Fear and Love Part III (Kakashi X OC)

3.5 Months

I WANT REVENGE FOR WHAT HE DID.

Those were the words Gaara had discovered were on the trap scrolls they found in the Sand's archives library.

But the questions remained: Who's he? And what did he do?

Three months had passed since the incident at the Sand Village, and the Hatake clan had somewhat returned to their normal everyday lives.  Somewhat. 

They were still waiting for the research department to recover the damaged scrolls from the initial Shioki attack on the Leaf so that they could continue their investigation, but in the meantime, Kakashi had to return to his normal Hokage duties to keep the village running like normal. 

Tsuki was now three and a half months into her pregnancy, but still had yet to notify her husband.  Kakashi was so busy with work, he was spending so much time at the office it made it easy for her to hide her morning sickness and other symptoms from him. And now since she was pregnant with only one baby instead of twins, her bump was barely starting to form.  She wore looser clothing, and even when Kakashi did see her naked, his normal attentiveness that would notice a change in her body was masked by the fact that he was so stressed and overwhelmed with work that he didn't have the mental capacity to notice.

But Tsuki was facing a dilemma, it seemed the longer she kept the secret from him, the more difficult it was going to be to finally tell him.  She'd see him at the office, with stress lines and bags under his eyes as he devoted damn near all of his time to keeping the village safe and secure in addition to the targeted families on the Shioki's hit list.

She felt like the man was going to give himself a heart attack from the amount of stress he was under, which made her even more hesitant to tell him. She didn't want to significantly increase the chances of him actually having a heart attack.

But still, she knew with the normal progression of pregnancy, she maybe had a good two weeks left before her bump would be extremely noticeable and she'd be forced to tell Kakashi anyway if he hadn't already figured it out by then.

So she decided it was time.  It was finally time to tell her beloved husband that she was pregnant with their rainbow baby, despite the fact that they were still in danger as a family and despite the fact that they hadn't made any leeway on the investigation into what the hell was going on with the Shioki clan.

But for now, she nervously bounced her leg, as they were currently in a meeting with Konoha's elders and feudal lords, unfortunately reporting once again that they had made no progress on their investigation.

"I mean, what is taking so long, Lord Sixth?" One of the particularly snobby feudal lords said,"Really, have you not had ample time to figure this situation out? Is this too complicated for you to handle?!"

"I'd like to see you handle this situation, Lord Shijimi' Tsuki sneered in her head at the daimyo's demanding tone 'How dare they try to act like Kashi isn't doing everything he can with the limited resources he has. Can they not see the man's losing sleep over this issue?'

Kakashi maintained his composure, despite loathing the fact that he had to deal with this pompous political asshole that seemed to harshly judge every move he made,"I assure you, we are quite literally moving as fast as we can.  The village has been well guarded thanks to the extra personnel from the other Kage. But we're still waiting on the reparations to the forbidden archives to be complete so we can investigate further. These things take time. Trust me, I want this resolved just as much, if not more, than you do."

'Your safety isn't even being called into question you dickhead..' Tsuki internally rolled her eyes at the feudal lord's unfounded complaints.