Love The Way You Lie

Chapter Seven – Pink is Back in

Four years later

Kakashi was Hokage as promised by Tsunade, for the first time in years Konoha was a peaceful city crime was down and missions had to been booked in months in advance. He spent most hours stuck in his office bored out of his mind; luckily he had a dart board put in his office or who knows what the extreme boredom would do to him. He spent so much time signing pieces of paper he didn't even have to look to know where to sign. "Hey old man! Where were you at lunch?" Kakashi wanted to hide, but the loud blonde's voice already told him he was outside waiting by the door. "I'm busy Naruto come back later" Kakashi rummaged through pieces of paper to make it look like he actually was doing work, but the blonde kicked the door open "Liar! You always have sucked at lying Kakashi now get your shit together and get some Raman! Before I drag you down there myself" Naruto walked closer and closer to Kakashi ready to grab him of he tried to escape. But a large white blob crashed in the office knocking everything off Kakashi's desk causing paperwork to fly everywhere then a smaller pink flash smashed in the white fluffy thing, Kakashi sighed… the two figures separated revealing a large white wolf and small pink haired toddler, the two were growling at each other. Naruto just stood there watching the two, completely dumbfound by what's happening right in front of him. Haku had his ears flat back and his canine teeth showing aggressively, Mai was snarling at Haku crouched on all fours… showing a genetic attribute her two canine teeth were exactly like Haku's apparently Mai had a genetic gift past down from her grandfather onto her. Mai lunged at Haku aiming for his throat with her teeth "Kakashi? Is Mai like this normally?" Naruto asked as he watched Mai kick Haku's butt "Not all the time… ever since she those teeth of hers she's being constantly at Haku's throat…" Kakashi looked at his daughter gnawing on Haku's ear. "You know you could spend time with her today, take her to the park… watch her create more craters in the playfields. Shes spending too much time with the white fluff ball" Naruto said looking at Kakashi, Kakashi nodded in agreement "next time Raman is on me, Mai come on I am taking you to the park. I'm sure Haku has some work to do..." he said giving Haku silent orders to go home the rest of the day. Mai smiled at him "Ok daddy, let's go." Mai grabbed Kakashi by the hand and dragged towards the door. Naruto laughed, that little girl had her dad wrapped around her finger.

Mai was on Kakashi's shoulders for most of their walk together to the park, its seems ages since the pair had spent quality time together. Mai had funning sitting on her dad shoulders, she could plait his hair without him noticing, "daddy when are you going to let me go to the academy? I'm bored at normal school…" Mai said as she got bored and started to put bows in her dads hair "my answer is still no-" "but Haku said I would do very well! He said that you and mum were gifted students" Mai interrupted her father, she was happy with him. So she crossed her arms and pouted. Kakashi was hopefully one day going to get rid of that wolf, especially when he brought up Mai's mother. "I don't want you in the academy… and I told you not to bring up your mother, she's gone" Kakashi said in a harsh voice to his daughter, Mai jumped off his shoulders and yelled at him "why do you always say that! Everyone else I know has a mum, so why can't I talk about her, I'm sure she would let me attend the academy" Mai's temper had flared up, she was as just hot headed as her mother. "How many times have we gone over this-" "but you never talk about her! I only hear the whispers in the village of what she was like" Mai had a very annoying habit of interrupting her father; she didn't care if he was the Hokage. Mai ran off in tears… leaving Kakashi in the street with everyone staring at him, he sighed how was he supposed to control Mai as a teenager when he couldn't get her to understand at four years old. He went after her knowing that finding her would take a while, that damn Haku had taught her to be very good at hide and seek.

Mai to her secret spot in the forest, she found this place when the other school children chased her in here. It was the only place she knew where she was sure nobody could find her, she grabbed a nearby stick to help her see where she was going. She sat by the small pond and listened to the frogs play in the water, she took of her shoes and dipped her small feet in. the cold water relaxed her; her dad was being a butthead in her opinion. The moment she learnt to listen she knew that there was something about her that made her different from the other little girls in the village, and she knew it wasn't about her not being able to see. Naruto and the others always whispered about her… and her dad, Mai always felt hurt when Ino was teaching her at school she was always mean to her and making her sit at the back of the class by herself.

"Who are you?" a small boys voice came from the nearby bushes, Mai jumped up to her feet . She put her hood over her head attempting to disguise herself just in case it was the mean children from school "come out from where your hiding… or I will scream" her heart was beating a million miles an hour, the little boy came out from the bushes "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you" he sounded nice "who are you little boy?" Mai asked as she stepped backwards, she had never been approached by someone when she had been alone before. "My name is Kaori… I'm just here, I'm playing a prank on my mum" he said, Mai couldn't help but give a small smile. She wished she could games with her dad. Mai heard someone else jump from the trees. "Mum! You found me" Kaori laughed. Mai knew Kaori was around three years old from his voice. But she didn't like the feeling his mum gave off… she heard them whispering but it was too monotone for her to understand. She heard something been taking out of Kaori's mothers pocket. Then she heard something been thrown at her… she didn't know what it was so she shielded her face with her arm, whatever it was it was the most painful thing Mai had ever been hit by. Mai screamed in pain "Daddy!"

Kakashi heard Mai's screams, he summoned his dogs and Haku to follow him to the forest.

"kill her mum, I want to go home already" Kaori said as he pushed his mum in Mai's direction "your just at the wrong place at the wrong time…" her voice was calm she sounded as if she was a nice person, Mai fell to the ground she felt a sticky liquid all along her arm. The strange woman lifted something above Mai's head and moved to strike her with it. But then Haku jumped from the tree above, pinning the woman to the ground. All Mai heard for a while was a lot of bad words and Haku ripping into the woman's flesh. The woman stopped moving "get off me you stupid dog!" The woman grabbed a kunai from her leg bandages and was about to stabbed him with it when someone else pounced on her arms.

Kakashi used all his strength to pin the woman to the ground, their eyes met… "Sakura!" he growled at her, what the hell is she doing here and more importantly why wasn't she picked up for being in fire country. "Get off me!" Sakura managed to push Kakashi off, the two went silent they were both looking at each other. Sakura had changed; she had grown a lot taller… and skinnier. Her hair was well past her waist, she looked good but at the same time she looked like she wouldn't have trouble taking on Kakashi. Since he was pushed off, he went straight to Mai who was still on the ground. "What hell possessed you to throw a kunai at a child" Kakashi took of Mai's hood, Sakura gasped loudly. "Daddy it hurts!" Kakashi picked Mai up in his arms "Granny Tsunade will fix you up" Kakashi looked Sakura directly in the eyes "you should leave Sakura…" he said as Haku sat next to him, "But she hurt pup…" Haku growled at Sakura and Kaori who was hiding behind her "So much for knowing everything Haku, she who hurt our pup happens to be her mother" As soon as Kakashi finished what he was saying Haku's hackles stood up "I see you have your own child now?" kakshi asked her while looking at the small toddler standing behind her. "Kaori is my son … you killed his father not more than five months ago" Sakura said as she lifted Kaori up into her arms. He looked simular to Sakura but he had his father's hair and eyes Kakashi noted "Sasori?... you should've known better than to be with him Sakura, I'm sure I taught you better than that, anyway he isn't dead. Just locked up." Kakashi said as he began to walk away from Sakura and back to Konoha. "Take your son and leave, I have my daughter to attend too-" "Daddy, can you put me down… I want to walk" Mai interrupted her dad, Kakashi carefully put her down. The other dogs jumped out from the bushes and circled Kakashi and his daughter and the pair walked off into the forest holding each other's hand. "At least let me say hello to her!" Sakura yelled at Kakashi, Kakashi bent down and whispered into mai's ear. Mai nodded in agreement, Kakashi placed Mai on Haku's back. Slowly Haku made his way over to Sakura, Kakashi stayed closely behind him.

Sakura wasn't sure if she was angry to see her daughter or relieved that she was being looked after. "Hey honey…" Sakura's mind went blank, she had just added up all the information in her mind when she saw the scar along Mai's eye "how long…have you been…blind for?" she asked as she glanced at Kakashi who simply shook his head. "Sad says some Sasuke guy and him had a misunderstanding when I was little, I was caught in the crossfire" Mai smiled, Sakura looked like she was going to be sick. She remembered when Sasori told her that Sasuke told him that he might've hit Mai when he got angry at Kakashi. "Mum? How come you never wanted me…" Mai started to cry softly "who has been telling you that? Your father?" Sakura glared at Kakashi "no, dad doesn't like to talk about you… but your old friends Ino, choji, Shikamaru, ten ten… they all whisper it" Sakura tucked a few strands of Mai's hair behind her ear "it's complicated and not for children's ears"

"Mai it's time to go…" Kakashi and Haku began to walk off with Mai "Remember Sakura, you should leave soon… ANBU patrol this area, they will be here in about five minutes. So go now before you end up in prison." Kakashi said as he disappeared into the forest.

Kakashi walked silently, he had already summoned his ANBU squad to track Sakura down. Now it was just a matter of time before he faces her again.

Kakashi left Mai with Tsunade to heal her arm, he went to visit a certain prisoner to make sense of some things. Sasori was chained to the wall by both his feet and hands, "Sasori, I need some information" Kakashi undid his chains and put a plate of food next to him "I don't know anything about Akatsuki… so stop wasting your time and kill me already" Sasori said as he pushed back the plate of food over to Kakashi "no, I'm here about Akatsuki. I want to know why Sakura would be poking around Konoha and with your son" Sasori's head shot up when Kakashi mentioned his son was in Konoha "Kaori? Is he alright, is Sakura hurt?" Sasori gave Kakashi a grim look "they are both fine, for now. I think Sakura's pride is hurting more than anything" Kakashi gave Sasori a comforting hand on his shoulder "good I would hate for anything to happen to them, did Sakura over react to something… as you well know she can be a real drama queen" the pair of them let out a small chuckle "she hit my daughter with her kunai… i think she thought Mai was a threat to your son Kaori" Kakashi said as he pushed back the plate of food back to Sasori "I'm sorry Kakashi, Sakura must've over reacted, which is weird because your daughter isn't in the academy… so I don't know why Sakura would've gone for her" Sasori said " I don't think Sakura recognised Mai… also Mai had her hood up, so I'm sure that didn't help the situation" the both of them nodded in a silent agreement that both Sakura and were at fault, "So how long till I see Sakura?" Kakashi looked Sasori in puzzlement in what he just asked him. But then he heard banging and screaming in the hallway outside. "I'll be back soon" Kakashi got up and left Sasori without chains to eat the remaining food on his plate.

Kakashi left the cell into the hallway, where just by luck he managed to dodge a flying ANBU officer. "Where is my son!" Sakura was screaming over and over again at the officers who were pinning her to the nearby solid concrete wall "Hokage-sama we found the woman about 56 kilometres from Konoha" an ANBU officer passed him all Sakura's weaponry and items she happened to have on her at the time "let her go…" Kakashi sighed; the officers stopped pinning Sakura against the wall. Sakura gave Kakashi such I'm-going to-kill-you look that it sent a shiver down his spine. Kakashi grabbed Sakura's hand, she resisted at first but Kakashi practically dragged her to the nearby cell. Sakura went in still on alert, but then she spotted Sasori leaning up against the cell wall. Sasori stood up quickly just in time for Sakura to knock him back down to ground as she pounced on him, the two then shared a very intimate kiss. Kakashi awkwardly coughed as he entered the cell "Kaori will be here soon, it seems he has made friends with Mai. They will be here shortly."