Kakashi mouse pads for the desk

Our Kakashi mouse pads and desk mats carry art inspired by Kakashi Hatake of Naruto, printed edge to edge on a 3 mm neoprene pad with a fabric top, a non-slip base and stitched edges. Sizes go from 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm), a pad for the mouse and nothing more, to 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm), which spreads under a keyboard, a mouse and a good share of the desk; there are eight in total, and your pad is printed once you have ordered it.

This page sits under Naruto and keeps its focus on Kakashi alone. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, the Akatsuki, the Hidden Leaf and the rest of the series are on the Naruto page.

The mask and the headband

Kakashi is the rare anime hero whose face you almost never see. A dark mask covers everything below his eyes, and his forehead protector is tilted down over his left eye, so in most scenes you get one lazy eye, a shock of silver hair and very little else. Team 7 spend an entire episode of the original series trying to see under the mask, and fail.

That makes Kakashi unusually easy to draw in a few shapes. A minimal design, the slanted headband, the mask line and the spiky silhouette of his hair, reads clearly on the smallest pad and works on a desk where a full anime portrait would feel loud.

One eye covered

Under the tilted headband is a Sharingan, the red eye of the Uchiha clan, which Kakashi was given by his teammate Obito Uchiha during the Third Great Ninja War. Because the eye isn't his by birth, it tires him out, so he keeps it covered until a fight demands it. The moment he lifts the headband is one of the most recognizable gestures in the series.

That asymmetry, one ordinary dark eye and one red one, is the heart of many Kakashi designs. A portrait cropped across the face suits the long M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm), with the red eye at the end away from your mouse so your hand never covers it.

Silver, navy and flak-jacket green

Kakashi's palette is quiet: silver-white hair, a navy uniform, the olive-green flak jacket of a Leaf jōnin and the steel plate of his headband. The only strong color is the red of the Sharingan, and sometimes the blue-white of his lightning. That makes his designs much calmer than most Naruto art, which leans on orange.

On a desk, the palette suits gray, navy or black peripherals, a dark wood surface or a setup built around a gray keyboard. If you want one accent, a single red keycap echoes the eye.

Lightning in one hand

Kakashi's signature technique is the Chidori, lightning chakra gathered in one hand until it shrieks like a thousand birds. He invented it himself, and after he used it to cut through a bolt of lightning, it earned a second name, Raikiri, the Lightning Blade. In the anime, it crackles in white and electric blue against whatever is around it.

Lightning designs are the most dramatic Kakashi art, and they suit a dark gaming desk with blue or white RGB, where the light from behind the monitor picks up the glow. On a desk mat, choose a design with the crackling hand at one end, so the light spreads outward toward the keyboard instead of disappearing under it.

The orange book

Kakashi spends a remarkable amount of time reading. His book of choice is from Jiraiya's Make-Out Paradise series, a romance novel in a bright orange cover that he reads in public, during training and occasionally in the middle of a fight. It is one of the series' longest-running jokes.

The book makes a playful small design: an orange cover held up in one hand, with Kakashi's one visible eye peeking over the top. On a laptop desk or a study table, it is the most light-hearted way to show you know the character, and it is about the only orange that comes near him.

Two bells

Kakashi's first test for Team 7 is simple on paper. He hangs two bells from his belt and tells Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura to take them from him before noon, knowing there are only two bells for three students. The point, as he finally explains, is that the test can only be passed by working together.

Two small bells on a plain background is one of the most understated Kakashi designs you can put under a mouse. It suits the 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad, a work desk or a study setup, and it carries the lesson along with the reference.

Pakkun and the ninken

Kakashi can summon a pack of eight ninja hounds, the ninken, who track scents and pin down enemies for him. The one everyone remembers is Pakkun, a small, grumpy pug who talks in a deep, unimpressed voice and wears a little Leaf vest. A design with Pakkun alone is the friendliest Kakashi art there is, and the whole pack, running in a line, suits the long sizes.

Ninken designs work well for a younger fan or a pastel desk, and Pakkun is an easy choice for a small pad beside a laptop.

The Anbu years

Before he led Team 7, Kakashi served in the Anbu, the Hidden Leaf's black ops unit. Anbu members hide behind white animal masks and wear gray armor, and Kakashi's, with its red markings, makes him almost unrecognizable. Flashbacks to those years are some of the darkest scenes in his story.

Anbu designs bring a much darker Kakashi to the desk: a masked figure in gray and black, often at night. They suit a black desk, black peripherals and low lighting, and they look strongest on XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm), or larger, where the night has room to spread.

Team Minato

As a boy, Kakashi trained under Minato Namikaze, who would become the Fourth Hokage, alongside Obito Uchiha and Rin Nohara. The Kakashi Gaiden arc tells how a rule-obsessed young Kakashi learns from Obito that abandoning your friends is worse than breaking the rules, and how he gets the Sharingan. It reshapes everything you know about the adult Kakashi.

A Team Minato design, three children in front of their teacher, is a quiet, nostalgic image for someone who knows the backstory. It suits the TCG Mat size, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm), set beside a laptop, and its daylight colors keep the desk bright.

The White Fang's son

Kakashi's father, Sakumo Hatake, was known as the White Fang of the Leaf, a ninja famous enough that his name alone frightened enemies. He fought with a short blade that glowed with white chakra, and young Kakashi carries that blade in his early missions. The White Fang's story explains a great deal about why Kakashi grows up so strict, and then so changed.

A design built on the white blade, pale light on a dark background, is a striking small-pad image and a deep cut for anyone who knows where it comes from.

Eternal rivals

Might Guy, the loud, green-jumpsuited taijutsu master, has declared himself Kakashi's eternal rival, and he keeps a running score of their contests. Kakashi treats most of these challenges with polite boredom, which is exactly what makes the pairing funny, and their friendship turns out to run deeper than either admits.

A Kakashi and Guy design is a natural split for a long mat: calm silver at one end, blazing green at the other, with the keyboard between them as the latest contest.

Kamui and the Sixth Hokage

In Shippuden, Kakashi reveals that his Sharingan has a Mangekyō form, which gives him Kamui, a technique that warps space into a swirling vortex. Those swirls make striking abstract designs in red and black. By the end of the Fourth Great Ninja War he no longer has the Sharingan, and in time he becomes the Sixth Hokage, wearing the white and red robe of the office, and develops a new lightning technique, Purple Lightning, which is exactly what it sounds like.

A Hokage-era design is a calmer, older Kakashi for a work desk, and a Kamui spiral suits a dark gaming setup with red lighting.

Always late

Kakashi is never on time, and he never gives a real reason. His excuses, getting lost on the road of life, helping someone across the street, run through the whole series. In Japanese he is voiced by Kazuhiko Inoue and in English by Dave Wittenberg, and both deliver those excuses with complete calm.

There is a lesson in that for a desk, too: a Kakashi design is relaxed rather than intense, which makes it good company through a long work or study session.

For gaming and study

A Kakashi pad performs just like the rest of our range. The fabric top gives a smooth, even glide for precise aim, the non-slip base keeps the mat from shifting when you move quickly, and the stitched edges stop wear where your wrist rests. His quieter designs, the mask, the bells or the headband, also make a calm surface for a study desk, with a notebook on one side and a laptop on the other.

Sizes for a Kakashi desk

The product page for each design lists its sizes. These are the ones that suit Kakashi.

Setup	Size	Good for
Mouse only	S, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm)	Two bells or Pakkun
Laptop table	TCG Mat, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm)	Team Minato
Compact keyboard	M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm)	A crop across the masked face
Keyboard and mouse	XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm)	Anbu Kakashi at night
Deep desk	XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm)	The Chidori in full
All of it	4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm)	Kakashi and Guy at either end

The L, 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm), and the 3XL, 19.7″ × 39.4″ (50 × 100 cm), cover desks that are wider than they are deep.

Gifts for a Kakashi fan

A Kakashi pad suits a friend who is always late, someone who rewatched the Kakashi Gaiden episodes or a teacher who likes to think of their class as Team 7. His birthday in the series is September 15, which lands right at the start of the school year. Making the pad takes 1–3 business days; after it ships from Turkey, it typically reaches a US address in 2–5 business days. If their desk size is a guess, XL covers a standard keyboard and mouse with room to spare.

Keeping silver hair silver

Kakashi designs are mostly navy, gray and silver, colors that hide marks well, but skin oil still collects where your wrist rests. Give that spot a weekly wipe with a damp cloth. For a full clean, hand wash the pad in lukewarm water with a gentle soap, rinse it, press the water out between towels and let it dry flat. Washing machines, dryers and irons are all a bad idea for this pad, and the fade-resistant print keeps the red of the Sharingan sharp.

A note on names

Kakashi Hatake, Naruto and the names of its characters and techniques are used here to describe what our designs are inspired by. Padrift is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Masashi Kishimoto, Shueisha or Studio Pierrot.