Part of the Pack

Kakashi was running.

Kakashi was running.

Kakashi was running.

There were shouts coming from behind him, but he kept running. He doesn't know what happened, one minute he was with his cubs the next the uchiha bust threw his door, they had taken Kaguya and Sasuke he doesn't know what happened to Sai, Sakura, and Naruto.

He ran.

He ran away like a coward...

He tried he tried to turn back to them but he could...

How could he just leave them there?

They were crying and screaming...

All he knew they were dead and he left them there...

He kept running.

The voices were getting closer and closer it. It was Madara behind him. He was scared. He'd lose his eye. He'd lose the last of Obito that he had, flashed of obitos dead body, dead eye flashed in his mind. Obito had died smiling telling him to take care of the kids and that everything would be okay. Obito was telling him that everything would be fine... it wasn't.

Sometimes it was hard to look at Kaguya for what she did. But he knew it wasn't her fault, for it wasn't her, it was another version of her. He hated himself when he could barely stand the sight of her, still he'd smile and hug her as if both were wrong, she is only a two year old child, she doesn't need to worry about that stuff. No child should.

Those days he'd just go to the village and avoid all the kids.

It hurt, only him knowing, only him feeling this way. He needed to be stronger then that for them... but he left them... why did he leave them?

He heard Naruto's screams, was he dead? Did they kill him for being an uzumaki? But he made sure to remove any clan mark from them... he heard Kaguyas heart breaking sobs, was she hurt or just scared? She's only two...

He heard Sasukes yells for his younger siblings, had he witnessed them be killed? Just harmed? He loved his siblings more then anything, it was the uchiha in him... he heard Sakuras fighting, was she trying to get away? Get to her siblings? She was also crying... he heard Sai screaming for him... Sai was crying for him to help them... but he ran...

He felt tears fall down his face.

He doesn't know if they're alive for okay.

The voices behind him go louder and louder, maybe in his older body he'd be faster but right now he was only 14 and Madara was in his 20s or 30s and had been trained since he could walk.

He had to think fast.

He swerved through the trees, pushing passed brush and branches continuing down the dark passed in the woods.

The further he ran the darker it seemed to get. he felt cuts and bruises being traced on his skin, he'd lost his mask somewhere while running away. He felt so makes and vulnerable.

He saw a cliff coming up in front of him, it was connected to a waterfall, if he jumped he'd make it into water, hopefully not hitting rocks.

Itd hurt but as long as he didn't hit rocks he'd be fine, so he jumped.

He felt himself hit the water, his head got cloudy.

He felt as if someone was calling his name, it sounded like a child. Sounded like Rin... was she waiting for him on the other side? Was this his end?

It took multiple splashes of other falling near him for him to shake the cloudiness out of his head before hurting himself to the land, dragging himself the coughed up water.

He looked behind him to see Madara and a few other uchiha approaching the land too. He dragged himself up stumbling into the trees once again.

He shivered feeling the cold air on his now wet body.

He tried to quicken his pace as he heard the footsteps once again behind him, this however caused him to tumble down a hill into a small clearing very similar to the one he'd put their home in.

As he hit the bottom of the hill he slammed his head on a rock making him cry out in pain.

He opened his eyes to see Madara staring back at him before kneeling down on him and wrapping his hands around his throat squeezing just enough for a reaction.

Maybe it was being in a 14 year old body, maybe it was wanting to see his kids once again but in short breaths he begged.

He begged Madara not to kill him.

Madara didn't listen...

Kakashi cried dragging his nails into Madaras hands trying to pry them off of him.

Madaras one hand lifted as the other squeezed more, he brought his hand up to Obitos eye as Kakashi choked for air.

He felt the eye rip out of his socket painfully, he heard the ripping of the veins, saw the sadistic smile shown on Madaras face, heard the laughter that came from the boy who looked like Sasuke but with longer hair.

Again his heard Rins voice... And Obito?

As his vision faded to black he felt a punch to his stomach, vision filling to white for a moment as he gasped in pain.

"Kakashi!!! Wake up already!!! It's Thanks Giving!!"

It was Naruto..... it was just a dream... it was all just a dream.

Sakura was next to the bed looking a bit worried, and next to him on the bed was Sasuke still somehow sound asleep through Naruto's yelling.

Naruto was sitting on his chest laughing loudly at the fact he'd woken Kakashi up, completely unaware of the dream he'd had.

Slowly he lifts his arms wrapping them around Naruto hugging the small child tightly, not wanting to ever let him go.

Naruto gladly excepted the hug, melting into it. Kakashi waved Sakura to come closer as as she did he pulled her into the hug too.

He gently as to not wake him up he hugged Sasuke too. His dream wouldn't come true, he'd never leave them like that. It scared him because the dream was scarily vivid but now he knows why he couldn't turn back to get them, it was a silly dream and nothing more.

He sat up letting the children go.

"Are you gunna make us a feast?" Naruto asked practically jumping up and down, Kakashi laughed softly before nodding.

"Let your big brother sleep" Kakashi said while standing up, hurrying the two out of the room as to not disturb Sasuke.

"Is anyone else awake?" The two shook their heads. It wasn't surprising ready, Sai was seven and had to do so much work while he was gone, he probably barely slept and while Sai was gone Sasuke had to watch the younger ones and for Sasuke anything social even with his siblings is tiring for him. And Kaguya was basically a baby so she needed lots of sleep.

"Are you two gonna be good helpers for me today then? Until those three wake up?" He hummed at them with a soft smile, face feeling naked with his mask.

They nodded excitedly, it would be their first Thanks Giving there, still they hadn't been in this timeline long, maybe a month? Less? Who knows.

He pulled out all the food that was going to be made, it was a wide variety because he wanted stuff all the children would enjoy.

He had a turkey, ham, BBQ, Ramon, plain tomato's, rice, fish he'd caught, salad and fruit, syrup-coated anko dumplings, momen tofu, and salt-broiled saury and miso soup with eggplant.

It was a long list and they'd probably have food left over but he wanted everyone to be happy, he'd spent a long time collecting all of these things for them, soon he'd have to get them coat's because it's starting to get cold outside.

He sneezed and sniffled his nose before coughing, this caused Sakura to give him a worried look, he hoped he wasn't getting sick now.

He had the two children start helping with the food, if they started now it's be done before sunset. Hopefully

Soon enough Sasuke was up and helping, secretly but not so slyly trying to steal tomatoes causing Kakashi to have to put them on a shelf that the boy couldn't reach. This caused Sasuke to pout and drag his feet while helping.

Kaguya was the next one to wake up, she got to sit on Kakashis shoulder while he cooked, her bed head was wild and she was happy as can be watching him cook, every now and then getting to taste the food with the rest of her siblings.

It took Sai much longer to wake up but if you asked Kakashi he'd say the child got a much deserved rest, the house was clean, the children were in one peace and safe. Sai did a good job for a seven year old and if he wanted to sleep till dinner, he wasn't going to fuss about it.

Thankfully, he didn't sleep till dinner and woke up by about noon, by that time he had given the kids a break from cooking and gave them all a small snack not wanting to ruin their appetite for the large dinner they were going to have.

They ate their snacks and then continued making their feast.

Just before sunset dinner was done and they all sat at the table forgetting about all their issues, fears and everything that didn't have to do with that moment, they filled their plates and bowls while laughing and talking.

Not one even waisting a minute of the beautiful moment on anything other then family, they spoke about the things they're grateful for, happy about, their wishes for the future. The listened to Kaguyas incomprehensible bables, trying to guess what she was saying.

They played games, messed around, made cookies and pies making messages. They cleaned up together, and ended up all sleeping in the living room together.

Kakashi had peacefully slept with no dreams that night

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Somewhere far away from our little pack was a large group of red headed people at an even larger table they were yelling laughing, speaking over each other, none seemed to mind much about that though. At the end of the table looking out at their people with great fondness was and old man and a young woman, the old man had a long gray hair while the woman had red hair tied tightly in two buns, on her forehead was a beautiful purple colored dimond shape.

"Mito... soon these will be your people" the old man said fondly watching them laugh and talk some even tossing food at each other playfully. She nodded at him, not fully wanting to speak about his death on such a wonderful day, she'd come to visit her clan on.

"Take care of them... don't let our people's light die" he was usually a very serious person, especially in times of war. But his clan was precious to him, their love, smiles, happiness, it was greater then anything anyone could ever know.

"I won't father, I'll take care of them. I promise" she swore to him, he smiled at her softly "I know, my little Fox cub" she huffed looking away from him at that embarrassing nickname.

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Somewhere else their was another clan having their Thanksgiving happily, this was the Senju.

It was hard to collect all the clansman as they wanted to surprise attack the uchiha but if Hashirama was anything it was persistent, he wanted his whole clan to be there and have this moment, he also didn't want his people to do a cowards move.

Hashirama was at the end of a table full of senju, his brother Tobirama was next to him fuming at the fact he wouldn't let them attack the uchiha on this particular day but seemed to ease up when a small Senju child timidly asked him to pass the juice, which he gladly did, eyes softening on them.

Hashirama laughed ruffling Tobiramas hair making Tobirama swing at him angrily and embarrassed.

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Lastly was the Uchiha who also were around a large table, their table was much quieter then the Uzumaki or Senju but it was cheerful nonetheless.

Uchiha while quiet loved and cherish Family more then anything in the entire world, the ate and spoke, weather it was about business or just about their days. They spoke, laughed, drank, ate, even the children were playing and having fun.

They're was no talk about war no talk about any death, just light hearted conversation topics.

In the corner was Madara and Izuna watching the children play, even forced into war they had an innocence that Madara tried so hard to make sure they kept.

"If they're bastard children, they should be here" Izuna spoke angrily and agitated. Madara knew what he was speaking about, it was about "Kakashi" and Sai, their siblings. He was restless about if they were Uchiha or not, if they were he's scared they're abandoning them. He wants his family to be safe.

He wants the children to be safe, Sai was right in front of them, they literally spoke about how he looked like an Uchiha and now they know he just might be. Sadly they couldn't tell based of chakra not like the Senju or Hyuga clans could, they couldn't tell that much specifics.

Especially on this day, he felt all their family should be together and for all they know, they're family but aren't their, it's actively putting them in danger.

"Just focus on the now okay Izuna? This is a good day okay?" Madara hummed at him before leaving to interact with some clansman while Izuna continued to huff in the corner of the room.