(POV Kakashi) "Sandaime-Sama, why didn't you tell me the Nohara were a family? You said that she was from a civilian family and an orphan. Not that she had a clan?" The old man coughs.
"Kakashi, do you really think you were in the right place mentally, and understand the Nohara are a miniscule clan in both importance and size. They were grieving, the loss of Rin was a great one for them." The old man puts his head in his hands
"They have since Recovered somewhat but they aren't what they were, Rin was the best medic of the generation. And it showed they might have blamed you. No, they most certainly would have blamed you if you had seen them so soon after." I slam my hands on his desk.
"And, so what if they blamed me." I found a kunai on my neck.
"Stand down Hare!" The Anbu slowly pulls the blade from my neck and disappears into the shadows.
"Kakashi, if you truly want to make Amends I will give you the clan's address. " my left eye starts to tear up. 'Damn you Obito, couldn't you have picked a better time.'
"Please Hokage-Sama." I Bow my head and suddenly a piece of paper is pressed into my pocket. I pull it out and read its contents.
"172 Mouton way?" The old man nods sadly. I walk out the front door and Shushin to the bank.
(2 hours later[172 Mouton way])
"This is the place?" Hokage-Sama wasn't exaggerating when he Said the clan was small, the compound couldn't have fit more than 7 houses.
I walk up to the gate with a slouch hands in my pockets, and at the front are two short men with brown hair and purple markings.
"Yo, I'm here to visit the Nohara Clan Head please." The men stiffen slightly
"Name and business please." They look at me with an appraising gleam in their eyes.
"Hatake Kakashi, the clan head of the Hatake Clan, here to make an alliance and also amends." The man on the right taps on his ear and says "Hatake Head?"
Suddenly he nods and says "My name is Nohara Ensui, follow me please." I step in line behind him and keep pace.
I get led through the small compound to the building in the center, it looks slightly bigger than the others at three stories compared to their two. "In here Hatake-Sama."
The door slides open and I'm merely by an office much like the mission desk in the Hokage's tower only with cabinets and a few extra desks.
"Hello Hatake-Sama, the Nohara head will see you now." A voice comes from my right. A black haired girl, civilian most likely.
"Very well." I nod my head as she points to a doorway.
With measured movements I walk through the door, the Clan Members close it behind me. I walk down the stairs.
It takes me two flights of stairs to reach the bottom of the stairs well and on the way to the bottom I pass the library.
I opened the door with the sign "Nohara Head Office."
"Welcome Hatake-San, you said you were here for an alliance and to make amends?" I nod.
I slowly reach into my pocket and pull out a storage scroll and set it on the desk, it's sealed with a piece of tape with the Ryo symbol on it.
"Here is reparations for my involvement in the death of Nohara Rin as dictated, I am aware that I can never make it up to the clan, or to myself but I have at the very least, followed protocol." I unfurl the scroll and with a small pulse of Chakra two bags open on the table.
"One Million Ryo each Ma'am." The woman behind the desk smiles softly.
"I never introduced myself, my name is Nohara Shiori." I look at the desk and sure enough the nameplate is as she says, written with the Kanji for Paper and Weave.
"Hatake-San, this is double the required amount, you know that right?" She says sternly. I nod my head.
"Yes, and it will never be enough." I say, my voice cracks in the middle. The woman behind the desk says.
"We thank you very much Hatake-San, we are a small Clan with only 45 members and every single bit counts, we've been having a rough patch greatly." She rolls her chair to the wall behind her and bites her hand. Suddenly she swipes it over the wall and a seal aray lights up in a flash.
'A giant storage seal' She tosses the bag at the wall and they disappear with two puffs of smoke.
"Now, about the Alliance you mentioned, what terms are you looking for, your clan is even smaller than ours you know. You're down to no one but yourself." I tense in my spot, I have to make a good offer I reply
"Well obviously in defense of hearth and home mind you, and I'm willing to go on missions with you clan members at your request as long as you use it reasonably and every joint mission I'll forfeit half my pay. And it goes without saying that I'll give you a copy of every book in the Hatake Library if you do the same." She looks at me and says.
"You'll sell that blade oil to us at half price and you have a deal." I smile and produce the scroll contract.
"And the punishments for breaking a clause?" I ask.
She puts her head in her hands and starts to hum while thinking.
"If one of us breaks a clause we have to pay a fine of 532,466 Ryo alright?" I nod and cut my thumb and bloody the contract, Shiori-San does the same.
"Pleasure doing business with you Ka-Ka-Shi." She pulls up my sleeve and draws the clan symbol on my shoulder and burns it into my skin. I grunt in pain before I take the ink from her and ask her
"Where do you want it?" She smiles and pulls down the collar of her Kimono and points to her collar bone.
With that I draw the Hatake symbol and burn it into her skin as she did the Nohara symbol into mine.
"Very well, Hatake-Nohara Kakashi, have a nice day." I nod.
"And may the Nohara Clan flourish under our alliance." I walk out of the room with a lightness to my steps I haven't had since before Rin's death.
I walk out of the compound and Shushin into the hokage's office through the window. I appear in the center of the room in a swirl of leaves.
"Everything has been taken care of by me Sandaime-Sama. Have a good day" I hop out the window.