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The Weasel's Cub	By : Macabre_Facsimile Category: Naruto > General Views: 13209 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor any of its characters, nor do I make any form of profit from the franchise or this fic. I do, however, own a pretty dark mind with which I have created this fanfiction.

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The genre on ffnet has been changed to tragedy/romance. I hadn’t anticipated it being a romance fic, nor did I ever intend to write a fluffy romance fic like this is turning into. But that’s just how it is, and I’m perfectly happy to roll with it.
A certain recent response has totally hit the nail on the head in terms of my thought patterns regarding this fic. Like, pretty much everything I considered for the future of this story was all summed up in this one response. I won’t tell you which response, though – that would be spoiling.
I want to make a pairing decision by the start of the next chapter, if that’s possible, so that I can start planning for those future chapters. It’s not a necessity but I’m hoping to make a solid choice soon – so if you have an opinion on this topic, don’t be afraid to speak out. Two whole people spotted the poll on my profile, so good job there. Good luck to anyone who decides to vote now that I’ve revealed its existence ;)
Poll won’t be a definite yes/no though. Not unless it’s an overwhelming response.
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He had no clue what time it was, but then again, it wasn’t like he cared. This was Naruto’s first comfortable sleep in several months, and he was determined to make it last for as long as he could.
Towards the final few weeks, no amount of tossing and turning had helped him to find a good position. Every way he lay would give him a backache, or a stomach-ache, or weigh heavy on his bladder. And that was before he even considered the sickness. But now… he was free.
A cool hand was placed on the teen’s forehead, slowly pulling him out of his blissful state. Naruto let out an involuntary groan at the unexpected awakening, attempting to shake the hand off as he did. The owner of said hand let out a gentle chuckle at his antics, but eventually let go.
“Good morning, sleepyhead.” The person mumbled; their voice feminine and gentle. “You seem a little flushed, so I’m just taking a couple of observations.”
The hand returned, this time pressing two fingers to his wrist. It was clear by this point that Naruto wouldn’t be getting back to sleep, so he opened his eyes slowly, blinking at the sunlight streaming through the nearby window.
Shizune stood at his bedside, now writing something down on a clipboard. There was something of a smirk on her face, which initially confused him until he realised how he was laying in the bed.
Kakashi seemingly hadn’t moved all throughout the night, still on his back with his right arm wrapped around the blond’s torso. The only difference was that he’d for some reason pulled the other side of his hitai-ate down to cover his eye, seemingly using it as a sleeping mask.
Naruto, on the other hand, had snuggled closer to his sensei, one arm now wrapped around his stomach and resting on the other side of the bed. His right leg, much to his embarrassment, was wrapped around Kakashi’s own right leg, essentially locking him in place.
He quickly but carefully extracted his leg from between his sensei’s, but made no effort to move from his place resting with his ear against the jounin’s chest. The steady heartbeat and slow rise and fall was far too nice to give up.
“Don’t even say it.” Naruto warned, eager to change the subject before it could be verbalised. “How’s Haru? Has he cried much?”
Shizune smirked once more at that.
“According to the night-watch, he did cry once in the night.” She stated. “The head nurse came in to soothe him, but by the time she’d gotten there Kakashi had instinctively reached over to him, coated his hand in chakra and used it to calm Haru down. All without even opening his eyes. Apparently after that he put his headband down, shifted a little bit to and went straight back to sleep.”
“Wow… I guess I was right in making him Haru’s godfather, after all.”
The apprentice had finished all of her observations on Naruto apparently happy with his progress, and turned to the still sleeping Kakashi to check his pulse.
“So, why did you pick him?”
“Because… well, he’s sensei. He’s always been looking out for me; I’ve only really realised that now. Every time I’ve done something wrong, or landed myself in trouble… Kakashi’s been there to help me out. He’s like a guardian angel.” Naruto rambled. “Well, I guess Iruka is like that too, but it’s different with him. Iruka’s like a brother, or maybe a father. But with sensei it’s like… he understands me. Most of the time I can just, I dunno, stare at him and he knows what I’m asking for. It’s kinda creepy actually.”
“Hmm, I prefer the term ‘observant’.”
The voice came from directly underneath Naruto, startling him enough that he shot out of the bed, nearly toppling himself over as he overbalanced and ended up leaning on a nearby counter. The jounin made good use of the extra bed space by stretching out, relishing as his back and shoulder let out a pop, then lazily pulled up his hitai-ate so that his left eye was no longer covered.
“Having said that, it’s all down to you there. You’re far too easy to read.”
The teen straightened up, glancing between Kakashi and a giggling Shizune with a growing blush.
“Uhm, how long were you awake?” He asked tentatively.
“I think a better question would be how long I wasn’t awake.” The jounin replied, clearly amused. But his hidden smile soon dropped as his mind turned to the tatters that remained of team seven.
“Any news of Sasuke?”
Naruto had been thinking the same thing, apparently.
“Once you fell asleep last night, I spoke with Pakkun for a while. He said that the heavy rain would have washed away his scent, and since we don’t know which direction he could have been going it’s really just hit-and-miss. The patrolling ANBU have been told to keep an eye out for him, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. They’ve been stretched thin since the invasion, and even now our numbers are still dwindling.”
The teen’s face fell, but honestly he’d been expecting that sort of response.
“What about Sakura?”
“Tsunade told me she’d go and find her this morning and talk about what happened. I’m sure she’ll come around.”
Haru seemed to take this opportunity to wake up, tiny arms stretching out of the cot. Naruto went over to him, pulling him up into an embrace, before going to sit down on a nearby chair. But a thought crossed his mind, and he instead squished back up next to his sensei, and handed Haru over to him.
“Sensei, it’s about time you properly meet your godson.”
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[Meanwhile]
Sakura took a deep breath as she took in the morning scene, allowing a small smile to cross her face. The hokage statues were a great place to watch the sunrise. But it didn’t last for long, as the turmoil within her regained control of her thoughts.
‘Naruto has a son now.’
This was perhaps the most surprising revelation of all. The fact that the dead last - that idiot who’d constantly hounded her for attention - had suddenly become a father, and to Itachi Uchiha’s child no less!
Not to mention her inner personality was fuming at the fact that Naruto had lost his virginity before her, willingly or not.
No, that was taking it too far. Working at the hospital, Sakura had seen the effects of such trauma. Only yesterday, before her whole world had been tipped upside down, she had tended to the self-inflicted wounds of a teenager no younger than she was. She had been the shoulder to cry on when that teen broke down and revealed the reasons for her wounds, when she had spoken about her abusive father. It had been a sobering experience, that was for sure.
And yet… there was still something entirely different about Naruto being in the same situation. It was as though she just couldn’t bring herself to believe it.
“You have a right to be angry, you know.”
The voice startled her, but she didn’t respond. She knew it was Tsunade, she had recognised it in her voice. The Senju walked to the railing beside her, and took in the view much as she had not a few moments earlier.
“What brought you up here, then?”
Sakura refused to meet the eyes that she could feel on her face, instead opting to look towards the horizon.
“Naruto brought Sasuke and I up here once. Said it would be the most beautiful sunrise we’d ever seen. I called him stupid for it at the time, but now I can see what he meant.”
They remained quiet for a while longer, each waiting for the other to speak. Eventually Tsunade decided to speak up.
“You know it’s not his fault. He didn’t ask to be in this situation.”
The pink haired girl nodded.
“I know. I didn’t mean what I said back then… it’s just that so much has happened in such a short amount of time.”
“You really cared for Sasuke, didn’t you?”
“I still do. I mean, when I look back now it’s kind of obvious, isn’t it? Naruto was the only person Sasuke ever treated as anything other than a minor inconvenience. I believed that I would grow up to bear the Uchiha name, I really did. It was everything I ever dreamed of. But now I know how stupid I was.”
The blonde hummed thoughtfully for a moment, thinking through her answer.
“From a psychology standpoint, what happened is transference and projection.”
She’d heard of these terms before, but hadn’t really thought into them much.
“When you spoke to Sasuke, he blamed Naruto for causing him pain, and then hurt you in an unrelated way. But because of the closeness of the two situations, you found yourself merging them and believing that Naruto was the root cause of Sasuke not wanting you, in a really faint sense anyway. So when Naruto then revealed exactly what happened, the shock of that combined with the faint doubts you had caused you to come to the conclusion that Naruto was the cause of your pain.”
“But he isn’t. I shouldn’t have said that.”
“I agree. Sometimes when you’re in a bad place, you tend to lash out at others. It’s just how you cope with things. But there are better ways. Do you know what you need to do next?”
Sakura waited for a moment, expecting her to answer. But she remained silent, regarding the girl with a look that said she needed to work this out for herself.
“I have to apologize to Naruto for saying what I did.”
“And then?”
“And then I focus on becoming a brilliant iryo-nin. While my dream was crushed yesterday, I still have ambitions. I’ve decided that I’m going to support Naruto, and when Sasuke comes back I’ll support him too. I… It’s going to take time for me to get over Sasuke. But for now Naruto is going to need someone who actually has a clue about looking after babies, and it just so happens that I’m the perfect girl for the job.”
“Well spoken, Sakura.” Tsunade beamed. “I was actually on my way to the hospital now, if you’d like to accompany me? I want to get a few rounds in before I’m dragged into the office for the day.”
“I’d like that.”
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Kakashi seemed startled by the baby that had been placed into his arms. A nurse had been able to procure a little blue fluffy jumpsuit for Haru in the night, but he was still loosely bundled in a blanket as he sat in the jounin’s arms.
It wasn’t like he hadn’t held a baby before. Hell, it wasn’t like he hadn’t held Haru before. But tending to babies in a professional manner is entirely different to having a living, breathing human being in your arms that is there purely because his father wants him there.
Apparently the situation was amusing to Haru, as he let out an adorable little giggle and reached out towards him, mismatched eyes crinkling with joy. More out of instinct than anything, he moved his face closer to the baby, his hair falling down over his headband as he’d not yet had a chance to style it. He tried not to wince as Haru caught hold of a stray lock, tugging and pulling at it like a toy.
“Are… are newborns supposed to be this strong?” He asked, to which he received another laugh from Shizune.
“Not often, no.” She replied. “But it’s also not uncommon for babies born of strong parents to develop key skills at a far younger age than their peers. You should know that yourself, Kakashi-san, considering you were one of those babies.”
“Unfortunately I prefer not to think about when I was a child.”
No one really had an answer to that, and Naruto almost let out a sigh of relief as the door opened.
It was not Tsunade who walked, or rather tripped into the room, but a rather ditsy-looking nurse who seemed preoccupied with a clipboard,
“I wasn’t aware there had been a staff change.” Shizune mused.
“Oh no, me neither! I’ve only just got in, you see, and of course as soon as I got to the usual ward the matron told me I had been assigned to a completely different ward for the day!” She explained in a high voice, “Anyway, on to business… how are you feeling today, miss Hiro…ta…?”
The nurse stopped short as she caught sight of Naruto, his hand frozen in mid air as he’d been about to play with Haru. Fear registered on her face as she realised who she was looking at, then her eyes flickered down to the baby and she let out a gasp.
“You…” She began “It’s a demon!”
The nurse turned and ran, immediately followed by a pale Shizune. But the medic could not stop her from screaming and shouting, catching the attention of several others and causing the blood to drain from both Naruto’s and Kakashi’s faces. The jounin was the first to recover, looking at his student with a mixture of amusement and unease.
“One of us must stink.” He joked. “Because that’s the second person to run from the room since last night!”
Despite the situation, despite the fact that Haru’s peculiar eyes had likely just been revealed to the world, Naruto had to laugh. The baby before them seemed to pick up on the laughter, once again giggling and cooing as he finally let go of Kakashi’s hair.
“Cold, creepy and bad at jokes.” Naruto replied. “Your list is growing longer, sensei!”
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Tsunade and Sakura exited the elevator to see a crazed-looking woman in a nurse’s outfit running down the hall, screaming about demons and devil-children, followed closely by a panicking Shizune. As the woman passed the Senju caught her by the collar and yanked her to a stop, bracing her by the shoulders to prevent her from escaping.
“What the hell is going on!?” She asked. Her question was mainly aimed at Shizune, but she was huffing and panting after the chase and had to pause for a moment.
“The demon boy has made a demon child!” The hysterical woman screeched, her voice carrying far enough that a nearby waiting room full of people were able to hear. “I’ve just been into the maternity ward, and the horrible demon boy was in bed with Kakashi Hatake! And there was a baby! A demon baby with a demon eye! It’s evil, I tell you!”
Tsunade decided that enough was enough, and dispatched the woman with a swift chop to the neck. The commotion had drawn two ANBU who’d been guarding a private room, and she handed the now unconscious woman over to them.
“She’s broken the third’s gag law.” She explained. “I don’t want her killed, but make sure she realises the consequences of her actions. While you’re there, please pick up a couple more operatives and have them stationed outside of maternity ward B-27. This idiot’s actions have no doubt put into motion a rumour that will have a lot of people baying for the blood of a newborn child.”
The ANBU nodded crisply, not daring to question their leader, before vanishing in a flash. As they did so, Sakura turned to her sensei with a wide-eyed gaze.
“Why is she calling Naruto a demon-boy?” She asked, clearly having understood what the nurse had said. “And why does she think Haru is a demon child?”
Tsunade suppressed the urge to sigh. Just as she had thought that they could work through the problems, now a whole new issue had arisen.
‘Why the hell did I take that damn hat?’
She decided that the best option would be to explain the situation to her directly, lest she come up with any conclusions of her own. To Sakura’s credit she took the news well, stating that she’d sort of guessed something like that back at the bridge, but that she knew she could trust Naruto since everyone else does. She was a little less accommodating with the theory about Haru, fearing that it might have the effect that everyone worried would happen with Naruto. But Kakashi seemed to be prepared to put his life in front of Haru’s, and for her that was enough.
As they entered the hospital room, Sakura found herself smirking at the way Kakashi was trying his best to keep his mask affixed firmly to his face, all the while trying to dissuade Haru from his current objective of pulling it off.
Naruto could have helped, but he had to admit that he was pretty curious as to what Kakashi looked like without the mask.
His eyes landed on Sakura, and for a moment she could see the sparkle in them, before it vanished and a guilty expression marred his face.
“I’m sorry about what I said, Naruto.” She admitted, fidgeting slightly as she did. “I was upset about finding out Sasuke didn’t want me, and I took it out on you. It’s not your fault.”
She was shocked to see that Naruto’s face hardened as she spoke, and the guilt still deepened.
“No, you were right. It is my fault.” He answered. “When he was watching my memories, I was watching them too. I didn’t want to see them, so I stopped him from watching… but if he’d kept watching he might have seen that it wasn’t my fault.”
Tsunade and Kakashi, who had been talking, stopped as he said this and turned to the pair. The jounin was about to speak when Tsunade sent him a look, telling him to let it play out.
Sakura walked over and sat on the end of the bed, staring determinedly at Naruto.
“We both know what Sasuke is like.” She stated. “Even if he did see that it wasn’t your fault… I think he would have still left. But instead of leaving because of you, he would have left because of Itachi.”
She could see his eyes widening even as they were downcast, and pressed on.
“Orochimaru promised Sasuke that he would give him power. I know it’s not exactly a comfort to know that he’s training under Orochimaru, but I think if he’d found out it was unwilling he would have gone straight to Itachi. At least… at least this way, he has a chance of surviving. Even if it is through evil means.”
The statement was enough to convince Naruto to raise his head to look at her, though he still didn’t directly meet her eye.
“It doesn’t change the fact that none of this would have happened if I had just gone home and listened to the doctors’ advice instead of going out training after the old man’s funeral.”
The remark, concerningly offhand in its delivery, was met with numerous outcries as everyone tried to contest it at once. But Kakashi cut over them, speaking directly to Naruto with unnerving clarity.
“Let me tell you something.” He muttered. “Someone I know once returned from a mission as the only survivor after an ambush killed all five of his teammates. He spent weeks blaming himself for the mission, believing there was something he’d missed, or something he could have don’t to save those men. It later transpired that one of the team members had double-crossed them, and had led them into the ambush in the first place. So, tell me: Would he still be to blame for his team members’ deaths?”
“Of course not” Naruto replied, not seeing where this was going
“But he could have spotted the other guy’s shifty behaviour. He could have noticed him distancing himself and gotten to the root cause before the problem even started.”
“But he had no way of knowing.”
Kakashi paused for a moment, a knowing smile hidden behind his mask. He leaned forwards so that he was whispering into Naruto’s ear, pausing for one more moment for effect.
“Neither did you.”
The teen’s lips parted slightly as it finally clicked, and he let his saddened frown fall from his face. He’d just had the situation turned right around on him, and his answer had been exactly what Kakashi had wanted to hear. And the way it had been worded not only surprised him but made him see the situation in a whole other light.
Looking down on it from another’s perspective, everything made sense.
“I’m glad you understand that now, Naruto. But we have a more pressing issue to talk about if that’s okay?” Tsunade asked after a minute or so of silent contemplation. She received three nods, so continued.
“I’m sorry to say that that nurse decided to have her breakdown only a few meters away from a packed waiting room, and I have no doubt that most of the occupants will have heard her. From the way she worded it, I have little doubt that people are going to assume one of two things: That Naruto has possessed a child and Kakashi his helping him raise it, or that Haru is the product of both Kakashi and Naruto.”
She suppressed a grin at the blush that peeked up from underneath Kakashi’s mask, but chose not to comment as it really wasn’t the time.
“The first thing we need to consider is that Naruto isn’t going to be safe raising Haru on his own. He needs someone around, first of all, to actually show him how to take care of him, and besides that he’s going to need all the protection that he’s going to get with these rumours circulating.”
“I’ll do it.”
Four pairs of shocked eyes turned to Sakura, who returned the stares with a determined look.
“Didn’t I say just this morning that I would focus on supporting my teammates?” She asked, directing her question to Tsunade but knowing that everyone else would understand. “I’m the one that does most of the work on babysitting missions, so I know how to take care of babies, and it would be good experience if I’m going to be a medic in the future.”
“You make a good point.” Kakashi remarked. “But would you have the space to accommodate for both Naruto and Haru? Do you think you’d be able to afford all the costs that come with raising a baby? It’s not cheap, you know, even with a childcare grant. And what about your reputation? You and your family would be attacked for associating with them, could you truly say that you’d be able to handle that?”
The girl’s face fell.
“Well, do you have any better ideas?” She asked.
“As a matter of fact, I do.”
A raised eyebrow on Tsunade’s behalf was all he needed to continue.
“My reputation is already going to be shot with these rumours. I have a three-bedroom apartment that currently only has me residing in it, not to mention I have a lot of money saved up from when I used to take back-to-back S-ranks. The seal wards that the fourth put up in the apartment are still going strong today, so I can add the two of them to the list and they’ll be as safe as can be.”
If Sakura’s announcement had been a surprise, Kakashi’s casual statement had been absolutely jaw-dropping! Tsunade, for one, simply could not fathom the fact that Kakashi, the infamous, near-emotionless loner was suddenly willing to open his doors to perhaps the one person that could garner him more attention than even she as a hokage could ever hope for.
“Are… are you sure about that?”
“Of course. I’m Haru’s godfather, right? It only makes sense for family to stick together.”
At this, his eyes flicked not towards Haru but to Naruto, who had such a pure emotion in his eyes that it was hard to look away. To actually hear Kakashi refer to him and Haru as family… it just meant a lot.
“If you’re both okay with this, I can get behind it. Honestly I was considering moving Naruto into one of the major clans, my first choice being Yamanaka, but the paperwork and the backlash would be terrible. This is the most logical solution as far as I can see.”
“Then it’s settled.”
“Naruto, how are you feeling today? You seem to be moving around without wincing or anything.”
The teen had been in a sort of happy daze, and while the statement was enough to snap him out of it Tsunade had had to repeat it a second time.
“Oh, I kinda forgot that I was supposed to be feeling pain.” He replied sheepishly. “I feel great, and I think I’m all healed up… as best as I can be.” A hand made its way to his shoulder, where he knew the bite scar resided, but he wasn’t really as bothered by it as he used to be.
“Wonderful. You’ll just need a physical check-up to make sure you’re all good, then I’m happy to dispatch you into Kakashi’s capable hands.”
The blond blanched at the woman’s wording.
“A-a physical check-up!?”
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Apologies for the longer time between chapters. I’ve had a couple of projects that took precedence, and besides that I put aside some writing time to actually write my chapter plans out in a list. So far chapters have reached into the double digits, and I have a solid set of plot advancements at the very least up until the inevitable return of Sasuke. I wanted to add that in terms of plot, both of the pairings will have equal opportunity to make their mark, but in the end its up to whichever one is most popular. Unless… I did both :3
Jkjk. Unless that’s something you’d actually like to see. But duo relationships like that are kinda… well, they’re really not my thing.
In the plot planning, this chapter was meant to have some more information in it, but I’m sort of overrunning the boundaries of my tiredness so I gotta get rested. I’ll add the extra info onto the next chapter, as well as a nice scene from Kakashi’s POV. It might be a shorter chapter than most but we’ll see when I get around to writing it.
This fic currently occupies every fibre of my being. Every waking moment I am thinking about what to write next, or what plot point should be further discussed, or generally getting the fluffy feels when I think about that scene I wrote at the end of the last chapter and the start of this one. And if I think about something else for a short period of time, when my thoughts inevitably return they do so with a little shock of happiness as I think about the fic I’ve created. My heart balloons with warmth and joy every time I read a new review, regardless of the content, or see that people have left kudos and favourites. Thank you, readers, for supporting me as I discover a new side of myself as a writer <3
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