Chapter 2: Gai knowing a secret isn't a secret at all
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After his students left, Kakashi was left with the task of trying to get little Sayu to sleep.
Not an easy task.
Being inexperienced in handling children, the silver haired nin struggled to hold the squirming baby still. She began to whine after a while and though she kept wriggling about in Kakashi's arms, it was blatantly obvious she was tired- her eyelids were drooping after all- and yet she refused to sleep.
It hadn't even been a day yet and already Kakashi was weary of the child. He walked around his apartment carrying her and when he caught sight of his appearance in a mirror he looked to see how awkward and uncomfortable the child looked in his arms. Maybe that was why she wasn't sleeping yet.
Adjusting Sayu's position in his arms until it looked somewhat comfortable, he held her close to his chest. With the change of events, she stopped whining but still mumbled incoherent things. Kakashi just continued walking around the house, creating a steady rhythm of footsteps and eventually, the little girl fell asleep.
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The morning after, Kakashi stood in a supermarket. In the aisle of baby products.
He wanted to get items he might need at a crucial time *cough* diaper changing *cough* before they actually happened. His students were with him in the aisle. While Sakura helped her sensei, Naruto and Sasuke were just standing around amused with the situation because a well-known ninja with a baby in the store was just calling for trouble. Sasuke's chaos senses were tingling. And boy, were they tingling. He almost smirked in anticipation. But he was an Uchiha. Uchihas don't do such things.
Kakashi just wanted to get the things he needed and leave immediately. Many people came to the supermarket, including shinobi. If any of them saw him with the bundle in his arms… He didn't even want to think about what would happen.
Of course life wasn't so simple for him at this point in his life, because then and there, came the next little hitch in his plan.
"KAKASHI, MY ETERNAL RIVAL!"
"The silver haired nin groaned inwardly and muttered.
"Please don't tell me that's who I think it is…"
"Okay, Kakashi-sensei, I won't." Sakura replied with a grin. "Morning Gai sensei!"
This time though it was Lee who replied.
"Morning, oh beautiful cherry blossom!"
Sakura cringed and Kakashi hurriedly tried to get away before they recognized the form in his arms. Though at the point where he turned away, Gai was there holding his shoulder.
"Kakashi, what is that youthful baby in your arms?!"
Ah, too late.
"Well, you see…"
For once in his life Gai actually looked serious about what he was asking and was patiently waiting for an answer.
Though Naruto was highly amused by the situation, he knew a problem when he saw one.
"It's a mission we have for today! We have to look after her for just one day!"
'Sometimes even Naruto can have his spark of brilliance.' Kakashi sighed in relief as Gai nodded in understanding.
"But I don't recall there ever being missions of looking after youthful babies like that one!"
Then again, so can Gai.
Sakura looked panicked now and she looked quickly to Kakashi who was itching to leave the area. He made eye contact with each student, conveying a silent message.
They seemed to understand what he wanted. So after nodding his head, he cracked an eye-smile. "Gotta go!"
Then he poofed away into safety.
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Back at his apartment, Kakashi knew he was royally screwed. The biggest loudmouth in Konoha knew of Sayu. Before long, the entire village would know and that will not be a nice time for him to handle.
He sighed and then heard a knock on the door. Feeling several chakra spikes outside his door and confirming it was his students, he opened the door. They had gotten him what he needed.
"You owe us, Kakashi sensei. You're treating us next time we go out eating," Sakura pointed out, dropping the bags on the table with the baby basket.
"Yes, yes, of course." He replied absent mindedly.
"You do know that the whole village will know by tomorrow, right?" Sasuke said, trying to hide a growing smirk.
"Don't remind me." The silver haired nin frowned under his mask. "It's a miracle Tsunade hasn't called for me yet."
"Relax! It won't be so bad!" Naruto sais, trying to console the silver haired nin.
"That's what you think…"
"I mean, I'm actually enjoying this. And it looks like she likes you already."
The group peered at the baby who gave a gummy smile in return. Naruto chuckled before a question popped up in his mind.
"How old do you think she is anyway?"
Sakura pondered for a second before looking closer at Sayu. "Judging from her size I'd say more or less four months," the pinkette replied.
"Four months? She's pretty big for four months."
"She average. Her mother must have fed and looked after her well."
"That reminds me… why would her mother leave her now if she was taking care of her so well?"
"Beats me," Sakura shrugged. "But I reckon that something must've happened. Something so terrible she had to give the child away."
"But to a shinobi? They rarely have time for themselves and looking after a kid is tough work." Naruto frowned.
"Especially if you're one of the villages most known shinobi." Sasuke pointed out.
Kakashi listened to his students back and forth questions and statements. It was true that he rarely had time for himself, but in all honesty, looking after a child wasn't that bad.
It just wasn't his.
And the problems that came with things like this, especially since the kid popped out of nowhere, would cause so much trouble. Already his students were firm believers that he had a fling with some woman and Sayu was the result.
"Maybe, it was someone Kakashi-sensei knew the woman a long time ago and… she thought he'd be a good person to help her." Sakura thought out loud.
"Pfft, yeah right. I highly doubt that." Naruto laughed. "Kakashi-sensei and women just don't work!"
The jounin just pretended not to have heard that last sentence.
"Maybe we should see Tsunade and tell her before things get out of hand." Sakura voiced once again.
"Why? That is a terrible idea." Naruto frowned.
"Well, if Tsunade-sama gives Kakashi a mission, who's going to look after Sayu?" Sakura reasoned with the blonde.
"Us, of course!"
"And what if we have to go with him?" Sasuke asked.
"…"
"Tch, Dobe."
"You see? I say we report it to Tsunade."
And before Kakashi knew it, he was being dragged off to see someone, probably the last person he'd want to see right now, to discuss baby issues.
Just great.
A/N: Hey, how's it going? Thanks to the reviewers and I'm sorry it took so long to update buuut my pc's harddrive crashed, and it's really not nice. So yeah.
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