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

Emphasis

Bijuu, etc. speaking

Bijuu, etc. thinking

Here's your good old smut warning! It's in the first and last sections. Enjoy or skip: whatever floats your boat. Happy Thanksgiving, y'all.

Naruto silently stepped into the shower Kakashi was taking, having waited for him to begin rinsing the shampoo from his hair. She sank down to her knees and moved forward, grinning mischievously when Kakashi jumped when she reached out to touch his extremely hot, muscular, yet cushy ass.

He hissed as he turned around, having been ready to attack. "Naruto."

Kakashi sighed before giving her a scolding look for scaring him, although seeing her on her knees and naked like this was always breathtaking. He shook his hair back, continuing to rinse it out while grinning as his little wife stood back up. He could almost feel her pouting at him - and could definitely feel her hot body against his. When he was sure his hair was free of suds, he smiled down at her and shook his head, flinging water everywhere. Dropping lower so that she could reach the top of his head, he let out a happy sigh as she massaged some kind of detangling conditioner into his hair.

As far as the stuff she liked to put in his hair went, not only would his hair turn out much shinier which meant that he'd get more scalp massages - he loved that his wife was fascinated with his hair - but the way her nails and fingers felt going through his hair in the shower gave him shivers of the best kind.

Kakashi couldn't help but softly smile, gazing at the slight swell of her abdomen as he massaged her breasts and pinched her dark pink, extremely sensitive nipples. Clearly, it drove Naru crazy. He kissed her head, grinning when she eagerly popped up for more kisses. He slowly smoothed his hand down her baby bump, moving lower and lower, reaching for her cunt but backed off when she hissed. "You okay?"

"Yeah. Just sore - only a little."

"Hmm." His hand lit up in the green hue of iryo-ninjutsu. He concentrated on the jutsu and sighed, realizing that it sounded like he'd whined. Meh, he probably had. "Maa, it's hard to be me. I fucked up and yet didn't do enough… although"

Kakashi seemed lost in thought and worried. "Why - or when?" Naruto asked. Is it about the mission?! Kakashi had only been up for a matter of minutes before she snuck into the bathroom.

Kakashi dragged her closer and turned them around so that she wasn't out in the cold, allowing the very warm water to flow down her hair and body. "I'm going to put more showerheads in here as soon as I'm back so you don't catch a cold. I went too hard on you - yet I fucked up because you're able to walk, Mate!"

"Pervert," Naru muttered against his chest, hugging her husband before her hands smoothed their way down to his ass again. She grinned up at him, enjoying grabbing his ass way too much if they were someone who didn't know just how amazing Kakashi's ass was.

"I didn't mean to hurt you," he said between kisses to her shoulder and neck.

"But it hurt so good, baby," she purred with a sly grin. She continued working that ass, figuring he needed a nice, deep massage. "And there are two reasons I'm able to walk. One," she began, patting his left ass cheek, "is my fast, Uzumaki healing - combined with housing a good deal of Kurama, of course." They both momentarily eyed the shower door at the same time: it was a couple of meters in front of the hamper where Kurama liked to lurk. "Two," she continued and patted the other cheek before digging her fingers into both: squeezing him good, "I needed to give you a parting gift."

Naru inhaled shakily, blue eyes filled with tears but she averted her gaze as she slid down to the tiled floor. She didn't want him to go. "I want you to know, though, that I don't only want you for your body," she said awkwardly.

"I know that," Kakashi commented, smirking at her when she glared up for a split second. "And what's this about a gift?" Naruto nodded against his cock, making him groan. She rubbed up against him like a cat, rubbing her head all over his hard member and balls - she never forgets to pay attention to them, gods love her - before looking up at him with what he realized were bloodshot, tearing blue eyes. "Baby…"

"Shhh." With one hand kneading his ass and the other stroking his balls, Naru licked up the underside of his stiff cock. Kakashi let his head drop back for a second before he gazed back at her with his Sharingan spinning. "Are you making a memory?" She twirled her tongue around his big, pretty tip.

Sue her, she loved it. She loved him!

Kakashi growled at her, stroking her hair and letting her set the pace. "You're making a memory for me, koi." He let out a groan followed by a hiss at what she was doing. Naru took the head of his cock into her mouth, alternately sucking and/or running or flickering her tongue across his slit then going back to the rim while slowly pumping him with her hands. "So good. …Maa, you know you don't have to do this."

Naruto gave him a good deep suck before letting up with a pop. Kakashi's breath came out in ragged gasps that made her happy.

"You always say that. You don't like?" She didn't give him a chance to answer as she sucked him deep into her mouth before closing her eyes as she took him down her throat as much as she could. Several more pumps, helping him along as she pulled his clenching ass forward each time, and she popped off again and gave him a teary-eyed pout. She looked away, stroking the long, thick muscles of his thighs, and gave him another few kitten licks.

She tried to look innocent. If Kakashi's deep chuckle was anything to go by, she'd failed to look worried about what he thought.

"Uh. I can guarantee that me like."

Naruto chuckled at his lightly blushing face but wound up gagging when she took him back into her mouth. He'd thrusted more than she'd anticipated into her mouth and was partially in control now. Kakashi was gentle but firm as he stared her down, growling nonsense, praises, or just plain filthy things as she also used her spit and his pre-cum to lube her hands. She rhythmically took the length she couldn't get into her mouth between her fingers and palms, opening her throat before sucking in her cheeks and humming.

Kakashi nearly fell down. "Fuck, yes! …Oh gods, Naru–chan! If you keep that up, I'm gonna…" He tried to pick her up to fuck her against the wall but his little wife had a suction going that she was intent on continuing as she grabbed his ass and wouldn't let go. "Fuck!"

If she wanted it this bad, he'd make it good. "Get ready, baby!" Naruto grabbed his balls with one hand as they tightened and he thrust into her harder. She began swallowing hard with his cock erratically thrusting deep down her throat. "GODS! Oh – fuck!"

Coming down from his high, he realized that he'd grabbed her head at some point and smiled at her guiltily. "Sorry."

He always felt uncharacteristically shy or out of his depth before and after using her mouth this way - although he enjoyed the absolute fuck out of it. "You and your gifts, young lady." Kakashi sighed heavily and closed his eyes. "I don't want to leave." He clicked his tongue at himself; he had an important job to do.

Naruto wiped at her face after cleaning him up with her mouth and tongue. She always felt like she probably looked like such an ugly mess after doing this but - just like she'd read about - she tipped her chin back and opened her mouth to show him that she'd eaten everything up, sticking out her tongue a little just to prove it. "Good?" She broke into naughty giggles when Kakashi's eyes crossed before rolling back in his head. He fell to his knees, making the whole thing even funnier.

He slapped her ass and rested his weight on her, slumping breathlessly over her shoulders for a few seconds. "Stop laughing at me." Naruto shook her head and pulled away from him so that she could stare up at him with a beautiful smile. He grinned back and held her to him tightly before kissing her over and over again. "Love you. Kami, I love you."

To him, Naruto looked so at ease and happy as they cleaned up together.

Before she had a chance to go downstairs or dress, Kakashi decided to have breakfast upstairs. "Payback time, baby." He lurked over his giggly little wife, making her step back and back and back until he was able to gently push her down on their bed. He pulled her towel away and drooled like an animal. "Mine."

Despite her weak verbal protests, he felt zero resistance as he put her legs over her shoulders. "Itadakimasu!"

He snarled and dove in for what he was DETERMINED wouldn't be his final feast on the woman he loved.

An hour later, Kakashi brought up a breakfast tray. He was surprised to see Naru awake - but then unsurprised to see his wife wiping tears from her face since she was. "You and your naughty clones, Naru-chan."

Naruto sniffed and tried to smile. She was being ridiculous about wanting him to stay close to her although the worry was real and couldn't be avoided. "Naught- Hang on a second! They didn't do anything pervy to you, did they?" If they did, she'd pound those damn clones!

Kakashi chuckled. "No. But they made breakfast. –I wanted to make breakfast for you."

"Aww! I'm sorry, then. That's sweet of you, Kash, but I really appreciate you bringing it up for me." Kinda nice not to have the kitchen either flooded or the air down there turning blue with Kakashi's cursing, though.

Kakashi kissed her hand, staring into her eyes. "Anything for you, my love." Anything.

To keep you and our pups safe? I'll burn Ame - and anyone or everything else - down to the ground if I have to.

A very short time later, the house was a flurry of activity as the squad Kakashi would be leaving with met there. Everyone seemed to be in high spirits and Naruto was piling the food and new bentos she and her clones had made into seals that maintained three different temperatures. She also had to keep reminding the shinobis present not to step on the Jazu's puppies. It seemed like there were a lot more than eight of them. Every time she found one she'd realize that two others were missing from where she was trying to wrangle them.

"Just how long do you think we'll be gone?" Genma asked, finding watching Naruto's endeavors funny. Was this all for Kakashi? Lucky bastard: Genma had previously had the pleasure of tasting Naruto's dishes several times.

There were entirely too many dogs here, though.

Naruto shook her head. "Do you know how long you'll be gone? Kakashi won't tell me!"

Genma shrugged. "Sorry, I don't." Naruto narrowed her eyes at him and he chuckled. "Seriously!"

"Good MORNING," Tsunade cheered as she came into the room looking very happy. She nearly tripped on a puppy and beamed into his cutie-patootie face as she gently picked the little guy up.

Used to the ninkens and their puppies, Kakashi followed her and Jiraiya into the kitchen with his hands in his pockets, sighing at this big bunch of rambunctious people. He looked back at Tenzo who seemed fairly at ease and had Jazu's clone of a puppy - blue eyes and golden hair - in his hands.

Why had he agreed to meet everyone here? He only wanted to spend time with his wife before he had to leave.

"You seem happy," Naruto said, allowing her grandmother to surprise her with a kiss on the cheek. Tsunade tried to rub her belly and Naru jumped away and tossed a big wooden spoon at her when she put down the pup. "Cut that out!"

Tsunade didn't pay any attention to Naruto's complaints. Instead, she let out a long, wistful sigh. "I wish they weren't leaving right now, so soon after Jiraiya and I found that we're still so sexually compatible." She ignored the way her granddaughter stared at her before gagging. "Brat. You're at the hospital today."

"What?! I don't want to go to the hospital!" That place stank, literally and figuratively.

"Naruto needs to go to the hospital?" Kakashi asked, having flashed over (and scaring Naruto silly: unlike her father, Kakashi rarely did that - especially since the puppies began moving around) when he heard.

Tsunade glared but held herself back from flicking the Hatake somewhere far, far away; this was his house after all. "It's not what you're thinking. She's working reception at the hospital."

"Gross." Naru stuck more prepared food in yet another seal before opening another scroll and pretty much dumping the entirety of her snack cabinet into it. She looked down and found another puppy. She also didn't miss the way that Tsunade and Kakashi looked at each other. They seemed to be telepathically communicating and Naruto guessed that her ANBU commander husband wanted to keep her busy with literal busy work while he was gone. "What a drag."

The next people to enter the fray were her fathers and Shikamaru. They also each scooped up a pup.

"You're going on this mission, too?" she asked them, outraged and worried.

"Huh-uh," Shikamaru yawned. After putting the puppy in the corner, he scratched his belly as he stretched.

Shikaku must've been feeling especially energetic because instead of the normal loving head pats, he gave her an awkward hug.

"Then what… Oh," Naruto said, realizing what was going on here. "You're guarding me."

"I'm keeping you company, Troublesome Baka Imouto - and if you don't appreciate my company while TEMARI'S here, I'll be on my way." Shikamaru gave her a sideways grin when she grabbed his hand and pulled him into a big hug.

"Please stay," Naru whispered in his ear.

"Hoooooooooly," Shikamaru drawled in a whisper, his eyes wide; he was a little stunned, not having thought about it - which was saying something. "Come with me!" He proceeded to drag Naru out to the patio and although they both figured Kakashi was watching them, he turned Naruto away so that no one could see what he was about to do: just in case. He took a deep breath and looked up at his sister, silently asking for permission. Naruto blushed all over herself but nodded at him and he reached out to tentatively touch her abdomen. "Oh my God."

"I feel so fat," Naruto groused. Shikamaru rolled his eyes and she totally agreed with his sentiments - although she didn't like him to keep poking her stomach like that. THAT kind of thing, at least right now, was only for her and Kakashi. "Knock it off. And I know it's stupid to feel fat but my body has already changed this much."

After chasing down a tan little pup that had gotten outside, Shikamaru sighed, wondering what she expected, considering that she and his brother-in-law were having twins. "YOU," he stated with great authority, "are going to be huge."

"Sh- shut up! You're huge!"

Kakashi was the last person to leave - everyone else having become uncomfortable (thus taking the hint) or having simply been heaved off the property by Naruto's sweet husband.

"C'mere." Kakashi fell to his knees and held his wife when she collapsed, straddling his lap. "I'm proud of you," he mumbled against her hair. He could see how upset she was and he could feel her emotions were warring within her. "As expected as a Tokubetsu kunoichi of Konoha: you've held up very well, Mate."

Naruto's eyes watered up but she refused to let the tears fall. She held Kakashi tightly and appreciated that he seemed to be in just as much pain at separating from her. He was worried, though, and she had to ensure he didn't have to consider any doubts about temporarily leaving her. Didn't she? "I love you, Kakashi. Mate," she rephrased, smiling when something in his chest seemed to rumble at her. "Come home to me, safe and sound, okay?"

Kakashi pulled his head back and nodded at her. "I promise. –It's the promise of a lifetime."

"Don't," she began, remembering - as Kakashi did - although he didn't hear the idiotic promise she once made to Sakura: only some oddly-romantic BS version of it, she realized later. "But I promise," Naruto repeated as she stared into his mismatched eyes. "And you'll give them hell for me?"

Naru didn't know where he was off to; she only wanted him to return to her side. Kakashi rose, pulling her up from a position it didn't seem he should've been able to before falling back to his knees as he whispered into her abdomen.

"Otou-san will be back as soon as he can, puppies. Keep growing well and don't be too hard on your mother, ne?"

Naruto ran her hand through his wild hair. "I'll take care of them, Kakashi. I promise."

By 1730 that same day, Naruto was ready to strangle half of Konoha. Word of her working the reception desk at the hospital had gotten around and she was being prank called to the point of insanity.

"Konoha General," Naru grumbled into the phone, ready to rip it out of the wall and kick it to Kumo. "How may I direct your call?"

"Hello! Is your refrigerator running?"

Naruto pulled the phone away from her ear and gave it a deadpan look. Of all the stupid pranks, that one was the most obvious. "This is a hospital. There are many of them and of course, they're running, you fucking moron!" Naruto hung up and dropped her head back as the phone rang again. "Konoha General."

"Is thisa Nar-uto-ah?" came a boy's voice in a ridiculous and offensive accent.

"Konohamaru," Naruto growled. "You've called at least a dozen times today."

"I-uh missah you, Nar-uto-ah!"

"Listen, buddy. I'll teach you a jutsu if you'll JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"

"Hurtful - but okay," he agreed cheerfully and immediately hung up.

The phone rang again and all of Naruto's hair flew into the air, separating into nine sections: she couldn't take it anymore! "Konoha General, Motherfucker!"

"Hmm. I was hoping to reach Senju Tsunade?"

Naruto's hair went limp and sad with humiliation. "Of course. Please uhhh, let me transfer the call, and please don't tell Shizune what I called you, Tou-san?" Shizune was her supervisor for the day and had threatened to demote her for insubordination earlier when she'd stuck what she thought was a seal to her but in actuality was simply a sign that read "Kick me!"

Naruto was pregnant, tired, and emotional - and being abused by idiots. She had no energy for more devious or entertaining pranks today!

"No can do, Naruto!"

Naruto hung up on the Hokage before realizing that she'd just made things worse. "Dammit."

"Brat!"

Naruto jumped. "Dammit, baa-chan. Um, Hokage-sama was," she began before squeaking when her father flashed in. She put her face in her hands, realizing how clammy they were as she very slightly shook. She needed to calm down! "Sorry for hanging up on you."

"It's alright," Minato smiled, moving between the instantly aggravated Tsunade and his daughter. "I wanted to see if I could accompany you to your appointment."

"My what now?" Naruto already knew there was no escape. She'd just had an appointment, though. "Is anything wrong? Something that you haven't told me about?"

"I'm concerned about all of the clones you have running around," Minato said and sadly, Tsunade nodded along.

"I feel fine, though."

Half an hour later, Naruto had all kinds of monitoring devices hooked up and had been asked to reduce her clones by more than HALF. They'd go forward from there but considering there was actually something out there called a "Vanishing Twin" that she'd once read about - although I should be safely past the point where that's possible - Naruto didn't complain even in jest to the way her grandmother wanted to monitor her. She wouldn't be able to spy on the villagers as well as she did now - keeping potentially internal threats to a minimum - but what else could she do?

Being pregnant was scary.

She was escorted home and entered her house feeling a whole lot less enthusiastic than she normally did. "Okaeri," she said to no one. Just like the old days.

Her lips curled up into a soft smile as Kurama and Bisuke greeted her, however. "I'm really glad you guys are here."

.

Kakashi hated Ame. Providing security and trying to lock Obito out of a huge area was proving exceptionally difficult, considering most of Kakashi's seals would end up being washed away by rain before he could activate them. This went on, day after day after day.

And they didn't know whether or not the seals would even work against Obito! –Or whether or not Obito was alive for that matter. Not to mention Zetsu: dealing with him was their next stop, as soon as they finished up here.

"These people are assholes," Genma concluded for what Kakashi guessed was the hundredth time.

"Maa, Konoha did deal them a lot of damage in the wars."

Genma knew he would say that. "Yeah, but they need to get the fuck over it." Konoha was doing a lot for Ame's security right now and Hokage-sama had negotiated for Shizune to soon train their medics. Ame shinobis needed, in his opinion, to learn to at least be diplomatic and appreciative of what they were doing. Or simply to not antagonize them.

Kakashi shrugged but couldn't help the smirk on his face for all of a second as he continued to write. Genma was holding a light up for him. It was 0300 but the rain had stopped, so here they were. "Frustrating," he admitted. Genma mumbled that he agreed along with cursing more of the surly Ame nins. "Sensei or Naruto could do this with their chakra and I can't." Yet. "It's taking too fucking long."

Genma wondered if maybe he just needed some action. He was bored and tired so he wanted to fuck with Kakashi by bringing up his wife. "So you want Naruto here with us?" Kakashi glared at him before returning back to his work. Boo. The last time he mentioned Naruto he nearly got stabbed. It was shortly after he'd made fun of Kakashi for reading a "How to be a Father" book of some sort that had his Icha-Icha jacket covering it.

"Yes and no." Pakkun popped up and Kakashi breathed a sigh of relief. "Pakkun."

"Yo," the pug greeted his summoner. The last time he'd reported in, he poofed right into the middle of a seal Kakashi was writing, getting ink on his butt and ticking Kakashi off. This time his summoner was much happier and more importantly, his rear was clean.

"Why are you out so late?"

"Meh," Pakkun shrugged as he allowed Kakashi to take what he was sure was a lovey-dovey note from Naru-chan. He grinned when Kakashi put a return scroll in his jacket, thinking it was cute that his prickly summoner was such an odd romantic: Pakkun was pretty sure he saw a small heart drawn on the scroll that surrounded a little narutomaki. "Naru was up with the pups again. She's only allowed to use ten clones a day now so it's on her."

"WHAT?!" Kakashi asked before cursing when he realized that he'd jerked and made a mistake in his lines. "Goddammit."

"I didn't mention it before? –No worries, Tsunade's just being careful," Pakkun failed to explain. "She's wearing chakra monitors 24/7."

"Dangerous," Kakashi hissed after a few silent minutes in which he worked furiously on seal after seal. "Maybe we shouldn't have… No. That's stupid… I mean, of course, I want them… but I…"

"Kakashi," Genma said, reaching for the freaking-out, growling man's shoulder. This was so uncharacteristic of Kakashi, although what WAS normal for Kakashi nowadays? Genma still expected him to be his lazy bastard of a smut-wielding pervert (one that you didn't want to piss off) -self but he'd been working his ass off for some time now. "You should take a break or flash home." He rolled his eyes as Kakashi shook his head. Stubborn dog: at least Genma could count on that trait of his.

"Mission," Kakashi muttered, fisting his hand repeatedly before going back to work. He tried to act nonchalant about it but he planned to scold his little wife once he was home for not telling him something so important. She doesn't want me to worry. "Maa, I've been stuck in the village too long, ne?"

"I don't think so; I want to go home. And I fucking hate Ame!"

Kakashi nodded. Those were his thoughts exactly.

Weeks later, Kakashi was with a team of nearly a dozen other shinobis to begin putting down thousands of self-repeating exploding notes. Kakashi fumed that Sai and Naru's chakra was all over them. He knew that she'd been working on "something mundane and repetitive" involving seals but couldn't BELIEVE that his sensei had allowed his daughter to mass-produce explosive notes while pregnant!

Kami, he really wanted to kill somebody. Not my father-in-law. No, it might seem like a good first option but it would do his family no good if he were imprisoned or executed for treason. Although I could take Naru and run.

Itachi had also remembered his first life - and thus where the Akatsuki's HQ was outside of Ame. They were going to blow Mountain's Graveyard to Kingdom Come and he and Shisui were here to send Zetsu into another dimension if he showed up.

The thing was, Kakashi didn't sense anyone here. From what he recalled of his first life which hurt now, Naruto had been able to sense malevolent chakra. She had been the key during the Fourth Shinobi War to pick the Zetsus out - and destroy them - while they replicated the forces' appearances and chakra signatures.

He did not have such an ability but he could sense chakra now. It wasn't good that he wasn't feeling any foreign signatures out here but then again, Kakashi wasn't sure if Zetsu would register with him.

.

Once they were set up, Kakashi threw a special kunai and Minato appeared, masked in most of an ANBU uniform just as they'd planned.

"May I assume, then, that we're ready?" Minato asked. He, Kakashi, and his Guard Platoon would be exiting through a series of flashes and all hoped like hell that this wouldn't be traced to them; they'd been very careful. Mountains Graveyard might or might not be uninhabited but they were still in a foreign territory. "Let's go."

.

Naruto ran her hands over her twins' stirrings. The flutters that she used to feel had turned into harder motions - ones that were almost always equal on both sides of what was so big that she had to finally call her belly.

"You really haven't heard anything from him?" she asked Pakkun with furrowed brows. Naru chewed her lip and re-read the last note Kakashi sent her as she absently pet Pakkun between kicks.

Pakkun was all curled into her and approved of what he could feel: considering how long the twins had to go, these two were going to be taijutsu monsters, he was sure of it. Once he'd joked that maybe the twins were the result of a dalliance with Maito Gai and he'd barely avoided whatever madness Naruto was about to inflict upon him when he dispelled from her outrage, cries, and that terrifying thing her hair did.

He thought it was funny that Naruto was so in wonder that the twins already seemed to be mirroring each other and couldn't wait to see Kakashi's reaction. He knew Kakashi well so he could say with authority that Kakashi was going to freak out.

Pakkun thought that if Kakashi was so worried about Naruto's stress levels, however, he should have told her his plans. He'd be back tonight but the baka shinobi had made him promise not to tell Naruto anything. Kakashi said that it was punishment for Naruto's deep dive into explosives but knew that he only wanted to surprise her. "He's fine, Naruto. –I would know, otherwise."

"Right," Naruto breathed before trying to get a little more comfortable. She remembered that with the toads, they would know if something happened to one of their summoners or family: that toad or person's name would be crossed out on some kind of big board they had. The toads seemed more organized than the pack did, however.

Over the last several weeks, she'd stayed with the Naras (or Tsunade: that was weird) on occasion, and had hosted people more than a few times, too. During the day, she was always surrounded by people she cared for but the ache of loneliness - the ache of Kakashi being away from her and her longing for him - never went away.

She was also apparently going (more) insane, which she planned to keep a secret. In her mindscape, near Kurama but somehow also not was a big, silver and white wolf. It had shown up one night when she'd been HORRIBLY upset when one of her clones had been murdered by a bandit, waking her up from what little sleep she got at night these days - and then she realized a mouse had gotten into the house. That little thing had sent her flying to the ceiling, screaming, and she'd literally scared the mouse to death. That had made her cry, feeling bad for the mouse yet also completely freaking out that she had a dead mouse in her house.

Pathetically, she cried and cried for Kakashi, wishing she could just punch herself for being so stupid and lame. She almost created some clones to do it for her. Eventually, her eyes closed that night, which was when she was greeted by that sleeping wolf.

"Kurama… what is that?!"

"Hmm?" Kurama asked as he woke up, looking at her and then right at it. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

Naruto wouldn't find out that Kurama was being a stinky liar, thinking it was funny for months.

Her eyes getting heavier and heavier, she moved to Kakashi's giant recliner, hoping to get some decent sleep.

Kakashi quietly stepped through the door an hour or so later. The house was dark but his eyes were sharp enough to make out a few of his sleeping wife's features. He raised an eyebrow at Pakkun.

"She's fine," he said in a low tone. "Just exhausted."

Kakashi knew that Naruto had to be more than just exhausted to fail to notice that their door had been opened or that someone - anyone - was on their property at all. He padded toward where he could see the moonlight falling on her hair and his breath caught in his throat. He sank down to his knees as his wife took a deep breath; her nose was pressed into one of his compression tanks.

Oh Kami, Kakashi thought, taking in a huge, heaping dose of reality. Call him a total perv but he'd dreamt of his wife's belly full of his pups - or at least he had in theory. Even after all the pregnancy books he'd read, he'd thought this would be months away. He gasped and looked at Pakkun and then back at Naruto's abdomen, then back at Pakkun. The pug was grinning: what was wrong with him? "She's staying at home, 24/7, right?"

"Don't be stupid."

Kakashi wasn't sure what that meant but threw a glare at his oldest friend anyway. "But you can tell!"

"Tell what?" Pakkun loved this: seeing Kakashi all bewildered and wide-eyed was hilarious. His summoner's Sharingan had spun to life in the dark, the red glowing more than anything else in the room.

"I have been so foolish." He should've been flashing home regularly to be a part of this; a part of every step of this! Kakashi hesitantly reached out to touch his wife's stomach and silently laughed, joy filling his very cells, before… "GAH!"

Was that a kick?!

Kakashi rolled back as Naruto jumped up with kunai swinging toward him. He grabbed her forearm when she swung a second time.

"Ka- Oh my gods. Kakashi? Are you really here?"

"I am." Naruto was gawking at him, wearing a pretty white, thin-strapped nightgown that hugged her breasts but flowed (way) out, down past her knees. "Can you put the weapon down?" He chuckled and inhaled her scent as she jumped on him. Dear gods: Naruto will soon be more stomach than boobs. And that was saying something - especially considering that she still had half a pregnancy to tackle!

His wife pulled him down and kissed him, cursed the mask they'd forgotten or hadn't realized he was wearing, before pulling it down and dragging him down again for a hot, desperate kiss. She jumped up to wrap her legs around him but found that it didn't quite work and tried to pull away from him. Holding onto her, Kakashi figured that her cheeks were red and really wanted to see them. "You've gotten so big!"

Those were not the right words to say: he knew that as soon as the truth came out of his stupid mouth! "I mean the puppies. The babies have gotten so big."

Naruto licked her lips, running her hand along the center of her belly as she stepped away. "I know, right? They're almost always up at night."

That was a baby kicking that I felt then. Kakashi realized he had woken her up when something popped against his hand when he'd placed it on her belly but couldn't believe it. Her stomach is jutting out like a cross between a basketball and an oval watermelon. He sank to his knees again and kissed her stomach, idly running his hands back to her ass with both hands. Her ass felt as awesome and squishy over the muscles as it always had. "You didn't say anything: you didn't tell me they were kicking!"

"I did," one time when I as unsure, she thought, worrying that Kakashi would freak out, find her unattractive now, or gods help him: he'd change his mind about the whole baby thing. "I didn't want to go on and on about it and bother you when you were working or…" She swallowed hard, hating pregnancy hormones before shakily sighing and feeling her walls fall down. He's finally home!

Kakashi slowly stood, reaching for her, and held his mate close. "You've been holding back on me." He breathed through all of the emotions and fears he could feel and scent coming from her now. The wolf within him woke up and wanted to devour her. His anxiety about the way she looked - about how people could now SEE that she was pregnant with his pups - was gone and all he wanted was all of her. "I've missed you."

"I have," she breathed regarding holding back from him as he kissed her. "And I missed you, too." It took a long time for her to get to a point where she could say anything else. "I'm so glad you're home. –Tadaima, Kash."

"Okaeri, Naru." He picked her up and carried her upstairs. "Maa, I'm going to take a shower, and then - unless you have anything against it - I'm going to make sure you remember exactly who you belong to."

"As if I'd ever forget, you possessive pervert," she smiled, wiping her teary eyes. Happy tears. "I'm so glad you're home!"

Kakashi rushed through the shower, getting inappropriately hard. Naru's cute blushing face as she refused to get into the shower with him; the little gasps and the way she tried to hide from him had made him crazy. "Calm down, you idiot." He had questions: LOADS of questions for his little wife but it had been a long time.

He dried off as much as he could before slinging a towel around his hips and hard-on - another thrown over his head as he madly dried his hair. He stepped into the bedroom like a predator and frowned. "Why are you wearing a coat?"

Naruto shrugged and pulled up the covers even higher. "It's not a coat. And um, I was cold?"

"Hmm," Kakashi mused, stalking forward. "I think you're shy." Naruto rolled her beautiful blue eyes but she didn't deny it. She was blushing but her expression changed entirely as she looked him up and down. Now she was looking at him like he was a piece of meat. One she likes. "My eyes are up he-ere! …I'm just teasing. Take it easy, Naru; I'm just glad to be home."

Naruto sighed. "Me, too." She tossed her jacket onto a nearby chair, making her husband snort. Holding her arms out for him, she moaned in happiness that he'd made it. "I don't want to ask" what the mission was and what you did.

"Good," Kakashi answered as he sank, naked, into the sheets. He wrapped one arm around her shoulders and turned her toward him. He breathed deeply as he felt the tiny movements before Naru moved his hand to the other side.

"They almost always move together."

"Sparring partners," he smiled after a few wonderful minutes. "Maa, are they supposed to be this active?"

"Tsunade thinks it's because they're strong." And because I lost so much weight during the first trimester: they're easier to feel.

Kakashi put his nose in the air. "Of course they're strong: they're ours. –Don't laugh at me."

"I would never," she grinned, shivering when he moved his hand up to her breast. "Can I turn out the lights?"

Kakashi hummed. "I don't think I'll like it as much."

"I can live with that."

"Cheeky wife. You have to lose the pretty little nightgown." He jumped up and turned the light off before crawling up and over her. She still had the gown on but he'd seen her ditch the panties. As good as that was, he felt her trembling. "I want kisses."

Naru had no problem with that. She moved around and moved her knee between his, kissing the little mole that Kakashi hated having called a beauty mark even though it was one; his chin, then slowly across his jaw, and up his other cheek. She rather ungracefully scooted up to kiss the top of the scar over his eye, paying closer attention to his eyebrow and then kissing down the scar over his closed gifted eye while he let out low, approving hums.

He took a broad lick of her lips, smiling when she gasped and held him tighter, her arms wrapped under his shoulders. His chest rumbled like a purr that seemed to calm her even more, allowing him to touch her more as she melted into his arms. "Love you."

"I-" Naru gasped when he thrust his tongue into her mouth, playing with her own before running over the roof of her mouth. "Oh, Gods." Fuck, that as a turn-on!

Kakashi's eyes briefly went wide, his Sharingan spinning as Naruto's chakra arms shot out and began to pull him into her. Wow. That was new! He ran his hand down her waist, being sure not to dig his fingers into her as he worked his open mouth toward her nipple, his other hand already busy with the other one. He'd unlaced the thing she was wearing while she was kissing him. "Easy, baby."

Those chakra arms were all over him!

"Huh-uh," Naruto shook her head, her eyes darkened with lust.

Kakashi tried not to gasp as he ran a hand from her breast down to her cunt. He had thought about doing this a lot while he was gone and although imagining his large hands would have to cover more territory, he had not considered the feel of very small appendages he imagined being irritated that he was touching their mother.

He reached the apex of her thighs and as Naru spread her legs for him, he forgot all about that. "Open your eyes."

He snarled and gently bit her jaw as she grinded into his hand. "So needy," he groaned, moving to bite her neck. He only took a little of her chakra: something she hadn't asked about which he wasn't sure how to feel about.

Kakashi could feel her hot pulse through her cunt and hissed as her hand began rubbing over and squeezing the head of his cock. He inserted one finger after another as he pumped deeply into her, swallowing her moans and cries before turning her over and spreading her legs.

"God; you are just DRIPPING!" Kakashi sucked in a breath that she could still raise her ass and arch her back the way he liked it. He grabbed his cock and positioned himself, sliding right in although the fit was incredibly tight and hot. "Naru-chan, Stop... me if I get carried away."

Naru threw her hair as she looked over his shoulder, smirking, and clenched her muscles around him. It was beyond empowering to have him still desire her when her body had changed so much. "As if!

"Oh, you are in so much trouble!"