Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-38812954-20190921011108/@comment-9782468-20191008052004

You didn't have to edit the post lol.

But since you did.

Before Kakashi graduated to Genin at age 5, his dad committed suicide. Why? His dad chose to save his comrades instead of completing a mission.

Does Kakashi decide he wants revenge on a village who turned their backs on him, even those he saved?

No, Kakashi decides that the best he can do is learn from his father's mistakes and live his life by the Shinobi rules.

Fast forward to age 12-13, Kakashi is a Jonin and created the new but incomplete Chidori. He now leads his team of Obito and Rin on their first mission under his leadership. When Rin is captured, Kakashi decides to focus on the mission, leading Obito to abandon him to save Rin.

Later, because Obito isn't at a level where he can remain undetected to an enemy, his element of surprise is gone and Kakashi is forced to save him. In the bout, Kakashi loses his eye. If Kakashi had gone with Obito from the start, they may have retained their element of surprise and he may have kept his eye.

But since he chose to value the mission first in his initial decision, Kakashi's eye proves a liability. After a fight, their opponent collapses the cave around them. A rock strikes Kakashi on his blindspot (which he onlygot because he decided mission came first at first). Obito is forced to save him and get crushed.

So because Kakashi didn't decide to help Obito from the start, Kakashi ended up being the liability that caused Obito to lose half of his body.

Then Obito gives Kakashi his Sharingan, and makes him promise to protect Rin. Kakashi promises, and with the Sharingan completes Chidori. So the Chidori represents himself and Obito.

However, Rin is captured and is forced to become the 3 Tails Jinchuriki. Kakashi does his best to keep her safe, but Rin kills herself. On what? Chidori. The jutsu that Obito helped Kakashi complete. The jutsu that represented his friendship with Obito now is the same jutsu that broke his promise to Obito.

Kakashi trucks along, depressed but doing his duty.

Later, the 9 Tails attacks Konoha. Kakashi knows he could help. Kakashi is a Jonin and one of Leaf's most talented even though he's young. But the higher-ups don't let him participate. In the battle he was so close to yet unable to participate in, his Sensei died. And the woman he was tasked to protect for 9 months died as well.

Kakashi went through all of this. And he never became the villain of the series. Even later when Obito is discovered to be alive, Kakashi finds it in himself to kill his former friend because he knows that's what needs to be done. Kakashi struck Obito to kill (twice).

He's just an absolute beast of a character in terms of emotional endurance.