Sakumo's goal was clear to her, but everything else was a mystery. An infuriating, irritating, mystery that Naru was becoming more and more determined to figure out as Sakumo charged her. She waited until he was almost literally upon her before grabbing his vest and tossing him into the air hard enough for him to hit one of the rafters above her head before he tumbled through the air and hit the floor, head first.
Jarring him senseless and semi conscious.
Naru cringed a little bit, having not meant to use his three hundred and thirty pound body against him in such a way and after checking to make sure that she hadn't broken his neck she sighed and sat back on her heels next to him and thought for a moment. She wouldn't be able to get information from him in his current state. He simply wasn't lucid enough to be of any use to her.
So that left her with some jutsu but it felt wrong to her to use any of them on him. After all, this man was more or less her soon to be father-in-law and if anything she should be asking him for an autograph or something. I mean how often could a girl say that she met the frigging White Fang of Konoha- Before he killed himself.
However she needed some way to extract the information needed and since he refused to calm down long enough to actually talk to her, then that left her with only a few options left.
One of them was to look into his memories as well. Which would be dangerous for her since she was already looking through Kakashi's and had already altered them to a degree. Not only that but if she looked too deeply she could become trapped and then both she and Kakashi would be lost.
She was sure that she could possibly pull the information if she used the Yamanaka clans mind jutsu like abilities that she had for a little while.
But there was just two tiny problems with that. One was that it felt far too much like she would be torturing Sakumo. And two, was that she had never used it before to test it out. She felt that just because she had power, she shouldn't use it too much.
It could become addictive and currupt her.
That and the use of that particular ability was considered an gross invasion of privacy because it would tell her far too much and lay Sakumo's mental defenses and his soul completely bare. She would see and know everything from beginning to end.
What makes him tick. How devoted he was to the village, to his family, his clan- Everything.
I'm not so sure I want to know that much but something has to be done or Kakashi will probably die. Naru thought as she chewed on her bottom lip and glanced over at little Kashi. She wasn't sure how long he'd be out since he possessed his adult self's conscious mind so she needed to make a choice and do something before he woke up and started to relive his father's death again.
Finally deciding to take a huge risk to gain the information needed, Naru sighed and placed one hand on the still stunned man's forehead and focused until she felt that peculiar fuzziness fill her head-
The first memory she come across was one chocked full of information about the clan.
Apparently like the Hyugga's, the Hatake clan was broken down into two or three branches. The warrior class, which possessed a keen intellect, sharp mind, and skills beyond the other branchs. They were classified by the color of their hair and eyes since the warrior class of the class were always born with silver hair, tan or fair skin, and were very pleasing to look upon.
The second branch was comprised of women who dealt in politics. Who were often married to some of the warrior class for certain reasons.
And then there was the citizen class- the non warriors of the clan. The defenseless ones that for the first hundred years or so were looked down on and thought of as useless. However after about a hundred and fifty years the head of the clan laid down some new rules that he enforced with severe pain if anyone didn't follow them to the letter.
Apparently several young men of the warrior class had attacked and raped an innocent girl from the citizen class. The girl's family was led to believe to have instigated the incident and was labled a whore and shunned by her them.
However after she learned that she was preganant and had confronted her attackers and had them laugh at her and tell her that no one would do anything about it, the girl went to see the head of the clan who had at one time been one of the citizen class but after his tenth birthday his parents had been killed and the former clan head had adopted him; he heard the girl out and was sypathetic to her plight.
So to set things right he made an example of the young men responsible for causing so much pain, then found a husband for her within the clan and set up things so that no matter what happened, she and her child should she choose to keep it would never want for anything.
This caused some hostility among the ranks, but others from the different branchs though this was a very wise thing to do since many of the younger generation had no real concept of the harm and discontentment they were creating among their ranks.
After all the girl that had been hurt wasn't the first and many of the others had been close cousins to some of the others in the warrior class.
After time the three branchs were merged. Mainly to stop the mistreatment of the weaker ones among other things.
Sakumo himself had been born to a traditional family with a warrior class father and an mother who was a distant cousin. His father had often told him that they had to intermarry or their blood line would become tainted. Which was why his father was so excited when Sakumo's mating instincts triggered when he was sixteen. The female in question was the daughter of another warrior class, one of Sakumo's cousin's.
Sakumo stuck unusually close to her while his body changed from that of a wirey and lean framed sixteen year old boy, to one built for ripping through people like tissue paper. And after his condition was stabilized by a little bit of chakra from his mate, pushed through his skin right over his heart to mark him- Sakumo's mate told him flat out that she didn't want him.
Which led him to eventually kill the man she was planning to marry. After that he forced her to marry him and while she hated him at first, he managed to eventually get her to see that they couldn't ever be apart. It was simply unheard of for a claimed male to let him woman run wild and have illicet affairs with others.
It wasn't until Kakashi was born that they really became a family. Karin was nothing but a loving mother. And Sakumo was nothing but a loving father. But all of that changed on the day that Karin died.
Or rather everything changed on the day that Sakumo came home from a mission and found his wife standing over their crying one year old son with a knife in her hand and a crazed look on her face.