For future refrence..Kakashi is supposed to be 27 or 28 in this story, though really he'd technically be 30 because this is playing out in Shippuden, but I thought the older he is, the more creepy it'd be to have a kid live with him.
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~Mission~
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The early morning sun reflected off of the smooth surface of the memorial stone along with the dew on the grass. This was Kakashi's favorite time to visit his team-mates and the Fourth, not only was there a serious lack of people, but it was also quiet and peaceful with the birds chirping away in the trees.
"Pakkun has been perstering me again," He spoke to the stone, "He's even gotten the others to start doing it too...They just won't leave me alone,"
It's been little over a week since the incident with the little girl at the hospital and Kakashi had been trying to forget about it so he could get on with more important things, but his Ninken (ninja hounds) had kept insisting that he go visit her in the hospital to at least apologize for acting the way he did, how Pakkun even found out about what he had done was a mystery, it was strange seeing them so trusting of a person none of them had even met.
What was even stranger was that Pakkun had been dissapearing early in the morning and returning smelling of dissinfectant later in the afternoon, When he would yet again tell him to go to the hospital.
But he refused, coming up with excuse after excuse as to why he couldn't/wouldn't do it.
From "I have to go train" to "I got lost on the way to the hospital" even he thought the last one was a little pathetic.
Hell that was what the entire situation was, she was only a kid so why did going to the hospital to get say I'm sorry seem so impossible?
It wasn't like he tried didn't try, boy did he try, but everytime he stepped up to the front desk. His mouth suddenly stopped working and he either got an ache in his heart or he felt unbelievable rage.
And who wants to talk to a child when their pissed off for no reason?
"What?..." He paused as if he was giving somebody else a chance to speak, "You think I should go?," he sounded suprised.
Not as suprised as the ninja that was walking up behind him, "Um, Kakashi?," At the sound of his voice Kakashi quickly turned on his heel to face him.
"Izumo?..What are you doing here?,"
"lady Tsunade asked me to come get you...What where you doing just now?,"
The jounin sweated, "Nothing, just forget everything you saw,"
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The little ninja hound Pakkun dropped off of the roof of the hospital onto an outstretched balcony that was attached to the window of a room, to him it wasn't very smart to put that there, but it did make for an easy entrance.
Thanks to his strong hearing Pakkun listened through the crack in the open window, his ears perked up as he waited for the sound of the nurses quick moving footsteps to vanish. Once they did he pawed at the crack until it was large enough to squeeze through.
He hopped down onto a stool positioned right under the plate glass then sat. His large black eyes staring strait ahead. His little nose twitching at the air.
This had been his designated spot for the past week. He came here everyday - leaving after a few hours so Kakashi wouldn't get suspicious-, in his time here he had explained to the girl what summoning animals where -she didn't have any clue about any of it- and he also learned alot about her.
One thing was her name. Kimiko. Pakkun thought it was fitting for such a cute little human pup. Very gentle and pleasing to the ears.
"Penny for your thoughts?," Tsunade walked out from behind the curtain that divided the room and hid the girl on the other side from the small dogs view.
Yes he told the Godaime(sp?) about what was going on. She wasn't suprised when he told her about Kakashi's actions and what he had said when he came home that night, considering how the child looks.
"Did you send for Kakashi?," Pakkun leaped from his perch and trotted over to the curtain as Tsunade drew it back, revealing the girl sitting up in the bed covered in heavy blankets, her brown eyes lit up with excitment when she spotted the little creature.
"I did ,he should be here any moment," Tsunade answered watching Pakkun struggle a little to get onto the high mattress.
Even after a week of training he still couldn't do it in one leap, very deflating to ones ego.
Belied his size the dog did managed to get his way onto the bed where Kimiko began to fiddle with his headband and play with his soft paws, something he happened to love.
When her pale hand rose to pet the spot in between his ears a large cloud of smoke filled the room. Tsunade strided over to the sorce of the cloud.
Typical man always poofing in, was it really that much trouble to use the door?
"Good morning Kakashi," Tsunade nodded to him.
He nodded back, "Good morning Lady Tsunade, you wanted to see me?," he kept his gaze on the blond, he could sense the chakra of his ninja hound from outside, so he had a hunch as to what was going on the second he arrived at the front doors.
If it wasn't for Izumo being with him he would have high tailed it back to his team mate and sensei. Stupid guard.
"Yes...seeing as you ran off last time you where here, I'll get you back for that soon," the last words came out low enough for only Pakkun and Kakashi to hear, "I wasn't able to tell you what I wanted to...Firstly, this is Kimiko Sukima,"
Kakashi looked over her head at the child.
The bandages that she had around her neck and arms had been taken off a few days before hand, showing off ugly looking pink scars on her flesh.
Kimiko looked up and gave a closed smile but remained silent, not wanting to anger him like she had done the last time they where in the same room together. He was scary.
Much to the man's suprise he didn't get upset like he thought he would, so he was able to give a smile back, sort of.
"Hello, I'm Kakashi Hatake, I'm sorry I wasn't able to properly introduce ourselves last time we met," The girl nodded to him signaling that she understood before going back to playing with the happy canine.
"Second, you and she will be spending lots of time together, since she is part of the mission I have assigned to you,"
The jounin blinked at her, "But I'm not completely healed yet," that was the oldest trick in Kakashi's thousand page book. Best used for getting out of D and C rank missions and clean up duty around the village.
"Don't try that on me, your chakra is back to normal levels and you can get dressed by yourself. So this mission is perfectly fit for you..You see Kimiko is a bit lost," Tsunade paused.
"Lost? So you want me to help in locating her family?," It would be a good way to apologize.
"There in lies the problem," The little ninja dog spoke up.
"The sire name that the girl gave us has turned up some interesting findings..You see, the Sukima clan dissapeared during the third great shinobi war,"
(A/N: No Kimiko's clan isn't dead..What happened to them will be explained in later chapters :D)
"What do you mean by dissapeared?,"
"They just vanished off the face of the earth in one night, even our best Hunter nin couldn't track down a single member...So either she's lying about her last name or-,"
"Or she's been alone for a long time," Pakkun finnished her sentence.
Kimiko heard them talking and pressed her lips together in a fine line, trying to hold in her sniffles. The summoning creature didn't notice.
"Lady Tsunade..I don't really understand, What exactly is my mission?," He was much to eager for Tsunade's tastes.
"We need someone to take care of her, Sakura can't do it because she, Naruto, Sai, And Yamato are out on a long mission. No one on Kurenai's team can do it and I'm sure their families would scare the poor child to death,"
Kakashi, Pakkun and Shizune sweated, that was true but it didn't make that blunt statement any less err- blunt
"Shikamaru is away and his mother is bitch," More sweat fell, "Choji's family is considering it ,I've been in contact with Inoichi, his family seems willing to take her but they can't take her in just yet. And every other team is either away on a mission, in the hospital for their own injuries or are unfit to care for a child,"
Might Gai fell into the last catagory..he was the only one aside from Naruto.
"Just what are you getting at?," She wasn't thinking what he thought she was, right?
Tsunade completely ignored him, "And neither I nor Shizune can do it because I am leader and she is my much needed assistant so we need our beauty sleep,"
Kakashi's dark eye widened,"Wait you're not-,"
"Therefore I have assigned you, Kakashi Hatake the mission of being this girls care taker until the Yamanaka clan can fulfill their duties," The words left her mouth slowly as if each letter was like a fine bottle of sake' with a taste to be savored.
"But I can't take care of a child! I can't even keep a pot plant alive!," Kakashi barked loudly.
This was immediatly met with a golden glare, if he wasn't careful he knew this would be a repeat of that one time, only it would end in blood shed instead of dog slobber. (it's a long story)
"I've already reminded her of that , but she's made up her mind, I'm sorry," Shizune said.
she knew Tsunade wasn't going to change her mind about her decision, she's stubborn, one thing she and the copy-nin had in common, so there wasn't any point in arguing.
"Oh hush Shizune, there's nothing to be sorry about, Kakashi you are more than capable of housing her for a little while, All you have to do is make sure she's clean, buy her clothes, take her to the hospital if she needs to go, and feed her everyday.." The Slug sannin turned away and headed towards the door, "Besides, you'll be getting paid so don't worry about money,"
She walked out of the door quickly followed by Shizune and the little pig TonTon.
when they where gone, Pakkun glared at Kakashi out of the corner of his large black eyes, silently telling him to speak up now or face his wrath later.
"Look...Um, I apologize for what I did last time, I had alot on my mind," His apology was met with a cold silence, "...I'm going to be taking care of you for a little while," more silence, "we're going to be leaving soon, you're being discharged as we speak..Do you have anything here that you want to take with you?,"
Kimiko shook her head "No," she muttered.
"Are you sure?,"
She nodded.
"Alright then I'll leave you to get dressed," Kakashi shoved his hands in his pockets and turned on his heel, "I'm waiting in the hall when you're done. Come Pakkun,"
Pakkun's jowl twitched at the treatment, "Fine, fine,"
Kakashi gently closed the door after Pakkun followed him out, "How could you?," his tone suggested he was feeling a little betrayed.
"I did what I had to...I did what I think is right," the dog drooped his head down regardless of his self assuring words.
"But you did it behind my back..You where able to speak my name at only four months old..I thought we could tell each other about anything,"
"You make it sound like we're an old married couple," A dry chuckle followed up the last words.
The ninja narrowed his eye unapprovingly, "Pakkun," he growled.
Pakkun grunted in response.
The door slid open and Kimiko stepped out with a shy blush, the two ninja knew why too, the clothes had been leant by Ino and despite being a bit droopy, where still kind of un-proper for a girl of her stature and age.
"Well," Kakashi cleared his throat, "Let's go,"
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"Would you back off?," Kakashi asked his ninja hounds with a bored look.
Kimiko was practically shaking as she stood under the intense gazes of the pack of niken surrounding her. Pakkun had told them about the girl, how could they pester Kakashi if he didn't, but unlike him none of them had actually met her, so they eagerly greeted the brunnette when she and Kakashi walked through the door.
'It was like they knew this was going to happen,' The masked nin thought as he watched.
"Hi, hi,hi,hi,hi,hi,hi,hi,hi,hi," The bandaged hound, Uhei, repeated circling around her.
"U-um, Hi," she hesitantly reached down to pat his head when he passed by for sixteenth time.
"I wouldn't do that if I was you, little lady," The hound wearing round black glasses spoke in a 'cool' tone.
"E-eh? Why not?," Kimiko asked pulling her hand back to her chest.
"He's a little hyper, might just bite your hand off if you're not careful,"
"Akino quit scaring the poor girl, we all know if anyone is dangerous it would be you. obnoxious biggot," The little yellow droopy eyed dog, Bisuke, 'Tsked'in a condecending tone.
"Bastard!,"
"Come on guys no fighting around Kimiko," Kakashi scolded.
The two Niken drooped their heads, "Sorry," the muttered together, sending each other sparking glares right after.
"What am I going to do with you two?,"
Kimiko reached up and tugged on his sleeve, immediatly releasing it once she had his attention, "W-would you mind telling me where the bathroom is?," she asked quietly.
"Aww (she's so cute)," the hounds cooed together.
"Down the hall second door on your right," Kimiko nodded and quickly walked down the hall.
"She's cute," Bull commented from his usual place on the sofa, "Reminds me of the girl you have in that picture frame,"
"Yeah..."
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"Well, this is an interesting development," A voice echoed through out the large open area of the inner workings of a cave settled inside of a steep mountain side.
"Yes..Who would've thought that somebody from the Sukima clan actually managed to escape back then. from what you told me, Their ''God'' sent them somewhere safe during the third great shinobi war," A lighter voice said, the shadowed figure it belonged to opened its ringed eyes.
The deeper voice grunted, "That was what happened, but for every tree that falls there is another that will soon take its place..I'm not quite sure if this is a true member of that clan or if this is somebody simply seeking attention,"
"How will you find out?,"
"We will infultrate the village," The other shadow stated simply.
"But sir, we've done that once before, certainly we won't be able to just watlz in, not now, not since Sasori was killed by his Grandmother and that pink haired girl,"
"Of course not! What do you take me for some kind of idiot?~!...We will do it undercover, the team to go into the village will consist of Itachi, Deidara and myself, while you, Hidan, Kakuzu and Zetsu will be back up,"
"Sir..What of Konan?," A third shadow appeared in the corner of the cavern, bright orange eyes cutting through the darkness.
"She's fine staying here..." The eyes closed, "After you tell the members of their mission they will all report here in the flesh for the full briefing,"
"This will be the first time ever all of them will be together in the flesh..Deidara will not be happy to see Itachi," The ringed eyed figure said.
"He's never happy.." The owner of the deeper voice grunted.
After a pregnant silence the ringed eyed shadow spoke again, "Shall I inform them now?,"
"By all means,"
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Kakashi watched the little girl smooth out the blanket on the futon he had set up for her in the living room, she was unrelenting as she folded over the edge of the cloth and crawled underneath.
Uhei jumped up to join her followed by the little white Urushi, both of them curled up nearly completely smothering the girl.
"Mr. Hatake," she peeped, her bright eyes looking over Uhei at him.
"Hm?,"
"I..Just wanted to apologize for bothering you last time..I'm sorry,"
"You didn't bother me...You just reminded me of someone from a long time ago,"
"Oh, who was that?," Kimiko asked curiously.
"It doesn't matter...They're long gone..." Kakshi turned to leave, "Night," he called over his shoulder.
"G'night,"
(Psychi-torment: 1 1/2 - Kakashi: 1/2)
TBC:TBC:TBC:TBC
('That One Time' Included a bucket of bacon grease on top of Kakashi's door :D)...See it's better...Sort of. Still moving too damn fast! but could be worse. right?
Inner: No It's pretty bad, one of the worst I've seen. *watches me float off to my dark corner*
Kakashi's Niken:
Uhei: The bandaged dog, I figured he'd be kind of hyper for some reason.
Bull: A large Bulldog. Big dogs are usually lazy, I would know I've had pitties that are so.
Urushi: He's white, don't know much else. So I gave him more of a droopy Emo personality.
Shiba: he's brown and white and has a crest of fur on his head. I deamed him the crazy one.
Bisuke: He's small and yellow and has droopy eyes. He seems like the smart one that speaks with big words. Just has that look.
Akino: He wears glasses :/. So I made him talk kind of like a suave Jazz singer ;D
Guruko: He wears a tiny forehead protector :D so he was the no non-sense pup, nothing but business.
Pakkun: You know what he looks like XD and you know what he acts like.
I suggest going to Naruto-Pedia if you want better desc. and want to know what their actual personalities are like.
Please review! They make me smile! And write better(ish) ~_^
Deidara: Ehh e_\/
JA~!