DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything from the Naruto universe.

A/N: Just a warning! As the title hints: this chapter? It's A LOT…

Thinking (+ flashbacks, "Naruto speaking to Kurama in her mindscape," etc.)

Emphasis

Bijuu, etc. speaking

Bijuu, etc. thinking

Shikamaru stopped himself from rushing her when he was finally able to get in. "How are you feeling?" Naruto's broken attempt at a grin - her cracked lips covered with a transparent green healing paste and the terribly dark bags under her haunted eyes - broke his heart.

"Aside from my arm, I'm good, I guess. –Not sure that I'm here, ya know."

"Troublesome," he mumbled, looking away from her incredibly short nails. They had been cleaned but Shikamaru had seen Naruto when Minato and Kakashi rushed her into the hospital. Her normally orange-painted, well-maintained nails had been caked with dirt and blood. As had the rest of her. He worked his lips and remembered to keep this short. How could he forget, though, when Naru's voice sounded like she'd been screaming for hours? "You're safe now."

"Heard that before," Naruto muttered to herself and then tried to grin at her brother again. "Kurama's a liar but says Isobu's safe." Kokuo isn't. And Han… She never even got the chance to properly meet him.

"Naruto…" He waited for his sister to get herself together as she held off tears, not really knowing what to say. He knew that she'd had a plan for the Sanbi, Isobu, but didn't know what she'd actually done with the great turtle. "What did you do with Isobu?"

Naruto's blue eyes flashed red for an instant. "None of your fucking business."

"No prob," Shikamaru said, trying to duck the way his eyebrows raised. "Just making conversation!" Naruto leaned back in her hospital bed and narrowed her eyes, looking him up and down.

"Where's your birthmark?"

Shikamaru guessed that she thought she might still be in the genjutsu he'd heard that she'd been kept in. He'd been ghosting the halls of the SICU ever since his sister was brought in. "On my back right next to my asscrack."

Naruto's grin turned into a vicious snarl. "If you touched my brother, I won't kill you, O-BiTo-Bi. I'll keep you alive and eat you with a spoon. Little scoops. –And I'll begin with your precious eyes!"

"Dark," Shikamaru replied truthfully, leaving questions about the name she called him alone for now. "You told me Kurama doesn't like to eat people."

"Hatakes do."

Shika wrinkled his nose. "I didn't need to know that. Hmm… What could I…? Troublesome." There was one way he could probably prove to her that he was really her brother and not some illusion but it would be a drag to mention it. Making sure they were alone, he gave it up. "You first saw that birthmark you love to tease me about so much when you walked in on me a couple of years ago, jacking it." He couldn't help but be relieved (as well as pained) when Naruto's lips trembled. Tears and a sad grin came to her eyes; it seemed that she believed him to be who he was. Naruto nodded but the tears didn't stop.

She gingerly rubbed her extremely sore throat. "Kurama didn't tell me that he knew I was some kind of reincarnate of the Sage of Six Path's kid, and his siblings all thought he had. Tou-san's half of Kurama told me - well, it was more like he was screamin' at his other part - my part - of Kurama, ya know. I think Tobi - Obito, the other Kurama says - didn't kill me cuz he wanted to know where I'd stashed Isobu. …He must be a moron tp," she word-vomited thoughtlessly before stopping herself. Gods, she was so tired.

Her brother's words were soft. "Oh, Naru. What happened?"

Naru swallowed thickly. "Kakashi kept ramming his jutsu through my heart like Sasuke did at the Valley of the End." He even Chidori-ed our son once. She panicked when she realized Kakashi had thrown open the door and may have heard them. "I'm talkin' crazy, huh?!" she tried to laugh.

Kakashi was yanked out of the room by the Hokage who had been chasing after him.

"Fuck! –Shit, Shika: what have I done?!"

/

Minato was one of those originally keyed in, so when he flashed to the barrier of his daughter's home hours later, he simply stepped in. Marching up to and banging on the couple's front door, he was almost ready to skin Kakashi. His adult-but-absolutely-still-brat student had taken his daughter who was hooked up to machines from the Secured Intensive Care Unit and fled with her!

Kakashi must have flashed back and forth, taking those machines with him, too.

At least the idiot left us a note.

Kakashi opened their door looking damp with his equally wet-haired daughter attached to his back like a monkey. She looked up from where her head was resting and flinched, hiding her face between Kakashi's shoulders from him. As for his student, he looked as exhausted as he felt.

"Maa, what do you need, sensei?"

Minato groaned. "Sleep," he said almost involuntarily. "I should throw you in the brig for stealing daughters and hospital property." A long, low growl that he knew to be Kurama's came from the living room and Kakashi subtly (ha) moved in front of him. "What is going on here?!"

Were the couple's clones greeting him at the door or were they in the main room's sectional? –Because if Minato saw what he thought he did - and didn't want to - then Naruto was more-than-half-naked and sandwiched between two copies of a shirtless Kakashi. "Do you REALLY think this is the time to…" Kakashi interrupted his thoughts on his student's seemingly never-ending sex-driven perversions with an absent wave of his hand.

"I'm amplifying something in the seals to our communication earrings," Kakashi's clone admitted although he wasn't planning to give anything else away about the ancient Hatake seal than he'd already been forced to. "And linking them to my chakra core." Minato looked alarmed, going so far as to grab his shoulder.

Naruto bit his fingers.

"Naruto," Minato exclaimed and only received a weak growl in response and shook his sore fingers. Some of Naruto's teeth were sharp! "Kakashi! She needs to go back to the hospital!"

"She is not right in the head," he mouthed and then wondered why he hadn't signed something similar.

Kakashi's clone shook his head. "If you want to do something for us, help me beef up the barrier or get her some ramen." He began to turn back to his original and felt Naru's limbs squeeze him, pulling him backward. "You don't want to have your back to him, koi?"

"Nuh-uh," Naru's clone muttered into his shoulders.

Kakashi eye-smiled at his sensei as he tried to shoo him out. "Maa, I think she's finally imprinted on me!"

"Boss is in her mid-thirties and not a baby animal," the clone hissed.

"We might need to get her a calendar, though," Kakashi said uncomfortably, "or revisit the general concept of time."

Naruto's clone didn't have the energy to argue. She and her doppelgangers were exhausted, terrified, angry, dizzy, miserable, and had horrible headaches. Her busted arm and previously shattered hand were in a weird position with pins of various sizes in them and beginning to hurt badly again, too. When her father made a clone and both of them left, she wasn't sure that she had ever felt so relieved.

It wasn't that Naruto was trying to avoid her father per se; she simply didn't want to see Kurama kill her parents with his claw again. That figurative-bastard, Kurama, had assured her that he wouldn't allow her to fall into another genjutsu but even IF he was right and telling the truth now, Naru didn't want to see any SECOND of the genjutsu she guessed that she'd been in. –That she'd been told she was in. "I hate this," she whispered. When she saw another one of Kakashi's clones headed outside with her father, she panicked.

"It's alright," Kakashi said smoothly although he had some huge questions about Naru's mental state, too. "Your father will keep an eye on him. –On me."

Naruto nodded: she needed to make sure none of the Kakashis powered up that jutsu to kill her. Or… It would be okay if he did but she wanted to be prepared for it.

It was going to hurt more than she could ever express. Again.

Maybe she'd get to say goodbye this time, first? Although it's not like she was going to die for long… At least this time it would happen at the home she loved.

"I'm stronger than this," the real Naru said into her husband's other clone's neck although she figured she was too hoarse to be understood. "No," she chuckled bitterly, "I'm really not." She didn't know what she was doing…

Nothing was making sense. I'm such a coward!

"Don't move, baby." The real Kakashi finished adjusting the seal on Naru's back and pressed his palm flat against the lower center of their crest. Kakashi noted the way his hand was so large and pale compared to his wife's waist and skin. His fingers and thumb, on one hand, could grab each side of her waist. She's warm to the point of being hot, he assured himself.

While she was gone he'd only fallen asleep - while standing up - a few times, but he'd had horrible nightmares of her cold, dead corpse. She's alive and with me now: that's all that matters, he told himself. And I'll do anything to ensure it stays that way.

"I'm going to push my chakra into you. It should feel like a burst of chakra compared to when I wrote this on your skin, sweetheart. It might be uncomfortable."

"We won't hurt you," the clone his wife was hanging on like a one-armed limpet told her. "Stay still," he agreed, knowing what his original planned to do. "1, 2…"

"Wait! Before you do it, know that I was happier than I've ever been with you. …And I really do love you." She grimaced and got ready to be Chidori-ed again. "Whatever happens."

"And I love you," Kakashi said from behind her and pressed a kiss into her damp hair. "Here we go. One… two… three." He pushed almost all of his remaining chakra into the seal - no, into his wife's gates as he tried to push through even into Kurama's seal - and although she sucked in a pained gasp, Naru didn't move. "Good girl." Her clone had popped so Kakashi allowed his to do the same: it helped with the chakra exhaustion quite a bit although he still felt sick. Naruto turned around with half-lidded eyes and crawled over his lap. She was shaking and breathing hard from what he'd done.

"Kakashi, what did you do?" She asked in a whisper and then began peppering his jaw and neck with kisses, making him quietly chuckle. "Oh my God - you haven't had any of my chakra in…"

His arms firmly around her, Kakashi was grateful that, even if it was just for a moment, Naru seemed more like herself. "I know that your chakra is unblocked now but here's no way I'm taking any from you."

He hissed when she reached down and grabbed his dick, though. "Naru-chan!"

She was relentless! "Not that I'm ever uninterested but you just got out of the hospital and your father is outs… Fu-uck." His little wife seemed REALLY alert compared to before and had slipped down gracefully, considering the cast and brace, to get on her knees between his legs.

"No," Kakashi drawled with a tired grin before she had a chance to pull down his sweats, picking her up from the floor – and groaning when she began sucking pervertedly on his shoulder instead. Feeling light-headed from his blood racing to his groin and exhaustion, he began massaging her ass and bare breast more aggressively and teasing her. "Are you imagining my cock right now, baby?" Naru nodded and grabbed his hand away from her breast. Then she began sucking his fingers, staring deeply - challengingly - into his eyes while he stood there for several seconds like an idiot. He shook the haze of lust off, wishing he didn't have to. "What is going on with you, girl?! Come with me." He stood up with her attached to him so that he could close the door and groaned as she began grinding against him. "We're going upstairs, alright?" he said with a shaky breath. "I gotta hook up…"

"Your dick to me," she gritted out.

"Maa, maa! You should… Gosh, you are such a pervert." He soon laid her down in their bed and carefully tucked the covers around her TIGHTLY to make her stop moving. She was a little less wild on her back because of her busted arm but still very handsy. "You have to calm down; I'm not going to take advantage of you!"

She growled at him when he hooked the IV and monitors up to her good arm, probably because he had to cuff her to do it. She's so troublesome.

"But I need you, Kash," she whined and pouted.

- Pouted! Under her sunshine-blonde hair, she was slowly batting her long lashes over watery azure eyes; her pink lips… so much better than they were before when they were cracked open, bloodied, and…. "No." No, no, no. She's hurt.

Kakashi did not expect full tears. "It's alright! Please don't cry."

"But I want you," she sniffed. "And you wanted me here, right? –I… missed you so much: the real you?"

Kakashi looked around - for what he wasn't sure - but if he looked at Naru any more he'd give in. He nodded because he had wanted her at home where he could better protect her. They both hated everything about the hospital, and Kakashi felt the need to immediately address the seal ideas he and Minato came up with when they were searching for her. –For that, he needed most of her clothes off and he wanted her alone.

And she demanded they have skin-to-skin contact.

It had made her calm down considerably earlier - which he took as a good sign, however….

"Just at least... Please take a little of my chakra. Please? You gave me so much of yours. And lay beside me? Or on me? –It'd make me feel better if you were on top of me."

Kakashi tried not to bite his lip. Naruto's voice was still very hoarse but he'd clearly heard her. Is she using some kind of seductive baby voice? Because if she is, "okay." Kakashi received a bit of the first gentle smile he'd really gotten since they found her and climbed under the covers.

Naru closed her eyes and gave in to whatever would happen. Kakashi's chakra always made her feel tingly, giddy, or needy in a way that made her feel like she'd break. The last thing he'd done to her, though, had been a whole different trip!

And it wasn't a Chidori.

After carefully moving around the wires and tubes, Kakashi realized how insane this was. Relatively. "Look what you made me do." He uncuffed her and Naru cuddled into his side, rolling her casted arm away from the stack of pillows he'd set up.

Kakashi let out a huge breath that he hadn't known he'd been holding. After a minute or so, he brought his upper body weight to one elbow and allowed his little wife to hook her leg around his waist. "You cannot do that to me again, Naru." Maybe he got through to her this time because Naru's expression was one filled with guilt.

But there are all these expectations. She tried to smile but looked away from Kakashi and up at the ceiling. I'm the worst candidate to be the supposed "Child of Prophecy," she mused.

Kakashi looked and felt so good, though: thank Kami he was such a wonderful distraction when he wasn't putting his gloved hand through her chest. She took a second to arch as much as she could so that her breasts were better pressed against his chest. Kakashi stared into her eyes, his Sharingan spinning slowly. He looked down for a second and began stroking her. Knowing how that Sharingan taxed him, she wiggled to get her hair out of the way and brought him to her shoulder.

Moaning as she sought more friction, Naru grasped his back while he softly let out a groaned complaint and seemed to reluctantly sink his teeth into her. Chakra began swirling between them but it seemed different. No Chidori. Her hand slowly ran down from his muscular shoulders to his ass and she squeezed, getting herself into a better position so she could move and finally rut against him. Minutes later, she cried out in relief when he reached down to pull down his sweats and boxer briefs. "Yes! Oh, yes!"

"Look what you made me do," he growled at her. "Fuck, Naru," Kakashi hissed and struggled to get rid of her panties. "You smell so good and... And if you want it so bad." Naru's legs wound high around his back and he worked to quickly rid himself of clothes and get inside of her. Gods, he had missed her!

Sinking inside of her incredibly hot, tight cunt, they both cried out. Naruto's tears were real and after several breathless seconds, Kakashi realized that he was crying on her, too. He shook and sniffed them up: in his book, crying was not manly. "Gomen. …Please." He pulled almost all of the way out of her heat before plunging back in. "Don't," he thrust again: slow but intense. "Leave me. –Don't do that to me."

"I didn't mean to hurt you. I didn't mean to get caught!"

Balls deep inside of her, Kakashi nodded and took a moment to calm down. With his forehead pressed against hers, he looked into her beautiful eyes and felt even more heat envelop him in a way he couldn't have imagined. Naru had cocooned them in her chakra.

He made absolutely desperate love to his wife, proving to her that he was real and not the man in the nightmare that had hurt her.

MEANWHILE -

Outside with Kakashi's remaining clone, Minato had been speaking with him about what might be required to further secure the property. "It's fairly simple work but we'll have to test each update to ensure the barrier holds. –I want to do the same thing for the village but that will take a huge patchwork of similar seals."

"This should protect us in all directions," Kakashi agreed with a yawn. "Naru-chan said that she'd been focusing on creating underground barriers."

Minato nodded as he made the first slight alterations to the property's main seals that powered the rest. "She wants to build onto the village's shield - morphing it into more of a protective bubble."

"We could put a genjutsu component into it to hide us as we have here."

Minato smiled up at his student, liking that idea very much. "We'll be truly Hidden in the Leaves then, would we not?" He gasped when Kakashi's clone lit up in something similar to Kurama's cloak. "Kakashi?"

"Maa, this is different." The red-eyed clone held out his arms and looked at himself before suddenly dispelling. In his exhaustion, Minato panicked and ran into the house and up the stairs - then stomped right back down them. "Geez. You two!" He went out and sat on the porch, trying to erase from his mind what he caught them doing. With his own eyes!

"Relax," Kurama laughed. "She made him a sentry."

"I did what now?" Naruto asked an hour or so later. Her father had yelled up at them to "knock it off and grow up" from downstairs a little while ago which, for some reason, had been pretty funny. Kakashi had been sweet enough to clean her up but Naru feared that even with candles and the window open it had to smell like sex in her bedroom. Neither of the men was allowing her to get up, though, because the IV and drug pump were there. "What's a sentry?"

She felt like an idiot when they winced and face-palmed. BOTH of them! How embarrassing.

"A sentry is a guard, Naruto. A soldier."

Naruto was even more confused. "We're all soldiers." She took a deep, shaky breath as her mind replayed her father jumping behind her mother before getting impaled by Kurama's claw again.

"Well, yes," Minato began, agreeing.

"Maa, maa. I think Kurama did it."

"Beg your pardon?"

"My… clone heard him in his head."

"Kura- Your clone? YOU didn't?" Minato asked his apprentice. "How is that poss… Wait! Is there a difference between your clone hearing such a thing when you didn't? –You know what I mean." Kami, he was tired.

Kakashi rubbed his upper lip, blushing under his mask. "I was busy; my clone was not AS busy." His sensei's expression turned a little scary.

"Yeah, no kidding," Minato grumbled as he turned away. He had NOT needed to see his student's uncovered ass thrus- er, moving like that, ever, let alone doing it all lit up in golden chakra to his daughter! They both watched as Naru's head tilted in a manner that he was sure Kakashi, too, had come to know as a sign that she was speaking to Kurama in her mindscape. "Naruto? What did he say?"

"When I asked, Kurama only shrugged his shoulders and ignored me. That jerk didn't even open his eyes."

"That's because he's a tsundere!" Minato agreed with his half of the fox and found it amusing that Kurama called himself out. Normally, he was more self-aware than that. "We should get back to work." He turned from Kakashi to Naru. "I'm glad you're feeling… Naruto?"

Naruto had begun hyperventilating.

She came to a little later: it was as if she had only been sleeping but Naru clearly remembered having some kind of panic attack when Kakashi was going to leave the room. Fuck! She disgusted herself!

Kakashi had just assured her that her father was outside with his clone but Naru didn't really care. She was in the midst of DEEP self-loathing.

And then there was Tsunade, who came in and chased him out. "I need him here," Naru admitted in just over a whisper. Furiously, she threw a book across the room. "I am so WEAK!"

Fuck! She'd thrown Kakashi's Icha-Icha. Kakashi was going to kill her!

…Again. She swallowed hard, trying to look like she was unaffected by her racing heart.

Tsunade shut the bedroom door and sat down beside her. Naru was more than a little surprised when her grandmother basically got into a position that made Naru lean her head on her famously gigantic chest. It was difficult since she was all hooked up to those machines again but nice: kind of like what she could imagine a mother doing.

It was also weird. Looking back on it later, the weirdness of it probably kept her from going after Kakashi. -She'd still sent a clone after him, though. Just in case.

"You're not weak, Naruto."

Naruto laughed at that and it took her a while to speak. "Since you know about the past… life thing; maa, don't tell anyone, alright?" Tsunade gave her a nod and waited patiently. "I've been thinking about it and Kakashi was stuck in what's supposed to be the world's worst genjutsu: Itachi's. In my first life, Kakashi was stuck in it for weeks while I went to find you when I was 13."

Tsunade hummed. "I wasn't aware of that."

"He came out of it just fine. And here I am, having been locked in a genjutsu for a matter of days that wasn't…" Nearly so bad is what she wanted to say but Naruto couldn't. Because that genjutsu had been fucking awful.

"I'm sure that's not true, Naruto. Ever since Sakumo's suicide, Kakashi's had an unhealthy way of internalizing all of the pain and loss thrown his way." The older woman scoffed and softly pulled Naru forward, deciding to brush her sex-wrecked hair. (She was practical like that.) "Before you came along, I think his luck was worse than mine."

Naruto sighed miserably, knowing that might be true. "I should take you guys gambling so you can experience some wins."

"Yes! Thatta girl!"

"Yeah," Naru said sourly. "If I'm ever able to let him be - and go out again. My clone's with him right now!"

Tsunade hummed. "I don't think he minds. He was beside himself without you, Naruto. I'll give Kakashi-brat this though: he knew he'd find you. Even when he said your chakra was disappearing, he knew he'd find you."

/

Kakashi's clone finally went to the Memorial Stone for a long, put-off visit. "Rin. Kushina-nee… Did sensei tell you that Obito's alive? Maa, so is he, of course." He shivered even though it was somewhat warm outside considering the season.

"I told you about Naruto," he continued and then licked his dry lips. "Obito tortured her. One of my kohais told me that in the genjutsu he put her in… Maa, it sounds like he replaced her with you, Rin! –It's like he saw it: he saw me kill you. Sensei saw me… kill her the same exact way when he was in her head: he said we were teenagers!"

"Why didn't he stop me?! If Obito was there that night, Rin, why couldn't he help us?!"

Clone or not, he was still a wreck. He looked around and inhaled deeply through his nose, ensuring that he was alone. "Sensei says I'm wrong but I know he targeted her because of me; because of what I did to you. Of all the enemies I've had, I wouldn't have expected something like this from him."

He looked up at the stars and rocked back and forth, deciding to go find and challenge Gai while he was out. His original would probably have fit about him doing so but he wasn't him at the moment. "Tobi made himself my enemy by taking and hurting her. …You may both hate me for it, but I'm going to kill him."

"The Uchiha Obito we knew is gone. Maa, I guess there's really nothing else left to say." A crack of thunder in a fairly-clear night made him almost chortle. The rain began to fall and Kakashi could picture Rin's tears and Kushina's anger.

"I'll see you later. Ja."

Sometime later, (she'd lost track of time,) when Kakashi was almost asleep, Naruto admitted the worst completely made-up thing that happened in that genjutsu. –But not at first. He'd earlier been asking her to tell him about what had happened to her but how could she when he didn't remember her first life as she did? "Do you know where Sasuke is?"

Kakashi opened his natural eye and frowned at her. He knew where Sasuke was and didn't like it but there was something he liked even less. "Maa, maa, Naruto. Don't talk about other men in my bed."

He had questions regarding what he'd heard Naru saying to her brother about Sasuke at the hospital but she'd refused to speak about it. In bed with him was NOT the time, though.

Naruto scoffed and told herself that her fear of a young, revenge-filled, teenage Sasuke using that jutsu again is what fueled the genjutsu she'd been under. "Sasuke's a brat. You're a man."

Kakashi hummed although it came out a little grumbly and Naruto took a deep breath, snuggling even closer to him –still hoping for the best.

"I'm serious, Naru-chan. We can talk about it later, ne?"

"Okay." She waited until she thought he was asleep. "Maybe." In a whisper, she admitted, "in one part of the genjutsu, we had a little boy that looked just like you. His name was Sakumo. He was… sweet."

Kakashi opened his eye again and ran his thumb over her cheek. "It wasn't real," he said softly, guessing that Obito/Tobi-BASTARD had made his mate see something terrible happen to their genjutsu-manufactured child, too, considering the shaky, sad tone of her voice and the fact that she hadn't said anything else. Looking at her tortured expression, he again swore he would kill that son of a bitch! Taking a deep breath, he pulled her close and whispered into her hair. "I don't think I'd want to name my sons after either of our fathers. They're too famous: it would target them."

Naru blinked several times before rubbing her eyes and softly smiling when he ran his hand over her breast and began massaging it with that inquisitive yet pervy gaze he'd be overcome by sometimes. For whatever reason, what he'd said was good to hear and made that part of the genjutsu seem a little more unrealistic. It won't happen. And thankfully, nothing sexual had happened in that nightmare. Kakashi being handsy was more proof that this was really her husband "You're so sure you'll have sons, huh?"

"Of course," Kakashi said, sleepily kissing her cheek, then across her jaw as he continued to move down her body, waking up a little more with each kiss. "I heard a little of what happened in that nightmare, Naru, and I can only imagine..."

"I'm sorry."

Kakashi, though, looked up at her with deep, emotional eyes after giving the nipple he'd been playing with another lick. "I've been thinking about it. That son of a bitch didn't consider something." A smirk grew on his handsome face.

Kashi's ALWAYS had his mask on when I was either in the cell or that weird spatial void, too. "Oh?" Naru ran her good hand through his pretty, thick hair, whimpering as he began licking and sucking, teasing her more.

He let go with a pop. "I'd never hurt you," he said in a deadly serious voice. Seeing what he worried was discomfort in her expression, he cleared his throat and gave her a cocky grin. "Maa, and he didn't realize how insane I am about your perfect skin and breasts, too. I could never do anything to hurt all of this." He snuggled his face between her breasts and growled as he motorboated her.

Naru let out a hushed bark of laughter. "Is that right? –You pervert."

"Let's make sure you remember that we both are." He continued working his way down as he massaged those flawless breasts, kissing and licking all of the skin on his path down.

He groaned when he reached his target. "Such a pretty little pussy." He took a broad lick before spreading her lips apart and sighing before getting a much better taste. He smirked up at his quicker breathing but quiet mate and challenged himself with making her forget what had happened to her. Grinding the soft stubble of his chin against her sex, he laughed when she shrieked, working it back and forth, dragging his jaw down her silken folds until he was nose-deep inside of her. He pulled back up and pushed his erection against her leg at the same time he pushed a finger inside of her while he worked his magic. "You're so beautiful."

Sucking her clit and three fingers in, he made her cum again and again, not letting up. He jerked when a hand tried to pry his legs away from her and found Naru's nude doppelganger, who, amusingly enough, seemed to only be able to use one arm.

"Turn over," the clone demanded. She tried to use her uncasted arm, then slapped at it and hollered.

"Uh— No." He went back to licking and sucking up the mess they'd made but jumped when the clone bit his hip. "Naru-chan!"

"I want to 69 you," the clone said - one arm crossed tantalizingly under her breasts and tapping her foot in irritation.

Kakashi looked from the aggravated, mouthy clone to his furiously blushing, beautifully sweaty mate with raised eyebrows and began chuckling. He figured that Naru would probably demand thicker curtains after this since the moonlight allowed him to see her quite well even without his Sharingan. If she does, she can forget it! She covered up her face and tried to turn away, groaning as if to prove his thoughts true. "I don't think you're in any shape to do that."

Naruto awkwardly dispelled her runaway clone and tried to move around him in the dark to prove otherwise but Kakashi's laughter at her expense didn't help anything.

"I love your laugh, ya know."

"Maa, what's not to love?" His smile grew as he felt his girl was really coming back to him. "I'm gonna tie you up." Naru began to laugh - actually laugh! "You just lay there and hold your crazy clones back."

"Hmm. I'll make it up to you as soon as I can, okay?"

"You're going to make it up to me right now." Naru nodded and bit her lip - something that always drove him crazy. "I made you a slobbery mess down here so get ready."

"Get ready for wha–aah! Oh! Holy shit!" Kakashi had her knees locked in the crook of his arms and he was NOT holding back. Is he using chakra?! At some point, he sank his teeth into her neck. She bit him back but this time their chakra didn't explode. She felt dizzy and nice and hot and… "So good."

Naru jolted later, sore as fuck with her feet tied apart and up over her head. "What?" She looked beside her to see Kakashi sleeping peacefully as if this was normal. His hand was supporting one of her breasts just like he usually slept. "Kakashi?" He only let out a cute sigh as he took a deeper breath and continued sleeping. "Kakashi," she whispered more urgently.

"Hmm?"

He hadn't even bothered to open his eyes! "Why am I tied up?" She knew damn well why her hips were sore and pounding, and why she couldn't feel her ass or coochie anymore. Plus Naru was positive that her legs hadn't been tied earlier.

"Maa, maa. Just ensuring you get good and pregnant. Go back to sleep."

Naruto thought she'd misheard him at first. "Good and?! –Good and pregnant!?" She started trying to kick out of her binds.

"What happened to raising a puppy first?! I'm getting out of these!" She struggled and struggled but her short-person one good arm wasn't doing her any favors even though the soft restraints were tied in pretty bows. "I'm going to kick your ass!"

"Too noisy," Kakashi complained and turned over. "Don't move around so much. Gotta let my elite swimmers swim."

Naruto tried to breathe but was only able to repeatedly inhale sharp little gasps before words burst out of her in absolute fury: "I'll show you 'swim,' you ass!"

Kakashi's eyes popped open - wide and at once - as the light and sound of a Rasengan blurred to life.

Maybe he had gone too far.

Naruto had gone storming into the bathroom, proceeded to soak off her cast, and eventually tried to escape out the window. Now they were at the hospital getting fresh X-rays and Naru was in pain. So was he: she didn't exactly hold back when she whacked him. ALTHOUGH he supposed he was lucky she didn't add wind chakra to her swing.

Back at home, their headboard also had a deep Rasengan-sized hole in it from where she proved how serious she was. How she thought a Rasengan would get her out of those ties without hurting herself was beyond him.

"You dumbass," Tsunade barked as she threw the door open. "Where did you get the idea that tying her legs up would get my granddaughter more easily pregnant? Or think that's what she wanted?!"

"Maa," Kakashi began, blushing under his mask and scratching at his hair. "I think I saw some literature on the position one time," and I know I saw a porno that said it would work. Plus Pakkun thought it made sense: all of it. Tsunade clicked her tongue and brought out a bottle of some type of sleeping tonic that he was supposed to begin taking at night, considering that his "sleep-deprived genius-brain wasn't functioning at all," according to the med-nin.

Kakashi put it in his Jonin vest but, as usual, knew he'd never take it. He only took medicine if he had an infection.

Tsunade knew better than to punch her grandson-in-law but she definitely felt like doing so. "You look like absolute shit. I'm putting you in the reserved security ward with Naruto."

"Is she okay?"

"Come see."

Kakashi followed Naru's grandmother/Slug Hag through the bowels of the hospital wondering just how far they went. He'd been here his fair share of times but normally he was so out of it that he didn't know where he was until he (escaped) was discharged. Tsunade quickly entered a code and her chakra to the padlock by the door and he was escorted in.

Naruto's drugged-out gaze turned aggravated as soon as she saw him but what was just as scary was seeing Minato-sensei out cold and unresponsive on the bed next to her. Naruto held up her good hand and put a finger up against her lips.

"Shh."

"It's alright; he won't wake," Tsunade assured them. "You, brat," she said to Kakashi, "you take the third bunk."

Naruto whispered all sorts of violent drunken-sounding threats when he easily picked her up and moved her to the bed he was supposed to be in even as she was cuddling him like he was her personal plushie. Which I am. He moved their beds together and decided not to ask any more questions; he really was exhausted. The other bed was only for her busted arm, anyway.

"Go to sleep; drink this first," Tsunade ordered, handing a glass to Naruto, too. Naruto immediately gulped it down.

"What is it?" Kakashi asked suspiciously.

"Vitamin-packed water with a hint of lime to cover the taste. You're welcome - and obviously dehydrated and haven't been eating properly."

"Oh." Kakashi sniffed it and took a few sips as Naru began to go to sleep on his shoulder. "Maa, I want to guard them." After finishing it, he felt like he was falling and so tried to jutsu the old woman. "LiAR!"

"Yeah, yeah: I wouldn't have had to lie if you weren't such an absolute shit patient." The older blonde hauled his long legs up onto the bed next to Naru who was already out cold before hoisting Kakashi up, "gently" flicking him in the hitai-ate when he tried to bite her through his mask and pulling the headband and his Jonin vest off as he cursed like a very drunk assassin.

"I have permission from our great sleeping leader to take any means necessary with you two." She smiled as Kakashi struggled to stay conscious and patted his head. "Oh! Your hair is silky! –Sure doesn't look like it. …I'm going to re-wrap Naru-chan's arm; don't you worry your cute little head off about a thing." Her face went slack when she saw Kakashi reach up with both hands to protect and keep his mask on. He'd slapped himself silly. "As if I'm that eager to see your face. Nighty night!"

They all slept for two days straight.

.

Only hours after waking up, Naru sat in Yamanaka Inoichi's office with that re-wrapped, pinned arm hoisted up uncomfortably in Tsunade's shitty version of a brace. "Thanks for seeing me?" It wasn't like she wanted to be here, but if Kakashi, Tsunade, and her father were forcing her into therapy, she wasn't planning to hold back.

"It's good to see you again, Naruto. We were very worried about you," Inoichi said genuinely with a sad smile. He was frankly shocked that Naruto had shown up for her appointment without having to be dragged in by ANBU or the Sannin. He'd tried to see her, professionally, when she was a child but she'd always gotten away from him, avoiding therapy like the plague. "We can start wherever you'd like, or we can just hang out and play cards. –Whatever you want today."

Naruto hummed, plastering on a big, fake smile that didn't come close to meeting her eyes. "Maa, Yamanaka-sama or -dono! You know that I'd empty your wallet if you wanted to bring out some cards!"

Inoichi let out a huff of laughter, knowing that her big attitude was bullshit although her words were true. Uzumaki - Hatake - Naruto had insane luck when she was gambling. "Right you are." But your luck in life, on the other hand, is iffy… Not that he really believed in luck, mind you.

Naruto hummed again, trying to decide what to say first. "I guess we could start with how I'm on my second life," Naruto began uneasily while looking at anything else in the office. "I died before in the Fourth Shinobi War. Well, Shika and I - plus all the other jinchuurikis got reincarnated or whatever after it - but I've recently learned that I've been reincarnating over like, a thousand years - maybe a little less. Well, not me really."

Naruto rubbed the back of her head; she was on a roll here. "There's this Asura guy, Kurama has finally seen fit to tell me… He's only told me NOW after all this shit's happened although I felt like I almost knew it before. -But the memory was blocked from my mind or something. ANYWAYS, Asura's chakra has been reincarnating since the time of his father, the Sage of Six Paths."

She knew it sounded ridiculous! It was ridiculous!

"Sasuke's supposedly got Asura's brother's, Indra's, chakra latched onto him like I've got Asura's." She grabbed a pencil off of Inoichi's desk and ran it inside of her cast, angrily scratching at her bad arm's horrible itch. She cocked her head and tried to grin up at the astonished Yamanaka Head, waiting to be sent to the T&I dungeons.

Not like they can keep me there - OR ANYONE ELSE, APPARENTLY - she thought furiously, remembering the formerly imprisoned Guren's chakra free and close to where the whole thing with Isobu went down.

Inoichi, however, picked up his office phone, giving Naruto a generous, accepting expression after a beat. "Cancel my appointments for today; that's an order," he told his secretary then hung up a little rudely, Naruto thought.

"You don't believe me, huh?" Naruto should have known as much. Hell: she hardly believed it!

Inoichi hummed. "I've seen some weird sh-tuff, Naru-chan so I might believe more than you think." He tried to process everything she'd just said, wondering if she was pranking him. "Have you told Kakashi-kun all of that?"

"No. I'm putting him through enough." A pregnant pause followed.

"Your father?"

Naruto pulled a face. "He knows some things. And Hokage-sama can make his own appointment with you, ne?"

Inoichi chuckled agreeably and then picked up his pad of paper, not looking up when she let out a low growl. He wondered if she'd picked that animalistic attribute up from Hatake. "Why did you decide to actually show up for your appointment? If I may ask, what are your goals here?"

It took Naruto a while to respond. "First, I don't want to hurt anyone, especially those I love, and I want to save everyone. Everyone else, I guess." I've already lost Han and Kokuo.

Inoichi felt a bitter smile grow on his face with those words. Young shinobis' naive thoughts about saving everyone they encountered were ones he'd heard often enough. "You can't save everyone, Naruto."

Naruto's blue eyes turned icy. "We'll have to see about that, huh?"

Now Inoichi felt he had something less delusional he could begin to work with. He'd still need to have a chat with the Hokage, though.