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Shisui snorts as he chewed on the end of his chopstick. Asuma-sensei told them to take a break for the rest of the day, which his two teammates were thankful for. On the other hand, Shisui wasn't the type to lounge around. He needed to move because sitting still would drive him mad.
There is a faint spike of recognizable chakra and he smiles. Finally some entertainment. He turns around in his seat and hums.
"Shisui." Ryu greats him, Itachi hums and their teammate, the Hyuuga has a slight scowl on his face. Then he schools it and greets Shisui with a nod of his own.
"What are you three doing here?"
"I need a drink." Ryu deadpans and Itachi elbows him, giving him a certain look and Ryu returns it. Shisui raises an eye as the three takes seats around him. The twins on his right and the Hyuuga to his left.
"We were chasing Kakashi Sensei." The Hyuuga explains. "We lost him, Itachi felt that you were near and thought it would be a wise decision."
"A wise decision for what?"
Ryu had reached over and begin to pick at the orange chicken on Shisui's plate. Shisui scooches it over to him and the boy takes the invitation. Itachi sighs and begins to speak, "We need your help. This has been going on for two weeks and we always end up cornering him. Not one of us has actually dragged him to the training grounds."
"I would have done it." Ryu growls and the chopsticks in his hand crunch. "I would have dragged him by his two front teeth if it weren't for him always shunshining to the damn Yondaime's office and using the academy as a safe spot."
Next to him the Hyuuga downs a cup of something- Shisui is sure that it's some kind of alcoholic beverage because he can smell it. The Hyuuga slides his second cup to Ryu. Itachi glares and Ryu downs it before his older brother and Shisui can stop him.
Shisui is sure Mikoto would snap his neck if she found out that her two sons were drinking sake.
In his presence, and he didn't stop them!
Hyuuga hums beside him and Ryu makes a face. "Too watered down." The youngest Uchiha comments. Shisui twitches and Itachi rubs his forehead.
"That's what I was thinking." Hyuuga comments. "No burn at all."
"We are seven." Itachi hisses. "Quit stealing sake from under the bar."
Shisui wonders what the hell Kakashi has these boys on.
Ryu rolls his shoulders with a shrug. "Anyway, Sui-nii. We need your help. You can shunsin just about anywhere yeah?" He leans on Shisui's side but Shisui nods.
He wished he hadn't because the grin on Ryu's and the Hyuuga's face is ferocious. It nearly scares him. What does scare him is that Itachi looks at him with the most determined gaze that he is damn near glaring.
"Our mission is to take Hatake down. He will fall."
Kakashi has really messed up.
It has become a daily routine for him wake up and spend at least twenty minutes at the Hokage tower. The second he leaves out the window he is instantly targeted by his genin squad.
Today started off as normal until after lunch time.
He should have saw the signs. First they gave up and recruited. Usually they would corner him at the training ground an hour before lunch. The second, is when it takes them an hour and thirty minutes.
His third sign is when Shisui Uchiha appears in front of him and grabs his shoulder. He is instantly teleported somewhere not recognizable and he is slapped across the ass with something.
Literally, he is slapped across the ass and that something was a seal.
Shisui winks, disappearing completely and Kakashi doesn't have time to remove the seal because Rame flickers in view behind him grinning madly.
"Neh, Sensei. Payback for the thousand years of pain, right?"
It isn't rare for the boys to come back home early or late. By now Mikoto was used to the boys coming at random times.
She was in the middle of cooking dinner, Sasuke was in the common room of the house playing with his toys.
The door slides open and she smiles, ready to greet her two sons.
"We're home Auntie!" Shisui is the first one she sees enter, her twin boys close behind him, taking off their sandals. Shisui gives her a grin that lights up the whole house.
Sasuke hears this of course and runs toward the three, going toward Ryu while shouting "Welcome home!" He takes turns hugging them and Shisui picks him up and keeps him on his hip. Sasuke loves the attention and snuggles up to his cousin.
Itachi smiles and ruffles Sasuke's hair and Ryu has a grin on his face.
"Ah, well, welcome home boys. It's nice to see you Shisui-kun. Do I need to make you a plate?"
"Please?" He asks, because he really does love Mikoto's cooking. She nods, taking note of how unusually happy her boys are before going back into the kitchen.
On the other side of Konoha Kushina Uzumaki is laughing her ass off.
Her eldest son, not by blood but still her son mind you, slides through the kitchen window and actually melts onto the floor with a groan. His hair is messier than normal, and burnt around the edges. His jounin vest is ripped once again and tattered. The shirt he wears under it would be better off nonexistent and so is the backside of his pants.
Kushina has to cover her mouth because she just put Naruto to sleep and oh my god Kakashi looks like shit.
Even his mask is gone.
Someone pokes their head through the window and smiles at her. He's a Hyuuga, she can see it in his eyes. He holds out something and she realizes it's Kakashi's mask. It's ripped, and wet.
"He dropped this when we painted his back after I blew him across Konoha." The Hyuuga informs and drops it on Kakashi's head gently as if the weight can harm the teen. "By the way Sensei, you do have a handsome face."
Kakashi scowls, the Hyuuga grins.
"We'll see you at eight o'clock sharp Sensei." Then he's gone.
Kushina finally quiets down and removes the mask, pushes Kakashi's hair out his face and helps the teenage jonin up. He leans on her and she has to keep down another laugh.
She can't help but to look over her shoulder at his back and fails completely at not laughing and Kakashi makes a poor attempt at trying to walk on his own.
Thousand Years of Pain in the ass.
Minato was going to lose it when he hears about this.
When Rame gets home he greets his father and his uncle then goes off to his room after taking off his shoes.
He isn't surprised when he sees Neji has made his way in and is seated on the floor, looking at a few scrolls. Neji greets him and he ruffles his brother's hair in return. He makes his way to his closet to find his nightwear and some underwear to go to the bath.
"The seals you had on your wrists were for strength enhancement." It's a statement, not a question.
Rame closes the door to his closet and nods. "How much did you read and how did you know?"
"I read both of your beginners books. Both mentioned that putting seals on limbs such as arms legs, calves, wrists, feet can be used for enhancement or to shorten the length of hand seals for jutsus, or to store them. Then there's also the possibility that you are using them to add weight for training. I figured it was for enhancement and if I was wrong I was going to guess the other."
Rame tilts his head to the side, letting some of his hair fall.
"You managed to remember all that?"
"Yes." Neji inches forward but keeps his distance. Rame hums and closes the distance between them, sitting beside the boy.
"Actually these ones are for added weights," Rame corrects, "Well I guess I can teach you a few things. Don't use them during a spar with the others, understand?'
Neji nods and Rame unrolls a scroll.
Itachi is used to being woken up in the middle of the night. Especially by Sasuke, the boy has a habit of unlocking the locks on his bed and leaving his room at night. Since Sasuke's room is next to Itachi's the older boy always heard and would wake up at the small noise.
Most of the time, the boy would make his way to his parent's room and that would be that. However, there were times when he would go to Itachi and Ryu.
Lately, he has been going to Ryu's room.
Now, Itachi wasn't jealous. In fact, he was a bit happy that Sasuke knew he could go to Ryu if the younger had nightmares or was too scared to sleep alone.
There was a click and Itachi could hear the door to his twin's room sliding open before it slid closed. He was greeted with silence after that.
He was starting to force his mind to relax again when he heard the door once more and the sound of his door opening. He sits up as Sasuke runs to his bed. He stumbled, a little taken back since he didn't expect Itachi to be awake. The younger grabbed Itachi by his hand and pulled, he looked on the verge of tears.
"Tachi, Yu's crying again and I don't know what to do."
Itachi visibly froze for a moment because what the heck.
He is in Ryu's room in a matter of seconds with Sasuke at his side.
Ryu isn't in bed. No, he is on the floor, on his side, curled in on himself. He is nearly shaking and Itachi can see the veins on the side of his head and on his arms becoming visible. He could also feel the tension in the air getting higher and suddenly wondered just how many times this has happened and why is he just not figuring it out.
Again.." Is was Sasuke has said.
"Sasuke, did Tou-san come back home yet?"
Sasuke shook his head.
"Go get Kaa-san then, now." Itachi pushed him out the room and carefully approached Ryu. He shifted to sit and touch his shoulder but his blood ran cold when he locked eyes.
Crimson, three tomoe spiraling madly while tears were coming out his eyes, but Ryu looked too far gone. He was staring at Itachi but at the same time, he was seeing something else.
His mother rushes in with Sasuke hot on her heels and Itachi doesn't know how to handle this situation at all. Ryu currently was experiencing some type of memory and he knew it wasn't good, not to mention that the Sharingan was spiraling madly as if a mixture of anger and fear.
Mikoto is at Ryus' side in an instant and gently turns him over on his back. Itachi can hear the sharp intake of breath she takes as she sees them. Sasuke seems confused and doesn't understand the situation at all.
She quickly covers Ryu's eyes by putting a hand over them and holding them there. She instructs Itachi to go get their father from the police station.
When Itachi and Fugaku sunshin back home, Ryu is sleeping soundly as if nothing happened, a washcloth over his eyes. Sasuke was asleep and attached to his side.
Mikoto looks exhausted, even though it's only been nearly twenty minutes but she greets them with a worried and tired look. Fugaku has frown on his features as she explains what happened and all Itachi can do is just stare at Ryu sleeping.
The next morning when Ryu wakes up he doesn't remember anything. He is wondering why Sasuke has literally attached himself to him and why Itachi side glances at him at breakfast. Their parents have yet to say anything so he lets it slide.
It's after breakfast, when Fugaku comes while they are preparing to leave that something happens.
"Itachi, inform your sensei that Ryu will be with me for the day."
Ryu tenses and tries not raise an eyebrow at Itachi as the other bows and sunshins away. Ryu stands up straight as his father looks him over. The boy felt as though he was being examined as Fugaku looked him up and down. Ryu held his gaze, nearly tilting his head to the side.
"Walk with me." Was the only thing Fugaku said as he turned.
Ryu presses his lips into a thin line but follows after his father. He forces himself to relax because for some reason he has been tense and on guard all morning. Fugaku singling him out like that made his hackles rise. Usually he would call Itachi since he was the first born. When he did call Itachi it was always to come after training, not during training.
Something is tugging at the back of his mind though. He doesn't know what it is, his mind doesn't know but it seems like his body does. He can't bring forth a memory of anything that he's done wrong or out of the ordinary this week.
He shakes his head and follows Fugaku as they walk the back trail of the house. Ryu realizes that they are going to the lake Fugaku took him and Itachi to to do the Fire Release.
He follows him past the few cherry blossom trees they own, and down the rock steps.
Fugaku comes to stop and Ryu comes to a stop a few paces behind him. He waits patiently for his father to say something, do anything. He expects a lecture, maybe a talk about the family or how training is going.
What he doesn't expect is Fugaku appearing in front of him and his eyes meeting his father's crimson eyes, the sharingan glaring into his own eyes.
His response is instantaneous, it's been drilled into his body and his mind has long forgotten but his body remembers and it's only because of post traumatic stress that Ryu lashes out with the kunai in his hand. His father catches it and grabs Ryu's wrist to keep him from moving-
MOVE AWAY
He kicks and it's enforces with so much chakra that the man is taken aback a meter or two.
The man in front of him opens his mouth to say something but Ryu doesn't have the time to listen he needs to get back to his team and give information to the captian-
"Ryu!"
He doesn't know who the hell Ryu is but he doesn't have time. He flashes through multiple hand seals and hears the man curse-
He's hit in the back of the neck with something hard, and his vision flickers to see Fugaku before it's swallowed by darkness.
The last thing he hears is the enemies voice but it's a mixture of his father's and he thinks his father is about to be killed.
Kakashi raises an eyebrow. The one day he is on time, one of his little genin are out. Is this fate laughing at him?
He doesn't comment because by the way Itachi walks to the training field he can tell that something has happened and he doesn't to know.
Rame seems to take notice but doesn't question either.
"Sensei, what do we do now?"
"Maa, I had nothing specific planned today." Since my ass still hurts. "I was going to let you all do a D-rank if you wanted, but seeing as though we have a missing teammate and you three train every day I say take a breather." He doesn't leave it for discussion and flickers away.
"What happened?" Rame's voice is leveled and Itachi narrows his eyes in thought a bit.
"Father called Ryu out. Last night he had a nightmare and his… Sharingan was activated. It's likely he took him because of that."
Rame shifts, "That's not all of it."
Itachi looks him in the eye, Rame thinks that if it were any other person they would've flinched but he doesn't.
"Do you have them as well? The memories?" Itachi probably should not have asked since he does not know how the other will respond.
Rame doesn't respond, instead, he goes still and Itachi thinks that maybe the Hyuuga has stopped breathing. He takes a step forward and Rame steps back before shaking his head and exhaling.
"Yes." He nearly hisses it because he honestly doesn't want to remember. He doesn't want to remember the cruel things he has seen and done. People screaming and blood. It's a life of a shinobi but-
He straightens up when Itachi reaches out and the Uchiha pauses. Rame backs up.
"Don't," He takes a deep breath, "Don't touch me whenever I space out ok?"
Itachi nods. "I'm sorry."
"It's fine, what happened?"
"I think it activated because he was seeing those memories while he was asleep." Itachi breathes out a sigh. "As you know, the sharingan is only activated through… traumatic experiences…"
Rame only stares, forcing the dark thoughts to the back of his mind.
"It got me thinking if you two were really ok-"
Rame made a noise in the back of his throat and shook his head. "Itachi, you already know the answer to that question."
Itachi opens his mouth to speak but Rame shakes his head again. "Let's- let's talk about that later. When all three of us are together, please." It wasn't a question more like a statement. Itachi looks at the older and sees how pinched Rame's eyes looked as if he were in pain and the way he was pressing a hand against his stomach.
"I didn't mean to upset you."
Despite himself, Rame snorts out a weak laugh. "You really are too nice Itachi." Itachi narrowed his eyes a bit.
Then Rame straightened and for a split moment Itachi saw those veins around his eyes bulge before going back to normal.
"I need to go home. You need to check on your brother, we'll meet later."
Rame didn't give him a time to respond and flickered away.
Itachi is left alone for a moment before he heads away from the training grounds.
Ryu thinks that this is logical because it has happened before.
The concept of being reincarnated comes with a lot of pros and cons. One main con that outstand the others was the possibility that one's previous thoughts, attitude, actions and memories could resurface unexpectedly. It does not happen all at once, that would probably send someone into permanent shock.
Well, that's what Ryu thinks.
In his old life, it started when he was at the age of twelve since that's when he became a genin. In this life, at the age of seven- almost eight- he is experiencing his past memories- more like traumatic events, and has nearly hurt his father.
Ryu's mind is still foggy. He didn't remember much but when he woke up his father gave him a briefing of what has happened and he instantly felt the deep churn in his gut.
To him, it was like a lucid, foggy dream. He was there but he had no control of his body or thoughts yet he could still see what was going on. It was a foggy like vision as if he was seeing double. One side saw an enemy and the other saw his father.
His eye twitches and he reaches up to massage his eyes. He can feel the pressure building behind his eyelids. It was as if he was hit in the back of his head and his head was giving off a dull throb.
Fugaku reaches up to grab his wrist when he sees him rubbing his eyes.
"Do not rub them, rubbing them will make them feel worse."
To be honest it really did not make a difference because Ryu felt like shit and the light was bothering him.
He barely remembers Fugaku moving him to the medic facility in the Uchiha compound (it was small, really). Fugaku must have taken him there instead of the actual hospital because it was closer or maybe the fact that it was more of a personal matter.
"How do you feel."
Like shit.
"Bad." He says instead because honestly he did not want to get scolded for language and he really wanted to just lay down.
"The light is hurting my eyes and the pressure behind them is getting worse. I think I'm beginning to get a migraine, Tou-san." He tries to keep it innocent but he already knows that Fugaku knows he's smarter than that.
The doctor walks in, the clan doctor. He's an older man with gray hair. Ryu doesn't know him but he's heard his mother talk about him on very few occasions. He vaguely remembers her calling him Haru-san while she was getting a check-up when she was with Sasuke.
"The reason you feel so much pressure in your eyes is that your Sharingan was activated, boy. From what your father told me, this is not the first time it has unintentionally happened." He voice is gravely and he sounds as tired as Ryu feels right about now.
"This... isn't?" He wasn't aware that this was not the first time it happened. Hell, he was not even aware that his Sharingan had activated!
But fuck, it actually makes logical sense when he thinks about it a bit more. Despite the sharp pain in his head, he nods.
"Take these, they should help with a migraine." Ryu is given a small paper cup of water and two pills. He swallows the pills dry and downs the small cup in seconds.
"I hope you know this is a pressing matter, Fugaku-sama."
"I know."
Ryu wanted to roll his eyes. Great, this is the part where they have to talk about him like he's not here and prescribe medication and talk about future appointments.
"Child," Haru-san (that is what Ryu is calling him from now on), calls his attention and Ryu opens an eye, "you are a genin correct?"
"Hai." Ryu answers. Haru san takes a seat in that stool with wheels all doctors seem to have.
"Any traumatic events you've experienced? A teammate got hurt or killed? Or maybe something happened to you?"
"No," Ryu answers sharply and leans his head back on the medical bed. "I'm fine."
Haru-san snorts.
Ryu looks over to Fugaku but his father has that unreadable expression most people in power has.
"Keep a watch on him, Fugaku-sama. You said he was seven, yes?"
Fugaku nods.
"That's way too young," He hears Haru-san mutter. "I suggest you walk him home and then come back," Haru-san looks back over to Ryu, "You are not to train for a day or two, or until we figure out what is wrong."
Ryu would have called bullshit and growled but instead, he nods his head. He begins to formulate a plan in the back his head.
When Itachi gets back home he is greeted by Sasuke. However, instead of the usually loud shriek of 'welcome back,' his little brother is quiet and practically floats over to Itachi. Itachi picks him up easily and carries him to the kitchen where he greets his mother then goes to the common room.
Sasuke is quiet as he sits on Itachi's lap. One arm is wrapped around the green dinosaur he usually carries around when he's nervous or sad and his other hand is gripping a fistful of Itachi's shirt.
"Sasuke-," He tries but the boy cuts him off by speaking softly, not looking away from the television. "Ryu-nii wasn't with you. Is he okay?"
Itachi eyes narrow and he nods, patting Sasuke on the head. Sasuke says nothing and snuggles a bit closer to him.
"He's going to be fine Sasuke."
Sasuke keeps quiet for a moment before he speaks again.
"'Tachi-nii, who is Sutorimu?"
Itachi blinks for a moment, "That is a stream Sasuke."
Sasuke shakes his head, his forehead is pressed into Itachi's side and he grips Itachi's shirt tighter.
"When I looked into Ryu-nii's eyes the first time there was a boy and a man named Sutorimu."
Itachi goes so still that Sasuke moves away a bit.
"You-"
"I d-didn't know I wasn't supposed to look into his eyes. I didn't know I wasn't supposed to until it happened again. Itachi is Ryu and Sutorimu okay?"
Their mother chooses that time to appear around the corner, wiping her hand on her apron. She has a thoughtful look on her face.
"Who is Sutorimu Sasuke? Is he a new friend?"
Sasuke finally turns around and looks up their mother with a face Itachi cannot place.
Then the boy holds up his old stuffed dinosaur to Mikoto. "This is him, I call him 'Tori."
Itachi feels a cold shiver up his spine as their front door slides open to reveal Fugaku and Ryu.
After dinner, Ryu says he is going to bed early. Fugaku allows it and Itachi offers to do the dishes while their mother puts Sasuke to sleep. Fugaku stays in the common room as Itachi cleans.
Their common room or living room is to the opposite of the kitchen and a screen door separates it. However, Fugaku leaves the door open and he openly stares in thought. Itachi is able to see him in his peripheral vision.
Itachi does his best to finish cleaning the dishes. He places the leftover food in bentos, it was something his mother always did whenever she was cleaning up after dinner. He made one for his father and one for her and Sasuke just in case. He and Ryu could always stop and ate somewhere after missions with the money they received.
"Itachi," Fugaku calls him when Itachi is done cleaning the counters. Itachi places the washcloth back in the drawer before going to the living room.
His father is sitting cross-legged at the table. When Itachi enters he motions for him to sit on the other side. Itachi sits across from him and watches as his father rests his chin on his hands.
"Itachi has anything happened while you all were out training or doing missions?"
"No, Tou-san." Itachi knows why his father is asking this. It is because of Ryu. Itachi wonders if his father might keep Ryu or withdraw him from the team.
"Did you know that he activated his Sharingan before last night?"
"No, Tou-san." It was the honest answer, Itachi had not known. Ryu had never spoken of it or shown it. However, Itachi already has an idea of how it manifested. Ryu barely talked about his past lives. If he did talk about his past lives it was not about the subjects of family or traumatic events. It was more along the lines of what knowledge he used to have and what jutsus he used to use.
He never mentioned anything more about himself or any close friends or family.
Itachi feels his stomach churn because he is curious but he is not so curious enough to pry into his brother's mind and make him see things he wished to abandon. So he never asks.
"Itachi, if you know anything you need to tell me and your mother."
"Hai, Tou-san."
Fugaku closes his eyes with a sigh.
Itachi shifts from where he is seated. His hands move to his knees and he squeezes them.
"Will Ryu be alright?"
Fugaku opens his eyes after a few seconds, "Haru-san has diagnosed him with high-stress levels that may or may not have had an influence on him obtaining the Sharingan. He also saw some signs of mental exhaustion."
Itachi keeps quiet and nods.
"Am I allowed to leave now, Tou-san?"
Fugaku nods his head. Itachi bids him goodnight and leaves.
After he bathes and puts on his nightwear he heads straight to Ryu's room.
Surprisingly the door is unlocked and Itachi slides the door open with ease.
He sees Ryu already sleep in his bed. He is breathing deeply but Itachi can barely see the rise and fall of his chest. Itachi lets out a breath of relief for some reason. At least he seems alright.
"Are you going to stand there Itachi?"
Ah, he should have known.
Ryu scoots over to make room and Itachi slides under the blankets. Ryu's eyes are still closed but Itachi can tell that he is not asleep.
"You have questions..." Ryu says it matter of factly but Itachi doesn't want to stress the other out more.
"I don't."
"You are lying."
"I do not want to bother you."
Ryu opens his eyes but he doesn't look Itachi in the eyes even though they are next to each other. Itachi understands why when he sees the crimson and the tomoe spinning lazily.
Itachi keeps quiet for a few moments.
"Sasuke mentioned Sutorimu."
Ryu stiffens and Itachi wonders if maybe he should not have mentioned it.
"Oh," Ryu starts, "How'd he figure out my name?"
Itachi swallows before answering, "He said he looked into your eyes and saw it, or you from back then. He must not have been able to tell the difference."
Ryu blinks at this and Itachi can see the crimson fade back into black.
"Oh," is all that manages to come out. It sounds like a whisper to Itachi and he barely hears it. Ryu continues to look at nothing. After a while, he closes his eyes again.
"Night," Itachi mumbles. Ryu responds back with a barely audible whisper.
When Rame lets his mind wander, he realizes that he can very dangerous.
For one, he is thinking. His undivided attention is focused inward and he is not aware of his surroundings. His body goes on autopilot and the world around him becomes dull, dark and nothing but a buzz.
His thoughts are crowded by his dead comrades floating in the water and buildings looking decayed and destroyed.
He does not realize that he was destroyed every single training dummy in the dojo until he steps on a piece of splinted wood and feels it dig in because he is not wearing shoes.
He pulls the splint out, slowly. He discards it on the floor while taking a deep breath. Looking around the dojo he sees that it is a mess. He actually winces at the degree of it. He needs to get it cleaned up before morning, that much he could do. As for replacing the equipment, he would have to confess to his father.
He flexes his hands and they sting. There are tiny cuts and a few bruises forming. He didn't wrap them up prior and now he was paying for it.
He sighs, closes his eyes, and takes deep breaths.
It takes him two hours to clean the dojo. Mainly because he was taking his time to distract himself. The broken wood is placed in bags and he makes sure to sweep the floor twice to make sure it is safe.
He sighs as he stands in the middle of the dojo, trying to get rid of the memories that are resurfacing. He does not know why they are coming in full force all of the sudden. Usually, the memories came while he was dreaming, they would almost never occur during daytime or before he went to sleep.
It was probably because of his talk with Itachi earlier, it had brought back the feeling of uncertainty and a few things he wanted to forget. Of course, he would not blame his teammate for worrying about him. Itachi was polite and only meant well. He probably did not even know what the outcome would be.
He exhales through his nose this time and turns. He walks toward the door of the dojo and slowly slides it open. He steps outside and closes it just as quietly. The wood outside the dojo is cold against his bare feet but he does not care. He makes his way quietly to his room, masking his chakra a bit. He makes it to his room and goes inside, sliding his door close and activating the seals inside, then just stands.
He does not know how long he stood in the middle of his room, staring at the discarded brushes and scrolls. He mind goes fuzzy around the edges and noises become a muffled buzz as well. The sound of waves come back and the smell of ocean water tainted with blood hits him full force.
He makes a bushin.
It is a technique that no seven-year-old should know, well, a sane seven-year-old, but that doesn't matter.
The clone stares at him, eyes narrowed a bit in what looks like pain and deep thinking. Rame wonders if this is what he looks like right now.
"Take off your shirt." He orders and begins to prepare some ink. He bites down on his finger and lets the blood drip and mix with the ink. The close does as told and Rame stands behind him.
"You are going to be here for a few days," Rame licks his lips as he starts painting the seal on the clone's back. "A week and a half at most."
The clone nods his head, moving his hair over his shoulder so Rame can paint over his left shoulder blade.
When Rame is done with the seal he steps back and unwinds the bandages from around his wrists. The seals on his wrists are chakra suppressants. Something that should not be tampered with and is highly dangerous to have on at all times.
He does a few hand signs to deactivate them and takes a step back to steady himself. It was like the wind got knocked out of him. The clone turns his head with a frown but Rame shakes his head before steadying himself.
Ah, he really should not be doing this. Especially after taking off chakra suppressants.
"I'll be going somewhere out the village," He starts, the clone nods. " You are to act the same way basically. This seal is going to store and feed in enough chakra for you. It should last seven days at most. Six at least."
He takes a few deep breaths because he can actually feel the sea of chakra growing in him. He has always had a large amount of chakra and right now he was going to need about seventy-five percent of it to put in this clone and the other twenty-five percent to run across Konoha, sneak past the gates and head out.
Rame places a hand on thebushins back.
For once in his life, Kakashi does not know what to do.
His genin is a mixture of unanswered questions and masterminds that constantly play with his mind. To be honest he does not even know how to instruct a genin team but he is sure that something is not right.
One day they are raging beasts and the next day they seem too timid and lost.
From beside him, Rin gives him a glance out the corner of her eye. She had been doing that a lot lately. It was probably because Kakashi had not said much since he has joined the table of the new jounin senseis.
"Hatake," Asuma starts and Kakashi lazily glances at him.
"Hmm?"
"You are awfully quiet," Rin bites her lips.
"It's probably has something to do with how he got blown across Konoha by a seven year old."
Kakashi glares and Rin turns away to hide her smile.
"Maa, Sarutobi, why do you have to tease me about that?"
"To get a reaction," Asuma states honestly, "but seriously, what's wrong?"
Kakashi opens his mouth to answer until he feels a familiar chakra flicker.
He narrows his eye. If he was correct that was the Hyuuga. He extends his senses, but feels nothing. With a sigh he stands from the table, pushing his tea towards Rin. "I have to check on one of those brats, Rin, tell Obito I said hello if I'm not back yet."
He shunshins away.
"Kashi-sensei," Rame greets with a nod.
Kakashi hums while flipping a page. "Rame, may I ask why you are out at eleven at night?"
"Eating onigiri and clearing my head sensei."
"Hm." Despite the answer the jounin falls in step with the boy as he walks through the streets. Rame does not even have the decency to look ashamed, actually, he looks like he has done nothing wrong.
Kakashi walks him to the gate of the Hyuuga's household and the two stop.
Kakashi makes no move to leave or look away from his book. Rame finishes the rest of his treat.
"Sensei?"
"Hm?"
"Watch out for us okay?"
Kakashi looks at the child.
Rame is side glancing at him, he has a frown and in the night he looks older than what he should be.
Rame blinks and his eyes are looking forward as he passes through the gates.
Kakashi does not know that it was a distraction.