[Video | Week 18, Day 6]
[Did I get knocked out? Donning a confused scowl and looking around with apprehension, Lee tries to make sense of his surroundings. This is DEFINITELY NOT the battlefield he remembered. …Unless they have moved on? Had they moved on? No! Surely he would have remembered a change in location and their magnificent victory against the Mist ninja
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His eyes, however, are on the screen, bright compassionate green orbs.]
Please calm down, Lee-san, it won't do any good to panic.
[He smiles softly, tilts his head a little.]
You've been taken out of your world and into one called Kannagara, and I'm not sure about your other comrades, but there is a Kakashi-san here, so perhaps you're in luck!
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Kakashi-sensei is here too?!
[Everything is even better with the world, then, if both Gai-sensei AND his Esteemed Rival are here. Surely everything will make sense soon enough. He's distracted momentarily before he has the sense to reassess and properly process what this nice and helpful baker had just told him.]
Wait. ...Excuse me, baker-san? Did you say I am not in my world?
[He did not catch the name of the world he is in, however, and for that slip in attentiveness, Lee swears to himself that he will do 100 pushups later, but for now, he frowns at the little screen and scratches his head.]
How is that possible?
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Gau gives a low bow, so low that he disappears from the screen for a second, and then offers a sheepish smile.]
Ah, I'm sorry, my name is Gau! And I'd be glad to give you all the pertinent information about where you have found yourself, but it might take a few moments.
[He pauses, smiles softly.]
For starters, if you didn't believe in any gods, now is the time to start. Because you've been chosen by the gods to be brought into this world... for reasons that are still being debated among everyone here, quite honestly. But don't be too sad! There are many who have come here and then gone home again, so it's possible... but only when the gods decided it is time.
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[Gau pauses, trying to think how to explain this. Because it's a rather complicated issue, really, and he's... both more and less qualified than most to explain it.
He's biased, that's the problem.]
There are many gods here, and I could name a few for you, but it wouldn't really mean much. The best way to discover things about them would be to check out the library in Raisato... or to go visit the shrines that you can find via the maps feature on your Hitomi, which is that thing in your hands.
[He pauses, takes a deep breath.]
The one I'm best acquainted with is Konohanasakuya-hime, but her motives... I only know about her motives for myself, not for anyone else. So while I could talk to you about the-
[And then, he cuts himself off mid-sentence. Because he realizes something this kid said that... just doesn't add up.]
Did you say... KAKASHI-SENSEI???
[He's obviously horrified by this.]
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[ Rather deadpan. ]
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[Okay, normally he'd try a little harder to be polite to you, Kakashi. He is rather fond of you after all... but...
This is just too freaky.]
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[He raises an eyebrow, still looking quite skeptical, and more than a little confused.]
You just don't strike me as someone anyone would want around their-
[Oh he's being so rude.]
I mean, uh...
[No, he's not going to manage to fix that, is he?]
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[ A beat. ]
Some of them can be young. But age is not a measure of skill. I became a chuunin at age six and fought in a war.
Ah, chuunin is a title in my world that essentially meant I had the ability to command teams.
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[Perhaps Raikou wasn't commanding anyone at that age, but he was always trained for killing, to be a samurai, for upholding that balance that the Shimizu clan had strayed so far away from, in the end.]
That doesn't change the fact that the idea of you and children makes my mind boggle, just a little. And I'm afraid I don't really understand the concept of 'not children' when one is still young, despite knowing that's really how it is, in some worlds.
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[ And Kakashi never did have a childhood. He stopped being a child when he was only five. ]
Maybe in your world, it's different.
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[Perhaps it is that way for ninja. He hasn't spoken to too many child ninja, other than the healer-girl, and she didn't come off quite that way. She very much seemed a child, most of the time.
So what does that mean? He isn't sure.]
I didn't grow up in that sort of culture, so I can't understand it. I was thrown into it out of nowhere, at thirteen. So I supposed I can't say - whether it's better to have never been a child but to be prepared, or to be a child and then lose that so suddenly.
[He shrugs his shoulders.]
But either way, I was just surprised.
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Yes! Kakashi-sensei teaches Sakura-san and Naruto! And he is Gai-sensei's Eternal Rival!
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[He's obviously quite flustered, but Gau isn't going to go on about it to someone he doesn't know. He'll try to regain his composure, at least before Lee. Just give him a second to breathe...]
I'm sorry! I didn't mean to say it like that. I just didn't know...
[Most of what he knows about Kakashi is... well...]
Anyway! I'm sorry! I was saying that the gods do tend to have different motivations, so it's not so easy to say as if they were all of one mind, but if you'd be interested in learning more, I could tell you my personal story sometime.
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