Sarutobi walked down the hall from the council room, ignoring the furious yells and the panicked screams of the former council as they tried to reason with him on their punishment. He didn't listen though. In his mind, the punishment was just. Though he hated involving innocent children and women in it, but then again everyone in each council members family wasn't as innocent as he would have liked to believe.

He had stayed up late these past few days and nights doing research on everyone. Learning what he could about the one's that he was sentancing to a life or cruelty, and pain. And what he had found was sickening in every coneviable way.

These people were all insane! They had to be.

Council man, Yuki's son, and his three grand children, had all at one point in time attacked Naru and nearly killed her.

Council men, Yager, Min, and Jun had all been indirectly involved with Sara's death. They had hired the men who had raped and killed the girl. And the list didn't end there, no, it went on and on, and on.

One person had leaked information to enemy countries about Naru's birth parents. Telling everyone who might want to try, that they could attack the girl and no one would stop them. Another had helped stage a kidnapping, and had almost snuck Naru out of the village where she would have been tortured then buried alive just for fun. The list was almost endless, and the sins against Naru got so much worse from there that he had actually had to stop reading the files.

It was just so much, he pulled his hands out of his robe pockets and looked at them, realising that they were shaking. Gods he needed a drink. He was half way down the hall when he looked up from his hands and did a double take. There in front of his office door stood Kakashi and Naru, the two seemed off in their own little world, Kakashi's arms were wrapped tightly around the girl, and he was whispering to her.

Sarutobi sucked in a breath and held it. Kakashi looked very much like a man head over heels in love with his wife. And Naru-she looked like a whole new person. She looked...radiant and happy. Something that Sarutobi hadn't seen her look like in years. Kakashi brushed he masked cheek across the top of her hair and looked up, spotting him and instantly let Naru go. Stepping back away from her as he cleared his throat and muttered a soft warning to her so that she would know that the elder was there.

Naru's face flushed pink and she turned to look at Sarutobi as he smiled and closed the distance between them and took Naru's small hands in both of his and leaned down and kissed her cheek. "I've been wondering where you two were. How was the honeymoon? Did you both have fun?" He asked curiously as he opened his office door and led the way inside. Naru blushed and tried to hide her face.

Sarutobi chuckled. That nice a time eh?He turned to look at them, or rather at Naru and paled a little when he saw the little white fox ears and the long bushy tail. He frowned and looked curiously at Kakashi who gave him a warning look as he grasped Naru's shoulder and asked her to wait outside for a second. She gave Kakashi a strange look but nodded and walked out of the room and closed the door behind her. Leaving Kakashi shut into the office with the Hokage.

"So Kakashi...what can I do for you?"

"First of all-the ears and tail are a bi product of Naru going into heat like I did." Kakashi explained as the elder sat down and looked at him. A frown still on his face.

"Oh? Is she still in heat?"

"Ah, no. I wouldn't have brought her back if she was. I think the ears and tail are some sort of silent warning from Kyubbi."

Sarutobi looked at him oddly. "A warning?"

"Yes. A means to frighten the villagers into leaving her alone in her current condition."

Sarutobi cocked his head and stared at Kakashi as if to ask him. Current condition? What current condition?

Kakashi made a frustrated sound and made a mental note to observe Naru closely in the coming months and write everything odd down and give it to the Hokage so that he would better understand a half yokai's mating and breeding habits. And when he was done, before he put it in the man's hands...he'd smack him with it. For being stupid. Yeah, that could work.

"We have no real way to confirm it yet, but I think the ears and tail are a way to warn people off because Naru might be..." Kakashi's skin broke out in a cold sweat and he did this weird motion with his hands, placing one against his body and making a half circle with it to indicate something. Wow but this was embarrassing. Kakashi thought darkly as the elder stared at him with a confused look on his face.

"Kakashi. I'm not fluent in sign or stupid so could you please just say what you mean."

Kakashi coughed and blushed behind his mask and rasped, "Pregnant, sir."

"Oh." Oh well no wonder the man looked uncomfortable. Sarutobi remembered having to get drunk every time his wife had gotten pregnant, before he could manage to tell anyone. It was pathetic really, but whoever said that elite killers couldn't be shy had been lying through their teeth.

"Well. Will you let me know once you find out?" Sarutobi asked. Kakashi nodded his head and looked relieved before getting serious.

"Tell me what you can about the council's movements." Since they were out for his wife's blood, then he would have to take steps to cut them off at every turn before he went in for the kill.

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The talk itself lasted the better part of an hour before Kakashi was completely satisfied with how things were being done concerning the council. When he was done speaking with the Hokage he went and opened the door ad let Naru back in.

Sarutobi watched the brief exchange between the copy nin and his mate with interest. Noting at how all of the tension eased out of Kakashi's body as he stepped back and let Naru in. Noting the way that the younger man smiled as Naru pushed by him, her body brushing up against his own. Kakashi grasped her tail and tugged slightly on the tip, teasing her so that she would look at him and grinned like a lunatic when she did.

Well, I'll be. If Sarutobi had had secret doubts about marrying the girl off to the Hatake, he didn't any more. Not when he got a first hand look at how the two interacted together. In fact he was more convinced that Kakashi's influence in Naru's life might help her lay Sara's ghost to rest and heal her wounded heart.