Chapter 1
Like Father like Daughter
Hello! This is my first story I've written and i hope you enjoy it! It takes place after the war and contains multiple pairings. Thank you for reading and please leave reviews!
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Hatake Kakashi was strolling down the streets of Konoha one lovely afternoon. He wore his signature dark blue mask and his silvery hair blew in the wind. As he observed the happy villagers and blushing couples walking past him, he looked preoccupied in something, and it wasn't just the book that he was reading.
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Somehow he knew this afternoon was not going to be so lovely anymore. He slowly turned at the noise that most people and he wouldn't have been able to hear if not for his ninja ears.
"I can hear you, you know. Come on out you two, Akiko and Inomi."
"I guess my ninja skills need some work.." Uchiha Akiko grumbled.
She blew her jet black bangs out of her face in frustration. Her green eyes twinkled with the same mischief her mother's eyes shown when she was up to no good. She wore a baby blue tank top with the Uchiha sign imprinted on the back with a pair of black leggings.
"Ugh I knew we were being too suspicious." Muttered Nara Inomi.
The Nara had inherited her mother's beautiful blonde hair but instead of growing it out, she kept it mid length. Her eyes were a shade of dark hazel that over analyzed everything around her. She wore a purple cropped tee shirt with a fishnet shirt underneath it to cover her stomach and a black skirt. Unlike her mom, she didn't like to reveal too much skin.
The two girls were always seen together and many villagers knew to beware of the gossiping duo.
Kakashi sighed, "so what do you two want. As you can see I'm busy." He gestured to the 3rd issue of icha icha paradise. He was rereading the series, and he was getting to a good part.
"Ohhhh nothing, Kakashi-san!" Akiko said trying to pull off her sweetest smile. She was never great at making friends with her smirks.
"We just noticed that you have been getting very close to you know whoooo.." Inomi suggested nudging Kakashi with her elbow while winking. "We can keep a secret, don't worry!"
Kakashi knew too well that these two kunoichis loved to talk and talk they did to everyone about everything they heard. He knew he had to be careful with what he says around them.
"Well I should probably get going. The Hokage may need me." Kakashi stated trying to avoid any conversation with the two mischief makers.
"You know my mom can put together a nice bouquet of roses. Her birthday is coming up soon.." Inomi smirked.
"And my mom works with her in the hospital! You can drop by any time you want." Akiko shrugged trying to hide her grin.
Oh no.. Kakashi thought, they figured it out!
"Please! I beg you!" Kakashi clapped his hands together and went on his knees, "Don't tell anyone about Shizune!"
"Hah! So we were right after all!" Akiko laughed, "you fell for it Kakashi-san!"
Kakashi's face was one of pure defeat and remorse. He sunk back in defeat quietly muttering, "so how much does your mom sell for those roses?"
The Nara just laughed.
"Here you go Kakashi-san! A dozen red roses for your lover, Shizzzuuuneeee" teased Inomi while handing Kakashi a bouquet of bright red roses.
These brats are more of a handful than Sakura and Ino.. And they aren't even my students Kakashi thought with remorse.
"And don't be surprised if you find us spying on you and Shizune-san's date" Akiko added with her signature grin.
I have to distract these two before they find out where the date is going to be at! Kakashi thought. "Akiko, you remind me very much of your father. He was a very nosy matchmaker." Said Kakashi.
"Seriously? Uncle Sasuke?" muttered Inomi in shock.
"Eh... EHHHHHHH!" Akiko yelled, "otousan? Does he even know what the definition of romance is?"
Sasuke is going to kill me Kakashi thought of his former student with a chuckle.
"Well of course he didn't. In fact he was probably the worst matchmaker out there! But there are no backing out of missions once they are assigned. Back then, the Hokage had ordered everyone to get married and have children to repopulate the village. After all, we did lose the majority of our ninja from the fourth great shinobi war."
"What kind of Hokage would set such a stupid and perverted order like that?" Scoffed Inomi.
Kakashi sweat dropped. "Well if you youngsters forgot, I was the Hokage back then."
"Oh! Haha! Sorry Kakashi-san!" Laughed the Nara nervously.
"So? Tell me about otousan!" Begged Akiko.
"Sasuke? Well he like you was trying to get me together with a kunoichi thinking it was my time to get laid." Kakashi shuddered at the thought, "Unfortunately, he was completely wrong with whom he thought I was interested in.."
Kakashi, the sixth Hokage was sitting in his office doing his mountains of paperwork. Or at least trying to. In truth, he didn't even start yet. He was conflicted on whether he should reread his icha icha series for the fourth time or take a visit to the hospital. His Hokage hat lay on his desk. He didn't like wearing it much unless he was making a speech to his village.
Kakashi sighed,"No wonder Tsunade was eager to give the title over to me. So much paperwork."
Suddenly there was a poof and a certain black haired ninja appeared with a cat mask on.
"You summoned me?" 19 year old Uchiha Sasuke asked his sensei while taking off his mask.
In order to gain the villages trust, he had to undergo a lot of vigorous training. He was hoping that one day he can be head of the Anbu, but for now he was exhausted and rather grumpy to be summoned during his lunch break.
"Oh, Sasuke! Nice to see you this fine afternoon." Kakashi said with a smile behind his mask.
"What do you want, Kakashi." Sasuke asked wanting to get straight to the point. He knew something was up since he was summoned. Whatever this mission was, it must be kept a secret and is probably very important.
"As hasty as ever I see," Kakashi said with a light chuckle,"okay your mission is simple. Basically get the people of Konoha together so that they can repopulate the Hidden Leaf Village."
While most would be rather flustered from this assignment, the Uchiha remained unaffected by this task and stoic as always. "You've been reading too many of those books." Sasuke stated pointing at the pile of icha icha books Kakashi had lying ontop of his unfinished paperwork.
Kakashi sweat dropped. It was true he hadn't started any of his paperwork due to the fact that his favorite novels lay above it, tempting him.
"This isn't about me. It's for the village. Everything I do is for the well-being of our village. So Sasuke this is an order." Kakashi stated with authority.
"Tch. You know well Kakashi that I of all people am the most unsuitable person for this romance thing." Sasuke answered with a slight blush on his face. "Why don't you ask Sakura or someone else?"
Surprised by the change of color of his cheeks, Kakashi fought off the urge to burst out in laughter from the embarrassed look of the Uchiha. Uchiha Sasuke was ashamed! And of romance! Kakashi made a mental note to remember this moment forever and later tell the Uchiha's children about it.
"Listen Sasuke, we lost a lot of fine shinobi in this war and we need to replace them," Kakashi said in his cool demeanor but deep down inside he was thinking of Obito.
I did this all for you, Obito. I fulfilled your dream of becoming Hokage like you wanted me to.
"Fine," Sasuke said and with that, the Uchiha left to begin his mission that was full of endless confusion and misunderstandings that add to the unnecessary drama caused by one man with one very confused sense of love.
"Okay? So who was the first couple otousan matched?"
Asked Akiko eagerly.
"I don't think it's my place to tell you two about other people's lives. But I can tell you that Sasuke really screwed up my love life." Kakashi said remembering the chaos that Sasuke had started and sighed inwardly. Thank God Sasuke wasn't a real Cupid. Kakashi thought gratefully.
"What happened? Was Shizune-san involved?" Inomi asked with anticipation.
"Yes, she was. And a few other ninjas." Kakashi added,
"Like who?" Akiko demanded.
Kakashi laughed,"You two have no idea."
Mitarashi Anko sat at her favorite café eating a plate of red bean dangos and drinking a cup of hot chai tea.
This is the life, thought Anko with a grin. Some dango, tea, and peace within the nations. She laughed and paid for her food, leaving with one more dango to eat.
On her way home, Anko suddenly turned around swiftly and threw her sharp dango stick at a shadow behind her.
The figure dodged it and Anko cursed.
"Who's there! Show yourself!" Anko yelled. She was enjoying her evening and was on her way to meet up with someone. A special someone."Come out now!"
Sasuke slowly approached the woman from the shadows. Looking very ominous to Anko.
"Oh it's the Uchiha brat," scoffed Anko,"you could've used the door you know."
"This is a very classified mission. I can't be seen walking around." Sasuke explained. He takes his missions very seriously and knew he couldn't fail no matter what.
"Well you made quite an entrance that's for sure," Anko muttered. She never took a liking for the young adult and she still viewed him as a child. Even though he received the curse mark from Orochimaru just like her, she didn't understand what was up with the kid. "So get to it, what do you want?"
"I just want to talk," Sasuke said with his stone hard face.
"Huh? Okay what's up, you emo brat." Anko asked.
Sasuke remained uneffected by the comment. He had no idea what emo meant. Did it mean handsome or maybe sexy? Many woman obsessed over him so he was used to this but not from older women. He smirked. "Sorry I'm not interested. Besides I'm here to match you with someone else."
"What are you talking about, Uchiha! You better spit it out. You're really testing my patience and I can take you down right here if I wanted to." Anko threatened with pride.
"Just come with me." Sasuke ordered, he refused to touch people so he gestured for her to follow him.
"I'm not going anywhere till I know where I'm going! And I'm not taking orders from a brat like you!" Anko yelled. She was angry now and was itching to punch the boy in the face.
"Naruto." Sasuke said calmly.
"Got it Sasuke!" Naruto said while putting a bag over Anko's face.
And the last thing Anko saw was the Uchiha's unwavering face but what was that in his eye? Was that a twinkle of mischief? And then there was darkness.
"Teme! We make a good team don't we ni?" Naruto said after he had tied the bag.
"Dobe, just bring the woman with us. We don't want to be caught." Sasuke warned. He didn't want to admit it, but he did think they were a great team.
"Next stop! The Hokage's office!" Shouted Naruto.
"Dobe! What did I tell you about not being caught!" Sasuke whispered covering Naruto's mouth.
"Well I think it's time for me to take a break." Kakashi sighed to himself and stretched his arms. "Time to take a visit to my favorite medical ninja."
Kakashi smiled to himself and headed out of his office, making sure to lock the door and to bring along his book. On his way to the hospital, he took a detour to avoid the gaze of the villagers. He didn't want them to know about his daily visits to the hospital. However, little did he know that his two students also knew of this detour.
"Dobe, do you have the bag?" Asked Sasuke. He was getting tired of lugging around the snake lady's body.
"Yeah yeah, Sasuke-teme! I've got this one!" Naruto said with a playful grin.
"Sexy no jutsu!"
"Naruto what do you want." Kakashi asked and began to turn after hearing his former students voice, but that was the end of him. He passed out from his nose bleed.
"Told you Sasuke-temeee." Said Naruko. And he poofed back to himself. "Don't underestimate me!" He said laughing with his contagious sunny smile.
Sasuke smirked and the two hauled the bodies away.
Hatake Kakashi woke with a start. He had a sharp headache and didn't know where he was.
Oh yeah, he thought, I passed out after seeing something. What was it?
He was lying on the floor and then he heard noises. Reaching for his kunai in his back pouch, he realized that his bag was gone. He resorted to activating his sharingan. Just then, two ominous figures threw a woman ontop of Kakashi. It appeared that she had just woken up from passing out. When Kakashi got a better look at her, he realized with horror that the woman was none other than Anko Miturashi. Her hands were on his chest and she looked very aggravated. Kakashi blinked. Anko blinked.
"Dobe! You forgot the book!" Sasuke yelled at Naruto.
"Oh yeah the book!" Naruto exclaimed while throwing Kakashi's icha icha book which hit their sensei right in the head. His headache was even more severe than before.
"Have fun you two! Don't get too crazy!" Naruto laughed with a blush. And with that the two slammed the door.
Leaving Kakashi and Anko alone with Anko ontop of Kakashi making the two feel very uncomfortable.
"Well, Anko I'm sorry about this situation we are in." Kakashi began nervously,"I swear I didn't plan any of this! So please promise me you won't tell Yama-.." Bam
Anko punched him in the face before he could finish. And with that, Kakashi blacked out for the second time that day.
"Gomenasai!"
"Gomen."
Kakashi kept his eyes closed but heard his two former students apologizing. Why were they apologizing? Where was he? All he knew was that he was exhausted.
"Yeah yeah! Get out both of you! You've caused enough damage as there is! Besides you should be apologizing to Kakashi and Anko not me."
S-Shizune? Why was she here? Kakashi thought. Where am I?
He shot his eyes opened and attempted to get up but was rewarded with a painful head ache. Just what had happened? He noticed he was in a hospital bed.
"Don't push yourself, Kakashi-kun!" Shizune warned. "You two get out!" The medic yelled at the two young men. This terrified the two and they ran out of the room as fast as they could. Kakashi watched with horrified eyes.
"And you! What were you exactly doing with Anko-san?" Shizune asked. Kakashi looked deep into her eyes and saw hurt and betrayal in them. Something he never wanted her to feel. "And you know that Yamato-san will be very angry if he hears that you did something with her! And all your visits to the hospital! I actually thought you cared about me?" She yelled. By then there were tears forming in her eyes. Being the shinobi she was, she knew she could not cry. She had forced herself to take control of her emotion during the war because emotions will only get in the way.
Kakashi let her vent and remained silent until she was done. "Thank you for healing me." He said.
"Yeah whatever. It's just my job. After all you are the Hokage." Shizune spat. Kakashi had never seen her so angry. He feared that they weren't going to be the same as they were before.
"No," he said slowly, "thank you for healing my heart." Shizune took a quick intake of breath as Kakashi continued,"As you know, everyone dear to me has gone and died. My father, my sensei, Rin, Obito. I thought that I would not be able to love ever again. My heart was slowly closing and refusing to let people in. But then, you came along and helped me find my way. Thank you, Shizune. I don't know what happened before I blacked out, but I can tell you that I would never look at anyone else but you. Because I really care about you." Kakashi said gently with a smile behind his mask. He looked at her like she was the most beautiful person in the world with her scrubs on and her hair tied up.
Before she knew it, she grabbed hold of Kakashi and hugged him tightly, allowing herself to finally cry.
"Awwwww how sweet! Kakashi-san!" Inomi sighed dreamily.
"Wow.. Otousan is so dense.." Akiko muttered, "at least it worked out in the end.."
"Yes, but that wasn't even the worst of it," Kakashi said rubbing the back of his head.
"Really? Who are the others that had it worse?" Asked Akiko with curiosity. She really wanted to know all the people that her dad had messed with.
"Like I said before, it's not my place to say. Well it's my time to go so, see ya." And with that Kakashi left in a poof.
"Akiko, who else do you think your dad affected?" Asked Inomi.
"I dunno... But Im gonna figure this ou-..." Akiko was cut off when she saw a gorgeous 19 year old who goes by the name of Hyuga Nori. Nori's father was Neji Hyuga, a man who had died protecting his friend and cousin. All say that he died with the honor of being called a genius and that the war was successful because of him. Nori inherited his father's byakugon, but his skin was tan like his mothers and his hair a chestnut brown. He wore the traditional Hyuuga attire - a flowing white robe along with matching pants. His long, silky brunette hair complemented his skin and clothing nicely, Akiko mentally noted as her cheeks gradually grew warmer.
All the girls in the village adored him and the mothers talked very highly of him. They all said that TenTen should be very proud to have a great son like him, and proud she was.
"Nori! Hi!" Yelled Inomi with a slight blush on her cheeks.
Akiko waved her hand shyly while Nori waved back. However, he left without talking to the two girls.
"Wow he's so hot! Do you know I heard my mom talking about him to my dad? She thinks he would make a fine husband, but my dad said it's too troublesome to think of something like that so soon." Inomi explained and winked at Akiko, "I know that look Akiko. You likeeee him don't you?"
"E-ehh! Shut up! Let's go home. I want to find out more about my ottousan's matchmaking!" Akiko muttered while walking home with her best friend.
Thank you again for reading! Be prepared for more chaos in th enext chapter which includes our favorite lazy Nara! R&R please!
