Hello everyone! I'm back, I'm sorry for the long wait but here's the next chappy of the HatakeNamikaze Bloodline.
And so let's begin.
"Kashi-kun, I need to stop by the apartment," Natsu told her fiancée as they walked home.
"We are going to the apartment," Kakashi said in reply.
"No I mean mine and Sasu-nii's," the petite blonde said in reply. "I need more clothes and I don't have time to do laundry right now."
"Oh." Kakashi was silent as he contemplated how to answer. "I guess we could, besides didn't you say you had to talk to Sasuke and Hinata about how her heat had gone?"
"Thanks for reminding me," Natsu shot him a grateful look. "I completely forgot about that."
"Natsu..." the uncertainty in his voice made Natsu freeze; slowly she turned round to face the man who had stopped in his tracks. The silver-haired jounin was staring at the ground, watching the specks of dust with interest.
"Yes?"
"Would you... could you... maybe..." onyx met crystal blue and Kakashi took a deep breath before saying, "Doyouwanttomoveinwithme?"
"I'm sorry?"
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"Kakashi, calm down," Natsu stepped closer towards the man. "Now, tell me what you were saying, slowly," she instructed.
"Would you like to move in with me?" Kakashi finally said.
"Kakashi?"
"I mean, it's essentially the same," the twenty-five year old man said. "You and the kids have been living with me and so of course, it should be rational that I actually ask that you move in with me officially. Besides, now that Sasuke and Hinata are mated they need a place of their own and since, it would be awkward for them to stay at the Hyuuga compound it's only logical for them to stay at the apartment and I'm sure that you wouldn't want to be there when they~" his words were lost as Natsu deepened the kiss. His train of thought quickly froze as he dominated the passionate lip-lock his mate had started. Soon he had her against the wall as they continued to get lost in the feeling of their lips upon the other's.
"Yes," was the only word Natsu said after they pulled apart. "Yes, I'd move in with you."
"R-really?"
"Of course," Natsu's ocean blue eyes shone brightly as she replied. "Even though you were babbling, I heard you saying that it was essentially the same now as the kids and I actually live with you. The only difference is that I still have my things in Sasu-nii's apartment."
"Finally!" someone exclaimed from behind the masked Copy Nin.
"Ohayou Sasu-nii, Hina-nee," Natsu greeted the couple as she broke away from the intimate embrace.
"Ohayou imoutou," Sasuke replied. "Is what I heard true? Is it official now?"
"Well I just agreed but I guess so," Natsu said smiling brilliantly at them.
"Okay, so we can finally move my things?" Hinata said.
"How long have you two been planning about this?" suspicious blue eyes narrowed at the pair.
"Ne, Natsu-chan," Kakashi said. "Didn't you say you had to talk to them about the heat?"
"Thanks Kashi-kun," Natsu said. "Sasu-nii, can I speak to you about it? Kashi-kun could help Hina-nee move her things."
"Of course," Kakashi replied. "I'll see you at home then?"
"See you later Kashi-kun," the blonde said as he pecked the older man on his already masked lips. He grabbed Sasuke by the hand and they left in a swirl of blue fire.
"I guess we could get started," Hinata sighed at the sudden disappearance of the siblings.
"Let's go Hinata," the silver haired Copy Nin told the heiress.
"I need you to tell me what that mark on Hina-nee's neck was," crystal blue was scrutinizing as the petite girl stared at her older brother. They were at the hokage monument, standing atop the Fourth Hokage's head.
"It was her mating mark," Sasuke replied, refusing to look the Kyuubi-container in the eyes.
"It wasn't her mating mark. I'm talking about the mark on her neck and yours, the one that you used to calm her down when we brought the twins to the academy."
"It was~"
"Don't lie to me," Natsu's voice was hard as she reprimanded her older brother. "It wasn't your mating mark because you haven't mated with her before so what was it?"
"Remember when Kyuu-chan told you to tell me to search my memories?"
"Of course," the blonde replied as she sat down on the spiked hair of the Fourth. "What about it?"
"I found something..."
"What was it?"
"It was a kind of contraceptive mark," Sasuke said. "It was also one that had the power to delay the heat."
"YOU DID WHAT?"
"I put a mark on Hina-chan that would delay her heat and act as a contraceptive," the dark haired lone Uchiha mumbled.
"Do you even know what you did? How stupid! Why did you do that? Do you know what you could have done to her? Did you even tell her what you were going to do before you did it?"
"What was so bad about it? I just delayed her heat for a few months," the Uchiha clan massacre survivor retorted.
"There was a reason why Kyuu-chan told you and Kashi-kun about our heats. It was supposed to inform you that~" she trailed off. Her face was frozen in a mask that frightened Sasuke; he had never seen such a terrified expression on her face even in the face of death. "Kuchiyose no jutsu: Kyuubi no Kitsune!"
"Natsu..."
"Kyuu-chan, do you think something could've already happened?" Natsu's voice was graved as she asked the age-old woman.
"It's not really..."
"Don't sugar coat anything please," Natsu begged the redheaded fox woman. "I need to know what's going to happen to Hinata-nee."
"There's a chance that it has already happened since it took him how long to actually do his job," Kyuubi said in reply.
"Sasu-nii, how long has Hina-nee been experiencing her heat before you actually mated?"
"Her time started two months and a half after her eleventh birthday."
"And it's been six months since then so that makes it almost four months of agony." Kyuubi counted.
"How much damage would that have done to her?" the small blonde turned her attention back to the older woman.
"I can't be sure but I do know is that it did something."
"Kyuu-chan I need to know."
"What are you talking about?" Sasuke interrupted. "Why should there have been agony? Are you telling me that Hina-chan was in pain all this time?"
"Sasu-nii, I'll tell you later. Right now, I need to know something."
"Natsu," Kyuubi called to the child/woman who was her container. "Don't worry too much about it."
"How can you tell me not to worry? She could've~"
"No Natsu, you have to calm down," the woman was gentle as she took the blonde in her arms. "Hinata has wolf blood in her, and since she mated with Sasuke who has fox blood in him I know she'll be alright. I'll be able to look at her now that they've been mated."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure. Now just calm down, I need to do more research on this and then I'll tell you if I find anything." A look at crystal blue eyes threatening to overflow with tears showed Kyuubi that the woman-girl was not convinced. "I promise."
"Okay," Natsu nodded grudgingly. "I just don't want anything to happen to her."
"I know but you also need to trust me on this," the redheaded woman replied.
"I trust you."
"So now, tell Sasuke everything while I start on my research on this."
"Arigatou, kaa-chan."
"No problem kit," the smile was gentle as she let go of the one she claims as her own. "Now go talk to your brother." She disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Natsu what's going on?" onyx was desperate as they clashed with cerulean. "What did I do?" sighing loudly, the blonde wiped her tears away and walked towards the raven.
"Sasuke-kun, I won't lie to you. You may have just endangered Hinata-chan's life with what you did." Terror was the only thing that could describe how Sasuke looked like at that moment.
"What?"
"Kyuu-chan told you that when we get our heat, it's a sign that we are ready to take our mates and since we had already chosen our mates it would only be a sign that we were ready to have children. It still didn't change the fact that we had to be marked and claimed by our mate by the time our heat arrives or we could be claimed by others. It's a natural instinct and it shouldn't have been messed with." Natsu took a deep breath. "Delaying the heat could've done damage on Hinata-nee's reproductive organs~"
"But why?"
"As I said, the heat is a sign when a female is ready to have her litter. Basically, the body is ready to bear children. Delaying it would mean stopping the developments of her body which causes extreme pain."
"You mean I caused her the pain she would feel?"
"The pain Hinata-nee used to feel was because her body was trying to force itself to work against the barriers that you placed on her with your seal."
"I-I-I didn't know," Sasuke dropped his head onto his hands as he shook with the sobs that racked his body.
"Sasu-nii," Natsu gathered the weeping man in her arms and comforted him as best as she could because she knew that there was nothing she could say that would make things better. "Go to her, tell her everything and I promise you that Kyuu-chan and I will do all that we can to prevent whatever is going to happen to her from happening. Just promise me that you won't balk when you need to do your job again."
"H-h-how could I e-e-even face her?"
"She'll understand," Natsu assured him. "I know she will and I also know that she would be the one comforting you after you tell her."
"W-w-what could've already happened to her?"
"She could've died or lost her ability to bear children."
"I-I-I c-c-c-can't..."
"You have to," she told him.
"B-b-b-but~"
"Aniki, you have to do this. She has to know what this may have done to her."
"W-w-why can't you tell her?"
"I'm not the one to do this and it's so much better if she finds out from you herself."
"Natsu, how can I even look at her?"
"Sasuke," a deep, rumbling voice called out to the raven. They turned towards the nearby forest as a man dressed in a black cloak and wearing a large straw hat stepped out from the foliage. "I think it's best if you talk to Hinata." There was no mistaking that voice.
"B-b-b-but..."
"I always told you to think things through otherwise suffer the consequences." The man cut him off. "Now go to your mate, explain to her what happened and then wait for her to adjust to the news. I'm sure that if the Kyuubi no Kitsune herself is involved nothing will happen to her." Sasuke could only sigh in defeat and he disappeared in a bolt of golden lightning.
"What took you so long?" Natsu addressed the man as soon as Sasuke was gone.
"I had some things to take care of," the man said as he pulled his hood down to reveal long, inky locks that were tied loosely at the bottom, a pale but handsome face drawn with stress and dark eyes that reflected the happiness the man felt. "I've heard some interesting rumours around." He said as he walked to the small blonde woman.
"And what would those rumours be?"
"I'm sure it's nothing," the man dismissed with a lazy wave of hand. "I heard that you've adopted three children and are now living with the famous, or infamous, Copy Nin." The scrutinizing stare Natsu received made her blush.
"It's true," she mumbled shyly. "You remember the Sand Trio that we used to protect back in Suna?" she asked and received a nod in response. "They were picked up by Kakashi on his way home from a mission almost two years ago. I took them in and Kakashi became their pseudo-father."
"So you are living with him?"
"That's what you got from that?"
"Well I've known that eventually you will become their mother given the way they acted with you around so it's not that big of a deal. Kakashi, on the other hand, is another story."
"Aniki, Kakashi was my mate. I've known that he was mine even before he started protecting me," she argued. "Besides, I was already betrothed to him and I only revealed to him that I knew about our engagement around the same time the kids got here."
"He better not hurt you, otherwise I shall not be held responsible for my actions," he muttered in defeat.
"I missed you Ita-kun," she embraced the older man and relished in the feel of him in her arms. "So how goes the recruitment?"
"More than half of Akatsuki are with me now," he said. "The only ones who aren't are Pein, Konan and Zetsu."
"So you have Sasori, Deidara, Kisame, Kakuzu and Hidan with you?"
"Yes," Itachi said. "They agreed to join me on the account that their missing-nin status will be wiped off the bingo books. I promised them clean slates just as you said."
"Thanks aniki."
"What about the other aspects of our plans?" the raven asked the blonde.
"They're going well," Natsu said. "You should be getting ready because it shall start soon."
"Then I should~" there was a swirl of sand and then twin voices shouted out, "Kaa-chan!" Itachi was quick to separate himself from the smaller woman as two projectiles flew out from the tornado of sand.
"Ohayou kaa-chan!" Gaara embraced his mother, Temari doing the same on the other side.
"Ohayou!"
"Who's he?" Teal hardened at the sight of an unknown man, the smaller blonde's voice promising pain to whomever had been with their mother. Itachi stared back amused at the reaction he was getting from the girl.
"He's Itachi-jii," Natsu informed.
"Oh, he's Sasu-jii's aniki?" Gaara asked as he too turned to look at the older raven. Teal met onyx and time seemed to slow down. There was nothing else but them; Gaara felt an instant connection to the dark-haired man standing a little away from them. Itachi smiled at the redhead, causing Gaara to blush when the handsome man's lips broke into a gentle smile that showed him just how much the older knew about the redhead.
Natsu stared at the pair, perplexed at her youngest son's reaction to Itachi. Their gazes were locked and they had been staring at each other for a few moments when Gaara blushed. Slowly the red tint spread across his cheeks until his face seemed to have an overflow of blood in them. She smiled because she hadn't known; she had almost given up on Gaara ever finding someone who could fix his almost broken mentality. If only she knew, she'd have introduced them much earlier.
"Natsu?" blue turned to look at the silver haired man who had called out to her.
"Kashi-kun?"
"Why is he here?" the Copy Nin was tense as he glared at the missing-nin. He didn't move, he was waiting for the explanation as to why there was a missing ninja in the village and his fiancée seemed to be on good terms with him.
"Kashi-kun, he means no harm," Natsu said.
"He's a missing-nin," Kakashi replied.
"Are you sure?" Natsu was sceptical as she asked. "Did you even ask Jii-jii about him? Or did you just get to that conclusion by yourself?"
"Natsu, I'm tired of this," Kakashi said. "All the secrets you seem to think I shouldn't know, I need to know. I really need to know more about you. I want to know more..."
"Alright, I'll tell you everything." Natsu sighed. "Aniki, will you take care of the twins?" she turned her attention back to the three.
"Kaa-chan," Temari's small voice caught her attention. "I'm gonna go see Shika-kun."
"Alright, be home before eight."
"That's too late," Kakashi cut in. "Be home by seven or I start looking."
"Go Mari-chan, before your father decides to forbid you from going at all."
"I'll see you at home kaa-chan, tou-chan," she said then disappeared in a miniature typhoon.
"Natsu," Kakashi growled angrily.
"Ne aniki, take care of Gaara will you?" Natsu said as she put a restraining hand on Kakashi's arm.
"Sure," the older raven said, not taking his eyes away from the redhead.
"Remember aniki, he's only ten," Natsu teased as she, along with Kakashi, disappeared in a bright flash of yellow. They may have disappeared, but the slight tint that ran across Itachi's face was not lost to the couple.
The pair appeared in a clearing somewhere inside the forests within Konoha. The dying embers of the sun painted the lake a brilliant orange glow, the lights dancing across the surface of the crystal blue waters. Natsu got lost in the beauty of her 'special spot' as she looked around. It had not lost its charm given how long it had been since she had been there.
Kakashi didn't know what to say, he had never been to this part of Konoha and he had once thought that he had been everywhere in the village but once again, Natsu had proved him wrong. He didn't even know that there was such a place within the village walls and yet here he was, standing in the middle of such ethereal beauty that he had not expected to discover. He glanced at his mate, her blonde hair glowing slightly with the dying light reflecting against the sunny locks. "She's so beautiful. I still can't believe she's actually mine. How did it even happen?" he lost himself in his thoughts as he continued to stare at the petite girl who was his fiancée.
"Kashi-kun?" Natsu's soft voice pulled him back into reality. She held her hand out to him. "The water looks lovely, swim with me?"Kakashi didn't know what to say. She had already taken most of her clothes off, leaving her in her dark blue lingerie. He nodded dumbly, unable to prevent his eyes from roaming over her almost bare body. "Kakashi, are you alright?"
"Huh... yeah... I'm fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Of course," Kakashi nodded, coherently this time. "Go in without me, I'll be with you soon."
"Okay." Natsu ran to the edge of the lake and dived right in, Kakashi's eyes following every move she made. He couldn't look away as the muscles in her legs bunched up as she prepared to jump in. He stared as she surfaced, her long blonde hair a curtain in front of her face, the water dripping down. Her appearance woke a primal desire within him, the raging instincts he had been pulling back for so long broke free at the sight and he knew that the day wouldn't end without him claiming his mate. "Kakashi, come on!" she waved happily at him.
"I'm coming," his smile was bright yet slightly feral, the glint in his twin onyx orbs made a shiver run down her spine. Natsu knew that she had pushed her mate a tad too much. She knew that it was time and she was afraid, no not afraid, she was nervous but excited at the same time. So lost was she in her thoughts, she didn't notice the jounin walking towards the bank until he had broken the surface with his dive.
She was suddenly pulled under, her arms flailing in an attempt to rise above the waters. Eyes as blue as the lake widened when Kakashi was suddenly in front of her with his own onyx pools glinting with desire; he kissed her, slowly, tenderly as he kicked until they were above the surface. Pulling back as air became essential to their burning lungs, Natsu shivered at his tone as he said, "Natsu, I want you." He whispered against her ear accompanied with a slight nibble at her earlobe and she knew she would cave.
"Take me, Kashi," she said, her words flooding him with lust until he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to control himself. He carried her to the bank as they melded their lips together in a sweet kiss. They were lost in their own world, unaware of nothing else around them as they moved as one in a passionate dance that would tie them together as one, forevermore.
AN: Okay, so I'm really 10x sorry for the suuuuuper long wait but I hope you all liked it. I will slowly, very slowly torture you with small parts of it until I get more reviews.. Hahaha
Just kidding, though I'm serious about the reviews. The more I get, the faster I write. I will make time because things have cooled down so help me guys, just comment or anything...
Love you all..
Allie
