Chapter 4 - The Meeting
At the Hokage's Mansion. Team Kakashi, Team Gai, Team Asuma and Team Kurenai were having a meeting at the Hokage's office. Tsunade leaned against her chair, crossing her arm.
"So, there's nothing else suspicious around that area?" she asked the Anbu guy who standing to the left of her. The Anbu shook his head.
"Nothing seems to be threatening or unusual, else than the creature itself." Tsunade closed her eyes, having some thoughts about the incident. She opened her eyes.
"Verywell, keep on the lookout! Report to me immediately if anything is out of hand! Dismiss!" she commanded. The Anbu nodded, then disappeared in a blink. Then, Tsunade turned towards those who's in front of her. The whole Team was there, Naruto stood the most in front. Tsunade sighed. "I supposed you have something in your mind that you wanted to tell us, Naruto?"
"Granny Tsunade, Kay is not an enemy! He is a friend."
"Then, I supposed you could tell me WHY?!" Naruto stepped back at Tsunade's sudden tone. He frowned.
"It's true! He's here to save Kakashi sensei!" Kakashi turned to Naruto in this point. Tsunade sighed.
"Then, why is that?" she said in a bored tone.
"To fix the future!!" they all blinked in surprised. Tsunade rests her arms on the table, intrigued by Naruto's words. She observed Naruto from head to toe. She could see that he's telling the truth. Or he might just being dumb, like how Naruto always does. She raised her eyebrow.
"To fix...the future?" she doubted him. Shikamaru rubbed his head in confusion and headache, trying to figure out what Naruto's mean.
"Fix the future, huh?" Gai tapping his finger on his chin. "He could be an oracle?"
"An oracle that uses Kakashi sensei's face? Yeah, right!" Kiba exclaimed in disbelieves. Akamaru whimpered to Kiba. "Hm? What do you mean 'you didn't smell any threat on him'?"
"Despite of him being noisy, I didn't feel any threat from him either." Neji added.
"Exactly, he is not a threat!" Naruto defended.
"Do you even know, where is he coming from?" Yamato protested. Naruto turned to him.
"He said he came from another dimension." Naruto answered.
"Another dimension?" Tsunade repeated.
"That's right. He came from a dimension where people could read the future with their cards." he explained.
"Do you even hear yourself right now?" Asuma scratching his head.
"Are you simply fell for that?" Sakura giving him the 'are you that dumb' look to Naruto.
"No! It's true. He said that himself." he protested.
"It still doesn't explained why he looked like me." Kakashi added. Naruto glared at him.
"Are you saying that you didn't believe me, sensei?" his boiling meters are getting hot.
"Naruto-"
"He saved your LIFE! And, you probably didn't know this but, I CAME from the future!" Kakashi's eyes widened. The others also responded.
"What?!"
"The future I from, sensei. You died! You died by the fire!" Kakashi puzzled while everyone froze. "We lost you that time. I, lost that time. I keep cursing myself for not being able to save you! I mourn for you everytime!"
"Naruto..." Hinata whispered.
"It hurts me everytime. I couldn't stop thinking that you were gone. It hurts too much!" he clutches his fist. "But then, Kay came to me. And, to be honest I was thinking the same as you do when I first met him." the flashback shows when Kay offered a handshake to Naruto, and when he uses the device to turn back time. "But, he proved himself. He might didn't sound like it, but he did it anyway. He took me back here to this time, so that I could save you."
Kakashi stood still, not sure of what to say. The others also froze by his speech. Tsunade closed her eyes, thinking. Shizune turned to her. "Lady Tsunade?" Tsunade exhales, quietly.
"Then, how about the creature?" she asked. Naruto spun around to see her.
"Huh?"
"The creature. Does it has anything to do with this 'Timetravel' business?" she asked some more. Naruto folded his arms, trying to remember his conversation with him.
"He ever said that he needs to retrieve something that wasn't supposed to be here." Tsunade put her hand on her chin.
"Does by any chance that he means is the creature?" she trying to reassured. Naruto lifted his shoulders.
"Well, he did say 'something', that might be it?" he still not having a clue of what the creature meant to Kay.
"But, if he means to 'retrieve', does that means it's about 'bring back the creature'?" Shikamaru concluded. Everyone stared at him. "If it does, then that means he has some connections with the creature." he added. He scratching his neck. "Well,...that's pretty much what I could say."
"So, you mean the creature itself, came from the same dimension as he is." Tsunade presumed to his explanation.
"That's about it." he replied, lazily.
"So, it never was about saving Kakashi then?" Kurenai thought.
"But if he was here just to retrieve the creature..."
"Then why did he save me?" Kakashi continued Asuma's sentence. They all paused for a moment. Even Naruto couldn't say anything this time. Dishearten by everyone's assumption about his new friend. Yamato break the silence as he asked Tsunade.
"How about him? Is there anything that Ibiki get from him?" Tsunade shook her head.
"No words yet from the interrogation team. They might still trying to make him talked." She explained. Naruto became more upset, he thought that they might have tortured him to speak up. Although, if he did, they might won't believe him.
"From the way I see it, that guy doesn't seem to be easy to be made to talk. It is clear that he's extremely stubborn." Kakashi commented.
"True. But, I'm sure he won't be like that forever. We will keep trying to make him talk until we got all the information that we need." She explained. Naruto triggered, grinning his teeth in disagree and clunching his fist, tightly.
"Then, what if he escape?" Neji asked. Tsunade smirked.
"I set up a highly trained Anbu forces as the patrol, they will keep an eye of him in every inches of his movement. No matter how hard he tried, he will not escape from there."
Then, they heard someone knocking on the door. They all faced towards it, simultaneously. "Come in!" Tsunade responded. Then, Kay slammed the door open with force.
"Gooood mornin'!!!" he greeted them. They all surprised and performed their battle stances. Tsunade stood up in shock. "Whoa, there! Calm down! I come in peace!" he raised his hands towards them.
"How did you get passed the guards?!" Tsunade storming out to him. Kay shrugged.
"I...give them a few knic-knacs." the scene showing the jailhouse filled with ninjas beaten up and being tied up, even the Anbus. Then back at the office. "Having a little...workout." he answered, while gesturing an exercising movements. Naruto approaches him.
"Kay! You're here!" he is more than glad to see him.
"Like I said, is not like a jail could hold me." he slightly bragged himself. "Plus, if I may...Lady Hokage. We could just relax and talk about this,...without having to rely on violence, right?" he offered her peace. Tsunade glared at him. Then, she sighed. She doesn't seem to have a choice but to let him speak. At least, now he offered some of his information. She sat down, dejected.
"Verywell, then. Let's have a talk!" she permits him. Kay smiled, clapped his hands together in gratefull.
"Thank you, my Lady." he walks closer as he greeted the others. "Hey, everyone. Coming through! Nice to see you, Gai..." he pointed to each person with their names, "Asuma... Kurenai... You..." greatly pointed at Kakashi who stared at him with extreme caution, "Neji, Lee, Tenten... Ino, Shikamaru, Chouji... Kiba, Shino, Hinata... Sakura, Sai and of course, Yamato (or Tenzo)..." he whispered to Yamato, which got annoyed being told his other name. Finally, he stopped right in front of her desk. "Well, then. Let's talk!"
"What do you want?!" she asked, fed up by him.
"I just wanna go home." everyone froze for a few moment. Then,...
"WHAAAAATTT???!!!!!" they all yelled at him. Kay flinched by the sudden loud noises.
"That's all that you came up with!!" Naruto protested.
"And, they said my excuses were lame." Kakashi being a bit sarcastic after hearing his words.
"You came all this way, took down a whole bunch of guards, slammed the door into our faces and you said you just wanna go HOME?!!!" Naruto added even more, his face went red and a hot steam came out of his brain. Kay chuckled.
"Of course. My job here is done. Might as well head home and hit the shack." he smiled. Naruto realizes that he's serious. Kay have done his mission. He retrieved the creature and saved Kakashi, and now it is time for him to go back home.
"So,... you're leaving?" Naruto sounded a bit sad, Kay noticed his expression. He gave him a fake punch to the cheek.
"Hey, don't worry! I'm sure will bump to each other again someday." he smiled, Naruto saw him and smiled in return. Even though he's not his sensei, but deep down he saw the bond of friendship within him. He didn't want him to go, yet it'll be selfish if he begged. Besides, Kay never came from this world, he has to go home.
"Ahem!" Tsunade broke the momentarily reunion, causing both of them to see her. "Before you go anywhere, you better explain everything you know. Like, who you really, how you get here, and what is your business with that creature you killed." Tsunade asked, impatiently. Kay raised his finger, opening his mouth.
"First, you have to tell him that everything is under control." he ordered. Tsunade frowned.
"Who?" then, someone knocks the door. Kakashi opened the door and revealed Ibiki behind the door.
"Lord Hokage, the pris-" he didn't finished the sentence as he realized that Kay was here. Kay waved at him.
"Yo, Ibiki!" he greeted. Ibiki about to charged in, but was stopped by Tsunade.
"We'll take it from here, Ibiki!" she commanded.
"But-"
"It's all under control, Ibiki! I'll take care of the rest!" she persisted. Ibiki hesitated to leave, but then he bowed and went out of the room. Kakashi closed the door, he turned to Where Kay and Tsunade was.
"You better not trying to planned anything after this." he threathen. Kay smiled under his mask.
"Of course, I do. I'm planning to go home!" he answered, confidently. Kakashi still glared at him. Then, Kay turned back at Tsunade. "Alright, about your questions!" he said.
"You asked 'Who I really am'. Well, I'm Kakashi Hatake." he introduced himself, again. Tsunade raised her eyebrow. "Honest! I AM! It's just... I'm different." Tsunade still stared at him.
"True!" she thought. He looks like him, but he has a whole different personality. As Kakashi being all calm and collective, this guy is more talkative and...eccentric. He didn't seems to mind to show his feelings and emotions. Although, he appears to be having a lot more experience than meets the eye. Speaking of eye, he doesn't have a Sharingan like Kakashi's. He's a hetero, having a one red eye on the left and a dark grey one on the right. He also has the same scar on the left eye. And somehow, she could see from his eyes that he has more social potential, meaning that he has more experience when it comes to talking. Which explained how much he talked.
Basically, Kay is a whole different person. But, if he is Kakashi from a different dimension, is there also another version of her in his world? Tsunade sighed. "So,... Kay is your nickname then?" she asked.
"Yup! My friends called me 'Kay' just because my name is a bit too long to be use as a nickname. So, yeah! Kay is my nickname." he explained.
"So he has friends, then." she thought to herself, again.
"Then, I'm going to answer the third question next, because the second one is little bit hard to explained." Kay clear his throat. "So, about my connection to the creature. Yes and no... I don't have any particular connection to it, but it does came from my world." he added.
"So, why do you need to bring the creature back to your world? It seems to be causing a lot of trouble in our world, there's no doubt that it will do the same to yours either." she assumed. Kay shrugged.
"Well, I feel responsible for it." he replied.
"Does it has something to do with 'fixing the future'?" she point straight at the problem. They all waited for his answer. Kay smiled.
"Yes, it does. And, the fact by 'fixing the future' is actually metaphorical." he simplified, smiling towards Naruto. Naruto putting a confused look at him.
"So, you did tell him the truth, then?" Tsunade concluded. Kakashi tilted his head, curiously. "So, what does this mean about 'fixing the future'?" she asked, intrigued.
"I'm afraid I can't tell you that. Because I don't know how to explain it to you guys. But, it has the same goal to it." Kay eye-smiled at her. The others puzzled by his explainations, some still feeling suspicious about him, including Tsunade herself. Shizune still froze by the scene, doesn't have a clue of what to do or what to say, so she just listen.
"Verywell! Have it your way, then!" Tsunade leaned back to her chair. "And then?" she waited for the next question. Kay smiled.
"Yeah, this one, is the thing that I need to show you."
At the woods, Kay led them to the spot where the beam of light might be appear. They stopped at the small clearing. Kay glances around, then turned his body facing Naruto. "Well, do you remember this place, kid?"
"Yeah!!" he nodded, greatly.
"Why are we here, again?" Shikamaru asked, lazily. Kay chuckled.
"Well, prepare to have your mind blown! Upon seeing the most spectacular thing you've never seen." they eyeing each other in disbelieve. "Now, behold... the portal between dimension!" he pointed at the sky. They all staring up, waiting for something to show up. They waited and waited, but nothing happened. Kay a bit puzzled.
"Well, something suppose to happened!" he said, he waved his hands to the air. "Hey, guys! Down here? Hello???" he called out, hoping someone from the other side to hear him. The others sighed, Asuma shook his head, Kakashi massaging his nose bridge. Naruto looked up, worriedly.
"Uuuh, Kay?"
"*Chuckles, well, it usually not like this. Uuhh, guuyyss????!! Hellooooo??!" he yelled out towards the sky, repeatedly.
"I think he's just crazy or something." Asuma pressumed. Tsunade sighed in disappointment.
"Do we even have to trust this guy?!" Kiba protested. Gai and Lee keep looking up, waiting. Kakashi looked at Kay, he walked up to him.
"Hey, listen! I don't think there's--"
"Oh wait, wait! Here comes!" the sky emits a loud bang sounds, they looked up in interest. Then, a linear purple beam shoots down to the ground in front of them. The beam caused some wind gust and a small earthquake. The ninjas raised their arms to cover their face from the flying dusts. Then, the beam stopped, leaving a small crater and a paper in a bottle. The ninjas lowered their arms and saw the bottle.
Kay went up to the bottle, he looked up to the sky in confusion. He picked up the bottle, took the paper out and threw the bottle away. Shattered glass heard in the background. He frowned and immediately read the paper. The others waited for him while he read. Then, Kay give a little chuckled, and went to laughing out loud. The ninjas astonished by his reaction. Kay still laughing, then he crumpled the paper into a ball, threw it away, walked away in frustrations.
Naruto picked up the paper and uncrumpled it. He begin to read as the others peek into the paper.
"Dear my Friend, Kay. We might have a slight problem with our machine here. We did heard your signal, only the machine unable to open the portal for you. So, yeah! We're very sorry, we'll fix it! Promise! While you're waiting, please stay alive! Sincerely, Donny. Side notes : We can only transport objects in and out for a while. If you need anything, just write it down and we'll send it to you, ASAP. Once again, I'm so sorry, Kay. We'll get you home. I promise! Cheers!" as the message's goes. Naruto turned to depressed Kay.
"Wait, you mean you can't go home yet?" Naruto asked. Kay took a deep breath, and let it out greatly. Then, he took another breath.
"Yeah!! *sighs* I'm afraid I'm going to stay here for awhile." he replied, pissed off. Somehow, for the ninjas... it felt like a nightmare.
