Thanks to the forceful adaptation to natural energy he had received Kakashi was able to resist the fossilization that started to occur as the present natural energy was drawn into his body. Instead he focused to fuse the energy with his chakra and it was rough going. Not that I expected him to aplish it on his first attempt to begin with. In a manner of speaking a normal shinobi entering sage mode required a lot of effort as they were effectively doing four things simultaneously.-

  The first was drawing in natural energy without getting flooded with the stuff. The sed was keeping the energy they drew in from rampaging and turning them to stone or in the case of the e regions an animal. The third was trying to trol the natural energy into fusing with their chakra. The final was keeping their mind focused oasks as a moments distra could mean failure or worse. For me all of this happened on it's own as a matter of course so I didn't o pay it any attention at all unless I went for saint mode.-

  When I deemed him too close t into stone I spped Kakashi on the chest f the natural energy out of him aing his state so he could keep trying without risk. He only took a moment to ter his mind again after the sudden pain of my a thanks to having experie plenty since I started his training. It took thirty resets for him to briefly create a spark of sage chakra that winked out as fast as it came.-

  "That's enough for today. Go home, eat well a. We'll meet up here at dawn tomorrow." I said calmly and he breathed out tiredly and nodded.

  This process was heavily taxing for the mind and not a little stressing for the body as well so after so long maintaining it he needed rest. I could have allowed him to keep trying if we were in a hurry at the cost of the backsh being much greater after he finally rexed but we weren't in a hurry so this was the ideal pace. The m when the sun had just started to light up the world I was waiting on top of the Hokage mo when he arrived perfectly on time.-

  I didn't pn to point out how out of character for him this was as he was ALWAYS fashioe. I could tell that he was serious about this training and I had no reason to be dissatisfied so I left it alone. While the world was awakening we restarted his training and it was clear that the rest was exactly what he needed as the process was much smoother this time though it took him ahree resets to spark up sage chakra again. It only took another five resets after that for him to find the perfect ratio of energies for him and start truly creating more and more sage chakra.-

  Red markings began to appear around his eyes while his hair spiked up and he began to take on doglike properties.

  "That's far enough. Open your eyes a your ges, you are currently in sage mode." I said with a smile and he did as I said.

  "Incredible! I smell everything for miles and my hearing is so much more sensitive now! Do you feel like this all the time!?" he asked in amazement.

  "Not precisely like what you are feeling as it's clear that ye mode has taken after y summonis whereas mine could be sidered as truly ral and thus all inclusive. Still gratutions are in order for officially stepping into the rank of sage." I said with a smile.

  "Thank you, truly. I know that without your help I would have never achieved this." he said with a sincere bow.

  "Bah! Your trainings not over yet you know?" I said with a chuckle while waving off his thanks.

  "What more is there?" he asked fused.

  "Ye mode is imperfed primitive at the moment and you have no idea how to use sage arts. You'll need my help to learhings still. Perfect sage mode you probably learn on your own with enough time to practice but it'll be faster if I help. As fe arts you will definitely need my help with that." I said holy.

  "No more bruises though?" he asked suspiciously and I chuckled but nodded.

  "It's a matter of refio perfect ye mode and sage arts are a matter of uanding how muergy to add to your jutsu in your ate as well as taking advantage of the improvements your body gets. For the sage regions this is the kata's and specialty teiques of the sage modes they give. Jiraiya for example learnt toad oil teiques and toad kata fighting style." I expined calmly.

  "I see but what would I learn if my sage mode is reted to my ninken?" he asked fused.

  "Well if I had to guess ye mode increases the strength of your speed, hearing and sense of smell like that of a ninken and perhaps even further. So your best bet would be to learn how to utilize these traits to the best of your ability, the Inuzuka taijutsu and teiques are probably the perfect fit for you in this case. In fact they fit so well that I 't help but wonder if the had a sage at one point with a sage mode like yours, could be a ce though." I said with a shrug.

  "Ah, well I guess that makes things easy for me as my mother was from that so I already know some of their teiques." he said with a amused look as his sage mode faded.

  I wasn't surprised that it hadn't sted very long as I had stopped him from gathering too much sage chakra lest he permaly take on traits of it's imperfe like how Jiraiya had a rge wart on his face from a simir past problem. The markings faded from Kakashi's fad his ninkeures went with them returning him to normal.