This morning is slightly different than usual, Kayle and both his parents are eating their breakfast silently, the mood seemed a little down but everyone tried to keep a polite smile, and that continued until kayle's mom broke the silence.
Mom: "Be sure to find a safe spot before sleeping outside..."
Kayle: "Yes mom, dad already taught me how to do that, and so did the Academy, don't you remember I'm the one who selected a good spot when we went camping outside of Konoha"
Mom: "Make sure to not skip any meal, and you better cook real meals than depend on provisions"
I can see worry inside both of my parent's eyes, I smile at my mom and nod reassuring her while grabbing her hand.
Kayle: "Don't worry about this either... you know how much I love food, plus I want to always keep my provision food in case an emergency pops"
My dad that has been silent all this time finally raises his head and asks me.
Dad: "Do you know where you want to head first?"
Kayle: "I first wanted to go towards Suna but during the adventurer course they advised us against it, they said there was a little more tension around the border so I will start by visiting Kirigakure"
Dad: "I hope you remember about the friend I told you about be sure to make a visit and say hi for me"
Kayle: "Yes I will and I have a notebook with all your contacts anyway, I can always give it a quick check if I ever need"
The meal kept getting livelier and livelier with both parents giving advice to their most precious treasure, they both knew how strong he was, he had shown them part of his strength while they went picnicking outside the village and that left them shocked, but as parents, they couldn't help but be worried about their son going out alone.
After around an hour, Kayle finally decided it was time to go, he gave them a big hug and started heading out of the village with maru on top of his shoulders, while slowly walking out he met with a few friends.
Naruto: "Hey!! Kayle! where are you going with this huge backpack?"
Naruto was accompanied by both Sakura and Sasuke, Sasuke was curious too as he didn't hear to which team Kayle has been affected, while Sakura was only captivated by Sasuke, she kept looking at him while blushing while doing nothing else, correctly fulfilling her only purpose in this team.
Kayle: "Hey Naruto!! that headband Suit you a lot more than the green glasses you had"
Naruto excitedly explains how he got promoted to a genin by helping Iruka sensei, and how they got accepted by one of the most exigent Jonin and successfully passed his test.
Kayle: "Well I chose to join the roaming squad, I have quite a lot of low priorities mission to do, and I will be able to travel while doing them"
Naruto: "Really? that sounds so exciting...I wish I could go with you! we are stuck here trying to find a cat for a mission... but for some reason, there are at least 20 cats sleeping everywhere in the village and when we try to catch them they disappear in smoke like a clone... we couldn't even find the cat we are looking for..."
A cold drop of sweat started dripping from Kayle's forehead, he had completely forgotten about his Lazy cat Jutsu, he had even improved it further as to make cats create a clone before dissipating if they could, and if they couldn't another cat would make sure to do the job instead, this way there were always 30 cats sleeping allowing his clones to train with full efficiency.
Kayle had reached a Jonin Chakra reserve around two years ago, the first thing he did was learning multiple shadow clone Jutsu, and creating a Multiple Learning Jutsu to make his training more efficient, since then he started using it almost constantly with his clones learning new Jutsus, mastering the nature transformation of his two affinities.
Kayle dissipated all of his clones while dissipating his lazy cat Jutsu at the same time, making sure he doesn't have any drawbacks from mental exhaustion.
Kayle: "hehe? Really? that's so strange... I really wonder why Konoha had this many strange cats..."
While Kayle was trying to find an excuse he felt a hand on each of his shoulders, looking back both Kakashi and Gaï were smiling at him.
Kakashi: "Oh really? don't you remember exchanging the Lazy cat Jutsu for all the water Jutsu I know of ?"
Gaï: "HAHAHA! I told you to create the excited cat Jutsu, with buff cats doing workouts as to motivate the whole village but you didn't listen to me"
Kayle smiled at both of them, he got very close with them, sparing and learning at their side, Kakashi was surprised at first, but knowing there was someone as young as Kayle that could almost rival him made him train extra hard, and he was definitely stronger than the Kakashi of the original world, Gaï... well it's Gaï... definitely not losing to Kakashi in term of progress.
Everyone accompanied Kayle as he left the village, talking, smiling, this was a goodbye to the warm and comfortable home called Konoha but only excitement remained deep inside of Kale's heart as the adventures officially started.