Odd reactions
Naruto sensed who they were. The hokage, Anko, Genma and Gai were all outside Kakashi’s door and she was willing to be all her money that she knew why.
Kakashi got up and fetched his headband and discarded mask then made his way to answer the door, Naruto facing it as she sat on the sofa.
The afore mentioned people came in after changing their shoes for sandals, each taking a seat somewhere causing Naruto to go and sit by Kakashi who was standing next to the kitchen counter.
No one said a word and the tension grew in the room. For as long as she had known Gai and Anko they hadn’t really shown to have very much patience outside of missions so seeing this was a small shock to her system.
“What brings all of you here?” she asked after having had enough of the stifling tension.
On one answered her question and the room once again felt heavy, as if a rock were being placed over them. She contemplated the thought of it being a genjutsu but remembered that Kurama would have mentioned something odd, which he hadn’t.
After what seemed like a lifetime the sandaime finally spoke, “Naruto, Kakashi. All jonin present in the room you hiraishined into know you two are bound, well at least most of them who know Kakashi’s clan enough know. And Naruto, the people who saw you turn into a girl… I cannot remove their memories as there are many. Not just the men who were sparing but those who were watching from the top of the room also know your secret. Your only bet is to reveal to everyone about you being a girl. With Kakashi’s mark on you it is very unlikely that anyone would dare lay a finger on you without knowing the consequences they would face.”
He allowed the information he had said to sink in when in reality she already knew. From the moment she had arrived she knew she would tell her friends and the rest of Konoha the truth about her and she never went back on her word.
However despite how long she had been here for she hadn’t devised a plan on how to do that. When she and her teammates had discussed it they had suggested that she invite everyone to the hot spring for a mixed dip with swimwear and work her way from there and right now that plan was looking very tempting.
The sandaime must have seen that she was undecided as he stood up, making everyone else stood up, Genma and ANko left with him, leaving only Gai with the couple.
He stood staring at Kakashi’s eyes. No emotion on his face. Like this it was clear they were seeing the serious Gai that was a war veteran and a master in taijutsu. Seeing him like this unnerved her, he hardly ever went like this and it made her anxious.
Future Gai had been very forward in the future, having seen Kakashi and Naruto interact with each other and had tried setting them up on dates with the help of Anko yet neither of them had been aware they were already together.
This time, however, she didn’t have a very good reputation and it didn’t bother her, usually. But this was Gai, the one person who tried the hardest to get Kakashi to open up and cared the most. Asuma cared a lot also however as he had been out of the village for some time during their teen years, he wasn’t as close as Gai. Kakashi had once said Gai was the closest friend he had yet he would never tell the man that.
If Gai disapproved or dislike their union it would surely upset the Copy ninja to some degree and Kakashi had already suffered enough by the hands of those close to him.
After a two minute and thirty-two second staring contest Gai finally looked away from Kakashi and to her instead. “Is this who you choose? Your final decision?”
All Kakashi did was give him a stiff nod, fingers flexing dangerously close to his kunai pouch. “He- she is very young Kakashi. I would never have thought-”
“Gai sensei.” She interrupted knowing Kakashi was on the verge of losing it. “I may be physically young but I am the jinchuriki to the kyuubi. Because of that I’ve had to experience several things no one from my generation has even read about. And if I hear from you as well that he’s ‘stolen my childhood’-” she said in quotation marks, “-I’ll go ballistic.”
Gai’s serious demeanour lasted another five seconds before he bent over and started to laugh whilst clutching his stomach.
Naruto blinked, this wasn’t the reaction she was expecting considering his earlier reaction. It was then that everything went down south, Gai used his sunset genjutsu and struck the infamous good guy pose at them and of course he gave a speech on the power of love in youth.
It was basically Gai being Gai.
It didn’t take long for him to go and most likely torture his students with several hours of training.
When he left Naruto felt her head start to ache as she tried to get the ringing in her head to stop. She was used to loud noise since she had all nine bijuu talking in her head as well as being very loud herself, but Gai and Lee were on a completely different level with their volume and sheer energy they put into talking.
Deciding to take a seat on the sofa she looked up to see Kakashi looking at the door with glazed over eyes. When she called out for him he gave no response and that was when Pakkun came out of the room for the ninken.
“What’s up? Why did the hokage and the Gai guy come here?” he perched himself on her knee and barely gave Kakashi a glance.
“Some people found out about Kakashi and me then some other people found out I was a girl. The hokage told me who and also said I need to start telling people things or he’d basically have to do some damage control.”
“Hmm… Did Gai say something bad? Is that why Kakashi is staring in mid-air?” they both looked back to Kakashi finding that he had yet to move even a muscle.
“I don’t think he did. But then again I can’t claim to know Gai sensei very well like Kakashi does.”
Pakkun nodded and as he jumped off her knee there was a knock at the door. Confused she went up to answer it. She knew it was her team before she even answered yet she still looked on confused.
Allowing them in, they changed their shoes for sandals as they made their way into the living room, blanching slightly when they saw Kakashi staring at the door and not paying them any heed.
“What’s wrong with sensei?” asked Sakura as she sat down on the sofa, Sasuke sitting on the opposite side of her and Naruto on the armchair.
She bit her lower lip, the answer demanded more information that she wasn’t sure if Kakashi wanted them to know. “The hokage and Gai sensei were here a few minutes ago about me being a girl blah, blah, blah. Nothing too important.” She waved a hand but internally she knew something was bugging him.
“Are you sure? He’s never looked like that before. Minus that time we followed him to the memorial stone but you know what I mean.”
“Give me a sec.” she pointed to her head and gestured to Kakashi and they both nodded, understanding what she was about to do.
‘Kakashi? Are you alright?’ asked Naruto.
There was no immediate reply but after some waiting, she finally received one, ‘I’m fine, Naruto… just thinking…’
‘You don’t seem to be just thinking. You’re completely spaced out. Do you even know your adorable little genin are here?’ she teased, remembering what Kakashi liked to call them but she was sure he meant it truthfully and to rile them up as well.
‘No…’
‘Well then you’re clearly not fine. Tell me what’s wrong.’
‘I’m telling you, I’m fine.’
Deciding not to push too far she changed the subject, ‘Sakura and Sasuke are here and are asking why the hokage was here. I told them briefly why but left out the part about us. Do you want me to tell them or no?’
When she received no answer she assumed he didn’t want them to know yet when he spoke up it was in real time, “Sasuke, Sakura there’s something you need to know.” Her eyes widened at what he was saying, he couldn’t possibly mean to do this here could he?
I believe your lover does indeed intend to do this here. It should be highly entertaining.
“You see Naruto and me are together.” He stated with a straight face yet she could see a small glint in his eyes.
Naruto turned a bright shade of pink where as Sasuke and Sakura looked confused. “What do you mean by that?” asked Sasuke clearly frustrated by the way he had stated the fact.
“I mean Naruto and I are in a relationship.” This time, Sakura turned pink to match her hair and Sasuke’s eyes bed red with his sharingan, outrage clear on his face.
He turned to Naruto and spoke, “Is this true?”
She looked between all three of them, unsure who she should be talking to. “Um well you see, uh… basically yes but there’s more to it?”
“You don’t sound too sure. He didn’t simply… force this on you did he?” he asked, eyes glaring at Kakashi who now stared at her.
All of her.
“No! No, nothing like that. If anything I forced this on him.” She breathed out hastily. The last thing she wanted was for people to think that she had been forced into a relationship like this with Kakashi with no say what so ever. However she doubted that many people particularly cared at the current time.
Sasuke gave no reply and instead looked to their sensei giving him a look that declared more words that anything he said would have. It was a look that her father should have given to any man that dared try touch his little girl, yet Minato Namikaze would never get the chance to ward off Kakashi.
Although she was unsure how he would feel. Kakashi had been unwilling to commit to a relationship back when the yondaime lived so perhaps her father would be happy that Kakashi was mentally prepared to settle down, yet she doubted he would feel quite as happy when he found out it was directed to his daughter.
Shaking her head, she bought herself out of her musings and saw Sakura looking directly at her also, causing her to shift uncomfortably. Naruto enjoyed people paying attention to her however the look Sakura was currently giving her was unnerving. “What?” she finally let out after the pink haired female said nothing.
Sakura hesitated before replying, “That tattoo on your neck… it has the katakana for wolf on it and… Kakashi sensei’s family has something to do with wolfs right? Well, what I’m getting at is, does that mark have to do with your relationship to Kakashi sensei?”
Naruto blinked as she was reminded of the fact that Sakura had been trying these past months. That Sakura was paying attention to people other than Sasuke. “Um well yeah… He kinda put it on me, though it’s not a tattoo per say. It’s between a tattoo and seal ‘tebayo.” She scratched the back of her neck, her nervousness showing as she chuckled half-heartedly.
Kakashi seemed to have enough of mentally torturing the both of them as he finally moved closer and indicated he would sit on the armchair. Naruto moved so he could sit on the chair part and not the arm part where she usually liked to sit.
Kakashi’s left hand wound around her waist as she leaned against him both of them letting out small sighs they had been holding. Like this, in front of their closest people it removed a tension that had been brewing inside them, Naruto mostly since she had been hiding their relationship in her own time which was something this Kakashi didn’t have to go through.
“What about Shisui? He’s alive, you didn’t have to choose sensei, if you really did choose him that is.” Spoke Sasuke as he let out the smallest of pouts, still put off by the whole thing.
She hesitated on that one. She knew she wouldn’t choose between either males, they also knew that. However telling Sasuke that would be a completely different matter.
“She’s chosen not to choose and instead has decided to have both of us.” Kakashi was on a roll today. What next, was he going to tell them her tattoo/seal mark he put on her was a sign they had sex as well? He gave her a look, as if having heard what she said and when he opened his mouth she lightly smacked the back of his head.
“Are you trying to test his patience? Sasuke doesn’t have very much patience in case you didn’t know and this would most definitely make him mad and start doing fire jutsu’s everywhere.” She hissed low enough for Kakashi to hear but not the other two.
Sakura was apparently not pleased with her earlier answer, “You never said how he put it one you though. Something that intricate requires time and the only time you two had to be alone to do it was when you vanished for a lot of hours.”
Naruto really, really wished she hadn’t asked. Kakashi didn’t seem to be in the concealing mood right now and his mouth didn’t seem to match his usual mind set. “The answer is simple. I bit her whilst she was in heat and gave her the mark.” He moved his right hand to brush over her mark making her shiver. It was a highly sensitive area whenever he touched it and only he would be able to elicit such a reaction.
Despite her self-control and resolve she let out a small whimper when he removed his hand. They both turned back to look at them, neither catching one to what he was alluding to.
They both muttered under their breaths about what heat was and how it could relate to Naruto till they slowly looked up at her, then her stomach, her mark and then to Kakashi.
Sakura turned the shade of the average Uzumaki’s hair colour and Sasuke had to be held back by a kagebunshin.
Both reactions were quite understandable, however it wasn’t their reaction Naruto and Kakashi were paying attention to.
No. The only person’s reaction they currently cared about was a certain messy haired Uchiha who was standing deathly still in the corner of the room.
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It had taken time for Naruto to get her teammates to go back to either the exam tower or their homes, and they only did so when Naruto stated Shisui was returning and needed to be informed of the matter.
Sasuke had been reluctant even then, muttering curses and about the various different ways he could hurt Kakashi if he dared hurt Naruto. He wasn’t happy, but he seemed to understand it was her decision and she was happy.
Finally once they had left, Kakashi had left the apartment also, stating he would leave them alone to talk as he went to go visit the memorial stone.
She made the two of them cups of tea and they both sat on opposite pieces of furniture, yet neither of them touched the tea. Neither of them spoke until she gave in.
She was never known for her patience.
“Say something. Please.”
He looked up at her, the first time since they had caught eyes upon his arrival. His eyes seemed to be looking through her very soul yet she didn’t dare look away. She wasn’t ashamed, she made it perfectly clear this was going to happen several times.
But that didn’t mean she couldn’t feel guilty. Guilty for doing so whilst he was away doing something she had asked him to do.
“There’s really nothing I can say. You told me this would happen but… I thought I would have time to… adjust to- to Kakashi and you and me. I…” he faded off, not sure what he should say. She understood the feeling.
“I get it. But none of this was planned, anata. His marking me was unplanned. I went into heat and the problem with that is, Kurama is very picky. He tolerates you because you make me happy but because of your sharingan he would never allow anyone of your bloodline to sate me in that state. I don’t- I’m not ashamed. Of either of you. I love you both and want both of you. I’ll bear with the villages hate towards me for having more than one lover, but I’m used to it.”
She moved to where he was and kneeled next to the sofa, one hand on his knee and the other cupping his face. “What’s really upsetting you? I know it isn’t to do with this mark. It has no other properties than signalling I’m alive and partially his. Yet apparently this time round its showing I’m partially yours.” She pointed to the part of the mark that held the sharingan tomoe. “The first time round this mark wasn’t there. I thought of different reasons and the tops ones were because I have you this time round or because kakashi still has the sharingan, but the sharingan isn’t part of his biology. It’s like a seal, it uses your chakra and it exists but he wasn’t born with it so it shouldn’t have affected the mark.”
They sat in silence after, the only sounds that could be heard was their breathing, their heartbeats and the same sounds from Kakashi’s ninken.
What happened next took her by surprise. She had expected him to get up, to yell or let out some steam by ranting yet he did something not even she could predict.
He kissed her.