Title : The New Hokage
Pairing : KakaIru
Rating : PG-15 or more
A/N :
Yes. Yes. I finally update again – after updating the Kunoichi's Heart, one of my KakaIru fic that I focus for now. And if you do remember what I told you all in the previous chapter, then I want to tell you that... You may call me doctor now. 8D – just got a graduation ceremony today.
WARNING : UNBETAED as usual. (Sorry, anyone interested to beta? Feel free to PM/review me..) Mpreg or something close to it.
And for u all, thanks for the reviews! I read it all! And for those who hates/dislikes MPREG idea, I'm afraid to say this story is heading to that one (kind of). I don't mind if you stop reading here. I'll miss your comments, but I need to keep writing this. Thanks again!
_Izky_
Chapter 26 (Words : 2,667 words)
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The beautiful blonde Sannin walked across the huge sterile corridor, trailing behind her was a certain masked dark brown haired ANBU. The hospital staffs, med-nins and nurses, bowed lightly at the powerful Sannin and gave a hesistate bow at the ANBU, but the two people simply nodded and kept walking forward.
"Do you already talk to your ... partner about this?" Tsunade asked, eyes still stared ahead. Iruka thanked her for her discreetion. Even with the empty corridor, they couldn't be sure if someone could overheard this conversation.
The masked ANBU, the Hawk, simply shook his head. "No. I will tell him later when there is a clear possibility this can work. He has other businesses to attend to." He decided to go as the Hawk because it was easier to mask his identity (Akari and Iruka were both infamous in their own way, too infamous for Iruka's liking) and few people dared to ask an ANBU.
"Understandable. Come, the room is this way." And the blonde Sannin lead them into a huge white door with the sign of 'Authorization Only'. "We need to use some sterile equipments first. Just follow my actions."
As they entered, Iruka obeyed Tsunade's words. They were in a large room which Iruka guessed as 'dressing room' , with some gowns attached on the wall and long wash basin, complete with boxes of sterile mask and gloves. They washed their hands in the huge wash basin attached on the wall, put down the mask ("You won't need it inside." Tsunade said) and replaced it with a sterile green mask which covered the lower portion of their faces, wore a pair of sterile gloves, and lastly a white-blue sterile gown prepared in the wardrobe attached to the wall. As he wore the sterile gown (with some difficulties and Tsunade's help because he had never worn one before), Iruka finally asked, "Where we will go, Tsunade-sama?"
Tsunade, already wore her own gown, nodded at the ANBU's appearance. "Good, now, come inside." And the Sannin proceeded to enter another door at the corner of the room, Iruka followed behind her.
The next room was apparently a huge room with so many equipments and tubes inside. A few workers, wore the same suit as Iruka and Tsunade, walked back and forth across the room, monitoring the tubes, talking in small voices, writing some reports and many things else that Iruka didn't want to understand. There were many transparant long tubes attached to the floor with grennish-transparent liquid inside, but what pulled Iruka's interest was the strange ... things inside those tubes, floating in the liquid gently as bubbles of gasses circling around them. It looked a lot like a tropical aquarium, except instead of fishes, the...things (Iruka wasn't sure what they were) occupied it.
"Tsunade-sama... Isn't it..." Iruka didn't dare to continue, finally recognizing the shape of one of those when they walked closer.
Tsunade nodded, eyes stared at the way Iruka pointed. "Yes, it's a liver."
Iruka stared amazedly at the floating item. Liver? "How? Is that a person's liver?"
Tsunade shook her head, a proud note in her tone. "No, this organ is created right in this laboratorium. This is what I want to talk to you about."
Iruka was silent, transfixed as he realized the rows of many organs in others nearest tubes.
"Maybe you have heard this word before : stem cell. Do you know about it, sensei?" The Sannin asked.
The ANBU nodded. "I've heard that it is a kind of cell that can grow into multiple type of cells in our body, Tsunade-sama. I used to teach a little about them in Advanced Classes."
"Good, so I don't need to explain from the scratch then. Since a few years ago, Konoha already began some chakra-enhanced experiments to modify the stem cells to grow into the kind of cells, tissues, and even organs that we need. There has been few researches since I turned Hokage where we have tried to 'create' a few important organs to transplant them into people who needs them, mostly shinobi who unfortunately has lost them in battles. So far we sucessfully has 'made' two livers, two kidneys, three eyeballs, and we're in the progress of 'growing' a lung."
Iruka's eyes widened at the revealation. "Is that even possible, Tsunade-sama?"
Tsunade nodded, folding her arms under her massive breasts. "Normally, in normal countries, their people can't even 'grow' the organs, and they faced some ethical problems as well – but I won't explain them to you, it's too troublesome. But here, our chakra system surprisingly can enhance the growth and the immune system of these organs, making them grow succesfully to the final stage so it can be transplanted and used in real bodies. And I don't care about some ethical issues as long as I can keep my shinobi alive and doing their job well."
Iruka nodded, finally understanding a little. "Are the transplantions sucessful?"
The ANBU raised his eyebrows when the Sannin went silent for a few seconds before answered. "We've already transplanted one liver and one kidney to two of our shinobis. It's a success."
Iruka could hear she wasn't finished. "But...?"
Tsunade finally sighed, "It's a long process. We must monitor them for the first month for any side effects, even after we injected some immunorepressents for them. Both of the patients have nauseas, some rashes, but so far are healthy. We need to make sure to monitor their progress tightly, at least until a year. "
"Still...it's amazing development, Tsunade-sama. You are really a great doctor and medic-nin." Iruka praised sincerely.
Tsunade smiled behind her mask, "Thank you, now that you already see these results, we can discuss it in more details, follow me."
Iruka obediently followed the walking Sannin as they walked deeper into the huge room until they reached a small hidden door. "This is my private lab. We can talk here."
Tsunade's private laboratorium was in fact... a small lab. There was a long white desk with many tubes and equipments scattered on it. But at the corner of the lab, Iruka spotted a small couch with a small desk there. Tsunade must use it to take a rest in the middle of her work.
"I'm planning to 'attach' an uterus – a womb and ovarium inside your body." The sannin said without any preambles as she sat down on the couch.
Iruka's brown eyes widened, nearly stumbling at her blunt words. "What!"
Tsunade smiled, pulling down her mask. "It's the only and best way I can think of to make those damn councils shut up and believe you're really pregnant. Basically, you're lacking a few female organs to make babies with the brat, so we're simply adding the said organs. The rest is up to Kakashi to 'donate' his sperm to you."
"You're crazy, Tsunade-sama..." The brown eyes didn't dare to stare at anything but the Sannin, blushing at the Sannin's end of sentence.
"Well...I think you're far crazier for loving that crazy brat AND wanting to give him a heir. Personally I think having ONE crazy Hatake is enough for the world, but you want ANOTHER one. You're simply crazy, Iruka." The golden eyes twinkled.
Iruka groaned, knowing she was true.
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He decided to talk to Kakashi a few days later, after silently contemplating how to approach the subject to the silver haired Rokudaime. The older man had been very busy with the political and international threats of Akatsuki and Uchiha Madara – a fact that made Iruka reluctant to talk to him. Still, he couldn't delay it any longer. The council had already shown few unsettled signs of their engagement status – if Tsume and Anko's reports were true. It wouldn't be long before they decide to make the wedding happen, threats outside or not.
Tsunade's words rang in his head, a clear gentle voice with a hidden steel inside every words, floating and circling inside his brain, over and over again.
"You need to decide fast. The growth of syntetical uterus and ovarium will need a few months at least. Futhermore, we need to seal you first in the form of Akari and give you hormone replacement therapy to make Akari's body adaptable to the changes. Of course, you can't turn back AT ALL into Iruka, at least until you finally bear a child."
Iruka's face turned green at that. "How long I must be sealed in Akari's form then?"
Tsunade's golden eyes glinted, "Two years...minimum. Decide this carefully, Iruka."
The explanation shook him to the core. It was easier to pretend to be a female for few hours a day, to think and act as if it was an infiltration mission, and so far it was a success. But pretending to be a female for two whole years was entirely a different thing at all. He needed to live as Akari, to be in an entirely different body, wearing different clothes, doing different works, going home as Akari, and what's about his-her relationship with Kakashi himself? They hadn't even touched intimately beyond kissing in her form due to Iruka's own awkwardness and –surprisingly- his silver haired lover's understanding (the silver haired man was surprisingly sensitive in the bedroom matters, Iruka mused).
God, those thoughts gave him headaches.
"Love, I'm home." The tired voice came from the door. Iruka quickly glanced at the clock : 19.30 PM. It was the usual time of the Rokudaime reached home, although a bit later than the previous days.
"I'm preparing dinner, Kakashi." Iruka said clearly from the kitchen, where he had spent the last few hours in.
Not five seconds he said that when he sensed the warm breath on the nape of his neck ; the other man already put his mask down. Iruka asked calmly, "How're the meetings?"
"Busy. We agree to form a Shinobi Alliance with others four great hidden villages. It will be held sometimes this month in some neutral country. It's classified though." Kakashi finished the drink (he took it a second ago) with a quick toss of his wrist, then set the glass aside and put his hands on the younger man's waist. "You smell like hospital."
Iruka tilted his head back, letting the other's sharp nose sniffed his neck gently. "I went to the hospital today, to meet Tsunade-sama." He answered the silent question, hands still busy stirring the soup on the stove.
The hands on his hips tightened for a second, "Why? Are you sick?"
Iruka chuckled, shaking his head, as he turned his body a bit to face the older nin. "No. It's just ... related to what I want to talk to you."
"About what?" Iruka couldn't read the expression in his dark blue eye, but he didn't mind.
"About our future. And children."
The fingers but into his waist. "Iruka..." Anxiety creeping into Kakashi's tone.
Iruka gave a harsh, strained laugh. It amazed him how unreadable the expression and the emotions in that single dark blue orbs for a second and turned very readable and expressive the next. His idiot lover was surprisingly insecure about their future – especially about children. He knew –as ridiculous as it was- that Kakashi felt guilty to take away Iruka's chance to be a father. "No. Nothing is wrong with our relationship. I still love you, idiot. I'm thinking about how to turn tables from those damn council members."
The bare handsome face smiled in relief, kissing his lips quickly. "Oh. Alright, what is it then?"
"Eat first, you looked tired and hungry. We can talk after dinner alright?"
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"So... Tsunade really can do that?" Kakashi's visible eye stared in amazement at his lengthy (filled with stumbling and embrassement and amused grins) explanation. They had finished dinner and comfortably nestled in the couch in the living room when Iruka decided to tell what he had been told a few days ago.
"True. I can't believe it myself if I didn't see those...organs first." Iruka said calmly, monitoring the other's response through his story. So far, the silver haired man kept calm, listening to his part of story silently. But Iruka knew the listening part was already over.
There was a lengthy silence, before Kakashi lowered his eyes at him and asked in a suddenly death still tone. "Is it dangerous for the host?"
"Tsunade-sama mentioned that there are some side-effects like nausea, rashes on skin, and basically some mild allergic reaction. And the patients must be monitored for months."
Kakashi nodded slowly, staring down at both his open palms. "And I guess you wait for my approval, isn't it?"
Iruka sighed, "I love you, Kakashi and I want to stay next to you, always. I've been thinking many ways to overcome this heir problem, like adopting a child, getting you another wom-"
Before he could finish his words, Kakashi already tightened his arms around his. "There's no way I can choose another person, Iruka. It will hurt you."
The long haired brunette let himself fell forward into the other's chest. "I know that. I even know that you might want to disclose our relationship and step down as Hokage if the worst came. And I know you enough to know that the idea of you step down from the Hokage's position simply to refuse the council's request will hurt you. That's why I propose this idea for both of us, Kakashi."
The arms tightened again, his body heat slowly burning Iruka through his clothes. "And what's about you, love? You must keep acting and pretending as a woman for two whole years. Could you do that?"
"I will do anything for you, for us, Kakashi." Even as Iruka spoke, he knew deep inside he was filled with doubt, fear, and anxiety at the prospect and he was sure the other man could feel it through their touches, their breaths, and their chakras. Kakashi knew him better than he did himself.
They were silent for a moment, each contemplated what the other said. It wasn't even occured to them to part from each arms, simply embracing the other in silence, lost in their own thoughts.
"My clan, the Hatake, is one of the biggest clans in Lightning Country." The baritone voice was slow, gentle like falling rain, making Iruka shiver as it resonated through his ears. "We inherite the white chakra ability, which make us control electrical element and invent some famous electrical-based jutsus. We're both respected and feared by any other clans because of two reasons : the bloodline and the geniuses who somehow are abundance in the clan."
Iruka simply closed his eyes and listen, enjoying the gentle words and the vibration he felt from their touching bodies. "Why there isn't any other Hatake here in Konoha?" He finally asked carefully. Since they began their relationship, Iruka had never asked more about the older man's family, knowing it was a sensitive topic for him. But he figured he needed to know that now.
Kakashi simply sighed, tightened his arms as he nuzzled at the brown strands. "Not many people know this, but...Hatake Sakumo, my father, was Jiraiya's apprentice when the old man travelled decades ago. Jiraiya was entrusted to take care of him ever since he was teenager. The old man decided to take him here in Konoha, and that's the first Hatake appear here in Konoha."
Iruka blinked at the information, "So...you're Jiraiya's...kind-of...grandson?"
Kakashi nodded, "I preferred thinking him as a perverted uncle or something." On which the brunette simply chuckled.
"To me, marriage to a woman is something that I personally want to avoid if possible. I don't want to burden anyone with the Hatake name. It's a very heavy load to carry, love. I know that because I see how my Okaasan lived through that because she decided to marry a Hatake, I know how a Hatake lives, you can see it yourself how fucked up I become. And I don't want to make you and our children to carry that burden." Kakashi stroke the brunette's shoulder slowly, a motion that soothed the other man.
Our children. Iruka shivered at those words. He had never thought that he could have children who shared the same blood as he and Kakashi. He had thought that it was enough, that he had Naruto to coddle on, because in everything but blood, the blonde chuunin was his son, his little brother, his family.
But now, he would have a chance to imagine silver haired children with expressive dark brown eyes, or brown haired ones with a pair of beautiful dark blue eyes.
"Please answer me, Iruka. Do you want that as your future?" The other let him go, staring straight into his own dark brown eyes. That single eye stared ; Iruka could read the seriousity in it.
And Iruka smiled, pulling those pale lips into his own as he whispered his answer. "I want you as my husband, Hatake Kakashi. And I want your children. That's what I want."
I will take my chance, love.
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Tbc...
A/N : Kakashi's family background is completely my own idea, it's not cannon. Yes, I know I'm crazy writer. Still, I'm having fun inserting some science things –thanks to my medical background- here. And yes, I'm afraid I'm a bit crazy doc as well. 8P Flamers, please go away. Don't like this, simply stop reading. I won't be mad, unless you throw some ridiculous flames to me. xO
QUESTION : Sooo...should I make this idea work...? or... not? Should they have children...or not?
Until next time!
_Izky_