Sorry guys- I didn't mean to just leave you hanging like that.

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"Naru? Honey are you alright?" Kakashi asked from outside the bathroom door as he heard the sounds of violent wretching coming from within the small room. There was a small pause followed by the sound of a toilet flushing followed by silence for a moment before Naru called out in a raspy tone.

"Oh go away..."

Hn, that was it? Kakashi wondered as he stood anxiously in his spot waiting for her to swear at him, call him a fool or tell him to fuck off like she usually would. There was no venom to her words. No coldness. Merely what he sensed was a bone deep weariness that he knew was from the stress of the past few weeks. After all being bound to someone who changed the sex of another person (a very, very bad and sadistic person in his opinion) then handed them over to perverts resulting in the pregnancy of said person- would exhaust just about anyone.

Still he at least expected her to refer to him as shithead or bastard for a few weeks.

If only to make herself feel a little better about being pissed at him.

Reaching out he placed a hand against the door and curled his fingers against the wood, leaving furrow marks with his fingernails as he did so and said coaxingly, "Naru please, I know that you're pissed at me. Believe it or not I'm pissed at myself for what I did. Truly I am. But someone had to stop him otherwise he would have eventually found a way to lay his hands on you- And I didn't want you to end up like he is now. Some pervert's toy. Something to be used up and discarded without any regard for your life. Your feelings... I want you to always be the same person I've known since you were a kid," He laid his head against the door and closed his eyes as he recalled what she had been like as a child the first time he had met her as a genin.

She had been so quiet. So calculating. Always looking at others like he used too as a kid, after his father had died. He'd felt broken. And Naru for all her strength and cunning as a child- had been dangerously close to winding up the same way.

He hadn't been able to stand it.

A child should be loud. Happy, and cheerful at all times.

He truly believed this from the bottom of his heart. So he had taken extra care and time to draw the real Naru out of her shell and instill those things in her. If he'd known that by doing so he would wind up making one of the strongest shinobi the village had ever seen next to the sanin- he might have done more.

But Naru was considered a super- S class nin. A monster just like Tsunade and himself.

"Naru? I don't care if you're mad at me all the days of our lives for what I've done. I'm not sorry for giving the little shit a taste of his own medicine. But if you want to save the baby, and bring it here and raise it as our own... Then I will abide by your wish and take responsibility for what I've done-" He wouldn't like it, but he'd do it if she wanted him to. He heard the door click as the lock was undone from the other side and took a step back as it swung open and his furious wife stepped into view and growled.

"You're damn right you're going to take responsibility! Sauske isn't keeping that baby, now go get your wallet and your shoes. We have to go shopping for some baby items and some stuff to make a nursery." Perking up at the possibility that an outing might cool Naru's anger at him, Kakashi smiled and turned and scampered off to do as his wife bid him too.

Leaving Naru standing in the doorway of the bathroom with her arms crossed over her breasts with a dark look on her pretty face. God there were times when she just wanted to beat the fuck out of Kakashi. The man just drove her crazy with his shit. And now- now she was an expectant mother and she wasn't even ready to be one! "One of these days..." She muttered as she headed off to the bedroom to get dressed for their outing.

One of these days she'd probably end up so frustrated with his antics that she'd killing him in his sleep. She thought as she found some pants and pulled them on then rummaged around for a moment or so before finding her shoes and slipping one of them on when it occurred to her that she had forgotten the other reason Tsunade had come to see them.

She had said something about stepping down as Hokage, hadn't she?

But if she stepped down then who was supposed to take over as the Hokage? Naru wondered as Kakashi peeked into the bedroom to see if she was ready and found her standing in the middle of the room with an almost panicked look on her pale face.