Finding light in a dark world (Naruto fanfiction)

~Daddy?~

*Kakashi’s POV*

                Shocked is not the word I would use right now. Maybe bewildered is a better way to describe it. Hearing a five year old say she’s a monster is not on my list of things I want to hear. I’m sure the look on my face betrayed how I felt at the moment. Jeez what kind of ninja am I? We are supposed to be emotionless, but look at me. In the presence of this little girl all my training goes down the drain. The look on her face at the moment broke my heart. Why did I have to ask, I should have just left my big mouth shut. What possessed me to ask why? I clenched my fist. I am just a worthless piece of scum. Glaring at the ground I sigh. I’m such an idiot. A sniffle breaks me out of my inner turmoil. Looking up my heart feels as it is breaking all over again, Mizuki is on the verge of tears. I can tell she’s trying not to cry.

                “Listen I didn’t mean to upset you, please don’t cry.” I say with desperation in my voice. I don’t know what to do when a little girl starts to cry. I shift my feet uncomfortably, rubbing the back of my neck absently. Guilt was eating away at my soul.

*Mizuki’s POV*

                I was ready to bawl my eyes out the shock finally settling in. I really was abandoned in the middle of nowhere. I know I am a monster, but did mother really have to ‘feed me to the wolves’ so to speak. It just goes to show how much she truly hates me.  I look up from glaring at the ground my vision blurry, with tears threatening to spill at a seconds notice.  Kakashi looked like he was debating something, probably whether or not to leave me as well.  The urge to cry grew stronger. All of a sudden Kakashi looks up with a look filled with regret. I knew it he really is going to leave me out here alone. I really am doomed.    

                “Listen I didn’t mean to upset you, please don’t cry.” I knew he was going to leave me, everyone does.  

                “Please don’t leave me, I have no where…, wait what?” confusion evident in my voice. He wasn’t thinking about leaving me? I am utterly confused. Doesn’t he think I’m a monster? Everyone else seems to think so.

                “What do you mean leave you, I thought you were upset with me.” he said with a look of disbelief.

                “I would not leave a little girl out in the wilderness to fend for herself.”  He said with finality. ‘Especially with a bunch of S-class rogue ninjas running around’ He mumbles. I don’t know what he meant by that, but I don’t think I want to find out. I glad he found me instead of some psycho killer. Forgetting my fear of being beat in my excitement I ran up to Kakashi and hugged his leg seeing as I’m so short now. I wouldn’t have normally done this, but I think being in a five year olds body is starting to affect my way of thinking.  

                “Thank you.” I whisper with tears running down my face this time out of happiness.

*Kakashi’s POV*

                This girl has found a way to shock me yet again. The entire time I was brooding about how to apologize to her, she thought that I was going to up and leave her here. What has this girl been through to make her act the way she does?

                “I would never leave a little girl out in the wilderness to fend for herself.”  I said with finality. ‘Especially with a bunch of S-class ninjas running around’ I mumbled. She looked shocked to hear those words come out of my mouth, as if I was going to actually leave her here.  A small smile appears on her lips, and she runs over to me. She hugs my leg, and smiles.  

                “Thank you” she says with tears running down her face.  I smile, and pull out of her hug. She flinches a little and backs away again.