Forever Love

October 2008

Standard Disclaimers apply. Sorry it's late.

But here's to independece and the right to vote!

xXx

" So…" asked the normally loud blonde.

"So what?" replied Kakashi sitting on the once brand new couch that Arune had dragged him to buy when they officially got engaged. The couch was certainly becoming Kakashi's favorite piece of furniture since he came back to Konoha.

"So how exactly is getting Karin in close with Yasuo going to help Nee-chan remember you?"

"Naruto, getting Katin in had nothing to do with helping Arune. The reason Karin is working for Yasuo, along side of your ANBU, is to get information about how Yasuo blocked Arune's memory. Making Arune remember me is my job. After all, Yasuo can block Ruin's memory but her body most definitely remembers me," chuckled Kakashi.

"SENSEI!!! I didn't need to know that!"

xXx

Shourai walked out of his room dressed as a replica of his father. He found It funny that he was wearing a mask at the same age his father wore it, five. Of course their reason's were different, Kakashi's reason was still unknown to him, but Shourai figured his father had a long history with that mask and one day would fill him in on the importance of it. Until then Shourai would don his own-well in reality his father's- mask and try to help his mother.

xXx

Kakashi finished talking with Naruto and smiled seeing his son trying to sneak out of the house dressed like him. Being away from Yasuo had allowed Shourai to grow out his silver hair. His son was a mirror image of him, sadly though that meant that Shourai had gone through a lot of torture while living with Yasuo. Both Kakashi and Shourai had to grow up without their real fathers. For Shourai, he lived a tortured life with Yasuo whereas Kakashi simply locked himself away from making a 'family' for himself. After Kakashi's father's death, Kakashi had even strained away from Arune who was very much like his family. In fact, she was family but Kakashi just hadn't found out about it yet.

Kakashi had a feeling that Shourai would be going to Arune. After all, she was all that he had for a very long time. But Kakashi couldn't help but worry about his son's safety.

xXx

Arune sat in her son's room for the millionth time that month. Yasuo had gone off to work long before she was awake, leaving her to wallow in her own misery. She often wondered how easily Yasuo could forget about his own son. It seemed to her that Yasuo never was really interested in Shourai. But didn't Yasuo always want to keep Shourai with him when her baby wasn't on mission or at the academy? It seemed to her that Shourai would always spend more time with him rather than his mother.

Arune walked over to her son's dresser and started rearranging his clothes. She still didn't consider her baby dead. She thought of it as a mother's intuition that her son was still alive and healthy - probably much more healthy than he was at home. She felt as if her boy was on a mission and would be home any minute.

But the feeling that her son was safe and alive was nothing new to Arune. She would sometimes have dreams where she was pregnant and feeling that someone who was supposed to be at her side was not there and that the person was safe but lost. Arune just couldn't put a face to to the person behind the darkness and the mask that concealed everything from her.

The window of his room was open and Shourai could see his mother rearranging his clothes. She picked up the black button down shirt that he had never worn but always considered and folded it.

Shourai's eyes filled with tears as he could see that his mother's frail body showed more signs of malnutrition and looked beat. Her face was plastered into a permanent frown and that made him even more upset. Her eyes were swollen and red while her hair was messy and pulled back hastily. His mother was depressed and that made Shourai even more determined. Everything around her seemed to be upset. Shourai smiled remembering that his mother always had that effect on people. Her very presence could change the mood of people. If she was happy then everyone smiled, but if she was upset then the entire world would be depressed and dark.

Clutching the piece of paper in his hand, Shourai jumped to his window.

But before he could make it there, he found himself surrounded by strong arms. The strong arms held the genin in place as the shark-masked man moved them deeper into the forest.

Thankfully Shourai had found enough space to move and place the paper he was holding into his shirt.

xXx

Suigetsu held the little boy in his arms, trying to calm the frantic masked boy down.

It wasn't working.

"Stupid kids, sit the hell down before I beat you down," said Suigestu.

The threat wasn't really dangerous to Shourai but the boy had work to do. He had to get his mother to know the truth about Yasuo.

"I need to get to my mother, please, don't hurt me," Shourai said.

Suigetsu looked shocked. As long as he had watched over Shourai, he had never heard him talk.

Suigestu had been assigned to protect Shourai everytime Naruto was busy or when Sasuke was out of town on a mission.

That was until he got kidnapped by Yasuo on an ANBU mission trying to take down Yasuo's money laundering business. But even his getting caught was part of the mission.

The former Team Hawk had all become Konoha ANBU and were assigned to take down the money lord.

Suigetsu hesitated but only for a second before knocking the silver haired kid out. The piece of paper tha Shoura had hit was uncovered to Suigetsu but all it seemed to be was an empty piece of paper. It probably had a blood jutsu on it, meaning only a family member could open and read the paper. So deeming the paper safe, Suigetsu let it drift into Arune's window near where she was sitting.

Ah the power of controlling the tiny particles of water in the air.

xXx

Arune put her son's picture down on to the table next to his bed, when she noticed a blank piece of paper that traveled I nthrough Shourai's window on to the bed next to her. The paper seemed innocently blank right until Arune touched the sheet. One she recognized that it was her son's birth certificate, her eyes went wide with hock as her eyes drifted over to where her son's father's name was.

Father: Hatake, Kakashi

That name was something Yasuo had threatened Naruto to never mention in thier house.

*Flash back*

"Onee-chan, you can't live here with Yasuo. Kakashi-sensei left you the mansion to stay in. I mean after Shourai is his -" Naruto said before Yasuo slammed the book he was reading patiently while waiting for Arune to be discharged from the hospital after her delivery.

"Enough! Naruto, you know her memory has malfunctioned. Do you honestly want her to put more pressure on her mind than she already has. Nothing will happen to Shourai. I promise I'll take care of him," Yasuo said before reaching to take the pale bundle out of Arune's hands.

She smiled looking down at her baby but started feeling faint when she caught sight of a silver reflection on top of his head.

*End Flashback*

xXx

Suigetsu placed the unconscious boy in front of the Uchiha and the boy's father.

" Would you like to explain why my son is unconscious, Suigetsu?" asked Kakashi while laying his five year old in his lap and started taking him over to his bed.

"Well your amazing son was just about to ruin your lovely plan by letting your wife know he was alive. So you can thank me by showing me some respect," spat Suigetsu.

Kakashi shook his head as he laid his son on the bed and left to talk to Sasuke about Karin's progress with Yasuo. The trained chakra expert was slowly poisoning Yasuo and taking his army down by causing fights amongst themselves.

The poison that Karin was giving Yasuo was causing his brain cells lose the ability to think clearly. It was deteriorating his mind to the point where he would lose the capability to lie. He was already starting to see images that were his greatest fear.

With Yasuo and Karin...

breathed heavily as he stopped and rested in the middle of forest where he was running towards the small fishing village in the Wind country.

The trip would take a normal civil person about a week but Yasuo wasn't the simple civilian he was believed to be. He was incrediblly fast and had the ability to alter images. He could make you believe that you were swimming in an ocean while in actuality you were burning in a volcanoe. Karin had seen that first hand when she saw Suigetsu being tortured.

Karin was trailing behind him slightly and took the poisoned water bottle she had prepared for him. She had been studying his chakra patterns and found them incredible. Not only could he use chakra, but he also trained his chakra to flow anywhere it was unrecognizable. But Karin saw that his chakra protected his vital organs. Yasuo had arranged his chakra so that most of it surrounded his heart, brain and other organs. That's why the poison was concentrated to affect his heart and brain cells. That way Yasuo could think that he was physically alright.

Yasuo looked up from the ground as he finally caught his breath.

Yasuo gasped as he saw Karin running toward him at full speed and all the while clutching a rather large katana.

Karin smiled as she saw that her poison was working. Yasuo's mind would start playing tricks on itself.

xXx

The moon shown behind Kakashi as he stood in front of his wife's window and thought before stepping inside and walking over to where she was sleeping.

Her face was peaceful and he saw her clutch a piece of paper to her heart. He could see the wet spots that were drying tears on the paper but from where he stood the paper looked empty.

But once he took it out of Arune's delicate grasp, he smiled knowing that his son had given his mother a gift; the memory of her husband, the real father of her child.

So now he was making his moves even faster.

He pulled off his mask, so that even if Yasuo had some home Kakashi would be unrecognizable, and bent over his wife.

His sharingan slowly turned as he leaned in and kissed Arune softly before pulling her into his arms. Once she was secure in his arms, he transported them into his house, where he had told everyone of his friends to evacuate.

Arune shifted slightly to rest her weight on Kakashi's chest. The plan was to allow Arune's memory of Kakashi to come back but not to let her know of Shourai's life. If she could join both of her memories- the one that she still had and made recently with the ones of her past- then Kakashi could get everything back to normal.

Moving a piece of her hair, Kakashi shook his wife slightly so she would wake up.

One look into his spinning Sharingan would be all that Arune needed to remember.

Or so Kakashi hoped.

Author's Note:

I'm sorry i've been unnecessarily busy. I've got finals coming up so I'm in much need of studing. I'm also at cross roads as to what major I want to persue.

i'm debating between Pre-Med and Business. two very different subjects so show me your cases as well as ur reviews please.