Title: Family In All But Blood [FIABB for short! ;) ]
Rating: T [Explanations in first chapter]
Summary: After receiving a letter of complaint, Hiruzen Sarutobi can't do anything besides sending Kakashi Hatake on a C-Rank mission to babysit one Sakura Haruno as punishment. Oh how the mighty fall.
Author: AMMiss
Pairings: GaaSaku and other pairings
Note from Author:
Sorry for late posting.
I've been occupied by the path of life (as Kakashi would say).
Hope you all enjoy this chapter. :)
Have a good summer! XD
Thoughts
Date of Chapter Posted: 7/29/2015
3: Narrative/Kakashi Hatake's POV
With a sigh, Kakashi settles into a couch cushion and continues reading his book. The plot of the story was approaching the climax and it was making Kakashi sit on the edge of his seat in giddiness. The best thing about Icha Icha Paradise, besides the adult literature parts, is that Jiraya actually puts some scenes that relate to what he did on his missions in there and gives the reader something to think about…-besides the sexual intercourse. The paragraph cuts short and while in the middle of the part where the main character is about to read some very important information that relates to the mission that Jiraya has him set on. Kakashi was about to turn the page to finish the rest of the paragraph when—the couch creaked and dipped slightly to the added weight; small weight, but weight none the less.
Turning his head towards the brat with an unreadable yet slightly agitated eye, Kakashi looks to see Sakura righting herself on the cough and beginning to crawl towards him. His little brat-charge comes to a halt just half-a-foot from his position, and leans her weight to the right, tilting her head that way too, just to get a clearer inspection of what was in Kakashi's hand. The Icha Icha Paradise book.
Her green eyes, lit with unbridled emotion and curiosity, goes from the page to Kakashi's lone eye. "Whatchya readin'?" Sakura asks in a quiet sing-song tone.
"—Icha Icha Paradise." Kakashi answered simply yet hesitantly as he is unsure of where this girl is going with this conversation.
"What's it about?" Sakura doesn't miss a beat as she shoots of the questions one by one and asks them in an even, if not, childish attitude of voice that increases in cuteness and childishness at every other question.
"Icha Icha paradise is a great story that has adventure, romance, danger, action, and a bit of history that is hidden in the plot itself." Kakashi replied back with a bit of pride for Jiraya creating this masterful piece of art if he must say so himself!
"Can I read it?"
In the timing of a faint flicker in a lightbulb, two things happened.
One; Kakashi had the faint remembrance of some threatening words that Kurenai spoke to him when he first started reading Icha Icha Paradise in public with little (to no) shame. And in his, or any other man's personal opinion, he'd rather keep those ligaments and body parts intact and functioning, thankyousoverymuch!
And two; in response to the memory and warning that Kurenai has graced upon him all those years ago, Kakashi fluently passes the Icha Icha Paradise book from his right hand to his left; with his thumb on the page and the page having no crease from the interactive exchange; and uses his (now free) right forearm to block and push back his cute, little charge right in her tiny, petite tracks.
"No" Kakashi breathes out in a sage-like tone that even surprises him.
Sakura stops momentarily, locks her emerald-jade eyes onto his, blinks owlishly, before tilting her head to the left and squeaking out, "—Why not?"
Oh gods, Kakashi could swear saw Pakkun's first hurt, confused face right beside Sakura's when she pulled that face—NO! He has to stay strong! No time for past memories to pop up. Blinking and outwardly not phased, Kakashi answers, "Icha Icha Paradise is a more, mature book. You could read it when you are older."
With a slight pout, Sakura leans back into the couch until an audible -plop is heard from the cushions under her form. After 4 seconds, Kakashi deems it safe to put his arm down and place half of his attention into his book again. 30 seconds after that, Kakashi's was a bit alarmed when his little charge took in a big breath and said, "Well, I'm 30 seconds older, can I read it now?"
OH, this brat is relentless!
"No."
"AW!" Sakura groans in frustration and gives Kakashi's amused lone eye a powerful double-stink eye head on. "How much older do I have to be before I can read it?!"
"Years older."
"That's too long!" Sakura shouts to the ceiling before falling fully back onto the couch cushions with a loud –whump- and a cutely irritable growl coming from her voice box.
"If you want to read a book that bad, go pick one off the shelves, I'm sure there's something in this house that you can read." Kakashi suggests sagely in an airy voice.
"F~ine." Sakura groans out as she slides off the cough and army crawls towards the stairs, which she bear crawls up in a flash with no accident to physically harm said charge.
Inwardly, Kakashi chuckles in amusement and is glad that Sakura has some attitude and isn't inviting him to her stuffed animals' tea party. Since that hasn't happened yet, Kakashi is placing her in his good books, although he doesn't have many other little girls to compare Sakura to, to know if her attitude is in the norm.
Around a little over a minute since his temporary brat-charge went up there, Kakashi could hear the light footsteps walking down the stairs. Turning his head towards her, Kakashi's lone eye widens the slightest bit at seeing a History Book on Konoha for 3rd graders.
Brat-chan is what, Kindergarten, First Grader in civilian school standards. I'll have to quiz her on that book when she's done to see if she has Kizashi's and Mebuki's intelligence because if she does, she might be ready to go into the Ninja Academy already. But that's only if she can access her chakra, consciously and subconsciously.
"My, my, reading a 3rd grade level book on the History of Konoha already?" Kakashi clearly baits.
"Mhmm! It has worksheets and questions in here that I'll write down and answer after I finish reading it." Sakura answered.
"Wow." Kakashi dryly comments absentmindedly.
"Kakashi-san," Sakura continues when she sees Kakashi's eye on her, "Can you quiz me after I've written the answers down? I usually do this with Kaa-san or Tou-san, but since they aren't here, can you do it?"
In that moment Kakashi swears that she does an even more pitifully cute puppy face ON PURPOSE.
Inaudibly releasing his hissing breath through his teeth, Kakashi murmurs, "Alright, alright. But your writing better be on par with your reading skill otherwise I think I may not be able to read your work correctly, Charge-chan."
Sakura pauses for a moment as if considering his words. Then she opens her book to the page that she last left off of and murmurs in an airy voice, "Yes, Guardian-tan~!"
Kakashi looks above the pages of his book to stare momentarily into the air in front of him as one thought crossed his mind.
She just verbally thumbed her nose at me!
Narrative/Hiruzen Sarutobi's POV
The image in the glass ball fades as the chakra required to perform the jutsu ceases. Hiruzen chuckles gleefully to himself as a thought goes through his mind.
Those two are going to be worth checking in on during these next two weeks!
The ANBU's in the room with the mission to guard the Hokage all sweat dropped but each of them debated on whether they should create a bet on two things; who drives who up the wall first in the Haruno household, and, what things will happen during the time that those two are together.
A message from AMMiss:
I researched about the whole thumbing one's nose gig and so I'm hoping that everyone knows that Sakura just verbally thumbed her nose at Kakashi's authority because he (rudely) called her a charge, thusly reminding her that he's in charge of her for the next two weeks. And so Sakura returned the favor and called Kakashi her guardian. Now, the two can make each other's lives a living hell for the next few days, if they so pleased to, but I'm not going to exactly go that way. Stay tuned to find out if these two will drive others up the wall, instead of themselves.
Suzululu4moe pointed out to me me that some books, like Ninja History books, aren't accessible to those who aren't in the Academy, so I changed "History Book on Ninja's" to just "History book on Konoha". Just wanted to say thanks for pointing that out to me, I forgot that piece of information. :)