"Here!"
"What's this?"
Liumu looked at the thing Kakashi had shoved into his hands before leaving and asked in confusion.
"A birthday present!"
With that, Kakashi leaped away.
Birthday?
Liumu counted the days on his fingers. Only after a moment did he realize that he was actually about to turn freaking six.
One step closer to eighteen.
But...
In all his years, Liumu had basically never celebrated his birthday. Kakashi's gift was also the first birthday present he had ever received.
"How did he know my birthday?"
Liumu scratched his head in confusion and walked home.
After resting for two days and a night, Han had mostly recovered from her illness. Though her nose still twitched a little, her temperature had returned to normal.
Seeing Liumu come home in the middle of the night, Han quickly got up and came over. "Is your birthday coming up?"
Liumu: ???
"How did you know?" Liumu asked in surprise.
"Jiraiya-sensei told me," Han answered honestly.
"How did he know?"
Liumu was speechless. It was his birthday, yet somehow everyone else knew about it. If Kakashi hadn't reminded him, he wouldn't even have remembered that there was such a thing as celebrating birthdays in this world.
As it turned out, Yuhi Shinku, who had been in charge of leading the team to Kumogakure, had handled the paperwork for Liumu's promotion to Chunin. At the time, Liumu's records were still at the Ninja Academy and hadn't been transferred out. When Yuhi Shinku retrieved his file, he immediately learned all of Liumu's information.
When Yuhi Shinku had previously asked Jiraiya to conduct the Genin team's assessment, he had also mentioned that Liumu's birthday was coming up.
As for Kakashi, Liumu couldn't be bothered to dwell on it. He was a member of ANBU now, after