Mend my Mind {Kakashi Hatake}

45 | kakashi's face

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I did my best to keep myself busy while I waited on the report from Tsunade on how the investigations were going. Team Four earned a significant boost to their mission stats with the amount of D-ranks I had them complete to both occupy myself and also ensure they were still keeping up with their teamwork. When there were no missions, I oversaw their training. I wasn't allowed to engage in taijutsu with any of them, which was frustrating to say the least, but while I was only in the first trimester it was okay for me to simply demonstrate and then watch while they practiced with each other. To my surprise, it was Iko who was showing the most marked improvement. He had finally mastered tree walking and the time he'd spent training with Guy and Lee had significantly improved his motivation and physical prowess. Damaru had his ego knocked down a peg when even his superior speed and ninjutsu wasn't enough to stop Iko from pinning him down during one practice spar.

"Miyoshi, Miyoshi! Sis, wait up I gotta ask you something!"

I turned around to see Naruto and Sakura rushing towards me.

"Hey, you two. I'm on my way home but what do you need?"

Naruto bent over, gasping like running towards me had used up all his energy. "It's... it's really important."

"And we really need to ask you in particular," Sakura added.

"...what is it?"

Naruto straightened up and grabbed my shoulder suddenly with his one arm, staring right into my eyes with an expression like burning fire. "We gotta know what Kakashi-sensei looks like under his mask, ya know!"

"We've been trying to unmask him for years now and it's never worked, but since you'd know better than anyone else..." Sakura looked at me with wide, hopeful eyes.

I folded my arms across my chest and sighed. "You guys... look, as his loyal wife, I really should respect his wishes to keep that private..."

"Sis, please." Naruto squeezed my shoulder. "For me? For your little buddy?"

"Hmm..."

"Pleeeeeeeeease? It'll make up for all those times you couldn't train with me 'cause you were in hospital, ya know!"

I sighed and looked around to make sure nobody was paying too much attention to us, then gestured for them to follow me and led them into a side alley where we crouched down and talked in hushed voices.

"I can't just tell you, you understand," I whispered. "Kakashi would kill me. But here's the deal, only for you two since you both did a good job at keeping him out of trouble while I was away."

Naruto and Sakura both leaned closer.

"Since Kakashi and I are going to be moving into a bigger house soon, it's probably about time for us to go through all our stuff, clean out what we don't need anymore and start putting things in boxes. Kakashi's secretly a massive hoarder, so it's a job I'll probably do mostly by myself so he doesn't try to convince me to keep everything. But, as you both know my condition is... very fragile at the moment." I put a hand on my stomach and they both nodded. "So... it would probably be better for me, and for my little ones, if I had some big strong ninja to help me out with all the heavy lifting and stuff." I looked at them pointedly.

"Well sure, but what's this gotta do with Kakashi-sensei's face?"

"Some of the stuff we'll need to go through will include photo albums. And there are... certain photos that you two might like to see. If you only came over to help a poor pregnant woman pack up the house, and just so happened to see a photo of Kakashi's face, well... he can't be mad, since it was just an accident."