Author: Agent Hatake (agentANBUhatake)
Summary: KakashiKagome Shorts, because even Copy Cat Kakashi needs some lovin'. Inuyasha Naruto xOver
Disclaimer: I hate saying this because it makes my heart ache, but it's a necessary evil. I don't own Naruto or Inuyasha.
A/C: Please check my profile regularly for updates and news on my future plans. I'm thinking that my next KakashiKagome story called "Outlandish Cries" will be posted on Wednesday of next week or on friday depending on when I post "Football Dreams."
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Expecting
It was Kakashi who noticed it first.
Being intimate with his lover's body he'd notice any change in his lover's body in an instant.
It took him more than a week to notice it. It was subtle, Kagome's scent. It'd change to a more earthier and heavier scent; something he wasn't used to and it baffled him. It wasn't the scent that baffled him, but the duration in which it lasted.
He was used to the scent coming in when Kagome was menstruating, the heavier scent that is. He had enough tact not to mention when Kagome was on her period. Her scent got gradually heavier until those four or five days where it was at its heaviest, but then it'd gradually disappear.
But the scent was still there, as if . . . she was expecting . . .?
He maneuvered her until her back was plastered to his front and then he explored. It was good that she was already naked from the earlier bouts of sex; otherwise it wouldn't be as interesting.
He swiped a hand across her lower stomach, noting the firmness of it all and then he trailed a hand up to her breast, flicking a finger across a nipple and watching in interest as it pebbled and her body shivered.
He cupped one and massaged and his ear twitched as she let out one of her breathier moans and a soft, "Kashii . . ."
She was definitely more sensitive!
He stopped because he knew that she was still exhausted and instead spooned her while he settled a hand low on her stomach.
He sniffed at the back of her neck and got familiar with the scent. 'So this is the scent she'd carry when she's pregnant . . .' He thought.
Kakashi felt light and heavy at the same time and he took a breath to try to get rid of it but it still persisted.
'Maybe I should confirm this or should I talk to Kurenai?'
Kagome shifted in his arms coming chest-to-chest and drew a leg across Kakashi's hip.
'Tomorrow,' he thought, 'I'll take care of this tomorrow.' Snuggling closer.
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"You better have a good reason for waking me up so early in the morning, Kakashi." Kurenai growled as she settled into the seat in the private area of the restaurant, "What's with the secrecy?" She asked looking around her. Noting that they were the only ones in the room with empty tables and a door leading to the front of the shop.
"I pulled a couple strings to get this room . . .our conversation never happened alright?"
Kurenai raised an eyebrow. "What's going on?"
"Kagome's pregnant." He said with all seriousness and then he scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, "I think."
"You think?" Kurenai rubbed her temples in frustration, "Maybe next time that you ask me to come to you, it should be for more than just an 'I think,' do you know how hard it is to find a babysitter last minute?" She waved an arm around, "Can't you confirm it or something?"
"That's what I was going to do, anyway." He sliced his thumb with a kunai and summoned Pakkun onto the table. The pug stretched, his butt in the air and paws extended in front of him. He licked his chops and yawned, "What do you need?"
"I need you to scent out Kagome's scent and confirm something."
The pug gave a dull stare to his summoner; "I think Kagome doesn't have it in her to cheat on you."
"No, no." Kakashi waved away the notion, "I want you to see if you can tell if she's pregnant."
"You got her pupped?" Pakkun asked and he took a step forward to delicately sniff at Kakashi's clothes, "Well, I can't say for sure with just her scent on your clothing. It's different, yes, but it could just mean that she's on her cycle." He took another sniff, "All I can smell is the heavy scent of your activities from last night." He sat back on his haunches and scratched the back of his ear with his leg.
Kurenai looked at Kakashi and waved away the explanation, "I don't want to hear it." She stroked the back of Pakkun's neck just above his blue vest and said, "Maybe you should go directly to the source?"
"I think I left the bedroom window open," Kakashi supplied. Pakkun sat up and was about to leap off the table before Kurenai called his attention.
"Wait, wait." Kurenai asked Kakashi to slip out a couple bills, "You should buy some flowers for her, to give Pakkun a reason to be there." She tucked in the bills in Pakkun's vest.
Kakashi pouted, "But I usually don't give her flowers unless I'm on her bad side."
Kurenai give him a long stare and stood up to open the door for the pug.
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Pakkun lightly scratched the door to the flower shop. "Hey, anyone in there?" He called in his low baritone.
'The downside to being a dog without opposable thumbs,' Pakkun thought as he stared up at the doorknob.
"Pakkun?" A voice questioned from behind.
Pakkun turned, "Sakura? I see you changed shampoo." He commented as he took a delicate sniff of the air.
"Uh, y-yeah." The pink-haired girl commented, she turned to her blonde-haired friend beside her, "Ino, this is Pakkun, one of Kakashi's ninken. Pakkun, my friend Ino-pig, but you can just call her pig."
"Sa. Ku. Ra." Ino growled and Pakkun took a step back.
"What are you doing here at the Yamanaka's flower shop?" Sakura asked.
"Ah, running an errand for Kakashi." He said by way of explanation, he figured that Kakashi didn't want it to be public knowledge that Kagome might be pupped.
Ino sighed before taking out the keys and opening up the shop, "I usually don't open up the shop until 9 but I guess it's alright if I open it up an hour early or so."
Pakkun leapt up onto the counter where the cash register was, wagging his tail and scratching behind his ear, "I need some flowers."
"Lilies, right?" Ino asked, taking a couple dozen fresh lilies and going about to prepare them.
"What?" Pakkun asked the same time Sakura asked, "How do you know?"
"Ah, Kakashi comes here from time to time." Ino said.
Sakura giggle, "Does he get in trouble with Kagome often?"
"From time to time. Here you go." Ino took the bills and held the flowers for Pakkun to take.
"Thanks." He said around the mouthful of flowers and sprinted away.
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Kagome wasn't at Kakashi's apartment and neither was she at her own, so he followed the scent trail that lead him to the Hokage's tower.
He ran around people's legs and avoided onside collisions with his shifty maneuvering and if he attracted stares, so what? He took a running leap and landed on top of Kagome's desk, scattering some papers and dirtying a couple others with his paw prints.
Kagome looked up, startled, "Pakkun!"
He set down the flowers in front of her hands and coughed, trying to get the taste of plastic and flower stems from out of his mouth, "Kakashi sent them."
She looked up from sniffing the bouquet and eyed the small pug on the center of her desk, "You aren't going to sing, are you?"
"Only during Christmas, babe."
She turned to stare at the flowers in her hands and her eyes perceptibly narrowed, "What did he do?"
"Nothing," Pakkun replied and he thought that maybe he should soften her up a bit for Kakashi, "He told me to tell you that he wishes you were in his paws every moment of every day, but thought he'd just send the flowers instead to say that you're in his thoughts every moment that you're not in his paws."
Kagome giggled and set down the flowers to bring him in her lap and give him a good rub down, "Aww, that's so sweet of him."
"Yes," Pakkun growled, pleased, "Very sweet. Ah, ah! Right there!" He nearly purred in content, turning to a puddle of furry goo in her lap.
He shook out of her hold five minutes later, "I should probably go." He leapt onto her desk once more and turned to stare at her with his droopy gaze, "Do you got any messages for him?"
His short hair was ruffled and his vest and headband were askew but he didn't particularly care, especially after that rub down.
"Only, that I'll be thinking of you too every time I look at these flowers." She fixed his clothes and then cupped his cheeks, giving him an Eskimo kiss and then a small peck on his wet nose, "Thank you, Pakkun."
"No problem," he said wiggling his nose and then he left.
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"I never thought I'd have this conversation with you." Kurenai said as she took a sip from her coffee.
"Hm?" Kakashi said, not looking up from ripping the napkin into smaller and smaller pieces.
"Well," she started, settling down the cup on the table, "first, if I ever had this conversation it'd be with Kagome and after she told that she was pregnant I'd ask her when she was planning on telling you and so on. And second, I'd never thought you'd get someone pregnant. So this situation feels a little surreal to me." She finished wrinkling her nose in bafflement.
He sighed and slumped in his chair, staring at the tabletop, "I was surprised too. I never thought I'd be the one having kids . . . I always thought that'd I'd just be there to witness others having kids." He cupped the napkin pieces and moved them aside.
"Naruto would be the first to get some girl pregnant and then Sakura would come next with her battalion of children and I'd be sort of the uncle in that situation. Looking in but not really there. The hands-off kind of uncle." His eyebrow furrowed in confusion and Kurenai smiled into her cup of coffee.
"In all honesty, I'm feeling very nervous." He blurted out and immediately frowned; not really liking the fact that he'd openly admitted it. "A father." He said, unable to stop, "I'm going- I could be a father." He corrected himself.
"What are you going to do?" Kurenai asked.
Kakashi stayed silent for a couple beats and then he rummaged around in his pouch before settling out the object in the middle of the table.
Kurenai gasped, staring with wide eyes at the small black velvety box in the center of the table. She knew what was in there. Every woman instinctively knew what was inside.
"I picked it up at Tsuchigakure on the return trip from one of my escort missions . . . I've been thinking about it for the past two months now."
"Can I . . .?" Kurenai softly asked and when Kakashi nodded his head she put her hand on the top but hesitated on opening it. She pushed it closer to Kakashi but didn't open it, "She should be the first one to see it." She decided. Kakashi nodded but otherwise didn't move to put it back into his pouch; he was staring at it with a deep contemplation.
"So, what's holding you up? It shouldn't be this hard right? I mean can you see yourself living without her?" She said.
"I know I can't live without her, but can she live without me?" Kakashi ran a hand thru his hair, "That's the question I always get stuck on because I know the answer. I know that without me she'd be okay . . .better than okay, actually. I mean I have a lot of people after my blood so if it becomes public knowledge that she got married to me and is carrying my child. . .I- Can you imagine the danger she'd be in if I went thru with it? That always freezes my blood cold. That's what makes me hesitate."
"You've been together for over a year now. In Shinobi years that's close to five years, already." Kurenai said slowly, her eye saddening, "You shouldn't waste more time because who knows when you'll get sent out on your last mission? Asuma . . .I miss Asuma everyday, but I know I cherish every moment spent together with him as his wife, even if it wasn't for very long. You shouldn't be scared of something like that, you shouldn't let your enemies rule your life."
"Kakashi, I'm breaking the friendship code just for you," She took a breath and grasped his hand that was on the table, "Kagome loves you, I'm sure she's said that to you already, but she loves you so much that she once told me she wouldn't know what to do without you."
There was a scratching at the door and Pakkun shuffled in the room, settled on table and laid flat on his side.
"So?" Kurenai asked, taking back her hand.
"Hm? Oh, yeah, she's pupped." Pakkun murmured, basking from the heat on the table. "I'd say multiple pups."
Kakashi let out a heavy breath, "Multiple? Twins, you mean?"
Pakkun gave a doggy shrug, "Don't know. Could be triplets? She smells similar to how some of our bitches do when they have litters. There's just a different scent about gravid bitches when they have litters. Could be wrong though, I mean, I'm making a comparison between Kagome and bitches. Humans and dogs are different, ya know?"
Pakkun sighed as Kurenai rubbed his stomach, "Oh, she said she doesn't stop thinking about you." And growled when Kurenai's fingers reached that spot on his back that he could never reach. Today was a good day to be a dog.
Pakkun let out a disgruntled noise when he was rolled over and Kakashi stood up with the small velvety box in hand.
"Wait! Where are you going?!" Kurenai scrambled from her seat to get to Kakashi.
Kakashi looked back at her with a raised eyebrow, ". . .To propose?" He said at length.
"Now?!"
A confused expression grew on Kakashi's face, "Didn't you just say not to waste more time?"
"W-well, yes, but I didn't mean right this second. Wait, hold on, hold on!" She said and grabbed onto Kakashi's arm when he was about to turn away. "I meant you should do it in a more romantic setting? Not at her workplace!"
Kakashi paused and what he said next was very close to a whine, "But I might lose the nerve to do it by then."
"Look, I'm saying that we could have a bar b q after Tomo-chan's birthday just for the adults at one of the parks, and since Tomo's birthday falls on the day we defeated the Akatsuki, there's bound to be fireworks. So everything would be set up and I really, really would like you to go along with this, please?"
Kakashi looked into the pleading eyes of Kurenai and slumped against the door. He nodded his head, "Alright, but it'll be your duty to get everything ready."
"Okay!" Kurenai agreed excited.
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If anyone noticed how rushed the two-year old's birthday was, no one mentioned it. Everyone was gathered, absolutely everyone. The rookie nine and their sensei's, Team Gai, Anko, Tsunade, Shizune, Ibiki, Genma, Ebisu, hell even Sasuke was there. The girls were dressed in elegant and festive kimonos and the men were either in their militia garb or in their own kimono.
She kept Chouji in charge of food, which she instructed wasn't to be eaten until the real festivities began. And the only low point in Kurenai's plans is when she forced Tomo to sleep via nemuri no jutsu, 'but, it's for a good cause' she convinced herself. She left some of Kakashi's ninken in her baby's nursery and shooed away the people out of her home and to the park.
Kurenai felt jittery, and had probably given massive hints to everyone with her wide secretive smile but she couldn't help looking over at Kakashi and Kagome every once in a while. She wanted to squeal but held it in every time by chomping into a piece of food.
She'd personally let her own students in on Kagome's condition and that under no circumstances can they let it slip out and if Hinata could kindly please inform Neji about the same thing.
If she felt like this, she could only imagine what Kakashi felt like.
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For one thing, Kakashi felt curiously breathless.
From the moment that Kagome opened up her apartment door with the silk dark blue kimono and white and pink petals floating across the material and the yellow obi expertly tied in a well done bow, her hair swept up in a messy bun to reveal an expanse a milky skin on her neck and with her bangs swept to the side and her bright blue eyes piercing his own gray.
Even as she instructed him to hold onto their gift to Tomo-chan as she slipped her feet into a pair of okobo and pinned some of her bangs to the side, he felt breathless.
When she moved to take the gift back into her hands, he'd reeled her to kiss at the base of her throat and whisper into her ear, "You're beautiful," before tugging his mask back into place.
When she gave him that breathless, "Kakashii . . ." he was so damn fond of . . . that was when he started to feel warm.
Even now as they walked on one of the more well lit streets lined with booths that he'd guided her with his hand at the small of her back, his chest still felt like it couldn't expand enough.
They were leading the rest to the park. Kiba and Hinata were behind them and the rest were trailing behind near one of the first booths that caught Naruto's and consequently everyone else's attention.
They were at the booth were Kagome was attempting to fling fish out of the water with the wooden stick and papered net, sticking her tongue out in concentration and Kimono sleeve held back with her left hand.
Kakashi watched her and fiddled with black box in his pouch. He heard a loud gasp sound behind him and he turned as Hinata deactivated her Byakugan and stared at him with a soft blush and fingers held in front of her mouth. He gave her one of his eye smiles and held a finger up in front of his mouth in the universal gesture for, 'Shh.'
She gasped again and blushed harder, the second gasp drew Kiba's attention and he looked around them, to Kakashi and Kagome's turned backs, to the crowd and back to Hinata, "What's up?"
She flushed and stammered, "I-It's n-nothing. I . . .just y-you know?" She trailed off in a question and pointedly looked back in Kagome's direction.
Kiba grinned, "It must be something else to actually see it, huh?"
"Y-yes." Hinata nodded and tugged Kiba over to one of the booths with skewered squid.
'So this is what Kurenai-sensei was looking so happy over,' Hinata thought as she softly bit into her treat.
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The park was still dark when the whole group gathered, mingling and waiting anxiously for the fireworks to explode overhead. The food was piled onto one of the tables and picnic blankets were set out on the ground.
Everyone stood as the first firework screeched its way up into the sky and exploded with a bang, it's variety of colors lighting up the late night sky.
Kakashi looked down when he felt Kagome's left hand sneak in and interlace with his right hand. He squeezed the hand briefly before pulling out the small box from his pouch.
The last firework of the night exploded in white and red little lights. The park grew dark once more before it was lit with red lanterns. There was a soft glow illuminating the park clearing and they all settled down onto the blankets, but two.
"Kakashi, what's wrong?" Kagome asked with a concerned face, she was hungry and wanted to get some food but she was held in her place by Kakashi's hold on her hand.
He tugged her in front of him with her back to the crowd and incidentally the food. He gave her an intense look and she bit her lip, why was she feeling like butterflies were growing in her stomach?
"Higurashi Kagome. . ."
Kakashi began and moved to kneel on bended knee. There were several gasps as the air grew tense and Kurenai bit her lip and slapped both her hands over her mouth to stop the squeal from ruining the mood.
"Will you marry me?" He asked, slipping his hand out of hers and pulled the small black velvety box open to reveal the precious ring inside. Squeals erupted from several feminine throats and there was one, "Oh shit!" from a blonde haired dobe.
Tears dabbing the corner of her eyes and for several moments Kagome couldn't breath until she managed a choked out, "Yes."
Kakashi slipped the ring on and brought his mask down and rose up to draw her into a gentle kiss full of heat. Wolf whistles and catcalls arose and they parted to rest their foreheads together.
"I love you." He whispered against her lips and she gave him one more kiss as her response before drawing his mask up herself and stepping to the side to face the crowd with an embarrassed blush on her cheeks and a happy twinkle in his eye.
"Dammit, I still didn't get to see his face!"
"There's still the wedding." Someone threw in helpfully.
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"So when do I tell her about the pregnancy?" Kakashi asked Kurenai a week later.
Kurenai gave him a look, as if doubting his intelligence, "You don't. Anything you say will be used against you and will definitely bite you in the ass."
Kakashi furrowed his eyebrow in confusion and opened his mouth to ask something when Kurenai, as if sensing his manly stupidity trying to make an appearance, narrowed her eyes even further. Kakashi promptly closed his mouth.
"Don't. Don't try to be subtle by saying that she smells funny or by telling her that she's been gaining weight. That instantly kills the relationship right there. Don't try to be direct and tell her that she's pregnant because she'll think that you think that she's fat. Instant death." She ran a hand through her hair and sighed, "Just let her find out on her own and act surprised when she tells you." She tapped her lip and looked at the ceiling, "Actually, when she tells you give her some lovin', alright? It reassures her in your relationship and you'll be on her good side for most of the pregnancy."
"So . . .I don't say anything?"
"Treat it like a mission, Kakashi. You don't spill any information to the enemy."
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Exactly five days later, Kakashi found himself seated on the couch looking on as Kagome paced in front of him with a worried look in her eyes.
She bit her lip and kneeled in front of him on the floor with her hands on his knees and tears in her eyes. "I don't know how to begin." She said, sniffling as tears raced down her cheeks.
Kakashi's heart squeezed at seeing her tears; he hated it when she cried because it made him feel helpless. He instantly cupped her cheeks and brushed the tears away with his thumbs. He stared at her with a soft look in his eye, "Just tell me. I hate seeing you like this."
". . .I-I'm pregnant." She said, closing her eyes with a shuddering sigh.
Kakashi stared for a couple of beats and slowly a devious grin formed. He loved the next part of Kurenai's plan and he didn't wait a second further to pull his mask down and brought his lips down to hers for a slow torturous kiss.
Kagome gasped and pulled away, "You're not . . .mad?" She asked, incredulous.
His eye twinkled and he reeled her in to continue. He pulled her up into his arms, pleased when her legs came up to wrap around his waist, and led her to his room.
Gently, he placed her in the middle of his bed and moved to straddle her body.
His gaze speared through hers and he placed a warm hand over her stomach, just above her womb. "Not at all."
OMAKE #1
The last firework of the night exploded in white and red little lights. The park grew dark once more before it was lit with red lanterns. There was a soft glow illuminating the park clearing and they all settled down onto the blankets, but two.
"Kakashi, what's wrong?" Kagome asked with a concerned face, she was hungry and wanted to get some food but she was held in her place by Kakashi's hold on her hand.
He tugged her in front of him with her back to the crowd and incidentally the food. He gave her an intense look and she bit her lip, why was she feeling like butterflies were growing in her stomach?
"Higurashi Kagome. . ."
Kakashi began and moved to kneel on bended knee. There were several gasps as the air grew tense and Kurenai bit her lip and slapped both her hands over her mouth to stop the squeal from ruining the mood.
"Will you move in with me?" He asked, slipping his hand out of hers and pulled the small black velvety box open to reveal the golden house key inside. Confused applause sputtered out.
"THAT'S WHAT WAS INSIDE?!"
OMAKE #2
Pakkun let out a disgruntled noise when he was rolled over and Kakashi stood up with the small velvety box in hand.
"Wait! Where are you going?!" Kurenai scrambled from her seat to get to Kakashi.
Kakashi looked back at her with a raised eyebrow, ". . .To propose?" He said at length.
"Now?!"
A confused expression grew on Kakashi's face, "Didn't you just say not to waste more time?"
"W-well, yes, but I didn't mean right this second. Wait, hold on, hold on!" She said and grabbed onto Kakashi's arm when he was about to turn away. "I meant you should do it in a more romantic setting? Not at her workplace!"
Kakashi paused and what he said next was very close to a whine, "But I might lose the nerve to do it by then."
"Look, I'm saying that we could have a bar b q after Tomo-chan's birthday just for the adults at one of the parks, and since Tomo's birthday falls on the day we defeated the Akatsuki, there's bound to be fireworks. So everything would be set up and I really, really would like you to go along with this, please?"
Kakashi looked into the pleading eyes of Kurenai and slumped against the door. He nodded his head, "Alright, but it'll be your duty to get everything ready."
"Okay!" Kurenai agreed excited. Then her face grew serious and quite a bit peeved.
"Next time don't make it sound soo God Damn suspicious! 'Meet me at Rouma's Restaurant Inn. . .Come Alone.' My ass!"
Kakashi pouted, "But it sounded so cool."
Authors' Comments:
Quite a couple things actually.
First of all, "Expecting" was supposed to stop at, "He stopped because he knew that she was still exhausted and instead spooned her while he settled a hand low on her stomach." But it nagged at me and I couldn't stop. I was possessed at that point. Sorry!
Second, Tomo-chan: Asuma and Kurenai's child. I thought it would be awesome karmic revenge if Akatsuki was defeated the same time Tomo was born or a year later on his birthday. I mean; Asuma was the first to die in the war against Akatsuki so if Akatsuki were defeated the same day that Tomo was born . . . It'd be pretty tight.
Third, wouldn't everyone just love to have a "Nemuri no jutsu?" I think I'd find it pretty handy. Sleep jutsu. The one Gaara uses in that battle with Naruto to draw out the ichi bi into the fight.
Fourth, I could've listed all the people that actually went but I drew the line at Konoha people. There could've been Suna people, too but that's just too much. Plus, I would've hated to list the people that couldn't come because . . .they died. Asuma, Jiraiya, and quasi-Gaara . . .(Cries).
Fifth, If you didn't catch it, Hinata diverted the conversation from noticing the ring in Kakashi's pouch to the fact that Kagome is pregnant. Kiba commented on how cool it would be to see the baby (or babies, as the case may be) with her Byakugan.
Sixth, honestly I can't imagine Kakashi ever proposing or being with anyone. I consider him an asexual being. When he started talking about being a "hands off kind of uncle" that's what I truly think about him. So don't shoot me if he's a little OOC in this. And just because I think that, it doesn't stop my imagination from running wild. I really do think that Kakashi needs some tender lovin' care. I really do. And Kagome is the best choice to deliver it.
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