A/N: Owarii, gomen nasai for taking so long to update. I tend to do that. It's a vicious circle: Get overexcited, get bored, then get back to it. Kind of a curse. Oh, well.
Oh, Brother
Tsunade stared intently at the young man (who much more resembled a teen-ager) standing before her. Silver hair, fair skin, deep onyx eyes. He seemed a little shy, a little quiet.
Tsunade continued to stare at him intently until she was interrupted by a knock at the door.
"I know it's you, Kakashi. Get in here," she called in a stern voice.
As Kakashi entered, he saw the young man who had been standing in front of Tsunade.
"KOHAKU?!"
"Ah, so you do know who this is? Good, that saves me some time."
"Huh? That guy looks just like Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura said, looking from one man to the other.
"Yeah, what kind of sick joke is this?!" Naruto screamed, pointing at Kakashi.
Kakashi frowned (sort of).
"There's no joke," he said simply, "it's just that he's…"
"He's…?" Sakura motioned for him to continue.
Kakashi sighed. "He's Kohaku. And he's my brother."
"YOUR WHAT?!" Naruto and Sakura screamed, completely flabbergasted (heheh, I love that word).
"My brother."
As Naruto's poor, underworked brain tried to process this, Kakashi turned to his brother Kohaku, whom he hadn't seen in years.
"So, hello."
"Hello."
"It's been a while."
"It has."
They stared at each other for a while, perhaps getting used to 'looking in the mirror,' as their father used to call it.
"What a… happy reunion," Tsunade teased.
"Gee, you two are kind of conservative, huh?" Sakura asked, smiling.
Kakashi and Kohaku stared at her for a minute, then burst out laughing.
"Conservative?!" they laughed together. "Ok, ok, I get it, maybe I'm a tiny bit stiff today," Kakashi said.
"Kakashi, just hug your brother," Tsunade said, and Kakashi did so. Because you must always listen to the hokage, especially if she is Tsunade.
"Uhm, so," Kakashi started, " not to sound weird or anything, but, why are you here?"
"I, uh, well, someone…figured me out. Owarii," Kohaku said,
Kakashi gave him a weird look. "Figured you out? What are you…oh, I get it. It's all right. You couldn't keep that up forever, you know?"
"Well, yeah, but…"
"'Figured you out'? What the hell are you people even talking about?" Naruto asked, having just gotten over the whole 'brother incident' and confused yet again.
"Well, see," Kohaku started, "I left Konoha a few years ago, but I didn't want anyone to know who I was or where I was from. So, I went to Amegakure and pretended to have amnesia."
"Oh. But how did they figure you out?" Sakura asked.
"Well, I've never really been much of a ninja. I've never been very good with weapons," he said a little sheepishly. "But I've always liked making them."
Kakashi laughed a little. "Yes, I remember you were always folding swords out of paper."
"Right. So I opened a sword shop. Things were going fine, I even had enough spare time for my violin."
"Your violin?" Naruto aked, tilting his head to the side.
" Yes, I love playing the violin. Anyway, I usually work right in front of a fireplace, it's very convenient. One day, a customer thought that I looked too 'frail' or something to be right in front of the fireplace. He thought that I wasn't the owner, just an apprentice. I tried to convince him that he was wrong, but he wouldn't listen. He wanted to get a closer look at me, I guess, and wanted me to come over to the counter. His sword was ready anyway, so as I handed it to him, he took a good look at me. He said, 'You know, you look just like the White Fang of Konoha.'"
Flashback
"You know, you look just like the White Fang of Konoha," the man said. Kohaku became a little nervous, he knew that he looked like his father, but he didn't think that anyone would mistake him for the White Fang. "The who?" Kohaku said, trying to look confused. "The White Fang! You can't possibly not know who he is, you're…" the man stopped suddenly, having caught sight of the cord around Kohaku's neck. "What is that?" he said, reaching for it. He pulled it out before Kohaku could stop him. A beautiful azure pendant, with the Hatake clan symbol. "Hm. Just as I thought. The Hatake clan symbol." "What? No, I, it's just…" Kohaku frantically tried to think of an explanation. "Someone didn't have money and traded this for a blade."
"Then why haven't you sold it?" A logical question.
"Well, I, um…" but it was too late. Kohaku had been found out.
End Flashback
"So, you see, that's what happened."
Naruto and Sakura stared at Kohaku for a while.
"Wait a second," said Sakura, putting two and two together.
"Oh, no," Kakashi groaned. "You just had to tell them the story, too…"
"The White Fang would only have the Hatake clan symbol if he were a Hatake, and if he looks like Kakashi-sensei and Kohaku-san, that must mean…"
"White Fang-san had plastic surgery?" Take a wild guess as to who asked that.
"No, Naruto, it means that Sensei and the White Fang were related."
Kakashi let out a sigh of relief and said (a little too loudly) , "Oh, good, she thinks we're only related." Realizing what he just said, Kakashi tried to redeem himself with, "uh, I mean, sigh yes, we're related. I didn't want you to know because of the shame and so on, and so forth."
"How long have you had that prepared?" Kohaku laughed, fingering the pendant.
"Maybe a while," Kakashi said. "Anyway, you can stay with me, Haku, okay?"
"Kay."
The two Hatake brothers left for Kakashi's house (or apartment, whatever).
"Well," Tsunade said, "Don't you want to find out more?"
"Maybe…" Sakura said slowly (maybe she was trying to sound innocent?).
"Yeah, let's go, Sakura-chan!"
"How about tomorrow? I'm already tired…" Sakura said. "Bye, Tsunade-sama!"
"Yeah, later, Obaachan!" Naruto screamed as he ran out the door.
Tsunade could not help but smile.
That kid could be a nuisance sometimes.
"Almost worse than Jiraiya…" Tsunade said to herself as she got back to her paperwork.
A/N: What do think about the violin thing? Maybe I'm just too instrument obsessed!
Please R&R!