OSOI 2: Hatake Sakumo
Warnings: crack ahoy, some fluffiness, #awkwardmoments, White Fang is a dork, The Problem that Arises Thanks to Rin's Shameless Ogling Over Sakumo's AssTM
Sakumo remembers the day when he first met Nohara Rin.
The girl had been sticking her hands to the tree with chakra, a basic move to start the Tree Climbing Technique. While it was odd for someone to start so young, especially for someone who was definitely not from any particular Shinobi Clan, Sakumo had quickly guessed it was either her parents were shinobi who were too excited at the prospect of having a daughter who will follow their steps—or they were giving her early medic training.
Medic is all about control and knowledge, after all.
And then Kakashi, being Kakashi, started an argument between them. Sakumo half feared she'd cry or scream, or even worse, try to hit his son—that happened, before, some kids just couldn't handle his son's sass—but she'd thrown sass right back at his face and actually teased the boy. Good naturedly, if the positive amusement in her eyes was any indication.
And it kind of escalated from there.
From throwing barbs and insults at each other, it went to kunai throwing competitions, Tree Walking competitions, taijutsu spars and discussions regarding any knowledge they may have at this age while they still threw insults at each other but Sakumo couldn't really see any real worrying hostility between each other (despite Kakashi's grumbles and glares and petulant frown—that's just how his son is after all, he'll grow out of it soon, Sakumo believes so) and wasn't that just great? A good shinobi he might be, he was one who worried over his ability as a good father, and he was one who was well aware on how it was hard for his little genius to have a friend.
If Nohara Rin—her teases and insults thrown toward his son aside—could be a good friend for Hatake Kakashi, who was he to complain?
So he simply approved of her as Kakashi's friend inwardly, then he sat back, and watched the show.
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Kakashi asks a lot of questions about things he may or may not learn from Rin. Like some stuffs about anatomy and do genetics really affect our personality? Can head damage alter our behavior? And many others.
Though sometimes it's mostly his questions and complaints regarding how Rin is so strange and creepy and unbelievable and he just snickers inwardly because his son is so cute, seeing him gets frustrated over the girl he believes to be an enigma.
He can see the begrudging and slightly exasperated fondness in his boy's eyes for the girl, and he knows he's done a great choice in allowing their friendship (because no lies, he could have threatened the girl to leave Kakashi alone if she proved to be someone worth to be in his shit-list, a little girl or not; or he could simply tell Kakashi to stay away from her and Kakashi would, he definitely would).
Though he still sputters in surprise whenever Rin ever looks at him in a way that a little girl should not. (He's the White Fang, and being a single father or not, women and men alike still ogle him and flirt, trying to get inside his pants. He knows the look when he sees one. And why, why must it be Rin-chan who looks at him like that? She's so young, if it's his son he can understand! They're near the same age after all! But him? And she stares at his ass, as Pakkun informed him after that first time she visited the Compound. He had never been so horrified at the prospect of someone appreciating his definitely fine ass). He simply settles with feigning ignorance and treats her like he treats intelligent little kids and little girls in general.
He knows her, er, crush on him will get away soon.
(God, he sure hopes so.)
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When Kakashi starts muttering in strange words, sometimes even seemingly making sentences with those strange words, Sakumo passes it off as incoherent mumbling.
But then he hears patterns of speech and he immediately thinks, it's a code. But it's an unknown code, he never learns that code before, where did Kakashi learn it?
He should've known it's Rin.
Still, who would've thought she'd make a whole new code on her own? Such a complex one, too. (And Kakashi refuses to teach him the code, seemingly proud he manages to know something his dad doesn't, much to Sakumo's amusement).
She's really smart, isn't she? Sakumo can't help but be proud.
He really does like smart girls, after all.
(And then he remembers her crush on him and thinks back on his previous thought and on how much it sounds so wrong now that he associates it with her crush.
He proceeds to cover his face with his hands and muffles his agonized groan as he repeatedly slams his forehead to the dining table.
Thunk, thunk, thunk.
All the while, Kakashi stares at him as if he's insane.)
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At some point in between Rin's yet again adoring stares and Sakumo's attempt to keep himself looking oblivious to it all—he wonders if he will get thrown into jail by the Uchiha if they see this.
She follows him like a puppy, sometimes. When she's visiting the compound and Kakashi escapes to his room to either get a book he wants to show to Rin or simply to escape her sparkling smiles that seems to always appear when Pakkun (and his really, really soft paws) is nearby.
It's… cute.
No, wait, shit—
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It takes Namikaze Minato one glance at Rin and him to figure it out and after the girl goes home, the blond looks at him inquiringly, and The White Fang can only grumble.
"I'm a potential jailbait, I know, be quiet, Namikaze."
Minato lets out a startled laugh at that.
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"Kakashi has a best friend now," he says to Jiraiya, who always make a point to visit him whenever the Toad Sage comes home from missions, though sometimes rare it may be. The Hatake takes another swig of sake and exhales, lips twitching up in a smile. "And he's attached."
Jiraiya, to his credit, simply blinks once, twice before breaking into a smile. He knows of Sakumo's worry over Kakashi's sheer independence over everything, how hard it is for him to have friends, how hard it is for him to properly hang out with those around his age—and thus, with this news, he's appropriately happy for the White Fang of Konoha.
"Well, isn't that great! A she, huh? Your son is growing up too quickly, Sakumo!" Jiraiya laughs, the sound a comforting thing for Sakumo even as he inwardly thinks 'don't I know it' in response to Jiraiya's words. Jiraiya takes a sip of his own sake and continues. "Before you know it, they'll probably start popping out kids soon!"
Sakumo chokes, mainly because his son is five and the fact that Rin is only eight. The thought of them having children when they're still children themselves is simply way too much. Of course, of course Jiraiya will be the one to say an uncomfortable, with slight—dare he say it—innuendo to make him falter from his usual rather cool demeanor.
Settling a glare at the Toad Sage even as he wheezes, feeling some sake making its way up to his nose and burning the inside of his nose. He snorts the liquid out, while Jiraiya laughs some more.
Sakumo retaliates by stomping hard on the Sage's foot.
Jiraiya's howl of pain is so worth it.
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When the girl graduates a week after Kakashi—and it was a funny thing when he remembers that she's supposed to graduate early, the same time as Kakashi and she refused the offer. He heard the Sandaime was, rightfully so, very floored and flabbergasted over her choice—Sakumo takes her for a celebration and when it is all over, he asks for a picture.
"Don't you want to just take a picture with Kakashi?" Rin furrows her eyebrows, looking a bit hesitant, though there is some underlying hope—perhaps to really take a picture with him and Kakashi—in her eyes. "I mean, he's your son."
"Well. You're like the daughter I never had," he says with a smile, and sees how Rin freeze and shit, is it because of the infatuation she has on him—until Rin looks up at him with such a brilliant, brilliant smile on her face and—
Well, then.
He thinks he's been thinking it wrong all along.
She only sees him as a father figure. An idol. Much like how Kakashi sees him.
And he's been scared and worried for nothing.
He sighs.
Imagination can really run wild, huh?
(Little does he know, she does ogle him and appreciates his obviously perfectly fine and pert ass).
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The picture is framed and placed at a table near the dining table, and Kakashi frequently stares at it whenever he passes by, an unreadable look on his masked face.
One time, the boy stands in front of it and just…. Stares.
When his son's eyes soften as he still gazes at the photo, Sakumo simply smiles.
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Lmao, that's it for Sakumo's POV. No, Sakumo doesn't like Rin that way, but he's a dork and when he notices Rin's… er, appreciation toward his beauty, he thinks of the worst and feels like a jailbait. Poor Sakumo, really.
And Jiraiya is a pervert, nothing new there. Though he's like KakaRin's first fan. Sort of.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as I do (and laughed at Sakumo's wild imagination as much as I do). Another chapter of EI will come soon, I promise! For now, please review, tell me what you think and give me new ideas for the upcoming OSOI!
Remember, OSOI is a compilation of EI character's POVs, but it's also a place for discarded ideas, AU, self indulgent scenarios, and many others. So just be wild and throw your ideas in for OSOI!
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