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  Daichi didn't let his guard down when Kakashi said those words. It was only after he received the quest pletion notifiessage did he start to rex. He let out a deep breath of air and put the two daggers ba his pouch.

  Ohe adrenaliarted to wear off, Daichi begahing hard. He was pletely exhausted. But unlike him Kakashi didn't appear to be in such a tired state.

  "Well, you should get some rest a home. You've pushed yourself beyond your limits in this short time. Take a few days off. We'll meet here week." With those words Kakashi turned around to leave but Daichi's question stopped him.

  "You barely see straight, you?" The boy knew Kakashi was only putting up a front. He khe man was on the brink of colpse but didn't want to seem weak in front of his student.

  "I'll be fine Daichi. It's nothing just some rest won't fix." Kakashi said and began walking away.

  The young Genin narrowed his eyes and stood. He flexed his fingers and the sed chakra strings came to life around them.

  Kakashi only took a couple steps before he felt something grab onto his bad pull him backwards. He didn't have the strength to move his hands let alone defend himself. "Daichi, you realize that I escape anytime right?"

  "If you had the strength, then you would be gone by now."

  Daichi carefully pulled the man bad forced him to sit on the ground. He created two shadow es and then walked up to his sensei and carefully removed his Joni. Daichi pced his palms on the man's chest and trated. Green glow formed as healing chakra begaing from his hands.

  "You o rest, kid. Don't worry about me." Kakashi said through haggard breaths.

  "I'll be fine. Now stop being so stubborn a me heal you." Daichi carefully sed the man's body and took in its dition.

  Meanwhile Kakashi took note of the two es meditating a few feet away from him. 'I guess now's as good a time as any to get some answers.'

  "The meditation you do… It increases your chakra reserves and you also use it to replenish your chakra and stamina during battle… don't you." Kakashi said, looking at the boy.

  Daichi sighed hearing that. 'He was bound to figure that out…'

  A short sileer Daichi answered. "Yes. The es hide and begin to build up chakra. It also acts as a ter to the fatigue accumuted."

  "I see…"

  After a sed of internal debate Daichi revealed another use of meditation. "I use shadow es to train chakra reted exercises such as trol, nature training and improving the skill of my jutsu. By using my es I drastically reduce the time o learn a teique."

  Kakashi was surprised to hear that. He thought about such a trainihod and after a short while came to some clusions. "But something like that is only possible for someoh very rge reserves of chakra. And if the experienes with the e thehat meaigue also es back to the user?"

  "Yes. So I have some es meditate to teract the ive effects of such training."

  Kakashi thought about the efficy of such training and the results it would provide. 'Too bad I won't be able to do something like that.'

  "You took two low grade Rations pills didn't you?" Daichi asked the man at that moment.

  The Jonin sighed and replied. "Yes. These pills are not as powerful as the Military Ration pills used on missions but they did their job. It was the only way I could fight so long."

  Daichi looked over his dition and healed his injuries. Aside from major chakra exhaustion the man didn't take much damage aside from a few minor scrapes and bruises. "Hmm… Your Sharingan es lots of chakra and prolonged fights with it puts a rge strain on your coils… The pills are quickly starting to wear off, so that's why you're starting to feel sutense side effects."

  At that moment Daichi's es came up to Kakashi and began transferring their chakra to him.

  Kakashi let out a deep breath of air as he felt his chakra rise. The real Daichi finished his medical checkup and took two pills from his poud gave oo his teacher.

  "Here. This will teract the rough side effects of the Ration pills."

  Kakashi was hesitant. Daichi uood the reason and immediately reassured the man.

  "Don't worry. You won't get addicted to this."

  Kakashi nodded and took the pill. He looked it over and then without hesitatio. His movements were fast and he didn't allow Daichi to see his fader the mask. Kakashi internally smirked as he saw the small twit Daichi's eyes. He then closed his eyes ahe pill take effect immediately. He felt much better and in a better dition.

  "What is that?"

  "Well it's something to bat the toxin build up after using the Ration pill."

  "Toxin?"

  Daiodded. "A Ration pill is made with powerful nutrients and stimunts that be instantly absorbed into the body. When someos a Military Ration pill it nourishes the body and replehe chakra. While that's true, it's not the whole deal. They do supply the body with chakra but they also stimute the cells and ans to release some of the chakra stored in them."

  "What do you mean?"

  "Even when someone has chakra exhaustion their cells and ans would have some chakra in them so that they could fun. It's the reason ninjas recover from chakra exhaustion without deadly repercussions with just rest and food. Well, most of the time anyway. The chakra stored in the cells and ans helps keep the body alive long enough for the person to recover."

  Kakashi was beginning to uand where Daichi was going with this. "So then the pills force that stored chakra to be released into the coils to be used."

  "Yes. It's hoerson would be able to keep fighting for two or three days after taking a high grade pill. And that same reason is why they go into severe cases of exhaustion ohe effects wear off. And the forceful extra of chakra throughout the body creates toxins that would bee harmful to the body if not treated."

  "I see. I read about some cases where some dropped dead a couple days after taking the pill. But they didn't get the proper treatment in time." Kakashi added his thoughts.

  "Yes. If the right treatment and capable medijas arrive before the time runs out, then there is a good ce of survival. But it's still a risky gamble."

  Kakashi nodded. "It's the reason why most ninjas don't take those pills unless absolutely necessary. There is also the ce of getting addicted to it due to some of the narcotics used in the creation of those things. It's why the vilge has strict trol over the distribution of those pills."

  "Yeah. It's why I made sure to make my pill non addictive and with nohal side-effects. Here." Daichi hahe sed pill. "These should help with the recovery and healing muscles. It's also something of my own design. It tains the necessary minerals, vitamins and proteins needed for cell repair. It works slow but it has ive side effects. The only downside is, you'll o rest properly for a day or two and drink plenty of water."

  "That doesn't seem so bad."

  The boy smirked at that. "I told you."

  Daichi's face then turned slightly serious and asked a question that's been on his mind sihe beginning of the test.

  "Hey sensei… Why did you put me through this? You know that an ordinary Genin would never have passed something like this right! Heck I doubt even in ninjas could have survived."

  Kakashi sighed as he thought about how best to ahe question. He remembered the Hokage telling that Kensei had probably informed the boy of Danzo and a possible attack from him. 'Should I keep this from him or… Lord Hokage didn't specifically tell me not to say anything… Trust is a two way street.'

  After thinking about it he made a decision. "I'll tell you the reason if you holy answer a couple questions of mine."

  Daichi frowned but nodded his head. "Seems fair I guess." 'Still the answers I give will depend on the questions.'

  "Gd you think so. Now the first question. Why did you hide your strength in the Genin exam? If you had shown this much skill and strength, you would have been made a Genin regardless of what had happened."

  Daichi was silent when he heard that. He looked at Kakashi and after a short internal debate decided to answer holy. "There are two reasons for that. One. People think being a genius and graduating early from the academy is a good thing. They're wrong. While it may open doors that will be useful to your career, Unofficially it's like painting a giant e metaphorical sign on that person's head saying 'Here's a kid with great potential. e and kill him before he bees a threat.' I don't want the wrong kind of attention from someone dangerous."

  Kakashi internally winced when he heard that. 'It's a bit too te for that kid.'

  Unaware of Kakashi's thoughts, Daichi tinued. "I know that it's impossible since I'm a student of one of the Sannin. But if I openly funt my strength to anyone I meet then trouble will find me soohan I would like."

  The man nodded in uanding. "And the sed reason?"

  "I wao pass. But I also o see if I could trust my teammates. I wao see what kind of people they were. If I had shown my real strength, then as you've said, I would have passed. But I might have been on a team with those two. And the gap in our strength and ck of crete trust would have caused problems iure." 'There was also the fact that I o see what kind of a man you are. If you were like your terpart or someone different…'

  The Jonin nodded. "Thank you for being ho Daichi."

  "Yeah. You said you had a couple questions? What's the sed one?" Daichi asked.

  "Well, not t but, I have powerful senses simir to yours. S the test, when you created 7 shadow es to meditate, I mao find all of them… But there was one more e. One which evaded my sehat's very rare. So my question is, how did you do that?"

  Daichi smirked as he heard that. "Ohh that? Well there's a trick to it. It's something I learo d my time with Lady Tsunade."

  "I'm listening." Kakashi wao learn the secret to such a perfect hiding teique.

  "There are 4 main factors that e into py. A good Location to hide, masking your chakra, trick the nose of your tracker and the final one."

  Kakashi already figured that Daichi employed the first three. And slightly narrowed his eyes as he listeo the fourth.

  "You o be indistinguishable from a corpse."

  The Jonin erplexed at that. "What do you mean?"

  Daichi smirked. "I'll expin from the top. First you o find a good hiding pce. I chose to hide underground, right below a giant boulder. Now before you hide there's something you have to do."

  As Kakashi listened, Daichi took out two pills from his ninja pouch.

  "What are those?" Kakashi asked.

  "These are the pills I used to mask my st… You see, your body odor ge depending on what you eat. Depending on the proteins and minerals that go inside you, your body could exude a good smell, bad smell or no smell at all…" Daichi said with a smile.

  The man's eyes widened as he heard that information.

  "But there's more. During my time learning about the various medies and herbs I figured out that a bination of certain pnts when ied ge the body odor to one of soil st. Another where they ge the body odor to vegetation and pnts. The first few binations I made during my training took a few hours to take effect but with time I perfected it. Take a couple of these pills and in just a minute my st would ge and be indistinguishable from that of the one given out by the earth."

  Kakashi was impressed. "You found an ideal location to hide and then took the pills that would ge your st to one resembling the enviro you were in."

  "Exactly. But there were still two problems. My chakra. A skilled sensor would still be able to find me. So I suppressed my Chakra to near uable levels."

  Kakashi rubbed his as he thought about that. "But that still leaves a problem. I use a certain jutsu a if there are any living creatures underground. I used this along with my other seo find you. So I should have sensed your presence even if you had done all that."

  "And thereihe fourth aspect. Breathing. I trolled my breathing and brought down my pulse and body temperature. It's something I learned during my training. The shadow es are made of chakra but when they are created they have chakra made ans ihem mimig the real thing. I id still, brought my temperature down and reduced my pulse to little over a feer minute. I essentially became a corpse. That's how you couldn't detect me… If I had used a jutsu to hide myself then your Sharingan would have picked up on it. So I had to do things this way."

  "That's smart… Tell me. Did you instruct that e to only e out of that state if all the others were dispelled?" Kakashi asked.

  Daiodded in affirmation. 'There is also the stealth skill that came into py but I don't o tell him that.'

  "I 't believe you came up with something like that." Kakashi was impressed.

  "Yes. Bask in the glory of my Genius. Muahaha…." Daichi stood in a dramatic pose and ughed with his hands raised in the air.

  Kakashi sweat dropped seeing Daichi ugh to himself like an idiot. 'I think all those blows he took knocked a few screws loose in his head.'

  Daichi looked at his sensei and spoke with a grin. "Any more questions sensei? Maybe about how I look so good everyday or maybe some cooking tips?"

  The Jonin sighed and replied. "I'm good. Thanks." ,

  Daichi just smirked at that answer. "Your loss. Alright now that I've answered your questions, it's my turn."

  "Actually I just had one more question for you." Kakashi said.

  Daiodded and waited for the man to speak.

  "Do you know about the anization known as Root?"