Kakamei was looking into some type of bright light before he blinked a few times. In only a few seconds there was a girl standing, blocking the light. Her pink hair flowed past her face as she looked down at him. Kakamei's eyes took another few seconds to focus before he was able to see the girl, Sakura, in her full glory. She looked down at him in worry signaling everyone else in the room, but Kakamei wasn't able to process this completely because of his barely conscious mind wasn't able to get a grasp.
Instead of thinking to himself the things that he was "thinking" he was actually mumbling out loud for everyone to hear. The group of people that amassed around him were only four people. Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, and Inari. They all found a place to stand around him with looks of nervousness on their face, except Kakashi, who was only able to show his single eye with a blank face. Kakamei looked at his friends with his eyes squinted.
"Man, all these people in the light. Looks like I'm dying." He said as he started to look around at the people around him. He chuckled to himself before groaning.
"You shouldn't move around. Your body isn't fully healed." Sakura said quickly to the boy. Kakamei looked at the girl and sighed.
"I must be dying. Sakura actually looks cute in this light now. If I'm dying it would be somewhat of a waste to not be able to see all of my friends again. Oh well." He uttered one last time before turning his head to the side and letting out a breath.
Before he was able to fully pass out once again he was punched in the chest. His eyes finally bolted open and he was able to see the entire group. Sakura was looking down on him with her left wrist in her right hand and a blush on her face.
"YOU'RE NOT DYING!" She yelled, breathing heavily. Kakamei grabbed onto his chest and wheezed from the hit. The other people in the group all watched, laughing nervously and shaking their heads. Sakura turned and walked away. Kakamei sat up and wincedat the movement.
"Take it slow." Kakashi said before chuckling weakly.
"Event though Sakura is already hitting you like you're in good shape you're not. You need a few more days to heal, without using that jutsu you used before." Kakashi said. Naruto looked at his sensei, confused about why the teacher wouldn't allow his students to use something so powerful.
"Sensei! But why not?! That would be way easier and faster for us if he used that jutsu!" Naruto yelled. Kakamei groaned at the loud voice of his teammate but wondered the same.
"Stop yelling," Kakashi ordered as he sighed and looked at Kakamei, "Besides, you can't use a jutsu like that more than a few times before the body starts to break down." Kakashi said as he pointed to a glass pot that was a few feet away from him with a flower growing in it. Kakamei looked at it, confused about what he was talking about.
"If I were to break that vase and tried to put it back together by melting it eventually, even with it being gradual and unnoticable at first, there would be material that would be lost or completely morphed together." Kakashi explained. Kakamei looked down at his ribs and thought for a second.
'Now that he says it I have been feeling a slightly stiff since I did it the first time but it's nothing crazy.' Kakamei actually thought to himself. He nodded and laid back down and started to talk.
"What happened while I was out? The last thing I saw before I passed out was Sasukeā¦" Kakamei decided not to finish the sentence. Naruto looked at him with a smile and pointed towards the door.
"Don't worry about him! He wouldn't die to something like that! He's in another room, sleeping just like you. Believe it!" He yelled with happiness. Kakamei nodded and closed his eyes.
"That's comforting I guess. With that I'll be taking a nap. Getting the rest I need so we can leave as soon as possible." Kakamei said as he closed his eyes and started to think to myself.
'Man, I have a huge headache and all this screaming isn't helping me at all. I wonder why Sakura punched me. Maybe she wanted to wake me up faster. That surely woke me up but it did the opposite effect that it had on my body. I take back that cute thing that I said earlier. She's a real hard hitter.' He said as he dozed off and went back to sleep.
A FEW DAYS LATER
Only a few days passed before the entire team was back on their way to the village. When Team Seven was leaving the village there was a huge group of villagers who were waiting to see them off. But, as they were leaving Kakamei was walking off and trying to think of a way to use his new power that he had finally "unlocked".
That day passed by quickly and the days afterward managed to pass by quickly too. After a few days of nearly nonstop travel through the woods to make it back to their home. As they walked into the village and the Number One Hyperactive Knucklehead Ninja started to yell and scream throughout the village. Sakura and Sasuke were walking behind Kakamei and Naruto, who were walking only a few feet away. Kakamei didn't indulge in Naruto's yelling but he did look at him smile and watch his friend jump up and down, excited about what was happening. When the entire group walked into the village all walked in the kids circled around Kakashi and waited for him to say something, which he found quite annoying.
"Kakashi-sensei! What are we going to do now!?" Naruto yelled. Kakashi sighed and lowered his showing eye.
"Well, we're going to take a little break. I have to go report this mission to the Hokage. While I'm gone you all should go and do something productive." Kakashi said. Naruto jumped forward and started to scream something about an extreme mission that he wanted to go on but Kakashi's body immediately turned to smoke and vanished into the air. When Naruto landed on his feet, though wobbly, and turned to his teammates.
"Hey! Kakashi-sensei left us already! What should we do!?" He asked as his other teammates turned and started to walk away. He started to yell again but the other kids continued to walk.
"Come on guys! We have to start coming together as a team!" He yelled. The others continued to walk away but Kakamei stopped and turned his head.
"Come on Naruto. We just got back from this crazy mission and the first thing you want to do is go on another one. How about taking a week long break or something like that before we start taking deadly missions again." Kakamei said. Naruto looked at him and grumbled to himself but Kakamei wasn't interested in hearing what was being said and walked away. Eventually Naruto gave up on the situation and went home, waiting for the next time their teacher would lazily call together another meeting for a mission.
Only a few days of silence in their lives went by before they were once again called by Kakashi and pushed into the limelight of the missions of the village.
The missions were only boring, walking dogs, pulling weeds, and finding even more cats were all on the list of things that people just needed to be done around the village. After a few missions, which Naruto had finished by doing the most outlandish, over exuberant things. Kakamei watched from a distance and shook his head with his teammates as he watched in embarrassment.
Once, when they were coming from another kiddie mission that Naruto had managed to get himself destroyed from Sasuke and Sakura each had one of Naruto's arms around their shoulders as Kakamei and Kakashi walked in the background and watched as the three walked. They were relatively quiet, with the exception of Naruto's complaining, that was broken by Sakura started to talk.
"Naruto, this happens almost every time! You always have to go and over do it." She nagged, but Naruto ignored it. The thing he couldn't ignore was Sasuke's comment afterwards.
"You really are just one big problem." Sasuke said confidently as he walked along. Naruto grunted as stood up by himself, which gave Sasuke the freedom to continue walking by himself.
"Sasukeeee!" Naruto yelled after the raven haired boy but before he could land even a single punch the girl reached her hand out and stopped Naruto.
"If you keep making a big fuss like this then I'll end you myself." Sakura said angrily. Kakashi sighed at the arguing that was happening with his group but Kakamei chuckled and walked forward.
"Come on guys. We don't have to get too worked up over nothing." Kakamei said with his hands up. Before he could make any real progress Naruto turned to him and then started to talk to.
"Don't think you're exempt either Kakamei! I'll beat you in a fight someday too!" Naruto said loudly before turning his head back to Sasuke.
"I guess we're not making any headway on the teamwork thing then huh?" Kakashi asked. Naruto pointed at the Sasuke who was still walking away and started to yell.
"That's right! Our teamwork is all messed up! And it's all because of you Sasuke! You think you're better than everyone!" He yelled to the Uchiha, who simply kept walking.
"Not everyone. Just you." He said calmly, and stopped.
"Unless you have some way to back it up." Sasuke said as he death glared Naruto, who grunted and looked at his rival. After a few seconds Sasuke became evidently irritated at what was happening. Kakamei stepped in and tried to stop the tension.
"The mission's over and you two are just arguing over nothing now. Let's just go home." Kakamei said forcefully. The two boys then turned their attention to Kakamei . Kakashi was the next to but in on the conversation.
"As much as I'd love to get in on this nice little conversation I have to go report on this mission once again to the Hokage." Kakashi stated. The three boys who were standing around and looking at each other broke their gazes and started to move around. Sasuke turned his back and walked away.
"If that's the case then I'm leaving too." Sasuke said. Before long he turned his head and looked at Kakamei.
"And the invitation to fight extends to you too." He said before walking away, with his number one fan girl ran after him, wanting to find a chance to get a hold of her future, hopeful lover. She chased after him but he quickly shot her down. This didn't deter her as Naruto then started his pursuit with her. At this sight Kakashi left and what remained were the three students left. Kakamei looked at them for a few seconds before walking away.
As he was walking through the village and headed to his "family home", which was just a building that was given to him when he was inducted into the village to show other people that they would be welcomed into the village. He watched the people who were now in the village and it looked as if the people around were foreigners who were visiting the village from all over the world. This happened usually, when there would be a flood of tourism, and when it happened Kakamei tried his hardest to just stay out of the way.
'I hate when this happens. I don't plan on taking my leave out of the house too much while they're here. Dammit.'He thought to himself as he walked through and made it to his home.
The house that he lived in now was very similar to any of the other houses in the village. It was a place that could hold around 10 to 15 people, his home was smaller than the homes of the families such as the Hyuga, who had multiple branches and families lived there so the need for multiple homes and even an entire community to them. Kakamei would always think to himself that he was very grateful that he hadn't gotten something as large as that for himself. The loneliness would probably be super overwhelming when he was there by himself.
The boy walked into his house and showed that it was less of a home and more of an apartment room. It was only filled with a few rooms, somewhere to sleep, cook, and bathe. When he walked into the house he threw his bag to the floor and walked into his bedroom. Even though he had planned on working on his powers more during the day he, for some reason, he couldn't manage to keep his eyes open anymore. His body slumped onto the bed and then fell asleep.
Hours Later
The time during the day had passed much faster than he expected. The nap that he took that he had taken was only supposed to be around an hour and a half at maximum but three hours had passed and h finally woke up to the sun setting and the streets of the village was calming down. Kakamei opened his eyes up to his darkened room and walked out, stretching and groaning throughout the doorway.
"Mannnnnnn, I wasn't expecting to sleep this long but I can't be too upset. Too much sleep doesn't exist. But it should do me well to train in the dark. I'll make some use of this silence. Maybe I'll see something important or interesting during this little trip." Kakamei said as he walked out of the house.
Walking down the streets he observed the different types of people who were walking down the streets and noticed the actual appearance of the people who were walking down the streets. They looked too familiar for his comfort. He continued to watch as the people who were seemingly popping out the most to him were dressed in attire that he was much too accustomed too. They were from the Village Hidden in the Sand.
"Why are the people from that village are here? I thought that they didn't have a good relationship but the people around here seem to be getting along just fine. If anything they look like they're having fun." Kakamei thought aloud. He thought that he was talking to himself but as he was walking there was a voice that he was unfamiliar with came out of nowhere and started to speak quietly.
"So, you're one of the promising genins from Kakashi's squad ad you have no idea as to what is going on in the village? It's pathetic on Kakashi if you were to think about it." The voice said loudly. Kakamei wanted to turn his head to see what this person had to say but before he could the person appeared in front of him, which caught the Daichiki off guard but he tried to keep his surprise to himself. When he was looking at the boy it was someone that he had recognized from simply looking at him. It was Neji Hyuga.
Kakamei had recognized him because of the times when he was just arriving into the village. When he arrived into the village and was introduced to the head families of the village. This was an effect of the Hokage wanting to instate the Daichiki as one of the prominent groups into the village.
When he was making his rounds throughout the village there was someone that looked out of place to him and one of the people who did stick out was the guard of the young heir to the Hyuga main branch of the family, Hinata. Even though the kid was supposed to be completely dedicated to the family but he seemed like he wasn't for the position. More of something like a nail sticking out. He seemed to reach out to Kakamei but he never stepped out to him.
Now was different. Over the years there was development of Kakamei, he no longer feared interaction with people as he did now. He was prepared for this interaction, something that he had been waiting on.
"Who are you?" Kakamei asked. The boy away from him groaned and shook his head.
"There's no need for someone like you to know my name. I came because I wanted to know if you were going to be someone like your teammate but you're nothing special." He said as he turned to walk away. Kakamei smiled and then walked forward to grb the boy's shoulder. Before he could even reach his hand out and touch the kid the boy disappeared and reappeared behind him with a kunai to his neck. Kakamei stopped moving and took in a deep breath.
"Don't touch me. I'm not interested in you. My name is Neji Hyuga. I already know yours so that is the end of that." The boy now named Neji said as he swung the kunai and threw it back into his pouch and walked away. After Neji walked away from him and turned the corner Kakamei sighed out and then started to breath hard.
'Wow, that had to be something of a joke. Even though I'm able to fight people on the same level as him I froze. I could've done something but I couldn't move. What was that?!' Kakamei thought to himself in a rushed thinking. He stood there for a few minutes, thinking about the kid who he had just met before continuing to walk through the village, thinking about the kid, trying to figure out what had really stopped him from fighting the new introduced Neji. Kakamei walked and walked before making it to his training ground. He trained for a few hours before going back home and going to sleep once again.
