Two days have passed since the event with Mizuki. Naruto had spent the night at her place again.
It was her day off as Kai was still sleeping peacefully in her bed. Until a certain loud blond decided to ruin it by slamming her bedroom door open.
"Kai! Kai, wake up!" shouted Naruto, jumping up and down on her bed.
Groaning, Kai sat up as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes, "Naruto? What are you doing up so early?"
Grinning, he chuckles as he jumps and harshly sat on her lap. She grunted as she put her hands on his hips to hold him still.
"I was wondering if you still have that face paint from last month."
Yawning, she tiredly looked at him, "Yeah, it's in the top drawer of my bedroom drawer."
He smiled excitedly and jumped off of her, heading straight for the top drawer in her room. Kai watches as Naruto rummages around until he shouted in excitement. She frowned, "Naruto, what do you need the face paint for?"
"It's a surprise. Believe it!" he chuckles, before leaving her bedroom.
Hearing the door for the guest bedroom slam closed, Kai knew that she wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. Once she was up, her body won't let her laze back into bed.
Shrugging, she decided to stretch and get out of bed.
/
Kai was with the Third Hokage, standing by his side as he looks and accepts the new graduate's pictures with a Chunin sitting next to him. She couldn't help but sweatdrop at her being there.
When she had gotten ready that morning, she had everything planned out to enjoy her day off until a Chunin came and knocked on her door. They had told her that the Hokage had requested for her. Without questioning on what the Hokage may have needed her for, she had quietly gotten ready in her Jounin outfit and gone to see him.
So now here she stands, wishing that she had asked in the first place.
Sighing inwardly, Kai decided not to dwell on it any longer. What's done has been done. Though she wished that she could relax on her break, she didn't mind being there either. She at least got to see the Genin's pictures and meeting them while Hiruzen Sarutobi looked them over.
"See you later, Kai. Don't forget to come play Shogi with me later."
"Kya! Kai! It's so great to see you again!"
"Kai! You've got to train with me and Akamaru when you're free again! We've become a lot stronger the last time we had trained together."
"I'll see you later, Kai."
"I-it was nice to meet you, Lord Namikaze."
She would always receive farewells from the newly Genins when they came into the room. Some would even squeal in excitement and could barely make any words when they see her. Others, very quiet, but nod at her.
Once the girl, who is one of Kai's many fangirls, finally left the room, Hiruzen started chuckling. Kai couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at the elder man.
"Lord Hokage, if I may ask. Why are you laughing?"
Quieting from his chuckle, Hiruzen looked up at her, "It would seem you are quite popular with the Genins."
Rubbing the back of her neck, she nervously chuckle, not knowing how to reply to his statement.
Their attention turned back to the next person when they heard the door open. Kai smiled when she saw Naruto. The young blond held a huge grin on his face when he entered the room. But when his sight landed on her standing next to the Hokage beside the table, his blue eyes brightened. He ran and jumped at her, tackling her to the ground, "Kai!"
"Oof!" Kai breathlessly breathed out.
Hiruzen watched the two in amusement.
Never, has he seen Kai smiled so brightly to others. Sure they would be there but Hiruzen knew the feeling of a family. To know that not all of your family members is truly gone. To Kai, Naruto was that family. The only family that would truly make her smile, unlike any others. That is unless she ends up finding someone with whom she ends up falling in love with.
Getting up off the floor, Kai ruffled Naruto's hair, "Come on now, Naruto. I just saw you this morning. And the Hokage is here too, so be professional."
Complying to her words, Naruto went to sit on the chair that was in front of them. His smile still plastered on his face.
Interlocking his fingers in front of him, Hiruzen asked, "Now Naruto. Did you finish taking your picture?"
The young blond nodded his head, "Uh-huh. Here."
Grabbing the paper that had his picture and graduate information on it from his hands, both the Hokage and Kai looked at it. The former couldn't help but frown in distaste while the latter dropped her head in embarrassment.
Naruto laughed, "At first, you know, I couldn't figure out exactly how to do it. It took me, like, three hours to work it out and stuff. But finally, I got it. Like an art project on my face, only cooler."
Kai sweatdropped at his reasoning, 'Well it's no wonder he asked for the face paint. If I had known he was going to use it for this, I would have never had told him where it was at.'
"Take it again," was Lord Third's quick reply.
"Huh?" Naruto asked, confused at first until his words quickly registered in his head. "No way!"
Sitting back in his chair, Hiruzen sighed, "We can't accept this photo."
"Yeah? Well, I'm not doing it again."
Both Hokage and Uzumaki stared down at each other. The former silently demanding for the latter to retake his picture.
Looking back and forth at the two, Kai inwardly sighed. She was about to speak up and tell Naruto to just go and retake it until he did the unexpected.
"Transform!"
They watch as the smoke slowly clear to reveal a female naked version of Naruto, who blew a kiss at their direction.
"Pretty please, Lord Hokage."
"Huh?"
The technique was so unexpected to the elder man that he ended up gaining a nose bleed, falling back in his chair, collapsing down onto the floor. Kai, on the other hand, put a hand over her eyes as she shook her head in embarrassment.
Transforming back, Naruto couldn't believe that his Jutsu actually worked on the elder man.
/
A few minutes passed as Kai helped the Hokage back to consciousness and into his seat. After some explanation on the type of technique that Naruto had used, he took a handkerchief out from his pocket and started wiping the blood from his nose away, "That's the Sexy Jutsu you say? Very tricky. Much too tricky. Don't do it again."
'And yet you fell for it,' thought Kai, standing back next to the man.
Chuckling nervously, Naruto rubbed the back of his head.
"And where is your headband, Naruto? You're supposed to be wearing it."
Touching the goggles that are on his head, he replied, "I'm not putting it on until the orientation. I don't want to mess it up."
"So you want your headband nice. But your photo, which is supposed to identify you makes you look like a clown. It's for ninja training and missions, which is the key to your future." Bringing the photo up, Hiruzen looked down at it, "Look at this picture. You can't even tell who it is."
"Well, fine. How am I supposed to know all this complicated stuff anyway?" Naruto complained.
Kai raised an eyebrow at him, "Didn't I tell you all this last night?"
Naruto straightened in his seat, sweating bullets.
When she didn't get a reply from him, she smiled brightly with a dangerous aura emitting from behind her, "Naruto. Don't tell me you ignored me and started thinking about ramen again."
Busted, he gulped nervously as a slight chuckle left his mouth.
Before she could do anything to him, the sound of a sharp weapon could be heard throughout the room. They all turned at the source when the door to the room slammed open.
"Old man. I challenge you!" A kid, who is a few years younger than Naruto and Kai, ran into the room. He was running straight at the Hokage with the hand, that still held the shuriken, raised. "I'm going to defeat you and become the Fifth Hokage!"
Unfortunately, the kid didn't get far until he tripped on his two feet. Slamming down hard on his face on the floor.
Losing her irritation at her little brother, for now, Kai blinked at the sight of the Third Hokage's grandson, Konohamaru.
Konohamaru clutched his face in pain as he bends in a fetal position on the floor. They looked away from the boy when a set of rushing footsteps made its way to them. Standing at the doorway this time was an elite Jounin who goes by the name, Ebisu. Konohamaru's private ninja training teacher.
Getting up, Konohamaru rubbed his face, "Ooh, something tripped me."
"Are you okay honorable grandson?" asked Ebisu, worried that the child might have gotten seriously hurt. "And by the way, there's nothing here for you to trip on. It's pretty flat."
Kai watched the kid in amusement until her eyes narrowed at the grandson's trainer when he smirked at Naruto. It was always those smirks that would give one away when they are thinking something negative about her little brother.
Her attention was taken away from the older man when Konohamaru spoke accusingly, pointing at Naruto, "Alright. You're the one who tripped me aren't you?"
Angry at the accusation, Naruto grabbed him by his scarf, "Aah! You tripped over your own feet dork."
"Hey, you. Take your hands off of him right now. He's the honorable grandson of the honorable Third Hokage," said Ebisu.
"Huh?"
Looking down at the kid, Naruto contemplated if he should whack the kid anyway or let him go.
Smirking, Konohamaru provoked him, "What's the matter huh? I thought you were going to hit me tough guy. Afraid because the Third Hokage is my grandfather?"
That seemed to snap Naruto on his decision, "I don't care if he's your grandmother! So believe it!"
With that claim, he smacked the kid hard on the head.
Kai chuckled nervously, "Oh boy."
/
After the event with Lord Third's Grandson at the academy, Hiruzen had dismissed Kai for the day.
Walking through the town, Kai smiled at the peacefulness in the village. She was walking past by the hot springs until the screams from the women side made her jump.
Thinking that it was probably nothing and just some pervert getting whacked by peeping in on the women's side, she carried on her way.
/
Looking up at the setting sun, Kai smiled at the beauty of the colors in the sky. It has been a long time since she got to relax and enjoy her surroundings. She will never know when she will be able to enjoy something like this ever again.
Tightening her hold on her bags of groceries, Kai faced forward again and was about to make her way back home until a certain hand brushed against hers. She smiled, instantly recognizing the person by their chakra.
"Hello again, Sasuke."
The boy hummed in response before grabbing the extra bag from her hand. Chuckling at his silent generosity, both of them started making their trek back to her home.
The silence between the two was calm and serene. A comfortable one that did not bother either of them. Of course, it was broken when Naruto came bounding out of the clearing woods and quickly jumped himself onto the back of the older blonde.
"Kai!"
"Naruto," Kai chuckled, holding the young Uzumaki by his legs while also carrying the bags of groceries. "Did you have fun today with Konohamaru?"
It took Naruto a couple of seconds to contemplate his day with the boy until he smiled, "Yeah. It was fun. But just not the whacks though."
She raised an eyebrow at his last words, "Whacks?"
Kai didn't get her answer when Naruto finally noticed that they weren't alone. Looking down, he shouted, pointing down at the culprit, "Sasuke?! What are you doing here?!"
The Uchiha hn'd, "I was already here before you, loser."
With that reply, the argument between the two commenced. Which didn't bother Kai one bit since she was used to it. Rather, she laughed at the two.
Naruto had gotten off her back to shout at the ravenette face-to-face. So when they heard her laugh, both of them turned their heads to her.
"What's so funny, Kai?" asked Naruto.
Laughter forming into chuckles, she put the bags down by her feet and put her hands on their head. She smiled softly at them, "Don't ever change. The both of you."
Blushing at her smile, the two nodded. One smiling brightly while the other looked away with a small smile.
/
It was the early morning the next day and Kai had woken up to make lunch boxes for both Naruto and Sasuke.
After having dinner with just the three of them again, the two boys had left her home last night. Wanting to sleep early and have the energy for their orientation.
Finishing at topping the lunchboxes, Kai smiled at how fast the two were growing. It felt like it was just yesterday when they were all so small. Still learning things in the academy.
Now, now they were Genins. Newly-trainees who are about to experience the real world of being actual ninja's.
Sighing, she closed the lids to the boxes and wrapped them neatly before putting them in her pouch. She grabbed her Jounin vest when a knock came upon her front door. Making her way, she put her sandals on before opening the door.
There, standing in all his glory, stood Kakashi Hatake. He smiled down at her, "Are you ready to go to the meeting, Jounin assistant?"
She chuckled at his words, "I guess Lord Third already talked to you about it."
He hummed, "Of course. He talked about it with me before he told you."
Locking the door behind her, both of them started walking towards the Hokage tower.
"I figured as much. But are you sure you only accepted it because you missed spending time with me?" said Kai, smiling cheekily at him.
Blushing, Kakashi looked in front of him, glad that he wore a mask so she couldn't see his reddened face. Coughing in his fist, he spoke nonchalantly, "I don't know what you're talking about."
She chuckled, patting him on the shoulder, "Relax. I was just joking."
He relaxed, though face still a bit red, smiled and walked happily beside her.
/
Her eyebrows twitched.
She couldn't believe what Kakashi just did.
What was only supposed to take at least less than ten minutes to get to the Hokage Tower, the older Jounin had turned it into an hour. She was so caught up on catching up on things with the silver-head Jounin that she hadn't noticed that he made them take the long route. He then made it turned into another hour by getting dangos. The store was low on them because of a certain purple-haired Jounin who had gotten up early and bought almost all of their early-made ones.
Of course, Kai had no problem waiting. The only thing that she did have a problem was falling for Kakashi's stalling. Now they were two and a half hour late to the meeting that was being held.
Kakashi chuckled, rubbing the back of his head, "Well, I guess we should get going or else we'll miss the rest of the meeting."
He flinched, sweating bullets when he saw her smiling calmly at him, "Oh, you don't say."
Kakashi wasn't able to take a step back away until her hand squeezed harshly around his wrist, making him jump frightfully. Her calm smile was so scary that up close, he could feel her anger radiating slowly from her.
That was his last thoughts until Kai teleported them straight into the room that was holding the meeting. The Jounins, who were the closest to them when they appeared, all jumped at their sudden appearance. When they saw that it was the two whom they were all waiting for, they were about to commence the meeting until a loud thump and bang were heard.
Everyone in the room turned to the source. Just to see a downed Kakashi and a now calm smiling Kai by his side. The silver-head ninja laid on the floor with a huge bump on his head, steam rising from it.
Asuma chuckled, "Can't blame him for hitting Kakashi."
Kurenai smiled, "Agree. He should've known Kai wouldn't want to miss this meeting."
Clearing his throat, Hiruzen gained everyone's attention in the room.
"Now that Kakashi Hatake and Kai Namikaze are finally here. Let's check on our Genin's shall we?"
Nodding, they all agreed and started gathering around his crystal ball.
/
Most of the Jounin who were gathered had all seen their students whom they were going to have trained under them. The last to see their team was Kakashi and Kai. Looking down into the crystal ball, both Jounin watched as Naruto was shoved aside by none other than Sakura Haruno.
Kai frowned at her action, 'That won't do.' She looks at Sasuke who was staring at nothing but the wall in front of him.
"Most promising new student, Sasuke Uchiha. Is that him?" asked one of the Jounins.
Hiruzen nodded, "Yes, he's the one."
"He's the only survivor left from the Uchiha Clan," said Kurenai, glancing at Kai who still hadn't taken her eyes off from the image.
"That's right."
Everyone in the room jumped when Kai exclaimed, "Oh! I just remembered that I have to give Naruto and Sasuke their lunchboxes that I just made."
Before anyone of them could react fast enough, Kai activated the seal on Naruto and teleported away.
It didn't take her long to arrive in front of the two, standing next to the desk where Naruto was standing on to glare at Sasuke. Holding out the two lunchboxes in front of her, her eyes were closed as she smiled at them, "Yo, Sasuke. Naruto."
When she got no reply in return, she opened her eyes to see a very interesting scene in front of her.
"Sorry, did I bump you?" asked the boy who was sitting in the desk in front of Sasuke.
There, in front of her, was her kid brother and Sasuke kissing each other. The two were lip-locked together for a couple of seconds until they separated, spatting spits and wiping their mouths.
Raising an eyebrow, she couldn't resist to tease them, "Wow, I didn't know you two were that close. It's no wonder you two clung to each other while sleeping when we were younger."
Hearing her voice made the two whip their heads towards her. Their face pales when they saw her smiling face. Bounding up to her, Naruto jumped on her, crying, "Kai! It's not like that!"
She laughed, holding the young blond to her, "I'm just kidding."
"Kya! It's Kai Namikaze!"
Hearing some of the girls scream her name, Kai nervously laughed before setting Naruto back down on his feet. Ruffling his hair, she held out one of the lunchboxes to him, "Here. I figured you might go hungry since you rarely pack lunch for yourself."
Naruto smiled brightly at the neatly wrapped up lunchbox, "Yeah! Kai's homemade lunchbox!"
Turning to the brooding boy, she held the second one out to him, "Here's yours."
Taking it carefully in his hand, he nodded, "Thank you."
She smiled down at them, ruffling both their hair, "I'll see you guys later." Before she left, she snickered at them, "If you guys ever need a room together when you're back at my place-"
Naruto cut her off, "Kai, that's disgusting! Like I'll ever be like that with Sasuke!"
Her laughter was the last thing they heard before she teleported away. Both Naruto and Sasuke's face pale and disgusted.
Rubbing at his lips some more, Sasuke glared at the blond next to him, 'I will get you, Naruto. I wanted it to be with Kai.'
/
Kakashi looked next to him when Kai teleported back into the room. She was still chuckling at her teasing of the two.
"As usual, Naruto is right in the middle of some kind of trouble," said Hiruzen, smiling amusingly at Kai who was now getting the laughter out of her system.
/
Visiting Sakura's house was… interesting to say the least.
Especially since Sakura's mother was so excited about how Kai was going to be overlooking her daughter's training. Even though Kakashi will be the one to be training the team… That is if they passed his test.
Arriving at Sasuke's apartment was quiet and yet, a bit chilling. His home was so empty. Barely any decoration other than the necessities that he needed for his living.
Frowning, Kai wondered if she should've had just kept Sasuke living in her home. By seeing his, it gave little to no comfort at all.
Finally, when they had gotten to Naruto's apartment, Kai smiled at his tidiness. For now. Until he gets lazy and starts piling up his trash everywhere like last week.
"So this is where Naruto lives," said Kakashi.
He watched Kai walked through Naruto's apartment. Picking up the boy's thrown floor clothes and putting them in a hamper.
"Yes, he'll be on your team, along with Sakura and Sasuke from the Uchiha Clan. Good luck, you'll need it," said Hiruzen. Looking over to Kai who was now looking at the pictures that she had helped Naruto frame, he smiled, "Though, with Kai on your team, she might be able to make your job a bit easier."
Walking up to the dining table, Kakashi picked up a carton of milk that was still on it. Looking at it, he noticed the date.
"This milk is way past its expiration date."
His words caught Kai's attention. Frowning, she walked up to him, "What?"
He shook the carton, hearing the expired milk sloshing thickly inside. Kai scrunched up her nose in disgust, "Don't tell me…"
"One sip of this and he'd be running to the bathroom all day."
Sighing, she pinched the bridge of her nose, "Guess I should've added the diarrhea pills into his food after all."
Kakashi sighed along with her, "Seems like this kid's just one big problem."