1) He's the sickest ninja in the series. (double-meaning)
2) Like the only ninja that does any spy work.
3) Died a martyr. Not even Naruto has done that.
4) Attack of the Crescent Moon! Boo-yah!
5) Fights for what's right, even when he looks like he'll collapse at any second.
6) Has a job!!!
7) Has a huge line of ladies wanting him - those eyes are to die for.
cool If any ninja fights him, he's bound to get them sick. Ten years from now, Baki is going to die in a terrible coughing fit. Count on it.
9) He coughs in every sentence. How beautifully poetic.
10) He represents the will to overcome the darkness of our souls. (yeah, I made that one up... shut up)
11) One of the most expressive characters of the whole series! Just check out my avatar - he's a no-nonsense kind of guy.
12) Or perhaps more accuratley, he's the epitome of indifference. Yeah, there's truckloads of freaks at the exam - he doesn't care. He's seen them all.
"Wow, you control sand with your will and don't have a scratch. I sure care."
"Wow, you are the heralded Uchiha survivor everyone's talking about - hooray."
"Wow, if it isn't Hyuuga Neji - I really am honestly impressed by your abilities."
13) While everyone's all worried about Orochimaru, Hayate's calm and reserved. That's true ninja will-power.
14) He doesn't gloat and blabber and blabber about how great he is. He just IS great.
15) He was a very highly-skilled ninja at a very young age - "Future kage-level ninja" right there, baby!
16) Hayate would pwn all those other Exam jounins. (Except maybe Anko, Ibiki, and the Toothpick Guy)
17) But the fact he fights while sick is what counts!
1 cool Has more determination than any other character! I bet Naruto would quit as a ninja if he got a chronic illness, and go cry about how people didn't acknowledge him when he was a kid.
19) Hayate was born in the mean streets of Kohona - he knows where it's at man, and can bust moves better than MC Hammer.
20) Hayate loves his mother very much.
21) Hayate is pen-pals with fellow cancer patient Kimimaro, who is also really cool.
22) Just his name. Hayate. Just say it. AWESOME! It sounds like "ka-rah-tay," which is like a ninja skill.
23) Hayate uses a katana. Katanas > McGriddles and even good-smelling laundry detergent.
24) Hayate wears a cool hat.
25) He's got to have a great, mysterious past, right?
26) He's the leader of Akatsuki.
27) Isn't the Crescent Moon a fitting jutsu for Hayate, with those sleepy-eye cresent moon blackness beneath his eyes?
2 cool Cool eyes + Cool jutsu = Hayate! = cool
29) 96 A-Rank missions, HECK YEAH!
30) Very high ninjutsu level.
31) He passed the chuunin exam when he was 13!
32) Baki's a filfthy cheater!
33) Hayate was in the second intro, which just so happens to be the best one! Coincidence? I think not!
34) ANBU chick is Hayate's girlfriend - the hottest lady of the whole series!
35) Seriously, are there any other women in ANBU?
36) Hayate died for the country he loved... (sniffles)
37) It's thanks to him that we readers found out that Sound and Sand were working together!
3 cool When we see the moon, we can think of Hayate... (sniffles)
39) Hayate might have been an orphan from the Hidden Moon Village, briefly shown in the manga's Chuunin Exam!
40) HAYATE LIVES!!!
I was being silly for all of that, but seriously, Hayate is cool because not only was he a great ninja, he was a ninja who was sick. I mean, imagine some guy with diabetes pulling off some mad ninja skillz. Hayate is awesome because he coughs all the time and looks like he's dying, but still keeps at it.
Everyone lists off characters that died, like Zabuza, Haku, and Saratobi, but they forget Hayate! I thought he was a noble and tragic little character. 'Twas sad to see him go like that.
