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The day Aurora spent with Anko went just as I thought it would. Not only did she not interact with Aurora, by letting her watch movies for most of the day, but she also had had inappropriate conversations over the phone with someone. On the way home, all Aurora asked was where babies come from, what boobs where and other things I rather not repeat. She was waiting for an answer and looking up at me expectantly.

"Maa…when a man and woman…love each other very much they…summon a stork and the stork delivers their baby." I lied, but I wasn't about to give the talk to a two year old and defiantly not in a crowded street.

"Oh…but Ko was talkin' 'bout kitties." She struggled a bit with Anko's name, but I though it was cute. Though I knew what she meant and Anko was not talking about kitties.

"Uh, maybe her friend got a new kitty." I was seriously going to kill Anko and this defiantly took her off the list of god parent possibilities. I hoped that tomorrow with Asuma and Kurenai would go better than this.

After I dropped Aurora off at Kurenai's, I still had time to kill before I met with my team. In this case, killing time was finding Tenzō and asking him to watch Aurora in the next few days. I had a Jonin mission then, without my genin team, and needed someone to watch her; I had also checked his schedule and made sure he didn't have any missions so I knew he could. I had looked at Yūgao's files first, but she had back to back missions which forced me to cross her off the list. If she was too busy with missions, she was too busy to take care of a child.

I would normally go through his window, but I decided against it since he had just come back from a grueling ANBU mission; He might still be a little on edge. Instead I knocked on his door and waited. I heard him stumble around, knock something over and mutter some profanities before the door finally opened.

"Kakashi-sempai?" he was a little disheveled and looked like he had just woken up.

"Maa, you seem surprised." I'm sure he was. "I have a question for you."

"Is something wrong?" he asked as he stifled a yawn.

"No, no. I was wondering if you could watch Aurora for me on Thursday. I have a mission and no one to watch her." That wasn't true. I had Iruka, but no way was I leaving her there right now. He still seemed angry at me from last time and that was over two weeks ago.

"I…uh…sure." Tenzō seemed taken back from the request. "But, why me?"

"Well, I checked you schedule and you seemed to me off for the next week…" I trailed off and left him to fill in the blanks. Of course the look on his face told me he wasn't happy to hear about me going through his things again, but what else was I going to do? I couldn't ask him and he couldn't answer even if he wanted. It was an ANBU thing.

"Well if everything is in order, I'll see you Thursday." I gave him an eye smile, waved and left him standing there in his pajamas looking like an idiot.

The D- ranked mission went well, but of course Naruto had apparently complained to Iruka that I did not take them all to ramen as promised, and sadly found myself there at Ichiraku by force. Iruka wasn't there since school was still in session, but he had found me when he was on break and told me to take the kids there. He hadn't said it in a threatening tone, but I didn't want to find out what he would do if I had refused them a second time. I just hoped Asuma and Kurenai would understand.

"Ma, I brought you guys here ok? What more do you want?" I asked them. All three of there were staring at me as if they wanted something. Naruto and Sakura had huge expectant eyes while Sasuke just had a blank look on his face. Oh I see, they want to see what's under my mask. Tsh, them and everyone else. "Teuchi-san, could you make my order to go and add a two more and a child's ramen? I'm in a bit of a hurry." There was no way I was letting my students see my face that easily. I wanted to see how well they could work together in order to accomplish this.

I gave them a sideways glance. Naruto looked mad, Sakura had a hand over her face and Sasuke was now looking at the counter angerly. Surves you three right.

Once the three trouble makers where done and had left I was finally free to rescue Asuma and Kurenai from the red headed terror. I say this only because apparently an hour after I left she threw a tantrum. I apologized and was glad I thought to get them ramen.

"Ma, sorry about that…she's been doing that lately." I said as I handed them ramen. "Thought it's normally just with me."

Kurenai waved it off. "It's fine. She's in that stage of life." She smiled softly.

"It's called the terrible twos for a reason Kakashi." Asuma laughed. "Besides, she cried herself to sleep about a half hour ago. I think she was just tired."

I nodded. "Most likely. So where is she now? I can go ahead and take her off your hands." I smiled.

Asuma nodded his head towards the hall. "She's in the bedroom now. Door on your left."

I nodded again and headed towards the bedroom. There I saw Aurora, curled into a ball with her bunny in her arms and one of its ears in her mouth. I smiled and scooped her up. This caused her to stir but she settled back down and fell back to sleep in my arms. As I walked back out I thanked them again and headed out the door. The last thing I heard was Asuma cracking a joke about how cute Aurora was when she was asleep. Both of them were defiantly staying on the list.

As I was packing for my mission, Aurora started to kick the wall in her room. She was in time-out for not eating her vegetables during lunch. I really felt back for having to drop her off at Tenzō's in an hour if she was going to act like this while I was gone.

"Aurora enough!" I called out and pinched the bridge of my nose as she screamed at the top of her lungs. Then again I'll be interested to see how he handles her when she's like this.

As calmly as I could, I walked over to her door, pulled it opened and sighed. She was face down on the floor crying, her feet right by the wall so she could kick it.

"You done?" I asked her, but she just made a noise that sounded like 'No' and continued to cry. "Want to tell me why you're so upset?" I knelt down beside her and ran my hand through her hair. She said something, but it was muffled by the floor. "I can't hear you. Sit up please."

She looked up, rubbed her eyes and said. "Don't go…" it broke my heart to hear those words but I had no choice. I really like the house we lived in and intended to keep it, but I had to pay for it some how. "I wants to say wif you. I don't want to live wif someone else."

"Come here caterpillar." I sat cross-legged and held my arms out to her. She crawled into my lap and laid her head against my chest. I held her close and ran my fingers through her soft hair. "You're not going to live with someone else. There's just a lot of missions lately. I'll be back before dinner ok? I promise." I kissed the crown of her head. She looked up at me with tears still in her eyes. If I had known my leaving was affecting her this way I would have never kept moving her around from sitter to sitter. Now for some reason she had it in her little mind that I was trying to get rid of her. This would be the last time I switched it up. I would make my decision as soon as I got back.

Tenzō was delighted to see Aurora. He hadn't seen her since she was a baby and was surprised by how much she'd grown.

"How old are you now, huh?" he asked her as she hid behind my leg. I wondered how he could be so happy at this ungodly hour. The sun was just coming up for gods sake!

"Two." She said in a soft, tired voice. Tenzō chuckled and ruffled her hair. She pouted and clung closer to me.

"Ma, I should be back just after sundown." I said and handed him a bag with all of her stuff. "Oh, and she is in the middle of potty training. She gets a sticker if she goes." I smiled at his slightly mortified look. I had, of course, told this to everyone else and the only other one to give me that look was Anko. I knew though he was just scared about having to do it, unlike Anko who just down right refused.

"R-right. We can do that." He cleared his throat and smiled. "Good luck on your mission sempai."

I nodded, removed Aurora's hands from my pant leg and knelt down to her level. "You be good ok?" I smiled at her and kissed her nose. She giggled at the tickling sensation my mask made against her skin.

The mission went off without a hitch ,all though I was dead tired and wanted noting more than to go home and sleep. I knew Aurora would be tired, but the effort of having to put her to bed made me groan. She never wanted to go to sleep.

I knocked on the door and Tenzō answered the door immediately. The look he gave me told me I shouldn't let Aurora see me.

"Sempai, your arm is bleeding." Was all he said. I looked down towards where he was looking and saw that my left bicep was in fact bleeding.

"Ah, well, I guess they got me." I shrugged.

"Come on, let's get you cleaned up…" Tenzō sighed as he moved from the door way to allow me inside. I blindly followed him to the bathroom so he could help patch me up. I was too tired to even notice that my daughter was asleep on the couch until Tenzō said something.

"Don't worry, she's been out for about fifteen minutes. I even dropped a glass and she didn't even flinch." He smiled and nodded his head towards the sleeping form. I noticed that she also had a new doll. She was wooden with red hair and green eyes and had a little pink dress on, all of course made of wood. Gee I wonder who gave her that.

"Ma, I see. Tired her out huh?" I smiled as he had me sit on the side of the tub.

"Yeah…we colored, made puppets, watched a movie, you name it we did it." He joked. "I hope you don't mind, but I made a doll for her. She wanted a friend for her bunny."

"No, I don't mind. She has a name for it I assume?" I took my shirt off and saw the cut was worst than I thought. It was deep, but not enough to need stitches and it had mostly stopped bleeding but it was still trickling blood.

"Ah, yes. It's…" he trailed off as he got the first aid kit. "Ningyo." I realized then that her bunny from Iruka was the only one that I didn't know the name of.

"Ningyo? She's not very creative." I joked. "Oh well. So doctor, how long will this take?"

Tenzō rolled his eyes and started to clean the wound. "Shut up…" he made quick work of patching up my arm, "There, happy?" he poked it to spite me.

I cringed and sighed. "Thank you. For watching Aurora and…" I moved my left arm. "I owe you." I smiled and put my shirt back on.

"Neh sempai it's fine. I enjoyed watching her, but let's not make it a habit of asking me on the week off I have? I'm supposed to be recovering from being poisoned." He gave a half smile.

"Ma, you should have told me. I would have tried to find someone else." I scratched the back of my head. I should have known there was a reason he had a week off.

"Like I said, it's fine." He shrugged as he put the kit away. "I really do like watching her."

After I was patched up and deemed presentable, I scooped my caterpillar up along with her bunny and new doll. I turned back to Tenzō and asked what he wanted as payment once more. Again he refused to take anything, but I promised him to dinner at least before leaving.

Once home, I put Aurora to bed and was about to go to bed myself when I noticed something. There was a bird on my window sill. Strange, who would send a bird this late? The only thought that came to mind was an ANBU mission, but I'd quite two years ago. Regardless of how tired I was and how much I wanted to ignore the damn thing, I opened the window, took the letter from the bird and let it go off into the night.

I sat on the edge of my bed and stared at the little piece of paper. It was from the Hokage. I quickly opened it up, read what it said and my heart started to race. It was the result of Aurora's blood tests. Their theory was correct; she was in fact from the Yuki and Hōzuki blood line.

*Ningyo- means doll

Sorry if this seemed rushed but I wanted to get through Kakashi's list so next chapter he can figure out who he wants as a god parent. Please R&R!