Time Travel - Anbu

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Kakashi's very first thought upon waking with a horrid headache was, 'Dammit Genma!' which followed closely by a 'Never drinking again' as he groaned aloud his misery derived for allowing himself to be talked into getting drunk in celebration for their team's youngest's- Uchiha Itachi- birthday.

Not that anyone cared for getting the actual birthday boy drunk, of course.

"Kakashi!" He very carefully did not react to the voice even if mentally he flew into a panic-induced rage because that was his father and who would dare-!? "Are you sick? It's not like you to sleep in."

He voiced his misery again, letting the groan insinuate what it will as he mumbled, peering at the other with bleary eyes. "M'fine Tosan…M'up." He added as he struggled- partially faked but also partially real as he was entirely unused to his shrunken form- to get up.

"I think it's best if you stay in bed today," Tosan (the imposter? the hallucination?) stopped him with a large, warm, calloused hand that gently pressed down- and he ached for this to be real in that moment. "I'll tell Minato-kun that you're unavailable today, I doubt he will mind as you don't have a mission."

Kakashi closed his eyes at the thought of his sensei, something that was taken for as pain as the man added hesitantly. "I have to go to a meeting, will you be alright until I get back? It should be no later than three."

"Be 'right, Tosan." he slurred. "M'not movin', gonna sleep…"

Softer now, as he 'drifted off' to sleep, "Alright Kakashi. I'll see you when I get back."

He waited in bed, breathing deeply in a mimicry of sleep and chakra remaining sedat save for the barest of flickers to indicate nonsensical dreams, as he track the other's chakra until it left- waiting a couple of beats to make certain it was gone before actively searching to see if there was anyone near him. Once he was certain he was alone, Kakashi disrupted his chakra then intentionally inflicted pain on himself- nothing changed.

Not a genjutsu then.

Wandering the house, taking in the details- the accurate details- he, with a sinking feeling, was coming to the conclusion that he had somehow managed to travel into the past (He was six, Kakashi discovered, and it was the a week before the his Chunin Exam tournament took place).

Again he cursed Genma.