Epilogue 2
There' s gentle door at the door before An shown up in the room, "Kaoru has just warned me how sparkly you guys are, but are you lovebirds fancy dinner later? I have also invited the team and Sarutobi- kun too."
"Sandaime is here too?" Iruka exclaimed.
"Yea. I was talking to him some matters that we have to address." An spoke causally, "do you want to talk to him? He is at my study with Hiroshi at the moment."
"Sure. I haven't talk to him for awhile," Iruka replied sweetly. Although since the conversation in that night, he was bit concerned about facing the old man, then, he didn't want to lose the relationship between the man and himself, as he treated the man as his own grandfather.
"Great," An replied, "please keep him company as I think Hiro-kun need to be in the kitchen soon."
"Nice. I guess we are going to have roast beef for dinner tonight?" Kakashi countered, "I love Hiroshi-nii's beef." He placed a small kiss on Iruka's forehead, "so I will see you at dinner then."
When Iruka disappeared down the end of corridor, An spoke quietly to Kakashi, "come with me." He then walked up one level to the top floor. It was where the master bedroom of the mansion and that not everyone, even all clan members allowed to be up at the head's bedroom. He opened to the door and let Kakashi to slip into the room. There was a small study on the right by the window. He gestured Kakashi to sit by the sofa. Then he opened one of the drawers by the desk and pull out a scroll.
"The council has sent me the reply and that during this afternoon I have talked to Sarutobi-kun. As I guessed you probably aware with the political situation in Konoha, you are on the list of potential candidates as a Hokage, after the Sannin and… of course Shimura-kun," An added hatefully. "Anyway, as this is the case, you will be only expecting to join the council in your late fifties, after you initial duty as the shinobi no Konoha. You know, with your current body situation, you definitely can be Hokage after all 4 of them, but then, it would be much nicer to have somebody in the younger generation, as it was the clan decision that we will keep our existence low profile. So I hope you are okay with it, I mean, personally, I wish you can be in the council with me now, but Sarutobi-kun is concerning the double duty and he still concerns about the clash of the welfares."
"I see." Kakashi shrugged causally while scanning the scroll. "As you said, An-kun, no matter what, I am still a shinobi no Konoha by first and that I am actually amazed to hear that I am on the list."
"Well, my Kashi-kun, you are not a bad Hokage materials, if I have to say, I will say Shikaru-kun will be a good candidate, well on some level, Hiashi-kun can be count as one. But as they are also head of clans, it's better to have a person who has no clan duties to take care of. Human, well, even us, immortal, we all have selfishness, it's hard to maintain the balance." An paused as he didn't want to pursued on that matter anymore, "by the way, the council has no problem with your relationship with Iruka-chan, so don't hesitate with your marriage arrangement. And if you want, you have the right to use the mansion as you are a half Sasaki now."
"Excellent. I just told Ruka that once I know that the council is okay with my arrangement, then we will arrange the ceremony."
"Good." An added happily, then he pointed at the floor plan on the board, "the room that you have stayed just now will be your permanent room in this mansion. Most of the vital members have their own rooms. You will see some of them soon or later when we have to deal with some of the clan matters as well as the village business. Though I have to mind you that for some of them, they don't hate converts, but they just being arrogant bastards; however, you should able to get along with another few fellow councillors, as they were used to be friends with Minoru-kun."
"I see." Kakashi nodded. He looked at the grandfather clock behind An, "time for dinner?"
"Ah… yes…" An replied, "let's go down to the dinning."
When they arrived at the dinning room, Sarutobi was bit stunned to see Kakashi.
"Oh, Kakashi, you looked like your father." Sarutobi commented slightly surprisingly.
Kakashi was planning to ruffle his hair but then he hesitated, as it was different to have long hair. "Hai, Sandaime. I thought the same when I looked at the mirror. But I think I will cut them later."
"I see." Sarutobi replied crisply.
Once they have settled at the dinning table. Kazuhiko pushed out a food trolley with Hiroshi behind. Once Hiroshi sat next to An, Kazuhiko professionally cut the roast beef and served up the dish. The meat was perfectly cooked, as well as the side vegetables. Iruka could say that Hiroshi was definitely a much better cook than most of the restaurant chef in the village.
After the dinner, when they were having coffee, Sarutobi commented, "as I have discussed with Sasaki-kun this afternoon, I have no problem with your marriage as well, Kakashi, just tell the ANBU office and of course myself when you have arranged your ceremony."
"No problem, Sandaime." Kakashi replied happy, he held Iruka's hand under the table. "Isn't this wonderful, Ru?"
Iruka nodded happy, "yes."