A/N: I want everyone who plans on reading this through to know that there are some very sensitive themes ahead. These include attempted RAPE, MISOGYNY, attempted MURDER, STALKING, DARK OBSESSION and YANDERE actions. You have been warned.
To anyone that didn't know Kakashi Hatake, one would think he was waiting, cool as cucumbers and calmer than a creek. It was not the case.
A certain Might Guy watched his eternal rival with riveted attention. Since Tsunade had suggested it, Guy knew that it hadn't left Kakashi's mind.
A surrogate mother.
Too afraid to take a permanent lover and by this point wholly unwilling to find and unwanting of an eternal mate, the suggestion the previous Hokage had hinted at had torn the collected man to bits on the inside.
Guy knew his best friend craved company. However, it wasn't a taking kind of relationship he wanted, but a needed kind.
Kakashi Hatake wanted a baby. He had gone through many lengths and spared no expense in finding a surrogate mother who would give birth to his heir or heiress. The woman he had sought and chosen was a woman of natural pale complexion, much like he himself, but with luscious blue eyes and hair that was so darkly red that it was black. She was a beautiful woman and it had taken copious amounts of money and free care and lodging for her to agree. Without question, Kakashi had agreed and signed off on the paperwork. Even if this woman would want the baby after she had it, she would have no legal right to it. It was a Hatake, and with a Hatake it would stay. Guy knew Kakashi would die before he saw that soon-to-be little one taken from him.
That lead them to where they were now.
Kakashi didn't look nervous, no. But he was.
"Guy?"
"What is it, Kakashi?"
"What do you think it'll be? Boy or girl?"
Guy grinned. "With your luck? A spunky little girl."
The Hatake looked at the hospital room's door wistfully. "What do you think she'll look like?"
"Probably a lot like you, my Eternal Rival." Guy smiled brightly, wrapping an arm around his tense friend.
"You're worrying for nothing." Tenzou said from Kakashi's other side. "Boy, girl, light or dark. They'll be yours and that's all that matters."
"Don't tell me I missed it!"
Naruto burst through the door at the end of the hall, speeding up to them.
Tsunade came out of the room then. In a flash, Kakashi was on his feet, his Sharingan alight. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." The older woman said, her grin brightening the room. In her arms was a baby swaddled in a plushy pink blanket. "Congratulations, Kakashi. You're now the father of a brilliant baby girl."
With shaking arms and no small amount of reverence, Kakashi took the small thing in his arms. The pink monstrosity shifted, revealing a little face that had wiry white hair splayed across its head. The little thing squirmed, onyx eyes opening to stare up at her father, hands worming out of the blanket to grasp at his fingers.
"She's beautiful." Naruto smiled over his sensei's shoulder, happy for the elder man. Guy made kissy faces over his other shoulder and Tenzou just looked at her, stunned and happy.
"Hello, Nakasha." Kakashi said at last, dropping the mask to kiss his daughter. "I've been waiting for you."
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Kakashi, for all of the solo work he'd returned to in ANBU since his team's maturity, had more money than he knew what to do with. Once Nakasha arrived, however, Kakashi disappeared off the roster.
He'd taken indefinite leave for raise his daughter properly until she could function mostly on her own inside of Konoha without help.
As it was, he was now browsing a shopping district, looking for bananas. He wanted to liquify them so that Nakasha could try them. She'd loved every food so far, so he wasn't too concerned about her disapproving of the fruit.
"Hey, Kakashi. I saw you were taken off of the roster. What gives?"
The Copy Nin looked up, finding a normal-looking woman standing next to him. "Anita, what a pleasure. I haven't seen you since I hired the surrogate."
"Surrogate?"
"Tenzou never told you?" He asked, eyebrow raised. "Strange. Yes, I hired a surrogate mother for my baby girl."
"Has she had the baby yet?"
Kakashi twisted a little more, showing off his eight-month old girl. She laughed loudly and reached out to the woman. "Hello!"
"Wow, she can speak already?" Anita lowered herself to the baby girl's level and grinned brightly. "Hello to you too, sweetheart. What's your name?"
"Na-ka-sha." She replied slowly, but smiled once she came up with the answers. "You, Miss?"
"Kakashi, I'd have never thought you capable of manners." The ANBU teased. He shrugged, but smiled.
"Who'd have thought it."
"Your name now, please." Nakasha called the attention back to her. "Name."
"Anita. I'm Tenzou's lover."
"Unky Tenzou?" The little thing squealed in delight. "I love Unky Tenzou!"
"She does adore the man." Kakashi agreed, propping his daughter up on his hip. "More than me sometimes."
Nakasha looked horrified. "No! No! I love you dis much!" The little thing flung open her arms. "I jus' love Unky Tenzou too."
Kakashi pouted at her. "Are you sure?"
"Yes!" She hugged him as tightly as she could, which was a considerable amount of pressure, and kissed his clothes. "I love you most."
"That's cute." Anita cooed. "I came to beat some sense back into you and tell you that your team is missing you, but I see you're occupied."
"I'll swing by tomorrow and introduce her." He pet his baby girl's hair. "See ya 'round."
Anita smiled and left, throwing one last glance over her shoulder to see Kakashi place a small kiss on his daughter's lips. She squealed, laughing happily and kissing him back. Tenzou had been worried. She would lay his fears to rest.
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Kakashi's team applauded when Nakasha waddled unsteadily in their direction.
"I'm walking!" The little girl cried out in joy, right before she set to topple. Guy caught her hand, helping her stay upright. Tenzou cooed at her, unable to express his want of a little one to match. Even as Anita smiled beside him, he knew it wasn't an option. According to what he'd been able to drag out of her, she'd already tried to have a baby with a previous lover. It had turned out disastrously and the woman was too terrified to try again.
"Hello, Unky Tenzou!" Nakasha grinned, waddling over to him and falling onto his lap with a startled giggle. "You caught me!"
"I did?" He laughed, tickling her. Like Kakashi, she responded with aggressive passion. Her chortles and ecstatic and fervent giggling echoed in the small bunk room, making all of the ANBU nin smile affectionately.
"She's beautiful." Guy said softly. Since her birth, Guy had been assigned half of the missions that Kakashi normally took and had been gone a considerable amount of time with just enough in Konoha to report and crash before starting all over again.
"Thank you." It didn't take a genius to figure out that Kakashi was exorbitantly proud of his little one. He would do anything for her, and it was no mystery. "I think I'm going to start her training when she's four."
"Yeah?" Guy looked at his friend. "Isn't that a little soon?"
"Perhaps, but I'd rather she be strong, even if she decides she doesn't want to be a ninja." Kakashi looked to the clock on the wall. "Sorry to break up the fun, guys, but I need to take her home to feed her."
"Do you have to?" Tenzou pouted.
Kakashi laughed. "You're almost as bad as her."
Tenzou made puppy-dog faces at Kakashi even after the man left the room. "I know you can feel them!"
"I can!" Kakashi called back right before the door to the main building closed. "But I'm not bringing her back today!"
A/N: I would like to point out a few things for the people who'll be reading this. At the time of writing, many of the recent revelations in the Naruto manga weren't out yet. So, Kakashi still has his Sharingan and Naruto's eye-regrowing-power-thingy doesn't exist in here.
