My bet would be that he has some pretty wicked scars there due to the backtracking into his childhood and how hard things were when he was a new chunin...(spelling?) ---------- Post added at 09:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:41 PM ---------- and honestly I don't think they'd ever reveal his real face...not sure how many people used to watch "home improvement" but it's a gimmicky kind of thing like they did on that show. For the unaware, they had a neighbor named "wilson" who always was looking over the fence to talk to them. And no matter the situation they never really show roughly the same area of his face as kakashi's.