Sorry this is later than usual, dearlings, but now that my AP testing is over with I can give you this!

Had a sudden idea, and so now I can give you this.

There were many things in his life that Kakashi had not been prepared for. The feelings that he had developed for the little pink haired girl who had once upon a time referred to him as "sensei" had been one such thing, while others went on to include finding out that Obito had been Madara and figuring out that he was getting old.

But the latest thing was perhaps the one that took that cake.

"What is that?" He asked his lovely little daughter who sent him a look that made him feel his age as she drank from her water bottle, sweat streaking her face from training.

"What is what?" She asked innocently enough, though he knew from the glint in her eyes she knew what he was asking about.

"That, Karin, what is that?" He asked, narrowing his open eye at her as he pointed to where her thin black tank-top had inched up her flat stomach as she had reached into one of the cupboards above her head for the plate he had asked her for. Or, more approximately, the glinting little stud that decorated a belly button he had believed to be bare until a few moments before.

She looked down and then rolled her eyes at him -she was really too much like her mother sometimes- taking another sip of water before sighing as if she was disappointed in him. "A bellybutton ring, Dad. It's not a big deal."

"Of course it's a big deal! Your putting that..thing into your body! It could have gotten infected or something, and what if it gets ripped out when you're fighting?" Another eye roll and she just walked past him to go out to the living room, passing Sakura as she went.

"Mom, talk to your husband. He's being an old stick in the mud." She said as she passed her, forcing the pink haired woman to smirk at her fuming husband.

"What's wrong?" She asked him, amused, watching as he pouted -that is, if Hatake Kakashi pouted, which he had assured her he didn't.

"Did you know that she has a bellybutton ring?" He asked her, and Sakura held back a laugh. Really, it was just too cute how he was always so defensive when it came to his little girl growing up.

"Yes, Kakashi. I was the one who took her to get it." She told him, unable to mask the amusement from her voice. He stared at her for a moment.

"Sakura, she's fifteen." She laughed as she moved around him to get to the sandwich he had been working on until Karin had dealt him such a crippling blow, finishing it up as she talked.

"I happened to be there, Kakashi, so I know when she was born. And this isn't that big of a deal. She came to me and asked me if she could, so I went with her to get it and made sure that there wasn't an infection or anything like that. It's just a piercing, and it isn't like it's some gateway to drugs and prostitution." She cut the sandwich in half and handed him one part of it, popping up onto the counter to eat her part.

"Well... Why couldn't she tell me about it? Or ask?"

She snorted, almost choking on the bite she had taken. "Really? You'd obviously say no, and she didn't think you'd understand that she just wanted something pretty. She can't go out and get her hair or nails done like normal girls, so she got something a little more permanent and durable."

Kakashi sighed and took a bite of the sandwich, and Sakura smiled sympathetically at him as she rubbed her foot up and down his leg slightly in a comforting manner.

"It's okay." She assured him, "It's just a little thing. She's not going to grow up all at once on you, and she's still the same little girl who used to sit up on your shoulders when we went out."

He sighed again but managed to smile crookedly at the memory, his eyes going to where he could see into the living room over the island that separated the two rooms. Karin walked back in from her room, her short hair escaping from the stub of a pony tail she had pulled it into and hanging around her face in damp strands. She was wearing a sports bra and knee length shorts, going over to the basket of unfolded laundry to pick up the tank-top she had apparently forgotten.

"Yeah, I guess you're-" He started to say, his eyes going to move away from his daughter until she turned her back to him and he saw the little purple dragon curling in the middle of the pale canvas that was her back.

"And what is that on your back, Karin?" He asked in an icy tone that made the girl flinch as she realized her monumental mistake. Sakura peered around Kakashi to see what he was asking about, and her eyebrows rose substantially when she noticed the girl's tattoo that she had had no part of or knowledge of what so ever.

"Yes," Sakura added, eyes narrowing in her anger, "Do tell."

Shoulders stiff, Karin cautiously turned until she faced her parents, wincing at just how angry they both looked. She wasn't going to get out of this one very easily.

"Oh, well, about that... Funny story." She said, attempting a smile and a half laugh. It didn't make the situation any better, and she suddenly noticed the slight twitching her mother's eye was doing.

She was so screwed.

Yep. There it is.

The story behind the tattoo may one day be told (who am I kidding? I'm gonna tell it), but basically Karin's team was off on a mission that they did successfully (probably a decently high ranked one) and they all ended up getting tattoos (an incredibly bad decision for three fifteen year olds) which she then kept from her parents.

Oh, they are pissed.

(Also, a quick reminder that Rin is on Karin's team :P)

A note that I have nothing against piercings or tattoos, if you are perceiving that to be a part of this. I like both, though I wont get either. I am terribly afraid of needles and hyperventilate when I am near them (=no tattoos) and I'm just not the kind of person to have piercings on anywhere other than my ears (=no belly button)

See you soon my precious Percivals!