The next day the sun shone brightly as the village of Konoha experienced high noon. Naruto complained of sore feet and exhaustion as Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Tatsuki all made their way to complete the day's chore...erm...mission. "Why don't we get a better mission then going to another village to gather some fruit?" Naruto complained and Kakashi laughed. "Rukia sent me on a chore, she needs a certain fruit only found in the mountains to make my favorite dessert!" Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto all anime fell in unison, and Tatsuki muttered, "Rukia does spoil him..." Kakashi walked with his hands behind his head, "She just wants me to live it good." Tatsuki rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest, "You're the one who should be spoiling her Kakashi, you lazy ass." Kakashi raised an eyebrow, "Aren't women supposed to do the house working and cooking in a marriage?" Saskue smirked, "But you aren't married Kakashi, you're engaged." "Then the sooner we get married the better!" Kakashi said and Tatsuki rolled her eyes again.
Upon reaching a clearing with mist curling around their feet the party spotted a white flower hanging in a tree. And orange cresent moon shaped fruit sat beneath the budding flower and Sakura touched the flower's delicate petals. "Wow it's pretty... Isn't this a Moon Fruit Kakashi-sensei? One of the rarest fruit found in the mountains?" Sakura asked and Kakashi nodded in reply. "I was very curious as to why we didn't meet any outlaws along the way. I thought someone would be guarding this Moon Fruit tree, the Moon Fruits are very profitable in the surrounding towns." Kakashi pointed out and as if on cue five ninja errupted from the bushes with kunai knives drawn between their fingers. "What do you guys think you're doing? This is our Moon Fruit tree so back off!" one of the masked outlaws called in a masculine voice. "You're gonna have to fight us first." Naruto said and went into formation around the Moon Fruit tree alongside Kakashi and Sasuke.
"Can I take care of this I haven't killed anyone in weeks, trying to be a good girl for Shika, so I'm stuck being bored out of my wits." She smirked evilly looking towards the 3 ninja surrounding them. "If I want to fight I guess I should show at least a quarter of my chakra." Everyone winced on how powerful her chakra was. "She's so powerful it hurts my skin on how much chakra she has. It's hard to breath." "Why do you think she is so dependant and cocky. She wouldn't be cocky if she couldn't fight." "You idiot I didn't spend millenniums doing nothing." "We'll just be going now sorry to bother you the fire flower." Said the ninja running away form the spirit. "Fire Flower?" "I earned a reputation."
"Who gave you that name anyway?" Sakura asked as she and Sasuke picked the Moon Fruits from the tree with Naruto. "They just call me Fire Flower because of my specialty in fire jutsus. Rukia's name is Silver Eyes, I'm pretty she got that one fighting the Akatski." Tatsuki said. "Her silver eyes are stunning." Kakashi nodded and Sasuke sighed. Kakashi licked his chops, "I can just envision that fruit parfait." Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Fruit parfait?" "Nevermind." Kakashi said and Tatsuki grinned. "You and your fruits Kakashi. You are pretty fruity." "Ha ha funny." Kakashi said sarcastily at Tatsuki.
As they made their way back to Konoha Kakashi collected his fruit. "Why don't you guys come back to my place? Rukia can make us all some lunch." Kakashi offered and everyone followed him home. Kakashi rapped smartly on the door and Rukia opened it with a grin set on her pale face, "Kakashi you're back! Bring some friends for lunch?" "Yes dear, I hope you don't mind." Kakashi kissed her on the cheek as he stepped inside. "Of course not!" Rukia smiled allowing them all to file into the house. "I see you've been cleaning." Sasuke looked around at the apartment which seemed to sparkle with a clean air. "Now that you mention it..." Naruto inhaled to smell soapy cleaner and wood polish. "Rukia! You should be relaxing, staying in bed." Kakashi teased and rubbed Rukia's stomach. "Oh stop Kakashi, your apartment was a mess! It pissed me off so much I just had to something about it!" "She's kicking." Kakashi said trying to change the subject as he placed the Moon Fruits on the kitchen table. "Well I better get to work, you guys pull up a chair and lunch should be ready in a couple of minutes." Rukia said as she broke out the heavy artillery.
Everyone sat down and ate lunch. "How's lunch you guys?" "It's great sweetie or should I say Silver eyes." "Who told you about hat name." Rukia shifted to a serious tone. "Lets not get into this topic." Tatsuki cut in also in serious tone eating to get the attention off of her. Sasuke gave a suspicious look and continued to eat. Everyone was finished eating and left. He was still wondering what happened. He wanted info he knew it was important since it made Rukia serious. Sasuke found Shikamaru and said, "Your girlfriend is hiding something, something important." "How important is it?" "Important to make Rukia serious." Sasuke said in a non laughing manner. "It has to with the name she was given a while back her name, Fir Flower, and Rukia's was, Siler Eyes." "I'll ask my dad about it later." "You may need to go bad further." "I know I'll get to it."
Shikamaru tapped his chin thoughtfully and looked around the ancient scrollery. He just needed to find out about the legend of Silver Eyes and Fire Flower, but he didn't know where to look. Shikamaru glanced around the shelves until he found a scroll tied in golden lace. He quickly undid the knot and read the ancient text...
The women Fire Flower and Silver Eyes are beings who murdered for pure delight. They took the forms of fairies and seduced the men they assassinated. Looking back to ancient texts from the Village Hidden in the Leaves, during the second Hokage's reign Fire Flower and Silver Eyes assassinated millions of warriors and innocent villagers. The spirits then pillaged the village and took a lot of treasure. To this day the lore figures of these two women are still feared by millions, and their remains have never been found.
Shikamaru almost ran from the scrollery to tell everyone. His heart was beating out of his chest, why hadn't either of the girls told him about this? Rukia was so sweet and the sad thing was she was to be a mother. As for Tatsuki, she wouldn't harm a fly, only if she had to. Shikamaru was in shock when he shakily turned the doorknob to Kakashi's apartment. Naruto peered over at him and frowned at how the color was drained from his face and his breathing was sharp and chopped. "Did you run here or something?" Naruto asked. Shikamaru took another shuddered breath and sighed, "I found out about Silver Eyes and Fire Flower." Rukia and Tatsuki both exchanged grief stricken glances and Kakashi grabbed Rukia by the arm, "Is there something you nedd to tell me?" "No! What would make you think that?" Rukia pulled away from Kakashi who frowned. "Rukia don't hide anything from me, if we're going to get married, you need to tell me everything!" Kakashi said. Rukia glared at him and said in a dark voice that was un-Rukia like, "There are some things I don't want to tell you Kakashi, okay?"
"Tatsuki I knew you acted homicidal and all, but I didn't know you were actually homicidal." Shikamaru frowned. "I wonder why my sensei would have ever brought them to Konoha to teach me, Obito, and Rin if they had been mass murders." Kakashi shrugged his shoulders in disbelief. Rukia's eyes were filled to the brim with tears as she choked, "We'd completely given up assinating people for the hell of it. We made a vow that we would never kill only if we had to." "So the evil chakra was drained away and is currently unuseable, we even can't access the forms of Silver Eyes and Fire Flower anymore because we have shut out their chakra." Tatsuki explained while Shikamaru still stared at her in disbelief. "We were afraid to tell you guys because of how you would react. You reacted just as we thought." Rukia sobbed and Kakashi tried to soothe her. "I'm just upset you didn't tell us." Sasuke said and he frowned. He never would have thought that sweet Rukia and just Tatsuki would have gone off on killing sprees. Naruto knew how they felt though. He had a past full of killing just because of Kyuubi. "You guys should really lay off of them, they've given it up." Naruto growled from the end of the table and everyone looked at them. "Plus they really don't want to talk about it." Naruto said as he stood up to leave.
Everyone watched Naruto storm out and Tatsuki said, "Wow, that was the most emotional I've seen Naruto." Rukia nodded and said, "He understands we regret our past." she then glared at everyone at the table in a sweeping motion. "Look, we know what you guys are talking about. Anyway you've been around for two thousand years...you must have been evil at one time or another." Kakashi said. "Actually we were just trying to show up the Akatski." Rukia replied. Sakura sighed, "Well the good thing is we have you guys on our side now." "Yup, I would never betray the Village Hidden in the Leaves." Tatsuki answered and Rukia nodded in agreement. "So who's going to go find Naruto?" Sasuke sighed and Rukia lept up. "I'll do it, I haven't been out in a long time." Rukia said and before Kakashi could protest she was out the door.
The sun shone bright into Rukia's eyes as she made her way down the dirt path through the village. She saw an orange leg dissapear behind a corner at the end of the street and she sighed, "Naurto, let's not make this a wild goose chase. I'm not in any condition." She trudged down the street and a while down caught up with Naruto. She put a hand on his shoulder and said, "Naruto it's nice how you stuck up for me and Tatsuki. You know you didn't have to leave in such a hurry. Are you upset or something?" Naruto whirled around to face Rukia, "What are you doing outside anyway?" "I wanted some fresh air, believe it or not Kakashi's apartment does get boring." Rukia said and she led Naruto to a bench next to a bridge. The river chattered merrily as it tumbled over itself in the cascades of rocks as Rukia spoke to Naruto in her sweet voice. "Naruto can you tell me why you did that anyway?" she said to him, smiling. Naruto blushed, "I felt bad that Kakashi and Shikamaru were being so mean to you guys about something they didn't even understand." "They weren't mean, they were just in shock. Most men are afraid to show their feelings, but you're not like that Naruto." Rukia laughed as Naruto whispered an embarrassed, "Thanks..." "It's nothing to be ashamed of. Actually you should be proud. Sometimes I wish Kakashi could show some of his true feelings." she looked a little depressed when she said this. "It's hard on me when he's mad. I get so emotional because of the baby." she rubbed her stomach and Naruto looked up into her grey eyes as they stared out into the street. She still spoke to Naruto although she wasn't facing him, "My hormones are on haywire and he just doesn't get it. I'm just glad you did that Naruto. It means a lot to me and Kagami."
"I hope he isn't always so hard on you." Naruto said and Rukia smiled. "No, he's just in shock. That's why I didn't want you guys to find out. I knew this would happen." Rukia said as she and Naruto walked back to Kakashi and Rukia's apartment. "I at least thought they would be more understanding." Naruto said and Rukia sighed as he said this. "They are ignorant, especially Kakashi. He's afraid to accept it." Rukia grabbed Naruto's hand and put it on her stomach. "Do you feel her?" she smiled as Naruto nodded. "She's strong." Naruto said and Rukia smiled. "Like her father." Rukia said.
Next Day
"Come on Kakashi we have to make the wedding plans!" "Uh but I don't want to." "I want to have the wedding before I'm TO fat." "Fine, fine lets get this over with."
5 hours later
"Oh my God I can't believe were done!" Kakashi said banging his head on the table. "Oh it wasn't that bad besides the only thing you had to do was say 'yes', 'no', and your opinion I did all the work!" "Whatever lets celebrate us finishing the wedding plans." "First let me read off the name we invited. OK lets see Tatsuki, Shikamaru, life, death, me and Tatsuki's summoning animal, Asuma, Kurenia, Gai, Rock Lee, Neji, TenTen, Hinata, Naruto, Kiba, Shino, Sasuke, Sakura, Ino, Chouji, and the rest are fellow teammates. Hey Kakashi wake up will 'ya!" "Uh what I'm up lets go!" "Fine let me go change."
Rukia was latched onto Kakashi's shoulder and she smirked, "We seem to be celebrating everything latley." Kakashi shrugged as he trudged down the street with Rukia at his side. They were going out privately for a dinner date. "A marriage and pregnancy are things to celebrate." Kakashi reasoned and Rukia smiled. "Or you love to spoil me, don't you baby?" Rukia said and Kakashi was caught by surprise. Aside from the fact she had called him 'baby' and he was a fully grown man, was that Sasuke had said the same thing to him.
"If you spoil Rukia too much, she's going to outgrow her powers and ninja skills and become a bratty, pampered wife." Sasuke had rolled his eyes at Kakashi. Kakashi shrugged and rubbed the back of his neck, "Well I just love her so much." "Rukia's easy to please. Just give her love and attention, you'll do fine." Sasuke had said matter-of-factly. Kakashi raised his eyebrows, "It sounds like you know more about my own wife then I do." Sasuke had shrugged his shoulders, "She's told me things about herself. She says she jut likes simple things, hugs, kisses..." then he added quickly, "Children..." "She told you that?" Kakashi had chuckled. Sasuke had nodded, "Hn."
Kakashi smiled at Rukia who looked at him confused, "What are you smiling at Kakashi?" "Nothing." Kakashi said quickly.