Tsume groaned as she rolled out of bed and onto her feet, stretching tiredly. Too lazy to actually get up and wake the kids, she shouted, "Kids! Wake up! Time for school!"
She didn't wait to see if they listened and instead pulled a sweatshirt over her torso and trudged down the stairs. She opened the fridge and grabbed the bags on the lowest shelf, dropping them on the counter for the kids to find.
Sasuke was the first one down, Kiba and Naruto following shortly after. "Hi Mom!" Naruto said loudly. Tsume smiled and gestured to the bags wordlessly.
She poured some coffee into a mug and sipped it, sighing. God, she had so many things to do.
"Mom, don't forget I'm going over to Ino's house after school." Sakura said, and Tsume nodded in her direction.
"Yeah, got it."
She waved as her kids left, finishing her coffee and dropping the mug in the sink. Kasumi pranced around her feet, and Tsume glanced at the dogs' food bowls. They were all empty.
"Daddy didn't feed you, huh?" she said quietly, and crouched down to pour the food in the bowls. Although the kids' dogs didn't really need it—they all went with their owners to school, and they would be sure to feed the dogs.
She stood up and walked back up the stairs. Might as well get dressed.
/\/\
Kakashi growled to himself as he searched for Hana among the crowd of new Genin. Where the heck was she? This was important!
"Dad!" Hana shouted, and Kakashi looked over, relieved to see her standing by the gate.
"Hana, I need your help," he said. Hana raised an eyebrow.
"What is it?"
"I need you to keep your brothers in the house."
"Why?"
"I'm taking your mother out to dinner tonight. I don't want her worrying about them."
"Oh." Hana nodded. "Yeah, I can do that."
"Thanks. Go find your brothers, take them home so they can celebrate safely, and remember that Sakura is at Ino's house." Kakashi called over his shoulder as he hurried away. Hana waved and smirked when he was gone.
It was about time he did this.
/\/\
"Kakashi, come on!" Tsume shouted up the stairs. "We're going to be late!"
"I'll meet you there!" Kakashi yelled back. "I'm almost ready, but you should go make sure we get a seat!"
"Fine." Tsume muttered and grabbed her purse off the table. What? Just because she was an Inuzuka didn't mean she didn't have some pride in being a woman.
At the restaurant, the waitress led her to a table in the back of the room, illuminated by the dimly lit lamp hanging over her head. She shivered and forced herself to not look up.
Kakashi arrived ten minutes later, sliding into the booth across from hers guiltily. "Sorry," he said. "I got distracted."
Tsume rolled her eyes. Of course he was late. That was just how he was.
"So what's the occasion?" she asked. "We never go out."
"Can't I take my girlfriend out without getting accused of having something else going on?" Kakashi asked. Tsume shrugged.
"I guess."
"See? But isn't it occasion enough that all of our kids have graduated?" Kakashi grinned beneath his mask.
"That is cause for celebration." Tsume agreed. She sipped her water.
"Actually, I did have to ask you something," Kakashi said. Tsume cocked her head to the side.
"What is it?"
"Tsume, you don't have to answer right away. Think about it for a while if you have to." Kakashi slid over to her side of the table and took her hand. She looked at him warily. He pulled a little black box out of his pocket.
"Will you marry me?" He opened the box and she gasped. Inside was a silver ring with a blue diamond, two smaller white diamonds on either side. Kakashi looked at her worriedly.
"Yes! Yes, a million times yes!" Tsume exclaimed, ignoring the looks they were getting from the tables around them. Kakashi smiled, relieved, and slipped the ring on her finger. She hugged him tightly.
"You know," Kakashi said when they pulled apart. "The kids will be happy about this."
"I bet they will." Tsume agreed, and she leaned into her fiancé's side happily.
/\/\
At home, Hana greeted her parents with a grin on her face. The grin turned into a smirk when she saw the ring on her mother's finger. "So you finally asked, huh? 'Bout time."
"Go to bed, Hana." Kakashi said. Hana snorted.
"Dad, it's seven 'o clock. I'm not going to bed."
"Fine. Go find your brothers, then."
"No need. They're all in the living room, and Sakura came back home when Ino got sick." Hana said, walking away. Kakashi blinked. Okay then.
They followed her and smiled at the sight of all their kids excitedly playing with their dogs and telling one another about their first days as Genin.
"Hey, guys," Tsume said, and Naruto jumped up.
"Are you guys getting married?" he asked, blue eyes flicking from Kakashi to Tsume.
"Yes, Naruto, we are getting married." Kakashi said, and Naruto whooped.
"YES! I knew it! Kiba, you owe me some money." Naruto held out his hand towards his brother expectantly. Kiba sighed and dropped it in the blonde's hand.
"Why couldn't you have waited? It would have saved me some cash," he grumbled. Tsume shook her head, but she was smiling, and Kakashi wrapped his arms around her waist.
They decided not to ground Kiba and Naruto again.
/\/\
Hana walked behind her sensei as the older man lectured her about keeping her dogs away from civilians. She honestly wasn't paying attention anymore.
Itachi was waiting for her at Ichiraku's, and she said, "Yes, Sensei," and slyly slipped away to join her friend as her sensei ranted on obliviously.
"That should keep him going for a while," she chuckled. Itachi rolled his eyes.
"So have you talked to Dad yet?" Hana asked as she sat down and ordered a bowl of ramen. Itachi shook his head.
"I was going to ask last night, but he was so happy that Tsume said yes that I didn't want to ruin it with my problem."
"Well, you have to ask soon. Mom and Dad said they weren't going to start planning the wedding until us kids were more experienced ninja, and we had properly trained our dogs. Or something. Do it tonight at dinner," she suggested. Itachi sighed and sipped the water Teuchi had handed him.
"Fine."
A/N: YAY! They're getting married! Jeez, this chapter felt like it would never come. Thank you Nikki for helping me with the proposal! I really needed it. So, guys tell me what you think. And, I guess you could give me suggestions for the wedding. I'm not good with that sort of thing, and I could use all the help I can get. Please?
And if you want to see what Tsume's ring looks like, I'll put a link to it on my profile. I'll have a section there for the wedding stuff, and probably anything else that I think looks like things I described in my stories.
