His father stopped an inch or so from him and reached out and grabbed his ankle and tipped his head back and looked up at him, his normally dark eyes an eerie glowing green as Kakashi's ankle started to burn strangely.
Not that Kakashi noticed any. His eyes were fixated on his fathers agonized expression as he choked out, "K-Kashi...s-s-so glad that you m-made i-it h-home. I d-didn't c-cut d-deeply enough... B-Be a g-good boy a-and f-finish me o-off..."
Kakashi stared at his father in wide eyed horror as he gripped the knife handle and moved it back and forth a bit to dislodge it before finally pulling it out with a sickening Slick sound and held it out to Kakashi who was starting to hyperventilate, his face behind his mask an ashen bloodless white.
Overhead in the study rafters, Naru shifted worriedly.
She'd made a mistake in dragging her wolfy's conscious mind to this place to bear witness to this tragedy again. But at least now she could piece things together about how he got his bloodline limit. After all she could still see the subtle push of the elder Hatake's chakra being forced into his ten year old son's body even from her vantage point.
Seconds ticked by. Feeling like forever as Sakumo waited patiently for Kakashi to take the blood stained blade from his hand and finally Kakashi's fingers twitched and he started to reach for the blade.
He was crying by this point and Naru had had enough.
She knew that she couldn't change certain historic events, and Sakumo's death had been something that had shaped Kakashi's being in a huge, huge way. But she couldn't let this history repeat itself. That would simply be too cruel. Something, anything had to be done.
She shifted again and then let herself fall to the floor from the rafters, startling both Hatake's when she suddenly hit the floor next to them and with an annoyed growl knocked Kakashi out then looked at Sakumo with a dark look on her face and hissed as she lowered Kakashi to the floor carefully. "Who the hell do you think you are you ass?"
Sakumo's eerie green eyes stared at her for a moment before he flipped the knife in his hand and snarled. "Who the fuck are you?"
It was inconceivable to him that someone other than Kakashi could manage to get past the traps and seals placed around their home and despite his wound he somehow managed to push himself up and get to his feet, the knife still tightly gripped in his hand.
Sakumo Hatake was a big man, Naru mused as he stood at his full height, towering over her. But it wasn't just his height that made him big. It was his build, and the impressive sense of presence he had. Those things coupled with the wild sense of danger that cloaked him made him an impressive man indeed.
But not to her. To her he was a selfish son of a bitch doing irreparable damage to his young son.
And she wanted to kick his face in for it.
Sakumo put the tip of the blade against her neck and growled. "Your name bitch. And why you're here."
Naru looked down at the blade and felt him apply a little bit of pressure and without thinking slapped his hand away from her neck causing him to more or less slit her throat. Blood squirted out of the wound, staining her jacket and shirt as Sakumo stood there with a calm look that gradually changed to one of shock when she didn't go down and die.
Naru popped her neck and let him stab her a few times then once she felt he had experimented enough, smacked the knife from his hand and tossed it across the room as made a tsking sound. "For a wolf, you aren't terribly clever. In fact, stabbing and cutting something that is incapable of death is very stupid."
Sakumo bared his teeth at her and growled. "Everything dies. Now tell me who you are and what your doing here before I get truly pissed." Naru gave a breathy little laugh, finding him amusing in a twisted sort of way.
"Cowards who force their children to do their dirty work have no right to demand anything of me."
Sakumo made an angry warning sound and lashed out, getting her across the face with his fist. Naru didn't even move. To be honest the blow hadn't even hurt her. She however could and did hurt him by stepping in close and knocked him back down to the floor and then straddled his waist and dug her fingers into his wound. Sakumo screamed in fury and suddenly fell silent when she slapped her hand over his mouth and leaned down close and spat.
"Worthless scum. Do you know what you're doing to him? Do you even care? You disgusting horrible little maggot! I hate people like you. People who inflict harm without bothering to think of the consequences- You deserve death!" Sakumo growled behind her hand and reached up and gripped both sides of her head in his hands and applied pressure.
Attempting to crush her skull.
It might have worked on a lesser person. Someone human, but it didn't work on her. And aside from the headache she felt coming on before flicking him on the nose in an immitation of Tsunade, causing the man to yelp and try to bite her- it didn't do anything to her at all. The two of them grappled and snarled at each other for a few minutes while Naru maintained contact with Sakumo's body in an effort to heal his wound.
As far as she was concerned the damned man could crawl off and die after she got some damned answers to save his son.
He managed to throw her, not that it mattered any since his wound had been more or less healed, and she hit the floor a few feet from Kakashi with a loud thud as he came up screaming in rage as he lifted up his shirt and patted down his stomach before looking at her, a desolate expression crossing his face for an instat as he lowered the hem of his shirt and asked brokenly, "How could you do something so cruel?"
Naru stared at him for a second, her eyes narrowed. It was on the tip of her tongue to ask him how she was being cruel when he looked to Kakashi's still figure and said in a pained tone. "I love my son-" He looked back at her and snapped. "And I'm dying so that he can live."
Naru cocked her head and looked at him strangely. She was about to ask him what he meant when she caught a feral look on his face a second before he charged her.