Chapter 2 - Hello, Darkness

March 18th, 51 years after the founding of Konohagakure, Town Square Market.

It wasn't really that he was trying to live off meal rations, it was just that whenever Kakashi bought groceries he never had time to finish them and he would always come back from a mission to find a sentient mold growing in his fridge. He'd eventually learned to just stop buying them, really, Genma, it wasn't a problem. It was efficient. Energy drinks were a quick way to tie him over and they were cheap and nonperishable. Ration bars filled in the rest with the required nutrients or whatever, they were made for survival. Kakashi added a couple of boxes of both to his basket.

Sure, they tasted gross, but it almost seemed fitting. He didn't need things that tasted good, he just needed enough to not collapse in the middle of a mission.

He decided to maybe buy some groceries. It wasn't because of Genma. It wasn't because he felt guilty for the extra cash burning a hole in his pocket either. It definitely wasn't because he thought he just saw Raidō, Genma's partner, walking by in the marketplace.

Ugh, anyone who drinks milk and enjoys it is a masochist. No milk.

I could get eggs for...protein? But I think I'm going to pick up another mission in a couple days. No eggs, then.

Apples were on sale, so he got two. They looked red, which was probably good.

Eggplant miso was nice, but it wasn't really a necessity. The ingredients weren't on sale though, so he put the eggplant and miso paste back on the shelf. It would be wasteful to use Genma's money on frivolities, anyways.

After checking out, he walked back home to his apartment.

Unbeknownst to him, Genma sighed in the distance from afar. Dammit. He would have to make sure to get high-calorie food into the idiot whenever he could.