Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did it probbly wouldn't be so popular because it more than likely would not be on TV at all. I'm not nice enough I guess. Anyway, only this idea is mine. Please send in your reviews. I do like to know how I am doing and if I am making any mistakes. I will also try to make this chapter longer. Yoosei=Fairy or Pixie

The Honeymoon Mission

by The Mother Rose

Chapter Six:

The next morning the door to Kakashi and Natsu's suite was opened at sunrise by a maid wishing to know what the Good Master would like for breakfast for himself and his lady. Kakashi tiredly ordered something and went back to sleep refusing to let Natsu get up herself. Three hours later the maids brought their breakfast to the room and again woke them from a sound sleep. Natsu put on her robe and slippers, while Kakashi washed up and the maids set the table. When the girls were done with the table Natsu sat down and waited for Kakashi. He came out while the girls cleaned the bathroom, laid in fresh towels and made the bed with clean sheets.

They were just finishing the meal when Sasuke dragged a tearful Sakura into the room. He was tired and grumpy from a night of dealing with a whiny and horny Sakura but even so he did not miss watching Natsu walk to the bathroom with her day clothes in hand. Kakashi glared at Sasuke for watching Natsu like that but as soon as the bathroom door shut behind her Sasuke brought his attention back to the matter at hand. He wanted to find out the next step in their mission. Kakashi made them wait while Natsu finished getting ready to face the day. Sasuke wanted him to open the scroll while Natsu was changing but Kakashi said no and waited until Natsu came out of the bathroom fully dressed for the day before trying the scroll. When it wouldn't open he took a good look at it.

"Crap," he muttered.

"What?" asked Sasuke as Natsu simply raised a brow. Sakura wasn't paying any attention at all. She was looking around the suite with interest.

"It's an event seal."

"He put what kind of seal on the scroll?" asked Natsu in a deadly purr exactly like the one he had first heard in the tower. Just as it had than the purr rubbed like velvet on his nerves and spiked his interest.

"An event seal," he said, trying his damnest to control his voice not to give away just how strong his desires were running right now. "I won't be able to open it until a certain event has taken place. What that event is, I don't know. The problem is I have no idea what event we are supposed to be waiting for. Logically, it would have to involve me since I am the one who was told to open it this morning."

Storm clouds were swirling in Natsu's eyes as she looked at Kakashi. "Don't you even try to tell me he doesn't need a butt kicking now. That old Pervert," she said in a voice she knew the other two wouldn't hear. They only had normal hearing. Kakashi simply gave her a grin and a raised brow. Sasuke sat down and put his chin on his hands. His brow furrowed as he thought about it. Kakashi was watching Natsu, who was sitting on the dressing table bench and patiently waiting for whatever came next. She even sat like a gently bred girl of high station, he thought. An angry one but still a gently bred girl nonetheless.

Sakura took advantage of the silence to ask, "Naruto? Where did you sleep last night? I don't see a pallet here anywhere."

"In the bed, Sakura-chan. Where did you think I was going to sleep? On the table?" Naruto responded.

"Then where did Sensei sleep? He should have the bed. He's older than we are, Naruto. And he's our Sensei. You shouldn't sleep in his bed. It isn't right for a thirteen year old boy to sleep in a full grown man's bed."

"Sakura," said Kakashi, interrupting her lecture, anger he didn't bother to hide clear in his voice. "For this mission, Natsu is my wife just as you are Sasuke's. Would you please quit forgetting that? Of course she slept in the bed beside me last night and she will do so again every night until we are returned to Konoha and this mission ends. Now that said, our sleeping arrangements or habits are none of your business. So you will kindly butt out."

"But Sensei," she protested. "It's wrong. It's not like he really is your wife or anything. He has no business being in your bed. He's not really a girl. He should make a bed on the floor or something. He should not be intruding on you like that. You're full grown and he hasn't even hit puberty yet. I mean he's still just a short little midget."

"And the maid that unlocked our door this morning, waking us up to get our breakfast order, and the one that set out our breakfast, as well as the two girls that made up our bed and cleaned our bathroom for us would have known immediately that my wife did not share my bed with me since those three woke us up a second time. Besides, I can think of a lot worse things I have done in my life then simply sharing a sleeping platform with a new teenager. I can also think of a lot of sights that were a whole lot more troubling to wake up to than a blue-eyed, blond haired pixie girl no matter who you think she is. In fact, there are few I can think of that are half as nice to wake up to."

Sakura was stumped for a comeback to that and sat down on the floor glowering at Natsu. Sasuke was sitting in Natsu's breakfast seat while Kakashi still held his own seat and Natsu was sitting at her dressing table leaving nowhere but the floor for Sakura. She spent the next several minutes looking from one person to the next, totally confused. As far as she knew this was supposed to be her honeymoon and she couldn't even get her new husband to willingly lay beside her in the bed. He'd slept on the floor last night claiming the hotel was a strange place and they were on a mission. Sleeping together in the bed was not necessary to completing the mission. Instead he had made the maids bring a pallet up to their room while he took Sakura to dinner. Yet here was Sensei saying he willingly shared his bed space with Naruto, of all people, and admitting he liked the way Naruto looked now. Not only that but he'd been comfortable enough sleeping next to Naruto to go back to sleep after the first maid left the room, requiring a second maid to awaken him again. She didn't know what was going on anymore.

Unlike Kakashi and Natsu, Sasuke and Sakura had not been locked in their room. Sasuke had escaped from Sakura for an hour before bed to take a walk and clear his head and bloodstream but there had been no reason for Sasuke to check on Natsu and Kakashi since the scroll was not due to be opened until this morning. By the time he had gone back to his room everything had been quiet in their room anyway. And by the time they had managed to cross the hall -Sakura needed her pretty time and she had lingered over breakfast, allowing everyone to see how handsome her young husband was- the door had been unlocked already.

"All right Sensei, see how this sounds to you," said Sasuke. "Hokage-sama handed you the scroll because you would recognize what kind of seal is on it and because you are team leader. But the event doesn't necessarily involve you at all."

"Makes sense but then, who does the event involve? He had to know there would be an event, and exactly what that event would be, in order to put the seal on the scroll," answered Kakashi, not bothering to point out that he was specifically told to open it this morning. He was too busy watching the play of thoughts and emotions Natsu was displaying. Very tiny, almost unnoticed, flickers showed she was listening closely and those tiny movements had all of Kakashi's attention.

"Focus, Sensei," snapped Sakura. "It has nothing to do with Baka there. Of that, I'm sure. This mission is a honeymoon mission. Or at least that's what I heard Kaasan refer to it as when she gave me my pack. So there's no way it has anything to do with Baka. Who the hell would ever even consider marrying the Baka there for real? We all know he's a total idiot as well as useless for anything requiring higher gross or fine motor control. Even Mother Nature ignores him to favor others. No girl is going to be interested enough in him for him to have anything to do on this mission."

As Sasuke growled at her to shut the hell up since it was clear she didn't have any god damned eyes in her head capable of seeing what was real, Kakashi found himself thinking, I would since I know damn well this is the real deal. But then her words fully sank in and his eye flew to her. He sat up straighter, ignoring Sasuke's comment and the mouthful of insults she'd tossed at Naruto altogether. Still he didn't miss the flicker of shock on Natsu's face either. "What did you say she called it?" he asked intently.

Flushing now that she was the center of attention Sakura cut her eyes to Sasuke and reached out tentatively for his hands as if he'd hold hands with her while she bravely answered their Sensei. He just stared at her pointedly and she let her hand fall to her lap. "A Honeymoon Mission. Why? Does that have a particular meaning?"

Kakashi began laughing. "Oh yeah. It certainly does. For you two," he said when he quit laughing. "You see, when there is a marriage, there is an event that is supposed to occur. I can't open this because it hasn't. But when you go back to your room remember this is a mission. It was given to us as such and therefore is just a mission. Remember what your academy instructor taught you about different types of missions and the acceptable behavior involved in fulfilling them. But also remember what I told you. Look Underneath the Underneath. There's always more to a story than you are told."

Sakura blushed and squealed at one and the same time while Sasuke blanched. Only Kakashi noticed Natsu also paled. Sakura was gleefully trying to pull Sasuke out of the room so they could complete the next phase of their mission. She knew what followed a wedding. All three of the teens knew what followed a wedding and from where Kakashi was sitting at least two of his three wanted nothing to do with the activity. Sasuke grudgingly went with Sakura but his expression was anything but a happy one. Kakashi looked after them, thoughtfully. Only when they were gone did he rise from his seat. He went over and closed the door before prowling over to where Natsu still sat watching him carefully.

"Now I wonder what part we play in this mission," he said teasingly as he knelt in front of her putting a hand to either side of her and boxing her in. "Cause you see, if we hadn't also been involved in this, the instructions given to me would have been different. Sarutobi may be old but he doesn't make that kind of mistake. So that means there is an event for the two of us in this mission also and I have a feeling it has to do with that secret you've been driving me crazy with for the last year or so, Naruto." He paused and watched as she licked her lips, her color ebbing and flowing from her face as she did so. he could tell her mind was racing trying to think of something to tell him or distract him with. He wasn't going to let her. Her eyes were gorgeous, wide open and as blue as they could be. She was starting to panic slightly as he leaned in closer and whispered, "Or should I call you Natsu? Because that is your real name, isn't it, my sensei's daughter? Namikaze Natsu Sukai. And now Hatake Natsu Sukai. Sasuke wasn't the only one being married against his will, was he?"

She eeped as the last question was asked against her lips. Kakashi pulled his mask down and closed in on his target. Her eyes fluttered closed as she gave in and opened her mouth to his questing tongue. He wrapped his arms around her, one hand holding her closer while the other held her head at just the right angle for him. When they finally broke for air she was flushed and more than a touch disheveled and Kakashi thought she looked even more desirable now than she had before. He growled and tightened his arms around her as he tried to get a grip on his hormones, which was a lot harder to do than it should be. But then all his senses were telling him this was his wife and he had every right to claim her as such.

However, it was also very clear to him that she wasn't ready to admit it yet. So he decided to go get a shower and wait for Sasuke and Sakura to come back in and try the seal themselves. Who knows. It could just be Sandaime thought Sasuke would do something to get around bedding Sakura if given the opportunity. But by putting it into Kakashi's hand and phrasing it the way he had, he had meant for Kakashi to be as sure as he possibly could that Sasuke did do his best to get a child on his new wife or giving a name for a real wife. He gave Natsu one more gentle kiss before rising to his full height and saying, "I will figure you out, Naruto/Natsu."

Two hours later, Sasuke came in and growled that as far as he was concerned someone needed their damned ass kicked royally, while holding his hand out for the scroll. "Agreed," muttered Natsu across the room and too quietly for Sasuke to hear. Kakashi heard her though and he grinned as he watched her looking out the window of their room. The scroll wouldn't open for Sasuke and he growled in total disgust while pondering what it could mean.

Sakura had come sauntering in while Sasuke was trying to open the scroll, looking sated and happy. She took the scroll from him before he could try to destroy it and studied the seal carefully. She also tried to open the scroll. Sasuke still hadn't bedded her but she had been hoping they could fool the seal into thinking they had. It didn't open though so maybe the seal was a lot smarter than she thought. Her brow furrowed as she studied it.

Sasuke took it away from her. He said, "Natsu, come here. You're better with seals than any of us. Plus, you have good eyes. What are these kanji? And why are they on this seal?"

"What kanji?" asked Kakashi, not having noticed them.

"Here. Around the edges. That one almost looks like my name and I could swear that one is hers," he added, jerking his thumb towards Sakura. After the crap he'd just dealt with from her saying her name was the last thing he could do if he was to remain civil. She'd literally tried to undress him as soon as she'd pulled him into the room. Damn octopus fangirl.

Kakashi was holding the scroll looking closely at the seal now. Natsu had come over but she made no move to take the scroll. Sasuke sighed and took it out of Kakashi's hands. "Trust me. You may know a lot about seals and all but no one sees more about them than she does. Almost like she has a bloodline about them or something. She was forever telling the instructors at school all about every seal they would let her close enough to fully see." He handed the scroll to Natsu, who nervously licked her lips and shut her eyes. The scroll trembled a little in her small hand before she took a deep breath and opened her eyes. "Tell me what we need to do, Natsu."

Natsu flushed as Sasuke gave her a patient look, something he rarely ever gave anyone. She glanced at the seal and then moved to the night stand for the pad of paper and the pen there. She moved to the dressing table and grimaced at all the crap the hotel put on it before pushing it aside so she could work. Using her left hand, she drew out the seal, symbol by symbol, picking it apart one item at a time. Kakashi was watching, as she worked, wondering why he was just now noticing she was left handed. He thought back and realized it was probably because she had always used her right hand to write things before. But looking over her shoulder as she worked he could tell the drawings she made of the individual symbols were a lot neater now than they normally would be. He saw her stop when she got to the symbol for her own name. She growled softly and moved back to Sasuke's name instead.

Sasuke was also watching her with narrowed eyes. He had taken in the graceful way she had moved about the room, never messing with or tugging at her clothing, as he, or any other guy, would have been. Even when she'd caught sight of herself in the mirror, she'd not given any thought to the image that had been revealed in it. The only indication she had given that she might not be what she appeared to be was when she had seen all the cosmetic stuff on the dressing table but that might have been more of a personal preference thing than it was anything else. She had moved her hairbrush aside with more care than she had shown for the bottles of perfume.

When the last of the symbols were drawn out except for her name, she began to translate it for them. She hissed when she translated Kakashi's part and hastily scratched it out, totally blacking it out of the page. No way would she tell him he had to do anything of the kind.

Because he was reading over her shoulder, though, he had seen what she had transcribed so he knew what the scroll required of him. He grinned as he watched her blacken it from the page. A fire lit in his eyes as he contemplated how he was going to enjoy doing what he was required to do. But he let her get away with it. For now. Later was soon enough to confront her over it and find out what it was she was required to do. Because he also knew her name was on the scroll as well and she had done nothing to indicate her own duties regarding the opening of the scroll.

She rewrote Sasuke and Sakura's portion of the scroll requirements and handed it to Kakashi. The whole thing was done without her saying a single word. "I think you missed some of it, Naruto," said Sakura. "I know that was Kakashi-Sensei's name so it would logically follow he has to do something also for us to be able to open the scroll. Besides, Hokage-sama did hand him the scroll telling him when to open it."

"Of course his name is on the scroll. He is our team leader. It is his duty to see to it we do as required of us at all times so why not this time as well? The whole seal revolves around things he needs to see to it occur, Sakura-chan. You might say it is his mission statement," Natsu said. Kakashi had to hand it to her. She hadn't lied but she hadn't admitted to the truth either. His task was a hell of a lot more specific than that and she knew it. He hid a smirk as she skillfully lied to Sakura.

Sasuke and Sakura eventually left the room. Sakura wanted to go window shopping and Kakashi told Sasuke it wasn't a bad idea for them to be seen outside their rooms once in a while. And as a newly wed man, he wasn't supposed to be keen on the idea of allowing his wife out of his sight. Shopping would be a normal activity. He also warned Sakura against the idea of spending too much of Sasuke's money. "You may be his wife now, Sakura, but he doesn't get his inheritance until you produce a viable child. Especially since he did not choose to wed you. He has only the normal pay of a genin to support the two of you on."

After they left, Kakashi had four comfortable chairs brought into his and Natsu's rooms and placed around the table so they could hold daily meetings to discuss why the scroll wasn't opening. Then he'd spent several hours that afternoon just sitting at that table thinking things through. He played with the scroll while he did so remembering what he'd seen Natsu writing on the pad next to his name. The whole time he was thinking, he was aware of her sitting across the room watching him. She did practice her meditation and light chakra control but mainly she sat quietly and watched him. When the maids showed to see what they would like for dinner she ordered for them as a good wife should.

That was the final piece for Kakashi. Now all the details of the ceremony they had gone through in front of Sarutobi had finally clicked in Kakashi's mind and he knew he was married for real to Natsu. Everything from the three cups of Sake to her clothing at the time added to the fact that no one had even suggested a different name for her added up to the fact that Kakashi had been set-up. Even Natsu had not protested the name she was given, which in itself said she was used to the name. She had been angry because she was being married off. Not because of the name, appearance or clothes she would have to wear. The three main ingredients of a typical marriage reception had even been served to them here in the inn suggesting that the Hokage was trying to tell Kakashi the marriage was legitimate. The only thing he wasn't sure of was where the agreement with his signature on it saying he would marry anyone had come from. Then he remembered the form he had signed for the Daimyo supposedly allowing foreigners to oversee the training of his team from time to time. It had seemed fishy at the time especially when all his team had to sign the form and they weren't allowed to actually read it but you didn't tell the Daimyo no. Well, maybe Naruto would, and he might actually get away with it, but no one else would. So that meant even the Daimyo was in on this farce.

He found himself glaring at the seal. Her name was the bottom kanji and he knew that meant she had a job to do also. He began picking apart the seal on the scroll to find out what she was required to do. Because he knew without asking there was no way she was going to even admit that was her name let alone translate it for him. He read over her notes on what both Sakura and Sasuke were required to do according to the seal and found it made perfect sense. It all clicked and now he knew for certain exactly what had occurred in the Tower office. Sneaky Sandaime indeed, Natsu, he thought. He set me up to manipulate all three of you and while he was at it he manipulated me as well. Tricky damn Monkey. Buttkicking the Hokage sounds like a good pasttime to me.

He figured his part with Natsu could be done when Sasuke and Sakura had done their part. He didn't lie to himself. He knew he would not have any problems doing what was required of him. Natsu was perfect for him and he knew he was more than a touch attracted to her already. But getting Natsu to do her part required much more delicate manipulation than getting either Sasuke or Sakura to do their parts. All he had to do for them was wait and let time do it's thing. Sasuke was not known for his patience. He'd either give in and take Sakura as his wife or he would name someone more suitable. All Kakashi would need to do is make sure Sasuke did not get too much free space from Sakura to ensure he did run out of patience while droppin ghints that he should have named a girl of his choice. he wasn't stupid and with the number of times the fact that the team was on a mission had been mentioned along with his reminder to always look underneath the underneath Sasuke would eventually figure things out for himself. Sakura was a little bit harder. She had her fantasies well entrenched and it wasn't going to be easy to shake her free of them. But Kakashi knew the hardest of the trio would be his little Yoosei. Whoa, he thought. Where'd that thought come from? He looked at it closer. It was true though. She was a little yoosei girl and she was his according to this scroll. He smiled and started planning how to get his Yoosei Girl to accept him as her husband.

So over the next week and a half, to foster the feelings that needed to evolve, he forced Sasuke into going out once a day to window shop with Sakura, much to her delight. She enjoyed the hell out of the trips but Sasuke hated them. He kept trying to make them as short as he could possibly get away with. So Kakashi had to put a time limit on him. Sasuke had scowled and said, "Do you have ear plugs then?" Kakashi chuckled and told him to buy some when he took her out that day.

Kakashi also made Natsu go out with him. That was a lot more pleasurable because his tiny Yoosei wasn't opposed to gazing into the different shops. He had promised he would take her out later once they were settled in and she'd been patiently waiting for him to remember. She never pointed out anything specific she wanted but he was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the things that caught her eye. Some of the things, her expression told him only held her attention because they were outlandishly gaudy or because she didn't know what they were but other things caught her eye because they were beautiful. He got used to looking at her face for clues as to what she liked from what she didn't.

Kakashi found a glass blower and paid the man to make him something special for Natsu. Kakashi described what he wanted and why and then he brought Natsu by to let the man see her. The vendor had studied the girl while she looked over the trinkets in his shop. She was fascinated by the tiny little bells in the form of a bluebell stalk. Kakashi had purchased that for her much to her dismayed pleasure. She had wanted it but she didn't want him to buy it for her. The tiny sound given off by the bells amused her and the trinket took a prized location on the dressing table. Kakashi watched her play with it over the next couple of days smiling behind his mask every time she'd set the bells to tinkling. Every time she came into their rooms her eyes would look for it and when she'd see it she'd smile. Within minutes she found a reason to go set the tiny bells in motion. When he'd bought them for her Kyuubi had intoned, "Ritual step two met," but she wouldn't explain what she meant. Natsu had no idea what Kyuubi thought was happening here but she refused to let it bother her.

Three days after he bought her the bells, they were still waiting for the event to occur that would allow them to get the scroll opened. Natsu was the most relaxed about it of all of them. She knew the scroll wasn't going to open and she knew why but she was damned if Jijii was going to get his way on this. However, she was also enjoying the chance to be herself in public and she had no real desire to see it end. Sakura was still determined to hang onto her fantasy world and so long as she was unwilling to see or even try to understand Natsu was content to just let each day take care of itself.

Sakura was upset because Sasuke would not so much as buy her a coke outside of meal times let alone a souvenir. Sasuke was going crazy because he couldn't seem to get away from her for more than five minutes. But Kakashi was simply waiting as, he saw, was Natsu. His little yoosei girl had no intention of doing anything until she had to. He personally was enjoying himself also. It wasn't often a ninja got a chance to just lounge around and be waited on hand and foot as he and Natsu were here. The Inn keeper and his maids cleaned the rooms when they were out and brought both breakfast and dinner to the suite for them. The maids would even come to Natsu with a menu to inquire as to what they would like to eat for their next meal. No, Kakashi wasn't minding the wait for the scroll any more than Natsu was.