Hello! My first Naruto fanfic! Hope you like~.
There were originally four Sannin members.
Tsunade, the best medical ninja alive.
Jiraiya, the Toad Sage.
Orochimaru, the man with snakes.
And Chie Hayashi, the child prodigy in a century to master all 5 chakra nature properties.
Hailed as great ninja but…in reality they were all broken one way or another.
The slug who ran from her fears.
The toad who gave up.
The snake who hid from the light.
And the Hayashi who just couldn't live.
And this is the story of their successors, the next four Sannin and how they surpassed their predecessors.
The girl that faced her fears.
The fox that didn't give up.
The Uchiha that only flinched from the light.
And...the Hayashi that learned to live.
"Kakashi!" Said white haired man looked in the direction of where the voice came from in the sea of children but all he saw was a blur of red hair.
"Oof!" He looked down to see his Protege was the one who tackled him, arms wrapped around his waist. The arms around his waist belonged to a girl that couldn't be any older than 8. She looked up at him, mismatched left blue eye and right green eye shining. He gave her his famous eye crinkle smile. He ruffled her hair, messing up her already messy bloody red curly hair that fell to her shoulders. She pouted. "Hey there Kame-chan..."
Kameyo Hayashi smiled up at Kakashi. "Your back. How'd the mission go?"
He only shrugged. "It was successful. Anyway, it's time to go train." He chuckled when he noticed the girl deflate.
By the time they were done training 3 hours later, Kame was exhausted while Kakashi only looked slightly lazier than usual. They were working on her speed and taijutsu. Kakashi planned on teaching her Chidori when her speed grew to the required amount, her Chakra control was already superb, but that was to be expected from coming from a clan born with natural Chakra control. The reason he planned to give her this technique at such an early age was because in the Hayashi Clan they were capable of using all 5 Chakra nature properties but only few were able to. It was tradition in the clan to become a master of their first nature property, and were given a shisho at a very young age, usually in the clan. By the time they've graduated their expected to know at least one jutsu of their Chakra property.
Lightning was the rarest Chakra nature property in the leaf, no one had it in the Hayashi Clan and hence the reason he was teaching her, an outsider of the clan. Kakashi really loved his cute little student and in a way she was similar to the now him instead of the kid him. She was lazy, not Nara lazy but close enough. Always late to everything and very laid back.
Kakashi could honestly say that at first he wasn't planning on teaching her his original technique but it was when he asked her about her dream and she responded that he changed his mind.
Flash Back
They were in the training fields, about to introduce each other properly. Kakashi went first. "As you know, I'm Kakashi Hatake. I don't particularly like talking about my likes and dislikes. Dreams for the future?...Hm...I don't feel like telling you that. And I have lots of hobbies."
Kame sweat dropped. That was pointless. "I'm Kameyo Hayashi but please just call me Kame! Uh, I like animals and nature. I dislike bullies and mean people. My hobbies are reading, sleeping and eating."
It was Kakashi's turn to sweat drop, the last two weren't even hobbies. "And what about your dreams?"
Kame's eyes never shinned brighter, her fists closed lightly. "A hero. I wanna be a hero."
Kakashi's eye widened, he'd never heard that before, it was interesting to say the least. " What does a hero mean to you?"
" A hero is someone who does anything to protect those precious to them, the ones dearest to them and I swear to you I'll do just that."
End of Flash Back
So, now here they were at Kame's house. He spent a lot of dinners there with her family.
"Thank you for the food Toshi-san." He bowed his head slightly, respectfully to Kame's father.
The older man had messy brown hair with a left blue eye and right purple eye. He smiled the same smile as his daughter and smacked him on the back. "Come now Kakashi-kun! It's really no problem, you're family to us." Kakashi's chest warmed slightly at the words Toshi spoke.
"Otou-san where's Oni-chan?" Kame asked, her brother was late for dinner that they had only started eating moments ago.
"Well, he went out to get do something and should be back any-"
The front door opened followed by the voice belonging only to brother saying, "I'm home and I brought someone special home!"
"A girlfriend finally?" Toshi called out to his son and laughed along with his daughter when Hajime, who had the same exact hair as him and left blue eye but a right brown eye, came around the corner, face red and sputtering, "Shut up!".
Hajime fake coughed and shook his head. "No, actually I've brought," another person appeared around the corner, "Genma." The brunette teen gave a short wave in greeting.
Kameyo squealed, jumping over the table and tackled Genma Shiranui the same way she did Kakashi. "Gen-chan!"
He looked down at the little girl and ruffled her hair with a smile. "Hello there little turtle."
She pouted cutely at the nickname but than held up her arms to him, signaling for him to hug her. He blinked down at her before bending down slightly and wrapping his arms under hers. She wrapped her arms around his neck, snuggling her head into his neck. Kameyo had never felt safer, not even in the arms of Hajime, Kakashi or even her father.
"Call me when the wedding is." Hajime said brightly.
"Shut up."
3 years later.
"I heard you rejected the offer to take the graduation test early. Why is that?"
Kame peaked open an eye to look up at Genma from the corner of her eye. "I wanna graduate with my class, it's only a little less than a year away." He rose an eyebrow at her as for why she would want that. Kameyo was picked on a lot because of her unsual eyes, hair and being named after a turtle did practically ensure you'd be made fun of. "Plus, me taking longer to become a ninja means higher percentages that I'll live long enough to be able to bear all our 4 children."
Genma's brow twitched, even after all these years since she was 5 she still hadn't gotten the kid promise he made about marrying her out of her head. He hadn't wanted to hurt her feelings with the way her eyes looked up at him. "What did Kakashi say?"
"He understood."
"I see." A comfortable silence filled the air. Genma laid down beside her and both of them stared up into the sky that was cloud free today.
1 week later
"Okay Kame-chan, I'll be teaching you a new lightning technique." Kakashi stated as they stood face to face in their usual training grounds. Kameyo looked at her shisho surprised, in the 3 years he'd been teaching her she had only learned the Raiton Kage Bushin (Lightning Shadow Clone), Henge no Jutsu (Transformation Technique), Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique), and his own technique, Chidori (One Thousand Birds). Those were only 4 Jutsus and 2 of them were lightning.
"Really?" She couldn't keep the excitement out of her voice," What is it?!"
Kakashi chuckled at her childishness. "You'll be learning Raijū Hashiri no Jutsu (Lightning Beast Running Technique). Let me give you an example." Lightning Chakra burst into his hand and out came a dog that ran, Lighting Chakra still connecting to Kakashi's hand, and into a tree, exploding it.
"Woah..." Kame stared in amazement at the fallen tree.
He turned back to her. "It's similar to the Chidori but you'll be channeling it from your hand and than to your target in the form of a beast."
She nodded, turning to face a tree she concentrated her Chakra into her hand. That was simple enough, having beeing able to produce a Chidori twice. She tried to concentrate on the Chakra out of her hand and into the air as if it was running. But just as a spark started to come out of her hand, her heart race picked up and she went into a coughing fit. Kakashi rushed over to her and he saw small stains of blood on her hand when she moved to look at it. They both looked at each other worriedly but not moments later did Kame pass out and did he catch her. "Kame?! Kameyo?! Shit..."
Kakashi picked her up bridal style and jumped off to the hospital, cursing all the way.
At the Hospital.
Kameyo stared into her lap, sadly as Kakashi, Hajime, her father and Genma, who they'd coincidentally ran into in the hospital, sat spread around the room. The nurse took tests right after Kame woke up, which was about 3 hours ago and were waiting on the news. Finally after what seemed like eternity did the nurse come in, she looked a little troubled.
Toshi immediately stood up worried for his little girls well being. "Is everything okay? What's wrong with my daughter?"
"Well, it has to do with your Kekkei Genkai."
Her brother rose an eyebrow. "The Seimei Kokyu?" The nurse nodded. "But she can't even use it yet."
"I understand that, but the Nature Chakra Cells that are dormant and reside in the body seems to be more powerful than any other member that we've ever seen." They all looked at her dumbly, as if to say 'so?'. The nurse sighed and continued, "From what has been gathered, when Hayashi babies are born, as you have seen, their eyes glow just like Seimei Kokyu. That's because the babies gather Nature Chakra Cells when their first born, it grows with their Chakra, eventually becoming one and their regular Chakra forces the Nature Chakra into a dormant state. And when the Kekkei Genkai is activated the Nature Chakra inside of you doesn't need concentrating to gather. In this case when you were first born you gathered too much Nature Chakra for even your own Chakra to force into dormancy right away like you should have. Since no new born can control their Chakra beside the natural instinct the Hayashi babies are born with, the Nature Chakra ran wild for a few good hours, enough to destroy parts of your Tenketsu's (Pressure points), not completely but like tears in them, gaps. Without ALL your Tenketsu's being there whether they can open Chakra or not you'll die. Slowly these points are still tearing."
Needless to say everyone was shocked. Genma clenched his fists, "Is there anyway to treat it?"
The nurse smiled and nodded, "Luckily for you, we will be able to heal them. But this process might take anywhere from a month to a couple of years, plus you'll need months of therapy. We have to do it in bits or we might end up distributing the Chakra Network in a bad way and something could go wrong."
They all breathed in a sigh of relief. Toshi pulled his daughter close, eyes stinging. "Theres another down part I'm afraid to say..."
Everyone stiffened again, Kameyo cursed the heavens, of course there was more bad news there always was. "You're Chakra Network is messed up in the way it'll be impossible for you to change affinities. You'll only be able to use Lightning Nature Chakra beside the regular Chakra Jutsus, I'm so sorry."
Kameyo gripped the sheets tightly, it wasn't fair. It really it wasn't because this was one of the things the Hayashi Clan was really known for, being able to use so many Chakra Natures. Her Dad could use 3, and her brother 4, hell even Kakashi is able to use more than one Chakra Nature. It was such a blow to her pride knowing that she'd never be able to do what her clan was famous for.
"I see..." Toshi said, he held his daughter closer. "Thank you." The nurse nodded and left giving them privacy.
Everyone looked at her, saddness and sympathy evident in their eyes. Kameyo looked around at everyone, her chest, throat and eyes burning all to keep her from crying out loud. She could feel the tears that gathered in her eyes about to spill over, she bit her lip to stop them but against her will they came pouring down like a waterfall. It hurt so much. She wiped as her eyes furiously, hoping to make them stop but to no use, they just kept coming. Eventually she just kept them over her eyes.
Genma who had been right beside her on the other side, grabbed her hand giving it a gentle squeeze. Kameyo could tell who it was by the touch, no one ever felt warm like his skin against her or the small electricity that would pass through as times. Even if her father was side hugging her tightly she looked at him because she knew that if she did, everything would be alright. Looking into the soft brown eyes that she loved so much, she let it all out. Her sobs echoing through the room that tugged at everyone heart that could hear them but none of them like Genma Shiranui.