A Timely Mistake...

The Sunagakure Recreational and Academic Complex, simply known to the villagers as the "SRAC".

This was the place where the now 14 year-old Uchiha, Kaito decided to spend his time off from partaking in missions. Typically he would opt to hang out with what friends he had left in the village or to even volunteer at the village's academy, but nobody was around as of late and the academy was in between semesters.

Not wanting to waste his time laying around at home, Kaito decided to do something about his boredom.

Upon entering the campus, the young Uchiha was more than amazed. It was all truly fascinating, and Kaito almost felt as though he was at some sort of festival.

"This place really is amazing!" Kaito said to nobody in particular as he waltzed around. "I could stay here forever and not even mind it."

The first place that the lad went, of course, was the complex's library. It was a lot grander than the public library offered in the housing district, and the lad couldn't help himself in picking out almost fifty books to check out and read. The topics of the books covered everything from battle tactics, elements of creating and using jutsu, and even politics. The later would be the most important in his goal to someday become the Kazekage, and for that reason the majority of books he picked out were on that subject alone.

It didn't even occur to Kaito until after he exited the library, however, just how overboard he had gone.

"Woah!"

As the boy tried his best to walk down the library's outside steps, he almost lost his footing and nearly dropped his tower of books in the process.

'Should I just return some and check them back out later?' Contemplating it and doing his best to get turned back around to walk back up the steps, he noticed a sign for the complex's "Hyperbolic Time Chamber". His interest peaked, he walked carefully over to the sign to read it closely.


'That is exactly what I need! '

Wasting no time, Kaito made his way in the direction that the sign pointed. Shortly he would arrive at the chambers, at which point he was greeted by one of the complex's many volunteers.

"Hello! May I get one chamber, please?"

The receptionist wasted no time either preparing one of the chambers for the lad. What Kaito didn't realize, however, was that he forgot to specify that he specifically wanted a training chamber. The receptionist, on the other hand, noticing just how much reading material the boy had, took it in their best interest to assign the boy one of the aging chambers.

With the misunderstanding going unnoticed by either party, Kaito gracefully and thankfully entered into the aging chamber, which was closed and locked behind him by the receptionist...

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Time seemed to fly by seamlessly inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and Kaito made sure to take all of the precious time that he needed to complete his studies.

He spent the majority of his time reading all of the material he had borrowed from the library and also taking some of the jutsu practices and training the material physically. The most precious of the material to him, however, was the political books. They really did enrich his young mind in the arts, and he would be sure to use it all someday.

With a simple yawn after finishing the last of the books, Kaito walked over to the bathroom to do his business. After doing so he stood at the sink and washed his hands.

It was then that he noticed.

"What the hell?"

Upon his face, he could see a ton of dark brown hair that had not been there before he entered the chamber only six days prior. It was easy enough to tell that it was not only peachfuzz but a full-on beard he was sporting. His hair too was all the more longer too, framing his face wildly and falling down to the back of his knees.

Kaito thought about it all for a moment before his eyes shot open and he clasped the edges of the sink frantically.

"Oh no!"

Running wildly to the front door of the chamber, he slammed on the release button.

'Hurry up! Hurry up!'

As if on command, the door hissed open and a cloud of white smoke bellowed. It didn't faze Kaito, however, and the now young man shot through the doorway and over to the receptionist. Thankfully for Kaito it was still the same gentleman from before. After a bit of bickering, the accident performed by the two of them was cleared, but the damage was already done.

"Your saying that I am now twenty years-old and that I just lost the last six years of my life?" The receptionist nodded awkwardly. Kaito let out a defeated sigh. "Well this is going to be an odd thing to explain to everyone..."