9. Kakashi's Secret Relationship

A/N: Ooh...School is coming to haunt us again...Nooo!

About 5 years ago...

"Please, Kakashi...I don't want my husband to know I'm out with you...you know he's the jealous type!" Yumiko frantically confronted.

"It's all right, Yumi...It's late, and nobody will see us here," A younger Kakashi replied.

It was 5 years ago when Yumiko, Jin's mother, met Kakashi on the way home from the grocery store. She happened to drop some food, and he managed to help her out. Yumiko secretly found him attractive, and so did Kakashi. They introduced each other, and it ended their meeting there.

After that encounter, Yumiko's husband, Zaichi, was out with 2 other jounin on a mission to the Wave Country. This is when Jin was at home with her relatives and her sister, Chitose. Yumiko said to the family that she was going out for dinner with other kunoichis. Instead of kunoichis, she met up with Kakashi for dinner. She got to know him better, and guess what..she cheated. It was after dinner when they were outside the restaurant, and kissed. Note that Kakashi already knew she had a husband. He first told her that it wasn't right, but then loosened up and had the feeling that he will have a secret relationship with her.

On the other hand, Yumiko complained that Zaichi has gotten "boring", if you know what I mean. She wanted more of the other kind of action because she hasn't had anything really at all since they had Jin. Zaichi didn't exactly care, but he still was the nicest guy around and the most loving, even without the action.

Kakashi and Yumiko (a.k.a. 'Yumi') kept secretly seeing each other until Zaichi came back from the Wave Country...which was about 2 weeks. It came to haunt Yumi, though. When she went to sleep at night, she could hear her two daughters asking her where did she go and why isn't she home like she used to be all the time. It was until Zaichi came back early from the Wave Country was when she regret dating Kakashi.

"Yumi...I didn't want to say this after two weeks of seeing you, but knowing you this well after two weeks, I can say that I love you," Kakashi romantically said one night near a sparkling lake beneath a full moon.

"I know it's wrong...but I love you too..." Yumiko replied. Little did she know that not too far away from the lake, Zaichi was watching, and went home with a chip on his shoulder.

"Um...would you like to come home with me? We can make some tea after this long night..." Yumi asked.

"Tea would be great," Kakashi happily replied.

When they got home, Yumi turned on the lights, and found Zaichi coughing and crying on their couch. Yumi panicked. She didn't know what to do. She looked behind her, and Kakashi was gone.

"Zaichi...what's wrong!" Yumiko asked, tears running down her eyes.

Another jounin was with Zaichi when he came home. He didn't sound too happy. "He saw you with the guy in the mask, and started to cough and cry. He didn't stop coughing since he saw you..."

Yumiko cried her eyes out. She didn't know what to do. She felt so guilty. She tried to hug and comfort her husband, but he refused.

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"There seems to be a serious but rare eye disease attacking adults, elders, and mature teenagers," A local doctor explained. "You'd probably get it too, being with him. The disease is silent, and it starts out by unstoppable coughing. It's probably too late for the rest of the family."

"No...what about my two kids!" Yumi asked, panicking.

"I'm sorry to say that only your youngest daughter is probably going to be the only survivor in you family," the doctor replied. "Since your husband is able to walk, you can take him home for the time being. He hasn't much time to live."

Yumi cried her eyes out as she saw her husband sitting in the hospital bed, not saying anything to her. When she took him home, she saw the rest of the family dead. Jin wasn't home from the Academy yet, but Chitose was dead, the grandparents were dead, even Yumiko's sister and her husband was dead. She could help that Zaichi also fell to the ground, and again, she couldn't stop crying. Kakashi suddenly appeared, and put his hand on her shoulder.

"Kakashi...promise me...watch Jin grow stronger when she grows up...and please save her...if she's on the brink of death...but please, you must never tell her that I've loved you instead of her father..." Yumi cried.

"I...promise," Kakashi said reluctantly. He then carelessly kissed her on the cheek, and left silently. He went the opposite way Jin came home with Sasuke...

A/N: Ah, drama...why does one have to live and experience the emotion of sadness and bretrayal...hm. Ahem, sorry; just trying to live the moment, lol.