Fear and Love Part III (Kakashi X OC)

Captivity Pt. 3

Tsuki's eyes fluttered open while a faint voice awoke her from her deep slumber,"Tsuki! Tsuki, wake up!"

"Nnhh.." she grumbled awake, blinking her eyes to help her blurry vision adjust to the dim lighting of the jail cell.

She sighed,"So that wasn't all a dream.."

She felt Kakashi's hands hold onto her tighter, one hand still resting on her belly,"I'm sorry Tsooks, I couldn't hold out any longer, I'm using too much chakra.."

She finally woke up all the way and re-coated her body in a layer of chakra. She wasn't sure how long she fell asleep for, but however long it was did her body good. She felt rejuvenated and nearly back at a hundred percent.

"How long have I been out?" Tsuki turned to see Kakashi's eyes absolutely ridden with exhaustion. The dark circles under his eyes were ever apparent and accentuated by a red waterline that probably got irritated from a mixture of crying and staying awake the whole time.

"I don't know for sure but I had to guess, fourteen hours?" Kakashi said taking a deep breath of relief as he removed his hands from her.

"Fourteen hours?!" Tsuki's jaw dropped,"Why wouldn't you wake me up sooner?!"

"I could feel your chakra dwindling. You very clearly needed the rest. Both for you and the baby." Kakashi's tone was short once again, almost like he and Tsuki picked up their fight exactly where they left off,"Anyway, it's whatever, they brought more food and water you need to eat again."

"No Kashi look at you! You need to eat, you look like garbage right now!" Tsuki unwrapped the ration pack and handed it over to him.

"No, Tsuki. Eat it." Kakashi pushed it back towards her,"I'll eat whatever's leftover."

Although Kakashi had the last fourteen hours to contemplate on their spat, he still wasn't ready to apologize, at least not in a place like this before he could actually talk it out with Tsuki. He was tired, his chakra stores were getting low, he spent the better part of the last fourteen hours crying, and they were now twenty-four hours into their capture with no end in sight.

Tsuki scoffed and rolled her eyes,"Fine, but if I eat, will you promise to take a nap and I'll mold your chakra for you?"

Kakashi shook his head,"Absolutely not. I don't want to risk anything happening to the baby."

"Kakashi! You know it doesn't take that much energy to mold chakra like this. I won't be able to do it as long as you but if you only take a few hours to sleep we'll all be fine. You need to res-!"

"No, Tsuki!" Kakashi cut her off,"I don't think you understand how much I cannot lose this baby! I don't want to risk anything!"

"Oh, I don't understand?!" Tsuki was baffled, her sensitive emotional state unable to tell that Kakashi wasn't wording his line of thinking properly simply because he was tired,"Believe me, Hatake, I more than understand! I fucking lived it. Were you the one who had to birth a dead baby? No! Did you live for weeks thinking that losing Takeo was all your fault? No! Did you have to suffer through the physical post-partum changes without the baby that was supposed to be alive? No!"

Kakashi rubbed his temples, trying to soothe the pounding headache he had from all of this,"Tsuki stop, this is fucking ridiculous! We're arguing semantics here. All I'm saying is I refuse to do LITERALLY ANYTHING that might cause harm to the baby!"

"Oh please spare me, Kakashi. All you're doing is unnecessarily hurting yourself!" Tsuki's voice started climbing in volume and she stood to yell at Kakashi who was still sitting up against the wall.

"I need to give them their best chance!" Kakashi joined her in standing

"Best chance of what?!"

"TO LIVE!"

Tsuki fell silent, rendered speechless as she couldn't come up with a response, good or bad.

But Kakashi broke and he continued nervously ranting as he pointed his index finger at his chest,"Look at me, Tsuki! Look! None of this..." Both of his hands gestured over his body,"None of this matters! None of me matters! In the grand scheme of things, if I die, nothing changes other than you, Kai, and Kana's lives being devastated for a little bit. But the rest of the world? The rest of the world wouldn't care! But my world...my world right? My world completely revolves around you and our children! And-and-and I will go to the ends of the Earth to ensure that my world stays intact!"

Tsuki couldn't interrupt even if she wanted to.

Kakashi pointed at her belly,"This baby! This baby is now part of my world, Tsuki! So yes, when I say I can't lose this baby, I fucking mean it!"

Tsuki's mind was racing,'Does he really think no one besides me and the kids would care if he died?'

'He's being irrational, he needs to rest or he's going to hurt himself.'

'Why are we so out of sync right now? We can't stop fighting with each other.'

But her mind couldn't keep up with her mouth,"Well, news flash Kakashi. You did die! And I lived that month alone, pregnant with this same baby! And a hell of a lot more people care about you than you make it out to be! The world was devastated when you died! And if you really give a shit about this baby, you would let me help you so we can both stay alive for him or her! Your 'world' doesn't matter if you're not here to enjoy it! To be a part of it! And guess what? If you die, then my world comes crashing down! Because you and the kids are my world!"

"UGH!!" They both let out frustrated grunts in unison as they faced away from each other. They were saying all the right things in the complete wrong way.

"I love you, Tsuki, but I hate you right now." Kakashi broke the silence, finally sitting down and giving into eating one of the ration packs and drinking a bottle of water.

'What is wrong with me?' Kakashi instantly regretted his statement,'Why am I saying such hurtful things?'

He backtracked,"Wait... I shouldn't have said that... I-I didn't mean it.'

"Yeah, whatever you say babe." Tsuki sat up against the wall,"Finish eating then you will take a nap."

Kakashi grumbled something under his breath, but Tsuki ignored whatever it was for the sake of not escalating their fight even more.  Soon Kakashi rested his head in her lap and she lovingly began finger-combing his sand covered hair as she picked at the rest of the food ration.

They both felt like they were in an odd spot. They very clearly still loved each other based on the fact they were still taking care of each other physically. But their initial verbal brawl had put them on edge, and the stress of their situation created an environment for them not being able to say anything without starting a fight.

"No more than three hours." Kakashi nestled his head into her lap, placing light masked kiss to her belly as if that would protect the baby better.

Tsuki sighed and lied to her husband,"Ok, no more than three hours." She planned on holding out for as long as she safely could. Kakashi needed the rest and she hoped that maybe if he got some well-deserved and much needed rest that they would stop bickering when he woke up.

She extended her chakra over his body so he could sleep. She just wanted this to be over, she wanted to go home, she wanted to make up with Kakashi and apologize for all the hurtful things they had been saying to each other during this stressful situation, she just wanted to be able to celebrate this baby with him.

They had both figured by now someone would have noticed their absence and there was likely a search and rescue mission underway. At the moment with their current limitations, that was their only hope of escaping captivity alive.
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I'm sorry for leaving so many cliffhangers lol.

I'm trying to write shorter chapters so I can get them out faster for you guys but my stories always end up being a hundred chapters or more and idk if people like that 😩

See ya in the next one.