Three days later-
Kakashi and Naru walked through the village gate early in the morning. Both were tired, dirty and in desperate need of a bath, some good food and some sleep. "Woah, Kakashi!" One of the watcher's said in surprise as he saw the silver haired man. He hadn't been aware that the man had been out of the village, though he had heard that the guy had been missing for the past month for some unknown reason.
He must have been on a mission.The guy thought as Kakashi showed him his I.D and turned to look at Naru when the other guy on gate duty grabbed her.
"Hey, Genma. Look who I have. It's the nine tails brat." The guy said as he pulled on one of Naru's fox ears. Kakashi growled low in his throat and turned to say something to the man for touching his mate when Naru stomped on the guys foot. The man yelped, swore and slapped her before Kakashi could react.
"You-" The angry Hatake stepped forward and caught Naru as she stumbled back.
"That little bitch! I think she broke my toe!"
Genma looked at Kakashi and the glanced at his work partner and sighed in irritation. Kakashi looked like he was about to attack Katsu and rip his throat out. Goddamn it. Why did Katsu always cause so much trouble? Why couldn't he work with someone nice for a change?
"Katsu!" Genma called out warningly, but Katsu was too busy glaring at Naru and calling her every bad name he could think of as Kakashi checked her wounded cheek then pushed her behind him. Uh-oh, Katsu was a dead man if he didn't shut up.
"You stupid whore, you cock sucking skank. Who the fuck do you think you are, raising your hand against your betters-"
"Katsu!"
"The council should have killed you the same hour of your birth-"
"KATSU!"
Kakashi reached into his weapons pouch and pulled out a shuriken. Katsu.That was a nice name for such a sorry piece of shit. And soon it would be the nice name on the man's tombstone. No one touched his mate and got away with it. Behind him Genma threw his hands up in the air and rolled his eyes, well he had tried to shut Katsu up. But as usual the man just didn't listen. He looked away from the soon to be dead man and looked at the girl standing behind Kakashi.
He cocked his head and studied her as he noticed the furry tail and the little fox ears sticking out from under her blond hair and frowned. To his knowledge she was'nt supposed to look like that.I wonder if maybe that's the reason she and Kakashi are together. Genma thought as Kakashi used the shuriken in his hand to sever the jugular vein in Katsu's throat and dropped him like a blood squirting brick and wrapped an arm around Uzumaki and maneuvered her away from the dying man.
Kakashi took his I.D. from Genma, muttered an apology and grasped Naru's small hand in one of his own and started walking towards the village.
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"Is your cheek hurting you?" Kakashi asked as he glanced back at Naru, she still had a red hand print on her cheek that looked painful to him.
"I'm okay." She muttered in the same whispered tone as before. It would seem that she was trying to fall back into her familiar pattern. Not quite withdrawn, but not really with him either. He gnashed his teeth and growled, his anger from before surfacing. He should have let Katsu live a little bit longer, then killed him slowly.
He led her to Ichiraku's and held the curtain back and let her slip inside before he followed her in. "Let's eat here before we head home." He said gently as he pulled out her seat for her. She sat down and waited for him to sit next to her as the old man behind the counter looked up and spotted her.
"Ah, Naru! My favorite costumer! I haven't seen you lately. How have you been?" The man asked as he fixed her her usual drink and set it down in front of her before looking at Kakashi, who ordered a sweet tea to drink while he waited for his food.
"I've been..." The guy turned his head to look at her, a funny expression on his face. A cross between shock and awe as he walked back over to them and handed Kakashi his drink before wiping his hands on his apron and leaning down.
"Well, I'll be. I think that's the first time that I heard you speak in almost seven years..."
She blushed before he reached out and turned her head a bit, and stared at the bruise forming on her cheek and then shifted his eyes to Kakashi as if to ask. 'Your doing?' Kakashi shook his head no and the man nodded his head and turned away from them again as they checked out the menu.
"So finish telling me what you've been up too girl."
"I got married." Naru said in a low raspy tone as she frowned. It felt odd saying that out loud to someone other than herself. The guy turned his head to glance at her, raised a brow, but said nothing for the moment.
"Do you know what you want?" Kakashi asked curiously as he brushed his knuckles along her cheek, his temper was barely hanging on by a thread as he stared at the pale blueish, purple spot blossoming under her skin.
"The vegtable broth ramen."
Kakashi's lips curved up in a small smile as he lifted his hand to get the guy's attention. The elder smiled and took their orders then left them to themselves as he went to fix their ramen. Naru leaned a bit in her seat and lay her head on Kakashi's shoulder as two more costumers walked in. "Hey, is that Kakashi-sensei?" A high pitched feminine voice asked and both Kakashi and Naru stiffened as Naru jerked herself away from her mate's shoulder and glanced at the two new comers at the same time Kakashi did.
"Hn, looks like him. And is that Naru?"
"Who cares. She's such a loser I doubt that Kakashi-sensei would-" Naru slipped off of her seat and walked over to the pink haired girl as Kakashi turned around in hsi seat to see what she was doing. He would have to be ready to chase her down if she decided to run away.
Sakura stopped talking and looked at the blond curiously as she got up in her personal space. "What are you doing freak? Back off." Sakura snapped as she reached out to push Naru back. Naru grabbed her wrist and spun her around so that she had Sakura's arm twisted up behind her back.
Sakura yelped and blinked back tears as she looked at Naru over her shoulder and growled at the blond. "Let me go now!"
Naru gave the pinkette a nasty smirk and twisted a little more, threatening to break her arm, she'd do it too. She'd break the bitch's arm in three places. She'd shred the muscle from her bones and make her useless if she didn't learn to keep her opinions to herself. Naru looked at Kakashi, who raised a brow at her as if to say, 'If your going to do it, I won't stop you.'
Sakura blinked back tears and tried to jerk her arm free. "Ow! Ow, your hurting me! Help! Someone, she's crazy. She's hurting me." Sakura screamed and Naru let her go. Her screaming was attracting too much attention and she couldn't afford to be attacked in her current condition.
The baby might suffer.
She stepped back away from Sakura as the girl got up and rubbed her wrist and glared at her. "God, what is your damage? Are you insane or something?" Naru said nothing knowing that it was the best way to deal with Sakura.
True to her nature the pinkette got pissed and shoved her. Naru stumbled back two steps, but didn't go down like she usually did. Pissing Sakura off even more. She walked forward and drew back her hand to punch the blond, but Naru beat her to it and laid her out flat with a sickening crack as her fist connected with the pink haired girl's face, breaking her nose. Sauske's jaw dropped open in shock. And Kakashi chuckled and got up and wrapped his arms around Naru and pulled her back against his body.
"Well honey, I guess she'll either learn to leave you alone or suffer some more from now on." He said in wary amusement as he pulled her back over to her seat and set her on it as the guy behind the counter set her ramen on the table and winked at her. She smiled at him and murmured a 'thank you' as she looked at her food and realised that he had given her an extra helping of some of her favorite stuff. An extra boiled egg, some boiled crab and some extra red and yellow peppers with shredded carrots.
She picked up her chopsticks and dug in. Kakashi watched his mate eat her food slowly, as if she were having trouble figuring out where she wanted to start or something. She ate the egg, the crab meat, the peppers, and then started in on the noodles as Kakashi got his own food and started to eat as Naru finished her food. She laid her chop sticks aside as Sauske helped Sakura, who had just regained consciousness, over to one of the seats, making sure that she was farthest from Naru.
"You damn slut..." The pinkette snarled as she brought her hand away from her broken nose and stared at the blood on her finger tips. Kakashi made a frustrated sound and snapped his chopsticks in half and turned to face Sakura, with a murderous expression on his face.
"Shut the fuck up Haruno." He snapped at the girl. Sakura looked at him wide eyed, Sauske looked at him curiously. Wondering why Kakashi seemed so mad.
Sakura gave the jounin a wide eyed, innocent look. "B-But sensei, she started it!"
"No she didn't. You started it when you walked in here and started calling her names."
Sakura looked at the angry man and cocked her head. Kakashi-sensei looked away from her to glance at Naru, his expression softening as he did. There was a wealth of information in the look that he gave Naru. Ah so thats how it is. Sakura thought. It was darkly amusing how easily the jounin seemed to be influenced by someone who's only talent was the work she did on her knees.
"Tell me sensei, why exactly are you defending her? Did you have a nice roll in the hay with her before coming here? Is that why you seem to favor her? You shouldn't bother with her, you know. You might catch some decease from all the dicks she's taken-"
Kakashi couldn't have been more stunned if the girl had pulled out a kunai and stabbed him with it. Just what the fuck was Sakura's problem anyways? Naru had been an innocent since before they started having sex. He remembered the blood on the inside of her thighs from that time in the woods outside of the cabin, when he had been in heat. So why did Sakura insist on believing Naru was a common whore?
He was about to ask the girl when he felt one of her hands brush along the crotch of his pants, and jumped and got down out of his seat and moved back away from her. "What the hell do you think your doing?" He demanded in a shocked and angry tone. How dare she touch him there! The only one allowed to touch him was Naru!
Sakura gave him a cold smirk as she finished wiping the blood from her face. Sakura got up out of her seat and walked over to him, swaying her hips as she did. Kakashi felt sick to his stomach. "You know sensei, Naru isn't the only one good on her knee-hey!" Sakura's sentence was cut off short as an ice cold pot of water was poured over her head by the elderly man who ran the ramen stand.
Sakura sputtered and wiped the cold water away from her face furiously as she turned her head to glare at the man. He glared back, not caring in the least about how she was talking about his favorite person. "You can stop right there girl-" He growled as Sakura bared her teeth at him.
"I run a respectable business, here. And tramps and whores are'nt allowed through my doors." Sakura's demeanor changed and she turned her head and smirked evilly at Naru, who was watching while Kakashi kept his arms tightly wrapped around her body and glared at the man as if he really expected him to take Sakura's words about his wife at face value.
"Then you should take out the trash." Sakura said happily and the elder smiled at her.
"Oh believe me kid, I am." He grabbed Sakura by the front of her shirt and yanked her up out of her chair, earning a startled shriek from the pinkette as he dragged her over to the door and tossed her in the trash can upside down, then tipped the can over onto it's side and kicked it. Hard.
"And don't ever come back!" The man yelled as Sakura and the trash can hit a light pole a little ways down the street. Everyone on the street stopped what they were doing to watch the exchange in wide eyed disbelief. The man glared at all of them and snarled.
"I'll do the same thing to anyone that dares to talk about Naru-chan with such disrespect! She's a good girl, and if you can't see that; then your no longer welcome in my resturaunt!"
Kakashi loosened his hold on his wife and looked at her in shock, he pointed at the guy and looked at her as if he were trying to say 'Where the hell did you find this guy?' and 'Can we keep him?' all at once before pulling out his wallet and pulling out a nice big tip for the man, both for the food, and for the entertainment.
The man walked back inside and smiled at Naru who just smiled back and went back to eating her food as Kakashi grabbed the man's hand, shook it and grinned like mad. "You sir, are my new best friend."
"Gai would be crushed, Kakashi-san."
"Not really. Last year for Christmas he put a sign around my neck. One that said, 'Hatake up for adoption. Needs love, attention and porn to survive.' I was nearly adopted by a whole throng of people with weird fetishes."
The guy laughed so hard he started crying. That was funny. Really it was. Most people expected shinobi, especially the elite ones, to be all serious and uninteresting. And one one had the rank of jounin, people expected you to be cold, distant and capable of killing without thought or remorse. In many cases, this was true. But what people forgot was that even shinobi got themselves into odd situations.
Especially when they were trying to unwind and relax. So hearing that Gai tried to put his best friend up for adoption, despite the fact that Kakashi was a grown man in his earlier twenties, was very funny.
More so when you knew some of the rumors and such flying around about their reputations.
Then it just became down right hilarious.
Kakashi talked to the guy non stop for twenty minutes, enough time for Naru to finish her food, order seconds and then polish off that too before Kakashi paid and they left. Naru looked up at her mate, her little ears twitching a bit when he looked at her and smiled. Naru looked at him and flattened her ears against her head. "What?" Naru asked in her usual raspy tone.
"Nothing. I was just thinking..."
She frowned and cocked her head and nearly tripped over a rock. He caught her, wrapping his arms around her body and chuckled close to her ear. "Do I have to put a helmet on your head?" He had never seen anyone so accident prone before. In fact he had sort of been both suprised and horrified by how many accidents she had had when they had been on their way back to the village.
She had run into a tree because she had gotten distracted. Had taken a tumble down a hill and into a lake. It was mind boggling how someone so graceful could manage to fall or run into things so often. He had been secretly planning to cover the floors and the furniture in his home with bubble wrap.
She made a humming sound and glared at him from over her shoulder, making him grin happily before he put her on her feet and grasped her hand and started walking again. She sighed and looked around the crowded streets.
People were stopping what they were doing to look at them while others gathered in little groups and whispered among themselves while pointing at Naru and Kakashi. Naru shifted closer to her mate as they walked. They would have to hit the tower to report to the Hokage before they went home...
Wherever home was.
She looked at Kakashi again, this time wondering if she should ask him where they would be living. Her apartment was small, and not exactly up to code. Any Tom, Dick and Harry could easily break in and hurt her, or Kakashi if he was caught unawares. She shivered and pressed herself against Kakashi's side, her fingers tightening their grasp on his own until he looked down at her and silently snarled behind his mask.
She had such a scared look on her face. And the way she was holding onto his hand, it was as if she were worried that if she didn't hold it tightly, he would simply disappear. He slipped his hand free of her grasp and she tipped her head back to give him a wide eyed, panicked look. He sighed softly and put his arm around her shoulders and lightly ran his blunt finger nails across her scalp. "Don't look so scared honey. I'm not going anywhere." He said gently as his stomach twisted up in knots.
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Hurizen Sarutobi was not a happy Kage.
Not. One. Little. Bit.
He was so pissed right now, staring at the power mad, self righteous fools belonging to the council that he could cheerfully chuck a live grenade at them and blow them to bits. Oh he did not like these people!
"You are over stepping your bounds, Hamorua." He growled as he stared at his former team mate. Hamorua said nothing, as expected. He'd wait and say something snide in a minute or so.
"We are not overstepping our bounds-" Another person argued and abruptly shut up when Sarutobi reached across the table and slapped the younger man. The sound of flesh hitting flesh echoing loudly in his ears as everyone looked at him in shock.
"Like fuck you are'nt, you stupid fools. You have overstepped your bounds and I intend to put you all in your place like the good little mongrels you should be-" Someone opened their mouth and Sarutobi flung a kunai at them. "Did I say that you could speak?" The person peeked over the edge of the table and shook their head no.
"Then don't speak. Now did you or did you not hold a secret meeting several weeks ago to disguss Naru Uzumaki?" Everyone nodded.
"And why would you call this meeting?" Sarutobi asked as he looked at someone pointedly, indicating that that person should explain.
The man paled and looked around nervously, he was maybe the youngest person at the table. No older than thirty two, his hair a soft golden brown that matched his eyes. He might have been a handsome man if he didn't have such a nasty personality hidden under all those looks. Sarutobi mused as he waited for the man start speaking.
"We all gathered at the meeting because we believe that Naru Uzumaki is a... danger to the village."
"And why would you think that?" Sarutobi asked as he looked at another person, a woman this time. She coughed and picked up a file and flipped it open and started speaking.
"In the last four years, the death toll has gone up considerable in the village. People who have singled out Uzumaki, have gone missing, been found mangled and bloody, dead in places all over the village. It is plain to see that she is responsible for killing these people..."
"Woman the only people that Naru has killed in this village are the ones who have attacked her with the intent to kill her. If you don't like it, then tell the villagers to back the fuck off."
"It is Naru's job to protect the people of the village, not kill them!" The woman snapped as she slammed the file down onto the table.
"And she would'nt need to kill them if she didn't feel the pesky need to defend herself against them."
"She's a horrible little monster! And she should be destroyed!"
Sarutobi stood up and slammed his hands down on the table and roared. "That isn't for any of you to decide!"
"She does'nt care about the village!" Another screamed back at him, and he growled, a feral do-not-fuck-with-me look crossing his face.
"Well, I wonder why! Could it be the assassination attempts? Could it be the constant beatings? The constant verbal put downs? The abuse? Of course she hates the village and everone in it! When have any of you given her a reason not too? When have any of you ever visited her in the hospital after being badly wounded? When have any of you done anything to endear yourselves to her at all?"
"You deserve to be attacked! You deserve to live in fear! She does! You deserve to have everything ripped away from you! She has! And not a damn person among you can do the responsible thing and lay the blame where it should be...on your shoulders. The lot of you are pathetic. You do not run this village. You do not make my decisions. You don't have the power, the authority or the right. I've heard enough from you all. Now here is what will happen."
"I'm stripping all of you of your titles, your lands and your ranks. I'm seizing the funds in your bank accounts, I'm stripping everything from you, and your families. I'm moving you all to a cozy little apartment duplex where each of you will live out the rest of your days in regret, and fear, and loathing-"
Hamorua opened his mouth to say something. "Unless you want your throat slit here and now you will be silent." Sarutobi said as he looked pointedly at his former team mate before continuing. "Those of you with children, daughters will have the pleasure of knowing that three of them will be sold into prostitution along with two of your grandchildren, no matter what their genders. Those of you with wives will watch as they are raped by foreign diplomats to uphold the peace in our village..."
"You can't do that!"
"Yes I can, and by god I will. Why should Naru always be the one who bleeds and cries. I don't think she should, after all she's just a child. She had no control over the demon, or what it did. She was just born the night the attack accrued. That doesn't make her the problem. You are the problem. You have been hurting an innocent child, and now it's time to face your sins. There isn't really anything that I can do to the lot of you that would hurt you. So you can live, and when your daughters and grandchildren are dying from decease, you get to look into their faces and know that you are the ones responsible for everything that happens from today forward. I will have a talk with Kakashi. Maybe he will spare your miserable lives in lue of this punishment. And if not then I honestly can't say that I blame him. And one more thing, if any of you decide to do something stupid-like avenge your families and lovers by seeking Naru out and hurting her-"
"I'll make sure that each of you suffer a fate worse that death. Now all of you, get the hell out of my sight."