What are you?
This has been beta’d by Ankaa Sage! Thank-you so much!
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Kakashi arrived in his apartment with a distinct poof sound resonating where he arrived, yet no one paid any mind to that as Naruto laid face down on his sofa with his dogs surrounding her. Pakkun was the first to say anything as he quickly turned around, "Kakashi! Welcome back! Naruto seems to be in quite some pain and I can smell a lot of blood. Did she get injured during training?"
He shook his head and sat on the coffee table, placing a hand to her lower back, pressing, trying to alleviate some of her back pain. "Naruto? Are you sure you're okay?" he asked, yet he didn't stop his some-what massage.
He received a light groan from the blonde who turned her head to look at him, "I'm fine. Periods never really agree with women. It seems I don't have the same pain tolerance I had before." She closed her eyes and let him continue. He was also sure he could hear a faint purring sound from the girl but chose not to comment on it yet.
"And there's nothing any of us can do?" he asked as he started to press harder which caused her to purr slightly louder.
She let out a faint moan before replying, "Well what you're doing right now is definitely helping. You have no idea how much my back kills having to carry my bound chest all day, 'tebayao."
They fell silent after that, Kakashi's dogs getting back to what they usually do as he massaged the girls back. After ten minutes Naruto had fallen asleep and the bell to the apartment rang, causing her to groan, but was not enough to wake her in the village. Feeling the chakra signature to be Sasuke's, Kakashi got up and made his way to answer the door, praying to the shodaime that Sasuke wouldn't want to come in. "Ah, Sasuke. Can I help you with something?" he asked as Sasuke stood on his doorstep, giving his sensei the stink eye.
"Can we uh, go inside?" he asked as he looked around. What he was looking to avoid was unknown to Kakashi (A/N and quite frankly me as well.) Awkwardly the two of them made their way inside as Kakashi gave a mental prayer for Naruto to not be there.
Lady luck was not on his side today as Naruto was still in the same position as when he had gotten up to get the door. As Sasuke saw her he visibly blanched. Kakashi realized that Sasuke showed the most emotion when it came to him and Naruto together.
Before Sasuke could speak up, however, Naruto spoke, her voice muffled by the cushion she was on, "Can you go back to massaging me, please? Till I go back to sleep? My back is killing me."
To Sasuke's surprise, Kakashi went over and sat on the coffee table resuming his massaging her back before gesturing for Sasuke to sit down in the armchair he had recently purchased. "So Sasuke, what did you come here for?" asked Kakashi in a hushed voice. Not wanting to disturb the girl who was trying to fall back asleep.
"I wanted to find a way to gain the Sharingan. I'm one of the last of my clan and I don't have its Kekkei Genkai."
Naruto raised her head at that moment and looked at Sasuke, "You really want it? No matter the price? Or what it is that has to be done?" he slowly nodded in reply, mentally wondering why she would ask that question before she sighed, closing her eyes and when she opened them again a kunai went through Kakashi's heart.
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Naruto watched as Sasuke's eyes rolled to the back of his head, head lolling to the side as his body followed suit. "Huh. Not even he could handle it. Pretty sure when senpai used the Tsukuyomi on him as a kid he didn't faint."
"What?" asked Kakashi, it was then that she realized he had stopped massaging her back and sighed as she slowly got up from laying on the sofa.
She stretched her back as she replied, "Itachi used a genjutsu on Sasuke for him to believe he killed his clan in cold blood. He repeated that for a three-day span. The genjutsu is from the mangekyo sharingan. Kotoamatsukami and Tsukuyomi are genjutsus of the highest level, the one Shisui used to possess being the more powerful of the two. Anyway, the three days happen in one second, in reality, usually causing the person to collapse or faint from what the person shows them. Of course, both of those genjutsus can be altered to have less time but it takes some concentration and practice. With the Tsukuyomi, Sasuke didn't faint despite having watched his clan be murdered over and over again, but this time, he did. I'm curious as to why. All he saw was the two of us die by Itachi's hand and- that actually makes sense now. I went a little over-board. Whoops." She shrugged her shoulders as if it was a normal thing. For her it was.
"Um, I'm not sure I follow. Why did you make him see that?"
"Simple." She said as she got up and made her way to the kitchen, starting to make some hot chocolate, "To unlock the Sharingan one must first go through a trauma." She raised her hand to stop Kakashi from speaking, "Now I know the massacre happened, and yes it was indeed a trauma. It did unlock his Sharingan but he didn't know it. The trauma I put him through was a little bit like the one, he faced in our original timeline except he unlocked his Sharingan during battle, so basically nothing was the same. Never mind-"
"Naruto you're not making any sense and you're rambling." Interrupted Kakashi as he perched her on the counter, he himself leaning next to the sink a few meters away.
"Basically when he wakes up he'll have full use of the Sharingan."
Kakashi nodded and mentally wondered why she hadn't simply said so in the first place, "A while back you wanted to go to Sunagakure. I got Team 7 a mission slash vacation there for 9 days. It takes a few days to get there and back to the time we'll actually have there are 3-5 days depending on our speed."
Naruto nodded slowly a few times as she took a couple sips of her hot chocolate. It was enough time for her to convince the Kazekage to allow her to fix Gaara's seal and hopefully stop the invasion. Before and after the Wave mission she had two clones go to Sunagakure and speak to the Kazekage as well as Gaara and she believed one small push was all that was needed to convince them both. And what was a better push than Kakashi Hatake who was a lot better at words than she was, in her own opinion?
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As all that happened Zabuza Momochi sat inside the Hokage office across the Sandaime. He had asked for a favor. "You do not wish to be a ninja of the village?" asked Sarutobi as he took a puff of his smoke.
"You are aware of my past, truthfully the only reason I agreed to join this village was to give Haku a better life. How you file me in your records is up to you, but I will still wear my slashed headband. If you have any S rank or high A rank missions you want me to do I will do them as you have allowed the boy and I to live here. But I do not wish to stay living here every single day. In fact, I could do something like your spymaster Jiraiya."
He allowed time for what the missing-nin said to sink in as he thought of what the best option was. After a minute of contemplating he finally spoke up, "I want you to study up on each of the villages and laws. Once you know enough I will nominate you as Konoha's ambassador, which is of course if you pass your probation. For the last month, I have been receiving mail from the Kazekage and Mizukage. They wish to have a full alliance with better provisions for each village. I wish to accept their offers as each village will be giving the same sort of thing. For example information on jutsu or different ways of growing food. As a missing-nin, you know a lot about the land of the five nations and a lot of its people, more specifically how the poorer lives. With that sort of information, every village can improve a lot.
"You will be in the village for as long as it takes for you to learn everything and once you have, you may go to either one of the two villages that I mentioned before. You only have to report to me here in the village once every two months but you need to send word often about what the negotiations entail. Are we in agreement?" when he received a tentative nod from the man across him he gestured for him to leave and mumbled about having more paperwork.
As Sasuke woke up he could feel a dull ache behind his eyes and tried not to think about it. Slowly he opened his eyes and immediately regretted it. Wherever he was, the curtains were open and sunlight went straight to his eyes. The ache became worse and he could feel a churning in his stomach and suddenly there was a small bin on his lap. He made a mental note to thank whoever gave it to him as he emptied his stomach content that next moment.
He could feel a hand move his bangs out of his face as another rubbed his back up and down. After what felt like five minutes he stopped and started to inhale as a female voice spoke, "Okay so I may have gone just a teeny bit overboard but so what? It still worked in the end, dattebayo!"
"The ends do not always justify the means Naruto. And you know that was mean." Said the male voice. He noticed both those voices belonged to Kakashi and Naruto. Kakashi and Naruto who a few days ago he saw get killed by his psychotic older brother.
Despite the pain he was in, he swirled his head round to look at Naruto who had been rubbing his back and holding his hair back. "You-you're alive. B-but I saw my brother-"
"What you saw was a genjutsu I placed you under. None of what you saw was real. Kakashi and I are alive. Itachi is not in the village. He didn't kill anyone today or yesterday or the day before. So please calm down." She stood up and wrapped her arms around him from behind, bringing his head to lean against the center of her chest.
"Before you ask why Naruto did it. Well, see you wanted the Sharingan but certain events need to take place first so what she made you see, helped you to gain the Sharingan at will." Said Kakashi who was crouched in front of his coffee table.
There were a few minutes of silence as they allowed their statements to finally sink into the Uchiha but when it did, it was almost comical. He stood up hastily and since Naruto was holding him, the two of them fell forwards, Naruto landing on Sasuke's back as he successfully folded his arms under his face to lessen the impact. Sasuke groaned yet Naruto wasn't fazed at all as she got off him and brushed the imaginary dust off her, however, Kakashi looked to be on the verge of giggling but chose instead to help Sasuke off the ground. He looked pointedly at the two of them and said, "Not a word about that to anyone. And I mean anyone." He gave a glare with it yet neither were fazed, far too used to the Uchiha glare to allow it to bother them.
"Anyway, I know you're most likely very excited right now about your Sharingan, but I wouldn't advise using it just yet. You need to be in top condition to use it at first mentally and physically for it could end up making you feel worse. I say, rest up and tomorrow during training, we can work on it, okay?" Asked Kakashi, yet his tone left little room for dispute.
"Um since the two of you are here anyway I wanted to know what's going on between the two of you?" Sasuke asked as Naruto sat down on the sofa.
The two of them stared at each other, Kakashi looked confused where Naruto looked amused. "Well, Kakashi is my teacher like he's your teacher" replied Naruto.
"You know what I mean! You look at him like you did with Shisui and I wanna know why!" Naruto's expression dropped as her right hand went to grasp her necklace. When she saw the look of confused anger in Sasuke's eyes she turned her head to the side, not wanting to see that look on his face.
"Like I said, our relationship is simply student and teacher. Just because I am different with him does not mean we are anything else."
"Stop that crap and tell me the truth!"
"I'm her guard. I am to watch and protect her even at the price of my life." Replied Kakashi. Technically he wasn't lying, he was assigned to watch her by the Hokage, however, the last part was due to the fact future he had mated with Naruto, it was his duty to protect her even if she didn't bare his mark anymore.
Sasuke blinked twice, mouth opening and closing a few times before he finally managed to speak up, "Why? Why would Naruto need to be protected like that?" he looked at the two people in front of him but couldn't decide who to focus on.
"Because of her Uzumaki blood. She got it from one important person but her other parent was even more important. Before she was assigned to me she was being protected by Yug- a member of ANBU black ops, and since I am ex-ANBU I'm all that's needed to keep her safe."
"But why not tell us in the first place? Sakura was thinking, in the beginning, you were playing favorites with Naruto."
"Well… I didn't feel the need to tell anyone about it. It's not important but I see how that could actually be a problem." He replied gaining a slightly dazed look.
"How come?"
"Because if you, Sakura and me were in danger he wouldn't save you the Uchiha heir he would save me even at the cost of both of your lives. That's why Kakashi-sensei has been so fixated on me learning anything and everything. So that a situation like that would never happen." Replied Naruto, she usually carefree eyes cold and hard.
"But if it's his duty, why would that be a problem?" asked Sasuke. He didn't understand, rules had been placed in order yet here the two of them were acting as if Kakashi following the rules was a bad thing. He didn't like the idea of dying, but he felt it wouldn't matter as long as Naruto got to live. He told those feelings to go away, he had a duty to complete and would see it to the end.
"Kakashi lives by his own rule. Those who abandon the mission are trash, but those who abandon their friends or comrades are worse than trash. That is practically his nindo but the role he plays in my life will cause him to abandon it. It's sort of like me making a promise and then being forced to go back on said promise due to some rule. It causes an inner conflict." She stopped there and gave a large sigh as she turned her neck round to get rid of the kink in it. Sasuke allowed what Naruto said to sink in but wasn't given much time as Kakashi spoke up,
"On a completely different note. Sasuke, Team 7 will be going on a vacation slash mission to Sunagakure in three days. I will tell Sakura about it tomorrow. We will be gone for 9 days and roughly six will be spent traveling. The mission itself will be handled by Naruto and myself but I wanted the whole team there. Make sure to pack according to their weather. Since it's the desert, most of the time it's very hot during the day and very cold at night, there is also lots of sand. We will still be training there so don't think it's a fun vacation."
When Sasuke nodded he got up to leave only to see Naruto emerge from a room in a completely different outfit from before. (A/N since I'm no good at descriptions, go to my devianart page and have a look at mission outfit 3 that's what she's wearing just without the armband or trousers, instead she's wearing some shorts, decent sized) It took Sasuke a few moments before what happened caught up with him. He hadn't even seen the girl go into another room yet she had enough time to change into that getup but he didn't get a chance to voice any of his questions as Naruto spoke, "So Sasuke. Staying for food or no?" Any and all questions left his brain as the only thought running through his brain pertained to the various times he ate Naruto's glorious cooking.
So he nodded vigorously, never going back to question why she had clothes at their senseis home or how she vanished and got changed so quickly. She made simple beef stew but whenever Naruto made anything, even some desserts, they tasted heavenly, and everyone who had the girls cooking agreed with him.