- Sarada! Sarada, it's time to go home, your father is coming back today, and you don't want him to see you looking like you just crawled out of a pigsty! - Sakura screams impatiently, looking out of the opened window. The wind catches up her hair, once again long and silky, plays with the hem of a simple home dress. The masked man seating next to her just shakes his head.
Kakashi notices to himself how Sakura finally looks calm, gentle, feminine. She smiles and rubs her belly while telling him how she and Sasuke are expecting their fourth kid, how her husband is bound to return any minute now, and how tonight they can finally have a dinner with Nanadaime Hokage who just barely managed to get some time off of his busy schedule. And does Kakashi want to join them? Hinata-chan won't mind, will she? And how is Himawari-chan, getting over her cold?
Hinata, who this whole time was standing behind Kakashi, just smiles and tells her that yes, her daughter is doing alright, and she doesn't mind at all if Kakashi joins them for family dinner.
The ANBU Commander Hyuuga Hinata does not have a daughter.
The Hidden Leaf doesn't have Nanadaime Hokage.
And there are no children playing outside the psychiatric ward of Konoha Main Hospital. Sakura's belly is completely flat.
Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto have been dead for the last fifteen years.
After cancelling Infinite Tsukuyomi, they died of a blood loss and severe chakra exhaustion. After finding the corpses of these two, even in death holding each other's hands and smiling, Kakshi couldn't get rid of suspicion that they not so much as cancelled Tsukuyomi as turned it inward on themselves instead of the rest of the world – so calm and peaceful their faces were.
Rokudaime Hokage shakes his head and promises to come back later. Hinata soundlessly follows him and her soft, sincere expression changes into complete indifference. The legendary ANBU, Fox, doesn't need porcelain mask, after Naruto's death no one could catch even a trace of any real emotion on her face.
Kakashi remembers that Hyuuga clan, just like Uchiha, are descendants of Indra. Now that Sharingan bloodline completely disappeared, the curse of hatred might be passed onto their cousins. Hyuuga Hinata's insanity is different from Sakura's, but every time the council advises to consider her as the potential Nanadaime, Kakashi just shakes his head.
It seems, though, that soon enough he won't have the privilege of a choice. The tension between Cloud and Mist is growing with each passing day, and more and more often he hears that letting the biju go was a tactical mistake. Veterans start to stock up on weapons and force their training.
The new generation has grown up – and the Fifth Hidden War will soon follow.
After all, it's on the battlefield the shinobi earn their bread.
