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The Ten Tails by lovinganimetoomuch27

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Chapter notes: Sorry I haven't updated, so here is a long chapter. I hope you guys enjoy it! I love it ;)
“What do you think you’re doing? They are from the Moon, security has been tight because the Moon attacked four days ago. How did they manage to get here? Do you realize the trouble you can get it?”

“Look they weren’t part of the attack. So what if they lied about their nationality, they aren’t doing any harm. They promised to be on their best behavior,” She whispers.

“Did you tell them I was coming?”

“Well not really. I told them Moon Villagers were coming too, so its not entirely a lie.” Eri plays with her hands above her belly.

“Why? What happened to always telling the truth? How am I supposed to deal with this now?”

“If I told you then you wouldn’t have come and neither would they. I love both sides, Moon and Leaf, so as you can imagine this was not easy to think about either,” She sighs. I can feel her voice deepen with emotion, I sigh too. Nothing can come out of a pregnant women crying especially if the other girls think I made her cry.

“Is everything okay?” Kakashi asks from behind me. I almost forgot he was here.

“Ya, everything is fine. I’ll tell you later at home, why don’t you go outside with the guys,” I tell him. I don’t think I want him to be around and witness the awkwardness that was about to unfold. Kakashi leaves the dangos on the kitchen counter, before he leaves me in there with them. I felt like a rat trapped in a lion’s den. There was no way I would get out of here in one piece. Four of them, four of the girls from my past were here. Anzu, Ito, Mari, and Sugi. I definitely remember their names.

Eri smiled, and walks back over to the kitchen table, sometimes I wonder why I agreed to befriend her.

Anzu was a tall girl, she always has been. Her hair was midnight black, so black it seemed purple to me. It was sleek and neat. Her eyes were keen like a cat’s, blue. She wore a beautiful dress, red and flowy at the end. You can say she was a perfect girl in men’s eyes.

Ito was a more average girl. She was a little chubby girl back then, but she’s lost the baby fat and was left with a body that made me feel like a stick. Her hair was a dark shade of orange, and her eyes were chocolate brown. The freckles on her face weren’t so big anymore. She wore a ring on her left hand.

Mari was a skinny woman, but she had the body of a ninja. I can tell by the tan and scars that she has been on many missions. I think she was even on this last attack of the Moon too, she’s just a great ninja and hides her true emotions very well. I can tell that her eyes were guarded, after many years of experience and missions, she wasn’t that innocent girl of the group anymore. She was always the one who stood in the background of the group and watched rather than tease me. We never talked or befriend one another, but she was one less person I had to worry about.

Sugi on the other hand was right up there on the girls who hated me, along with Ito and Anzu. Eri, Anzu and Ito were my three top bullies. Sugi was Eri’s right hand woman. She has a bright smile that always scared me. Her lips were full and pink. She wore her brown hair in a bun today. I knew it was a frizzy mess, she was a tomboy. Always being the first to show how strong she was in the academy. But now she looked more feminine. Her makeup was done, and her nails were painted. She even wore heels for the celebration. I took all of their changes in and i’m sure they were taking me in like wolves. I had no doubt that they didn’t change all that much. Azun would still be trying to impress the boys, and Ito would be looking for food to eat. Mari wouldn’t talk too much, but enjoyed the company of others. Sugi would be on Eri’s side in a second, no doubt that hasn’t changed.

I don’t sit by them, Kurenai smiles and offers me a seat next to her and Hinata.

“Is has been a very long time Kiyoko.” Ito says. I swallow my nerves.

“Ya, it has. I didn’t know you four would be coming here, especially all the way from the Moon Village,” I say.


“We just had to see Eri with that baby belly. I hear she chose you to be Yasuko’s godmother. That is quite a responsibility,” Sugi tells me. The tone of her voice wasn’t very kind either.

“You’ve haven’t been stable for very long. I was surprised to see you managed to get here,” Sugi tells me.

“Its almost been a year since I moved here. I say I have a stable life,” I defend myself. I can feel it going down quickly.

“So Kiyoko you brought dangos. I must try some, you’re the best cook,” Kurenai says. She feels the tension too.

“I want to try one too.” Anzu speaks up. At least Mari and her weren’t so hostile to me. Everyone, but Eri get up to get some dangos, she mouths sorry, and I know she means it. I can’t help but accept it, it wasn’t her fault that they were still the same in some ways.

I can tell that they at least thought my desserts were good. No bad comment on those.

“How has it been here for you compared to your years alone?” Mari asks me, which caught me off guard. I’ve never heard her voice when I was young, and this is the first time I hear it as an adult. Finally a thoughtful question.

“Well its different all right. I was always doing things on my own, but once I got here I had to learn to work with others.”

“Did you become the ninja you wanted to become?” She asks. I smile, how did Mari know about my dream? I don’t think I remembered telling them about it.

“Yes. I was promoted a jounin not too long ago. I’ve made comrades to depend on. You are a ninja too aren’t you,” I answer. She nods.

“Ooh you’re a ninja, we must have a dual Kiyoko,” Sugi jumps to the opportunity.

“Why are we talking about me? Its Eri’s baby shower, we are here to celebrate her not interrogate me,” I tell Sugi. I see her slump and roll my eyes. She really wanted to fight me.

“Very well then, how about after the party. We’ll have a small dual. It will be fun,” Sugi ends our little conversation. I don’t reply, Sugi was really getting to me. I don’t want to fight her, my hatred and annoyance will make it harder to control myself.

“What happened between you two?” Kurenai whispers into my ear.

“Its a long story. She’s never liked me,” I tell her. Hinata smiled, trying to ease my mind of worry. I can hear the men outside laugh, I would rather be outside with them than in here with Sugi and Ito.

“Lets play a game!” Eri lightens the mood.

“So all of you have to guess how many centimeters wide I am around my belly. The closest gets a little prize. Lets go around guessing. Sakura will you keep score?” Eri gives her a pen and notepad.

“I say 36 centimeters,” I take a guess. We go around the table. Hinata was the closest at 38 centimeters. She won a homemade chocolate Eri made. We playe more silly games and we ate as we did. When they decide to move it to the living room, I volunteer to do the dishes, I needed a little time away from Sugi especially. I can feel her glare, she was studying me closely. Hinata stayed behind to help me dry.

“Sugi hasn’t been the kindest to you this evening. May I ask why?” Hinata dried the wet plates and set them on the counter.

“When we were young, I was always ignored as a child. Never really seen as myself so the girls and boys in my class never liked me. She was one of them and she still sees me that way. Its hard to change an opinion of a stubborn person.”

Hinata nods. From the kitchen window I can see the men outside, laughing and talking. It was a much more relaxed environment. I even see Kakashi with a cup of sake in his hand, he needed a little break too.

“Kiyoko,” Hinata says. I feel the a plate fall in the sink and water is splashed onto my shirt. I see Sugi right besides me. A smirk on my face.

“I’m sorry, the plate slipped out of my hand,” she says.

I see Hinata drop her towel on the counter, she stood right besides me.

“Its okay Hinata. You go back to the party, I’ll finish off here,” I tell her. I didn’t want her to hear Sugi’s words. I have a feeling she will bring back the past. She looks at Sugi once more, her Byakugan is activated but she leaves the kitchen, leaving me with Sugi.

“You’ve been staring outside for quite some time. Is that grey haired man your’s. He is quite handsome I might say.” She purrs. I feel a hot wave go over me. I clenched the towel in my hands.

“What do you want?”

“I have to ask, is that thing still in you. You know the savage, or has it always been your true nature?”

I hear the beast inside me growl. Damn right, he wasn’t too fond of her either.

“Why don’t you leave me alone? I don’t need to tell you anything,” I tell her. I put the towel aside, and start to grab the next dirty plate. I feel her hands grab my shoulders and gives me a painful turn. I grab hold of her wrist and push her away.

“I’m not going to fight you here. Don’t touch me again,” I threaten her.

“Maybe I should touch the man outside. I think his name is Kakashi Hatake. I’ve heard many thing about him. I don’t see anything he would want from you. The beast, the killer, the nothing,” she pushes herself back towards me, until my back hits the counter. I can feel my blood begin to boil under my skin. But I can’t fight now, I don’t want to ruin the party for Eri.

Before I know what happens I see her grab the knife behind me. Her speed is quick, she was a ninja for sure. I feel the blade cut right into my shoulder. I was too stunned to convert my flesh into water chakra, not when I wasn’t thinking clearly.

“I want to know what you’re made of Kiyoko. You’re still her, the one who never belongs. Soon enough you’ll leave the Leaf, and I’ll come back for your Kakashi. I’ll love him like you never could. He’ll be mine, and you’ll be nothing more than a mistake in his life,” She hisses in my face.

“Why are you so interested in him,” I push Sugi back. The knife cut deep in my shoulder. Blood seeped through my shirt and spilled on the floor. The pain was intense it probably cut a nerve, the knife clatters into the sink.

“Because you don’t deserve any happiness. A beast shouldn’t be rewarded,” She digs her nails into my wounds, I bite my lip to prevent the scream that wanted to vocalize. She pushes me with great strength into the paper door that lead outside. My body lands on the hard ground outside with an unph. The sun was smiling down at me, no clouds to block it.

Sugi stands before me, with a smile stitched on her face.

“Sugi what do you think you’re doing?” Mari yells at her from the porch. I feel Kakashi at my side on an instant.

“What should have happened a long time ago,” Sugi takes out a kunai that she’s kept in her shirt. Kakashi reaches for one in his pouch, but unfortunately we both left out supplies at home.

I make a water whip and wrap it around her wrist, I twist it back so that the kunai falls to the ground.

“I can still defeat you with one arm. You won’t kill me so easily, I am a jounin of the Leaf Village,” I grunt as I feel the pain pulse through my shoulder. This deep cut would take a while to heal.

“And I am a jounin of the Moon. You know how hard your father comes down at us ninja. I mean look at Mari, she’s a killing machine but she’s too soft to be a real ninja. She doesn’t know hatred, but I do.”

Ito attacks Kakashi who stood besides me. He dodgers her and makes shadow clones to keep Rokuro, Guy and Asuma from interfering. Kurenai stays by Eri’s side as Hinata, Sakura, and Ino come to my aid. Sugi uses water jutsus. I feel the chakra shift inside her. It lands on the three girls with force. But then I see it begin to shape around them, and soon they were enveloped in a sphere of water, all of them pounding away to get free. My water whip was sucked back into her body. She uses water and so do I. I need to get to them before they run out of air, which isn’t very much time.

“Still think you can beat me with one arm?”

“Without a doubt,” I tell her. She kicks and I duck. I use a water wall to make contact with one of the orbs, I suck back the water and Sugi’s, releasing Ino quickly. Sugi grunts she didn’t think you can do that, she’s just not as mastered in water as I am. I wish I was able yo make clones, damn this arm. She grabs hold of my hair, yanking it back so that she slams her foot onto my wound. She was playing dirty. Ino stance changed, but she’s pushed back by one of Ito’s clones. The pain wave was pulsing in my eyes, and it was making it harder to think straight.

I can feel Eri beginning to fill my body with chakra, my lungs specifically. I was drowning, and I tried to dispel the water but I couldn’t keep up. I couldn’t concentrate from where the water chakra was seeping in.

I hear the the earth grumble and then I see Sugi being yanked off of me by Mari. I crawl over to the two orbs of water and begin to suck the water into my system, it was making my condition worse, but I had to get Hinata and Sakura out of there. I feel Sakura push her hands on my chest. It hurt but I felt the water spurt out of my mouth. I helped by moving the chakra around to the top. The pressure was lifted and I finally caught my breath. Eri’s backyard was a wet mess, but I didn’t see her anywhere.

I see Sugi struggle in Mari’s grasp.

“I thought you would win Kiyoko,” She laughs.

“It wasn’t much of a fair fight. You injured me before hand and you used my friends. If you truly want to battle me then do so fairly. To me you’re nothing but a coward who had no confident in her own abilities. I can defeat you on a one to one fight fairly, but I know you won’t agree to that,” Kurenai helps me.

“There are no excuses for failure, Kiyoko.”

“Why are you really here for Sugi?” I ask her.

“For Eri’s baby shower of course.”

“Don’t lie to me. You were the only one who didn’t look surprised to see me. My father sent you?” I tell her.

Sakura was tending to my wound, while Guy and Mari had Ito and Sugi in custody.

“Why would he send me to kill you? He wants you alive, not dead. I’m afraid that you’ll have to come home on your own accord because he didn’t send me to capture you either. I haven’t been to the Moon in a very long time. I’ve been roaming the countryside just like you.”

My head ache from my hair being pulled and the sudden burst of air. I had a feeling that her roaming weren’t casual, I had a feeling that she’s been following me all of these years. Waiting for the perfect chance to attack.

“You’ve been following my every move? This roaming wasn’t random, you’ve been keeping tags on me haven’t you,” I accuse her.

“You’re decisive skills are incredible. How else would the Moon ninjas know where you were of every second of your life for fourteen years. I would have guessed you would always be able to sense me but you’re not the sharpest tool in the box.”

“I may be the only others person other than your father who knows exactly who you are. And that information is very dangerous, I don’t know perhaps the Akatsuki would like to know,” Sugi shrugs. I feel a cold shiver run down my spine. That organization, the one who is seeking the tailed beast.

“Enough, we’re taking these two to Lady Tsunade. She’ll figure out what to do,” Asuma says and takes Sugi from Mari’s grasp. Sugi and Ito don’t struggle they know they have lost.

“Hey Kiyoko! I’ll be waiting for the day of your death. Its coming sooner than you think,” Sugi yells as she is taken into the streets.

“Anyone who isn’t my comrade wants me dead,” I mumble to myself. I let Sakura finish her first aid. I was beginning to heal on my own anyways. The pain faded into a dull throb. Kakashi entered the house with Rokuro, and grabbed me a warm towel.

“Lets get you dry. I don’t want you to come down with another fever.”

He patted my head dry and wrapped it around my wet clothes. Ino, Sakura and Hinata went home to dry themselves off.

“Where is Eri?” I ask Rokuro once Kakashi and I were inside. Kurenai left, she was going to go with Asuma and tell Lady Tsunade what she saw and heard. Anzu left after the fight started, she must be long gone by now.

“She’s in the bedroom, locked away,” Rokuro tells me. Kakashi and Rokuro go outside to clean up the mess we’ve made, while I go over to Eri’s door. Mari waited there too. I raise my hand to knock, but stop when I hear Eri’s cries on the other side.

“Eri, please open the door,” I softly say.

“I don’t want to,” I hear her say.

“Look if you don’t open the door, I’m going to either break into the room or jump through the window. I’m not leaving until you let me in. I’m not leaving you alone, because you would do the same for me,” I say a bit louder.

“Please, Kiyoko I just want to be alone,” She says. Like hell I was going to leave this house without talking to her. No, I won’t she was going to let me in and she was going to hear what I said.

I counted to three, before I step back. I wished her doors where the slide ones like at home. But she had to get the lock ones. I concentrate chakra to my base of my foot. And kick the door down. Eri doesn’t jump by the sudden intrusion, she knew I was going to come in anyways.

“I’ll fix it,” I tell her, the door wasn’t going to work after my foot hit it. She wipes her tears away as I enter the room. Mari gives us a little privacy and stays in the hallway.

“I’m sorry,” We both say at the same time.

“Really I am. I honestly thought that we could act like adults, but I was too naive. It seems like everytime I want to help I end up hurting you in the process. I mean Sugi was out of her mind, but she hid it so well. And your father, and just everything I do screws you up.”

Eri begins to cry again.

“It wasn’t your fault. I think we need more naive people like you in the world. Always looking for the better in people. Sugi was just doing what she was trained for, it wasn’t your fault. Plus I’m not hurt anymore. My shoulder is all healed and patched up. I’ll be back to my full strength by tomorrow,” I lied. My shoulder still hurt, but I wasn’t going to tell her that. I heard pregnant women are a lot more emotional.

“You’re not very great with your poker face, you know that,” She smiled a bit.

“I know, I’ve been working on it,” I smile. She gets up from her her bed and we hug the conflict out. I feel the sudden splash of water soak my feet, and Eri stands back to look herself.

“Did you pee?” I ask her.

“No. Kiyoko my water broke. The baby is coming!” She looks wide eyes at our wet feet. I’m not sure if I should feel excited or disgusted by the wet spot on the floor.

“Right now! The baby is coming right now?” I ask her. She nods. I’m not ready for this. What do I do? What do I grab.

“Mari go tell Rokuro. I’ll get your things Eri,” I say. Mari leaves a quick as wind.

“They are in the closet. I packed most of my things in there for the day to come,” She points to the side closet.

“Its early. Why is the baby early?” I ask.

“She just wants to meet you, and the world I guess.” She smiles, and grabs her large abdomen. Rokuro comes into the room, with Kakashi right behind him. Rokuro rushes to her side, and grabs hold of her. She was beginning to breathe a bit heavier. We all looked shocked and scared, even Kakashi looked like a mouse caught in a mousetrap. He didn’t know what to do with himself.

“I’ll lock the house, and I’ll be at the hospital soon,” Mari says. Eri lets out a whimper.

“The contractions are starting,” She sighs.

“Why so soon?” Rokuro asks. Kakashi and I follow the frantic couple down the road. Villagers stopped and stood to the side to let us through. I can tell it was painful because Eri held on to Rokuro’s shirt until her knuckles were whiter than Sai’s complexion. She moaned as Rokuro entered the hospital. Nurses rush to help her to a room, and Kakashi and I wait in the waiting room. I wasn’t sure how this process goes, after a few minutes Rokuro tells us we can visit her until labor starts. Kakashi was a little skeptic to come along, but he followed Rokuro and I to Eri’s room.

Eri looked much better now, she was sitting in bed.

“How are you doing?”

“Much better, the contractions aren’t too close together so the baby may take hours to arrive.”

She was eating ice, and Rokuro held her hand. Her labor kicked in just hours after she was admitted into the hospital. Kakashi, Mari, and I waited in the hall, her screams were hard to hear. She was in tremendous pain, and I couldn’t stop it. Childbirth was a scary thing. I lost track of time, but it went on for hours.

“I never realized childbirth is so long and painful,” Kakashi says. He has slumped against the wall with his armed crossed, and he leaned his head on my shoulder for his head to rest on. I feel my face warm up a bit by the public touch, and Mari sat right next to us too.

I thought Kakashi would have left once she was admitted, I thought he wouldn’t want to wait around for a baby to be born, a baby that wasn’t his, but he stayed. He was asleep but he was waiting with me. I fell asleep for a while too, but I wake up when I hear the baby’s first cry. I hear Yasuko crying, but she was finally hear and Eri could rest now.

“She’s a healthy baby girl,” I hear one of the nurse say.

“Lets get you cleaned up,” another doctor says. Kakashi stirs and wakes up too by the sudden noise.

“So she’s finally arrived.”

“hmm, and they say she’s healthy,” I tell him. Rokuro comes out of the room, smiling like he’s just won a date with the most beautiful girl in the village, and he has, because now he has another girl to love.

“She’s healthy, her and Eri are doing great,” Rokuro tells the three of us.

“That’s great. Congratulations,” Kakashi says for the both of us. It was great, but now I justed wanted to see her. Eri and Yasuko, I wanted to see who Yasuko takes after.

Rokuro tells us we can see them now, and I’m the first one in the room. I see a very tired Eri slightly sitting in her bed, with her newborn child in her arms. She was smiling too. Eri waved her hand to me, telling me to come closer. It was an excited wave that rushed over me, I wanted to meet my goddaughter. It was another tiny heart that I would protect for as long as I live.

“She’s beautiful Eri,” I whisper. The baby was sound asleep in her mother’s arms. She’s taken more after her father, with her brown hair and button nose. She even had her father’s light complexion. I wanted to see her eyes, but she deserved a long nap.

“She looks like Rin,” Kakashi whispers from behind me.

“Ya, that’s why we’ve decided to call her Rin instead. She’ll be a great ninja just like her,” Rokuro tells us. I smile, she will.

“Here Kiyoko why don’t you hold her,” Eri tells me.

“Oh no, really I don’t know how to hold a baby. She’s sleeping I don’t want to wake her,” I tell her.

“I’ll give it a try,” Kakashi surprises me from behind. He wanted to hold her. Eri nods and gently hands Rin to Kakashi.

“Make sure you support her head with your arm,” Eri tells him. Kakashi takes Rin with great care, she folded perfectly in his arms. It was a new gentle side to Kakashi that I haven’t seen.

“She’s so light,” he says in awe. I loved to see him this way.

“Here Kiyoko, you’ll need to learn how to hold her if your her godmother,” Kakashi tells me. I agree and take her from his arms as slowly as I could. He was right she was light and she was warm. Rin, and here I was calling you Yasuko for months. Her cheeks were rosy and her chubby hands were clenched. I’ve never seen a more peaceful sight.

I looked down on her, and finally I see her eyes begin to open. She has Eri’s eyes.

“She wanted to see Auntie Kiyoko, didn’t you Rin?” Eri says with a little laugh. I smile at the name she called me, even though I wasn’t her aunt, I didn’t mind. I give her back to Eri, leaving me exposed to the cold air. Rin, what a lucky baby to be born to those two wonderful parents. A life I’m sure she will love, and cherish, much different from my own, but I don’t pity myself. I am glad that her life is different from mine. I’m glad I’m one of a kind because no one has felt to pain I have felt. I’m grateful I carry this burden rather than someone as peaceful as Rin.

“We’ll let you rest Eri, I’ll be back when I can,” I tell her. She nods, letting Rokuro carry her daughter and begin to slowly close her eyes. Mari stays, while Kakashi and I leave her room.

“After all of that swearing and pain, I say it was worth it,” I tell Kakashi. He smiles, “Ya it was. With Rin now here, I feel so calm for some reason.”

I agree, there was this new calmness made by Rin was strange yet accepting. I didn’t mind this feeling of happiness and serenity.

Two weeks pass by and Eri and little Rin were home. I go by when I can after practice in the morning and afternoon. I help Eri cook dinner, while she takes care of Rin. I even secretly made Kakashi’s present. I made it and bought it, I wanted it to have some kind of meaning.

“Kakashi’s birthday is tomorrow. What are you planning to do for him?” Eri asks me as she changes Rin’s diaper. Everytime I come over Rin is crying, she’s a fussing baby, that only quiets down with a full tummy.

“He doesn’t want to have a party, he said spending it with me would be fine,” I tell her.

“Thats so romantic. Kiyoko! Look at you, aww you’re just so innocent and adorable. I’m sure Kakashi just wants to spend the day with you, since you two are so busy. Are you doing anything special?”

“I made him/ bought him a present. That I am not going to tell you. I want it to be a surprise. Do you want the carrots in halves?” I say, while I cut the carrots for her stew. She nods, but pouts at my answer. I hid it in a wrapped box in my depth of my closet.

The day passes and Kakashi sleeps that night like any other day. He held me from my bad dreams, and anxiety. In the morning of Kakashi’s twenty sixth birthday, I slid out of bed before him. I wanted to make it a special day so I started off with a special birthday morning. I’ll make him something that is not too sweet since I know he won’t eat it. He’ll leave it on the side of the plate instead. I brew some fresh tea and begin to cook the rice, along with miso soup with eggplant since it is one of his favorite foods. For lunch I’ll broil saury fish and stir fry the race with a couple of eggs. I had it all planned out. For dinner I’ll treat him to any restaurant he wants eat at. I’ll give him his present after dinner, when we walk through the streets.

“What is the comotion? So much noise,” I hear Kakashi say from behind. He was still half asleep, and I feel a bit bad about waking him up.

“Sorry I woke you. Its a special day today! Happy Birthday!” I say as I remove myself from the front of stove. I surprise him by giving him his birthday hug.

“Hn, I’m just a year older. But thank you for making a fuss,” He says.

I serve him breakfast, which was bigger and tastier than usual. He eats it with great gusto. There wasn’t much food left after, and after he and I washed and cleaned up together.

“Is there anything that you want to do today?” I ask him and put the plates away.

“Not in particular. I want to check out the bookstore, and couple of other stores,” He answers.

“Mind if I tag along, Sage Moriko let me off today for your birthday.”

“I want you to come with me, I’m glad you won’t be coming back and forth from the Forest and the Village.”

That late morning Kakashi and I walk through the crowded streets, a few ninjas that must have been acquainted to Kakashi congratulate him for another year that he has lived. We stop at the bookstore first, he disappears to the depths of the bookshelves, while I roam around. There were so many different books to look at, there were medicine books, ninja books, fiction, nonfiction. Name it, it was here. Manuals on cooking and sewing. Maybe I should buy that sewing book, I can try to get better at it.

“Ready?” Kakashi finds me. I follow him out, it seems like he bought his books already. We walk down the street, I just follow him.

“Kakashi-sensei!” I hear someone say. I see a young pink girl running with Ino and Hinata behind her. She had a bag in her hand.

“Happy Birthday!” She says. Hinata bows and says happy birthday as well. Ino smiles and says happy birthday too.

“I got you a little something,” Sakura smiles. Ino gives Kakashi a bouquet of flowers, and Hinata gives him a basket full of food. He’ll receive my gift later today.

“Thank you,” Kakashi says.

“Where are you two heading? Is there going to be a birthday party?” Ino asks.

“Just shopping a bit. I didn’t want a big birthday party,” he answers them. Sakura and Ino began this long conversation about how old he is and why he didn’t want a birthday party. They followed us to the other stores we visited. Just to make it short they even ate lunch at our house. Hinata of course left before, she said she didn’t want to intrude, which I hoped Sakura and Ino would take a hint. I adore them but really, the day was going by and I wanted to give Kakashi his present in privacy. Through the afternoon Kakashi would send me glances in apology, but it wasn’t his fault. Everyone wanted to congratulate the birthday boy. Eventually it felt like the whole village has knocked on our door to tell him happy birthday, I never realized Kakashi had so many friends. Yamato, Kurenai, Asuma, and Sai even made themselves at home. Eri couldn’t make it, she didn’t want Rin to be out for too long, since babies needed time to get their immune systems stronger.

We couldn’t make it to our dinner reservations, and the only time I stepped out was to go pick up the cake I preordered. On the way back I realized that it may be a bit small for all of us, I guess we’ll have to cut small slice. When I arrived Asuma and Yamato were a bit tipsy with sake in their hands. I laid out the cake on the kitchen table, it was a simple vanilla cake with light frosting, Kakashi didn’t like sweets too much. I lit the candles, and they all gathered around. Sakura and Ino forced Kakashi to sit in front of it, telling him he must since it was his birthday, and he only had birthdays once a week.

Kurenai stood back, taking pictures with her new camera. We sang happy birthday, and Kakashi took time to wish for something. He blew his candles out, with a big puff. I sliced the cake in small thin slices, I boiled tea too. They all ate happily, I had it all planned, but this wasn’t too bad either. I wonder if Kakashi enjoyed himself. I saw him listen to a slumping Yamato. From across the room, Yamato was not making any sense with his words. It was close to midnight before our friends left, and left us with a sink full of dirty dishes.

“They finally left,” Kakashi says with a sigh.

“Ya, they did.”

“You looked disappointed all evening. Why was that Kiyoko?” Kakashi asks as I begin to wash dishes.

“Well, I wasn’t disappointed, I just had different plans for the two of us. We were supposed eat dinner, and overlook the village at the hokage wall after. You said you just wanted the two of us, so I planned it that way. I just thought that you weren’t enjoying yourself,” I tell him. Kakashi closes the running water, forcing me to stop my pouting and face him.

“It would have been great to do that, there is always next year. I still enjoyed myself because you were here. We can still look at the village from the Hokage faces.”

My heart races, but I smile and nod. Kakashi smiles and takes my hand, pulling me through the door and over the roofs. In a half a minute we were standing on the third Hokage’s forehead.

“You see, this birthday is already special before this because I spent it with friends and you. Usually I would be assigned a mission, but this time Lady Tsunade let me enjoy it with you, I am grateful,” He smiles at the sky.

Looks like he’s looking for someone up there, maybe he wished for his father, or Obito, or Rin to be here too. I’ll try to fill their emptiness in his heart, because he’s filled mine.

“I wasn’t able to give you my present yet,” I tell him. He turns to face me.

“Close your eyes,” I instruct. He obeys without a question, and closes his eye. I take the small box from my pocket. I take his hand and place it in his palm.

“There,” I quietly say. He open his eye, and stares at the box. He looks at me and finally opens it. He pulls out the thick silver necklace, with the wooden leaf hanging.

“Did you make the leaf?” He asks.

“Ya, I made it with my own chakra. I guess since I carry my own leaf, I feel like you’ll be with me no matter where you are. I wanted to give that to you since you’ve filled so many holes in my life,” I look at the village, trying to hide my embarrassment. I can feel Kakashi staring at me, I was too nervous to look back, maybe he didn’t like it.

“It seems like you filled the last one,” He whispers. I turn and feel his lips touch mine. I respond with my own actions. I was so glad he loved it. I’m glad I filled the last part of his empty space.

When he pulls away once more, he slides the necklace over his head, and brings me into his arms. My leaf and his leaf was pressed between our bodies, like they were going to smash together the longer they stayed between us.

“I love you Kiyoko,” Kakashi says into my head. That is when my head and heart were filled with pure warmth. He loves me.
Chapter end notes: I know his birthday was days ago, but I was too busy to update so ya. Let me know what you guys think! Thanks for reading!
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