"Sakura?"
I turned and looked at him and frowned.
"Sasuke. What do you want?"
I couldn't help but remember what I'd walked in on the month before, and the nasty look he'd given me.
"Please, can we talk this over? I know I made a mistake-"
"A mistake? Sasuke, I'd JUST slept with you the night before! Do you realize that even though I'm a mother I'd NEVER had sex before? I may not have had a hymen in the way, but I was still a virgin until that night, and the very next day- the next MORNING, you slept with INO! You call THAT a MISTAKE! No, Sasuke-teme, I call that one serious FUCK. UP."
"Sakura, please, give me another chance-"
"I have a date to get to. So if you'll excuse me..."
He grabbed my arm and stopped me.
"Who is it?"
"Who it who?"
"The man you're going out with?"
I smirked.
"Who said it was a man?"
"Dammit, Sakura, who the hell are you going out with!"
"Yo," a familiar voice called.
I sighed in relief.
"Hi, Kakashi-kun."
He smiled under his mask.
"You were late. I was starting to worry."
I huffed.
"I had to work a little later then usual, then SASUKE-TEME started getting all emotional on me."
Kakashi raised his eyebrow.
"Really?"
Sasuke released me and I went over to Kakashi. He tilted my head up and kissed my lips though the mask.
"I dropped Mishi-chan off at the Hokage Tower. Lady Tsunadae was more then happy to baby sit."
I smiled up at him.
"Thank you. Should we get going now?"
He nodded.
"Hold on," Sasuke said from behind us," you're dating KAKASHI?"
I smiled over my shoulder.
"Why not? It's not like we don't have a child together, right?"
I turned back around and started walking.
"Oh, and BTW, your 'love making' sucks. It's like fucking a dead guy."
Kakashi chuckled at this and we continued on to our date.
-X-
I sat up in bed and listened. Something was wrong.
"Sakura?" Kakashi asked from next to me.
I got out of bed and slipped on my robe.
"Something is wrong. It's storming outside."
"And?" he asked, also slipping his robe on.
"Do you here the baby crying?"
He froze for a second, then we were both rushing to the baby's room. I reached into the crib and screamed.
"Mishi! Mishi! Kakashi, she's not here!"
He swore and flipped on the light. There was a note on the changing table.
'Hatake,
If you want to see your daughter unharmed
return what you have taken from us.
-you know who'
Kakashi swore again.
"Kakashi, who are they and what do they want? Where is our baby?"
He sighed angrily.
"I never told you what happened on THAT mission, did I?"
I shook my head and he grabbed one of Mishi's baby blankets and sat on the window seat.
"We were ambushed by very powerful ninja. And I'm not talking about Akatsuki level, I'm talking about BIGGER. The squad I was on during the last Great Shinobi War fought against them and I'm the only one who survived. When I had defeated the enemy, I took THIS from the leader of the group."
I took the necklace from him and studied it carefully.
"But, that's your family's crest," I protested.
He nodded.
"It is. Sakumo Hatake, my father, was the founder of that organization. They were called the Eta-Naru Gun."
"The Eternal Army?"
"Yeah. Apparently my father was VERY egotistical in his younger days. The necklace holds the secret to the Hatake clan's power."
"I remember reading in a history book that the earliest known Hatakes were very powerful."
Kakashi nodded.
"But they felt that in the wrong hands that power could cause some serious damage. So, they sealed away that power from every Hatake decendent. The only way to unseal it is to unlock the locket on the necklace and to apply the seal. The necklace is passed down to each of the Eta-Naru Gun leaders until the day when a Hatake can unlock that power and forfill their ultimate goal."
"What is their ultimate goal?"
He snorted.
"What else? To take over the world, of course. Like I said, my father was VERY egotistical when he was a kid. He left them and tried to disband them, but someone else took over the role as leader and kept them going. They think that their true leader is immortal, hence the Eternal part."
I bit my lip and sat next to him.
"So, why do they need you?"
He sighed and looked away.
"Because, I survived their torture tests. They think I am the Hatake who can unlock the power."