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I think im going to make Kakashi raise Naruto.
I dont own Naruto or Bleach.
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It was a month later when the second Shinigami was summoned.
Jiraya had left the village once again, to possibly find who had taken control of the Kyuubii while he was in Kushina's seal, while Sarutubi had taken up the title of village leader once again.
The new Hokage soon had to assign someone else to take care of the child. He couldn't do it himself, because he constantly had Hokage duties to attend to. He couldnt put Naruto in an orphanage because who knew when another Shinigami would be summoned by the babe.
So he chose the only other person that knew of Naruto's ability.
Kakashi Hatake.
The boy had been running himself ragged in the ANBU since his sensei died, Sarutubi had seen the look in Kakashi's eyes in so many others ninjas, and they always followed the same pattern. They would work them selves practically to death, and then after the current Hokage made them stop, if they where left alone, not watched, or not given a purpose to live.
They would commit suicide. Either in the line of duty or they would do it themselves.
He knew the boy blamed himself for his whole team's death, and he knew the boy's peers weren't helping much either.
So he gave the teen a purpose other than ANBU.
Kakashi had been a bit reluctant at first, if anything he was scared of accidentally hurting Naruto, a baby, but when he held Naruto for the first time, all Sarutubi could do was watch in slight amazement as the babe had an effect on the teen.
A bond was immediately formed to the child for Kakashi. He looked so much like his sensei but not at the same time. He wanted to protect him, he wanted to be apart of the child's life.
He also couldn't see how the villagers, who had learned of Naruto's existence, could call someone so perfect and innocent a vile, feral, demon.
So Kakashi followed his leaders order, if only as an excuse so he could take the child willingly, and took Naruto as his only, if only in name. Naruto would always, first and formost, be Kushina and Minato's child, but he hoped he could step in for them since they weren't there anymore.
But he was faced with a bit of a problem not too long after he got back to his apartment with everything Naruto needed in a storage scroll at his hip.
He wasn't too sure how to care for a baby.
The 18 year old knew about the seal the Shinigami had given Naruto, but he still was a little startled when a person suddenly appeared out of mist a couple feet away from him when Naruto first started crying.
The person who stepped out of the mist was a woman with lavender hair cropped short, with one long strand that had beads on the ends. She wore black robes and had an armband with the kanji for 4 with a flower under it around her forearm.
As Kakashi stared at her, she stared at Naruto for a moment as if in a daze almost. She shook herself before looking to Kakashi and closing the short distance between them.
"Um, May I?" She asked as she motioned towards the crying child. Kakashi nodded and the woman took Naruto from his arms. "There, there it's alright Naruto. Your alright." She spoke soothingly to the babe while Kakashi watched.
Once Naruto had calmed down the woman muttered to herself. "I guess Capatin Ukitake was right about all this."
She turned to Kakashi, "Are you the one that's going to be Naruto's caretaker?"
Kakashi nodded at the older woman and she gasped, semi-dramatically, before he could get a word out. "I forgot to introduce myself. I'm sorry, my name is Isane."
"Kakashi. I know you might disappear soon, but can- I never have- I don't know-" Kakashi grunted as he gave up and looked pointedly at Naruto. He wasn't sure how to ask this woman to show him how to talk care of Naruto.
Isane luckily got what he meant and smiled. "I can teach you how to take care of Naruto before I go back, or at least I can try."
Kakashi sighed in relief.
9 hours later Kakashi didn't regret asking her for help, or trying to, as she handed Naruto back to him and slowly dissapeared in the mist. Almost exactly how she came in reverse.
He could do this.
With the help of the Shinigami, occasionally, he could raise Naruto.
He could do this.