The next few chapters are going to be just fun and silly. They won't be following the story line of Naruto at all so don't be mad at me for it.
I couldn't sleep. Every time I tried, all I could see was Aurora crying because I was gone. Crying for her father, but I wasn't there because I had some how ended up getting killed on a mission. I know it was stupid to think, but it was a possibility in my line of work. I groaned and scrubbed a hand through my hair in irritation, deciding maybe I should do something productive. I threw the covers off of myself and begrudgingly got up.
I decided to make sure that my rustling about hadn't disturbed Aurora and peeked into her room. Even thought there were rails on her new 'big girl' bed to keep her from falling off, I still worried she would fall and found myself checking on her almost every night, even if I wasn't having trouble sleeping. Luckily she was sleeping peacefully with the little bunny Iruka had gotten her clutched in her arms and wasn't on the floor like I had stupidly feared.
I ended up downstairs twenty minutes later with a cup of tea and a note pad. I had decided the most productive thing to do at the moment was to write down names of possible god parents for Aurora. I sighed and absent mindedly chewed on the pen cap. The first person that came to mind of course was Iruka, but did I really want to bother him with that right now? The answer was no. The chunin was still pissed at me for leaving him with Aurora for a whole week. Next was Gai. Why? I asked myself and the only answer was because if he found out I was asking everyone but him, I'd get to deal with his 'manly tears of…'whatever they were about, and wouldn't hear the end of it until I gave him a chance. He would be first only because I doubted he would win the title of Aurora's god father. After that the list was pretty easy. It went from Gai to Asume, Kurenai , Anko, Tenzō, Yūgao, and last Iruka. Most of them on my list I had no idea if they'd be trust worthy but they were the only one's I could think of. After I got this down I finally felt tired and was able to go to bed.
Aurora was excited today, but only because she thought she was going to see Iruka. I had told her I had a mission with my team, a D-ranked this time, and she took it as spending the day with her favorite chunin. Little did she know I was dropping her off at Gai's place for the day. I had called him earlier and he was more than happy looking after her. At least I think he was. I couldn't really understand everything over the phone, but he sounded excited.
"Fader, where are we?" she asked. She'd finally figured out that we were not, in fact, going to Iruka's. We were going the wrong way for that.
"You remember Gai right?" I watched her eyes widen and knew she remembered Konaha's green beast. "You'll be staying with him for a few hours."
"But…" she pouted a bit, but stopped when I gave her a look that said, 'I don't want to hear about it.' I wanted to do this about as much as she wanted to stay with him.
I knocked on the door and only had to wait a few seconds before the door burst open and reveled the one and only Might Gai.
"Kakashi my hip and cool rival!" He beamed. I felt Aurora clutch the fabric on my left pant leg as she hid behind me. "We're is the little angel?!"
I put my hand on top of Aurora's head and gently pushed her back around my leg and had her stand beside me. She was shaking slightly. I felt really bad for having to do this to her, but I had no choice. The only way to find out who would be perfect to be her god parent was to test each one on the list, and the only way to do that was to have each of them babysit her.
The mission luckily was going pretty fast. Naruto of course complained at first, but I told him if he shut up and got the job done fast enough, I'd reward them. He quickly stopped him complaining and starting helping Sasuke and Sakura. This of course gave me time to figure out how to ask the others on my list to babysit. Kurenai of course would love to since she loved children and if she was looking after Aurora, Asuma would be too; so both could be tested at the same time. Anko worried me though. She was known to be very inappropriate and for the most part kept away from children at all costs, but she was to be at least considered because I knew deep down she liked kids. She just didn't know the right ways to behave around them. Tenzō I could bribe into babysitting if I had to, but I knew he'd like to look after her. He'd only seen her once and that was when she was just a baby, and very briefly because he had to tell me we had a mission. Yūgao I knew would be more than happy to as well, but with her being in ANBU still would be difficult. I'd just have to catch her on a day off. Last was Iruka and I already knew he was a pretty good candidate.
"Kakashi-sensei we're done!" The obnoxious blonde sang out from the middle of the river and pulling me out of my thoughts. I looked up from my Ichi Ichi book, that I hadn't even been reading, and noticed that all three of them had their trash packs full.
"Good to hear. Now, shall we go?" I closed my book with a snap and stood up from where I had been sitting on the edge of the river.
"You promised use ramen!" Naruto cried and pointed an accusing finger in my direction.
"Ma, I never said that. I said a reward. And that reward is getting to go home early." The look on the boys face was priceless. "See ya!" I said and poofed away in a cloud of smoke before he or the other two could say anything.
I had teleported in front of Gai's house and the sounds coming from inside were not ones I wanted to hear. Aurora was crying and from the sound of it Gai was trying to get her to calm down. I hoped she hadn't been doing this since I had left, other wise she'd have been crying for about two hours. I knocked a couple of times, but they went unheard over Aurora's screams. Against my best judgment I opened the door and was immediately flattened by a green blur.
"Oh it's you!" Gai smiled down at me and removed the kunai he had against my throat as he stood up. "I didn't expect you to be back so soon! Aurora, you're father is here!"
"Daddy!" I heard her giggle and she jumped on to my chest. I then realized Aurora hadn't been crying, she had been laughing and Guy had been playing with her. That was something that I hadn't seen coming.
"Ma, I see you two had fun." Looking into Gai's apartment I saw the place was covered is little drawings, flour for some reason, and it looked like they had made paper bag puppets that where lying on the floor. Seemed Gai had dropped them when he went to attack the 'intruder.'
"That we did!" Gai boomed as he grabbed Aurora and picked her up, throwing the giggling two year old on to his shoulder. "We made play dough!" he seemed far too proud about that, but I didn't comment. That would explain the flour everywhere.
"Ma, I see." I stood up upon being freed from Aurora. "You ready to go?" I asked the currently upside down red head on Gai's shoulder. She pouted, but nodded.
The whole way home I heard all about the adventures she'd had at Gai's place. She had colored for a while before Gai suggested they do something else. They made play dough, like Gai said they had, but apparently he'd mixed the ingredients so 'passionately' that they went everywhere. Then Gai had found little paper bags and they had made paper puppets which is what they were playing with when I got there.
"It was fun!" She exclaimed. Maybe I'd have to reconsider Gai and put him back on the list of being her possible god father.
And there you have it! The next chapter will have a few more babysitters and reveal who Aurora really is. Please R&R!