Title: Extended Family

Rating: M

Summary: Tedi and his escort get ready for his mission and Sakumo learns about Tedi's bloodline limit and extended family. Hari threatens life and limb of a Hyuga and Umino Ikuta gets a surprise. Hari and Sakumo play with Kakashi and Kakashi learns his ONCE (1st chakra exercise).

Warnings: Language,

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or Naruto. JK Rowling owns HP and Masashi Kishimoto owns Naruto.

Author Note: Thank you to my anonymous reviewer for correcting me on the translation for Konoha no Kamereon, and thanks to larkagurl2 for the correction in the Black/Kuroi, and Potter/Tōkō name translations :) And I was so sure that I had it right the first time *lol* Just a question, but do you guys like having the chapters as long as they are? I'm just curious because I've never actually written anything that I've decided to have a 5000 word per chapter minimum requirement before. :) I think it's going okay, even if there is a long time between updates.

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When Sakumo and Tedi returned to Hari's house after the Jounin meeting dragging along the Hyuga that had been assigned to be one of Tedi's escorts, Sakumo was surprised that Tedi asked him to stay for the briefing that the Tōkō's would be giving the Hyuga about their bloodline limit. He hadn't expected to be included; he'd know Tedi and Hari for three quarters of a year and most clans with bloodline limits would not consider that long enough for outsiders to be included in their family secrets.

Given how no one even knew what the Tōkō's could do, unlike the general knowledge of the Uchiha clan or Aburame clan or even the Hyuga clan, Sakumo was undoubtedly pleased to be included in the briefing. To be trusted by this family.

"What of Ikuta-kun?" Hari asked as they stood in a loose circle around the kotatsu in the living room, "Is he not also on your escort team?"

"Ikuta-san is still at the Hokage Tower, waiting for Izumi-chan to finish up her work. He said that he'd come by when she was done because she said that she had to talk to him about something," Tedi smirked just a little, "I think that Izumi-chan is pregnant." He'd noticed the change in her with his magic when she'd thrown herself on him before the meeting. Given that Konoha was a shinobi village, secrets like a pregnancy never lasted long so Tedi didn't feel at all bad about telling his father. That Sakumo and the Hyuga were also there didn't really stop him.

"Well good for her," Hari smiled, "Kaka-chan might have a playmate soon." Hari moved to the arch of the entrance to the living room and brushed his hand along a line of almost invisible runes, activating secrecy charms. The runes at the windows glowed for a moment as the magic covered the entire living room and then Hari nodded to his son, "The wards are set. No one can hear or see us. We can see and hear everything outside of the ward."

White eyes looked around the room curiously, "Tōkō-sama, I cannot see though the walls of your house," The Hyuga commented, trying to keep his voice light. He knew of no wards or seals that would restrict a Hyuga's vision and wondered if Hari would be willing to teach him how to create the seals required for the restriction. He was tired of not having any privacy at his home in the Clan compound. If he was able to get the seal from Hari, he could also take it to the Main Family Branch and perhaps be rewarded. The Hyuga were always on the watch for something that managed to get around their all-seeing eyes.

"I built this house from the ground up, Hyuga-san," Hari replied in a tone that was just as light as the Hyuga's, showing his unwillingness to answer the man's unasked question of 'how did you do it?', "I had something very specific in mind when I did and it turned out just lovely."

"So," Tedi gathered up his courage and breathed in deep, "I'm going to give you a demonstration of my bloodline limit and tell you the basics about it. I am willing to answer most of your questions, but some information will be kept from you. If you have a valid reason for a question that I do not want to answer, I will listen to your argument, but I don't promise to agree." He looked between his lover and the Hyuga. Both men nodded in understanding. The Hyuga clan had secrets, as did the Hatake clan, so they were willing to go with the plan Tedi lay out for the revealing of the Tōkō secrets.

Tedi glanced at Hari nervously and Hari smiled at his son. Hari pushed his pride and trust and belief in Tedi to his son through their magic and Tedi relaxed subtly. Sakumo grasped Tedi's hand and the younger Tōkō nodded in thanks for his support. Tedi closed his eyes and changed.

Sakumo watched in something like awe as his lover changed before his very eyes. The changes started at Tedi's fingers, right under Sakumo's grasping hand, and crawled up his hand, arm, shoulder, covering his whole body until another person stood in front of Sakumo. The White Fang had never seen such a change before; it was like Tedi had melted down and become someone entirely new, yet someone that already existed.

"Tedi..."

Tedi blinked his big round green eyes at Sakumo and smiled, just a little bit, "Yes."

"Gods..." Sakumo reached out and brushed Hari's long black hair from his face, "You. You look exactly like Hari-san. This isn't a Henge, is it? This is a real transformation."

"Yes." Tedi cocked his head to the side, a mannerism that was startlingly like Hari. It was understandable that he resembled Hari in that manner, not only because he now looked like Hari but also because he had grown up watching and imitating Hari's physical gestures.

The Hyuga that was being briefed to go with Tedi to Iwa about Tedi's bloodline limit so that he would understand exactly what was going on, stared in shock. He began to glance quickly between Tedi and Hari, eyes wide. He raised his fingertips to his temple, bulging veins spreading around his eyes, "Byakugan."

"What do you see Hyuga-san?" Sakumo asked, still completely immersed in how Tedi had changed.

"That's impossible," The Hyuga continued to shift his stare from Tedi-Hari and Hari, "You... are exactly the same."

Sakumo turned to look at Hyuga and frowned, "What do you mean by 'the same'?"

"I mean just that. I can't see a difference between the two. The outer layer, the physical part of Tōkō-san is exactly the same as Tōkō-sama and no matter how impossible it should be, the chakra system, the coils," The Hyuga trailed off as he blinked. "Identical."

Tedi ducked his head. Magic wasn't logical and he knew it. It was hard for him to show off his 'bloodline limit' when it was so illogical that it shouldn't exist. For him to be able to copy someone right down to their chakra coils meant that he could do whatever the person he was copying could.

Sakumo understood this immediately. "Tedi, if you used your limit to become an Uchiha?" His question was open-ended.

"Then I would have access to the Sharingan. The same if I were to become a Hyuga," With those words, Tedi quickly replaced his Hari-morph with a morph of the Hyuga in the room and the Hyuga's eyes widened in alarm.

Tedi had the Byakugan eyes activated.

Without hand signs.

And his chakra coils mirrored the Hyuga perfectly.

"You... That... should have been banned..." The Hyuga gasped as the implications became clear to him.

Tedi dropped his morph and shook his head. "My bloodline limit hasn't been banned because no one knows what it does. I'm sure that if the Uchiha and the Hyuga got their hands on the fact that I can reproduce their dojutsu without a second thought, they would have brought it to the Clan Council and I would have been executed long ago. It doesn't help that if I were to father a child in a morph, or even," Tedi blushed a bit and glanced away, "bear a child," Sakumo blinked at the implications of his lover being able to fake being a woman well enough to carry a child for nine months, "The child would not only have a chance at the ability to activate my morph bloodline, but the base bloodline of the morph I was in." Given that it was magic, Tedi was sure that if the child didn't have the metamorphmagus ability, magic would ensure that the child got the bloodline limit of the morph Tedi had used. As illogical as magic was, it still liked to stack the deck.

"You can become pregnant." Sakumo didn't ask as a question, but for confirmation. Tedi only nodded. It wasn't impossible for the Sannin or Sakumo himself to be able to hold up a Henge for months, even years, at a time even while fighting, but Tedi didn't have near the chakra for such a thing; that, and the fact that even under the use of a Henge, it was impossible for a man to become pregnant; the Henge was only an illusion, not a body change. If Tedi was able to become someone else so completely as to be able to have ovaries that produced eggs capable of bonding with sperm, it was entirely understandable that he had hid his bloodline limit from everyone, even his lover.

"After I morph, I don't use any chakra to hold it. My body has actually transformed into another and it would take another morph to bring me back to my original body. It's why Hiruzen-ji-san is willing to let me take S ranked missions. I can change everything, or just one part of me," Tedi's eyes and chakra veins changed and suddenly there were three black tomoe swirling lazily around wide pupils. The Hyuga gasped and dropped further into shock, sitting on the floor heavily when his legs couldn't hold him on his feet any longer. The eyes were the only part of Tedi that had changed that Sakumo could see, and Tedi easily changed them back to blank white eyes, "Hiruzen-ji-san gave me permission to use his chakra coils as a template for those missions, so I can basically have as much chakra as I want. If I need more, I morph my coils and get more. I can also reset my chakra in the middle of a fight, so I never run out. It's not hard."

The Hyuga turned to Hari, "Tōkō-sama, do you also have this ability?" His shock was so deep that he had yet to shake himself out of it or even get to his feet.

Hari nodded, "My ability is much less advanced than Tedi-kun's. It took a long time for me to learn how to change more than just my hair; I've been able to do that on command since I was two. I managed a full body morph at the age of nineteen; Tedi-kun has been able to change his whole body since birth. His mother had the metamorph ability much stronger than I do."

"His mother was a Metamorph?" Sakumo raised an eyebrow. While he was glad to have a name to put to the ability, he was curious as to how Hari and Tedi had the same ability, as Tedi was only adopted and not blood related to Hari that he knew of. It was good cover though, for both of them to have such an extraordinary bloodline limit.

"Nym was..." Hari cocked his head to the side and rolled his eyes nearly to the back of his head in thought, "My paternal grandmothers cousins granddaughter."

"So, she was your second cousin?" Sakumo wrapped his head around that and Hari shook his head.

"Well, technically yes, but it didn't really feel like it. She had the same great-great-grandfather as I did. My great-aunt married her first cousin, who was Nym's great-uncle, so she was also my second cousin, once removed; only not really because our great aunt and uncle, who were cousins, got married, producing Sirius, who was..." Hari stopped his exposition with a shake of his head and a sigh, "Never mind, I'm confusing even myself. The Kuroi family was far to inbred for me to go into it without charts and explaining a whole bunch of family history. When I was introduced to my best friend Ron, who I guess would qualify as one of my genin teammates, I didn't even know that he was my third cousin on my father's side of the family, just like our childhood rival Draco was also a third cousin of both of us on the Kuroi side."

"So this Kuroi clan," Sakumo was more than a little stunned by all this information; he'd never heard so much about Tedi and Hari's family and he was finding out that they came from a clan probably just as big as, or bigger than, either the Hyuga or Uchiha clans, "Did they join a village?" If there was a clan out there with the Metamorph ability, Sakumo really didn't want to run into them and be on opposing sides. Most clans had joined villages once the Uchiha and Senju clans had started the first village together out of fear of annihilation. Separately the Uchiha and Senju were strong. Running under a single banner made them seem ultimately unbeatable. When the Hyuga had joined under the Konoha banner less than a year later, there wasn't a single clan that Sakumo had heard of that hadn't joined one of the five hidden villages.

He'd never heard of the Kuroi Clan.

"No," Hari shrugged, "The Kuroi were far to isolationist to join with anyone. There really isn't any true Kuroi left anyway. The name has fallen out due mostly to the fact that girls were born seven of ten times, thus loosing the name through marriage, and the last male to carry the Kuroi name died in war over thirty years ago without children, his brother having died childless some years before him."

"The war that you were in?" Sakumo postulated out loud and Hari lifted a shoulder in a modest kind of agreement.

"I saw him die, yes."

"What the hell!" The Hyuga cried out suddenly, drawing the attention of the other three men in the room, "I'm not going to stand around and let you use such a disgusting ability and steal my clan secrets..."

Hari placed a hand on the Hyuga's shoulder, sending a burst of magic into him, a mild compulsion to keep his voice to a reasonable level, "You aren't standing for anything, Hideaki-san," He looked down at the sitting Hyuga, "And this bloodline is an S-class secret. Tobirama-san made that law and if you speak to others about it, I will carry out the execution without prejudice. Do you understand me?"

Sakumo briefly felt a flash of building Killing Intent and looked at his father-in-law before glancing at Tedi. Tedi shook his head at Sakumo, silently telling him to not interfere.

"You are stealing the Hyuga Clan secrets..." Hideaki weakly protested through the magic binding his voice. Hari knew that he was scared of more than just the fact that there were two people not of his clan that were able to use his family dojutsu.

"If you tell no one, no one will know. The Main Branch is not going to kill you for not telling them something that they don't know." Hari brushed gentle fingers over the hitai-ite that covered Hyuga Hideaki's Caged Bird Seal.

"But what of Umino-san? He is going on this mission as well," Hideaki argued, "He is not known for keeping secrets."

"The fact the he isn't known for keeping secret alone is why he is one of the best people for escorting me on this mission, Hyuga-san," Tedi smirked, though because he was still morphed to look like Hideaki the smirk was more of a sneer with his classical Hyuga features, "It's well known he can't keep a secret, so when he says nothing of my ability, or even mocks it, it will make my bloodline seem almost completely uninteresting. Besides, we've managed to hide this ability from the village for over twenty years. What makes you think that you're the first Hyuga that we've bound to silence?"

Hideaki continued to stare at the two Tōkō's with a fearful air of awe on his face. He whispered weakly, "But he could say something..."

"And I would kill him." Hari's cold words shocked not only the Hyuga, but Sakumo as well.

Hari liked the Umino's, Sakumo knew that. He knew it well. Sakumo was reminded that even though Hari came off as a civilian most of the time, he wasn't. He was a retired shinobi. He lived the life of a shinobi, had killed and lied and cheated. He could and would be ruthless under the right circumstances.

"Tōkō-sama," Hideaki lowered his head, "I cannot just let this information remain a secret from the Hyuga clan. I am sorry that you feel you have to kill me, but the Clan knows that I am being briefed on Tōkō-san's ability and if the bloodline is revealed at a later time, I will died anyway," The seventeen year old Jounin looked up into Hari's bright green eyes, "In a most horrible manner."

"The Caged Bird Seal," Hari murmured quietly and Hideaki blanched. The question of how Hari knew of the seal, and what it was able to do, was evident in his wide eyes and Hari shook his head sadly, "I had nothing to do with making the seal, Hideaki-kun, in fact, I think it's appalling. There is nothing that I hate worse than relatives who make slaves of those they believe to be inferior."

Tedi dropped his morph, returning to his six foot one, brown hair, and hazel eyed visage. "Tou-san," He was about to continue when the front door slammed open.

"Hey guys!" Umino Ikuta strode into the living room and looked around. He frowned and blinked a few times. "Hmm," He muttered, "I was positive that Tedi-san said they'd be at Tōkō-san's..."

Hideaki wasn't the only one to look at Hari with wide eyes.

"He... can't see us?" Sakumo was baffled. He was standing right in front of Ikuta and the Umino couldn't see him. Sakumo raised a hand and snapped his fingers in front of Ikuta's face. There was no response. "He can't see us, hear us... If I touched him, would he feel it?" He questioned the man that had made the wards and explained them just a bit ago. This was a phenomenon that had never occurred to Sakumo before. As an elite shinobi, he was more than just curious about how it happened.

And how he could get such a thing to happen out in the field.

Such a technique would give a considerable advantage to any shinobi on a mission.

"Why don't you try it?" Hari had a perfectly blank look on his face and Tedi coughed into his hand. The look that Hari sported was the one he wore when he had played the biggest prank ever on someone. A look of pure, unadulterated innocence.

Reaching out cautiously, Sakumo poked Ikuta in the shoulder.

Or, at least he tried.

His finger when through Ikuta and Ikuta jumped.

"Damn it. What the hell was that...?" Ikuta looked around the room suspiciously, rubbing the exact spot that Sakumo had tried to touch.

Hari couldn't hold his laughter in any longer and burst out chuckling. "Oh Gods, that was hilarious!" Tedi smirked and looked at Sakumo haughtily.

"Did you really think that Tou-san would leave such an opening in his wards? If someone can touch you, they can kill you."

"Ano," Sakumo frowned, not seeing what was funny for Hari to laugh quite that hard, as well as being put out about the technique. If you couldn't touch someone, you couldn't kill them, "Why couldn't I touch him? Why was it cold?"

Calming himself, Hari wiped tears from his face, "Do you want a long answer, or a short one?" Hari shook his head, "Never mind, you don't have time for the long version, let's just say that I phased every living thing that was in the room onto another plane of existence using a variation of a space and time warping technique." Hari brushed his thumb over the runes in the door frame and Ikuta jumped, startled. He hadn't felt even the smallest flicker of chakra and he knew that he was better than the Hyuga that had been placed on their team. At the very least he should have been able to sense the white eyed teenager.

"What the hell?" He looked down at the four men from where he was clutching at the roof with wide eyes like a freaked out cat, "That wasn't a shunshin! Where the hell did you guys come from?"

"Come down here Ikuta-kun," Hari waved the man down from the ceiling and Ikuta dropped without a sound to the floor, "I was ensuring our privacy using a family technique."

The runes that Hari had inscribed into the foundation of the house when it had been built years ago when Tedi was four collected loose magic. It had certainly cut down on Tedi's accidental magic during his younger years and a lot of magic had been collected in the twenty-some years that the pair of wizards had been living in the house. The runes inscribed on all the doors and windows used the latent magic signature of the instigator of the spell to activate the spell used some of that collected magic, so pretty much anyone with magic, even a squib, could activate the privacy ward.

Hari had yet to come across someone in the Elemental Countries with enough latent magic to create a magical signature that was needed to activate the ward, so he wasn't really lying when he said that it was a family technique.

"Oh." Ikuta blinked and shook the information off. He had no want or need to learn of the Tōkō family techniques. The Tōkō family was scary in that 'I'm glad you're my friend instead of my enemy' way.

Now, the bloodline limit on the other hand, he did have a need of knowing. "So, this bloodline that I've got permission to know of, is it cool?" His eyes lit up and he practically glowed with the air of someone who was getting let into a huge secret.

Raising an eyebrow at Ikuta, Sakumo cocked his head to the side, "What did Izumi-san want to talk to you about?"

"It's not pertinent to the mission," Ikuta brushed the question aside and looked to Tedi in expectation.

"Tou-san?" Tedi glanced at Hari and Hari ran his fingers over the runes again, fazing the group back onto another plane of existence. "So my bloodline is a transformation," Tedi morphed into an exact copy of Ikuta in less than a blink of an eye and Hideaki activated his own bloodline once again.

"And what's so cool and dangerous about a Henge?" Ikuta looked pretty disappointed at the information that he'd been shown, "I mean, sure, you did it without a release phrase or hand sign, but still; not that impressive."

Hideaki's eyes were wide once again, still shocked at the ability of the older man, "It's not an illusion Umino-san," Hideaki reached out and brushed his fingers against several spots on Ikuta's torso, then turned to Tedi-Ikuta and brushed the same spots, "His chakra coils have changed completely and he is identical to you in every single way."

There was a pause as Ikuta took that in, then, "Holy shit. Seriously? It's physical? Bone deep," Ikuta murmured to himself and studied the exact copy of his body that was standing in the room with him. "That's very cool." He could see why the tokubetsu jounin had been asked to take this mission. Iwa was expecting a chuunin. Tedi could pretend to be a chuunin down to the coils and not one would be able to nay-say him. If the mission went to hell Tedi could become anyone he wanted and have access to as much chakra as he needed. It was a good match for shinobi to mission.

"And we need you to disseminate some rumours about how it's not that very cool," Hari interrupted his thoughts; "Hideaki-kun's life may very well be on the line with this."

Ikuta frowned, connected the dots and then nodded, "Of course, if the match is exact to the coils, Tedi-san would have access to any bloodline in the shinobi world."

"Exactly."

"Not a problem," Ikuta nodded to himself, "I'm more than able to steer people wrong. Besides, who would really want to go up against an exact copy of themselves? That'd be really dumb. Who knows what type of jutsu the..." He looked to Hari for the word to use indicating the type of skill Tedi had.

"Metamorph." Harry supplied easily.

"...Metamorph knows and could use."

"Is there anything else that the team needs to know before the mission?" Tedi morphed back into his original form and looked between his two teammates.

"Nothing that can be discussed at the moment," Ikuta shot an apologetic glance at Hari but Hari just waved it way.

"I understand." The eldest shinobi in the room dropped the privacy technique, phasing the five men back into their proper reality, "Sakumo, why don't we take Kaka-chan outside and play for a bit," Hari might have phrased the remark as a question, but it really was more of an order and Sakumo had no reason to disagree.

Heading for the stairs to pick Kakashi up, Sakumo grinned, "I think it's about time that we showed Kaka-chan a chakra exercise."

"Oh really," Hari shook his head exasperatedly, "Sakumo, he's not even one yet, can you not wait for his first birthday to do that?" Hari followed the man up the stairs, his feet not making a sound.

"I was about this age when my father taught me my first chakra exercise," Sakumo protested lightly, egging his father-in-law on just a little bit.

Hari rolled his eyes, "And you are a genius of renown, but Kaka-chan is still only a baby." Hari opened the door to Kakashi's room to find the baby standing right by the door.

Kakashi smiled winningly up at his grandfather around the half a fist the child had managed to stuff into his mouth.

"Didn't you put Kaka-chan in the crib?" Sakumo asked his father-in-law as he scooped his son up into his arms, cooing at the boy and tickling him lightly, making a funny face so as to make Kakashi squeal in glee.

"I did," Harry grinned and strode across the room to the window, "Let's not bother the others," He opened the window facing the backyard, climbed out and pushed himself into the air, calling the wind to him. He floated down to the grass and looked up to see Sakumo attach himself to the outside wall with one hand, guiding his decent.

Kakashi laughed the whole way down.

Laughing, Hari shook his head, "Okay, okay," He conceded, "We can try to teach him," Hari shrugged out of his outer yakuta, leaving him in a pair of blue hakama and a tight black turtleneck shirt. He dropped the yakuta over a chair on the lawn and stretched out his arms, "Okay, so I haven't used the ONCE for a while, do you want to start?"

"The 'ONCE'?" Sakumo asked as he let his son down and the boy toddled to Hari with his arms held out to be picked up.

"That's what I called it since Tedi was small," Hari picked the child up and tossed him into the air, catching him as he came back down from the air, "It's the first chakra control exercise, so it's O - N for one, C for chakra and control and E for exercise. Hence: ONCE."

Sakumo paused before setting his bare foot on the tree trunk. Hari's backyard was right at the border of the village and it seemed that the backyard encompassed the beginning of the huge forest that the Shodaime had grown.

"Not bad," He nodded and took a few steps up the tree. He turned around to face the ground and tilted his head back to see Hari and Kakashi.

"Tou-chan!" Kakashi was staring at his father with wide grey eyes. Hari set the boy down and he stumbled his way to the man standing on the tree, "Tou-chan!"

"Hey there chibi," Sakumo backed up two steps, taking him up the tree just far enough that Kakashi couldn't touch him when he jumped up, trying to grasp his father, "Are you going come up here?"

"Tou-chan!" Kakashi shrieked and hugged the base of the tree.

Hari laughed and sat down beside the boy, "Kaka-chan, see this?" He held his hand out and covered it with chakra making it glow a pale blue, "See Kaka-chan?"

"Ohhh," Kakashi was torn between staring up at his father standing so strangely on the tree and his grandfather's glowing hand. "Baa-chan?"

"Can you do this Kaka-chan?" Hari let the glow crawl up his wrist and to his elbow, "Can you show Tou-chan and Baa-chan your chakra?"

"Baa-chan!" Kakashi laughed at the question and held out his own tiny little hand, focusing on his fingers. Seconds later there was a faint white glow to his hand and he waved it at Hari with excitement. Kakashi had been able to make his hands glow with chakra for just over a month now.

Sakumo had been planning this. Hari shook his head exasperatedly, "Okay, how about this Kaka-chan?" Hari pointed to his feet and Kakashi shrieked when he saw the blue glow around his grandfather's feet.

Kakashi's face twisted up in concentration and looked to his own feet. Hari managed to stifle an exclamation at the cuteness and looked up to see that Sakumo was biting his knuckle to keep his own composure in the face of unending adorableness.

In less time than Hari anticipated, Kakashi crowed in glee and thrust a foot into the air, "Baa-chan look!"

White chakra surrounded both of Kakashi's feet and Hari got to his knees, "Wonderful Kaka-chan!" He put one arm around Kakashi's body pointed up at Sakumo who waved down to them with a grin on his face, "See Tou-chan?"

"Yeah..." Kakashi let his head fall to the side, "Baa-chan? Tou-chan on tree."

"Yes he is," Hari smiled widely, "See your feet?"

"Umhum," Kakashi murmured, glancing down at his still glowing feet.

"Walk up to Tou-chan, okay? Keep your feet glowing."

The small child blinked as he tried to figure out why his grandfather's words didn't make any sense. "Baa-chan?"

"Use chakra," Hari fluctuated his chakra flow in his hands so they flashed a bit, "And walk up to Tou-chan." Kakashi gave Hari an incomprehensible look and Hari ruffled his hair gently, "I'll catch you Kaka-chan."

"Okay!" Kakashi grasped the tree with his glowing hands and set a foot on the bark. He crawled up the tree two feet before falling back. Hari caught him quickly and Kakashi giggled happily.

Taking a moment to spare a glance of incredulous to Sakumo, Hari praised Kakashi.

Hari had not expected his grandson to even be able to get a grip on the tree for the first week, never mind make it two feet up. Kakashi was truly a genius. It was a bit daunting to think about his precious grandchild being so very good at the shinobi arts. What would Sakumo insist on? When would Sakumo decide that Kakashi was ready to go to the Academy? When would he lose Kakashi to an enemy shinobi?

There were so many questions that Hari had running through his brain.

Kakashi squiggled out of Hari's arms and ran for the tree, intent on getting to his father, now that he knew what was going on. He didn't even start at a crawl, just jumped at the tree and started walking up.

As he climbed Sakumo walked backwards, forcing Kakashi up higher and higher. Sakumo called out encouraging words and praised his son with every step.

Most children that Hari knew would be getting praise and encouraging words to walk across a living room at this age, not up a tree.

It suddenly hit Hari that he wasn't sure he was ready to be helping raise a genius. Help train his grandson for war. He'd had his share of war and he hadn't liked it. Sakumo seemed to not mind and Tedi had grown up with war and killing in the background as something that was just a normal part of life.

Hari caught Kakashi as he fell from eight and a half feet up the tree and laughed out loud with the child. Inside he was fighting back tears. He'd gone to war so that no one he knew would have to kill and here he was teaching his grandson a skill needed for life as a shinobi. As a killer.

Kakashi escaped Hari's hold on him and went charging back up the tree. He followed Sakumo all the way to the top and Hari watched from the ground as father and son played a rousing game of tag upside down and sideways.

A small smile came over his face. Kakashi had excellent control. It took most genin four to six days to get to the point where Kakashi had managed to get in half an hour.

Perhaps he would mention to Tsunade how very good Kakashi's control was. Perhaps he could influence Kakashi into being a healer instead of a killer.

Perhaps.

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