Cannot install via pip

[FlynnDowey]

Collecting naturalneighbor
Using cached naturalneighbor-0.2.1.tar.gz (10 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [15 lines of output]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/master_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 389, in
main()
File "/master_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 373, in main
json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
File "/master_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 175, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
return hook(metadata_directory, config_settings)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-wa7xaqnw/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 374, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
self.run_setup()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-wa7xaqnw/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 512, in run_setup
super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-wa7xaqnw/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 317, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 46, in
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'numpy'
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

numpy version I am using is 1.25.2