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Thinking (+ flashbacks, "Naruto speaking to Kurama in her mindscape," etc.)
Emphasis
Bijuu, etc. speaking
Bijuu, etc. thinking
Kakashi woke up alone and as whenever this happened, he didn't like it one bit.
As alone as I ever am anymore, he thought with a degree of amused sarcasm a minute later. What a change that is from only a few years ago.
Every time he closed his eyes now he saw a huge white and silver wolf sleeping, all curled up. Internally, he'd approached him and couldn't bring himself to wake it. The closer he came to the wolf, the more he felt at ease, though. Night after night while falling asleep next to his mate, he simply sat down beside him, leaning into his fur, and fell into an easy slumber. Logically that made little sense - that the wolf was anything but a dream or fantasy - but Kakashi, in his heart, knew the truth.
The wolf was a part of him, becoming somehow alert - for lack of a better word considering that he was always sleeping - when he was with an awake Naru or hunting: something which Kakashi had felt the need to do a lot of lately.
The un-originally named "Ookami," as the Sage called him, was a part of him that was always supposed to be there but had been missing. I didn't have enough chakra before: that was one of his more reasonable guesses unless this was all either a figment of his limited imagination - or the wolf was simply gifted to him when he was with the Sage.
The wolf's presence felt like a gift.
There was also the fact that the wolf was there when he was awake; he couldn't be a figment of his imagination. Unless he was insane and that was certainly possible…
Why is he almost always sleeping? There was little doubt in Kakashi's mind that the wolf was real. He could feel his chakra. Is it nature's chakra? The wolf felt like a more streamlined version of Naruto when she was in sage mode or was similar enough to it.
The wolf didn't have ten tails, the way his family's lore had described, but Kakashi believed that he was most likely the wolf mentioned in his family's journals.
And where's my mate? Naruto knew that he liked to wake up with her tucked tightly and safely in his arms. She said that she liked the same.
He smelled something burning and, without using hand seals he later realized, flashed to his wife's side. "Naruto?!" He jumped to the stove, grabbed the fish and vegetables off the burners, and heard his wife mumbling against the table. All he could see of her from the stove was a sea of blonde hair. "Baby?"
He heard more of her grumbling and was fairly sure there were a few curses mixed in it. He sighed and couldn't help but smile.
Naruto had been doing so well! Kakashi wasn't sure that she would've realized that she was pregnant even now - or that was until this morning, it looked like. The only "symptoms" she'd been having were extremely sensitive breasts - something that wasn't all that unusual for her, sexually. Over the past few weeks, that sensitivity had turned painful, however.
"Sorry," Naru mumbled, trying to raise her head and wincing as it throbbed so hard that it was difficult to see.
"Are you sick?" he asked gently. Naru tried to nod as Kakashi ran his hands across the top of her head, being careful of the tangles she always had in the morning. Naru moaned and leaned into his hand.
"You need breakfast. Tou-san…" A knock on the front door interrupted her, making her whine. "Dammit." I've never been sick before! This sucks!
Kakashi had already run upstairs to put on some sweats and a mask before answering the door. He was a little surprised that his father-in-law was here but welcomed him in. "Sensei. I'm running late. I take it Naru was expecting you?"
"Naruto invited me to join you two for breakfast." Minato quickly looked away from his former student who had more than a few hickeys on his chest and shoulders. And a mouth imprint?!
Honestly: answering the door without a shirt on but wearing a mask!
And do you two ever stop?!
"Oh," Kakashi winced. "Bad morning for that, I'm afraid." He'd let the man see for himself.
"Awwww, Naruto," Minato grinned when he saw her. "You're not feeling well?" His daughter only rolled her forehead back and forth on the table. When he turned toward Kakashi, he was putting a t-shirt on. Featuring his clan crest, no less. That really pleased him to no end: seeing that Kakashi was proud of his clan again. "I'll be right back, alright?" He flashed away before coming back minutes later with a complaining Tsunade who was wearing her silk pajamas and yukata.
"Awwww, Naruto!" Tsunade grinned, petting her granddaughter's wild blonde hair. Seeing it in the light like this, she again noticed the strands of very light blonde and even white within the bright gold of her beautiful hair - just like Minato's. "Feeling poorly?"
'Was throwin' up," Naruto admitted to the table. She'd thrown up before but that was because she'd either been poisoned, eaten something bad (in her past life,) got punched really hard, or was thoroughly grossed out about something. Unlike all of those times, there was no reason for THIS!
"Well that's normal," Tsunade said unhelpfully, going over to see if she could save any of the food that smelled only negligibly burned. "Ah, this isn't too bad. We can work around it. …Were you trying to feed a shinobi army, brat?"
"No."
"Naru-chan always cooks a lot," Kakashi admitted, sitting down and smiling more when Naru crawled up into his lap. She was so short. She silently whimpered against his neck and Kakashi frowned as he realized just how feverish she was. "She's sick!" Oh, geez. What should I do?
Kakashi had never taken care of a sick person, other than himself, before. Wounded? Yes. Ill? No. His tender care/instructions to his sick subordinates usually consisted of something like "get it together and go home until you're sure you won't make the rest of us sick." Now he felt he should probably do more.
He used to really be an unhelpful dick, didn't he?
"She does feel a little warm, even for her," Tsunade admitted. She put a hand on Naru's back and the other on her head. Both lit up in the iryo-ninjutsu she was pressing into her system and Naru moaned in relief before falling asleep. Kakashi carried her upstairs and put her to bed.
Just last night, she was fine and giving him what had to be the world's most superb blow job. He certainly thought so, anyway. He really hoped that he hadn't caused her some kind of health issue. She just kept going on about her need for raw meat and he offered to give her some as a joke - but boy did she take it. "I love you, Naru." Crazy woman. "You've gotta take care of yourself, baby," he pleaded as he covered her up. Before leaving her - he didn't want to - he ran his fingertips over her cheek. He smiled softly when she snuggled into his hand. "I'll let you three sleep in peace."
He returned downstairs after watching his beautiful mate sleep peacefully while quietly considering their immediate future.
"Maa. I'm giving her the day off. She shouldn't be working," Kakashi said crossly once downstairs. He thanked Tsunade for dishing out some fish, a large bowl of the rice that was saved, and grilled, pickled vegetables that didn't quite smell the way he was accustomed to - Naru always did something rather amazing right before serving them that was her "little secret." They were still good but didn't quite have that kick they usually did. Minato had already put the miso on the table: thankfully, it had already finished cooking before Naru must've keeled over.
The three ninjas blessed their food and Kakashi wound up repeatedly blowing out his masked cheeks, missing his wife being in the kitchen or at the table with him. She always found the craziest things to talk about. "It's weird without her here."
"You are spoiled rotten," Tsunade grinned, shaking her head.
"I know," Kakashi responded, not knowing what to do. "Maybe this will make her rescind her demands to stay on active duty."
Minato raised an eyebrow at that idea - and at Kakashi - while eating his miso. "I doubt it. She's not like Kushina, in that way. Even Kushina didn't go on maternity leave until she was seven months along, though, Kakashi."
"Hmm," Tsunade agreed while enjoying her miso, "Narus's more like you!" A workaholic, Minato! "Ahh, I remember when I was pregnant with you," she continued with a soft, fond expression that made Kakashi smile and Minato blush, of all things. "I was so scared but so hopeful, especially at first. –I hid my pregnancy as long as I could; told sens- Hiruzen all kinds of crap to stay away from the bloodshed - and blood back then." She looked Minato in the eye. "I so wish things could've been different."
Minato looked away, wishing things could've been different, too. "Thank you."
Tsunade hadn't meant to make them uncomfortable (this time.) She smirked at Kakashi, trying to lighten things up. "It's hard to imagine the old you ever wanting a stay-at-home wife, brat!"
Kakashi folded his arms over his chest. "Maa, I don't want her to just stay at home!" Not until after the pups are born. That was an argument for Future Kakashi to have with his beautiful wife, however.
Although I do like her home even now if I'm here. On the other hand, he loved that his wife was really strong and loved to kick ass.
"No, you like her in the office with you," Minato grinned, agreeing with Tsunade. It was cute that Kakashi was so attached and devoted to his wife. After finally getting over himself he'd decided that really, he was SO happy for them.
Oh, gods, I'm going to be a grandpa!
Being a grandpa changed everything.
"Sure. Who wouldn't?" Kakashi could feel that Naru was still sleeping peacefully: her chakra was everywhere and was warm and calm. It was especially all over him, something that made him feel almost ridiculously giddy over lately. Since Kakashi had them here, he figured he might as well tell these two what he'd been thinking about and discussing with his wife. "Naru's convinced that if she alters her schedule, it will be noticed and that word will get back to whatever remains of the Akatsuki that something's up with her."
He tried to swallow his food but couldn't, and wondered if he was sick, too. "Our marriage - having been initially the result of a contract - is all-too-common knowledge. Those contracts always mean children are required within a given time frame: usually two years, max." They were well past that. Kakashi didn't believe that was necessarily helpful or would throw the Akatsuki off the scent, though.
Tsunade nodded. "I don't know what the Akatsuki can do now that the "husk" as you call it has been destroyed."
Try to take revenge? Minato wondered, feeling increasingly worried and disgusted by the whole thing. He knew that Zetsu would NEVER give up. "I am worried about a potential Akatsuki backup plan - and, in general, about Zetsu or Obito if the latter's still alive. About them coming back to take action against you or Naruto," he admitted to Kakashi. Kakashi nodded, sitting up straighter but leaning forward. He tented his hands over his plate.
"We can't put anything past them. And if they find out my mate's pregnant, God only…" Kakashi shook his head, unable to say it. He curled up his fist and nearly bit through his mask as he thought about the unthinkable repercussions that could unfold. Both Tsunade and Minato reached out to him and he allowed them to take his other hand. Such a gesture didn't feel natural for him from anyone but Naru-chan but he appreciated their support nonetheless. "Thank you," he whispered emotionally before withdrawing it. "Hiruzen was the one to write that contract. What if he really did inform Obito? So that he could take Kurama as he did before?"
Seeing so much emotion in his son-in-law's gray eyes - and mentioning something that still filled him with pain and anger every time he thought of it - Minato gripped Kakashi's shoulder for a moment before looking away. "From what Hiruzen wrote, he had another idea in mind - or was at least trying to convince his advisors of something else. Hiruzen planned to retire and put you in his seat, asap."
The left side of Minato's upper lip curled up in amusement at the stunned look on the upper half of Kakashi's face. "Hiruzen referred to Naruto-chan as a 'damaged but vital wildcard.'" He paused and agreed with the way Kakashi growled, giving him a nod. "Anyway, he thought the best way to keep the jinchuuriki loyal to Konoha, him, and to the new Hokage: you, was to have her marry you."
Kakashi groaned and slumped, finding the idea of becoming Hokage exhausting and awful. He also didn't feel worthy of it - although Sarutobi Hiruzen had certainly tarnished what used to be considered such a golden position.
Minato slapped him on the back. "Jiraiya-sensei has a team tracking Zetsu. I'm sure his people will give us news soon, Kakashi-kun." Kakashi only nodded in response. Minato noticed that he kept picking up his chopsticks or spoon but never seemed to get food into his mouth. –Not even under a genjutsu.
"Maa, something else Naru-chan brought up… She does NOT want to give birth in the cave she was born in." In a lower voice, he admitted part of the truth. "Again, she's concerned with history repeating itself." What he really meant was that Naruto was so concerned about it, she had been having nightmares: she was extremely afraid and hated feeling that way.
Usually, as a rule, SHE was the one that kept his nightmares away. Now he found himself waking up next to a sweaty, shaky, or sometimes even crying wife every night.
Kurama jumped up on the table and had him pulling out a kunai. "Dammit, Kurama."
Minato stared at the very small, kit-like nine-tailed fox. "What do you think you're doing here? I thought you were in the fox's summoning realm."
Kurama shrugged. The foxes were "doing some remodeling" after the cave-in and kept bitching at him to help, so he was out of there. He would not admit that he was concerned about Naruto but figured that guarding the little idiot felt like the best thing he could do right now. He'd rather antagonize her but she was sick: something he found disgusting and quite human. Otherwise, he wasn't sure WHAT he was doing here. Meh, I can still harass the others.
"I heard you discussing the brat giving birth to hanyou brats, Flesh Bag. What do you think you're doing?"
Kakashi tried to will away a blush and rolled his eyes. He was not in any way a hanyou - he was fairly sure. Kakashi could admit, however, that there wasn't much that would surprise him at this point, so if the Hatake line descended from a hanyou, so be it.
"When I was here the other day, you were large," Minato commented dryly, sipping his tea and wanting to smack the demon kit off the table. He tried not to laugh when Kakashi picked Kurama up much like he would his ninken, reminding him not to sit on the table. Kakashi put the fox in the chair next to him where the two were in a stare-off.
Much of Naruto's half of Kurama being released was making his own half occasionally demand the same. –Oh, and also demand revenge and to "fight" not only him but also what was basically himself: the other half of Kurama, which made little sense to him.
With a sharp-toothed grin on his face, Kurama pretended to slowly shake his fur back to prove a point. "Tell me I'm not fucking adorable like this." He looked over at Tsunade who was nodding at Rip-Me-In-Half-san. "The Slug Hag gets it!"
Tsunade, surprisingly, only snorted. "I've been called worse, you little nightmare." She only smirked more when the tiny demon lifted his nose in the air arrogantly. He was like a big, incredibly nasty toddler. Good gods, my life has gotten strange since returning to Konoha.
Minato groaned. Why did even the dog-sized Kurama have to be such a pain? "My half of Kurama would also like to be released."
Kurama shrugged. "You're now worried you'll be dead if you do," he said plainly. "BEFORE you planned to die. –Interesting. But look at the evidence: is Naruto dead?" He gave Kakashi a dry look when he snarled at him. That man was definitely an overly-possessive hanyou.
"No, she's not, but you being out here means more of a chance of capture."
"Where are they going to put me?" Kurama laughed. No one joined in: those assholes. "No Gedo Mazo 'statue,' or 'husk' as you call it: no problem!" Plus, he could always retreat to the seal or disguise himself.
Minato sighed. "There's always a problem! For instance, Kiri is requesting that Isobu be returned to them."
"So since there might always be a problem, that means you'll continue to subjugate and enslave my kind?!"
"Absolutely not," Minato said. "I don't WANT you to be used at all. And I would like to release the bijuu inside of me. I… honestly don't know why my part of you is remaining with me. My seal's been open for… Well," he paused again but everyone here now knew his strange past. "It's been open since sometime after my soul was sucked into the Shinigami, so for decades."
Kurama tilted his head, considering that. Could his other half actually LIKE Minato? –How appalling. He refused to even speak to his other half about that, in case it was possibly true. "Naruto will be unhappy if you die." Perhaps that's why his other half was staying put. It was really the only one of two reasons he wasn't tearing Minato apart right now!
1. Naruto would be impossible to deal with if he killed Minato. Regrettably, she might kick his ass again - those Rasengans and Rasenshurikens hurt like a bITch -not that he would admit that to anyone.
2. Minato, Kurama would reluctantly admit, was a strong shinobi that would protect Naruto. –Not that he was going to say that, either, because that would be mortifying.
Whatever his other half's reason, none of this mess was his fault! Father left a message with Kakashi-brat that I had to partially vacate the seal. The message was verified by that silent, telepathic, and stuck-up Okami. I called it from the beginning: she married a fucking hanyou. Kurama had understood why he would leave the seal but he was NOT leaving it entirely. Naruto was his best vessel and anyone could straight out get fucked if they thought he'd go into Minato's.
He jumped out of his chair. "I'm going upstairs." Over his shoulder, he left Minato with one more piece of advice. "Tell Kiri to fuck off and that I'll destroy them if they try to take Isobu back."
A quarter of an hour later, Kakashi found Naruto all cuddled up to him AND Pakkun. All of them were asleep with Jazu at the foot of the bed. Normally, he didn't like the ninken on the bed but today he wished that he could join them.
He grabbed a camera for posterity and, of course, future blackmailing.
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Later that day -
Shisui closed the door behind him and put up a seal. He took off his glove and held his palm up before the nervous blonde Tokubetsu Jonin who had just snuck into HQ, showing her the black moon on it. "Explain."
"Explain?" Naruto asked, wondering just what she'd gotten herself into (again.) "What can I explain? I hardly talked to the guy," meaning the Sage of Six Paths. She'd mostly told him to take his sons and get lost. Sick, she tried to leave but it seemed Shisui wasn't having it; she was stuck unless she wanted to blow out the window since he'd put a chakra lock on the door.
Now that she was pregnant she had to be much more careful. She wouldn't say anything about what Shisui had just told her but she also wasn't going to share what was on her palm (or the power that came with it) with anyone else.
"Listen, Naruto. I died in the Ame leader's attack of sorts in the forest, much later than I'd died before. You know? –In my last life: one that I've been told you led, too?" He smiled tightly as her blue eyes widened and widened. "I have another little secret of my own but it seems YOU'RE the one who's been keeping most of them."
Naruto sank down into the most comfortable-looking seat in the conference room. "Commander-sama could probably tell you more." Why did I leave the house to come to work today? Kakashi's going to be upset with me and…
"Yeah, but I died before trying to prevent a coup as I did this time. Only this time I survived and I think you may remember that. Itachi also died and was brought back in a jutsu or something, so I guess you were, too? You did all of this?"
"I absolutely did not! How would I even do that?"
Shisui pursed his lips, unsure of whether or not to believe her. "You were the one to advise Itachi and me not to trust Danzo, to run everything past the Hokage, and to get our… Whatever." He wasn't telling Naruto or anyone else about a limited number of Uchihas surviving in another country. Maybe if she remembered him from when he guarded her as a child, things would be different - but they weren't. He blamed himself for her horrific attack at age 7 although he'd been sent away - oddly enough: NOT - right before Naruto was nearly raped and - don't think about it; don't think about it - killed. "How did you do it?"
"I seriously didn't," Naruto exclaimed. "I died during the Fourth Shinobi War. The last thing I personally remember was sharing chakra with the shinobi alliance." In her first life, Naruto didn't know Shisui well if she did at all. In fact, she'd only had one of his (Shisui was a stranger to her then) eyeballs shoved down her gullet by Itachi for a matter of months back then. Gross. She wasn't telling him what Kurama's other half witnessed because she often wasn't sure that she even believed it! "In the end, I got wrapped up in a Mokuton attack…"
"Cat attacked you?"
"No! Of course, Tenzo wouldn't attack me."
"No one else has Mokuton, Naruto!"
Naruto scoffed before beginning to count on her fingers. "Don't forget that Obito does: When I fought him that asshole was making wood and roots spring up everywhere. White Zetsu is basically Mokuton Incarnate and um… Well, there's Lord First, of course. And Cat: that makes four." And no matter what Tenzo says, I do not have Mokuton - I just have an insanely green thumb.
- And Hashirama via Asura haunting my chakra coils or something.
"Lord First is dead, Naruto."
"For now," Naruto sassed. "Well… I really hope he stays dead -er, he continues to rest in peace: you can believe that!" Kakashi knocked on the door and Naru winced. "We're both in trouble."
"Goddammit," Shisui said, crossing his arms over his chest petulantly before giving up and opening the door when it was knocked on again more urgently. He gave Naruto a dirty look; she could have told him her possessive, bossy boss of a husband was on the other side! "Heyyyy, Commander-sama! How's it going?"
Kakashi only glared at him. Positive he'd gotten his point across, he looked at Naruto and sighed. "What are you doing here?" She had a fever! He also shot a glare over his shoulder at Tenzo and Sai who were assigned to her.
Tenzo looked sufficiently scolded while Sai waved at him like the queen, grinning again.
"Working," Naru grinned. "And I'm sorry that I was late. You two should talk. You might have something in common." Kakashi nodded at her and helped her up, waiting patiently when she stopped and grabbed the sides of her face. After a few moments, she stood up fully and smiled at him as much as she could, trying to subtly signal him. "Thank you, Commander." She couldn't exactly skip out of the room, considering how badly she felt, but she did her best impersonation of it.
Which was terrible: it was more like stumbling.
Kakashi closed the door after seeing his wife sit down at the desk she'd been using most recently. It looked like Naru was going back to her decryption work - the perverted stuff Jiraiya used that only Naru could translate almost instantly (and that the normal decryption team wouldn't touch: she has such a beautiful albeit crowded mind) - so it seemed she was safe enough. Between her clones' work and Jiraiya's spies, they were finally getting somewhere with not only external threats but potentially internal ones, as well.
"Is she okay?" Shisui asked after the door was closed again.
"Yes," Kakashi lied. "Why did the kunoichi in question point to her palm?" She was subtle about it but Kakashi caught it as she left.
"The kunoichi in question?" Shisui mouthed. "'Cuz I've got this." The Sage had told him that he could go to Kakashi, too, but hadn't explained why. "By any chance, did you die and run into a floating guy with horns?" He showed Kakashi the moon on his palm, turning it back and forth as he observed it again, himself. Kakashi sighed heavily and took off his own glove and showed him the outline of that same moon on his hand. "Ohhhhh. Do you have the Rinnegan?"
"No," Kakashi drawled. It was shinobi instincts that kept him from face-planting when Shisui channeled chakra into his eye and the henge came off of it. That ringed, purple eye was disturbing. "You do, though."
"Yeah," Shisui said coldly.
"How?!"
Shisui blew out his cheeks again. Dealing with these Hatakes was a pain in the ass. Why didn't the Sage fully inform each of them of everything he could? "One of my grandparents was a Senju and apparently one of my great-grandparents on the other side was part Uzumaki. Or vice-versa; something like that. I was busy being dead, surprised, and suddenly remembering almost an entire past life so I may not have been completely focused on what the Sage explained about that. –Then, of course, when I woke up, I had that massive hematoma." He pointed to where that egg had been on his head.
"No kidding?" Kakashi asked about the earlier part of that, finding that quite interesting. He'd heard of Uchiha Kagami, and considering how "different" Shisui's famous grandfather was supposed to be - and how much Lord Second believed in him when he was known to be incredibly suspicious of the Uchihas - Kakashi would bet that it was Kagami that had married or was the product of a Senju-Uchiha. "So that gives you the Rinnegan?"
"That and the Sage is pissed off at Sasuke, which was a whole other thing. Or excuse me, our Sage of Six Paths is 'strongly disappointed in Sasuke.' –So he's not getting his magic eyeball again." He tapped just under his own.
After sitting down, Kakashi crossed his leg and put his masked chin in his hand. "What did he tell you?"
He told me how to create a portal. Shisui shook his head. "Huh-uh. What did he tell YOU?"
He told me how to create a portal. The ANBU commander sighed. As incredibly happy as he'd been lately, he had also been doing a lot of that. "Maa, we're going to have to trust each other if we want to seal Zetsu and possibly Obito. Naruto can sense both of them; I don't know if I can." I probably can, though.
Shisui nodded, looking very thoughtful.
"Because I've supposedly mastered the Sharingan," Kakashi continued dryly - and because I was ordered to take care of Naruto, something I'd like to think I was already doing - "the Sage gave me certain gifts. We need to take the Akatsuki down."
He also told me that if Madara hadn't infused himself with Hashirama's cells - if he had died when he was supposed to have - his sons would've most likely reincarnated into me and Obito or this guy. Learning such a thing, Kakashi had wanted to punch the Sage hard enough that both his descendants and his ancestors felt it. He told the Sage that, too.
Considering Shisui's sour attitude over having the Rinnegan, it didn't sound like the Sage had particularly pleasant conversations with any of them.
"Agreed," Shisui sighed. "We also need to get Sasuke-kun back."
Kakashi tried to keep from snarling but his words still came out with a lot of heat: "Maa, maa. I disagree with that! Fuck Sasuke." He turned on his heel, heading back toward his office and leaving a gaping Shisui behind him.
Sasuke had problems more immediately concerning than having lost the favor of the Sage of Six Paths and, unknownst to him, his old captain/sensei.
He'd allowed Orochimaru to destroy all but one of the seals he'd allowed the Hokage to put on him, making his retrieval doubtful. And if what the Snake Sannin said was true, Orochimaru was newly immortal so he couldn't kill him again. His "new leader" had also bitten him to make him stronger.
Sasuke DID then become stronger but he was also losing his vision.
Orochimaru had been trying to recreate Kakashi-taicho's/sensei's Chidori but it was only when Sasuke recalled his past life that he was finally able to use that specific lightning-based technique again. Now, he could barely see to use it, however.
Sasuke was with Team Taka longer than he was a member of Team 7. He told himself that it was normal that he'd gravitated toward Karin, Suigetsu, and finally his favorite, Jugo. The old Sasuke would have NEVER entered a more intimate relationship with them, however.
Their relationship certainly wasn't equal but they all did care about each other. Things were awkward at the moment but he had some hope that their unusual - he thought it might be unusual, anyway - arrangement might work out if Konoha and the Uchihas didn't stick their collective noses in it. Orochimaru, at least, didn't care.
What would nii-san say, though? That was a question for another day.
Just like in his last life, Suigetsu wanted to go on a sword hunt even though Zabuza was alive, the last Sasuke heard. "The snake's never going to let us out of here." Orochimaru was in no way stupid and he knew that Sasuke was wary of him. Jugo didn't mind the old Sannin but Karin and Suigetsu hated him.
"Why don't you kill him?" Suigetsu suggested with a crooked grin. "You said you did it before."
"Hn."
Karin pursed her lips. She wished that she could trust Sasuke to go back to Konoha and request having them be given citizenship but one: Sasuke had done something to piss off his Hokage. Two, he didn't seem all that excited about going back home, and three: she had attacked the Yondaime Hokage's daughter with the intent to kill her. (Not really. It was more an attempt to put her down, she tried to assure herself.) She had been lied to and manipulated about that kunoichi - her family - specifically.
And four, she wasn't sure that Sasuke really cared about them - or her, especially. He was… difficult.
He also might be insane, considering the most recent tale he'd told them of his previous life.
Karin definitely had the best deal out of all of them. She was involved with two hard-core hotties plus Suigetsu. Orochimaru was the only kink in their kink. His need to be their daddy lately was absolutely disturbing.
She was absolutely going to kill Orochimaru, even if she had to take him down herself. She frowned as she observed her boys, wondering if they'd help her.
.
Kakashi got home and smiled at his wife who had her feet propped up on the sectional, working through one of her mother's sealing journals and watching television, it looked like. "You're feeling better? I had hoped you would stay in bed and not come in today." Naruto smiled up at him, somehow making everything brighter.
"Tadaima, Kash."
"Okaeri, baby. I'm glad you're feeling better."
"I'm sorry about this morning. I know how you feel about surprises and… Tsunade."
Kakashi took off his mask and the modified hitai-ate. Now that the Sharingan wasn't on and draining his chakra constantly, having both eyes open, together, at home (and when closed up in his office) was almost thrilling. Proper depth-perception: what a concept. "You're so beautiful. You still look a little pale, though. –And I don't mind Tsunade so much; not in this life, anyway."
"This life, huh?" His Sharingan turned on for a few seconds, making her smile softly at him. Kakashi's mismatched eyes really suited him, however, "your natural eyes are dark. I don't think many will notice if you begin wearing a normal headband." Since the whole Sage thing went down, Kakashi had said that his vision was so much better now several times.
"Are you joking?" he asked because seriously. "And maybe no one would realize I'd changed if I walked around without a mask, either."
"No, no, no," Naruto insisted. "No: only I get to see your gorgeous face!" She kissed him but she was serious about what she was saying before. Kakashi kissed her back, making her swoon and forget what she was talking about briefly when it felt like he shoved his entire tongue down her throat and aggressively licked the roof of her mouth. When he pulled away, he looked entirely too cocky and pleased with himself.
"Ahem! –You-u! What was I saying?" She swatted him when she remembered. "What I meant is that many people haven't seen your Sharingan, and for those who have, you could simply say that you're now able to turn it on and off. –Just like the Uchihas do, ne? Your gray eyes are awfully dark."
Kakashi hummed, purposely making it sound more and more like a growl. He loved the way her eyes usually dilated when he did - like now. "Are you saying that I have eyes like an Uchiha?"
"No! Your eyes are so much prettier! The way the little silver flecks catch the light." She let out a simpering sigh and didn't even care. "So pretty."
Kakashi bobbed his head and went in for some smooches rather than think too much about it. He laughed into his wife's mouth as she started licking at his lips more and nibbling his bottom lip as she pulled at his shoulders. "You little animal!"
"I'm not an animal; you're an animal," she replied childishly, smiling against his mouth. "Are you hungry?"
"Nope! What about you, though?" Kakashi asked, frowning at her and getting serious (and probably overbearing; I need to watch that.) "What have you eaten so far today?" Naruto grumbled but reluctantly pulled out a piece of paper with exactly what she'd eaten in the first column, with others listing the approximate number of calories, carbs, grams of protein and fat, etc. "This is not enough!"
"Tough shit!" Naruto snarled and then gasped. "Sorry! Oh, I'm so sorry." Her pregnant moods and even more pregnant mouth were all over the place. She was fairly sure that Sai wanted to punch her several times today and had been impressed (and then dragged his ass out on the training grounds, crying in gratitude and shame like a dumbass) that he hadn't. "There's just no way I can eat anymore! Something is seriously wrong with me. The only thing I was kinda jonesing for all day was… eggplant."
What a weird thing to long for. She was not an old man or Kakashi so it made no sense.
"OhHO," Kakashi nearly cheered, strutting around in a circle and slowly raising his hands as if he'd just scored a touchdown. "Maa, maa! I wonder why that is?" He winked at her and lazily drew his thumb at himself. "THIS guy. I did that!"
"Oh, gods!" Naruto blushed all over herself. "You are so silly." It was so wonderful to see him so happy and at peace. Kakashi looked healthy and free. "I love you so much."
"And I love you." Kakashi dropped back into his awesome recliner and proceeded to dive into Icha-Icha. It had been a while since he had actually read it although he often used the novel as his third mask. It was extremely irritating to his serious ANBU subordinates - particularly since so many of the newbies were following his example.
Wrestling was on television and although Kakashi had long ago finally understood why it was so popular, he'd leave Naru to it tonight. He did not expect to later get tackled by a half-naked Wonder Woman. "Naruto," he drawled. "You're sick."
"I'm not!"
"You are; you just don't know how to go about it." He covered his smile up, holding the book a little higher up when that seemed to surprise her. She seemed to be thinking over his words which he thought was adorable.
"I… Maybe I don't." She quickly bound his wrists in her Lasso of Truth, anyway. "Tell me the truth!"
Kakashi hummed. "Akino also admitted to dalliances with Jazu." Naru squawked and tried to untie him but he held on to the long gold whip, chuckling. "Your ninken may very well be a slut, Naru-chan. Why, I wouldn't doubt that Jazu's upstairs having her way with one of my poor, innocent boys right now."
Naru stilled as her gaze turned toward the upstairs bedrooms before focusing downward since most of the ninken - including Jazu - were in the basement. "Do dogs have sex when they're pregnant?"
"Our pack consists of ninken, not normal dogs, Naru-chan." –Not that it should matter, Kakashi felt. He adjusted the way he was sitting since Naru was turning him on. He gave her a dirty look when she wiggled against him, a sly little smile on her face. "Nah-ru-toh. You're sick. And I believe we were talking about ninken orgies." Naru collapsed over him, hiding her smile. She wriggled as she sat back up, making him groan and nip at her.
She kissed him repeatedly before letting him go back to his pervy book. The first Icha-Icha was definitely the weakest one, in her opinion. He rested it on her head, making her laugh while she kissed and bit at his chest and abs, pulling his compression tank away from his body with her teeth. Running her hand over his abs and cock, he got even harder and gasped when she swayed back and forth over him, grinning.
"Don't break my prop - I mean, my Lasso of Truth." She pulled Kakashi's hands over his head (he was still holding his book) and spammed a clone to help her pull his pants off while she peppered him with kisses. Before she went all the way, she batted her eyelashes at him several times, trying to get him to go along with it. She didn't want to make him do something he really didn't want to.
Kakashi smirked; she was so cute. "You'll get worn out," he sang.
"I'll just sit on it!" Kakashi's eyebrows raised high up under his shaggy hair. "Like cuckolding!" Kakashi's mouth fell open and he started coughing. "It'll be fine."
"Maa, Naruto," he laughed. "You mean cockwarming, right? Cuckolding is definitely not allowed."
Naruto blinked a few times, turned red when she realized what she'd said first - but thought he looked interested in what she'd meant, more importantly. "Sure." She didn't quite know what the warming thing entailed - Jiraiya's books never delved deeply into it - but what could trying hurt?
"I don't know," Kakashi smirked, looking away before glancing down at her again. Naruto was awfully sexy in that little costume. It was a slightly different one than she'd worn in the wrestling ring. The one she'd had on while wrestling in the pros was a one-piece number. This one looked very similar: a tiny skirted thing (that her breasts were spilling out of) but Naru was definitely not wearing panties or whatever one called the little bottoms that should've been underneath that wonderful, pitiful excuse of a skirt. Apparently having gained confidence in the last few moments, she and the clone began pulling at his pants again. "I don't think you can pull cockwarming off," he smirked. "I mean, you're hyper."
Naruto narrowed her eyes at him even as she rubbed against him now that she had his Jonin pants down. "I don't think YOU can handle it!" He began playing with her clit. She hid her face behind her hair and desperately tried to be quiet and not react. She wasn't sure but thought that was part of it.
"Oh, is that right?" Continuing circling with his thumb, he pinched her clit and grabbed his dick, pulling her down on top of it. She panted and slowly sank onto him. Sitting up straight, he thrust into her. "I… think I proved my point!"
Naru gave him a look and stopped moving, holding herself up over him. "I don't think so."
"Whaaaat are you doing?" Kakashi asked with a wink. He thrust into her again and only heard her gasp.
"Winning?"
"Eh?" Kakashi asked stupidly before his mind re-engaged. "Oh, you think?!" Yes, he was definitely going to lose. He settled down and pet her soft skin, moaning appreciatively at how beautiful she was. He eased her onto him again, allowing her bottom-out on top of him - and tried to stay still. It felt awfully nice; that was putting it mildly. "Tight," he gritted out through clenched teeth as he tried to get just a little more comfortable or stay still.
Naru let out a breath and saw stars. She took advantage and ground against him, cumming hard and fast as he shuffled up into his recliner again.
Kakashi may have used the excuse of trying to get comfortable as a way to adjust and move inside of her - just to help her ride it out, mind you. He covered his face with his book again and tried to be still when she came down. She wrapped her arms around him and he groaned into her touch. "You feel so incredible. I… Fuck. Bad girl. You're a very bad girl."
"You're supposed to say I'm a good girl." Naru held her breath before sitting up again, her hands walking back and pushing against the thick, ridged line between his hips and abs under her thighs as she shifted to spread her legs more. This, it turns out, was fun. "Read to me."
"D'ju… say something?" Naru began shaking with almost silent laughter at his slurred words and he grabbed her hips. "Better be still or I'll win our little bet."
Naruto growled at him. "Is that how it is? I asked you to read to me. Please? I'll be still!"
"Hmm. Okay." Kakashi swallowed hard and bit back a smile at the passage of the book he'd gotten to before his wife began tempting him:
Her tools of the trade lay before him: her mask, whip, stilettos; even the cupless corset he'd come to incessantly dream about was laying in tatters at her feet.
Finally, after all of these months, he gazed upon her beautiful face. The long-lashed, honey-colored eyes he'd fallen in love with twitched with irritation. Her high cheekbones, arched brows, and straight but feminine nose reeked of aristocratic roots. Standing naked before him, the goddess' full, ruby-red lips were pulled back, sneering at him over straight white teeth.
"Who the hell told you you could take off my mask, boy?"
"I've decided I've had just about enough of that mouth of yours, spitting poison and orders at me, hime," our hero said with a smirk.
Kakashi smirked at his blushing wife. She was covering her face but he could still see a lot of red.
"You'll follow my orders now," he continued. "On. Your. Knees, Woman!"
"Oh, Jara! I thought you'd never ask!"
Naruto burst into snorting giggles. "No more, please! It's awful!"
Kakashi withheld a moan at the way she repeatedly clenched around him as she laughed. His little vixen was so tight. And "wet… Oh, c'mon," he tried to breathe airily. "This is great literature!"
"She was so strong and in charge! And suddenly she's his willing mouth-whore?!"
"Mouth-whore?" Kakashi parroted, not having expected her to say that. He coughed, cleared his throat, coughed - or moaned - again slowly a few times so he could play around with her. Nauto had her eyes shut tight and was biting her lips. He sat up quickly, wrapping his arms around her before setting her breasts free. "God damn. Look at you. –I don't think we're doing this right. Which works for me, really. But you're sick!"
Naru rolled against him. "Kakashi," she begged. "I am a bad girl."
"You really shouldn't brag about that, Nar…"
"C'mon! …Daddy?" She squealed when he slid down, pulling her half off of the recliner. "OHF!"
"Fuck," he did have a kink for being called that. "Yes, I am." He laid down on the ground and bounced her over him. "I am" he repeated possessively, spreading his hand out over her abdomen. "Let's see what you've got, Wonder Woman."
It turns out, Naru didn't have a whole lot in her. She only lasted only a matter of minutes before she became too overheated. It became clear to him that she was still unwell. "I told you," Kakashi said sternly, picking her up and clicking his tongue. "You were too sick to play me that way."
Naruto pouted at him, leaning her head against his chest. She was really dizzy. "And we agreed I don't know what to do when I'm sick. It's new for me. –Are you mad?"
"Yes." He gave her a dry look when she tried to kiss up his neck.
"But not too mad," Naruto knew.
"I guess. –Yes."
She reached for him as soon as he laid her on the bed. "Let me take care of that for you," she requested. Kakashi's erection looked painful. Poor baby. Really, she felt like jumping him again.
"No," he said like a very overgrown brat.
"Ah, c'mon!" She reached into her nightstand drawer and pulled out a clear plastic bottle with a red cap and lazily shook it back and forth. "I've got that cinnamon lube stuff that gets really ho-ot! –While I do it, I'll let ya read your boo-ook!"
Kakashi twisted his lips and growled at her before finally joining her in their bed. "Fine. But you're getting the paddle after that."
"Hmm. It's about damn time," Naru muttered under her breath.
.
Kakashi opened his eyes - one after the other as he'd gotten used to after so many years - hours later. "What's wrong?"
"I woke you?"
"Mhm," he admitted, snuggling into her breasts. "Tell me if I'm hurting you." Naru let out a huge sigh. "What is it, baby?"
"You're always being careful now. And you don't… talk dirty and stuff anymore." And you didn't even pretend to use the paddle.
Kakashi wasn't expecting that. He had guessed that she might have had another nightmare. "It feels wrong to talk to the mother of my children that way."
"Yeah?" Naru began sniffling. "Well, that sucks! You don't see me the same way; you think I'm…la- lame and treat me like some kinda princess which I'm not; I'm still the same and you only see me as a- Mmmmph!"
Kakashi cut off her nonsense with a kiss. He ran his thumb over her cheek, wiping away her tears. "No. You're wrong." He rolled over and pulled on his yukata.
"How about this? I promise to embarrass you silly, calling you things that are absolutely filthy since you want that once you're well. " He gave her a very serious look, his Sharingan spinning. "I've told you before that is not how I feel about you, however. I respect you and I love you. For now, come with me. We're going outside." Kakashi watched her carefully, glad that although she seemed very hormonal, Naru didn't look sick right now. He covered her up in a blanket just to make sure and then grabbed one for himself, too.
After putting on their sandals, the couple was surrounded by ninken as they walked away from their home, staying inside of the border. Naruto slowed more and more as she heard the waterfall. They were getting closer to where she'd fought Sarutobi. Shivering, she stopped and gasped when Kakashi picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. He'd made a clone that took off running toward the sound. "What are you doing?!"
"Just wait." He kept moving forward as the ninkens formed a perimeter around him - a few following his clone. Thanks to his clone, fairy lights lit up at his destination and he set Naru back on her feet. After making sure she was covered he raised an eyebrow at his wife who was almost hiding behind him. "Look, Naru."
Naruto peeked out. "What is that?"
Kakashi led her forward. "Maa, I know a few fairly decent earth jutsus," he said as an understatement. "And a few suitons… A fair number of lightning jutsus - maa. Let's just say I know a lot of jutsus."
"You don't say?" Naruto grinned.
She gasped when she could finally take in what she was looking at. "You fixed it!" She ran forward to the little spot in which she'd spent so much time working, trying to make a little haven near home for Kakashi and her to enjoy together. The one I destroyed when "JiJi" showed up out of nowhere.
It was now far bigger than what she'd found and created - but the lights were back up again; there had to be more of them, considering how many trees had been burned away in her fight with the Third Hokage. The water wasn't bubbling quite as much as it was from the seals she'd earlier placed but "it's warm?!"
It was steaming!
Without seals?!
Kakashi shrugged but was pleased that she seemed to like it so well. "The scorched earth and trenches led me to a natural hot spring. It's odd - even Tenzo said so: the waterfall cools it a bit but… From what was left over following your battle here, I could tell that you'd put a lot of work into this place."
Naru sighed: she had - and she never got to show it to him. "I wanted to give you a gift. I wanted… for you to be able to relax here; for us to have a place where you wouldn't have to worry about your mask or anything. You work so hard." She ran her hand through her hair, feeling awed by what he'd done. "It's so much bigger now! I can't believe you've done all this!"
"I wish I could've seen it before," Kakashi said genuinely. "I never doubted that you worked hard on it. It means a lot to me: all the things you do for me mean a lot, Naruto."
Naruto stood up on her tippy-toes and kissed him before laying her head against his chest and wrapping her arms around him, enjoying the way their newly built sanctuary looked now. "I should've shown it to you before but this is perfect. Maybe we can build things together in the future, hm?"
"That's all I want."