Chapter One; A New Father
The rain was pouring down heavily outside. Kakashi Hatake was fast asleep upstairs inside his bed. That was until he woke up to the sound of someone pounding on top of his door. Kakashi opened his eyes and stopped himself mid snore before he got up to investigate what the noise was all about. He walked downstairs and opened the door to find a tiny baby wrapped up inside of a blanket and sleeping inside a basket. He had a head full of blonde hair and tiny marks on both of his cheeks.
Kakashi suddenly found himself in quite a state of confusion until he saw that an envelope was neatly tucked under the baby's left arm. He picked it up and tore it open before starting to read the note out loud to himself. "Dear Kakashi, please take care of my godson Naruto. His father and his dead and his mother abandoned him with me but I can't afford to raise him myself. He has the mark of the Red-Tailed Fox, so since most everyone in this village despises him, he'll need someone to love him." Kakashi looked back down at Naruto since the note had ended there, and there was absolutely no trace of a signature.
"You've got to be kidding me." He said to himself since he knew that he wasn't the fatherly type. That's when suddenly the baby opened his bright blue eyes and looked up at him. Kakashi had to admit, he was rather adorable, and he looked just like he had remembered the boy's father to have looked like. He picked up the basket and carried the baby boy inside before quietly closing the door behind him. Kakashi threw out the note when suddenly the tiny infant began to cry.
That's when he realized that he was nowhere prepared to take care of a baby since he didn't have the kinds of supplies that he needed. "Alright Naruto, just calm down. I'm going to call you a sitter and then go out to the store to pick you up some food and diapers." He began. "I just hope that Guy doesn't mind that I'm waking him up at this hour of the night." He muttered to himself as he sat the baby basket on top of the dining room table and then walked over to pick up the phone.
Guy wasn't really all that pleased that Kakashi had woken him up just after he was able to fall asleep, (he had a two year old son of his own that was afraid of the dark) but since he was a friend of his, he agreed to watch Naruto while Kakashi went off to the store. He made sure to get enough formula and grabbed an extra set of diapers just in case before he went back home. Afterwards he made Naruto his formula and tested a bit of it on his arm to make sure that it was just the right temperature before he picked him up and sat down with it to feed it to him.
He couldn't believe how adorable Naruto was while he suckled his milk down from the nipple hungrily before he gave a small belch when he had finished. Kakashi also couldn't understand why everyone basically hated him. Even though he had the mark of the Nine-Tailed Fox inside of him, Kakashi loved him at once and decided then and there that he would be his father and try to raise the boy as best as he could no matter what. He might not have known much about being a father, but he loved him nonetheless and at least neither of them would be alone. He knew that they had each other.
However, as time grew on this became to be more of a challenge than Kakashi originally thought. For as Naruto grew older, he became even more of a handful to his adopted father. When he was two years old, he would constantly throw temper tantrums if he didn't get his own way, and he would frequently try to run away from his father when he tried to get him to use the toilet. Naruto would just run through the house butt naked as his father chased him through the house with his diaper. Then when he finally stopped he would have a little accident on the rug.
When Naruto started kindergarten, none of the other kids would talk to him or play with him. He just sat down on top of the swing by himself crying as he got dirty looks and glares from their parents. One night Naruto decided to talk to his father about the kinds of problems that he had been having. "Papa, why does everyone hate me?" he asked him while he tucked his son into bed. "I don't care what everyone thinks, I'll always love you no matter what." His father answered as he bent down and kissed his forehead. "Now go to sleep." He told him.
"Alright." Naruto answered sleepily with a yawn before rolling over onto his side. Kakashi smiled down at him before he walked over to the light switch and turned it off. A tear rolled down Naruto's cheek as he left the room and quietly shut the door behind him. "I wish I had a friend." Naruto whispered to himself before he slowly drifted off to sleep.