Disclaimer: Legal Stuff!!!!! I don't own Naruto or anything to do with the show or comic books. Ok Last chapter was twice the size as this one. (sigh) What can I say. There was a lot to put in the last chapter. Anyway here's chapter eight. Enjoy.

The Honeymoon Mission

by The Mother Rose

Chapter Eight:

Morning came and the first thing Natsu did was look for her figurine. A startled cry came from her as she panicked. She looked around the room and noticed her bluebells were gone too. Her face fell as she got the message Sakura was giving her. She never even questioned it was Sakura who took her glass. She knew she had. Jealousy was not a good thing in pink haired girls. Her shoulders dropped as she hung her head before going to get her shower. Kakashi watched her. She was sad and unhappy about something he thought waking all the way up. He looked around the room trying to think what could make his little yoosei unhappy now. It didn't take him long to figure it out. He got dressed in a fury. Whoever had stolen her glass had to have been someone who knew the glass things were here and that meant his team. Sasuke would not have taken them but that jealous little harlot would have.

Sasuke and Sakura came into the room for the morning meeting to find a clearly pissed off jounin waiting for them. Sakura was looking pleased with herself while Sasuke was looking resigned. "Sakura," said Kakashi, struggling to keep his rage suppressed. "Where are Yoosei's figurines?"

She smirked. "I don't know what you're talking about, Sensei. First off, who's this Yoosei person? Second, I haven't seen any figurines since yesterday when Naruto was reeling you in like a fish on the hook with yours. You really should know better Sensei, than to act like that over a boy."

Natsu came out of the shower and moved quietly to the dressing table. She was fully dressed but her hair was still damp and in need of tending. So as she sat down at the dressing table she subconsciously reached out automatically to touch her little bells but they weren't there. Her shoulders drooped and unknown to her Kakashi and Sasuke were both watching her face in the mirror as her eyes filled with tears. She blinked them back and picked up her brush with a sad sigh. Kakashi said, "Sasuke, go search your room. No one else would have taken them from Natsu but a jealous harpy. Bring me her bag as well. I will search it."

"You shouldn't be buying things for someone that doesn't exist, Sensei. Not unless you are buying all of us things as well," said Sakura. "Since you haven't bought anything for either Sasuke or I, I see no reason for Naruto to be getting gifts either. Especially not fancy, expensive things like those gifts clearly are. One of his station is not worthy of such gifts. Just being allowed to stay in this room eating the quality of food served to you is reward enough for one of his station."

Before Kakashi could respond, Sasuke came back in with Sakura's bag. "I didn't see them in the room, Sensei, but that doesn't mean she didn't steal them. She's clearly jealous of Natsu. And that statement only confirms what I said earlier about her unfitness as a Uchiha wife. Uchiha wives do not tell other men how to treat their wives, friends or associates. It is unseemly."

Kakashi's voice was so thick with anger he could hardly be understood as he grabbed Sakura's bag and began pulling the clothing out of it one piece at a time, carefully unfolding each piece just in case the harrigan had actually had the forethought to wrap the glass items up. Not that he really thought she'd be that thoughtful or that he was really sure he wanted Natsu touching anything wrapped in her mission gear. This stuff wasn't even fit for the high end brothels. "Hai. She has made that very clear. She seems to think I should be buying you two gifts as well but somehow, since this is a honeymoon trip and we are using the honeymoon suite, I think it would give the wrong message should I buy either of you something like Natsu's gifts. Especially since the proprietor knows we did partake of the traditional first meal of a newly married couple. But even worse is that she thinks I should not be buying Natsu anything at all."

"What traditional first meal of a newly married couple?" asked Sakura, confusion replacing her jealousy. She was angry over Kakashi-Sensei going through her bag like this in such an open setting. Her night clothes to tempt her Sasuke-kun were no one's business but hers and his and yet here was Sensei laying them all out like wares in the market place.

Kakashi was watching Natsu as he answered the question. "The platter of fish in an unbroken circle to symbolize that we are together now and into the future and clams on an unbroken but opened shell to symbolize our unity as two halves of one whole together always and forever. And they gave us lobster since that is supposed to grant fertility or something also. There were other dishes as well that are normally served at a wedding feast but those three were the most telling and we both did eat them. Some of each of the three main dishes. Didn't we, Natsu?" Natsu had gone pale as she realized what he was saying.

But Sasuke distracted Sakura from pursuing the topic as he turned on her. "And why the hell should he not buy his wife whatever the hell he wants to buy for her? Just who the hell died and made you the boss, Sakura? Did you even look at the little fairy you stole last night? It's her doing her kata. But you don't care, do you? Because I didn't screw your fantasies out of your head you're determined to make her miserable as well. I've had it with your stupidity and jealousy. " He spun her around to look at Natsu. "Open your damn eyes, Sakura. Look at her. That is not a boy pretending to be a girl. That is a girl. A real girl and as dainty and graceful as any I have ever seen. If she were not Sensei's wife, I would marry her instead of either Miski or Ami. Because she's not the kind of girl who should ever have to share her man, she'd be the only wife I would take. But she is Sensei's wife." Natsu's eyes had gone wide at his words from the moment he had spun Sakura around to make her see what he and Kakashi saw so clearly. Her mouth dropped in a startled 'O' as her face lost all it's color.

"I told you to leave her things alone, Sakura. I meant it," said Kakashi.

"You did? When? You haven't said any such thing. Besides they aren't Naruto's to mess with. He's just going to break them and then all the ryu you spent to get them will be wasted," she said.

"I didn't? Oh. Well, leave her glass alone. I bought these pieces for Natsu. And I sure as hell never gave you permission to touch them. Let alone remove them from my rooms. And by the way, what the hell were you thinking you'd see slipping in here last night? Just because he's not satisfying you you need to become a voyeur also?" asked Kakashi. He stared her down as she flushed and tried to find a way to excuse herself. "Never enter my rooms without permission again, Sakura. And if I ever discover you were spying on me or my wife again I will ruin you. There will be no place you can run to hide from me."

He found both pieces of glass and held them up to make sure they were undamaged. Natsu's eyes had lit up as soon as she saw them in his hands all conflict in the room forgotten as she saw they were ok. Kakashi walked over with both her figurines in his hands. He set them on the table in front of her and she reached out to test the bells. A tinkling laugh came from her as she touched a second bell. She turned the dancing fairy on and clapped her hands as it too began to perform for her.

To Sakura, Kakashi said, "Get this straight, Sakura, because I'm not telling you again. She is a girl every bit as much as you are. And she is my wife. The ceremony Sandaime performed for her and I in the office was real. She even wore the traditional wedding kimono for it while you wore your standard mission clothes. She and I really did exchange vows while you and Sasuke drank fruit juice. So if I want to commission glass blowers from one end of the Elemental Lands to the other to make her dancing fairies I will. I have every right to get them made for her and she has every right to accept them. As for buying you something, while I am on my honeymoon have you really thought that through? Or were you just being a green-eyed harpy?"

"What do you mean, Sensei? Sasuke-kun and I are just as much your students as. . .as. . ." she frowned, not sure what to call the small person in front of her now.

"You are my students. Not my lovers. And that is exactly why it is not appropriate for me to be buying you gifts now while it is more than appropriate for me to spend my money as I wish to on her. The little bits of glass make her happy and what makes her happy, makes me happy as well but by me purchasing them for her as I have, I tell everyone she is mine and no one else's. I tell everyone how very proud I am of my wife. If I were to buy you something of equal or even lesser value than what I buy for her, I would be telling the world I sleep with you also."

He tried to spare her feelings but she wasn't getting the point. "So? I still don't see why that means you can't also buy nice things for my Sasuke-kun and I."

Sasuke declined to even try to explain it to her though he did go red in the face. He knew exactly how it would seem should a man Kakashi's age be on his honeymoon with three kids, one of whom was his wife, and be seen buying gifts for all three of them. The blush showed he fully caught the implications Sakura was missing simply because she thought she knew the true nature of things when she clearly did not.

Kakashi sighed. "Sakura. What does it mean when a man takes his wife," he pointed to Natsu, "on a honeymoon and buys her gifts?"

"It means he loves her." Natsu swivled around on the bench looking from one person to the other as Sakura said that. Sakura didn't notice being intent on finding the correct answer for the question she had been asked. "It means that he considers her to be something special in his life." She forwned as Natsu looked at Kakashi wondering if what she was saying had anything to do with why Kakashi had bought the two pieces of glass for her. "But that's exactly why you shouldn't be buying Naruto anything. He isn't your wife. He's a boy and boys can't be wives."

"And if he buys gifts for someone other than her while she is present?" Kakashi continued ignoring the reasons she gave for why he should not be buying Natsu things now.

"That he doesn't respect or care about her feelings or position in society. The one he is buying things for is more important to him than she is. Though if that person is not also with them then it shows he is just as ashamed of them as he is disrespectful of his wife. But what does that have to do with you buying things for only her? Naruto is just a part of our team, Sensei. He's not even the most important part of the team. He's just the one who screws everything up for us. Sasuke-kun is always having to straighten things out for us."

Kakashi was furious now. The girl had just spelled out exactly how it would look to this village if he bought things for them that were equal in size or quality to what he bought for Natsu and she still didn't get it. "Sakura, you just admitted how it would seem to the village if I were to buy things for anyone but her. You are not my lover. Nor do I wish to have you as a lover. Not now. Not in the future. I will not be buying you anything. It is not only not something I wish to do. It is not appropriate that I do so." He sighed and reined in his exasperation with her denseness. "We are on a mission here. As far as the people of this community know, you are Sasuke's wife while I am her," he pointed to Natsu at the dressing table brushing her hair as she watched the little fairy dance for her, "husband." A gentle and joyous smile softened what was visible of his face. Only Sasuke heard him say, "I do like how that sounds. Her Husband."

"Oh I get it now," Sakura said smiling happily. "Those two things are for me and you'll buy the boys different things. But for now, because Naruto is in a henge for the mission he has to keep the figurines to make sure the mission cover doesn't get blown. Why didn't you just say so? I really don't understand why you got a blond fairy though, Sensei. I mean people are likely to think it's supposed to be Ino-Pig or someone." She walked over to remove the small glassworks from Natsu's reach. "Leave them alone, Baka. I don't want you breaking them with your clumsiness even if he could have done a better job choosing the fairy."

Sasuke was bug-eyed in disbelief as he literally watched her spin a tale out of thin air that allowed her to totally disregard all the facts. Kakashi was just blinking at her as his mind took a few minutes to catch up to what she was saying and doing. Growling, he took the two pieces and gave them back to Natsu. "Touch those again, Sakura. . .You even try to take them away from her again and I will break your god damned hand. They are not for you. Not now. Not when I bought them and not tomorrow either. They are hers and hers alone. And if you ever try to steal something from either her or myself again, I will have you brought up on charges for it. Am I clear?" He stood between Natsu, her figurines and Sakura his entire body radiating nothing so much as pure threat.

"Ritual step four," intoned Kyuubi.

"Hai," she said, gulping nervously and backing away.

"Now get your harlot gear off the meeting table before Natsu sees it and freaks out. The people who packed for her actually had the good sense to use good taste."

"It's just honeymoon type clothing," she groused as she went to pack it away. Neither of the guys said anything but nor did either one want Natsu to see the clothes Sakura had brought along. Natsu wasn't paying any attention to them, just being happy at having her gifts back. Again.

"Natsu Sukai, would you please just tell her the truth?" Kakashi asked frustration showing clearly in his tone of voice, when all the slutty clothes were off the table.

Natsu had looked up at him in the mirror when he called her name and she glanced at Sakura hesitantly. Then she looked at Sasuke, who nodded. The nod was to tell her he already knew as well and Natsu knew he did. Finally she looked at Kakashi. Almost whispering she asked him, "Why? Who or what I am has no bearing on what she must do before we can go home."

"That's true but it does on what I must do. Doesn't it, my little yoosei."

"I am not that small. Nor am I a fairy."

"Hmm. That's a matter of opinion. On both points." Kakashi smiled.

Sasuke smirked. "I agree. I think the nickname Yoosei fits her very well."

Natsu frowned crossing her arms over her chest in a clear pout. "I grew three whole inches last year. I am not that small," she insisted.

"Um on that, even I have to disagree," said Sakura.

"I'm just not done growing yet," she insisted.

"Well, ok if you say so. But when you finally hit that growth spurt you might want to point it out to the rest of us cause I think we might overlook it if you don't," said Sakura.

"Not nice, Sakura-chan," said Natsu. Kakashi was rumbling with laughter and her eyes flew to him as she watched him laugh. Once again his breath caught in his throat as he saw the look she was giving him. Oh god, he thought. He had to get her to admit it soon or he was going to explode.

"Just tell her please, Natsu," he choked out a different kind of frustration in his voice now. She tilted her head as the tone distracted her from his request. She stood up and moved to stand in front of him.

"Why do you want me to tell her so badly? I told you my identity has nothing to do with her doing her task." He couldn't keep his hands from reaching for her.

"Because it's time she knew. Sasuke already knows. So do I but she doesn't. Her eyes aren't as good as Sasuke's and her nose isn't as good as mine. Beside I want to do what I am supposed to do as well. I want to claim what is mine."

Color washed over her as confusion lit in her eyes. "I . . .what does. . .I do not see what one has to do with the other."

Kakashi groaned. Of course she didn't. "Just tell her, Natsu."

She searched his face but Sakura was already getting the point. Naruto was the false image while Natsu, tiny little Natsu, was the real deal. "Oh dear Kami," the pink haired girl said. "You were serious yesterday, Sasuke-kun. Naruto really is Natsu. Or rather Natsu is the real person while Naruto was the false image. But why lie about it in the first place? Naruto has been a boy ever since we've known him. And we've known him for years."

"Because a little boy orphan is a lot safer than a little girl orphan ever would be but when the little girl looks like Natsu does there would have been no way to keep her safe from harm as an orphan child," said Kakashi.

Sakura scoffed, "Oh come on, Sensei. Someone would have adopted her. Konoha has a lot of orphans and we take good care of them all. Just look at Sasuke-kun. He's an orphan too and he's well cared for."

Sasuke slapped her. "Don't ever insult the real orphans that way again, Sakura. I am not an orphan. I do have family left alive. He may be a criminal but he is still my brother. Natsu has no family. None. Not a single person anywhere in the Elemental Lands. And the way she would have been treated is not as nicely as you seem to think it would have been."

"As for being adopted, that was never a possibility for her any more than it was for Sasuke," added Kakashi. "Those who were considered to be of high enough standing and strong enough to protect her, to adopt her had to be watched over for political motives and those who we didn't need to watch for political games, we had to watch for revenge minded goals based on who her parents were. All in all it boiled down to the fact that there was no one we could trust to adopt her."

"But. . .but Naruto was a nobody. So how could she be. . .I don't understand," Sakura said shaking her head.

Natsu said, "Sakura-chan, do you remember the name Hokage-sama gave me when he married me off like a parcel?" Disgust colored the last of her question.

The end of the comment gave Kakashi an inkling as to why she had been so reluctant to admit the truth. She knew also what had really happened in the tower and she wasn't any too happy with her guardian over it. He grinned under his mask. Hokage-sama was in for a world of hurt when they returned home.

Sakura was nodding and said, "He named you Namikaze Natsu Sukai. But what does that have to do with anything? It's not your real name. Your real name is Uzumaki Naruto."

"Just everything," muttered Natsu. Louder she admitted, "It is my name, Sakura. My real name. It isn't a fake name given to me by Otousan when Hokage-sama dropped a henge on me to hide me. But rather it's my real name given to me by my Kaasan as soon as she saw me before she died of blood loss from having me."

Sakura was well versed in Fire Country law. Quickly she ran through the ceremony and she paled as she realized what it all meant. She collapsed into the chair at the table where she had been putting away her mission clothes. She had gotten the nightwear off the table before she'd begun speaking because, even as lost as she was in trying to hang on to her fantasies, she knew those clothes were not something Natsu should see. "So then. . .then you really. . .are just as married to Sensei as I am to Sasuke-kun."

Natsu grimaced not liking the implication there at all since she knew Sasuke and Sakura were not married at all. She looked at Kakashi. "See? I told you she didn't need to know." Then she turned back to her dressing table. Kakashi spun her around to face him again.

"Ah but I needed you to tell her so I could do what I am supposed to do." She started to answer that claim again but the next thing she knew her feet weren't touching the ground and he was kissing her. He thoroughly claimed every inch of her mouth. And when he finally let her breathe, her legs were wrapped around his waist and her arms around his neck. He had both arms around her back, holding her pressed to him, as he huskily said, "I claim you Hatake Natsu Sukai as my wife now and forever more."

"Ritual step five and DONE!" cheered Kyuubi.

"Kyuu! What are you talking about?" Natsu entered her mental landscape, one part of her very much involved with what was going on between her and Kakashi but determined to figure out what the demon was really doing as well. When she got there Kyuubi was directing a ball of white chakra to mix with a ball of blue and cementing them with slivers of red. "What are you doing?" she screamed.

"Tieing the soul of your mate to your soul as is his desire shown by his completion of the ritual mating steps. He desires to be tied to you completely now and forever." Natsu fell to her butt and sat there blinking not having a single clue what to say or do now. "Don't worry Little Kit. This does not hurt either of you. Only a demon or a God can connect two souls like this. Usually we demons don't bother connecting human souls but sometimes we find we can not ignore the two souls desiring the bond. Such is the case with you and your mate. You want to be bound to him as much as he desires to be bound to you. So I will be the conduit that allows for it. And once it is done, one soul shall never again be born into life without the other. Neither of you shall ever know the loneliness you have both known in this life. Forevermore you two shall be as one."

Natsu went back to reality deciding she'd think about what Kyu was doing later. Right now she was a lot more interested in what Kakashi was doing. Neither of them had noticed but Sakura and Sasuke had left the room. More because Sasuke pulled Sakura out than because she wanted to leave. But Sasuke knew Kakashi had waited as long as he was going to wait to claim the team's little fairy girl and he was damned if Sakura was going to spin another fairytale for herself off what she saw happen between Kakashi and Natsu. And Sasuke knew Sakura would indeed twist anything she saw happen between them as something that had happened between him and her instead.

As Kakashi kissed her again Natsu lost all track of anything else going on around them. He kept her preoccupied as he took her back into their bedchamber and laid her on their bed. He joined her after pulling off his shirt and mask. "You're mine, Yoosei Girl. Now and forever." Hours later they dressed and went looking for Sasuke and Sakura. They found them in the restaurant and joined them for some food.

Sakura was teary eyed but trying to glare at Natsu. Sasuke had told her point blank he had no intention of consummating their marriage and every intention of shaking her once they returned to the village. He reminded her of every reason he had listed as to why he would never consent to sleeping with her when there were other more suitable girls for him to choose. He told her point blank that so long as there were suitable girls he was willing to bed of his own initiative, Konoha would never force him to bed a specific girl or take his seed to forcibly make him create a child for them. He reminded her he did not love her. He never had loved her and never would because she had nothing to offer him that he either needed or did not already possess. He point blank told her that while he might never be able to love his wives the way Kakashi loved Natsu he would do his duty by the village with Miski and/or Ami but never with her. The lust in his eye when he had mentioned Ami did more to convince Sakura than anything he had said. And that was why she ordered one drink after another. She had lost the bid for Sasuke's favors even though she had actually gone through a ceremony with him and become his wife.

Kakashi took every opportunity to touch Natsu that he could get. He was totally locked in on the small girl he had spent the day claiming and he couldn't wait to spend the night claiming her as well. For being so very small in size, she fit him perfectly as he had known she would from all the nights of sleeping next to her and waiting for her to fall asleep. She always snuggled into his side, when she fell asleep and he would wait for it to happen every night. Just so he could fall asleep holding her close to him. And he had to admit the nights spent cuddling her had granted him some of the best sleep he could remember getting in years.

Sasuke tried to be supportive of Sakura but he wasn't good dealing with people who needed to get drunk to deal with their disappointments. He knew she was facing the truth finally but it still didn't mean he could or would handle her well drunk. Finally, she was distracted enough for Natsu to slip a tiny pill into her drink. A few minutes later and Sakura was sleeping. Kakashi picked the pinkette up and carried her to the room she shared with Sasuke as the other two teens followed him. He noted the pallet on the floor and laid the pinkette on it. "It's better she's on the floor tonight, Sasuke. This way if she gets sick, you won't end up wearing it." Sasuke shuddered at the thought of the awful wake-up present that would be.

Natsu handed him another pill. "She'll be sick when she wakes up. The pill I gave her will flush the alcohol while she sleeps but her stomach and liver are not used to it so she will get sick. Give her this, when she stops heaving, with dry toast and plain water. Her stomach muscles will be tender and sensitive though so don't allow her more than one piece of toast and only half a glass of the water. Also make sure the water is just slightly below room temperature. Too cold and it'll come back for round two. You'll need to protect her tomorrow. She won't be able to protect herself. These pills do nothing for the headache someone gets from drinking too much but do not blame her for this either. She needed to get drunk tonight." Sasuke nodded and watched as they left his room for their own.

Natsu nervously changed into her nightgown and crawled into bed with Kakashi. He had erected a silence barrier jutsu this time since he had the clarity of thought to do it. But he took his time with Natsu knowing that just because she knew what he wanted and wanted it also, it didn't mean she was going to be brazen about it or respond well to him being brazen. He made love to Natsu again, growling and purring in turns, making sure to give her time to react and adjust to everything he did. The gown was a blue puddle on the floor soon followed by her underwear as he claimed her as his own. She saw the fairy necklace he wore and afterwards asked him about it.

"This way I always have you with me. No matter if I do a mission, as Anbu, without you or not, you will always be with me."

"Oh. I see. That's nicccce." She fell asleep curled once more into his side and clutching the small fairy figurine he wore. He chuckled and untangled her fingers from it so she wouldn't pull on it as they slept. Then he wrapped her in his arms and fell asleep also a very happy and contented man.