I just want a peaceful life

Day-15

It was her fifteenth day in this life and she still hadn't accepted the fact that she was a baby. She treated as a dream and not think about her past life.

An old wrinkly lady usually took care of her. There was an old man, her husband probably, who also kept an eye on her but he usually stayed in bed and rested all day. She did rested a lot too now that she thought about it.

"You still haven't decided on a name yet?"

The kind old lady was asking the weak looking woman. Perhaps the woman had been sick recently.

"No. I just-

I don't know what to name her."

She clearly stopped herself from saying something else. The woman's eyes found her and for a second it seemed like she absolutely hated her, or perhaps she was disgusted with the fact that she had made a mess of the little toys kept around her. It was an odd expression on the woman's face.

The old lady, she needed to learn who they were one of these days, probably noticed it as she frowned heavily at the woman before sighing.

"At least call her by something in the meantime you decide her name. You haven't even held her once properly. I'm not getting any younger as days pass by and she needs someone to care for her while I and your father-in-law rest. If you don't want to take care of her then fine. At least let your birth parents help with taking care of her since I won't be letting you hire a babysitter for her. You never know what happens these days with them."

The woman seemed to not be paying much attention to whatever the lady was saying and seemed to be distracted with something.

Day-20

Every single day the same conversation over her name would repeat. Apparently her name needed to be written somewhere quickly and whoever the woman was didn't bother naming her yet. Honestly, she couldn't understand the problem here.

She had a name already. Her name was T-

"Annaisha-chan, it's time for you to drink some milk and then go to sleep."

She couldn't understand much of whatever was said, since she couldn't hear a bit properly and the language was unfamiliar but she got the feeling that 'Annaisha' was referring to her. She looked towards the other equally old woman. Now she had two pairs of grandparents caring for her.

"Aba?!"

Of course the only noise she could make was baby noises.

The lady giggled, apparently finding it cute, and fed her the milk from the baby bottle, or was it called a pacifier? She didn't know.

Year-7

The war seemed to be on the horizon now. Perhaps she should stop day dreaming about the past and focus on training.

"Mori-chan! Shiranui and I are going to spar. Do you wanna join?"

The Shiranui, Genma, grumbled about being called by his last name, not having been used to it yet. Raidou and Genma preferred to be called by their first names with people their own age. She didn't care much about whatever name was being used to call her but she did like it when people used her last name rather than her first name. She had only been called 'Annaisha' by her grandparents, and her parents but they hardly called her, and she liked to keep it that way.

"Sure. I have nothing better to do."

It wasn't fun watching them fight, knowing that they were so weak that a clan member could easily kick their asses. They hadn't gotten used to having and making strategies in the middle of a fight yet so their moves were predictable and she knew that if she wanted to, even if she was weaker than them in combat strength, she could easily kill them. She wondered when she started thinking like that.

Focusing back on the fight, it seemed as though Genma had won this time. His aim was comparable to an Uchiha without his sharingan. It was good. She knew that he would be enjoying working with senbon.

"Genma won this time. You're paying for snacks this time Ra.i.dou."

A small playful lit her face as she stared at his tired form whining about how Genma cheated. They all soon got up, she helped the boys out with dressing their wounds, and walked to the market place.

"Did you hear that Uzushio got taken down?"

Genma's voice was barely above a whisper but some ninja still glanced at them. They all seemed a bit tired but still alert.

"Best not to talk about that here in a local place like this. There are ears and eyes everywhere, especially in a ninja village."

Genma nodded, thoughtful about what Raidou said before looking at her. She nodded back to him and she knew just what was going on inside their mind.

There were only two dango sticks left. If they wanted more they would have to wait for half an hour but it was lunch time so the shop would be closed for another hour. So they would have to wait for one and a half hour but Annaisha needed to get back to the library within one hour. So there was one stick already reserved for her. If they were lucky then she would be satisfied with one and one of them could have the other.

Genma glanced at Raidou and they both raced towards the dango stand.

"Of course you get both of them I should've known better."

The two boys pouted while Annaisha happily ate her two dango sticks. There was nothing better than to leave two stuck up boys in the dust and have one of them pay for your food while you enjoy the free food.

She tried to not make eye contact with Sasuke, she heard him introduce himself to Kakashi in the library, and not seem suspicious while doing so. He was actually much scarier than she ever thought he will be.

Year-8

She finally met Kakashi's team. Although it was by accident.

She was going to her maternal grandparents house. The house was empty as they all stayed with her parents along with her paternal grandparents. They had hired a genin team to clean up the place so that both pairs of her grandparents could move in the house as they couldn't handle her parents anymore.

'Even if it was an arranged marriage they both had agreed to it knowing they didn't love the other person. To make others suffer so much because they are too stubborn to admit they're wrong in an argument is just immature.'

She was supposed to head over to the house and let the team know where to clean and just keep an eye on them. Of course, she had the key to the house as well.

"Oh."

Her face showed immense shock even if her voice sounded a bit calm. Kakashi's face although showed more emotion with just his eyes than her whole face at the moment. He didn't know what to say as he glanced between his teammates and his only friend. This was not going to end well for him.

"So you all are Kashi-chan's teammates~?"

And there it was.

Her sly smile. And that ridiculous nickname.

This was a terrible day for him. Maybe he should've gone the other way when he saw that black cat across the street today. His luck had always been terrible but now he just felt like the gods were making him suffer deliberately.

Obito cackled at the nickname and Kakashi's frozen expression.

"You know Kakashi, Ms. Mori?"

Minato who was the only calm person in the team at the moment, as Rin seemed to have a hard processing whatever was going on, asked her with a sweet smile. She hadn't seen that type of smile on anyone other than her grandparents, and somehow, she could understand how the man had gotten so close to Kakashi when she had taken months to do so.

Of course, this Kakashi was different from what she saw in the show but it probably because of her own interference. He wasn't that rude to people who were clearly weaker than him, although he was still blunt about it. He fought a lot with Obito as far as she had heard but he tried to be mature about it and make the other understand just how exactly he was right. That part he might've picked up from Annaisha but she knew better than to say it out loud.

"I'm his best friend, his childhood friend, and also his only friend his own age."

Minato glanced worriedly at Kakashi when she mentioned she was his only his own age but Kakashi was still frozen. He sighed a bit when Obito cackled even louder and teased Kakashi about the fact that he only had one friend which Annaisha thought was weird as she hadn't seen him hanging around anyone other than Rin.

"I thought you also only had one friend Uchiha-san?"

He paused and froze while Kakashi slowly recovered from his and glared daggers at her which she ignored skillfully. She didn't understand what exactly Obito was more shocked about, the fact that someone called him 'Uchiha-san' or pointed out the fact that he only had one friend himself.

Rin quietly giggled in a corner when she finally processed what all just happened.

Annaisha shot every one of them a polite smile and thought that perhaps she would go easy on Kakashi and not embarrass him further.

"I guess I should introduce myself properly. I am Mori Annaisha. I've known Kakashi for a long time now. It's a pleasure to finally meet his team. I'll tell you layout of the house while we walk in. It's better to not waste anymore time."

Kakashi recognized that she had gone in her business mode and guessed that she wouldn't be making his life harder anymore. Although he knew that Obito would never forget 'Kashi-chan'. Seriously, just why did he such a troublesome friend?

Sighing, he prepared himself for what he supposed would be the last D-rank mission he would ever take. He had quite enough of those. He had almost completed 100 D-ranks and he still only got to do 3 C-ranks. And those too he had to mostly do with his stupid and idiotic teammates. They were ninja for god sakes, how the hell do those two think it's ok to yell in the middle of a street just because of a couple of snakes.

Then again, he reminded himself, they hadn't dealt with many snakes so they just didn't know how to deal with them. He tried to calm his anger down with that. Annaisha had always mentioned how people would never think of what the other person might be feeling and that was what created misunderstandings between them.

"Kakashi-kun, why don't you ever talk about Mori-san? She seems like a nice person."

Rin didn't seem to understand that he was not in any mood to talk right now as she looked at him for an answer. He just waved her off and was going to ignore her when he noticed the two disapproving looks from Minato and Annaisha.

"'Cause I didn't want to."

That didn't seem to be much better as Minato sighed softly and shook his head but at least Annaisha and Rin seemed to be satisfied with it.

Obito who was watching the whole ordeal with surprising stealth blinked owlishly at this side of Kakashi. Maybe he really wasn't as bad as he thought, like Rin and Minato-sensei said. He narrowed his eyes on kakashi who turned around to look him in the eye, his face showing 'Do you want something too?' but Obito just glared at him a bit, with no actual heat behind it, and waved him off. Minato once again looked a bit down at the team's state but at least it was going much better than it did in the beginning.

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Some days passed by, when she heard team 7 was in the village she decided she would go and visit them or just invite Kakashi to come and join her at her grandparents house. The elderly people had taken to Kakashi's presence much better than she expected. They seemed to adore him much more than Raidou or Genma.

She hadn't met Sasuke, even in passing, for a while now. She was internally grateful for it but Sasuke seemed to be becoming a parental type figure for Kakashi and she honestly didn't know what to think of that. From Kakashi's stories he seemed well behaved and did actually care for him and take care of him when Minato couldn't. Kakashi had even introduced the man to Obito so that the boy would learn a few things from him and although she was happy with how far he had come and how he had finally started to build some bonds again, she was also a bit worried.

Sasuke was an unknown variable.

He had unknowingly made her life more messier than it already was. Now, sometimes when she would catch Kakashi in the training grounds he would always be more stronger, sharper, than before and Obito would sometimes even challenge her in a fight. She would lose to him quite easily, and she didn't mind it but with those two already circling around her, along with Genma and Raidou she felt like a training machine more than an 8 year old academy student.

"Ah, Mori-san! It's good to see you here!!! Do you mind sparring with me while the boys finish up their fights?"

Rin seemed quiet innocent and determined while asking her that and Annaisha couldn't help but feel a burning rage in her heart for Sasuke. He was making her work so hard when he wasn't even around her.

He even affected the innocent little Rin.