Going on
Characters: Kakashi, Sasuke, a mostly pissed of Tsunade and some others
Summary: See what problems a single Uchiha can cause one poor Kakashi Hatake. Nothing really yaoi-ish yet
Three months had gone by since Sasuke had been dumped on him and Kakashi started to suspect he was getting used to the teen.
He would wake up before Sasuke and make some tea for himself and coffee for the teenager. Then he would sit down at the kitchen table, enjoy the hot liquid running down his throat and wait for Sasuke to roll out of his bed and stumble into the kitchen with his hair still messed up from sleep.
Sasuke wasn't a morning person. He would grunt a greeting Kakashi still wasn't able to decode, stare with blarry eyes at the happily chirping birds, damn them to hell and back and then start to sip his coffee. When he felt especial awake he would even read the newspaper.
Kakashi never read the newspaper. So, he silently wondered, how did it come that suddenly an exemplar laid on his doorstep every morning?
Moving on from newspapers and shuriken thrown at unsuspecting birds, Kakashi next would start to go over various essays or even mission reports if there were too many for the regular staff to handle. He would wield the red pen merciless and be done by the time to start lunch.
Sasuke wasn't a good cook, not by a wide stretch. So Kakashi always had to be the one preparing meals or order some from the catering-services. They would eat in silence with Sasuke reading the newspaper while devouring his food at the same time. Most times Sasuke would do the washing-up and Kakashi could sit down on a patch of floor which had been warmed by the sun and read one of his orange books.
Dinner wasn't important enough to cook something, they just wandered in the kitchen to grab a sandwich or two and then dissappeared in their respective rooms again.
Before going to bed Kakashi would walk through the whole house, checking windows and doors and only settle to sleep if he had heard Sasuke lay down, too.
Kakashi was pretty sure Sasuke would snap of boredom soon.
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"I am quite content Sasuke will do something drastic soon if he doesn't get out of the house in the near future," Kakashi stated, hands in pockets and bored expression fixed on his face.
"And what shall I do?" Tsunade asked exhausted, the paperwork nearly reaching over her head when she was seated. "We don't have enough ANBU to allow him out. And I won't trust him around Konoha with only you there."
"Then, I fear, he will try to break down my house pretty soon."
Tsunade only sent him a dirty look.
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Sasuke didn't try to break anything, for that matter, he just would spend more and more time in the garden, never crossing the high fence that surrounded the whole manison but staring longingly after the birds.
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Kakashi hadn't gotten the other shinobi in the chest as he had intented. But it was ok, because with the other's throat ripped out he wasn't a danger anymore, right?
Kakashi moved on, his hand straining to push through another man's chest and squishing his heart. A shuriken wizzed past his hear and took some silver hairs with it but didn't do any serious damage.
Before the owner of the shuriken could hurtle the rest of his weapons, Kakashi was on him and slashed his throat open. The blood sprayed partially on Kakashi's face and vest but he was too busy to take any notice of it.
And just when he was about to get his vest even bloodier by slashing a Mist-nin in half, Sasuke appeared in the corner of his vision and, with an expression as uncaring as stone, slaughtered three kunoichis at once.
Kakashi was too tired to be impressed.
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"So you just walked out of my house, hidden by a simple genjutsu, and before the ANBU could react you were gone from Konoha. You kind of stumbled over me fighting here and decided you needed some exercise. Invading an A-rank mission you nearly destroyed important information," Kakashi said calmly while he tended to an ugly slash in his tight.
Sasuke only sniffed in response and continued to clean his katana, which was ever-present these days. Three scrolls laid beside him, soaked with blood but the messages hopefully would still be readable or Tsunade would have both their heads.
Once he was done and Sasuke had sheathed his sword, Kakashi stood up and sighed deeply while he collected the scrolls.
"Let's head back and hope Tsunade won't be too upset."
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"I can't believe it!" Tsunade snarled. Kakashi was reminded of the fox-demon when it had tried to invade their village. It had had about the same expression of furry on his face back then.
"Kakashi, which precautions did you take to ensure Uchiha would stay in your house?"
"None. Any traps I would have laid out wouldn't have stopped him," Kakashi replied and was tempted to whipe Tsunade's spit from his eye but didn't dare to move.
"Is that so?" Blue eyes brighter in anger than normally turned from Kakashi to Sasuke and back. "Then I have to suspend you from active duty, Kakashi, to watch out for Uchiha all the time." Tsunade barred her teeth in a frightening grin at the two males standing in front of her desk. "You are dismissed."
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The only sign that Kakashi was upset was the angry look in his black eye when he stared in his books and thought Sasuke wasn't watching.
"We could break out," the Uchiha suggested one day when they were sipping tea in the kitchen.
Kakashi sent him a look which seemed to ask 'Are you CRAZY?'.
Sasuke only shrugged and gulped down all his tea at once.
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"What the hell?" Kakashi whispered as furiously as he could, being sandwiched between the floor and Sasuke. It was the middle of the night, Kakashi was more irritated than ever because of Tsunade having suspended him and now shadows were sneeking around in his house and Sasuke just had to play big, bad protector, shoving him in a small cupboard Kakashi hadn't even known of.
"These are sound-nin," Sasuke responded quietly, shifting a little bit off Kakashi's back to not squish the silver-haired Jounin under his weight.
"And? Let's get out there and kick their asses," Kakashi hissed back, hand wandering already to his weapons-porch.
"These aren't the regular shinobi, these are the elite. Six of them. If we aren't careful they will kill us on the spot."
"Oh? And what do you suggest?"
"Being silent, for an example," Sasuke growled. Kakashi snorted. A shadow walked past their hiding place and they immediately froze.
"Hold still," Kakashi finally said after he had made sure no enemy shinobi was near enough to attack them if they noticed them. He settled a hand on Sasuke's shoulder and formed with the other a complicated seal. The three wheels in his Sharingan spun and the next moment they were outisde the house, only one feet away from the fence.
"Go!" Kakashi said and leapt onto the wall without waiting for Sasuke. He raced through the streets, joined by Sasuke only moments later. There were footsteps nearly as silent as their own behind them and Kakashi caught words said in a strange language, then three cloaked figures where suddenly in front of them while the other three neared behind them.
Kakashi didn't stop or slow down like Sasuke did but barreled directly into the first shinobi.
The steel of a kunai flashed in the light of the stars before it was deeply buried in flesh. The sound-nin made a strangled sound, then was cut off abruptly as Kakashi stabbed him again, right in the throat this time.
The customary katana flashed in Sasuke's hands (Kakashi wondered how the Uchiha had gotten it, he hadn't noticed it before) and he countered an attack from the broadest sound-nin flawlessly. Then his sword shot forward too fast for the normal eye to catch and burried itself deep in the chest of the sound-nin.
Kakashi didn't have much time to marvel at Sasuke's skills with a katana. One sound-nin had nearly gotten a kunai in his spine but he had moved enough to get it just logged in the back. His Jounin vest was absent so it went deeper than he had expected. Kakashi's thoughts were along the lines of Fuck, they are really better than the scum Orochimaru sent at us last time.
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Sasuke was more than miffed. He hadn't had more than three hours of sleep, his Juin was burning because he had his Sharingan activated and the kunai in Kakashi's back seemed to be poisoned. In addition there were three elite Sound-nin out there, searching for them and surely keeping and eye on the streets leading to the Hokage tower and the ANBU head-quarters.
Kakashi sat behind him in the narrow, dark ally and ripped off a pant leg to bandage up his back wound.
If Sasuke was right about the poison, Kakashi would first feel a rise in temperature, then there would be pain spreading away from all the important nerve knots and finally unconciousness followed by death. Sasuke had to get him to Tsunade quickly. It was after all his fault that the Sound-nins had come here. But he wouldn't mention that in front of any Leaf-nin. Anything but that.
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Kakashi knew the signs of poison. He could mix some poisons himself but he rarely used them. Most poisons took long to activate and Kakashi was more the fighter who ended his battles quickly. Strike out, catch your enemy with a deadly blow and be done. Naruto's former sensei, Iruka, had told him once that that was one of his biggest weaknesses: Not being able to hold his own in a longer fight.
So Kakashi didn't use poisons very often. He still knew the most common signs, like a sudden fever or nausea. At the moment he felt like he had both. The cold stonewall in his back seemed to dim the fever but his inner organs seemed to have suddenly decided to be rebellious and try to get his latest meal back out. Add to that some elite sound-nins and a former student whose goals he still wasn't certain about and he felt like being back in the war, only this time there wasn't a blond sensei around to rescue him out of every shit he got himself into.
Sasuke glanced at him over one tense shoulder, katan hidden so its gleam wouldn't attract enemies. Kakashi heaved himself up from the ground and moved to his side, peering out into the dimly lit street.
"Any ideas where they could be?" he whispered, scanning the area carefully and trying to ignore his body's reactions to the poison.
"One or two are probably watching the streets and roofs leading somewhere where we could alarm others while the rest sytsematically hunts us down," Sasuke replied, readjusting his grip on his sword.
Kakashi only nodded and after a last glance into the street jumped up into the shadows cast on the walls by the roofs. He started running into the direction of the Hokage tower.
"Where are you going?" Sasuke hissed sharply from where he suddenly ran along beside him.
"To the watering system. Some canals lead near enough to the tower that they probably won't be able to stop us before we get there," Kakashi said and dropped to the street.
A narrow ally later they stood in knee-high water with the canal only being high enough to allow them to crawl on all fours. Kakashi was in the front and he could hear Sasuke mutter curse-words now and then when water sloshed up high enough to hit him in the face or wet his sword.
When they were as near to the tower as they could get, they moved out of the canal again. Sasuke wanted to take a moment to wring out the excess water from his clothes but Kakashi didn't let them. Which was a wise decision, then only seconds after they had started to move in the direction of the Hokage tower again, there was a sharp whistling sound and the three sound-nins appeared behind them, now not trying to be more silent than they absolutely needed to.
The Hokage tower was a tall shadow right in front of them when they caught up.
Kakashi held a kunai in one hand while his other hand was poised ready to activate the Chidori and rip out some hearts. Sasuke only seemed to have his sword but Kakashi caught sight of some shuriken when the youth shifted into a defensive position.
Then the pain came and the sound-nins attacked.
Later Kakashi only remebered that he had suddenly lost control of his limps and crashed to his knees.
Sasuke had killed a shinobi with one strike and immediately gone after the second one who seemed to use only long-distance jutsus.
The third had attacked Kakashi. Which had been a mistake, then even with pain wracking his frame Kakashi had been able to activate his chidori and plung his hand into the other's chest. The other's suddenly dead weight came crashing down at him and nailed him to the street.
Kakashi would consider himself lucky later, when the fire-storm activated by the last member of the sound-trio washed over him and left him with only minor burns, the corpse shielding him and being turned into crisp instead.
"Let's get you to the Hokage," Sasuke said after he had kicked the sound-nin's burned remains off Kakashi.
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"You want to tell me that you defeated six elite sound-nins who suddenly plunged into your home and that you have no idea why they came here," Tsunade said, eyes as cold and hard as ice as she sat behind her desk with her chin resting on one hand. Kakashi, stitched and bandaged up, only nodded. He occupied the only other chair beside Tsunade's in the room with Sasuke standing moodily by his side.
"Well then. We will keep you here since it seems the Hatake manison will be too far on the outskirts to garantue your safety.
"Uchiha, there are two ANBU waiting outside to escort you to your new room. Kakashi, we will keep you for some days in the hospital to make sure you have fully recovered. Leave."
They left with only Kakashi bowing and Sasuke not even looking back.
Hope you like this chapter. And please write me if there is anything I could do better. I always like comments, even if they just tell me I have too many grammatical errors
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