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Team Seven Meeting
“Which team number did your genin team had, Kakashi?” Naruto asked, while setting the plates on the table.
“Seven.”, answered Sakura from the kitchen while making dinner.
“How do you know?”
“Maybe because they are married and living together? Really, dobe, don’t you speak with Hinata?”, said Sasuke annoyed.
“But that’s cool, so my father was a team seven sensei, that’s amazing.”, shouted Naruto happily.
“But you could have guessed that yourself, team seven has quite the pattern.”, joked Sakura.
“Pattern? What do you mean?”, asked Naruto, interested.
“You know”, started Kakashi, “Two boys, one girl, one of the boys head over heels for the girl, but the girl has only eyes the other boy. The sensei is an extraordinary talent,good-looking, mysterious, sexy-”
“So you thought Minato-san was sexy, didn’t know you are up for both sides.”, mocked Sakura.
“Darling, you were missing the point, I was talking about myself, but what I meant to say, before I got interrupted is,” Kakashi looking up from his book giving Sakura a shady look, “that they are lots of similarities between the first, second and last team seven. All team seven senseis became Hokage and one of their students, too. All team seven konoichis were medi-nins and one of the boys went rogue. What else? Ah right, the head over heels boy was always a little bit clumsy and idiotic and the other… well-”
“The other was a traumatized douchebag with an ice-cold heart?”, offered Sakura as an explanation.
“Mean, but true.”, answered Kakashi.
“Seems like you are having a type.”, mocked Sasuke, and Kakashi nodded in agreement.
“Wait, I wasn’t clumsy nor idiotic.”, said Naruto.
“Oh you were, dobe.”, answered Sasuke annoyed by Narutos lack of self-awareness, “heavens, you still are.”
“Oh stop being annoyed, you are only mad, because Kakashi is now having sex to your wife-“
“Ex-wife.”, interrupted Kakashi, flipping a page in his orange book.
“Alright, ex-wife. Oh, and just for the protocol, I do speak to Hinata, when I am at home.”
“You’re never home, dobe.”, said Sasuke plainly.
“I know. But let’s be honest, Kakashi, how is it possible that you had time, not only to get with Sakura, but also make her stay and have like a successful marriage with her while being Hokage. They are just not enough hours in the day. I barely see Hinata, never mind talk to her.”
“Oh, well, Sakura made it possible. You know, she visited me often and we, well… had quite fun in the office… like chatting or doing stuff on the desk.” Kakashi answered giggling, his eyes still pinned on his book. Narutos eyes widened. He turned his head to look at Sakura, who had a faint blush on her face and a knowing smile.
“You had sex on my desk?”
“It wasn’t your desk back then.”, Sakura said, smiling, while putting the food on the table.
“But the Hokage desk. That’s not ok, right Sasuke?”, Naruto wouldn’t want to believe his ears.
“I mean, we all had sex on that table, right?”, spoke Sasuke as he poured himself some Sake. That statement got the attention from Naruto and Kakashi.
“When did you have sex on that table?”, asked Kakashi internally cursing himself, because he already thought of the possible answer.
“Oh, did she never…”, Sasuke pointed to Sakura, who was just getting comfortable next to her husband, “oh… um… never mind.”
“Wait, you had sex with him. In my office? Where have I been?”, asked Kakashi turning to Sakura, more impressed by that fact that he hadn’t noticed it, than being angry that they had sex there.
“Making an early night, bathing your dogs, going on a walk… things like this. You were never there.”, answered Sasuke for her.
“That happened every other day, how often did you guys had sex in there?”, Kakashi was genuinely curious and not jealous. Even though jealousy was a familiar feeling to Kakashi. It took him years to find a woman he could open up to and even more years to admit to himself that he was in love with said woman, and even more years to actually act on those feelings. Now that he had found his match and was having the life he never dared to dream about, he felt like he had every right to be jealous. Most men knew better than to flirt with the copynins' famous pink-haired wife. Not that Sakura wasn't creepy enough on her own, but it was different when the copynin was giving you that hateful look. He wasn't the cold-blooded Kakashi for nothing.
“Often, we were like horny teenagers.”, Sasuke replied, not caring for the look that he got. He knew that Kakashi couldn’t kill him, even if he wanted to. Kakashi loved Sakura and Sarada and Kakashi would never do something to hurt them. It took him quite a while to accept the fact, that Sakura and Sasuke are close and will ever be close, given the shared history of team seven and their daughter. Did Kakashi liked it? No, but he arranged himself with it. He trusted Sakura and knew she would never cheat on him. He also knew that she loved Sasuke, just like she loved Naruto, as her family.
“To our defence, we were horny teenagers, I mean how old have we been back then? Nineteen? Twenty?”, said Sakura, before she took a deep breath and recalled the memories with a faint smile. Then taking Kakashis hand under the table and pressing it slightly. He automatically leant closer to her.
“But it really hurts my feelings that you had sex with him there as well, I always thought it was our spot.”, said Sasuke, with a small smile on his face.
“Am I the only one who hadn’t had sex with Sakura on that desk? I mean, we can always change that, right, Sakura-chan?”, said Naruto, obviously joking.
“Do you have a death wish?”, asked Kakashi, obviously not joking.
“Boys, behave! No fighting in the living room. All of you know the rules.”, said Sakura with that stern sound in her voice.
“She is right. No fighting in the house.”, backed up Sasuke.
“I hate it, when they unite and start to co-parent us.”, whispered Naruto in Kakashis ear, hoping that only Kakashi would hear it. Then Kakashi nodded slightly in agreement. As if this interaction would have gone unnoticed in a room full of elite ninjas.
“We are co-parents, dobe. We have a daughter together, and we will always be united by that. Now let’s eat. I want to be home with my wife before midnight. The mission will be long enough, and I want to see her before Sakura and I leave tomorrow first light.” Sakura nodded and everyone started to put some food on their plate and eat.
“I still don’t understand, why Sakura and Sasuke had to be on this mission together? Why couldn’t I go with her?”, asked Kakashi, knowing it would not change the fact that his wife will be on a long-term mission with her ex-husband. The man she had pinned for her whole childhood.
Naruto sighed. He had this argument with Kakashi before. “You know, as well as I do, that you have a mission as well in which you and I were especially asked for. Furthermore, the client also especially asked for, I quote, the Uchiha and his pink-haired medic wife.”
“I hope you have corrected them, that we are in fact not married any more. We both have remarried and Sasuke even have more children.”, said Sakura, a sad smile hushed over her face. Kakashi hold her hand more tightly and Sasuke gave her a small but meaningful smile.
“You two will have children, faster than you think. You are married for only 2 years, that isn’t that long.”, said Naruto, while smiling at them both. All of them knew that Kakashi and Sakura were trying for a child. They have been actively trying for one year now. They've gone through all sorts of tests and tried all sorts of treatments to increase their fertility, but nothing seems to help. Kakashi blamed himself for that. Sakura became pregnant by Sasuke within a few months. Logically, he feels guilty, although the test results reflect none of that. He was healthy, and his swimmers were healthy, too. Medically, there was no reason why Sakura wasn't pregnant yet.
“Thank you, Naruto.” Kakashi said calmly, still holding the hand of his wife. This was a difficult situation for them. All of them knew it, and so they went to a lighter conversation. They talked about the missions, they have been all assigned to before and all the fun they had as team seven. It was especially difficult for Kakashi and Sakura. It was the first time, they were separated for this long, after they got together. As if that wasn't enough, she also has to be on a mission with her ex-husband.
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The Hatakes said their goodbyes to their beloved friends and team members. They all called it an early night, because they wanted to spend some time with their significant other. Sakura and Kakashi found themselves alone, because Sarada was with her grandparents. Sakura was about to do the dishes when Kakashi watched her intently.
“Stop, I can do this tomorrow. Let’s spend the rest of our time together.”, he said sadly. To anyone else, Kakashi's voice was unchanged, but Sakura heard the slight change in his pitch. He went to her and embraced her into a tight and long hug. He didn’t want to let go of her. She felt the same. She didn’t want to leave Kakashi, she didn’t want him to go on that mission with Naruto, even though he was the Hokage now and father of two wonderful children, he was an idiot. She was worried. The two of them would go without Anbu or backup. Yes, they were living in peaceful times, but having two Hokage travel together without any protection or even a medi-nin, that was dangerous. The fire country still had a lot of enemies. Kakashi had a lot of enemies. She didn’t fear for herself or Sasuke. She was nearly immortal, and Sasuke had his rinnegan. They would be fine, but Kakashi and Naruto? She wasn't so sure about that. Kakashi would gladly give his life to protect his Hokage and Naruto was stupid enough to put himself in a situation where Kakashi could sacrifice his life. Sure, Naruto had Kurama and didn’t go down so fast, but Kakashi would probably just react. It would not be the first time.
“Can you promise me something?”, she asked quietly.
“Everything.”
“Come back to me. Come back alive.” Tears were forming in her eyes. His mission was classified, only him and Naruto knew the entails of it. It was so difficult that they asked for two Hokage and that scared Sakura. He was silent. He knew this mission was far from easy. There was a big chance that one or both would die, but it had to be done, for Konoha, for the world and most importantly for his family. The other Kage, especially Gaara weren’t so keen that the seventh and sixth Hokage were handling this issue. They also knew that there was a great chance, that they won’t come back alive, and losing them both would be a great loss for the world and its stability. All arrangements were made. Sakura would be the next Hokage, until Konohamaru would be ready to step in. They chose Sakura, because she was the link between them. She was the medical director, apprentice of the fifth Hokage, best friend of the seventh, honorary citizen of Sunagakure and Amegakure, the mother of the oldest and most promising Uchiha heir, and a close friend to Sasuke Uchiha, a war hero, one of two Byakugou seal user and last but not least, the wife of the sixth Hokage. Furthermore, if two of her dearest people were to die, Sakura would need a purpose in her life. Kakashis gut wrenched at the thought of leaving Sakura alone in this world. The silence didn’t go unnoticed by Sakura. She started to cry more and more. He held her tighter.
“I can’t promise you that I will survive, because I don’t know the future, but I will do everything in my power to stay alive and get back to you. I love you so very much, you know that, right? You are the light of my life and I will forever be grateful for you. You gave me everything and more, and I am sure, that I don’t deserve such a life, but still you’re here and love me and I don’t know how to ever repay you. Allowing myself to love you openly, was the best decision that I’ve ever made. You have made me the happiest man, and I will do everything in my power to stay with you. I just wanted to say thank you to you.”
“Why does it sound like a goodbye?” Her voice was shaking.
“I just wanted to say everything I needed to say before we start these missions because I don't want to have any regrets. Can you promise me the same? Do everything in your power to come back home, come back to me, stay alive? If I lose you, it would be my end too.” He also had tears in his eyes. That was his greatest fear. Sakura goes on a mission and doesn't come back. Losing her like he had lost everyone else? He would end his life without a second thought.
“I promise I will come back to you; I will always find you. I love you so much. Falling in love with you was one of the best things that ever happened to me. You know you make me very happy, don't you? I wouldn't trade the life we share for anything in the world. Never forget that you can love and are worthy of being loved.” Her grip tightened as well. They both knew this was one of those nights where they held and cuddled. They were practically glued together, but nothing was close enough. And when morning came and Sakura had to leave, they kissed goodbye. Both knowing that the last look will never be enough.
- Two month later –
Kakashi recognized the tree assembling they were walking through. Naruto on the other hand would have been lost without his ex-sensei. Their mission had been a complete success; the threat was eliminated. They were both tired but alive and Kakashi couldn’t wait to get back to his wife, but his gut told him something was off ever since this weird shockwave washed over them one day ago. It felt like it had happened to him before, but he couldn’t remember anything, just like a déjà vu.
“How do you know, that this was the right way? I have never seen these trees before.”
“Mah, Naruto, these are the trees on the west side of Konoha, I played here as a young child. I was sad, when…”, Kakashi stopped in his tracks immediately. He formed a half tori sign and said: “Release.” But nothing seemed to change.
“What is wrong? Are we caught in a genjutsu?”
“No, it should be vanished by now, but I don’t understand this.”
“You don’t understand what?”
“You were right that you have never seen these trees before in your life. They were destroyed during the nine tails attack on the day that you were born. They shouldn’t be here because they were destroyed 27 years ago.”
“That doesn’t make any sense.”
“I know, there are only two possible options. We are in a genjutsu that I can’t dispel nor even track, or we landed in the past.”
“That weird shockwave. It could have been a time-space-ninjutsu.”
“Possible. First we need to find out in which time we are, then we need a cov-“
“Kakashi stop!”, shouted a woman. Naruto and said Kakashi turned to see a young boy, half of his face covered with a mask, running towards them. Behind him, a young and gorgeous woman, with long dark hair and big grey eyes. The young boy turned his head, to look at the woman. He wasn’t aware of his surroundings and ran into Naruto, who didn’t move away. He was way too stunned to do anything. This child was obviously Kakashi, a two-year-old Kakashi.
“I am so sorry.”, said the young woman as she finally reached this little Kakashi.
“No problem.”, said Naruto, “I have two of my own, they can be quite a lot in this age.” Kakashi didn’t move. His eyes were widened, and his hands were shaking, this was his mother. His very dead mother. She died, when he was three. How is this possible? If this was a genjutsu, it was a cruel one. The woman had only eyes for her child. Whereas the young Kakashi looked up, to the two men he just ran into.
“You are me as well, aren’t you?”, said the young boy, his eyes were locked on Kakashi. Now his mother’s eyes shoot up, and she was looking at a very shocked adult version of her young son.
“Oh my, you are-“
“I am sorry, but what is happening? What does the kid mean with as well?”, said Naruto, Kakashi was still not able to move.
“Oh, eh… the other versions of you came here yesterday.”
“Other versions?”, said Kakashi finally snapping back.
“Your voice got even deeper. Yes, other versions. The thirteen-year-old you with his genin team arrived yesterday evening. The Hokage didn’t believe them at first, but they proved their identity, and then a couple of minutes later a 27-year-old version of you came into the village. They called for me and told me everything. You, and with that I mean the 2 year-old-you-“
“Two and a half.”, pouted the young Kid.
“Don’t be so disrespectful to your mom.”, said Naruto angry.
“Sorry.”
“It’s okay, but the young boy here was playing in the attics and found an old scroll of his grandfather. There was a jutsu written in it, and he thought it would be a great idea to try this unknown jutsu, and now we got the older Kakashis here as well. How old are you?”
“Wow, Kakashi I never knew you were such a nuisance back then.”, said Naruto, a wide grin on his face and both of his hands behind his neck.
Kakashi sighed and ignored Naruto.
“So you are telling me, that a two-and-a-half-year-old version of me cast that jutsu. That is impossible. He would need much more chakra than he has. I also don’t remember travelling into the past at the ages of 13 and 27. Is the 27-year-old version alone?”
“No, you are here with your team. Two young boys, one of them reminds me of this man, and a girl with pink hair.” Kakashi and Naruto were looking at each other.
“Well, I don’t remember travelling to the past as well.”
“Where are my manners? My name is Kira Hatake, it is nice to meet you.” Naruto bowed.
“I am Naruto Uzumaki, but I assume you already knew that.”
“This cannot be real.”, said Kakashi, sighing heavily. He just wanted to go home to Sakura and not being trapped in the past. Especially not with three different versions of himself. He was an asshole at the age of thirteen and suicidal at the age of 27.
“We can bring you to the Hokage, right, my little one.”, said Kira.
“Mom?! I am not a child any more, I am two and a half years old.”
“You are a child, and stop being so disrespectful to your mother. Appreciate what you have.”, said Naruto.
“Sorry, Mom.”
“Is okay, little one, but we need to inform the Hokage. Let’s go.” Kakashi and Naruto followed them. Kakashi wouldn’t want to believe his eyes. He sent his chakra out to identify any kind of genjutsu, but there was none. This was the Konoha of his early childhood memories. They went through the village and Narutos eyes got bigger and bigger. He recognized some streets and realized that this Konoha is totally different from the Konoha of his childhood and now. The feeling of war and loss was all over the village. The Konoha of his time was colourful and bright, this Konoha is grey and dull. It really was depressing. They were not heading to the Hokage tower but to the T & I, well nowadays it was the T & I, back then it was just a sports hall for the Hokage. Kakashi sensed a lot of mixed chakras in there, and it was more like a big blur. All these chakras blend into another. The door opened and they all went in. The room got quiet in an instant. Everyone was looking at them. Kakashis eyes went around. The first thing he spotted was a young Sakura, with short clothing. Her pink hair was way too obvious. Then he looked over to the chunin version of him, then to Minato, Obito and finally to Rin. He froze by the sight of her. She looked like he remembered her. His expression wasn’t unnoticed, and so he moved on to the Sensei version of him. He remembered that outfit on Sakura and on himself. It was the mission on the moon island. Next to Sakura were Lee and Naruto. Little Narutos eyes widened as he saw himself. His Naruto was a lot taller and with short hair. Then he looked at his Naruto and saw how he smiled while looking at his younger version. Then they greeted the Hokage and introduced themselves.
“So,”, began the adult Naruto, “you don’t remember any of this?” He asked while looking at his Kakashi.
“Fuck, no.”, answered Kakashi truthfully, and the whole room gasped.
“Really, he is reading porn in public, and you go nuts when he is saying fuck?”
“It’s not porn, it is advanced adult romance.”
“It is porn. Pervy Sage was my Sensei. He made me read it.”
“No wonder, you turned out like you did.”
“It really is no wonder, considerate, that I had two perverts as sensei’s.”
“I wouldn’t call Tenzou a pervert. He went through a lot.”
“I didn’t mean Yamato, Kakashi-sensei.” Kakashi shrugged. Most of them stopped calling him sensei after the war. Naruto stopped when Sakura asked him to. They found it weird that Naruto called him sensei, while they were practically undressing each other with their eyes.
“Iruka then, I see.”
“Whatever, old man.”, sighed Naruto. Kakashi rolled his eyes and scratched the back of his head.
“That is so weird.”, said chunin-Kakashi. His teammates agreed. Now Narutos eyes were fixed on his father. Minato was a clever man and already married to Kushina, he would connect the dots, especially after seeing an Uzumaki with his spiky yellow hair, named after one of Jirayas book heroes. Adult-Naruto gave him a knowing smile and Minato gaze brightened up.
“How old are you?”, asked Kid-Naruto his older self.
“Oh, I am 27, which made us the same age.”, answered he while pointing at the sensei-Kakashi.
“Oh, I have so many questions-“, began the younger, yellow haired boy.
“Naruto, you cannot ask about the future. That will do no good.”, said his Sensei with a strict voice.
“Oh, that won’t be a problem, I cannot remember being in the past, neither can you, and you were here two times, but for us, it already happened, which leads to the conclusion that our memories had been altered by someone or something, therefore any of us will forget that this had happened, so we can talk openly.”
“That… that was a clever and realistic conclusion. I am impressed.”, said Sensei-Kakashi.
“Thanks, I grew up quite a lot.”
“So, I can ask questions?”, asked the younger Naruto.
“You can, actually we all can.”, confirmed the oldest Kakashi.
“Great, so are we Hokage?”
“Yes, we are. We got the hat a year ago.”
“So the village accepts us?”
“Yes, but not because we are the Hokage. A wise friend once told me, that you will not be accepted because you are the Hokage, but that you will be Hokage because you are accepted. I learnt quite a lot from him. He was a true hero for our village.”
“Who was it?”
“Naruto, don’t.”, said the oldest Kakashi.
“Sorry, but this time the old man is right. But being Hokage is not the only thing that we have achieved over the years. We are married to the most amazing woman on this planet, and we have two great children. A son named Boruto and a daughter named Himawari. They are the most beautiful children in the world. Right Kakashi?”
“I will stay out of this.”, said the older one and sighed.
“Uh,” sighed Naruto, “ignore him.” He knew better than that. Saying one’s children are more beautiful than others is critical, especially when his short-tempered wife has one, too. While Naruto had his speech about his achievements, the oldest Kakashi realized that Genin-Sakuras Chakra flow is odd. She was in pain. So he put down his backpack and started to looking for a certain chocolate bar. It was infused with her healing chakra and reduced pain. They always had them at home to made sure she can grab some, when either one of them is in pain. He always packed some before he went out on a mission. It reminded him of her and even if he didn’t like sweets, these are tolerable for him to eat. He found them on the bottom of his backpack.
“Ah found one.”, he said silently, but still hearable enough to get the attention of the room. All eyes were now fixed on him, but he didn’t seem to care. He pulled out the chocolate bar and went over to the young Sakura.
“Here, these will help with your pain.”, he said, while handing her the bar. She looked at him in surprise. “Oh, my wife is a medic and I picked up a few tricks.”
“WIFE?!”, said Sensei-Kakashi loud and shocked, “We are married?”
“Yep. She is the best medic in our time.”
“Do you have children?” asked Rin with a hint of hope in her voice, while Chunin-Kakashi looked shocked as well. He couldn’t imagine himself having a wife. His purpose was to serve the village and to be its weapon. A weapon doesn’t have kids or is married. Obito looked quite shocked, too. He had the same thought as Rin, namely that Rin was that wife. She was a medic, they were on a team together, and it was just natural for him to develop feelings for her. Minato was just happy to see his son and his student being close friends and both of them being happy and having a domestic life, was all he could ever ask for. Lee, Sakura and young Naruto were thrilled that their aloof Sensei seemed to be content in his life, and young Naruto was especially thrilled by the fact that he will have a family and become Hokage.
“Not yet, but hopefully soon, I am not getting any younger.”
“Don’t let Gai hear that.”, said adult Naruto.
“I never said that.”, joked Kakashi.
“He is weird.”, whispered Obito into the ear of Rin, and she nodded.
“So since none of them dared to asked that question,”, started the Sensei version of Kakashi, “what happened to Sasuke?” With this question, the bodies of the three Genins stiffened. Naruto and Sakura were too scared to ask that question.
“Oh, well, this idiot's body was taken over by Orochimaru, therefore he is dead.”, said Naruto bluntly. His Kakashi chuckled.
“He was what?”, said the younger Naruto in shock. Tears were forming in his eyes. He wouldn’t want to believe his ears. The promise that he had made to Sakura will not be fulfilled. Sasuke will die and he will not save him. “And what is so funny about that?”, he shouted in the older Kakashis direction.
“Who is Sasuke?”, asked Obito.
“Oh, Sasuke was in the same Genin team as Naruto and Sakura. He was an Uchiha and power hungry, therefore he went to Orochimaru, who is a Nuke-nin in our time, to seek more power. None of us could bring him back. Naruto and some other Genin of his year were after him as he first left, but they nearly got killed by the subordinates of Orochimaru. I was on a mission, too. Konoha had been attacked before, and we were short on shinobis. I went after them as soon as I heard of it, but I was too late as well. He ultimately-“, the oldest Kakashi got interrupted by a knock on the door. A shinobi entered.
“I am sorry to interrupt you Hokage-sama, but I am here to inform you, that another person from the future had arrived as well as Sakumo Hatake.” The opportunity to meet their father had very different reactions to the four Kakashis. The youngest was excited to see his father again, the 13-year-old was hurt and started to pout, the 27-year-old version was as aloof as ever and the oldest was nearly as excited as the youngest one. He had so many questions concerning marriage and child care.
“Come on, little one, we are going to meet your father and explain to him the situation ok?”, said Kakashis mother and they both left the room quietly together with the other shinobi. Then ‘the other person from the future’ entered the room. It was the 27-year-old Sasuke. His dark hair over his rinnegan and the sharingan closed. He looked relieved when he spotted the Naruto and Kakashi of his age.
“Teme, you are here as well. You really know how to kill the joke.”, shouted Naruto happily.
“What joke?”, asked Sasuke while looking at the crowd of different Shinobis. He recognized the younger versions of his friends, his Sensei and the Hokage as well as Minato and Obito. He figured that the girl was Rin.
“Oh, I told them your body was taken over by Orochimaru.”, laughed Naruto.
“Oh, was that before or after I killed him?”, joked Sasuke.
“After, but before you decided to follow his path and destroy Konoha.”, answered Naruto with a big grin on his face. Sasuke went to the Hokage and introduced himself to him and all the others.
“So we bring him back to Konoha, and he is safe?”, asked the young Naruto.
“Yes, it only cost us an arm and a lot of nerves.”, answered the older Naruto.
“Well I lost an arm as well, but Dobe, what had happened? There was a weird shockwave while we were heading back to Konoha and the next thing I know is that we are nearly forty years in the past.”
“We? So Sakura is in this time, too?”, asked the oldest Kakashi now all ears for the Uchiha.
“Yes she is. I thought he was already here.”
“Why should she? You were travelling as a team.”, answered Kakashi. He didn’t like the way this conversation was heading.
“We got separated in this shockwave, and I thought she headed directly to Konoha.”
“She hasn’t arrived, yet.”, answered adult Naruto. He felt Kakashi tense next to him. This time was dangerous even for a woman of her calibre, therefore he was worried. They have both survived these missions only to find themselves in the past and now being separated again. He damned his younger version.
“Without her being here, so we are still fucked?”, said Sasuke plainly.
“What do you mean by that?”, asked Genin-Sakura.
“Oh, Sakura usually comes up with solutions in these kinds of scenarios. She is the brain of the group.”, answered Naruto and Sasuke and Kakashi nodded in agreement.
“Me? Being the brain of the group, but Kakashi-sensei-“ The oldest team seven shrugged. Hearing Sakura calling Kakashi ‘Sensei’ was weirder than their trip to the past.
“DON’T!”, shouted all three of them simultaneously.
“Don’t call him Sensei, whatever you do, don’t call him that.”, said Sasuke.
“But why?”, asked Sakura.
“Just don’t, I mean I wasn’t even a good Sensei, at least not to you. You really should not call me that. Ah! and when we are at it, I am sorry, for being that knucklehead of teacher and didn’t see your strength and value.”, said the oldest Kakashi in a light tone.
“Thanks, I guess.”, answered Sakura, still not sure what this is all about.
“So, you are a shitty teacher?”, asked Minato.
“No.”, said the late twenty version of Kakashi.
“I was, yes.”, interrupted the oldest Kakashi calmly. Minato is looking between the two of them and started to laugh. Kakashi changed quite a lot in these years, but in the end he will be happy and that’s all that matters for him.
“I am not even sure you are me from the future.”, said the Sensei version of Kakashi.
“Why is that? Because I am much happier and content?”
“No, because your left eye is back, and you smell different than me.”
“Oh yes, that makes a lot more sense. Uh well, I lost the other eye, and it got replaced by my original eye so to speak. It was really crazy and a lot of things were happening at the same time and of course I smell different than you, I share my life with someone, her scent is mixed with mine by now, even if we are apart for a couple of months. Furthermore, your hormonal balance changes a bit when you live together with someone of the opposite sex, and I am older.”
“Yes, but the eye thing is weird. I am not sure.”
“Do you want me to show you our face?”, joked the oldest Kakashi
“Actually yes. That’s the fastest way to see if you are really me.”
“As if this conversation wasn’t prove enough.”, sighed Obito.
“What do you mean?”, asked Sasuke.
“We had the same problem with him”, Obito pointed to the Jonin-Kakashi, “and he made the same suggestion. So if you are really them, then your way of thinking hasn’t changed much.”
“Will you show us your face.”, asked Jonin-Kakashi.
“Fuck no!”
“It’s me.”, said the other Kakashis in unison. With that, the door opened again and Sakumo Hatake entered the room. In his arms his young son and next to him his wife. He is looking suspicious but friendly.
“I think we should just start to introduce ourselves. I am Sakumo Hatake and this is my wife Kira and our son Kakashi.” His voice was friendly and happy. Just like Kakashi had remembered it.
“I am Minato Namikaze, Sensei of team seven and this is Obito Uchiha, Rin Nohara and your 13-year-old son Kakashi Hatake.”, said Minato first pointing to himself and then to each of his students. Sakumo nodded.
“I am Naruto Uzumaki, the seventh Hokage and this is my best friend and team member Sasuke Uchiha and your 41-year-old son, Kakashi Hatake.” Sakumo nodded again, now looking to the only remaining team.
“I am Kakashi Hatake, 27-years-old and team seven Sensei. This is my temporary team. This is Rock Lee, he isn’t my student, he only helped my team during this mission. This is Naruto Uzumaki and that is Sakura Haruno.” Sakumos eyes widened in shock as he saw Sakura. All of them noticed it.
“She really was a Konoha konoichi.”, said Sakumo silently.
“She is the prisoner you talked about? Am I right?”, said Sasuke anger clearly hearable in his voice.
“Yes, how do you know?”, he answered.
“So you chose war.”, said Sasuke, his sharingan already activated. The killing intent radiates openly from him.
“Sasuke? What is this about?”, asked Naruto shocked about the outburst of his usually calm best friend.
“I am going to destroy Konoha once and for all.”, said Sasuke angrily.
“I thought you have left this part of you behind, Sasuke.”, said the oldest Kakashi earnestly. His body language switched into a fighting position.
“Kakashi is right, Teme. Stop this, I am the Hokage and I will not allow you to destroy my home. Don’t make me kill you.”, said Naruto, also ready to fight his best friend.
“They tortured Sakura. I heard him myself before I entered the room. He said they had taken in a Konoichi, which they tortured to a point of no return. That she is unconscious and will probably never wake up again. They chose this.”
“WHAT?!”, screamed Naruto, while his eyes became blood-red and the lines on his face hardened.
“What is this?”, asked Minato shocked about the power outburst of his son.
“The nine tails chakra. He is a jinchuriki.”, said Sensei-Kakashi. Both teams were standing closer to each other now. The pure amount of power that radiates from the two shinobis is frightening all of them.
“So manslaughter it is.”, said the oldest Kakashi. Every lightness that ever had been on him had vanished. He was just as angry as his teammates, and he stormed to the door. Just as he touched the doorknob, a new chakra signature arrived in the room.
“Y’all drama queens.” All three of them turned on their spot. There she was standing, completely healthy, and mocking them. Narutos eye colour changed back immediately, and Sasukes sharingan closed. Naruto closed his arms around her and hugged her as tight as he could. He was worried about her, and he doesn’t like it to be worried about his best friends.
“Sakura, you are unharmed? How?”, he asked shocked but happy.
“You, you’re an oblivious dickhead. You cannot go and destroy the village, you are the Hokage! That is not ok.”
“But, Sakura, I was worried about you.”
“You should have known better. I don’t go down so fast.” Naruto loosened his grip and they separated. She hadn’t even time to react, when Sasuke pulled her in a tight hug with his one arm.
“And you, are you stupid? Haven’t you thought about our daughter? How can you go out and destroy her home?” Young Sakuras gaze brightened up. They had a daughter together, which means she were married and together.
“Technically, she isn’t even alive, yet.”
“Semantics.”
“What did they do to you?”, Sasuke asked while letting her go.
“How is this possible? You were unconscious.”, said Sakumo shocked.
“Sorry, but you couldn’t even hold me down, even if I wanted you to. Tell them, with what you have tortured me.”, answered Sakura confident. The 27-year-old version of Kakashi tensed. This was new. She was confident. Her whole body language was different than the one of his Sakura. Every fibre of her being screamed confidence. How did his little shy Sakura got this confident woman, and why does it turn him on? That was scary, but she is hot, too hot for his own good.
“A genjutsu casted by an Uchiha.”, Sakumo answered, still not understanding what was happening. Sasuke and Naruto started to laugh.
“What is so funny?”, asked Obito. He felt his pride hurt as an Uchiha.
“Sakura is practically resistant against genjutsu.”, said Naruto casually.
“Resistant? How?”, asked Chunin-Kakashi actually curious how that is possible and why he is so fascinated by the fact.
“She has excellent chakra control, she just snaps out of it.”, answered Sasuke. “Even a genjutsu casted with the mangekyou sharingan didn’t bother her any more.”
“That is impressive.”, said Sensei-Kakashi.
“Thank you very much.”, answered she as she went through the room to get to her Kakashi. She had waited two months to see him again, and now he was 4 meters away and still frozen. He hadn’t snapped back from the possibility to lose her.
“Hey”, she said softly while wrapping her arms around him, “I have promised, so stop worrying, you will get wrinkles on that stupid face of yours. I am not them. I don’t go down easy, especially not when I have someone to return to.” Kakashi wrapped his arms around her automatically. She pressed further into him. He was still in shock. Even though he could sense her chakra, feel her body pressing against his, smell her intoxicating scent, hear her lovely voice and see her pink hair, but all of this was not enough for him to snap back. He needed a little bit more time for that. He needed to be sure, that this wasn’t a dream or genjutsu, that this was reality. That she was safe and sound and back in his arms.
“You kept your promise.” He heard himself say. He still hadn’t quite snapped back.
“Of course I did. I have told you, that I will find you and come back to you. I am not them, Kakashi. I will not leave you.” He pulled her even closer. This whole scenery was watched closely by every other person in this room. Rin looked like she was starting to cry, Kakashi, the man she hoped would be her husband, was awfully close to his ex-student. A beautiful and strong woman. The Kakashi of her team, was shocked by the open affection of his older self. Obito was pleased. If Kakashi was married to this woman he is so comfortable around, that Rin would be probably married to him. Minato was shocked. For him, the ‘couple’ looked a little bit too close to each other. Lee and Naruto also looked like they would cry, they still had hoped that they marry Sakura, but this hope is crashed by now. The young Sakura was as red as a tomato, and even her Sensei got a slight blush on his cheeks. The Hokage, Sakumo and his wife, just smiled at each other knowingly.
“But, wait, why are you so close? What about your wife? Wouldn’t she mind?”, asked Rin, after a couple more moment. The anger slightly hearable in her voice.
“My, what?”, asked the oldest Kakashi quite confused.
“Your wife, right, what about her? Does she mind?”, asked Sakura jokingly. She loosened her grip without letting go of him and looking him deep in the eyes.
“Well, I don’t know. Do you mind?”, he said softly, while cupping her face. The whole room went quiet. The blush on young Sakura and the other two Kakashis intensified.
“Mhm… I am not sure.”, she said, still holding the gaze.
“Not sure? Haven’t you missed me?”
“Not so much with me around.”, joked Sasuke.
“What does that mean?!”, said Kakashi angrily. His looked up from Sakura and challenging the Uchiha with his gaze.
“Calm down”, said Sakura, she felt her husband stiffened, “they didn’t get the message that we are in fact not married any more. We had to share a room for the first half of our mission. No big deal, like there is something that I haven’t seen before.”
“Or touched.”, added Sasuke.
“Really? I am fighting for your life here.”, laughed Sakura. Strengthening the grip around her husband a bit more. She felt Kakashis anger and knew that after the mission that he had had, her husband will be worn out and will lose it quite easily.
“Calm down, I will not allow you to be a jealous dickhead in front of everyone, especially not your parents. I raised you better than that.” He calmed down immediately and looked back in her beautiful eyes.
“You most certainly did.” He smiled at his wife.
“Stop! That cannot be true. You two must be joking. That cannot be real. He is old, ancient even.”, said the young Sakura. Her world was falling apart. She was married to Sasuke and leave him for what her ex-sensei? That can’t be right. Her Sensei looked at her in shock. He agreed with being too old for her but ancient that hurt even his feelings. The two lovebirds separated but stayed closely next to each other.
“Mah, 14 years aren’t that much. We are both adults. She was already a mother when we started dating.”, answered the oldest Kakashi.
“But… but he is our sensei, that can’t be allowed.”
“He was our sensei, for what? A year? And he was an aloof asshole the most of the time. You will find your shishou, and she will train you like he never could.”, argued the older Sakura.
“It is always nice to hear you talk so fondly of our shared time.”, chuckled her husband.
“But still… he is a pervert.”, argued the younger Sakura.
“That’s rich coming from the woman who make the Icha Icha look like a child's book.”, answered the oldest Kakashi offended. The young Sakura looked now like she would faint from pure embarrassment any second now. Her sensei on the other hand was fascinated.
“Stop it, you are traumatizing this poor, innocent girl.”
“She is neither poor nor innocent, she is you.”
“You forget; she is me before Shishou. And don’t act like you would enjoy it.”
“Oh I do. I do enjoy it.”, her husband answered as his voice just a little bit darker than usual. Sakura got Goosebumps. She shook her head slightly.
“So will anybody tell me, how we did end up in the past and not only us, but two other versions of Kakashi as well.”, asked Sakura after her short interaction with her husband. The 27-year-old Kakashi stiffened when he heard Sakura say his name. That his eyes were now focused on her, did not go unnoticed by the older Kakashi. He chuckled internally. He knew that gaze. There are a lot of pictures of him looking like that at Sakura.
“This young man here, casted a jutsu he found in a scroll in the attics and thought it would be a good idea to try this unknown jutsu.”, said Kira with a light voice and a soft smile. Kira was happy about the change to see her son in various life stages. Sakura immediately realized that her chakra flow was wrong. She was ill. She looked at her husband. He tightened his grip on her hand. She knew, he knew, but he didn’t want her to interferer.
“I didn't think it is possible for such a young child to cast a jutsu that needed that much chakra. Even I would need the help of my seal.”
“Seal?”, asked the young Sakura.
“That is not important now.”, answered her older self, and went over to her mother-in-law and the child-version of her husband. “I am Sakura, hello”, she introduced herself, she turned to the young Kakashi, “and hello you.” The young Kakashi turned to her in his father’s arms. He watched her converse with his mother.
“Hello, dear! I am Kira, Kakashis mother. It is nice to meet you.”
“It is lovely to meet you, as well. I would like to check him, because it shouldn’t be possible for him to cast a jutsu like that.” Kira nodded and looked at her son and her husband.
“Your hair colour is odd.”, he said shyly.
“Your hair colour is odd, too.” The young boy started to smile through his mask.
“Is that why we married in the future?”
“Maybe, but maybe because we can smell each other.”, with that she held her forearm to him, and he smelled her. His eyes widened in happiness.
“You’re weird, but that’s good.”
“Do you allow me to check on you?”
“Check on me?”
“With my healing chakra.”
“Will it hurt?”
“No, just tickle.”
“It is okay.”
“Here or in a private room? I am a doctor, so your secrets are safe with me.”
“Can daddy join us in a private room?”
“Of course he can.”
“Then in a private room.”, said the young boy, and Sakura nodded. The whole room was listening to their conversations. They all admired her for her way to handle that young boy’s shyness. She was calm and patient with him and met him face to face. As they left the room, she looked at the 27-year-old version of Kakashi, and then she pointed at him.
“And you are next. I remember you were not long enough at the hospital after this mission and someone need to check your eye. And no, I don’t take ‘no’ for an answer. I will hunt you down if I must, but I am sure you don’t want to make a scene in front of your mother”, then she turned to her Naruto and her husband, “then you. Your mission was quite dangerous, if they asked for you two. I want to do a full check-up.” Then she turned to the rest. “If any of you need medical attention, just ask. I will be glad to help.”
“Yes, Doctor Haruno.”, said Naruto and saluted with two fingers.
“Hatake.”, said her husband plainly.
“Whatever, Haruno, Uchiha, Hatake, all the same thing.”, answered Naruto and rolled his eyes. Then she left, followed by the youngest Kakashi and his father.
“She is quite the character, isn’t she?”, asked Minato.
“You have no idea, Sensei.”, answered the oldest Kakashi.
“I don’t think I need a medical check-up.”, said other adult Kakashi.
“Oh, I don’t think you have much of a choice. She will hunt you down. She is not the girl you know.”, answered the oldest Kakashi.
“I was afraid you’d say that.”
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Sakura entered a locker room and held the door open for Sakumo and his son.
“So young man, I will use my hands and let my chakra flow through your body, that will be all.”
“Okay.” With that, Sakura placed her glowing hands on the young Kakashi. Sakumo looked at them.
“So”, started Sakumo, “I think I should start with an apology. I am very sorry that I gave the order to torture you, even when it didn’t hurt you in the end.”
“Oh, no problem, you are at war, and you needed to make sure your team is safe. I understand that, and I wasn’t completely honest either.”
“Would have been pretty odd, if you have told me, you are from the future and then married to my son. I cannot blame you for not saying this.”, chuckled Sakumo slightly.
“Yes, that would be crazy.”
“But you guy are in fact married to another?”
“We are.”, said Sakura calmly, still looking at her little patient.
“And you were his student before that?”
“I was.”, she knew where this was going to end, but she couldn’t blame him. Seen from the outside, is their pairing at least unusual or in the worst case a criminal offence.
“And then his subordinate?”
“Yes.”
“I need to ask this. Did he use his position to make a move on you or forced you in any kind of way?”, Sakumo tensed under his thought.
“No. We were mutual long before we ever started to date. It was actually me who did the first step. Believe it or not, but your son was quite shy back then. He feared he would jeopardize our friendship if he asked me out and even after this I needed to initiate everything.” She looked up to Sakumo, now. He sighed silently.
“You won’t hurt him, right?”, asked Sakumo after a short time while looking concerned at his young son.
“No, this won’t hurt. Or are you in any kind of pain?”, answered Sakura while looking at her little patient. Little Kakashi shook his head.
“Oh… I didn’t mean him, I meant your Kakashi.”
“Oh… no. I love him.”
“So you and that good-looking Uchiha, that is nothing to be concerned of?”
“No. I have loved Sasuke since I was 6. It started as a childhood crush, then love, from that love it went into hurt and then into love again. We had our moments, but ultimately we were not meant for each other. I still love Sasuke, he is the father of my first child and one of my best friends, he is family just like Naruto”, Sakura took a deep breath, “Kakashi and I, we were close after the war, best friends even. He was always there for me, and I was there for him. I never planned on falling in love with him nor acting on those feelings, but we got pushed together by nobody less than Sasuke and Naruto and I will forever be grateful for this. He is my other half. I love him. I truly do. I would never do something to hurt him.”
“That is good to hear, because I think he truly loves you. We Hatake men are secretive and impermanent, but when we love someone we are open to them and true. We settle for only one person, and he has settled for you.”
“And I have settled for him. It is him, will always be him.” Sakumo smiled and looked at his young son again.
“You have realized that my wife is…”, he said silently.
“I have. Is there anything that I can do to help?”
“No. This has to happen.”
“I know, you are right.”
“I am sorry.”
“Not as much as I am.” He was silent again. She was ill, for quite some time now. She won’t make it much longer. Therefore, he was glad, that she could see their son more or less grow up.
“So young man, you and your father can go now, well done.”, said Sakura after she finished her examination.
“Would you sent the 27-year-old Kakashi in. I want to check him next.” Sakumo nodded and they left the room. A couple of minutes later, this Kakashi entered the small room.
“Yo.”
“Hello. I just want to check your chakra amount and your eye. It will be done in a couple of minutes. I need to touch you under your shirt, any objections?” He shook his head and lifted his shirt slightly. He was curious to how she felt, when she would touch him. She made her quick examination of his chakra amount. It was still low, but not dangerously low, and overall he was in a good physical condition. He realized that she felt natural to him. He was shocked by that, but even more thrilled. She was a good-looking woman, and his older self seemed genuinely happy. That was a good prospect for him.
“Thank you, and now I would like to take a proper look at your eye.” Kakashi nodded again, lifted his hitai-ate. Sakura stepped a bit closer to him and placed her hand on his left eye, then she sent her healing chakra through his eyeball. There was nothing special about it. It was correctly healed and overall in a good condition. She dug a bit deeper and found a slightly irritated nerve ending. She healed it first and then searched for its origin. It took her only a couple of seconds until she found it. This nerve was rubbing on his chakra canal when he used his sharingan. She relocated the nerve ending and stepped back.
“Thanks for healing the pain.”, he said calmly, while closing both of his eyes and breathing deeply.
“It was constant pain, right?”
“Yes it was. I went to some medics, but they only helped me temporarily.”
“It should never bother you again. I healed it completely.”, she had a big grin on her face. Kakashi noticed for the first time how beautiful her smile is.
“You can that?”
“Of course, I am the best medic of my time.” She said proudly.
“I see that now.”, he gave her his signature eye creased smile.
“Oh, I would like to examine the 13-year-old version of you as well. Could you ask him to come?”
“I will tell him that.” She smiled at him and let him go back to the others, the next one is Naruto. She made a quick check-up and released him short after that. Naruto was fine, thanks to Kurama and his healing abilities. Next in line was her husband. Her gaze brightened when he entered the room. His mask was gone within seconds, and he crushed his lips on hers. They kissed like they haven’t seen each other in years. He pressed her hungrily against himself. Giving her no way to escape him. She could if she wanted to, but why should she? She missed him, his lips, his kisses and his body against hers.
“I have missed you so much.”, he whispered between the kisses, “never leave me again.”
“I have missed you, too. I love you so much. I have thought about you all the time.”, she answered and kissed him again. He wasn’t ready to let go of her, but he knew this was neither the time nor the place for that.
“I was so scared that I would never see you smile at me again.” He looked her deep in the eyes and cupped her face with his hands.
“You should have more faith in me. You know I don’t go down that easy.” She cupped his face as well and caressed his cheeks with her hands.
“But still your seal is smaller, you needed to use it.” He kissed her forehead.
“Yes, I did, to safe Sasuke and me.” He shrugged and hold her tighter.
“What had happened?”
“We got ambushed during a routine round around the village, we worked in. They hit him in his stomach. I needed to heal him properly.”
“And what did they do to you?”
“That is not so important.”
“It is. What happened to you?” She dodged his question. That was not a good sign. It was a deadly wound, he knew it.
“They went for my throat. It is not as bad as it sounds, really.”
“They slit it, aren’t they? Without your seal, you would be dead by now.”
“I would have died during the war without it.” She argued.
“But still. How many years did it cost you?”, he was calm but worried.
“Not so much. I haven’t caught up with you.”, she said with a light laughter to lightened up the mood. He wasn’t having any of it.
“How many?” He asked sternly.
“3 years. It is not so much, really.”
A knock on the door interrupted their conversation. The door opened slowly and Kakashi placed his mask back on his face. It was Rin. Her face was glowing red under her face paint, and she looked angry. Kakashi was sure, he had never seen her looking like that.
“I am here to talk to you privately, Haruno-san.”
“Oh, please call me Sakura. You are Rin right? It is nice to meet you.”
“I am, and I don’t think this is necessary.”
“Ok, but then it is Hatake-san. She is my wife.”, said Kakashi slightly annoyed because nobody seems to address his wife correctly.
“You can leave it to me, Kakashi.”
“All right darling.”, Kakashi answered and gave Sakura a masked kiss in her cheeks, then he looked at Rin, “see you both soon.” Then he left the room. He really wants to know what they are talking about, but he knew he has his own battle to fight. He feared that the others will ask him about his relationship with Sakura. His 13-year-old version walked towards to him.
“She asked for you, too?”, the older one asked.
“Yes she did. Minato gave me the order to obey, and so I will, but…”
“But what?”
“I have a question; why do you allow your students to be so disrespectful towards you?”
“Oh, they are not really my students any more, and even before. I taught them for nearly a year, they were all trained by the three sannin. And they aren’t disrespectful, that’s how they talk to one another and when they talk to me like that, then I feel accepted by them. Furthermore, all three of them would kick my ass in minutes if they were serious, and I rather have my pride hurt than my body.”, then the older one started to laugh.
“That is disgraceful.”
“It can be, sometimes, but we never had much dignity to begin with.” The young boy started to chuckle. His older version was weird to him, but he seems genuinely happy, and he couldn’t wait to feel that. What his younger version didn’t know is, that the worst was yet to come, but the older one smiled at him and walked off to the main hall, where everybody was waiting.
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Sakura sat down and waited for Rin to begin. She took a deep breath. Being patient wasn’t her strongest trait, but she wanted to give Rin the time that she needed.
“I…”, Rin began and Sakura waited again.
“Why him? Couldn’t you settle for anyone in your age.”
“I love him and he loves me.”
“He likes that you are young.”
“Oh does he?”
“What else should he like about you. Your skill is not that great, you may be resistant to genjutsu, but you cannot fight and nobody is a better medic than Lady Tsunade. Everybody knows that, and she is probably still alive in your time. I don’t know what you hold against him, but why did you take him from someone of his age?”
“And who should this person be? You?”
“Of course me. I am his teammate. I love him since I was 7, we are meant to be together and in love and happy. So leave him alone and allow him to go back to his one and true love.”
“I thought the same thing about Sasuke, when I was your age. I was blinded by this and don’t get me wrong, Sasuke is a good man and I loved him dearly, but Kakashi is my true love and I would like to believe that I am his, but I am not going to explain or validate my relationship to a child. Is there anything else that I can do for you?”
“Just take off your hands from my future man.” Sakura sighed. This was ridiculous. She really hoped that she could get to know this young girl, who Kakashi still thinks about a lot. He is in a specific mood when he remembers Rin and Sakura learnt to help him over the years, but she was always fascinated about this girl, who stayed in Kakashis heart even almost 30 years after her death. The girl that haunts him in his darkest moments. It made her sad, that Rin felt some sort of rivalry towards her. They weren’t fighting about a boy, because this fight was already settled. Kakashi was married to her and Rin was dead. Therefore, it just felt insane to even have this conversation, but Sakura made a decision in that very moment. She would not go to the graveyard with Kakashi any more. Rin made it obvious to her, that she is not welcomed in any way, and she wants to commit to Rins wish. Rin felt that Sakura will not react to her in that way.
“Do you know what he looks like to the village when he is seen with you? His student?”
“What do you mean?”
“You make him look like a paedophile that groomed you. He fought hard to be accepted by the village and its ninja after everything that happened with his dad, and you are destroying his image, his reputation. You are-“
A knock on the door interrupted them. Rin immediately stopped talking, and the door opened slowly. It was chunin-Kakashi. Rin blushed even more at the sight of him.
“Am I interrupting something?”, he asked cautiously.
“No, I made my point clear.”, said Rin and walked past him.
“What is wrong with her?”, he asked after Rin left the room.
“Never mind her. Thanks for coming. I want to do a quick routine check-up and that will be it.”
“Ok, do I need to do something?”
“Just lift your shirt a bit.” Kakashi obeyed, and Sakura let her chakra flow through his body quickly. It only took a couple of minutes, then she released him.
“I just make some notes, and then I come back to the others, but you can already go now, or is there anything that you want to know?”
“Actually yes.”
“Go on.”
“Why me… him?”
“Why is everybody asking me that question. Why not? He is an aloof idiot, who cannot get his shit together even when his life depends on it. Who nearly died at least three times in the last year and who is reading his porn everywhere, but still, when he looks at me or says my name everything makes sense. It doesn’t matter how shitty my day was, when he walks into the room, my day brightens up. He is my other half. I can be truly myself around him, and I hope he feels the same about me.”
“You are truly in love with me… him…”
“I am, yes.”
“Thank you for your time, Sakura.” She smiled at him and turned to the little desk in the room after he had left the room. She wrote everything down in her journal. She took a deep breath and walked back to the others.
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“And?”, asked all of them in unison as she entered the room.
“Well, we are fucked, partly fucked, but I think I can fix this. I just need some things the exact jutsu that was casted, I need the power of your left eye, Sasuke and I need to talk to Kurama, but first I need a coffee.” All of them nodded.
“No coffee, you know the drill!”, said Sasuke. The eyes of the entire room went to him.
“But...” all eyes went to her again.
“No coffee.”, he said strictly.
“Why?”, asked the oldest Kakashi.
“She hasn’t told you? For fuck’s sake, Sakura.”
“Sorry, in this mess, I haven’t found the right moment.”
“Right moment? I made a comment in the mud around the village we were working in, was that the right moment? I guess not. He should know, he needs to decide as well.”
“Know what? What had happened?”, said the oldest Kakashi
“Not now, we need to fix that first. We can talk later.”, his wife answered.
“No. We will talk now.”, he said strictly.
“Kakashi, not now. This can wait.” But Kakashi wasn’t going to wait. He opened his fingerless glove and took it off. He showed her the outside of his ungloved hand with his wedding ring. He stared directly into her green eyes. His gaze was serious.
“No secrets, remember? No god-damn secrets.”, his voice was a bit louder than usual. It was no big deal, but for Kakashi standards it was like screaming. She knew he was hurt, and she knew she needed to correct this before it gets worse.
“Okay, fine, but not here.”
“Okay, we can go into another room.”, said Kakashi and left the main room without the second glance at anybody.
“Drama queen”, grumbled Sakura to herself and went after her husband.
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“Wow… are they always like that?”, asked Minato the two other shinobis of their time.
“No, but they are both stubborn and sometimes the jealousy takes the best of Kakashi and that Teme here knows something and Kakashi don’t make it only worse, but they are evenly matched.”, said Naruto.
“He is right, they are annoyingly happy.”, added Sasuke.
“So what was that about? Did she finally notice she is pregnant?”, asked Naruto.
“You knew?”, asked Sasuke surprised. The whole room went quiet. The Kakashis were surprised, they will be a parent one day. Their parents were pleased; a baby was something to be happy about. Rin was just as shocked as the young Sakura. Lee, the young Naruto and Obito couldn’t care less.
“I figured it. We were half-time in on the mission, when I remembered that the sake tasted weird to her, which I found odd at the time, because it is her favourite, and it tasted just fine.”
“And you didn’t tell him right away?”, asked Sasuke.
“I don’t have a death wish. If I have told him that I think that his wife is finally pregnant, he would have slit my throat while I was sleeping, because I sent her out on a mission.”
“Fair enough.”
“Did she told you?”
“No, I guessed it as well. She was calling me a moron. She only called me a moron when she was pregnant the first time. I joked about it, she checked on herself and nearly blacked out. It was actually quite funny.”
“I hope this child looks like her this time. It would be a shame if it would have his face.”, Naruto turned to the other Kakashis in the room, “No offence.”
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“So tell me, what was all this about? Are you ill?”, he asked. He was worried again. He didn’t like it to be worried.
“Kakashi, all of that is really not necessary.”, she sighed slightly.
“But Sasuke knew… I mean, I get it, you guys are close, will always be close, he is the father of your only child, but I am your husband.”
“My first child.”
“First, whatever…”, then the realization doomed over him, “first in there will be more?” Sakura smiled at him and nodded.
“You are pregnant? Don’t joke about that, Sakura. I couldn’t handle it.”
“I am; I am finally pregnant.”, said Sakura, tears were forming into her eyes and she walked closer to him. Kakashi froze, this couldn’t be real.
“Are you sure?”, he asked still slightly frozen.
“I am. I am sure. This is real. It finally happened.”
“And you are both healthy and alright?”, he needed to be sure.
“We are. Now kiss me.”, she demands. He obeyed immediately and kissed her with every emotion that he had. He pressed her closer to him, while he touched her belly. He really couldn’t believe this. She is finally pregnant. They made it.
“I love you so much!”, Kakashi said between their kisses. Then he got down on his knees and kissed Sakuras stomach.
“Can we go back now and fix this mess, or is there anything else that you want to discuss?”
“No, everything is just perfect.”, he said with a big smile on his face, and then they walked back to the others. Their faces told them everything. They knew. Sasuke had probably told them. She couldn’t blame him, Kakashi made quite a scene. Naruto jumped to her and hugged her tightly. She couldn’t be happier.
“So you know, how to fix it, could you explain it to us?”, asked Minato after everyone settled back to their places.
“Ah yes, the youngest Kakashi casted a jutsu that should have been impossible for him with his chakra amount, but it wasn’t because he somehow managed to link the chakra flow of all the other Kakashis and combined them with his. Therefore, he had enough chakra to cast the jutsu. So first we need to break the link, and then it should be possible for every Kakashi to cast the counter jutsu and travel back to their specific time. The first part of this plan takes a lot of chakra, building a chakra bond is easier than breaking it, therefore I need to rest and regain my strength to give my chakra to the young Kakashi, because he needs to break the bond. Then every other Kakashi gets a kage-bushin from Naruto, who can also share their chakra, and then you will cast the counter jutsu. The kage-bushin will probably not survive this, but that’s not so dramatic. That’s why I need to talk to Kurama. Sasuke your left eye will cast a timed mind jutsu that will erase all the memories of this little adventure. This is the best plan I have right now, and it will only work if I get to see the exact jutsu formula and a good rest to rebuild my chakra.”
“Why should you be the one to give chakra to the youngest Kakashi?”, asked Sakumo.
“Oh… I have the biggest chakra reserves next to Naruto, but he will be needed for the kage-bushins.”
“You don’t have the biggest reserves of all of them. I can feel your chakra amount in the younger version of you it is average at most, you don’t have ninja parents, it is painfully obvious, even though you conceal your current chakra amount it will not be bigger than an average shinobi chakra amount and nobody can forcibly increase their chakra amount. That is simply not possible, at least not without dying.”, said Rin annoyed.
“You seem to forget one thing. I am awesome, and some rules simply don’t apply for me and this is one.”, answered Sakura, her eyes were glowing, and she was again proud of her achievements. Rin sighed annoyed, but it was also in her interest. If this Sakura disgraced herself in front of everyone, Kakashi would realize that he is better off with her than with his wife.
“It will need some time to figure out the counter jutsu, so you will have every possibility to rest properly.”, said Sensei-Kakashi.
“That what I thought, so what’s the plan now? I mean we cannot walk around the village people might see us, but we cannot stay here. We need to sleep and some food.”, said Sakura again.
“The others have already spent a night here, there are enough rooms in the Hokage residence. You should go there and rest.”, said the Hokage calmly.
“Actually, we would like to make a request Hokage-sama.”, said Sakumo.
“Go on.”, answered the third.
“We would like to share our family house with all the Hatakes. We have enough rooms for that.”
“What a lovely idea.”, said Sakura, and Kakashi tightened the grip around his wife’s hand.
“But what about you?”, he asked ignoring the others in the room.
“Don’t be ridiculous, we have the rest of your life together, so enjoy the time with your parents. I know how much it means to you. Naruto and Sasuke will look after me while we stay here. Enjoy your time.”, she said happily and kissed his left cheek.
“But-“
“Nah, nah, furthermore I need to rest, and how am I supposed to do that, when you are always stealing my blanket? I will be fine. I promise.”, she had a huge smile on her face. She knew that this would mean the world to Kakashi and that this was a great chance for him to get to know his parents. She was the last person who was going to rob that from him, and she wouldn’t allow him to not use this once in a lifetime opportunity because of her.
“Oh dear,”, said Kira, “you are of course welcomed as well. You and Kakashi can share a room and the other two can share a bedroom, too. And the little one will stay with us.”
“Oh, you don’t have to.”, said Sakura politely. She would love to spend the night with her husband and to get to know his parents, but she wanted Kakashi to have as much time as possible and not be around her all the time.
“But we insist. You are a Hatake as well, therefore included in our suggestion. When we said all Hatakes we meant all of them.”, Sakumo continues.
“That is really lovely. Thank you.”, she answered, and Kira nodded happily. They all said their momentarily goodbyes and went to their rooms. Sasuke and Naruto shared a room and as soon as they entered it they fell dead asleep. It had been a pretty intense two months, and they needed to rest. The rest of Team Minato and Kakashi stayed together in the trainings hall and worked out together after Minato suggested it.
The Hatakes made their way to the Hatake compound. Sakura and Sakumo were quite chatty on the way, while Kira and her sons were not so talkative. Kakashi realized that his wife and his father are pretty much alike, and that he has more in common with his quiet mother. They all separated into their rooms and settled in. Kira was making diner and the other Kakashis found their way into the living room, only the oldest Kakashi and his wife were still in their room.
“Are you sure you want to go out there, shouldn’t you rest? I don’t want you to overdo it. You are pregnant, and you should take it easy.”, he asked concerned about his wife and his unborn child.
“I am pregnant not helpless, and I was pregnant before I know what I can do and what I cannot do and eating dinner with your parents who were nice enough to give us shelter won’t harm me or our child.”, Sakura said happily. Kakashi nodded, and they made their way to the living room. They greeted everyone and while Sakura was taking a seat next to chunin-Kakashi and an empty chair. Her husband went into the kitchen to his mother.
“This is still weird.”, said Sensei-Kakashi.
“It must be for you, I guess.”
“Yes, you are my student. You are hopelessly in love with Sasuke. It is weird that you left him to be with me.”
“I am with him, not you. You are not him. A lot had happened, and you are able to start your healing process. That is what allowed me to get to know you, I mean the real you. You are not able to this right now, and there is no shame in that. You went through a lot, a lot more than anybody your age should have, but still you are a great person who only wants the best for his students and important people like Gai. He is still alive in our time, he nearly died once, and you were shaken to your core, but he made it and you guys still have your crazy competitions.”, Sakura started to chuckle, “He once was standing in our bedroom in the morning just waiting for Kakashi to wake up. It freaked me out. You know, you think everything is alright, then you open your eyes in the morning and then Gai is sitting there and watching you with his crazy eyes.”
“He never did. How did you not notice?”
“Oh, I am pretty comfortable around Gai, he is Kakashis best friend and a really nice human being. I love him, like I love Naruto. He is family, and he sometimes stays overnight. Therefore, I don’t jump when I sense his chakra. And my guards are down in my own home. We are living in peaceful times and nobody is stupid enough to break into our home… nobody except Gai.”
“So the bullshit with him still goes on almost thirty years later?”, asked chunin-Kakashi.
“Don’t be so ungrateful. You will owe Gai a great deal. He is saving your ass more than once. All our asses to be precisely. He isn’t the strongest one for nothing.”, said Sakura. Chunin-Kakashi was taken aback. He couldn’t believe that Gai is the hero Sakura made him out to be. His respect for him increased automatically. At that moment, Kakashi and his mother came back from the kitchen together with the homemade food. They all ate together and talked a lot. Mostly talking were Sakumo and his wife. They shared their life wisdom with them and all of them listened interested.
The next days weren’t much different. In quiet moments, the oldest Kakashi talked about his life, always making sure that the other versions of him couldn’t hear him. He asked all the things that he wanted to know, and it helped him to understand his parents and their role. He promised his mother to talk to his team to make sure, she wouldn’t have her memory altered. She should live the rest of her short life knowing that her son will be alright in the end. Naruto thought it was a great idea, Kira was a nice woman, and she deserved it. Sasuke wasn’t so thrilled but given the fact that Kira was trustworthy and was only going to live for a couple of months, made him agree as well. Sakura was on the side of her husband. It was a kind gesture and would help this woman to go in peace.
Two days had passed and Sakura and Sakumo were able to figure a counter jutsu as well as how to break the chakra bond. Sakura was also rested enough to help the young Kakashi break the bond. Her seal was back to normal, and it was more than time to go back to their time. But before they would say their goodbyes to each other, the timed genjutsu had to be casted. Sasuke was more than ready.
“But how should this work. I am an Uchiha, a genjutsu casted with a sharingan will not work on me.”, said Obito and to everyone’s surprise chunin-Kakashi agreed with him.
“I won’t use my sharingan. I will use my rinnegan.”
“Your what?”, asked Sensei-Kakashi.
“My rinnegan.”, said Sasuke and lifted his hair. The whole room gasped and looked at him.
“How?”, asked the Hokage.
“That would take too much time to explain. Sakura, are you ready? All that needed to be in the genjutsu, are in it.”
“I am, would you come over?”, she asked while looking at the small Kakashi. He nodded and went to her. He got used to her during their stay.
“You know what to do, right?”, she asked.
“Yes I know, you give me your chakra and I will make the signs just like I did before.”
“That is correct. Is everybody ready?”, she asked. Everybody nodded in agreement. Sakura put her thumb in her palm and opened her seal. The dark lines went over her face and her body. The room went even quieter, everybody was fascinated by her appearance. She put her hands on the little Kakashi and let her chakra flow through him. He felt her power and looked up to her. She nodded to him and he formed the signs. All the Kakashis felt an imaginary burden lift from him, that they didn’t even know existed. It was a complete success.
“What was that?”, asked the younger Sakura.
“Three years’ worth of chakra. It is sensei Tsunades secret jutsu the strength of a hundred seal. I mastered it. I am even stronger than her.” The whole room gasped and Rin was displeased. Sakura really was stronger than she had imagined.
Then the second phase started. Everybody said their goodbyes. It was quite emotional. Adult-Naruto and Minato spend a lot of time together and shared their history. It meant a lot to Naruto. It was possible for him to bond with his father, and he knew that he will cherish these memories forever. The two oldest Kakashis said their goodbyes to their old genin team and their sensei. They all parted from their parents. It was time. Naruto made two kage-bushin. As discussed, the doppelgänger were infused with Kuramas chakra. When the three Narutos (2 doppelgängers and the original) started to glow, the room went quiet again. All eyes were on them.
“Oh, I learnt to master the Kyubi-chakra. Kurama and I are working together, now.”, explained Naruto and all of them were even more shocked than before. All the Narutos went to their assigned teams and gave their chakra to the Kakashis. At the same time, all of them formed the counter jutsu and another shockwave hit over them.
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Team Minato opened their eyes and realized that they were on the outside of Konoha. None of them could remember the past couple of days. They only had an odd feeling inside of them.
Team Kakashi came back from their mission on moon island, but they couldn’t quite understand how they got at the border of Konoha. It was like the last couple of days were not existing.
Kakashi opened his eyes and all of them were on the outside of Konoha, their Konoha. All of them had the recent days on their minds. They learned a great deal, and especially Kakashi and Naruto were thankful for the experience. Now Kakashi could focus on the future with his beautiful and pregnant wife. And he realized, once again, that life was worth living.
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