Enjoy guys. update 2020
I was lost in my thoughts as Aurora played in the park. Surprisingly Sasuke, who was walking by, offered to play with her. His reason being was I looked distracted and she could wonder off. True, I was distracted, but I could multi-task. I accepted his offer however; it was nice to see that he actually cared about something.
The reason I was distracted was because the moment I knew about Aurora's bloodline limit, I knew she was in danger. The Yuki clan and Hōzuki were from the Mist and the Mist was well known for hating anyone with a bloodline limit. They even went so far as to send hunter nin after people who ran away from their village who had special bloodlines. I was afraid that would happen.
I was also afraid of a much closer threat, Danzō. He was well known for taking anyone with bloodlines and using them for his own gain. Now that Aurora's bloodlines were out and open to the public, he was sure to come after her. That's what has been keeping me up for the past few days.
I sighed and ran a hand through my hair. The only thing I could do was find a god parent for Aurora so Danzō could never get his hands on her.
"Kakashi." I looked up as I was pulled from my thoughts. "I have to leave. Thought I would let you know so you could focus on Aurora." Sasuke was standing a few feet in front of me with Aurora tugging on his hand.
"No, Sas-nii…don't go!" Aurora pouted. Why she called him brother though confused me.
"Another time." Sasuke looked over and actually smiled at her! Sure it wasn't a toothy grin like Naruto's, but it was as close as you could get coming from Sasuke. "I promise we'll play longer." He said before walking off.
I was shocked. Where had all of this come from?
"Come on Aurora, we should get going too." I took her hand to go home, though I was planning on making a small detour first.
There was one last thing I had to do before choosing who would be her god parent. I had to make sure I was making the right decision. Since we were passing the academy, I decided to test the last person on my list before nightfall. Iruka would still be there, even though classes were out, still grading papers. I just hoped he was in a good mood today.
When we walked into the academy, Aurora was in awe.
"Fader where we?" she asked.
"We're at the ninja academy." I smiled at her. "One day you'll go here and learn how to be a ninja." Sure I had taught her some basics, but the teachers here would be more for that. I could then focus on helping her learn how to hone her skills and control her kekkei genkai.
She was going to say something else, but Iruka came out of his classroom.
"Uka!" She beamed and started running towards him.
"Huh? Aurora? Kakashi? What are you doing…?" He stopped midsentence as Aurora tripped and fell in front of him. When I looked closely, I could see one of the floor boards had come up a bit. I knew normally she would just get up and brush it off, but there was something else I didn't see. The board apparently had splinters poking out. She sat up a bit and held her right knee.
"You ok?" Iruka knelt down as Aurora started crying. "Hey, it's alright." He picked her up and took a look at her knee. I walked up and saw she had a splinter that had imbedded itself under her skin and was bleeding a little. It was just a scratch, but for a two year old it seemed like the end of the world.
Iruka motioned for me to follow and headed in the direction of the teachers lounge. He opened the door and set her down on one of the chairs while he went to retrieve a med kit. I waited behind her and stroked her hair to try to calm her down; it seemed to work. When Iruka came back, he got out the tweezers and moved towards her.
"This won't hurt I promise." He smiled sweetly and started to get the splinter out of her knee. She flinched a bit, but he kept reassuring her he wasn't going to hurt her. Once it was out she wanted to see it so he showed her. It was about an inch long and looked like it would have hurt, and apparently did. She was taking it quite well in retrospect.
When she was all patched up Iruka smiled and told her how well she had handled it. She smiled and hugged him. I realized then I didn't have to look any further than the Chunin.
"It's you…" I said with out really thinking. The moment I said that I wanted to smack my head against the nearest wall repeatedly.
"Excuse me?" Iruka looked up at me from his knelling position by the chair. He had a slight blush on his cheeks.
"I mean…let me start over." I scratched the back of my head and explained what I had been doing. "And, I think you would be perfect for her. Would you consider being her god father?" By this time Iruka was standing up and looking at me as if I had gone completely mad.
"You've been having people babysit her at random for weeks and never told anyone your real intentions?" He crossed his arms over his chest and gave me his usual disapproving look. "Can't you do anything like a normal person?" he sighed.
"Maa, so is that a no?" I decided it best to not answer him 'cause he was right. I should have fessed up and told people what I was doing, but that wasn't my method.
"I never said no." he laughed. "I'd love to. Next time just tell me what you're doing. I would have told you to never take her to Anko's."
I had noticed people were acting strange around Aurora as we walked home. Sure it wasn't as bad as it had been for Naruto, but they were still shying away from her. She didn't seem to notice, until we passed a cart that was selling flowers. I noticed them first and knew Aurora would want to go look at them, but the man didn't look at her very kindly. He was on the other side sitting on a stool and was glaring at my daughter.
"Fader floders!" she squealed happily as she took my hand and pointed at them. I smiled down to her and let her lead me to the cart. She was too short for the ones on the shelves of the cart, but there were some in a pot on the ground. She stood on her toes and smelled one of the roses in there. The man got up slowly, the way he held himself told me we were not welcome. "Maa, your flowers are very lovely." I said to him. I thought maybe he was just in a foul mood.
"Keep her away from the cart." He spat, never taking his eyes off Aurora.
"Excuse me?" my eye widened in shock. Aurora backed away from the pot and moved to hide behind my leg.
"You heard me!" the old man said, poking me with his cane. I felt Aurora grab the back of my pant's leg. "Keep that brat away from my flowers!"
"Who? My daughter? Ma, and what damage could a two year old do to flowers?" I was starting to get angry.
"I know what she is! She could freeze them and kill them off! Keep her away from them!" The old man was now in my personal space and looking up at me. All of the wrinkles on his face made him look like an angry prune. How did he find out? Someone's gonna pay...
"Ah, is that all? Well, let me tell you this. She would never do that, not on purpose. Also, freezing flowers may preserve them a bit longer and give them a…unique look that could have helped you sell them faster." I was smirking under my mask. All of his bitching had created quite the crowd of stunned people. "You are also yelling at a two year old who just wanted to look at and smell your flowers. She wasn't doing any harm. If this is how you treat your customers maybe people should go else were. Come on caterpillar, I'll take you to a shop that will love to have you look at their flowers." I picked her up and carried her away from the evil old toad of a man. I was quite proud of not only how much I seemed to scare the old man, but at the other people who were around us also told him off.
In case you were wondering he took her to Yamanaka's flower shop. Couldn't decide If I should write that in or not so I left it out. Please R&R.