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He's seething as they leave the office. He wants to burst into flames and rage and burn everything down with him for this. She is a child, a minor, despite her being a genin and for once, for once, Kakashi wishes he could take her back, tuck her away into his home and never let her near anything that could ever hurt her.
Her eyes, those green, green eyes, so full of righteous hope is what he sees when he closes his. He remembers her smiles and graceless tumbles after Tora, he remembers when she slipped crackers into his pockets and never asked what was under his mask or why he was late. He remembers a child that never judged or laughed at him or even asked for anything more that she got.
He knows, somewhere in his mind, that the Hokage has a...reason for this. To expose the viper as he had told him. To take down the akasen district.
But as he remembers his boy's pleadings and how she stilled, shocked that they had abandoned her—
And they did.
They did abandon her.
(Because he can save her from enemy nin, from bullies and death but he can't save her from the Hokage—he can't save her from the village.)
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