Thoughts or flashbacks

Chapter 1

I awoke the next morning to the sound of a nurse coming into my room, rather noisily, to bring me my breakfast. I pretended to be asleep while she took my dishes from the night before along with the pile of clothes I aimlessly had spread across the floor.

When she finally left I got out of bed and started to eat. As I was eating I saw that there was a new headband and a stack of papers on the small desk that held my few books and pictures. I quickly ate the remainder of the meal and when to look at the papers. As I reached for one of the folders, my hand brushed against a frame that was sitting haphazardly on a shelf that fell. I was able to catch it before the glass broke and began to examine the picture:
It was taken right before the accident. I was 14, just turned Jonin, and had jumped on Kakashi's back after a "surprise attack" and he was laughing as he was pretending to be actually affected by it (which he never did) and falling under my weight.
I put the frame back on the desk but this time on the very top where I hardly ever look.

I then took the papers and saw that they were profiles of the genin on the team. There was a girl, Sakura, who had great chakra control but was weak in just about everything else. The others were two boys, Sasuke and Naruto, the last Uchiha survivor and the holder of the Nine Tailed Fox, respectively. After a quick skim of the papers I changed and left for the training grounds.

I sat smoking my second cigarette of the morning by the memorial stone as I waited for Kakashi's subordinates to come; I had come early to look around the old place. At exactly 8 AM, they had arrived.

When they arrived about 3 yards away from me, they started to look around.

"I wonder who will be working with us while Kakashi-Sensei is in the hospital." I heard a female voice, presumably Sakura's, say.

A quick reply came in the form of a grunt and someone saying, "Whatever, like it matters." This was quickly followed by someone saying enthusiastically, "Who cares as long as they can make me stronger!"

I started to laugh rather loudly at this and that must have alerted to them that I was there because they all soon started to run to me. The moment they saw me would have been comical if I could see it through their eyes. Knowing that they had no clue who I was they must have just seen a 17 year old girl with silvery white in a black tank top and shorts shorts with bandages that started at my nose and covered most of my arms, leaving only my fingers showing and ended about half way down my thighs, smoking a cigarette through a few loosened bandages at my mouth. A moment later I had finished the cigarette and threw it onto the ground; I stood up and turned to them chuckling.

"Hello. You must be Kakashi's team. I'm Kai; I'll be filling in for Kakashi while he is in the hospital."

The team stared at me, and continued to until the boy with dark hair, the Uchiha, said. "And how is it that you are qualified? You don't look much older..."

Before he could finish what he was going to say I moved towards him in what would have looked them as if I had teleported, and appeared behind him with a kunai to his throat. I then whispered in a voice only he could hear, "I may only be seventeen, but I've seen things that will make you skin crawl Uchiha. Things that even would make your brother seem like a cute little puppy scared with his tails between his legs."

I then let him go with a hard push and turned to the others and said, "Oh right subordinates, let's get this clear. I will not take any insolence or horse play." And seeing that Uchiha had stood up and said, "All right kiddies for the first training I have a game for you." I paused and smiled as I looked at their scared expressions I continued, "This game will be similar to Kakashi's bell exercise but with my own twist; all you have to do is cut one of the bandages on my face to reveal it."

They all looked at with the most utterly confused faces I have ever seen. I started to laugh and as I was trying to stop t he blonde looked at me and asked, "Why would we want to do that?"

I turned my face pseudo serious and said, "Because you are now my minions and have to do what I say." I then allowed face to go back to normal and said, "No actually I chose this exercise because I know Kakashi is your sensei and you kids must want to see his face more than anything. Right?" I asked this last question as a test. "So if you have training unmasking me, it might help with Kakashi." When was the last time I had said his name this many times in under an hour?

And they passed with the blonde jumping up and down excitedly and the pink haired girl looked torn, sneaking a peak at the dark haired boy to her side. The Uchiha scoffed and said, rather arrogantly, "What has cut a bandage on you have to do with unmasking Kakashi?"

I shook my head, "Well, me and Kakashi at one point in time were close in ability." I then looked at Sasuke, "and Uchiha you need to have better respect for your elders, or those in charge of you in my case."

The blonde, Naruto I need to remember names, started to laugh at Sasuke while the bought of us got death glares from the pink haired girl, Sakura. I then continued with my explanation. "Okay, well I am really out of practice right now so I'll make this easier for the all of us. I'm going to make ten shadow clones," as I said this ten more of me appeared, "and we'll hide while one of stays her and starts the time." I took out the alarm clock I had sitting by the memorial stone and set it. "You will have till noon to find me and 'take me out'. We will be hidden throughout the village, though by no means is there to be any combat in an area highly populated with civilians."

The three of them nodded and my clone finished setting the alarm clock as the rest of us vanished. Now time to do some long needed chores.