He wore a standard Konohagakure-nin uniform complete with a flak jacket, with the addition of distinctive short white sleeves over his shirt's ones, with red jagged edges and the standard crest of Uzushiogakure, and a belt worn diagonally over his right shoulder to which he attached his White Light Chakra Sabre. His facial features were more distinguished compared to Kakashi's visible ones. Like his son, he possessed the same silver-coloured spiky hair with the addition of a long ponytail similar to Jiraiya's, and a mess of hair on his head hanging over his forehead protector. Sakumo's appearance has regularly been compared to that of Kakashi, often when Kakashi is mistaken for his father. Eventually, he committed suicide, which drove Kakashi to live strictly according to the Shinobi Rules during the time before his last mission with Obito Uchiha. Dishonored, Sakumo fell into a deep depression, as well as dropping in his skills. The impact of the mission's failure caused Sakumo to be vilified by the Land of Fire, the villagers of Konoha, and even those he had saved. When his team-mates' lives were endangered, Sakumo chose to abandon the mission in order to save them. Five years before the events of the Kakashi Gaiden, Sakumo and his team were sent on a mission of great importance to Konoha.
Sometime during a war, Sakumo killed Sasori's parents, earning Chiyo's hatred. His son, Kakashi, idolized him and sought to become just as great a ninja as his father his wife had died when Kakashi was very young. Sakumo was a famous and powerful ninja of Konohagakure who, during his life, had the same level of respect as the Sannin. Sakumo Hatake (はたけサクモ, Hatake Sakumo), also known as Konoha's White Fang (木ノ葉の白い牙, Konoha no Shiroi Kiba English TV "White Fang of the Leaf"), was the father of Kakashi Hatake. This article originally came from link, the Naruto Encyclopedia Wiki. So I am writing this article to pay tribute to him. I skimmed through the articles here in the link and thought that none of them was about my late father, link.