Tsunade walked into the council room and looked at the people sitting around the table and sighed. Damn. She had hoped that the group wouldn't be in yet so that she could grab the papers that Kakashi had asked her to document on his long lost kin, the same papers that had fallen into their hands and now had every clan head in the village chomping at the bit; and run. But obviously since everyone was in the meeting room already, running wasn't an option anymore.

Damn, damn.

"Tsunade, please take your seat and we will get started." Homera said almost cheerfully. Tsunade growled and walked over to her seat at the head of the table and flopped down in it.

"You better make it fast. I have plans today." Tsunade snapped in an irritated tone.

"Very well-" Koharu said. "We are here today to discuss the matter of Kakashi Hatake's long lost kin. And how her presence in the village can be used to our advantage-"

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Naruto sighed and shook his head in exasperation and let go of Shay's nose and stood there for a moment scratching his cheek.

It had been a little over five hours since Shay had eaten breakfast and fallen asleep. Lunch time had already come and gone and now it was getting close to dinner time...and he couldn't seem to wake her up to eat the food that he had fixed for her.

He didn't know if he wanted to laugh or cry about that since he had gone all out this time, figuring that maybe if he made the food more appealing to her then maybe she would eat more.

He sighed again and leaned down and slipped an arm under her shoulders and the other one under her legs and lifted her up off of the couch so that he could move her to the bedroom and turned and slowly took his time walking down the hall to the bedroom and used his shoulder to push the door open and carried her over to the bed and laid her down on it. And then reached out and grasped the covers and pulled them up over her and then started to turn around to leave when he saw something that looked suspiciously like an orange pill bottle laying on the floor in between the table and the bed and bent down to pick it up.

A frown crossing his face as he picked it up and turned it around so that he could read the label and felt his eye twitch as murderous rage filled his being.

That son of a bitch- He had- Shay hadn't-

"Oh I am going to kill that cock sucking whore when I see him next..." Naruto snarled as he stuffed the pill bottle into his pants pocket and looked back at Shay and made another weird little sound in the back of his throat and then left the room so that he could make himself comfortable in the living room so that he could sit up all night waiting for Kakashi to slip in just so that he could kill him.

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Tsunade couldn't believe these people!

Kakashi had only had a day to spend with his cousin and the village idiots were already planning to marry her off to someone who had a track record of abusing the women in his house hold. The damn man had already killed three of his previous wives with his abuse.

What in the world made them think that Kakashi wouldn't butcher the man once he found out that his precious cousin was going to be married off to him? Did they really think that Kakashi would let them do as they liked?

Golden brown eyes narrowed as she listened to the excited mummers of the others in the room. Her anger mounting more and more by the second.

"We will contact the lord and get his approval-"

"I will have the girl taken to the hospital to have her checked out-"

"Should we have her taken and trained in the bed room arts?"

"No. Lord Kunei will want her to be a virgin. He dislikes the lack luster of jaded women. He prefers to break in his bride, himself."

"Oh! So that once she produces an heir for him he will know it is his, how intelligent."

Tsunade couldn't stand it any more. These people were fools and she wasn't going to let them sacrifice Kakashi's only, maybe, living relative left for their own selfish gain. Her hands came down on the table, splintering it in half as she stood up and yelled.

"Shut Up! What are you people crazy?" The room suddenly went quiet as all eyes turned to her. "Do you have any idea what kind of life your condemning that poor girl too! Do you even care? She's Kakashi's (again maybe) only living relative! She would be better off here in the village where she isn't likely to be killed by an abusive husband! We can let her choose her own husband and restart the Hatake clan! We can let her stay close to Kakashi, so that she will be protected! She's not a bloody bargaining chip to be tossed out on the table with every roll of the dice. She's a person! Leave her alone!"

"With all due respect Lady Tsunade, this is for the good of the village. And you have no idea what your talking about."

"Oh. So what are you going to say to Kakashi? Do you really think he'll let you place the girl in a situation that could once again make him the last of his clan?"

"Kakashi will do as he's told." One council member said in a smug tone. Tsunade gave him an evil smirk and walked around the broken table to his seat and leaned down and said in a hushed tone that was loud enough for the others to hear.

"Kakashi will kill you without a second thought once you tell him what you've got in store for his kin. And he'll get away with it because I'll help him." And with that she straitened her spine and walked across the room to the door and called back over her shoulder as she walked out of the room.

"Enjoy the rest of your lives...they'll be over soon enough!"

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Kakashi sat at the desk in his spare room pouring over his family texts. Trying to figure out how the males of his clan acted around the females.

He knew that like any clan, his had a specific code of conduct when dealing with their kin and he didn't want to make any mistakes. So far he had noted several very old and bizarre documented behaviors.

Like the one he was reading about now.

The males of the family would feed the females from their hand. Never at any point would they allow the female to feed herself. Apparently having a male feed the female was supposed to be a sign of respect and affection to be used between spouses, and siblings and lovers.

He blinked and shook his head as a flush worked it's way across his unmasked face. He understood the Hatake males primitive need to provide for their females, but that-

That...was just a little bit too intimate for his taste. It would probably embaress Shayera too. He shook his head and picked up the ink pen sitting beside the old tome in front of him and quickly amended that rule. Leaving it as an act between lovers and mates then moved on.

A Hatake female must always dress nicely and act accordingly. It is for the sake of the clan that she must conduct herself as a lady at all times, least she might bring shame upon the clan and herself.

Kakashi scowled and flipped the page to look at the rows of sentences and paragraphs on the other side and rolled his eyes as he flipped the page back. God in heaven there were so many rules! If I ever find out which dick sat down and wrote this tome, I'm going to dig him up and piss on his grave. Kakashi thought darkly as he moved on to the next rule.

A Hatake woman must always have a male relative with her when she goes out walking around the village or outside the village.

Well at least he knew the purpose of this rule. It was for the woman's safety and well being that she always have a male escort to protect her innocence. He could do that. It might be a little creepy for Shay at first, but hopefully she would get over her feelings of discomfort with time.

The trick was to escort her without making her feel like a prisoner.

His mis matched eyes scanned the words of the next rule- Well it wasn't exactly a rule. It was more like a right of passage for the females of his clan.

When a Hatake female has reached the age of twelve, the clan head takes her aside and places a mark of his own design on her skin and then he would blind fold her and lead her into another room where the adult males would be waiting and he would then strip her naked so that he and the other males could measure her body's development and her worth to the clan-

Kakashi visibly cringed and ripped the page out of the book and promptly crumpled it up and threw it in the aluminum trash can next to his desk and then opened the desk drawer and pulled out some matches.

Oh hell no.

He was not doing something like that to an innocent girl just to measure her development and her worth to the clan. That was stupid and degrading and it was total bullshit. Besides he already knew her worth to the clan.

He struck the match and dropped it into the trash can and watched as that rather degrading piece of paper was destroyed before he got irritated with the whole damn tome and quickly pushed it into the trash can so that it would burn too and then ran his bare hands over his face and growled.

After reading that little page he had decided to write a new tome of conduct for his clan. But first he needed to design a mark to place on Shay's body, and while he was at it, he'd add a few discreet safety features that would allow him to track, monitor, and teleport her to safety if she should ever be kidnapped or something.

He sat there for hours, sketching and re sketching different symbols that could be used. He wanted the mark he placed on her to be something that labeled her a leaf village woman, but at the same time, he wanted it to be something unique and feminine. Not something that looked like a bunch of scribbles and chicken scratch.

In the end he decided to use the symbol on his headband, but added a few little touches to it to make it unique and feminine. Around the symbol he sketched a flowering vine, with little jutsu formula's around the swirl and in the middle was a blooming lotus flower with a little blue, mint green, and pink, monarch butterfly hanging on one of the petals.

Once he was done he looked it over a few times, corrected any mistakes that he had made and then re sketched it so that it was smaller than the half a page that he was using as a model for it, reducing it to the size of 14mm.

Big enough to be seen. Yet small enough to be placed anywhere on her body.

"Perfect."