Author's Note: This is a series of one-shots featuring the relationship of Kakashi Hatake and Mei Terumi.

I have no schedule for posting but I'll be trying for every week. I've got several ideas going but feel free to suggest new ones.

Rules for suggesting chapters: NO LEMONS! I mean it guys, that will not be happening here. When I list my stories as T, I mean it. Adult situations: yes (examples of adult situations include but are not limited to: birth, suicide, graphic violence, etc). Anything beyond first base: no. If that's what you're looking for then this isn't your story, have a nice day.

Another rule comes from the fact that yes, Kakashi and Mei will be having children in this story, but these stories are not centered around those little dears. With that being said I'm going to go ahead and say no story suggestions for Kakashi and Mei's kids meeting/playing with/dating any other main characters' children, canon or otherwise.

This Prologue is supposed to give you an idea of where Kakashi and Mei are at in their lives up until this point. You can, of course, suggest a story that would be set in the future timeline of the prologue but the stories I have in mind mostly take place in what Kakashi and Mei from the Prologue would consider to be the past. For example: the first time they met, their interactions as fellow kage, their first date, their wedding, the birth of their first child, etc.

If you have any questions then pm me.

Last of all, as I'm sure you know: I do not own Naruto and I don't know anyone who does.

Prologue

"Do you see that fancy house with the kids playing around it? They've gotta have some money right?" The man turned to his companion and gestured at the house beyond their cover.

"Are you brain dead? Do you know who lives there?"

"What? No. Who?"

"You noticed the kids but not their hair?"

The first man looked again. "It's silver, so what? Lots of families have silver…hey, you're not saying…"

"You're right," the second man finished for him, "lots of families do have silver hair. But not a lot of families live in the middle of nowhere between the lands of Fire and Water, in a house that looks like it grew instead of being built."

The first man took a step back. "When I heard those stories I thought they were just urban legends. It sounded too crazy to be true, more like a fairy tale. The Fifth Water Shadow and the Sixth Fire Shadow got married and they live in a house that was…"

"Constructed by the only living wood-style user," the second man finished.

The first man took another look at the silver-haired boys playing in the grass around the giant house. "Doesn't she have two or three bloodline limits? I can't believe they dared to have children."

"They have four," the second man said smiling grimly.

The first man's head whipped around. "You're kidding."

The second man shook his head.

The first man looked back at the house in wonder. "Every bandit with an oversized ego must have a go at trying to snatch one of those kids. A Hatake with a possible bloodline limit or two, can you imagine what someone would pay for that?"

"Care to try?" the second man asked, a grin on his face and a dangerous glint in his eye.

The first man's eyes widened. He took another step back from the distant house. "I may not be smart but I'm certainly not that thick."

"Good," the second man said, his eyes creasing into half-moon smiles. "Your partner is tied up in a tree in the next field over. Please don't visit again." The transformation of the second man poofed out of existence.

The first man wet his pants.

Mei looked up from the scroll she was reading as Kakashi walked in the front door. His sons trailed after him. "What was that about?" Mei asked mildly. Twin girls with auburn hair played on the floor near her feet.

Kakashi shrugged, "I just made sure those two men you sensed earlier weren't lost." He gently kicked a ball that had rolled out of the arena of play back toward the toddlers.

"Did you," Mei glanced at her sons who were climbing the stairs a little slower than necessary, "see that they got on their way?" Under her gaze the boys scurried up the last of the stairs to their rooms.

"That wasn't necessary," Kakashi said, sitting down. "Once they realized they'd taken a wrong turn they left."

Mei raised an eyebrow at her husband that was mostly hidden by bangs. He replied with a cheeky eye-smile.

More to come!