 7 == Kakashi enters the story as the teacher nobody would choose. He arrives hours late to his own first meeting and drawls that his first impression of the team is that he hates them.<ref name="ch4" /> He then presents a survival test that only two of the three can pass.<ref name="ep4site" /> The official record adds the detail that matters: no team he has ever tested has passed.<ref name="ep4site" /> The bell test that follows is rigged so that individuals fail, and Team 7 passes only by breaking his rules to feed a captured teammate. That is the answer he wanted, and he states his code plainly: ninja who break the rules are trash, but ninja who abandon their friends are worse.<ref name="v12">''Naruto'', vols. 1–2 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> == The Copy Ninja == The team's first real mission shows the students who has been babysitting them. Confronted by the assassin Zabuza in the Land of Waves, Kakashi uncovers the eye hidden under his slanted forehead protector. His enemy recognizes him on sight as the Copy Ninja, the man said to have mimicked a thousand techniques with the Sharingan.<ref name="v23" /> The eye is not his by blood, because the Sharingan belongs to the Uchiha clan, and how Kakashi came to carry one is a story the series holds back for years. His one original creation, the Lightning Blade, is a concentrated lightning strike graded among the elite techniques of the village.<ref name="databook" /> == His past == Part I closes with a flashback story devoted to him. As a boy genius, Kakashi served under a teacher of his own, the future Fourth Hokage, beside a teammate named Obito Uchiha, whose relaxed attitude he despised.<ref name="v27">''Naruto'', vol. 27 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> The mission that killed Obito ended with Kakashi carrying his friend's Sharingan and his friend's values: the rule-obsessed prodigy became the man who never abandons a comrade.<ref name="v27" /> Nearly everything odd about the adult Kakashi, from the buried grief to the visits to a memorial stone, traces back to that story. == Part II == In Part II, Kakashi's fingerprints are on Naruto's growth as much as on any enemy's defeat. It is his design that turns shadow clones into a training method, compressing months of practice into days.<ref name="ch315">''Naruto'', chapter 315: "Special Training!!" (Shueisha, 2006).</ref> When Pain destroys the village, Kakashi dies holding the attacker off, and he is restored only when the beaten Pain undoes the damage he caused.<ref name="v46">''Naruto'', vol. 46 (Shueisha / VIZ Media). [https://www.viz.com/read/manga/naruto-volume-46/product/2187 viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref><ref name="v48">''Naruto'', vol. 48 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> The Fourth Great Ninja War then turns personal in the cruelest way available. The masked man behind it is revealed to be Obito, alive, the friend whose eye Kakashi has carried for decades.<ref name="v63">''Naruto'', vol. 63 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> Their reckoning is one of the war's emotional centers. == The Sixth Hokage == After the war, the man who spent a lifetime dodging responsibility takes the biggest job in the village. Kakashi serves as the Sixth Hokage through the years of rebuilding, a title the official novels carry on their covers.<ref name="kakashinovel" /> By the series epilogue he has handed the office to the Seventh Hokage, his own student Naruto, and settled into a well-earned retirement.<ref name="kakashinovel" /><ref name="vizboruto" /> == Personality == Kakashi is a study in misdirection. He is perpetually late and always armed with a transparent excuse, he reads a series of adult romance novels in public without embarrassment, and he treats most emergencies with a bored drawl.<ref name="v12" /> The manner is camouflage. He is the most reliable adult in the series, strict about exactly one thing, and his students learn the priority quickly: missions can fail, rules can break, but comrades are not left behind.<ref name="v12" /> The laziness, the mask and the jokes sit on top of one of the saddest backstories in the story, which is precisely why the series trusts him with its children. == See also == * [[Naruto/Naruto Uzumaki|Naruto Uzumaki]] * [[Naruto/Sasuke Uchiha|Sasuke Uchiha]] * [[Naruto/Sakura Haruno|Sakura Haruno]] * [[Naruto/Sharingan|Sharingan]] * [[Naruto/Shadow Clone Technique|Shadow Clone Technique]] * [[Naruto/Minato Namikaze|Minato Namikaze]] * [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]]