Chapter 12: Danzo and near death

Even as Kakashi charged Danzo he couldn't help but give himself a mentally pat, his skills in the Sharingan had clearly improved over the years as he had never before been able plant a genjutsu so deep within another persons mind in just a few seconds. And while it had been a gamble it clearly paid off since he now had a good reason to remove Danzo from the world.

As they neared each other Kakashi pulled out three shuriken and threw them with minimal effort, and with also minimal effort Danzo simple shifted a little to the side and dodged the attack but had now lost a little in his speed thus making Kakashi the one who initiated the close combat with a open fist uppercut but Kakashis right fist which was immediately parried by Danzos right upper arm, who in turn tried a swift kick with his left leg towards Kakashis stomach.

Already knowing that the kick was feint for a jutsu that Danzo was preparing, Kakashi allowed himself to be hit for the sole reason to be pushed away from the the line of fire, this proved correctly as Danzos wind blade flew past him and sliced through a pillar not so far away from them. A kunai was smoothly pulled out from his chest holder to his left hand and he made a downward slash against his foe and as Kakashi had expected Danzo had also already pulled out a kunai an blocked the attack.

As neither of the two fighters were strength fighters and mostly relied on their speed the next few minutes were mostly blurrs as the fighters dashed towards each other, clashed and then dashed backwards before repeating the procedure.

With years of training and experience from the field Kakashi landed in a crouch, his hands was already on his shurikens pouch and even as he pulled them out he added lightning chakra to them before letting them fly. Within the first two seconds he had already thrown a dozen but his opponent had also faced death closer then most and easily drew another kunai and channeled wind chakra to his weapons and with small adjustment made one longer then the other.

Kakashi grimaced as Danzo slowly began moving closer towards him while cutting down the shurikens easily as breathing and now his options were more limited then he would have liked, with a grunt he channeled chakra to his left hand and threw a Lightning beast towards Danzo while preparing for a fire jutsu next.

Danzo however proved once again he could compete on Hiruzen level with ease as he easily cut down the lightning wolf with the first wind kunai, jumped over the fire ball and threw his lone kunai now super charged right at Kakashi who would have been hit in his right shoulder, had he not his Sharingan seen the movement and now only nicked him. Still however some blood went through his armor and with a hiss Kakashi placed his left arm over the wound, and with little lightning chakra and fried the wound close.

Noticing that the fighting was slowly coming to a end both fighters realize the need to finish the fight soon to either escape or help his allies.

Powering up his most famous jutsu Kakashi dashed forward with his Raikiri on his left hand while Danzo with his strong wind affinity channeled it to a new kunai in his right hand and also charged forward. As the wind is stronger then the wind Kakashis Raikiri had almost lost all of it's power when his fist reached the kunai, and believing this to be his win Danzo pushed forward with a small smile growing.

However even as his weapon is about to hit Kakashis fist Danzo noticed that his enemies Sharingan had changed shape to a twisted black shuriken, and suddenly Kakashis fist went through his weapon almost ghost like. Being a very experienced ninja Danzo immediately began to adjust his path, key word tried as Kakashi now had taken a firm grip on his wrist and to his growing horror Kakashis right hand was almost in front of his chest with another Raikiri activated.

'The bastard used a genjutsu to hide his right arm?!'

That small step he had manage to take earlier however saved him from having heart being turned into a hole, but even as Kakashi missed a few inches from his original target he still ripped apart a large part of Danzos chest.

Desperately pulling back Danzo found it hard to breath which meant that the attack had also hit his lung, he knew that this was it. It was his time to join his teacher, friends and family but he was determined to take the blasted Kakashi with him! Call it foolish, call idiotic patriotism or whatever they would like, but Danzo believed in the greater good for Konoha and his last act to take away the one who controlled Hiruzen was his last act for the better of his home.

With his last strength he reached to pull apart his armor and clothes so he could activate his hidden seal on his chest, his newly created Reverse four Symbols sealing would certainly kill Kakashi.

"Reverse..."

And then open palm hit from the side on his head and even as he staggered backwards he saw the spinning kick coming for his chest fused with chakra.

'I'm sorry, Hiruzen. This is it for me' was he last thoughts as he flew backwards and then slide towards the wall.

By the time Kakashi had manage to get back to the fight it was already over as Hanzo fell, or rather was crushed against the wall by several Shinra Tensei by a very pissed Uzumaki and while the Ame leader deserved it after he had poisoned both of the Uzumakis friends while taunting him you felt some pity for the guy who now looked like a broken doll.

As both the rouge leader from Konoha and the head ninja from Ame was defeated the renaming loyal forces began to wavered. But even as Yahiko rose to trying to size the moment to have them change loyalty, a huge number of loyal Ame ninjas entered the now almost destroyed lobby and upon seeing their leader dead along with several of their allies made them not very displeased.

Once Sakumo notice that the situation was going spiraling downwards fast he quickly made a signal with his left hand with the order for retreat in all haste, his fellow ninjas obediently followed the order and soon the Konoha forces had picked up their fallen comrades and made a hasty retreat back to where they came from. Their new allies Akatsuki members upon seeing this also decided to followed them and to distract their enemies they threw several smoke and gas bombs.

And despite that several Ame ninjas followed them through the hidden tunnels it proved futile since the attackers knew their way out and easily put some distance between them, it was when they got outside that Kakashi suddenly stumbled and while he manage to get his bearing quickly again but with his pale skin and sweating heavily it was obvious that something was wrong.

What none saw however was the single black form the left its cover behind one of the few still standing pillars and walked over to the body of Danzo, and after some poking and probing the being gave a crazy smile and picked up the body and left the area the same way it had appeared.

So when he stumbled once again and this time not getting his bearing fast enough, another ninja barely manage to get hold of him and barely a second later Sakumo had assigned another ninja to help support Kakashi the rest of the way back to the Akatsuki camp. Once here he was almost thrown at the medics there, with firm instructions to remove the poison that was inside of Kakashi before they moved the camp later tonight and when Tsunade joined the team they were hopefuly it would be found quickly.

That proved wrong then even after several hours none from the medics had left the tent where they tried to treat Kakashi, but as time passed by the chance for the enemy to find them was only increasing. After two hours of waiting Sakumo and Yahiko decided that enough was enough and Kakashi was being sent back to Konoha along with two escorts, who would also take home the dead in their sealing scrolls, meanwhile the rest would continue helping the Akatsuki group securing the country.

Thankfully the trip back to Konoha was mostly uneventful with a few warnings from a Hyuga where the enemy scouts was patrolling, which was a good thing since the small group would not been able to fight back without sacrificing the wounded. During this trip Kakashi woke several times but never stayed awake for longer then a few seconds, and with only one their members having little knowledge of being a medic it was clearly a bad sign.

Some days later the small and exhausted group finally entered the first wall of the steady growing Konoha village, however the news that a small team had returned with one of the more famous ninjas unconscious spread fast like a wildfire through the city and soon a large group of medical staff arrived before them and with ease took Kakashi along with the rest to the hospital for intense care.

And yet no matter what they did or tried with had little to none effect, so with a blow to their pride the medics of Konoha could only let their patient wake up on his own. So when the Uchiha heiress came back from a mission two days later and was most displeased by their lack of success to bring 'her man' back to the land of living, they were very pleased when Kakashi finally woke up the same night. The next day the they made several test and had him do several stupid, in Kakashi opinion, exercises to see if he responded to strangely to any of them.

This however proved the limit to Mikotos patience as she the next day forced the hospital to release Kakashi saying that she could take better care of him. She had even bought a special costume to help...Kakashi get better and needless to say that Kakashi preferred Mikotos way of healing then the real hospital.

'Brat, we have a problem'

'Can we take it later? I'm...busy at the moment'

'You can cuddle with your women later brat, this is way more important!' Kakashi decided to ignore the growing irritation that the fox was sending out, the bed and his bed partner far more important.

'You sure? This looks like a perfect way to recover from whatever poison I got from Hanzo' Kakashi grumbled in his mind while pulling Mikoto closer.

'You deaf or something suddenly, brat?! You were never close to Hanzo so it is impossible for you to have inhaled some poison! We are dying because of another reason!'

'Say again?' In a millisecond Kakashi was wide awake and judging from how Mikoto began to shift beside him, she had noticed something was wrong.

'Think brat, what kind of universal law did we immedatly break when we entered in this time?'

With the new information Kakashis mind was already in overdrive and within a few seconds he had already come up with a idea.

'It can only exist one person or thing in the same time'

'Correctly, there is already a much younger version of you and complete me in this time, the reason we didn't cease to exist or merged with our younger parts is simple because that we are different. You are what? Five at this time? And the other me is complete and all evil' Kakashi did not miss the sarcasm at the end about himself but chooses to focus on the important stuff.

'So how long does we have before we...feel the effects?' the dreadful question that must be asked but that nobody wanted to either answer nor ask was out before he had even registered the thought. 'And I'm twelve by this time!'

'Hard to say. You have already began to notice the effects somewhat, the few wounds you have taken should have healed long ago with my help but are still there' Kurama then went silent thinking, leaving Kakashi growing more and more irritated.'I would guess about ten years before something drastic happens'

Ten years? Long enough to end the war and make the world a better place, but to little to see his future children graduate from the academy. It was a strange feeling Kakashi mused, he had walked a slim line along death and even died before for the greater good but only now was he starting to feel alive.

"Hey, 'Kashi. Something wrong?" the sleepy yet gentle voice from the female beside him easily broke his musing to a end quickly and at the same time found it somewhat easier to accept it.

"Nothing really, just had a revelation of some sort you could say" and while Mikoto liked it when Kakashi kissed her forehead tenderly and somehow manage to snuggle closer, she didn't believe him totally. But for the moment she was content to lie beside the man whom she have grown very attached to.

In the morning with his mind cleared from any doubts Kakashi made his way towards Mikotos fathers room, with his head held high and for once actually dressed formally with a light blue kimono along with a black haori.

What others didn't see however was his usual armur underneath along with a large number of kunais in various poches on his legs, despite being sure of the answer he would receive Kakashi was not taking any chances in case if a fight would occur.

And while a fight didn't happen when he asked "I would like to marry your daughter" was mostly because Kakashi jumped away the second his potential father in law activated his sharingan.

When Mikoto woke up from her sleep and found herself alone in the bed, she briefly wondered what it would take to wake up beside her lover still beside her. The thought however was crushed in her mind fast as she had learned to fight for her dreams, they would not come to her on their own. A while later fresh and cleaned for a new day she leaves her room and heads towards the kitchen, and on a normal day she would have reached it with no problem and made herself some tea with something small to chew on while the maids made her a real breakfast.

Today however was differently not normal, instead of a calm morning she instead heard shouting and from what she heard two people running.

Followed by sharp weapons, shurikens by the sound of it, hitting the wall only ten meters away.

Followed by more shouting and metal hitting metal. By now half the compound was coming out from their rooms and searching for what was causing the sounds and what they saw would have been a funny to watch if it wasn't for the fact that the Uchiha clan leader was trying to cut down one of the stronger ninjas of Konoha.

They watched quietly as Kakashi ducked and jumped away from the attacks while trying to calm the clan leader down.

"It will be a large ceremony!" the leader suddenly exclaimed when Kakashi manage to catch the blade between his hands.

"I would prefer a small one..."

"Nonsense! This is something that needs to be celebrated! The Hokage and even the daimyo shall be invited" the Uchiha leader continued while still trying to cleave the man in front of him in half.

"...You do now that there is a civil war raging about that title, right?" Kakashi replied while adding more chakra to keep the blade in place.

"It matters little. The one with the more power will come and therefor strengthen his position"

"Maaa, should we not ask your daughter first before deciding?"

In that moment Mikoto found herself in the center of all attention, not only the clan but also the two most important males in her life.

"...What?" she asked hesitantly, it was quite a bizare situation after all.

"A large ceremony or a small one" the two fighters asked in union.

"It depends...what is the occasion?" she asked in turn.

"A wedding"

"Somebody I know?"if this was a sick joke from her father she would make him fear her wrath.

"Of course" her father replied in mock hurt. "Yours and this Kakashi boy...unless I cleave him of course"

Mikotos attention immediately turned to her potential fiancé, who while smiled looked rather sheepish as this was not the way he would have asked her if he had done it his own way.

Around her another kind of chaos happened, the women squealed in delight while the males nodded in approval before all of the started shouting their ideas for the weeding. But before she herself could say anything what she thought her father spoke again.

"Since my daughter have lost the ability to speak at the moment, I deiced that a condition is a large weeding"

While Mikoto was not surprised that her father decided how she would be married, it certainly bother Kakashi a great deal. Despite being famous for his Icha-Icha reading he had always respected the kunoichis.

However the shy yet very pleased smile along with a small blush on his fiancé face made him forget about those thoughts.

"So this was your revelation that you spoke of yesterday?"

"That and that life is to short for us ninjas to wait or wait for the perfect moment or along the lines of what if"

While the reply was somewhat vague it was enough for Mikoto who took his hand and lead him towards the kitchen for a well deserved breakfast.

Two months later Kakashi found himself now as married person. The marriage had been, despite protest from Kakashi and Mikoto, Hikaru and even Hiruzen had insisted on a large scale ceremony, after all half of Konoha was invited and several people from Kumo had come.

Now however came the hard part to tell Mikoto about his past/future and the disaster the Uchiha would be facing if he was not able to make things different then they had been before. But mostly it was because he was tired of always saying half lies or almost the whole truth, he wanted things to be honest between them, even if their occupation required it from them to lie.

"Mikoto?"

"Yes, Kakashi?" his wife replied beside him replied reading a book, a lantern between them as they sat on the balcony of their home. For a brief moment Kakashis attention shifted to wonder if Mikoto was trying to seduce him again by having her kimono slightly loose, showing just a right amount of cleavage...

'Yeah, better not go there or she will succeed once again'

Noticing the knowing smirk on his wife he knew he had been caught but with a cough his resolve returned and so his wife focus on him.

"Now that we are married I think it's time for me to tell you more about my former home, or rater what does this say to you?" Kakashi somehow produced a paper along with a pencil and began to draw several strange lines, which at the moment didn't look that much familiar to Mikoto.

"What am I looking at?" while Mikoto didn't have much knowledge of seals, she have been friend with one of the last Uzumaki for years and had picked up a few things here and there. "I barely recognize a few of the lines from Kushinas style"

Kakashi nodded and highlighted two of the many lines.

"These two?"

Mikoto had now entered her curious/studying mode that every ninja would do, for knowledge is power and power can save your life one day.

"..Yes...that look similar to time...and travel?" she looked at her husband with little disbelief. "You can't..."

"The time where I came from was a place where Konoha didn't exist anymore" Kakashi began solemly, his eye starred at the paper while lost in thoughts. "We believed that the war was over when we defeated Kaguya but we should have known better. Madara would never allow us to have the last laugh"

While Mikoto wanted to ask what the heck her husband was talking about, Madara as Uchiha Madara and Kaguya, she recognize the look in Kakashis eye to know that questions was better asked later.

"In his last moment he somehow manage to use one last genjutsu on us all, well not exactly everybody. Everybody that was not a Konoha ninja, which was quite a lot. The illusion however only influenced a single action, mistrust towards all who lived in Land of Fire. The peace we all had fought, sacrificed and died for only lasted for about two years" Kakashi muttered with his voice going more and more bitter. "Slowly the trade between us diminished until nothing existed, next was growing hostility and despite our growing desperate pleads of the opposite they soon isolated us. And soon it became a open war and we were not strong enough to fight a war against the whole continent"

Mikoto is almost taken back with how much venom Kakashi speaks of his past, but still don't dare to interrupt the very strange story of her husbands past.

"We were forced to leave our home as we could no longer defend it and made our last stand in the ruins of Uzushiogakure and to our great surprise we found a seal that could help us, well it would not help our current war"

"But it could...help you solve everything before it actually happened?" Mikoto guessed in a quite tone.

"Indeed. But in the end it also failed, as only I was sent back" Kakashi sighed tiredly and leaned back in his chair. "We had gathered enough power to send back at least twenty people but as the fight continued we had to sent more of us to keep the enemy occupied which in the end only left four of us in the room"

"But...but even if what you are saying is true, surely the power of Konoha and the power of the Uchiha would secure your survival?"

Judging on how quite Kakashi began Mikoto really wanted to take her question back, her question had cleared woke some unpleasant memories.

"Even before the 4th Ninja war there was only three members of Uchiha clan left"

To think that such a short meaning could hurt so much.

"What? How? Even...but...we are the largest clan in Konoha, how could..." Mikoto could feel herself becoming more and more desperate for answers along side her growing panic.

"The sad truth was that two of them had gone rouge over the years. But to answer your question, it's complicated. After the 3rd Ninja war the Uchihas became restless in their compund and felt like they didn't belong with the rest of the village as they lived in secluded. Some years later a...disaster struck the village" Kakashi almost flinched as the horrible memories of the Kyuubi attack came back. "Someone sneaked into the village and kidnapped Kushina while she gave birth to her son and while Minato only left Kushina alone for a short moment to place his son in safety it was enough for the enemy to unseal the Kyuubi and make it go rampage on the village"

As Kakashi stopped to calm his mind from the horrible memories Mikoto tried to collect her thoughts over the story that her husband is telling her.

"While Minato and Kushina fought against the kidnapper and trying to remove the control of the Kyuubi, Hiruzen rallied the forces in village and lead several attacks on delaying the demon with enough time for Minato to not only remove the enemies control of Kyuubi but also making him retreat from the Konoha.

Then came the hard decision how to seal the Kyuubi back. Kushina was not able as she was already dying by having the demon unsealed from her, and Minato had to preform the sealing it only left their own child. However before they could really decied what to do the Kyuubi took it for them as it tried to attack Naruto, their child, and in desperate act of defiance they threw themselves in the way and stopped the claw that would have ripped the child in shreds. And with their last strength they sealed the Kyuubi into the now lone child.

Now, while the Uchihas fought against the Kyuubi several survivors claimed that they saw the signs that the Sharingan was influencing the demon. The clan of course denied the accusation but could not explain why so few of them had fought in fight and why their homes had been spared as much as they had. Distrust grew between the village and the Uchiha until eight years later the unrest in the clan grew so much that they planned a coup. Hiruzen who had once again taken up the title of Hokage caught wind of it and tried to appease the clan but to a certain Council member it was not enough"

"That man was Danzo right?" Mikoto asked heatedly and Kakashi nodded. "I guess that was why you always was wary of the man. Good riddance then"

"Indeed" Kakashi muttered before continuing. "He ordered the Uchiha spy to kill all members of his clan to save the village from civil war"

"Obviously he refused right?"

"No...no he did not. At the age of thirteen Uchiha Itachi became world famous for his massacre of his own clan, leaving only one survivor. His little brother Sasuke. I'm sorry to say this but Sasuke and Itachi were yours and Fugakus children"

Mikoto almost flew up from her chair with enough force to knock her chair backwards, to hear that one of her own would kill the entire clan was laughable at best. But before she could even ask who the traitor was so they could be removed, Kakashi continued his story.

"During the 3rd war you married Uchiha Fugaku" and Mikoto was really pleased to see Kakashi grimaced. "Together you had two sons, Itachi and Sasuke, born with three years between them they shared a very tight bond. It was also that bond that made Itachi take the mission to spy on his own clan by the order of Hiruzen and in the end was fooled by Danzo later to kill his own family"

Mikoto could feel the little color and warmth in her body disapear at that moment.

'My son turned traitor? What...how? Di...did I raise him wrong? Did Fugaku did something? That basard! I will kill him!'

"What happened then? Did he get killed by the ones who ordered him to kill us all or was he forgiven?!" Mikoto was slowly becoming more and more hysterical this story was to much to hear, even worse was no matter how crazy or bad the story her husband was telling she could tell he was telling the truth! Heck, even with her Sharingan studding his movement, reading all body signs and everything just told her it was the truth. A truth that she would never truly accept.

"Neither. He was tasked to keep watch over a growing mercenary group called Akatsuki as he fled the village, from a clan that now only had one survivor. Your younger son Sasuke" Kakashi once again sighed tiredly and leaned back in his chair, with his left hand he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Years later when he graduated from the academy he was placed under my teaching, which in hindsight was not the best option. He and I would, will, never truly understand each other and as such could never pull out his true potential. To make the story short, he was not pleased how slowly he was growing under my tutelage and instead chosed to join the rouge ninja Orochimaru"

"Alright...please, just stop"

Kakashi was not surprised that Mikoto finally had enough, the bigger question however was if she would even remotely believe him.

"I...I need to sleep on this. See you tomorrow"

AN: Sorry for the very late update. I had some really problem making this chapter as not only does Kakashi tell Mikoto about his past/future but I also had to decided if this Kakashis future was good enough.

Please, review and tell me your thoughts about this chapter and anything else I should add.

Oh! Merry christmas in advance to you all until next time!