Mortification's
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Truth be told, Hiruzen was unsure why the three of them were here. He doubted there was anything he had done that would warrant all of their arrivals at once. The fog of confusion had evaporated as soon as Danzo spoke up, "Hiruzen. Why did you allow the jinchuriki to leave the village on vacation? To Sunagakure no less."
"Kakashi requested some time ago to go on vacation to Suna. Their track record for missions has been outstanding so far and I had no legitimate reason to deny their team one."
Koharu placed a hand in front of Danzo to stop him from talking, "I cannot speak for Danzo, however, Homura and I had the right to be informed Naruto would be leaving. I could have given the child important information that would have been useful for the trip. Precautions if you would." She waved a hand and it was then the sandaime understood.
His old team was looking out for her yet Danzo still hadn't changed his mind. He still wanted Naruto to be used as a weapon. It relieved some weight off of his heart to know she was looked after very much by his team. (A/N I'm not sure if I've mentioned this already or not, but his teammates do know she is a girl, Danzo is the only one who doesn't know.) He nodded and replied, "I made sure Kakashi is ensuring all of their safety and that Naruto, as well as the nine tails, stay as they were when they left. If that is all, I have for once, finished my work and wish to go home." With that he rose and left the room as the three of them also did so, each one respectively going to their own homes.
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Naruto heard Sakura sigh as they all sat in the residence, "Sasuke, Sakura. Why don't the two of you get a head start on sight-seeing or training? I'm still a bit tired, Kakashi-sensei can't go with but I'm sure Shisui could teach you some cool jutsu?" she looked to Shisui and spoke via the seal: "Kakashi-koi seems a bit down so I'm gonna try and cheer him up? If you henge into someone else from the village and shunshin out you should be able to train Sasuke and Sakura?"
"Very well. I don't like the idea of leaving you with him but I guess I have to get used to this sooner or later. You've already stated that you won't choose just one of us. So what am I teaching exactly?"
"Anything. Sasuke's good with his Sharingan but both of them could be excellent with genjutsu with the right push. I'd work on that, anata."
"Right!" Shisui clapped his hands and rubbed them together as he rose from the sofa. "You two get ready! We're gonna do some training!" he said very cheerfully as he henged, grabbing the two of them by the back of their collars and shunshined out.
Naruto smacked her head. That was not what she had in mind. Walking over to the door that the ANBU were behind she opened it and peeked her head out, giving a shy and remorseful smile, "My teammates Sasuke and Sakura have gone out to train somewhere, they went with someone to the training ground we were at yesterday I think. My and sensei are still in here though." The ANBU guards looked at each other, nodded and one of them shunshined away, hopefully to where the other two were.
Turning back around she closed and locked the door, raising her head to see Kakashi was looking straight at her. Why did you request they leave?" instead of answering him she made her way over and removed his headband, revealing his closed eye and the scar that ran through it.
She used a wind jutsu that no longer required hand signs, to close the blinds of the room before she removed his mask. She ran her fingers through his hair, down his jaw and neck till she went around him and started to massage his shoulders. He stiffed at first before he simply allowed her to continue, enjoying the feel of having the tension ease from him. She glared slightly at the flak jacket he wore and chose to remove it, allowing her better access to his shoulders now that there was a layer less in the way. They stayed like that for some time before he turned around causing her hands to drop to his sides. His face was marred by concern as he raised a hand and wiped under her eye, "Why are you crying Naruto?"
She hadn't noticed she was. Raising a hand to the other eye she noticed she was indeed crying. "I-I don't like seeing you upset. Your mark may not be on me but your feelings? I can read most of them. Please, tell me what I can do to make you happy? I-"
He interrupted her by pulling her into his embrace, her head tucked into his shoulder as one of his hands were in her hair, the other on her back. "Maa, I'm not used to crying girls." she sniffled and tried to remove her tears with her sleeve but they wouldn't stop.
"I'm sorry, Naruto. I didn't mean to make you upset. And I'm not, sad, per-say more irritated that I have to listen to you about Shisui. It's unsettling how you changed suddenly." Naruto could see he was struggling and by that point, she had managed to get a hold of her emotions.
Sitting up straight she placed her legs on either side of his own, his face cradled between her hands, "Really now koi I haven't changed. I'm happy he's alive and I want to spend a bit of time for him to catch up on the most important things. I was seven when he died and I was twenty when I was sent here. So it's been thirteen years nearly fourteen since I've seen him. It's the same that I did with you when I arrived here. It'll help us in getting Obito back, stopping the jinchuriki from being killed and stopping a war before it begins." she hesitated before continuing. "I never knew where Obito was exactly but I knew he was in Ame with Akatsuki before we came here, the night before I found out where they were based. I can take you there if you want to see him? I won't let you near him though, I won't risk him hurting you."
Kakashi froze at her words. She had told him Obito was alive and had shown him visions of her perspective, yet it never felt real. Now, here, she was offering to show him the friend and comrade he learned to cherish too late. He didn't move, body froze still out of shock yet he managed to gently shake his head, no. "I do, but not now. I don't know how I'll react to seeing what he has become because of me not until I need to, at least." She gave him a sad smile as she traced his scar with her fingers, removing her hands from his face in order to do so. He shivered from the feeling of having someone touch the dinted scar running down his eye. "You seem to like doing that. Tracing my scar." He clarified when she sent a confused look his way.
She chuckled in response, "Had you not done what you had all those years ago at Kannabi bridge you would have never lost your eye and Obito would never have given you his. Had he not given you his, you would not have been able to do as much good as you have today. In that respect, I'm happy you have it. Plus, in my opinion, scars are a turn on. I don't have any, Kurama heals me too quickly for that." Kakashi chose to ignore her comment on how she got turned on by his scar and paid mind only onto what she said at first. He couldn't think of a single good thing he had done with his eyes – "You helped Konoha behind the scenes, in the shadows of the ANBU black ops. You helped save captain Yamato, Tenzo you call him. All the lives you've saved, teaching team 7 all we knew, which led us to become the next sennin. You should have seen everyone's face when I, Sasuke and Sakura summoned all three of our summons they were gobsmacked." she ran her left hand through his hair as the other traced his jaw.
It was in that very position they were found by the Kazekage, Konkuro, Temari, and Baki as well as a member of their ANBU. Kakashi raised both of his hands which had somehow found their way onto her waist in the way criminals would after having raised his masks back into place. Whereas Naruto simply huffed and sat on his lap, back to his chest as she lightly glared, "Didn't anyone ever teach you it's rude to enter without knocking? I could have been getting undressed for all you knew." All eyes went onto her chest causing her to shift on Kakashi lap.
Also, due to their blatant ogling and lack of answer, Kakashi squinted his eyes as he let out a low growl, teeth grinding as his hand went to pull Naruto into his side as he let out a low level of KI. At the sound, all eyes went onto the Hatake and each one took a step back. The Kazekage cleared his throat and raised a hand in a surrender, only one though. "I do apologize for the intrusion. We had no idea the two of you were," he cleared his throat again and the teenagers looked anywhere but at the two on the sofa, "I was also unaware that the Uzumaki was a girl."
"It's an S rank secret and I should hope it will remain so until I let people know." She looked pointedly at the people who had barged into the room, releasing her own KI into the air, causing them to nod.
After a short intermission of awkward silence Kakashi spoke, "Um, you came here for a reason I presume?"
"Yes! Yes indeed, we did!" the Kazekage practically jumped for the subject change, delight and relief on all of their faces, "Gaara has woken up and the ANBU I had watching him informed me he was quietly screaming. I was quite skeptical about what they had seen so my other children and I went to see ourselves. He was clutching his head and mumbling incoherently between gasps and loud screeches, just a lot quieter than his old ones. We came here immediately after."
Nodding her head Naruto placed her hand under her chin as she contemplated the possible reasons why and figured out why "My seal merged the two of them together. Gaara can physically go into in mindscape and talk to Shukaku face-to-face now, which before Shukaku could only mumble creepily into his head. His screeches and gasps are most likely due to Shukakus chakra being bound to his. Of course, this is my guess, if someone takes me I can tell you properly whether or not it's really that."
So Naruto, Kakashi, their ANBU, Rasa, Temari, Konkuro, and their ANBU all made their way to where Gaara was. What the Kazekage said was, in fact, the truth and what Naruto had thought happened. Had actually happened. The only problem was that Gaara refused to believe he could go to sleep without killing everyone and his questionable sanity, which had forced Naruto to backhand him on the neck. After that they had walked back to their respective places, Naruto questioning the siblings whether they too would be entering the upcoming chunin exams in Konoha and received the answer she knew she would; they would. The sealing had not backtracked them at all.
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Kakashi watched his team as they enjoyed their spar with the Kazekage children. Gaara was still sleeping but Temari and Konkuro were showing to be worthy opponents against Sasuke and Sakura. Naruto had opted out of this match and requested she fights the victors of this match, two on one. She seemed to like the odds and everyone had gone with it.
Half an hour into the match it ended with Temari and Sasuke as the victors. They took a short five-minute break discussing a plan of action against the eager blonde who was practically bouncing on the balls of her feet. The fight against Naruto had been an entertaining one, she had stayed still the entire round, using Temari's technique of wind to blow away their attacks, yet it had only lasted a total of ten minutes and that was with Naruto holding back.
As he watched their fight, Kakashi's gaze went over to Shisui who was hiding behind a boulder. He was wary of the younger male, unsure what he should feel, unsure what he should do about his timely arrival whilst they were on vacation. When Naruto and he had come back to their humble abode she had mentally contacted the Uchiha to see how he was doing and she was pleasantly surprised it wasn't nearly as back as she had initially thought, in fact, it had gone near swimmingly.
Which of course only served to feed his suspicion of the boy, who came back from the dead and everything was alright? Granted, Kakashi couldn't name a single person who had come back to life minus Shisui but that did not stop him from thinking what he did. Shortly after, Naruto had started cooking some simple pizza with each of their favorite toppings and they had all eaten quite contently together, Naruto herself sitting between himself and Shisui.
It was at that moment Kakashi silently damned Minato-sensei for his idea. Having the Uzumaki and Uchiha clans unite like this was a terrible idea and had Kakashi at the time thought about it he would have objected profusely. He could not think of a single personal benefit for such a union, especially to someone so many years her senior.
Honestly, Itachi was a good kid and it made more sense for him to marry Naruto. But it made sense why he didn't, Itachi and Naruto were heads of their own respective clans and disputes between the two would leave the professional life and into the personal. Once the match was over Naruto came over to where he was and sat down, taking a few sips of water from the bottle she had left beside him, taking a hold of Kakashi's hand which was behind him as he was seated.
Unconsciously Kakashi squeezed her hand and only noticed when she squeezed back. He looked at her and saw she was looking over to the bolder Shisui was behind and had a glazed over look in her eye which usually meant she was either having a very long conversation with Kurama or she was talking to Shisui. Kakashi knew it was the latter yet he entertained the notion that it was the former.
The remaining days of their stay in Konoha remained the same, breakfast which they took turns in preparing, training, sight-seeing, checking up on Gaara, lunch with the sand siblings, sparring with the sand siblings, dinner at home which Naruto and someone else would prepare, talking and then off to bed.
Of course, Naruto liked to sprinkle in lots of touching whenever no one would notice and when no one was around she would feel around his hair and trace her scar. Though he would never admit it, not even to himself, Kakashi very much enjoyed when she did that. At some point of her arrival, he had left behind the painful memory of loss and foolishness that would occur whenever he thought of his scar, which had now been replaced with the gentle memory of her fingers tracing it, or when she would kiss it, never failing to entertain herself with his gravity-defying hair. At first, he had refused her to do such things, yet when he saw the hurt and dejection within her eye he had yielded, stating to only do so when they were completely alone as she liked to take his mask off as she did so.
Temari, Konkuro, Rasa, and Baki still could not look the two of them in the eye but Kazekage had at some point, after a having had a talk from Temari, apparently discussed with Naruto sex ed. To say the blonde time-traveler was mortified would be an understatement. She had ranted how she knew plenty about the subject and gone into mortifying detail about how future Kakashi and the various ways he had taken her.
He had been unable to look her in the eye for a full twenty-four hours and had only started to do so when Shisui had cornered him as the genin were talking about how he was hurting his fiancé's feelings and unless he wanted to experience the full wrath of righteous Uchiha fury he had best act normal around her. Things had gone back to normal after that yet Kakashi's mortification grew when Naruto stated the Suna siblings would be coming to Konoha with them for the chunin exam.
That was of course not what had mortified him, what had done so was when Baki had cornered him with the Kazekage on departure to not be physical with Naruto. To which he stated the two of them were doing no such thing and would appreciate if they got such things out of their minds.
Once they were outside the borders Naruto used her hiraishin to take them not too far from the borders of the gates of Konohagakure no Sato. It had taken the sand siblings a few moments to recuperate as the first few times of such travel made one feel very sick, but once they did they all leisurely waltzed right into Konoha.
Neither Naruto nor Kakashi were sure what to expect when they saw a crow fly past and once it had circled them, chose to sit on Naruto left arm as she proceeded to pet his head, causing Kakashi and a henged and hidden Shisui to quietly glare at the Uchiha in crow form.
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