Sakumo Hatake hadn't been this far away from home since his mate had been killed by the ones who had sent him to get his son and murder the girl currently sleeping in his back seat. He had missed the mountains, lakes, rivers and other beautiful scenery. Or course he didn't really have any time to enjoy it all, but it was nice to see it again just the same. He had crossed the state line several hours ago and was mentally counting down how long it would take to reach his ranch house.

He was already planning to hole up there on his home soil with his daughter-in-law and try and get to know the girl while he could. Before Kakashi decided to come back home and rip his head off for taking his mate without consulting him first and scaring the shit out of him. The girl moaned and shifted in his back seat and lifted her hands to rub her eyes.

Uh-oh. She was waking up. Meaning that the drugs that he had given her to knock her out had finally run their course. He sighed and braced himself for the hysterics that he was sure to face and pulled over at a road side cafe so that he could get out and stretch his legs and maybe get something for himself and the girl to eat once she calmed down. He parked the car and turned around in his seat after unbuckling his seat belt and stared at the pretty blond as she opened her eyes and he sucked in a breath and held it for a second.

Holy wow.

Kakashi certainly knew how to pick a woman. The blond was a total knock out with her stunningly angelic features and her exotic ruby red eyes. Sakumo himself felt a little spark of attraction towards her but easily crushed the feeling by reminding himself that she was his son's woman, and he would not be a horrible father and try to take the female from his son. Because that would be weird, and cruel and it would just crush his son. And yet that particular plan appealed to his sadistic side. No wait...

He'd behave.

"Kashi? Is that you?" The woman asked in a sleepy sexy tone that made Sakumo curl his fingers around the soft black leather of his seat and dig his finger nails into the fabric in an effort to distract himself from the small bolt of lust that was coiling in his stomach.

"Sorry. But Kakashi isn't here." He said after a second or so. The woman frowned and looked at him and reached out and grasped a silver strand of his long bangs and pulled on it causing his eyes to widen and his ears to flatten back against his head. She had the most peculiar look on her pretty face, and he couldn't detect any fear in her expression or her scent.

What the fuck?

"So if Kashi isn't here, who are you?"

"His...father." Sakumo said after a second or so as he gently pulled her small hand away from his hair as she frowned at him and sat up in the seat and looked around, it would seem that she wasn't yet running on all four cylinders due to the drugs.

"Oh. It's nice to meet you sir-" She said politely as she pulled her hand from his grasp and looked around again. "Where are we? I don't recall being here before." She said as she pushed the blanket down around her waist and pushed her soft silky hair back away from her face.

Sakumo thinned his lips at her polite greeting and studied her. Why wasn't she panicking? He could tell that she was starting to think more clearly. So why was'nt she freaking out? He just didn't understand her. "You're in my car. And we are at least seven hundred miles from where you live."

She looked at him curiously. "Why?" She asked innocently and he gripped the back of his car seat tighter.

"Because I kidnapped you."

She gave him an amused expression and muttered something under her breath and he raised a brow at her. "Sorry, I didn't quite catch that."

She smiled at him, sweetly and he felt the need to duck down in his seat and hide himself away. He knew enough about females to know that look. "I said, that you'll regret kidnapping me soon enough." She said kindly and he couldn't help it, he gaped at her feeling utterly confounded.

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Kakashi was fairly shaking with rage as he packed some of his things and grabbed some of Uzu's too since he wasn't sure how long they would both be gone and quickly loaded up the car and climbed into the driver seat. If those damn fools back at the base thought that he would dance to their tune again after he had taken a mate and made a life for himself here, then they had another thing coming.

He would not become a killer again. He would not subject himself or Uzu to their humiliating experiments and he would not let them do as they liked.

Uzu was his mate, and he was a free man. He would live his life as he pleased and he would keep Uzu and their unborn child-

Oh god... He was hit by a sudden irrational bought of fear and almost drove his car right off of the road.

If the ones who had created him found out about the baby, there was no telling what they would do to Uzu in an effort to gather data. He'd seen them cut pregnant females open and scramble up their insides and pump them full of poisons to gather data on their offspring.

He'd imagine that they would do similar things to Uzu if they learned about the baby. He tightened his grip on the steering wheel and gritted his teeth.

He would not lose her! He would not lose their child!

I'm coming Uzu. Just wait for me and I'll find you.

Even if he had to bloody his hands again to do it...