Summary: Eyes glistened with a golden hinge, blood dripping out of her nose. She would save them, even if it killed her. Slight SI. Third War Era. OC
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Chapter 7: Headway
"How do you bear it?" Finnick looks at me in disbelief. "I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking up." Something in my expression stops him. "Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart." ~Suzanne Collins, 'Mockingjay'
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Mitsuko was shaking her head. If they didn't calm down she was going to throttle them. Obito was snickering to her left. She threw him a dangerous look. Nagato who was standing to her right he sighed deeply, genin were troublesome it seemed. "Are they always like this Namikaze-san?" Her head bobbed up in response.
"Yes. And if they don't cut it out they'll be doing D-ranks for another three months when we get back." She called out to team 2. That seemed to snap Aiko and Daichi out of whatever their argument was about this time. Itachi ever so polite had not been arguing with his teammates in front of a foreign diplomat. Though he too was known to argue with his teammates.
"So Nagato-sama what is Ame like." Mitsuko opened her moth to answer Obito's question, be he shushed with a finger. "I know what you think Mitsuko, and I don't want to hear it again." He told her while wiggling his finger in her face. She was half tempted to bite it if she didn't think her genin were watching.
"Uh, it rains a lot." Obito groaned rubbing a hand over his face. Mitsuko smirked at him.
"Told you so." She muttered as her genin wondered back over to the three jonin level shinobi. Itachi was all but under her legs when she looked down at them. The others verily close.
"Alright." She clapped her hands together as they came upon a river. Her genin looked up at her confused. Mitsuko was not a hand talker for the most part, she did almost everything with a variety of looks.
"Today we are going to learn to water walk." Since she had taught tree walking a month or so ago it was probably time. Her little students had every right to look semi confused. They did all peaked up at that though, so perhaps that was a good thing.
"Okay so to start…"
That evening Mitsuko took watch, she had purposely worn her genin out so she could talk to the Ame ninja and Obito privately. "Did nii-san tell you about what was going on?" She asked the Uzumaki quietly. Nagato nodded his head in response.
"He told me everything he could." Mitsuko looked up to the sky. A thoughtful expression on her face.
"Everything will be fine Mitsuko." Obito patted her hand reassuringly. Nagato raised his brow at the two, were they together? The Uchiha who wasn't oblivious as everyone thought snorted at the red headed man. He'd wait until later to address that.
"I owe Mitsuko my life Nagato-sama. Besides my teammate would kill me if I ever tried anything." Obito told Nagato later when Mitsuko had gone to check on the genin and when he was certain she wouldn't overhear him. Nagato watched where Mitsuko had disappeared to his expression thoughtful, the blonde was a strange creature she seemed so distant.
"She appears to be lonely." Nagato spoke lowly, it was something he had noticed about the woman the longer he spent time around her. Which had been fairly often considering she had been right and his older cousin Kushina had wanted to teach him Usumaki sealing. Mitsuko was in and out of the Namikaze-Uzumaki house often. Obito nodded his head at that assessment of the konoichi.
"She is." He admitted quietly, no matter what he himself or their other friends tried Namikaze Mitsuko was a lonely woman. The genin team no matter how annoying had been a good thing for her.
"Was she always like that?" Nagato wondered after a moment out loud, Obito shook his head no at that. Because he could remember a time before Kaoru and Isamu had died.
"She lost a lot." That was what he said in response to the question. Mitsuko headed back over to where the two men were sitting, she was convinced her students were alright. She approached them slowly her now loose hair bounced with each step.
"Team 2 is officially asleep." She told them while plopping down next to Obito, she handed him a protein bar and then one to Nagato.
"Good because I really don't want to deal with your cranky genin." Honestly the older two were always like that, Itachi-kun was an angel unless he didn't get enough sleep and then no matter how many times Mikoto-san said otherwise he was a little monster.
"It's not their fault, they haven't been a team long enough yet to work with each other's quirks. Kind of like team seven before Kanambi." Her eyes held mischief, she was smirking at him. Obito groaned rather dramatically. She was never going to let any of them live that down. Least not him.
"Obito-san did you and your teammates not get along?" Because that was seeming to be a trend among several leaf teams. Obito sighed, shaking his head.
"No not at first, but after a near death encounter we learned to appreciate each other better." Obito half explained, Mitsuko shrugged at the look he was giving her. It wasn't like that epic fail of a mission was a village secret or anything. Nagato could sense the growing tense atmosphere and he changed the subject to something else.
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Late one evening many days after Team 2 plus Obito had returned to the Village Hidden in the Leaves Minato found his sister asleep on his living room couch with a sleeping blonde four year laying on her chest. Regardless of how confused he was by Mitsuko's presence at that hour in his home it was a sweet picture. "They've been like that for over an hour. She came by to complain about her genin and ended up staying when I got your note about being late." Kushina spoke quietly as she walked up to him, she had been getting ready for bed herself in another room when she heard her husband come in.
"Sorry, do you think we should leave them?" Kushina smiled lightly.
"Naruto was running a fever earlier I'd hate to wake him." Minato frowned, he would have tried to be home sooner if he knew his son was feeling well. Kushine pecked his cheek lightly with a small kiss.
"Stop don't think about it, you have enough to worry about. Besides Mitsuko volunteered to watch him so I could go out and get groceries." Kushina was leading him away from the living room when Mitsuko eyes opened slightly, so they hadn't seen the concerned look she gave the little boy or her move her hand to check his temperature. Mitsuko slowly got up, having been mostly asleep herself it took a bit of time to fully get up and make sure the little boy didn't wake up. She wondered down the hallway, Minato who had been brushing his teeth in the hall bathroom side stepped so his head was sticking out of the door.
"I thought you were asleep?" He questioned after spitting out his toothpaste. Mitsuko half nodded her head, her eyes mainly focused on Naruto.
"His fever's gotten worse." Kushina decided to see that moment what was taking Minato so long to come lay down. She peered curiously at Mitsuko before wondering over to her sister and son.
"Everything okay?" She wondered out loud. Mitsuko shook her head.
"I think Naru-chan's fever has gotten worse." She carefully handed over the sleeping blonde to his mother. Kushina felt his forehead and back once her son was in her arms. Naruto opened his eyes sleepily at the movement before showing his protest loudly.
"Mitsuko do you think perhaps you could go fetch Tsunade-sama?" Minato ask as Kushina tried to sooth their son. She obediently nodded her head.
"Yeah, no problem." That folks is the story of how Mitsuko learned to never bother the sannin after like nine o'clock unless it was an absolute emergency. And apparently Naruto having tonsillitis did not consist as an emergency in the blonde konoichi medics books even if they did have to drain his tonsils as a result of the night.
Minato was sitting on the couch holding his finally asleep son after Tsunade had left and told Kushina to bring the boy by the hospital in the morning and monitor him through the night to make sure his fever didn't spike any higher. Mitsuko slumped down on the opposite end of the couch she gave a sideways look to her older brother. "I can watch him nii-san, you probably should get some rest. You do still have to run a village in the morning." He shook his head, Minato missed so much time as it was with his son he didn't mind taking the night to make sure he was alright.
"Thanks but that's okay, you should probably go home and get some rest. Obito told me you didn't sleep at all during the escort mission." He gave her a concerned look over the four year old's head, his tone filled with worry.
"I've been having nightmares again." She admitted slowly. Frowning slightly at herself.
"Again?" He questioned softly, Minato did not want to wake Kushina who they had barely convinced to get some sleep up. Mitsuko shook her head.
"I just keep seeing their faces, it makes it hard to sleep." Minato knew what faces she was talking about. He sighed. Honestly he didn't know how to help her other than maybe making her talk to a therapist but she was too proud for that. Maybe he could get one of his former genin to talk to her. That might help.
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When Itachi reached almost ten year old and after running several more C-ranks, one B-rank mission and a heated argument between his sensei and parent only then did Mitsuko-sensei allow Team 2 to compete in the Chunin exams. It was also being held here in Konoha. No way was she letting her genin take the exam unsupervised in a foreign village. Especially since Yahiko had decided to wait a while before hosting something of that magnitude in Amegakure, because that be the only village she'd trust to host her genin team.
Mikoto stared at the younger sister of their Hokage. Did she really think that? "Namikaze-san?" Mitsuko waved her hand at the Uchiha matron cutting her off.
"Itachi is a smart boy, a genius even. He could become a great anbu agent in years to come if that is what he wanted to do. But like I was he is emotionally stupid. He needs this time around comrades his own age to find his footing to figure out who he wants to be. That is why I've kept Team 2 from taking the exams any earlier. His teammates are both thirteen now, he is the youngest of them but they respect him. It's not about skill not with him it's purely about the fact that I want others to respect him just like his teammates." Mitsuko's voice was level as she spoke to the angry parents. They had confronted her on why she hadn't let their son try for a higher rank. She took a deep breath and then continued her train of thought.
"I don't want people to sneer at his young age or assume he got his ranking based solely on his clan name. He deserves better than that, I want our fellow leaf shinobi to know of how talented he is how much skill he has and after that I want them to believe that wherever he plants himself it's because of his own merit. Even if that place is anbu or if it's something else." Mitsuko paused, with the way they were being did she really want to tell them what she thought.
"You have something else in mind?" The shadow ranks were a very respected by the shinobi, it meant they had skill better than anyone. Mitsuko pinched the bridge of her nose at Fugaku's tone, this was why she did her best to avoid the Uchiha clan head.
"Yes." Sorta. "He and I have talked about it, and I want him to decide for himself. I think he'd make a good intelligence officer. Your son is a pacifist, and as great as he would be in anbu he would hate it." Because she had loved and hated it but must of all she saw herself within the Uchiha heir. Fugaku looked thoughtful, Mikoto looked thankful. Because anbu was not the life she wanted for her son, and for a time she thought that might be his only option.
"Thank you Namikaze-san." Mikoto smiled at her, Mitsuko nodded her head and dismissed herself with a puff of smoke. No point being polite when she knew they weren't going to apologize for their earlier accusations. She'd let Shine-nee pass her other reasons along to the Uchiha matron at a later time. If the woman ever asked again.
Mitsuko ruffled the ten year old's head when she reappeared next to him at training ground three. She had handed Daichi off to Rin for the day so he could work on his iryou-ninjustu before the exams. Aiko was laid out on the ground watching the clouds pass over them. "Itachi-kun the next time your parents want to talk to me about what I'm doing with Team 2 tell me." Because she knew very well he was excellent at gathering information and had known their concerns beforehand. Brat.
"Hai sensei." He was slightly smirking in response, a habit he'd picked up from spending too much time around her.
"Now I want you two to practice sparring as a team." She made the appropriate hand sigh and a shadow clone appeared. It only had half her strength but it would be good practice for the kids against stronger opponents. Mitsuko jumped up into a branch to get a better aerial view.
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Mitsuko held her chop stick out towards the other girls face. Rin was sighing heavily at her. "You weren't there so shush." She told the younger pointedly. The medic held her hands up in surrender.
"I didn't say anything Mitsuko-chan. But they are his parents so you have to understand their concerns too, you can't just get mad because they had doubts. It probably looked like you were holding back the boy. A proud clan like that was more than likely concerned also, Uchiha-sama's concerns most likely weren't all there's. You know how things are." Rin said rather patiently. Mitsuko put her chopsticks down and stared at Rin with a blank look.
"Rin I've been a jonin longer than anyone in our age group and was an anbu captain for almost half of that time. I made genin at six, chunin at eight, and a jonin by the time Kakashi made chunin. I know what ranking up quickly does to a person and I didn't want that for Itachi-kun." Rin frowned at her, did Mitsuko really think that lowly of herself. The medic could read into what the infiltrator wasn't saying.
"You did what you had too, we were at war." Mitsuko nodded her head in agreement.
"Exactly Rin-chan, we aren't at war currently. Genin are children and deserve to act as such until the time calls for it. Also as a team they weren't ready. Ranking up means you run mission with others, if they couldn't work together then they wouldn't have been able to work with others." Mitsuko had more the five reasons for each decision she made. Rin placed her index finger on the side of her cheek thoughtful.
"You've really put a lot thought into this." They looked up to Obito peering down at them. She, being Mitsuko made a face at him.
"It is my time with your girlfriend Obito-kun, so go away." Her tone playful, he laughed a little at her.
"I can so feel the love Mitsuko. Sorry I'm going to have to steel Rin-chan anyhow, team seven has a mission." Because even though they were all jonin and one was full time at the hospital they still got pulled to run missions together. Both girls frowned, but for different reasons.
"Fine. Be careful, we'll finish this late Rin-chan. And I'll get the bill both of you get out of here." She apparently didn't need to tell them twice. Mitsuko suspected sharingan dickery.
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The morning of the entrance exams she was pulled away from the jonin waiting lounge for an emergency mission update. And since she didn't having any standing assignments other than her genin team she was rather confused. In the Hokage's office stood a battered team 7, a disgruntled anbu commander, and a moderately pissed off Yondaime. "What the hell is going on?" Formal anbu agent Mouse demanded as she took in the appearance of team Minato.
"They were following a lead on Madara." Her brows shot up, she had assumed there weren't any leads on him. Mitsuko made an angry gesture at both her brother and the anbu commander.
"We ran into a hoard of those white creatures. They were protecting something." Mitsuko made a hissing sound, because that was not good.
"Damn it! Why wasn't I informed?" Her squad had died because of this venture, she felt slighted. Minato let out a sigh he knew she wasn't going to take this well.
"Because the lead wasn't for Madara. It was to capture Kaoru's father." He finally spoke, Mitsuko paled significantly. Her fist clenched at her sides, she saw red. Kakashi placed a hand on her shoulder to try to get her to calm down.
"We are currently holding him in the isolation wards. He'll need to be interrogated." Bear told the captain. He was a true believer that once you became anbu you were always anbu retired or not. Her eyes turned dark.
"It would be my pleasure Hokage-sama." Her other specialty. No one was better at interrogation than someone who had been tortured. Minato did not like the sound of her tone. Bear nodded his head at her.
"I'll give you an hour." The anbu commander told her seriously. Mitsuko shook Kakashi's hand off her shoulder and then vanished.
"Was that a good idea Minato-sensei?" Obito wondered after the blonde woman disappeared. He gave his fellow teammate a sad look. Poor Kakashi.
"She'll be the only one capable of getting him to talk. He knows her." Minato told them all gravely. He didn't like this any more than they did. But maybe it would finally give his sister some peace of mind.
Mitsuko had never been a practically pleasant person to deal with when angry. Growing up Minato had always done his very best to ensure his little sister's happiness. He hadn't always been great at it but she also never got truly angry at him. She was a different person now versus then when she had been a little girl. Minato was glad that he was not the one on the receiving end of her anger. Honestly he didn't want to imagine what she'd do now.
She hadn't bothered to put her mask on before entering his holding cell. He was smirking at her, his eyes dark with only something she could place. "Hello again Takeshi-san." Mitsuko snarled out his name like a feral dog.
"You've gotten bigger since we've last seen one another. Tell me, how is my daughter." Mitsuko could have reached across the table and snapped his neck but she reframed herself from such action. Her face became a blank mask.
"You should know, since it cost your little spy his head." And an eye he never got. Kaoru's mother had been a civilian woman who had a child with a low rank second class Uchiha chunin. Her father had never been able to activate his sharringan to the confusion of his family. So they abandoned him in return he betrayed the trust of his village when the second war broke out and began selling information to their enemies. His actions were eventually discovered but he escaped with his child.
"I hear you've gain special abilities since the last time we've met." Mitsuko leaned forward, her nails clicked in a pattern on the table. Blue eyes with golden flecks stared coolly into muddy brown orbs.
"That quite frankly doesn't concern you Takeshi-san. I however would like to know why you had your own daughter killed." The man sat back in his chair, his hands bond in front of him.
"Obviously for those lovely eyes of her Mitsuko-chan. You know what I want." She did. But she also didn't care.
"Yes to be reunited again with you father. Like the good son you wish you were." Mitsuko state coldly, she pulled back from the table standing to her full height. She circled him.
"Tell me Takeshi, do you know where your father is? Because I've been looking for him for years and I haven't found anything on him in decades. He's probably long dead now." Takeshi looked angered by her assumption.
"You know nothing. You're just as naïve as you were back then." Back when he tortured her and killed her two genin teammates. She grabbed his chair and pulled it back letting the angle suffocate him, like he had down to her brown eyes teammate. Mitsuko pushed the chair back up and watched with a half satisfied look as the man gasped for breath.
"I've learned a lot since then. Some would even say I'm a better person for what I know now." She hissed. Mitsuko then sat down across from the traitor.
"So let's talk Takeshi. Because I've got a lot I want to discuss. It will be like old times." He sneered at her expression. She folded her hand on the table. Takeshi was silent.
"So let's revisit my first question shall we? Why did you have your daughter murdered? She wasn't involved." To his knowledge anyway. Mitsuko watched for his reaction it would tell her more than his dishonest words.
"You little bitch, I already told you. I wanted her beautiful ruby eyes." He set his hands on the table mimicking her. Mitsuko snickered darkly, his mistake. With speed he'd never seen from anyone before she had her hand around on of his fingers.
"The truth Takeshi, or I break your finger." He glared at her but didn't look like he was going to speak. She broke his finger anyway. Mitsuko who was feeling peculiarly vindictive also used her chakra to burst the coils in his finger. The man groan in pain. His fingers wouldn't recovered from that kind of break.
"Fine then we'll move on. Did your father send the man on October 10th?" Takeshi gave her a blank look, she gave the same treatment to the next finger. The man groaned again. Once he had regained himself he spat at her.
"Answer or I'll cut the next on off." Her tone callous. She let the spit drip down her cheek.
"Yes…" He groaned out, Mitsuko raised her brow.
"I'm sorry I didn't quite hear that." Third finger down.
"I said yes you bitch." She gave him an unimpressed. Let go of his hands and stood. Mitsuko turned to look at the anbu standing at the door.
"I've gotten everything I need from him Tiger." The masked agent nodded his head and opened the door for her. They both stepped from the room. Tiger resumed his guard outside the door, Mitsuko whipped the spit off her face before going to report her discoveries to the Yondaime and anbu commander and hopefully make it back to the Jonin lounge in time to hear the results of the entrance exams. Mitsuko didn't want to disappoint her genin by not being there when they passed the first exam.
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Team 2 passed the first exams, she was there to meet them after it was over. Her mood had smoothed out and she could be their sarcastic jonin sensei again. Aiko was rambling about how odd it was that a lot of the other genin didn't get the purpose of the test. "I mean were ninja discreetly gathering intelligence should be second nature to us." She groaned. Mitsuko smirked down at her.
"You realize you were one of two intelligence based genin teams, and the only other squad is also a leaf team." She told them pleasantly, as they walked away from the building. Daichi nodded his head.
"There weren't a lot of teams that passed." The soon to be medic told their sensei as they walked away. Mitsuko paused in step, who was running the entrance exam these days.
"That tends to be how it goes. Aiko-chan who was the proctor for the exam?" Because he female student would be the only one to actually pay attention when the proctor gave their name.
"Morino Ibuki, I think. He works with T&I. I've seen him there every now and then when I go to meet Yamanaka-san for therapy. Oh… I'm supposed to tell you that your yearly evaluation is coming up." Aiko was grinning at her. Mitsuko smirked fondly at the teen.
"Ah yeah, tell him that's not happening." She did not need a mental evaluation. Mitsuko was absolutely fine. Daichi was giving her a highly unimpressed look.
"Too bad, Noharu-sensei said you were and since she's your standing physician you have too." Mitsuko groaned, she loved her students. But they proved to be real brats sometimes and damn it Rin.
Itachi was quietly snickering at her. Mistuko's hand landed on the top of his head, he peered up at her she gave him a concerned look. "You're being unusually quiet." Her tone questioning.
"Sorry sensei but I just though Aiko-chan and Daichi had it all covered. You probably shouldn't avoid getting your evaluation done it gives people more reasons to question your teaching abilities." She snorted at him and patted his head softly, the four continued in their walk. Mitsuko was escorting them each home. Because she maybe wanted to rub it in Itachi's parents face that not only did her whole team pass the first exam they also did so with flying colors.
"Yah, yah. I'll go do it eventually. But it won't be until after I see you all in your chunin vest." She told them. They stopped in front of one of the small apartment complexes. Mitsuko patted Daichi on the back.
"Alright you two wait here, I'll be right back." Aiko and Itachi nodded their heads at their blonde teacher. She gave them a small thumbs up before disappearing into the building with Daichi is tow.
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She was a proud woman by nature. However this kind of pride was different, she was ecstatically happy with her genin. Three months later they were all chunin. Mitsuko was giving them a warm grin, she stood with Chunin Cell Two at the main gate. "Alright gakis, listen up. Your chunin now which means you can run missions without a jonin sensei. So you first mission without me is this." Itachi took the scroll that she held out to them. Aiko and Daichi had appointed him the leader of their cell. He made a face at her.
"Mitsuko-sensei this is the third Ame related mission we've taken since becoming your students." Itachi pointed out dryly. She nodded her head at him a wicked grin on her face.
"Yep, you three will be delivering highly sensitive material to Yahiko-dono. The risk for interception is high with this. So the ranking is B-rank. I'll meet you in Ame a week later and then we'll return with whatever Yahiko-dono decides to give us." She told them, her hands planted firmly on her hips.
"But that doesn't explain why we've gotten so many mission too Ame Mitsuko-sensei." Daichi pointed out he raised a brow at her. Mitsuko smirked down at them.
"Yahiko-dono request our team or me. Mainly because they are familiar with me, and because I have a direct line to the Yondaime." Daichi shook his head in understanding. That made sense. Kind of. "Now anymore questions?" The three shook their head, she grinned at them.
"Great, now I'm expecting you all to be in one piece when I make it to Amegakure." Mitsuko would probably kill anyone who tried messing with her students.
"Hai sensei." They spoke in unison. She nodded her head at them and watched as they left. Mitsuko would admit she was worried for those three, she'd come to find that every time they left the village without her she would worry. Briefly she wondered if this was how her brother felt about his own former genin team.
She shook her head and turned from the gate, she had business to take care of.
Mouse appeared in his holding cell. She was radiating in killer intent but it was only aimed towards the prisoner. "I already told you, I will only talk to Namikaze Mitsuko." His tone was callous, she smirked at his wrapped fingers his other hand cradled.
"You won't be talking to anyone else." Mouse was behind him now, her anbu grade katana in hand. The man paled before he regained control of himself.
"So I'm disposable now. You got everything you wanted, even though there's so much I still know." Mouse held in a bitter laugh because that was pathetic.
"You are pathetic." She sneered at him, the blades tip touching the base of his neck. The man became suddenly silent. Mouse slid the blade across his throat a second later. Blood from the slit sprayed forward before the man fell into the table his blood pooled around him.
Mouse slipped out of the room nodding at Tiger and Lizard who were there for back up if needed. She slipped the mask off her face and handed it over to the fellow captain. Mitsuko didn't speak as she walked away. Tiger gave a concerned vibe to his captain and all Lizard could do was shake his head.
"Let's get this mess taken care of." Lizard turned to head back into the holding cell of the now dead traitor. Tiger nodded his head, spared one last look where the blonde woman had been and sighed. It was no secret what happened to Mouse's squad, and even years later her fellows still worried about her.
She figured they more than likely always would. However they always did find ways to surprise her.
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Head bowed, her hand rested softly on the top of the stone. Eyes watered blonde stands of hair covered her face. After a moment she cleared her throat and spoke quietly to herself. The words fell on silent ears twisting around her in mockery. She almost ignored him as he walked up to her. His fingers rubbed soothing circles on the curve of her spine. Finally she turned, burring her face into his chest.
He ran a hand through the tangled mess of blonde hair ignoring the tears staining his vest. His eyes lingered on the names carved there, he knew what they meant knew who they were. This was the first time however they had been here together, the first time she let him see her break since they were carved.
It had been four years since the death of her squad mates, two years since the formation of Team two, and a years and a half since they moved in together. Of course that last bit of information was hardly public knowledge. She finally looked up, into his mismatched gray eyes and shook her head. Perhaps now was a good time to move forward. Half a decade was an exceedingly long time to mourn over those who had no chance to return.
"Let's go home." He kissed the top of her head softly in reply as she took his hand. She needed him to lead her, she needed his light because hers had long since gone out.
Mitsuko smiled at him in her mental realization of what he had become to her. She couldn't remember when it happened or why. All she knew is that she was thoroughly surprised with the outcome and then annoyed because Konan-sama had been right. There wasn't much to distinguish between herself and the mask. They had always been the same person and he cared for her regardless of the darkness inside her.
He shook his head watching her think, she did a lot of that. A small sigh escaped his lips. The Yondaime's student smirked under the half face mask. She had changed for the better. Her petite hand tugged at his she looked up at him with wide blue eyes, eyes that didn't seem so lonely anymore. "Hatake-kun are you coming?" Kakashi bit back a small chuckle at her old caller for him and nodded his head in response.
"Yah, yah I'm coming. I wouldn't want to be the reason we're late for Rin-chan's engagement party." He was smiling and she could hear it in his voice.
"Yes because kami forbid you be late to anything on your own accord." Her lips gave a teasing smile, eyes shown with a knew light.
XOXOX
I am not happy with how this chapter turned out, honestly don't care for how I wrote it but it was the only way to make it work. Please just let me know what you think. As always I love to hear from you guys.
The last part kind of got away from me, but it works. Yes Mitsuko and Kakashi are now together, yes it probably seems rushed, but no it isn't the way I write has a lot to do with what is said between the lines. Kakashi has always had some kind of feelings for Mitsuko, and she has always cared for him. Notice how the word love is not yet used here. It will all come together, I know I say that a lot but I do mean it. Their story although not a lot of detail given will make sense in time.
Age estimations. Team Minato- 22/23, Mitsuko 24, Team Two 13/15(at the end), and Naruto during his little scene is like 3-ish. Like I said estimations cause I haven't been super clear on the time skips and I'm honestly not a hundred percent sure. Just know the Kakashi is at least two years younger than Mitsuko.
Thank you for taking your time to read and review!
Sincerely, La'Rae
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