Just a short one-shot that I couldn't stop thinking about when I should have been sleeping. Of course, nothing belongs to me.
Hatake Kakashi was a very lucky man.
Of course, part of his luck was the fact that his wife wore next to nothing to bed – the blankets she alternately hogged and pushed away as she tossed and turned only haphazardly covered her body. To her credit as a kunoichi, she had developed the remarkable ability to do this in complete silence. She often joked that her greatest skill as a ninja was her capacity to steal an entire town's worth of blankets whilst unconscious. Not that Kakashi minded his wife's thrashing, of course; he relished the mornings when he woke to her clinging to his ramrod straight form, her leg slung across his and her face burrowed into his shoulder.
"Hmmmm?" she murmured.
"I didn't say anything."
"You were thinking something, and interrupted my sleep." There it was, that light, teasing tone that used to so irritate him in their genin days, which could now only serve to make him smile softly.
"I was just thinking," he imitated, "that I have to meet my new genin team today. I'm sure that there's an old lady who needs help crossing the whole of Konoha before I do so."
"Does the old lady, by any chance, need to navigate the road of life? You're going to need new excuses soon, or people will stop pretending to believe you. For example, maybe you could say that your harpy of a wife demanded you stay and have a proper breakfast for once."
"Only if I make it. Don't think I forgot the laxative incident. If I'd been any less paranoid at that age I would have completely fallen for it."
"Jerk," she huffed as she glared at him, "I was twelve. How many ways do I have to apologise before you agree to never bring it up again?"
He gave her a lazy smile as he kissed the corner of her mouth.
"When it stops being fun, of course."
Yes, he thought as he wrapped an arm around her and held her close, I'm a very lucky man indeed.
What do you think? I want to expand this into a long series of one shots, developing the characters a little more, but honestly I have no idea how I'm gonna do it.
Edit: I have no idea what went wrong with the formatting before! Hopefully it's been fixed now and people can actually read it without having to sift through all the p class stuff.