After Hazel made Teddy drink his milk and sleep in the playpen nearby, she then went on to assess the damage to her. There was the large cut on her back that Kakashi had stiched up, the burns on her skin and the frostbite which had been steadily getting better. She got the potions set out and set to apply the essence of dittany on the cut. But the placing of the wound made it difficult for her to actually apply it as she couldn't just dump the whole thing down her back, she had to save as much she could without wasting any. She heard some shuffling and saw Kakashi standing there looking quite awkward. She let out a small chuckle at his awkwardness and asked,
"Are you going to help me out, or are you going to just stand there and look pretty? Not that I mind anyway but I do need some help here."
"Right sorry. So what do I have to do?"
"You just need to put drops of this on the wound with the dropper. Careful, don't spill any. I haven't got any to spare. Before that , could you please remove the stitches, otherwise they'll get in the way of healing."
"That'll make it bleed even more. Is a pretty deep gash."
"I'm aware. But this will heal it perfectly without needing stiched."
"If you say so."
As he poured the strange liquid down the cut, the muscles and tendons started repairing themselves like a medic was using mystic palm on them. He was quite amazed.
"Can you make more of this? This thing is very useful for when you don't have a medic at hand."
"Unfortunately I can't as I can't get shrake spines here and blended dittany extract is pretty rare in itself."
"Oh. Then what can you make here?"
"Cure for boils."
"Useless."
"Would you like to be the one to brew potions in my stead ? If you're so knowledgeable about what is useful or not. You don't even know the property of the potion."
"Sorry, please continue."
"But yes you're right. It is pretty useless."
Kakashi pouted. Behind his mask ofcourse.
"Pepper up potion, dreamless sleep potion ,everklena and exploding potions. That's it."
"What do they do?"
"Pepper up just boosts up your stamina and endurance immediately without any backlash except smoke coming out of your ears with a whistle. Dreamless sleep is as it's named. Everklena is a cleaning liquid that produces more of what it is sprayed on. Exploding potion is just essentially a bomb."
"This pepper up and dreamless sleep are useful."
"Yes but the dreamless one is highly addictive. So I won't recommend it with repeated use."
"Could you make a tent like this?"
"No, I'm not that talented in charms and i didn't take ancient runes and arithmancy , so i can't even try to make it."
"What are those?"
"School elective courses."
"Ah. So does this awesome contraption has any bathing facilities available? I'm quite covered in blood and mud."
"Yeah. 3rd door to the left down the corridor. Turn the nub to right for hot water."
"Arigato." It has hot water too! Nice.
Hazel then set out to take her dress off to cast a quick 'reparo' , when she heard something slammed behind her back. Yet there wasn't anything fallen off the countertop. She finished her work and got dressed. Then set out to apply the burn reducing salve on her hand. By the time Kakashi got out of the bath she had already started on their dinner.
With Kakashi however, when he came back to the living space to ask for a spare towel, he found her with her dress halfway down her body. It was all he could do to slam the door as fast as he could and go back to the bathroom. He doesn't need a towel anyway. After taking a hot shower he cautiously walked back and found her in the kitchen. When she noticed him,
"Could you watch the food, so it doesn't burn. I've got something to do."
"Okay." This way I can check for poison. No way am I going to just eat something prepared by a stanger without inspection.
She got her wand out. Pointed the tip towards her heart and chanted, " Amato Animo Animato Animagus"
"What are you doing?"
"Oh it's nothing. Its just something i need to say every sunrise and sunset. I do this to cure myself of a disease i caught while traveling so Teddy doesn't get affected."
"You know... I'm part of a special task force and we do have a training session for interrogation and catching lies. Plus you're not very good at it."Kakashi says with a deadpan.
"Ugh... Freaking ninjas. Fine it's part of a special ritual that will turn me into an animal."
"Why would you want that?"
"No silly. At wish. I can turn into an animal at wish. Although i don't know which animal I'm going to end up as. Everybody has only one Animagus. Happy?"
"Much. Why were you trying to hide it?"
"It just gives me an advantage against you ninjas if i ever go up against one. So I'd like to keep it secret please."
"We'll see about that after you finish your jutsu."
"Is that a challenge, perverted old man?"
"I'm only 19 damn it."
"You have white hair. And you're not denying the pervert part. Henceforth, your name shall be pervert forever more."
"Its not white, its silver. I was born with this hair colour. Speaking of hair colour, what about your son?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
"I think we've established that you are not a good liar. So why don't you cut the crap."
"Well it's just something he inherited from his mother. But it tends to skip generations sometimes."
"Are you not his mother?"
"No, he's my godson."
"How do you plan to hide his abilities?"
"Hmm... I can apply a strong glamour charm, but with his metamorphic genes, it will be quite unstable. I'll have to reapply it every week."
" What is that?"
"Glamour is something like an illusion, only its cast on a person. Well, enough talk. Casting 3 wand less spells drained me a little. So I'm off to have my beauty sleep. There's a room prepared for you to the right on the 1st floor. Good night."
"Thank you for the offer but I'd like to keep watch outside. I'm in hostile territory."
"But I've already added protection spells. No one's getting in without my permission. Surely you can't stay awake the whole night"
"Wouldn't be the first time for me. And i still rather keep one eye open in case you try something."
"You have only one eye."
"Jeez, this guy could give Moody a run for his money."Hazel muttered under her breath. " Fine. Suit yourself. Don't wake me up unless you're dieing."
"How will I wake you if I'm dieing?"
"Don't be a smartarse. Good night."
"Oyasuminasai."
The next morning saw Kakashi watching a bright eyed and bushy tailed Teddy while Hazel performed her sunrise animagi ritual, literally. No really. The kid had an honest to god tail like a wolf, which was wagging as he showed off his toys to the big man in front. His hair was still looking like Kakashi's. After reapplying the translation spell and having their breakfast they packed up to leave for konoha. That's when Hazel noticed something green,twig like thing with beady eyes staring at her from the folds of the tent.' What's a Bowtruckle doing here? Did it get snatched up with us? Now what do I do? Considering that it is a scamander Bowtruckle, it will probably listen to me and behave like a pet. Hopefully.' " Hey, I don't know your name but it will be better if you hop on my shoulders. I'm packing up the tent." It hopped on her hand and climbed up to her shoulder. Kakashi saw the bug on her shoulder and thought ' A bug for a pet! Shrug...'
Then they started on the journey to konoha through frost and hot water. Their travel was pretty uneventful. Although the hokage might get angry at him for arriving so late , but there's nothing he can do about it. Well he could take the woman and travel at shinobi speed, but where the fun in that would be? Atleast this way he gets to learn more about her and her godson. He's learnt that they have a magical core for humans which replenishes like chakra. They chanel their jutsu through the stick, sorry wand, which has a part of a magical animal as fuel. And also a wand picks which wizard or witch it would serve. He learnt that she had a ton of money, which is useless for now. Her also learnt she was single, though why would he want to know that, he's not sure. They have schools for magical kiddies where they enroll at 11. That they fly on broomstick, which would explain why she was so happy to find that broom in her pack. But she's not using it to avoid scrutiny.
As they neared konoha, Kakashi perked up and sped up a little bit, so that she had to ask him to slow down a bit. The whole place was covered with trees. So the name konoha was apt as was frost and hot water. The looming gates were very intimidating, unless you grew up taking classes in a freaking mediaeval castle. She noticed that there were guards infront of the gates looking bored out of their wits. As she turned to ask Kakashi whether she needed to sign any documents, he had vanished, the jerk. She steeled herself,hoisted Teddy up a bit and marched with perpose to the guards. As she was getting ready to give her name and ask for the hokage, Kakashi jumped beside her and told the guards that it's an emergency sanctuary case and no official records to be written. Then whisked her away via shunshin. Izumo and Kotetsu stared at the place where the woman and her child had been, then looked at each other,
"Is it just me or did that kid have the infamous Hatake hair?" Izumo asked.
"Nope. The kid definitely had Hatake hair, and did you look at the mother? Doesn't she resemble the Habanero a bit. With the red hair and all."
"Yeah. I kinda remember Kakashi San following her around like a lost puppy with grocery bags in hand. I knew he had a puppy crush on her."
"And now he's knocked up some woman who looks slightly like her. This is prime gossip material."
"Hey, we shouldn't spread such rumours without base man."
"But why else would he personally come to get her as soon as she arrived? Its like he knew she'd be coming and wanted to keep it hush hush."
"Come on. Do your want Hatake San after your ass? What if this is just a coincidence? Huh? Jiraiya sama also has white hair, you know."
"Yeah, but the kid had silvery hue in it's hair. Come on, don't tell me you're not even a little bit curious Zumo?"
"I am. But I value my life a lot. I have no intention of getting a chidori through the mouth, thank you very much."
"Cheh. Spoilsport."
As Hazel came round a bend, she noticed the mountain and the faces on it.' Well damn. At least on mount Rushmore, the faces are smiling. Here they look just constipated.' She let out a giggle at that thought. Kakashi looked back at her but didn't say anything. When she asked him why he left her near the gates only to come back from the direction of the village to escort her inside, be didn't say anything except a grumbly 'Mission Protocol'.
"Alright Mr. Mission Protocol, where are we going?"
"To T& I division."
"What's that mean?"
"..."
"What?"
"Tourture and interrogation."
"WHAT!"
Reviews:-
Elfin69 - she can't protect him from everything, but she'll try her best.
Silvermane1 - thanks for the nice idea. I'll try to incorporate it.
cleocleo, SilentSnowLeopardNinja, shadewatcher - thank you.
Guest ( chpt4) - its not safe to dive into an empty pool from 100 feet high up. I've left many gaps to fill later on. Have patience my good sir/ma'am.