Again, this fanfic was inspired by DarkSakuren's "Naruto of the Sand" fic, and as such is femNaru.

Anyways, I guess I'm not doing a half bad job; this is becoming more popular than any of my other Naruto stories, so I'm gonna keep it going. I'm trying to add more description in my stories, so please let me know if you like or, or if myabe I'm over doing it. Same goes with everything else on the story; let me know what you like and what you don't. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the knew chapter, of Naruto of the Sand!

disclaimer- i do not own Naruto

"This will be a good home," Karura said out loud. Kakashi gave his newly developed one-eyed smile.

"Yes, it's the best," he said. "You should see it in the spring with the water falling down the mountain, thunder rolling through the trees; ahh yes. Then those sunny days you could just sit on the monument forever and just stare at the clouds…" Karura giggled.

"My my, Kakashi-san, who would have thought that a scary shinobi like you would like to stare are puffy, defenseless little clouds." Kakashi laughed in return.

"Well, some of food around here is very nice to 'stalk'." They continued with their little jokes for the rest of the walk. Karura could help her surprise when they reached the hokage's home.

"Yes, well, it's um… it's a bit… smaller than I had thought," she said. It was only a couple stories, maybe twenty-five meters across. It had a nice beige color to it and there was a little lawn out scratched his head.

"Really? I haven't been to any other villages, except for the chuunin exams, and it's not like anyone said, "look there, that's the kage's house'."

"I suppose that's a good point, but our home in the sand village was a mansion! Every Kazekage since the second used it." She sighed. "It was such a beautiful house, too. There was sand stone for the pillars, cedar wood for the walls. It was seven stories high, and probably a good seventy-five meters wide and deep. There was a porch in the third floor that was wonderful for watching the sun begin to poke its head above the hills that surround our village."

"Wow; that's a big house. How many people lived there?"

"Just the five of us, and our children's nanny's." Akashi's one eye enlarged to the size of a saucer.

"That big a house for only five or so people? What did you do with all that room?" Karura thought.

"You know, I never thought about that… Even I didn't know my way around it completely. I think only my husband did. I have no idea what he used all those rooms for, though…"

"Huh… well, we'd better get you inside so that Kushina-san can get you settled in. I'd rather not still be outside when sensei arrives. Besides, I can't keep Rin waiting too long…" She nodded, smiling at the slight blush, just barely visible above his mask. Kakashi led the way, knocking heavily on the door.

"Yes, yes, I'll be right there," called out a grunting voice. A few seconds later… "Actually, if I know you, could you please just come in?" Kakashi tilted his head, but shrugged and entered.

"Kushina-san! Sensei asked me to bring a visitor by!"

"Oh, Kakashi! Wonderful! Bring them in here. I'm stuck in the living room." Karura's lips twitched. She seemed to remember something similar happening to her once. Kakashi lead her down the hall to the living room and sure enough, there was red headed woman who looked like she'd sunk too deep into a couch for a pregnant woman to get herself out.

She was a beautiful woman, and obviously fit, besides being pregnant. She had a clip in her hair, holding it on the left side of her face, and was wearing a light tan colored dress with a blue shirt underneath.

"Great, Kakashi!" She said after he entered the room. She was in the couch with its back to the doorway and could only see him because he walked right up to the couch. "Would you mind giving me a little help? I got myself a little… stuck." Kakashi quickly moved over to help, not daring to laugh in case she told Minato later. Karura, on the other hand, laughed so hard she had to hold the door frame to keep from falling over. Kushina's eye's narrowed and Kakashi's widened in fear.

"Karura-san! Please, Kushina-san is very…"

"Pregnant, I know," she gasped, still laughing. "I was just, heehee, thinking about when…hahahaaa, I got stuck like that, teehee, a few weeks ago, heeheeha, and it took five people to get me out!" She kept on laughing, not being able to stop for the joy of laughing with no worries. It was slowly sinking in that she didn't have to fear her husband anymore, and her child was going to be born as a normal child. No demon would ever reside in them like it did her poor little Gaara. Meanwhile Kushina, now pulled up from the couch, could see that the other woman in her home was pregnant, and while she did not appreciate the laughing, she decided to cut the other woman a break. After all, based on what she had said, they both knew that actually being pregnant sucked! Fortunately, this was also about the time Karura got a hold of herself and stopped laughing, though there was still a huge gin on her face.

"Alright, Kakashi, thanks for the help, but would you mind telling me who this woman is that Minato asked you to bring by?" She looked the other woman up and down, taking in her tattered and sandy robes. "She looked like she's from Suna's district."

"Well, Minato-sensei said that he'd explain it all when he got home, but the basics are that Karura-san here was in trouble and I picked her up on my way home from my last mission. After careful consideration," and Kakashi made sure he emphasized it, hoping that that scowl would got off of Kushina's face, and also that she wouldn't explode at the idea of this other woman living there, "he decided that she was going to live with you two, at least for the next little while." Kushina's eye brow furled dangerously.

"What?" Kakashi gulped.

"Well, uuh, that is," and he took a deep breath and quickly said, "MinatoSenseiSaidSheWasGoingToStayWithYouTwoForAWhileGoodToSeeYouGottaGoBye!!!" And with that he went flying out the door.

"Kakashi! Get back here or I'll have Minato on your hide fast than you can say sorry!" She had chased him to the door… well, she tried to chase him, as a woman as pregnant as her couldn't really make it that far that fast. She really just waddled after him to the door. However, anyone that knew Kushina's temper wouldn't have dared to laugh. Karura, of course, had no reservations.

"What's so funny now!?!"

"Sorry," Karura said, covering her mouth, "it's just, I never realized how funny I must look like when I walk right now, but watching you, I think I have a pretty good idea!" Kushina's eye twitched.

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In the meantime, Kakashi was making good on his escape. He hopped Minato-sensei would go easy on him for leaving like that, but being pregnant, Kushina had some nasty mood swings, and no one was brave when those came around. If you got really unlucky she would remind you why it was that she was a famous ninjutsu user. No, nothing he could do about it right then. Right now it was time to find Rin. After all, his birthday was a week past; he owed it to her to let her give him the rest of his birthday present…

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A couple minutes after the eye twitch found the two pregnant women very carefully not sitting on a couch, but rather on a couple of chairs in the kitchen, each with a cup of tea. Kushina always had some on the stove now a days, just in case, kept on low heat.

"So, why is it that my husband decided to bring you into our home, Karura-san," she said, a little too sweetly. Karura looked off to the side, looking sad at the memories.

"I could not live with my husband anymore," she said. "He was… horrible to me, and my other children. I had to leave, and your husband offered me a place here." Kushina eyed her.

"And what did he do to confirm your story? Anything, or did he just take you in as soon as you told him your story?" Karura looked at her in surprise.

"Are you suggesting that I lied to get here?" Kushina smiled too pleasantly.

"Why, who in the world said I was saying that? I never did, but did you?" Karura frowned.

"I expected the wife of such a noble man to share his sentiments. Perhaps I was wrong… Maybe I should just leave," she said, putting a hand on the table to push herself up. Kushina felt a twinge of guilt. Being pregnant really made her crabby.

"Oh fine, just sit there for a minute." She got up herself as the other woman looked at her in surprise at the vehemence and annoyance in her voice. "I'll get my husband and we'll discuss this with him." Her eyes softened. "He probably has a good reason, but I'm not going to just sit here and wait from him to get home to tell me."

"Bu-but Kushina-san! That's a long walk! You really shouldn't-" Kushina waved a hand at her.

"Nah, nah, I'm not walking, I'm just getting my husband," she said.

"But, how, how can you do that without leaving to get him," she asked, surprise written all over her face. Kushina grinned.

"Oh, a woman has her ways," she said, laughing. "Of course, this was his idea. I'm really only supposed to use this for emergencies, but since I'm pregnant he'll forgive me," she said, walking out into the hallway, Karura still confused. "I mean, he just dotes on my so much now, it's almost annoying. If I didn't love him, I probably would be annoyed." She walked back in holding an odd three pronged kunai. "Now, where to get him…ah, that should be good," she said, smiling, throwing the kunai at the floor.

The instant it hit, a blond haired man fell in shock from his sitting position. He had apparently been doing paper work, but now he was falling backwards, flailing and trying to grab something. Unfortunately for him, it was his head that found a solid object first, and it was the edge of the counter behind him.

"Ow! Gaah!!! Kushina! What the heck was that about?" Kushina merely stood there, staring down at her husband with her arms crossed, leaning towards her left she tapped her right foot. Minato was just sitting there, one hand rubbing his head, one hand supporting his weight on the ground.

"Well? What the hec-" a clearing of the throat and jerk of her head towards their guest was enough to get him to realize what had his wife upset. "Oh, okay." He sighed. "I guess I have to take care of this now." Then he smiled. "Of course, by the time I'm done, I'm supposed to be out of the office anyways! Thanks honey." Kushina rolled her eyes.

"Minato, you are a constant optimist, aren't you?" Minato laughed, and Kushina finally grinned as he got himself up and embraced her.

"No reason for life if you can't smile and laugh about it," he said, giving her a chaste kiss, keeping in mind their company. "Now," he said, leading his wife towards a chair and getting her to sit down, "if Karura doesn't mind me tell all the details," he said, looked towards Karura for approval. She nodded.

"Alright, so here's what happened…

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Rin was walking down the street after getting off of work early. These days she wore a mostly gray robe with solid black lining on the edges over a mesh shirt that was actually stronger than most. After the war, she had asked Minato-sensei to find one for her and promised she'd pay him back. So, he'd gotten her one that was as strong as could be. This would actually stop most kunai. The reason most shinobi didn't have them was because they were just too expensive. Rin was looking at a long payment plan. Fortunately, Minato sensei wasn't charging interest. Of course she still wore her headband as a headband, holding her brown hair back enough to keep it out of her eyes. She wore black leggings as well. If she was actually on a mission, she would put some metal guards underneath them, but mostly she stayed in the hospital these days. She was usually a happy young woman, but today she hadn't smiled much. It had been a rough day at work. Also, Rin was pissed.

She had expected Kakashi back a week ago, and she had even put up money to reserve places at a restaurant… which she never got to use and was now wasted. The manager had been a jerk. She'd been about to get her refund when they came out all fussy saying that a reservation was a reservation, and things had been prepared and this and that, and "I don't care if something came up" and oh!!!! She'd almost used her medical jutsu to attack the man, but she kept herself in. She smiled and left.

She wondered if she should have mentioned that she was one of the pupils of the hokage, but she didn't like to do things like that. It didn't feel right. Of course, that just meant that Kakashi owed her one big time! She considered that she just might make him wait for it after this… Of course, walking down the road and scowling, she really didn't expect to see the little masked man show up right in front of her.

"Yo!"

"AAAHHH!!!" She automatically slapped him, sending him halfway down the street until she realized what, or rather who she'd just slapped. "Oh my gosh, Kakashi, I'm so sorry," she cried, running over to where he lay recovering. "Are you okay? How's your face? Can you feel your jaw?"

"Meh, meh, I'm fine," he said, rather dazed. "I'm good." He gave her a goofy one eye grin. "So, how've been Rin?" He got slapped again, but not as hard.

"Kakashi, do you have any idea what I've been through while you were gone?! I paid good money to reserve us a place at a restaurant so I could finish giving you your birthday present, and what do you do? Pick up some random lady and show up a week late! And you know what? There's no such thing as a refund for a reservation, so you'd better-" Rin was cut off with some paper in her face.

"What, you mean these reservations?" He was holding two tickets in his hands, for the very same restaurant that she had gotten reserved for them.

"Wha-how- where did you get those?" He smiled.

"Oh, when I knew I was going to be late, I asked Minato-sensei to do a couple things for me, and he heard about what happened to your reservations and… talked to the manager. So… ow!" Before he could ask why she slapped him again, she gave him a hug.

"You moron. You sweet, sweet moron. You couldn't have told me that?" He scratched the back of his head.

"Heh, sorry. I wasn't to surprise you." Rin sighed, smiling, and finally got off of him. "Come on," she said, holding out a hand to pick him up. "We've both got to get ready for our little date. You're going to drop me off at my place first, though, to make up for not telling me." Kakashi let himself get helped up, and then walked her home, talking amiably the rest of the way. Oh, and of course, he conveniently forgot to let go of her hand once he got up. Not that she minded…

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"Wow; that's defiantly not something that I expected," Kushina said. She looked at Karura with a lot more pity, now. "So you've really been through all of that?" Karura nodded.

"Yes; it's been like hell on earth, living with that man, and knowing that my son will never have friends…" Tears trickled down her eyes. Kushina moved over and hugged the other woman.

"There now, there now, you have a place here. I'm sorry for being so rude earlier. I shouldn't have made assumptions. There now…" Minato looked at the ceiling and shrugged. He never would have guessed that his wife would have switched reactions so quickly, even with Karura's story. Granted it was sad, but his wife had been one dangerous looking woman when he'd been summoned home. He had actually thought for a moment that she'd make him go back on his promise. He put it up to pregnancy. Hopefully they didn't kill each other. At least Kushina was due next week.

Oh, yeah, speaking of next week…

"Um, Kushina-hime? Karura-san? One more little detail you might want to know…" He stuck a finger in his collar and pulled it out uncomfortably. Kushina stared at him. It was her it's better be important can't you see she's having a hard time stare. Unfortunately, even though this was important, he was going to be in trouble. He cleared his throat.

"I just thought you ought to know that Karura's going to have to stay inside for a little while, maybe even until after the delivery."

"And why is that, dear?" He cleared his throat again.

"Well, you see, I'm guessing that Karura's due about the same time as you, Kushina, that is, within the next couple of weeks or so, and well, the Kazekage is coming for a visit in about a week and a half…"

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Kakashi was in bliss. When he had gotten back over to Rin's house, he hadn't expected her to look that good. I mean, granted, he thought she looked pretty all the time, but when I girl wants to look drop dead gorgeous, she has her ways, and Rin's was making Kakashi drool through his mask (yes, he was still wearing it).

She was wearing a purple dress that was closely colored to the marks on her cheeks, with just a little bit of sleeve going over her shoulder. There was a little see-through material there, still allowing the similar stripes on her shoulders to be seen. Her hair was mostly pulled back. Some of it was falling to either side of her face, but most of it was pulled back into a pony tail. She had on a deep red sash around her waist that tied on her left side and then draping down nearly to the ground, and black heels that came up a couple inches.

She had giggled and asked if he brought a spare mask because, she said, it would be embarrassing if he was walking around all night with a wet spot on his mask. He grinned his one eyed grin and just pulled it down. He wasn't even sure why he was wearing it. She looked a little side as she looked at it. She had always known about his scares, the one over his eye, and also on his right cheek. He had gotten that on his first mission after his father had died. That was why he always kept it covered, first because it shamed him as he had gotten it due to his distraction at the loss of his father, and then because it embarrassed him that he had hidden it for that reason. He didn't feel that he deserved to have it, to bare the scare. Now it reminded him of love and friendship, those things that he had despised until Obito taught him better, but around Rin, he didn't worry so much. She knew him better than anyone, and with her around, he could bare his shame of having not worn his scar proudly.

The dinner was wonderful. Minato had made sure that their favorite dishes would be prepared, and so they ate and talked happily. He talked a little bit about the woman he had picked up, hinting that she shouldn't ask too many questions just yet, but that she would meet her soon. Rin shrugged it off. It wasn't like he was keeping it a secret. It just happened to be something better shared at another time.

Afterwards they went on a nice little walk that lasted till after midnight, one you counted the hour spent looking at the moon onto of the Hokage faces on the mountain side. Then they strolled back into town, watching the fireflies light up and listening to the crickets chirp. Finally, they were home.

"Thank-you, Kakashi, for the night. It was wonderful," Rin said, a slight blush on her face. Kakashi grinned.

"I hope so. It would suck if you didn't like it, after all, since you were technically still the one that paid for it." He sighed. "I'm sorry about taking so long, but I hope you'll understand a bit better when you meet the lady I brought back." He started to turn and pull his mask back up. After all, he wasn't going to be around Rin anymore; it was time to pull it back up, and cover the scar he did not deserve to carry. "I'll see you tomor-" She grabbed his hand, and he turned to look at surprised. He had assumed that he'd ticked her off to bad to get the rest of his present, but now she was pulling him closer, a cute blush going across her face, her eyes mesmerizing and hypnotic. Her fingers from her spare hand reach into his mask and pulled it down, then cupped his face, her pick lips drawing him closer… and then it was fireworks, the feelings that shocked him for the first moment, and then he cupped her face, rubbing her stripe on the left side of her face as he kissed her hungrily, and she responded in kind.

Finally, after a seeming eternity, they let each other go, and slowly their faces drifted apart. They were both blushing.

"Happy birthday, Kakashi-kun," Rin said, looking down a little shyly, considering what she'd just initiated. She walked slowly into her house, waving timidly at him, and he waved back, a goofy grin on his face. As the door closed Kakashi fell backward to the ground, the goofy grin still on his face, and a slightly trickle of blood ran down one of his nostrils…

Again, I hope you liked the chapter; i had fun writing KakaRin, though its kinda sad, you know? I mean, as far as we know, she's dead, so that's probably what's gonna happen here. Poor Kakashi... :(

But, the story's moving along still. How'd you like the Kazekage's coming visit? Just fyi, he had a secret agenda when he set this up; can anyone guess what it was? There's hints in the story as it stands.

Well hey, i have to get back to h/w; have a nice week ya'll!