Musical Hands: chapter 15

Summary: Kakashi had been listening to an anonymous piano player for years till silence happened. After years of silence, his heart is picked up by the sound of music once more and goes looking with his comrades. Finding an-inner scarred beauty. Naruto has always hidden her real gender till one day she is no longer able to hide. A scarring incident stopping her from living her life, till she met Kakashi.

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Kakashi shuffled with a stifled moan and rolled over on his bed. His arm hitting cold sheets and froze before bolting upright and looked to his bed. It was empty. "A dream?" Kakashi muttered yet felt something cold click against his bare chest and looked down to the necklace around his neck. A smile touched his exposed lips as he brought the gem to his lips and placed a gentle kiss. It pulsed with her chakra. The chakra of his mate.

Kakashi slinked out of bed in his birthday suit and strutted around his room with his keen eyes picking up on something out of place on his bedroom floor. Heading over to the item, Kakashi chuckled as he picked up a pair of utterly destroyed underwear and tossed it in the bin. He'd have to buy his mate a new set once she returned home to him. A small twinge occurred in Kakashi's heart and hung his head low. He missed her already. Even if his room smelt heavily of sex and his mate, Kakashi wanted to hold her again and again and again. He wondered how long it would be before he went insane without her and began hunting her down.

Kakashi shook his head. "No. Narumi will return to me on her own will." Looking to the clock on his nightstand it was already 5 in the morning. She had already left. He sighed again. Rubbing his face and headed into the shower to rid his body of the mixed sweat. His sharingan had remembered everything of their time together yesterday and used those memories to ease the ache in his chest. The necklace pulsed again with warmth and Kakashi smiled. It seemed Narumi was still with him as he placed his hand over the gem and pulse his own chakra. The gem hummed in content and that satisfied Kakashi.

Knocking sounded at Kakashi's door and made Kakashi shut off his water supply and grab a towel to wrap around his hips. Heading to the door when the knocking got louder. He wasn't mad like the previous times and opened the door with a lazy greeting. "Yo, Gai. Rather early aren't you."

Gai froze immediately and was gaping as he pointed to Kakashi's face instantly. "F-f-face…n-no m-m-m-mask…"

Kakashi raised a silver brow and rubbed his bare chin. It felt good not wearing his mask anymore. It was quite stifling at times. "Maah is there a problem with that, Gai?" he no longer needed to wear a mask now that he had found and coupled with his mate. He was unavailable to everyone else. So they could look, but not touch.

Gai knew exactly what happened and pushed Kakashi into his apartment before his fandom rouse. Slamming the door shut and got over the odd feeling of seeing Kakashi's face for the first time. "Kakashi…who…who is she?"

Kakashi just walked back into his room to finish drying up and pulled on his sweats before re-joining Gai in his living room. "Who? Maah, I wonder."

Gai stuttered. "P-please don't tell me you mated with Narumi-san, Kakashi." The girl was…is totally out of Kakashi's league. Even if Kakashi was handsome under his mask.

Kakashi just chuckled. "I'm only telling you because you are my best friend, Gai. So, don't go telling everybody. This is a secret between just you and I for who I am with." Patting Gai's shoulder in a friendly gesture.

Gai paused for a moment in thought. He hadn't seen Kakashi so relaxed ever since his sensei had died almost eighteen years ago. Gai patted Kakashi shoulder in return with a blinding smile. "I understand, My Youthful Rival."

"Good, because I need some help with a secret project before my Mate comes home and I make her my wife." Kakashi stood up and moved back into his room to change again.

"Wife? So soon, Kakashi! You've only met Narumi-san not even a month ago." Gai bounded after Kakashi and ignored the silver-haired man's naked state. "Wait a minute…" Gai saw that Kakashi wasn't greeting his eyes and gasped scandalously as he pointed accusingly at the formerly masked-nin. "You didn't tell her!"

Kakashi ignored Gai's accusations and replied calmly. "If I did, she wouldn't have agreed so easily yesterday. We were bound to couple sooner or later, Gai. It's best to start now, right?" smiling at the green beast with his dimples.

Gai's mouth was like a fish before he shook his head with a sharp sigh. "Kakashi, Kakashi, Kakashi. Undoubtedly, Narumi-san is going to kill you for being so unyouthful."

"I know." Kakashi winched. "That's why we are doing this secret project for her so she doesn't kill me."

Gai sighed but nodded. He didn't want his best friend to die so early at the hands of an enraged blonde. "What do you have planned, My Rival?"

Kakashi pulled out a roll of paper. "The re-construction of Narumi's Sanctuary."

Naruto:

Naruto woke up early in the hotel room Jiraiya had gotten them. Itachi had to leave back to Kisame, yet Sasuke stayed and slept on the floor next to her bed as Jiraiya went out for some 'research'. Naruto frowned and felt something…wrong. Tossing the blankets off her frame, Naruto knelt next to Sasuke and punched his shoulder. "Oi, Teme. Wake up."

Sasuke hissed as he clutched his shoulder and glared at his best friend. "What the fuck, Dobe? You know I like my sleep."

Naruto rolled her eyes before saying. "Something's wrong."

"What do you mean?" Sasuke sat up now with a concerning gaze he'd show no other than the blonde, Itachi and sometimes Jiraiya when he wasn't careful.

Naruto frowned a little and grabbed Sasuke's hand. Placing it over her toned stomach and looked down to her middle. "Something's wrong. Here."

"Dobe? Are you trying to say you're with a child?" Sasuke frowned too and rubbed her middle gently.

"That can't be possible. Kyūbi makes sure I never get pregnant unless someone reinforces their semen with chakra that it becomes too fast for Kyūbi to stop. None of that has happened…unless…" Naruto's eyes widen in shock and yelled. "I'M GOING TO KILL THAT MOTHERFUCKER!"

Kyūbi just snickered within her head.

Sasuke fell onto his butt in surprise. "Dobe shut it! It's too loud to be yelling like this in the morning." Pulling her back down to the ground and held her shoulders. "What the hell are you talking about?"

Naruto rubbed her oncoming migraine. "That…fuckin mutt. I swear I'm going to kill him…" She looked to Sasuke and confessed. "It seems I'm pregnant, Sasuke."

Sasuke's mouth hung open and looked to her middle scandalously. "W-who…?" His eyes narrowed dangerously as his sharingan came to life. "I'm going to gut them alive."

"Not before I get to him first." Naruto muttered darkly. She saw that Sasuke wanted a name and sighed. Pulling her shirt shown a bit and showed him her mark.

"K H." Sasuke read the initial and traced over the moon mark with his eyes carefully. "You're mated…with…" he felt like he should know those initials.

An amused voice came from the window. "Kakashi Hatake. Our little blonde is mated with Kakashi Hatake and is now carrying his child within her."

Naruto and Sasuke looked to Jiraiya with a glared. The former hissing. "You knew!"

"Of course. Don't say I didn't warn you, Naruto. I told you not to have sex with Kakashi, but what did you do yesterday, you go out and spend most of your day making sweet passionate love to your man. I'm not sure if I'm proud or need to maim." Jiraiya giggled.

"KAKASHI!" Sasuke hollered and made Naruto cringe due to her sensitive hearing. "I'm going back! I'm going to kill the perverted bastard!"

Naruto sighed. "Sasuke…"

"Don't you Sasuke me, Naruto! He touched you!" He ignored the pink tint to his cheeks when he said that. "I'm going to kill him and you can't stop me!"

Naruto's brow twitched. "If you kill Kakashi then you are indirectly killing me. Kakashi and I are bound together as mates and as lovers, Sasuke. You can't kill him."

Sasuke froze and brooded silently. "Fine. But I will maim that perverted teacher when I see him again. I will maim."

Naruto sighed in relief.

Jiraiya just found everything amusing. "Well kiddies. As much as I love watching this little drama unfold, we are just a few hours out from reaching Kumogakure. We have to meet up with our escorts in three hours and have to move now."

"Kumogakure." Naruto muttered with downcast eyes. "The homeland of the Namikaze family."

Sasuke didn't react and just began packing up around them. His mind was racing on how to look after Naruto now that she was pregnant. Stupid Hatake was going to get it when Sasuke saw him next.

Jiraiya sighed lightly. "The Namikaze family are always welcomed back to their homeland, Naruto. They were one of the founding families of Kumogakure and have their place."

"Then why leave Kumo for Konoha?" Naruto looked to Jiraiya for the answer.

"One word, Brat." Jiraiya smirked. "Love."

Tsunade:

"They have left the borders of the Land of Fire, Milady." The small orange toad relayed Jiraiya's message before dispersing.

Tsunade sighed in relief. "She's safe." Though her relief was short lived as Danzo came barring into her office with a vein on his forehead visibly throbbing. Tsunade school her features immediately. "Danzo, what do I owe the pleasure of having your presence?"

Danzo sneered. "Don't think your lies fool me, Tsunade. Where is she?"

"I need a name, Danzo. Otherwise I have no idea who you are talking about."

"Narumi!" he barked. "Where is Narumi Yuki and the Yuki clan?! Where is my fiancée…my wife?!" he demanded the blonde Hokage.

Tsunade closed her eyes. "What are you talking about, Danzo? There are no Yuki living in Konoha. The last of that clan died in the Wave Country by Kakashi Hatake during a mission. Haku was his name if my memory serves me correct." She opened her eyes and saw that Danzo didn't believe her. She frowned with a sigh. "Danzo, you are more than welcome to search through the civilian documents, but I assure you that you won't this woman you are looking for. I would know if such a clan was in Konoha. I am Hokage after all and by law, I have no right to deny you your spouse, but there is no Yuki family within Konoha. Have you accounted that Yuki may just be an alias, Danzo? Surly you were not duped by a pretty woman to have forgotten such possibilities." She hid her smirk when she caught Danzo red-handed.

Danzo growled and left the office with a loud slam. He knew his soon-to-be wife was a Yuki and she was alive somewhere. Hiding. "Find her and bring her back to me. Do whatever it takes to bring her back to me…alive. Kill her family and whoever is protecting her." He whispered to the shadows that followed him silently. He would have his prize.

Naruto:

Naruto shivered and stopped walking through the rocky terrain and looked over her shoulder. Sasuke and Jiraiya stopped too with the older man asking. "What is it, Naruto?"

"When will Danzo stop?" she asked and turned to Jiraiya warily.

Jiraiya replied. "Till he's dead. Our safest change of keeping you and your child safe and out of Danzo's hands is by coming back to your family's homeland. As much as I would like to take you to Uzushio, the whirlpools are difficult to navigate through. Even for me." he placed a comforting hand on Naruto's shoulder. "The real question is: Can Kakashi keeps himself in check to not draw suspicions?"

Naruto groaned and palmed her face. "He's mask-less now, Ero-Sennin. There's no need for him to wear his mask now that he has mated."

"You saw his face." Sasuke raised a brow and pointed to his teeth in a sign of buck teeth.

Naruto chuckled and shook her head. "I'll sketch his face for you later. You'll be shocked."

Jiraiya chuckled. "I'm sure Kakashi wouldn't show his face and risk the late return of your homecoming."

Naruto just snorted. Jiraiya didn't know how Kakashi worked. She did. If she knew him well enough, he'd be out in public with a close friend doing weird shit.

Kakashi:

Kakashi and Gai were sprinting like mad men from a large group of very hormonal woman. Gai hissed over to the mask-less Hatake. "Stop being so unyouthful and put your mask back on, Kakashi!" he was lugging large bags of roof tiles for the sanctuary that they picked up from the store.

Kakashi was getting paler by the second as he was heaving bits of thick wire and logs. "I will! I will! Let's just focus on running somewhere safe!"

"BULLSHIT!" Gai cursed and startled Kakashi by his foul mouth. "You won't put your mask back on unless Narumi tells you to! I never hated how hip you are right now more than ever!"

Kakashi just chuckled nervously. Though he yelped when a kunai whizzed past his face and hollered at Gai in fear. "Anko's in there! Every man for himself!" he declared.

Gai picked up his pace too. "Good luck my youthful rival!"

Naruto:

Naruto stiffened and tossed a kunai into a random direction with narrowed eyes. Sasuke and Jiraiya were immediately on guard. "They're here." She whispered lowly.

Jiraiya stretched out his senses and cursed. "Naruto, you have to run." Ignoring her protesting eyes. "You're with a child, Naruto. Kakashi's child. If either you or his child is in danger, he will come for you and quite possibly beat me into the next world for leaving you open for attack. What's most important now is your child. Do you understand?"

Naruto wanted to argue, but knew Jiraiya was right. She couldn't have Kakashi chasing after her is she was in danger and nodded. "I don't like it, but I will co-operate. How many are there?"

"At least 1/3 of Danzo's ROOT members." Sasuke picked up as he activated his sharingan and placed a hand on the hilt of his katana. "I will summon a hawk for you to flee, Naruto. Prepare yourself."

Naruto really wasn't in the mood to deal with Danzo right now and nodded at Sasuke. "Here they come." She whispered as she tossed a dozen kunai at the appearing masked Nins and flipped through a few handsigns. "Kage-kunai." The dozen soon turning into several hundred and impaled several of the ninja that were too slow with their movements.

Sasuke took that action to draw blood and summon a hawk for Naruto. "Dobe, go!" he shouted.

Naruto nodded and leapt on the hawk and started to fly away. She looked behind her with concerning eyes as Sasuke and Jiraiya started fight the ROOT with their clones. Though her eyes widen when a masked ROOT member sudden appeared before her.

"NARUTO!" Jiraiya and Sasuke hollered towards the air-borne blonde.

Naruto saw the man try to grab her but soon she felt warm liquid splatter on her face as the masked-nin was shredded in half and felt to his ultimate death. Naruto stumbled back on the bird and into a hard and wide chest. Looking up through her bloody bangs she was greeted with a toothy smile of her saviour. "Kisame?" Naruto muttered in shock to the blue-skinned shark man.

"The one and only princess. Itachi is down there helping out. Check it." The Akatsuki member gestured down below with Naruto spotting Itachi in his Susanoo form.

Naruto still looked confused and wary up to Kisame.

The shark man just barked in laughter and handed Naruto a cloth to clean the blood from her person while they flew away from the fight. "Itachi saved me, Kid. I owe him my life. I was just a mindless monster that did the Akatsuki's dirty work before Itachi found and reformed me. I ain't going to hurt you or let any enemies hurt ya either, Blondie."

"You remind me so much of Zabuza." Naruto muttered as she wiped the blood of her skin. If Itachi trusted Kisame then Naruto would too. Though slowly.

Kisame laughed. "Good. He and I were like brothers. Now, where are we heading?"

"Kumogakure." Naruto replied as Kisame sat down on the large hawk and placed his sword on his back. Naruto shrugged her shoulders and tapped Kisame's shoulder. "Do you mind?"

Kisame noticed the nervous look in her eyes and grinned. "Come on, Kid. Those boys will be fine. Ain't no rats going to stop them, right? Come here." Pulling her gently into his lap and noted how she didn't feel disgusted at his touch or uncomfortable. She just sat in his lap like they were family. Though he could sense that she was still nervous. "The Akatsuki will be eradicated in two months tops and you and the rest of your Jinchuriki siblings will be home free." Kisame frowned when she heard light snoring and chuckled when he found Naruto asleep in his lap. He wondered why she was so tired.

Kakashi sneezed and banged his head on a plank of wood he was carrying with Gai. "Someone must be thinking about me."

"Yeah. Half the female population of Konoha." Gai voiced smugly and soon found him-self struggling to hold the plank of wood as Kakashi no longer held with support.

Kisame looked to his right and saw Sasuke, Itachi and Jiraiya on another hawk. "You look like shit, Baby Uchiha."

Sasuke glared at Kisame and leapt over to their hawk and checked over Naruto. "She's sleeping." He informed his brother and Sannin. He didn't try and remove Naruto from Kisame and just sat on the head of the bird.

Jiraiya voiced. "We left them all dead. Too dangerous to have any one of them escaping and Danzo finding out that Naruto is with me and Sasuke. Burned their bodies to dust." He looked ahead and spotted the meeting point in the vast distance. "We should be meeting with our escorts soon and led to Kumogakure safely. But be on guard in case Danzo sends more of his troops. Oh and Itachi…" Jiraiya faced the oldest Uchiha. "You are in charge of getting Naruto the supplies she will need for the next few months. I'm talking vitamins, minerals, folic acid and such."

Itachi's brow rose and looked to Kisame and Sasuke. Kisame just shrugged his shoulders and Sasuke just glared out to the lands below. Itachi looked to Jiraiya. "Is Naruto pregnant?" he deduced from what he knew of Naruto's activities with Kakashi yesterday.

Jiraiya just smirked and patted Itachi's shoulder. "I'm going to be a granddaddy."

Itachi paled. "Iruka is going to kill Kakashi."

"Not before I get my hands on him." Sasuke hissed as he began sharpening his sleek katana with his dojutsu activated.

"Am I the only one looking forward to a baby coming into this world?" Jiraiya grumbled with folded arms. He would need to inform Tsunade and no doubt, Kakashi was already pulling together a little love nest for when Narumi returned to him with their child back in the Hatake compound. Jiraiya rubbed his chin. "That's right. Naruto will be living in the Hatake compound now that she had mated with Kakashi. But…will they still want to live together after all this mellow-drama?"

Sasuke hissed. "Naruto will be living in the Uchiha compound and nowhere near the Hatake place. Even when not if, but when Kakashi accepts the truth about Naruto, I'm not letting her live with that perverted man. Never. Not as long as I am breathing the same damn air."

Kisame just shook his head in amusement.

Itachi just sighed. "Sasuke, this is Kakashi you are talking about and when Iruka finds out, he will be fussing for Naruto to live with him as well. Kakashi would most probably maim, threaten and scare the two of you into submission. He's not a former ANBU-Capitan for nothing, Sasuke. Legendary at that too."

"I don't care." Sasuke replied stubbornly. "The fact that he touched Naruto in such a way is enough for me to bring pain."

Jiraiya sighed. People were so stubborn at times. "Sasuke, Kakashi had been courting Naruto gently and carefully. If we hadn't left like we did, Kakashi was planning on getting permission from myself, Tsunade and Itachi to date Naruto officially…well our disguised counterparts he was going to see."

Sasuke looked away from them with an unnoticeable pout. Murmuring. "I'm still going to have a word with Kakashi…alone."

Itachi looked to Jiraiya and shrugged his shoulders. "I'm fine with that. After all, I intend to speak one-on-one with Kakashi as well."

"I don't mind. Just don't kill Kakashi. Naruto will end up killing you two." Jiraiya agreed.

Kisame just chuckled. This group of people were entertaining to watch. He was thankful that Itachi was his partner in Akatsuki. He shuddered at the thought of what would happen to him if it weren't for Itachi. Perhaps an extendable tool for the leader's use. Kisame swore to never let that happen to him and looked to the blonde sleeping in his arms. Yes, he would help protect this blonde that made him felt human.

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A/N: There will be a time skip next. Thank you for staying in tune with my story and I love the reviews each of you leave. Most of them make me laugh happily and write even more into a chapter I have finished previously before posting. Adding more details and such. Thank you.