Chapter 31

Beta'd by Black Sparrow

Shiori Interlude

The months after the lunch with the future senseis Shiori was so occupied with her work and family that she hadn't realized how fast time had been flying by until the day came when Kakashi told her that he would become a Genin sensei.

Sandaime-sama had apparently arranged this so that Kakashi would not only teach the last surviving Uchiha member how to use the Sharingan but could also spend more time with his young family. Kakashi was very thankful for this thoughtful solution of his Hokage, Hinako was growing with each day and during the last few months he had missed a lot of her stepping stones because some high priority missions had led him far away from the village.

When she heard the news Shiori had paused for a moment while she contemplated what this would mean for her now that 'Canon' had begun.

Unwilling to panic and worry herself right now Shiori had turned to the obvious part of what Kakashi had said and teased him throughout the whole day about his new status as sensei. She called him sensei at the most inappropriate moments and drove him nuts with it, Kakashi seemed to love and hate the word pretty much equally.

So when he had told her in the evening after their first round of sex on that day that she was a tease, Shiori had just grinned and crawled leisurely on top of him, from there on she had slowly kissed down his chiseled torso until she arrived at the beginning of his silver pubic hair. With a devious smirk Shiori had taken his softened member into her mouth which was still somewhat wet from his come and her juices, thankfully the taste didn't bother her so much while she sucked. As a result Kakashi had become hard faster than she could have said Hokage tower and had her on all fours while he took her from behind. Shiori had been unable to do anything else while she felt as her arms and legs gave out until only Kakashi's strong grip held her in place while he jack hammered into her and she writhed in pleasure underneath him. Since starting a relationship with him she had never quite broken his control in this way and wow she definitely would be doing this again.

When she came it was with a shrieked, "Kakashi-sensei!" on her lips before she blacked out.

Shiori awoke some time later to Kakashi softly kissing her relaxed body and dizzily grinned up at him more than satisfied.

"You are such a god damned tease. I will never be able to hear this title again without thinking back to this night. You have ruined me, how can I look my soon to be students in the eyes when all I will remember is this night? I hope you are happy now!" Kakashi lamented amused while he continued to kiss her body lazily, the only answer he received was a tired giggle before Shiori fell asleep in her husband's arms.

On the next morning Shiori was awoken by careful fingers that stroked over her right hipbone and sent delicious shivers down her back, she murmured happily before she turned and moved closer to the heat source that was her husband.

"Do you have to get up already?" she asked tiredly while she softly stroked his biceps and then kissed the ANBU tattoo on Kakashi's arm.

"Hhm I have a guard shift after lunch." Kakashi answered lazily.

Something in his voice was off but Shiori was still too tired to find out what was wrong right now.

Content the black haired mother snuggled even closer to her husband but before she could go back to sleep she heard her daughter calling for her in the next room. Sighing tiredly Shiori opened her eyes and looked amused in the grey one of her husband before she got up to get Hinako something to eat and or change her diaper.

Hinako was now fourteen months old and discovering new things around every corner. Her little baby girl was already speaking in basic but complete sentences and she was also quite fast if somewhat unsteady on her feet now. This had given Shiori quite a few heart attacks in the last few weeks, the speed in which she was developing was definitely not normal. From what she could remember from Eliza's blurry memories babies weren't supposed to do what Hinako was doing at her age. When she brought up her concerns with Himawatari-sensei, the doctor had given Shiori a guide about baby development; it seemed as if the baby development in this world was generally faster than Eliza's. It had calmed Shiori down somewhat and now she was reading the book whenever she had time. The black haired civilian was pretty sure that she could start to potty train little Hina-chan in a few more weeks. Mentally Hinako had probably been ready for this for a few weeks now but it didn't matter how fast her mind was developing if her body wasn't ready yet, there was no sense in trying to train her to use the toilet.

Hinako's increased understanding had helped with quite a lot of baby mile steps, teething on the other hand had been a nightmare. Besides Hinako's pitiful crying she had also been able to verbally tell them what was wrong with her, that neither of the new parents had been able to effectively do anything against it had broken Shiori's heart. The young mother had so desperately searched for ways to relieve Hinako's discomfort during that time that she nearly completely exhausted herself. It thankfully got better with cold bite rings and baby food, and things had looked up after that pretty soon.

Especially during that time Shiori had been glad for the support their friends and acquaintances gave them. Whenever Shiori needed a time out there were one or even more people ready to take her daughter or when worst came to worst there was always the crèche to fall back to. These small breathers helped Shiori a lot to not get frustrated with her always questioning daughter, but no matter how well she knew Kakashi's colleagues the black haired woman still felt uncomfortable with leaving her baby longer than a few hours with anybody but the ANBU team and so most of the time Hinako was entertained in the Hatake household while her mother was either catching up on sleep or doing something else relaxing.

Surprisingly it was Anko who visited the most from the newly informed group of ninja, it was probably because of her status as a member of the T&I division. She either worked directly in Konoha or was sent off on long missions that took up months.

The snake chunin was… interesting. She didn't like to talk about her private life or past, but somehow found a surprising amount of pleasure in telling Shiori about the different psychological tricks and the reactions she drew with them. The first few times this woman had visited Shiori had an inkling that she was under observation to see if she could be a threat to Konoha and so the conversations had been a bit awkward but with time Anko relaxed somewhat. They weren't best friends or something like that but they had reached an understanding and their mutual love for tea ceremonies and sweets gave them something to talk about. The violet haired kunoichi was also somewhat bipolar and had the strangest mood swings Shiori had ever seen, but she had never been in any way malicious to her. There were days when there was something unbelievingly violent in her eyes and it often led to the destruction of cups or plates but never ever had Anko lost control in the vicinity of Hinako and for that Shiori couldn't help herself but respect the woman.

With time the black haired civilian had come to realization that the kunoichi was simply very lonely.

From what she had gleaned from the few things she got out of the chunin she deduced that Anko was a workaholic of circumstance. Yes she loved her job, no question there but she spent too many hours in the T&I building because if she went home she would be confronted with her isolation from the rest of Konoha. The few friends that she did have outside her T&I colleagues had irregular working hours and were often out of the village when she had days off. Shiori on the other hand was a civilian and never left the village, she also had pretty fixed times at which she would be at home and while she wasn't a friend per se, she was somebody who didn't avoid her for her connection to Orochimaru. When Shiori had realized this she had given the slightly insane woman a standing invitation to visit.

A perk of Anko's regular presence was that she could easily track down Hinako when the mischievous girl had once more decided to explore and then hide from her mother.

From what Shiori had seen during visiting mother-child courses in the hospital, ninja babies as a rule developed faster motor skills but were in the mental development just as fast as their civilian counterparts, in Shiori's case her little girl developed faster in both departments.

To increase Hinako's reflexes and agility even further Kakashi played all sorts of games with their toddler daughter. There were even ninja children songs that would help with concentration and memory later on in life.

It had taken Shiori some time to consciously acknowledge that her baby would become a kunoichi when she grew up and with that came a dangerous lifestyle.

When she had burst into tears one day without any particular reason she had shocked her husband into immobility for a few moments. Shiori had only calmed down somewhat when Kakashi had taken her into his arms and had rocked her like the two of them did with Hinako. On that day she had finally started to accept her daughter's fate and possible other future children and started to learn the songs and games from Kakashi.

If she couldn't protect her baby from this dangerous lifestyle, she would damn well give her the tools to do it herself.

When Kakashi had returned from a tiring mission and had caught Shiori for the first time playing ninja developing games with Hinako and singing to her at the same time, an invisible weight had lifted itself from his shoulders. He had seen in the last few months how Shiori had unconsciously denied the fact that their precious little girl would one day become a ninja and he had begun to worry about this blatant refusal of reality. The cry attack some weeks before had somewhat alleviated the tension in their household and now it looked like Shiori had finally accepted the inevitability of a clan child's life.

The silver haired Jounin couldn't help but be proud of his wife, the well hidden strength in her always surprised and elated him and it drove home the fact again and again just how lucky he had been when he met her.

Said Jounin now got up from their double bed and took a shower, he felt guilty and angry with himself; yesterday he had left marks on Shiori for the first time as long as he could remember. On both of her hips and lower back were violet-blue fingerprints that were turning darker with the minute and Kakashi felt rotten. With practiced movements, the shinobi slipped into his clothes and wandered down into the kitchen where Shiori was preparing their breakfast and on the side cleaned up the mess their little princess was making.

Kakashi watched amused as another spoonful of carrot mash landed on the floor and his wife sighed while she rolled her eyes and bent over to clean the latest spot Hinako had prettified with her breakfast. With a quick movement he saved Shiori from having to change her shirt and led the full spoon gently into Hinako's mouth. His daughter looked up at him with an innocent astonishment that made him snort in amusement, her big blue eyes had finally settled to her mother's color and with his own silver hair color she made a really cute sight.

"Thank you," Shiori said wryly before she took the soup and the fish from the cooking stove and put them on the table.

"Is something wrong?" Shiori asked curiously after finishing her soup, Kakashi was never this pensive during breakfast.

Said man looked seriously up at her before he sighed and put down his chopsticks while he looked unhappily at his wife, "I hurt you."

"You hurt me?" Shiori asked astonished.

She felt fine… shouldn't she… be aware of the fact that he hurt her somehow?

"You have bruises on your hips," Kakashi tried to clarify.

"I have…" curious Shiori checked her hips and really she had Kakashi's fingertips in blue on her skin. Shiori ran her fingers over the small round spots and then snorted and shook her head. "Firstly, I wouldn't have even noticed them if you hadn't pointed them out. Secondly I have very pale skin and bruise easily, believe me that is nothing and thirdly even if they had hurt I wouldn't regret it because the experience last night was phenomenal and I'm seriously thinking about teasing you more often into losing a bit of your iron control if that is the result," the last part was said teasingly.

Shiori watched amused as her husband looked somewhat lost at her and the two finished their breakfast in silence, together the two cleaned up the table before Shiori walked over to the toddler in the high chair and picked her up. With a quick step over to Kakashi's place at the sink she kissed him reassuringly on the lips while combing through his gravity defying hair. After that she quickly deposited Hinako in Kakashi's arms with the order to take her outside and play a bit in the sun. With a last smile and a happy hum Shiori turned around and picked up the dirty laundry she had moved the night before to the staircase, she had some work to do before she could drop off Hinako at the crèche and check on the tea house.