Listening

19: Can This Last?

A/N: gomenasai~~ Another late update.

kakashi pov:

Today was another long day... I was being summoned after I was done with my missions. I opened the door to my house to smell a nice whiff of boiled saury eggplant~~ This smell... tsura must be home already. Cooking my favourite dish. I did... tell her that today I was going to meet the daimyo.

I closed the door behind me and I felt a smaller figure hugging me by the back.

kakashi: tsura.

"kakashi." she said softly hugging me even more tightly. That's right... the tsura now talks to me like any other normal person would to me. She is married to me. I may not be her side all the time, but I am thankful she still wants to stay by my side. " how are things?"

kakashi: you predicted that I would do well so you made eggplant? What if I didn't?

tsura: well... if you did well... celebration!! You didn't do well... consolation.

I turned around and cupped her cheeks " I did well. I am officially hokage by choice of them." She laughed a little " the way you say it... like you don't want this job at all."

kakashi: not really. I rather have more time for you.

tsura: sweet talker.

I pulled down my mask and kisses her forehead " I'm back home." She hugs me tighter " welcome back home. You have eggplant today."

The doorbell rings and she releases her hug, " you're busy already..." I wear back my mask and goes to open the door. It was gai and the rest of them. Kurenai and my students.

kakashi: you guys.

naruto: omedeto!! kakashi sensei!!!

kakashi: ah... arigato. Even sasuke...

sasuke: you are my sensei... I had to... obligatory.

kakashi: arigato.

gai: you finally made it!! kakashi!!

I sweatdrop " I guess..."

kurenai,sai and sakura all said " omedeto."

kakashi: you even brought your child. 

kurenai: might as well... Ale... where's tsura?

I turn my head around "tsura!!.... ah. She's shy to strangers. Gomen."

naruto: .... tsu...ra? kakashi sensei has a DAUGHTER?!!!

sakura knocks naruto's head " BAKA!!! KAKASHI SENSEI DOESN'T HAVE A DAUGHTER!! HIS WIFE!! TSURA IS HIS WIFE!! "

naruto: KAKASHI SENSEI HAS A WIFE?!!!

sasuke: you didn't know? As usual, usuratonkachi (loser).

sai: somehow naruto is always the last to know neh.

naruto: EH EH EH?!!! I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW?!!

kurenai: not really. Everyone knows kakashi has a wife, just not know who she is.

naruto: then... how did you know? sakura.

sakura: well.... I had to do medial check-ups for ninjas... I just happen to come across ... Hatake Tsura... She kinda told me not to tell anyone. That's why she chose me to help.

sasuke: I heard it from sakura.

sai: I knew tsura-san since I was in anbu. She had a title. The Quiet One. She used to work for both sides for both the san-daime (3rd gen) and danzou.

naruto: EHHHH !!! AND I AM THE LAST ONE TO FIND OUT?!!!!

kakashi: ha... well... come in.

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naruto: so... kakashi sensei.... where is... ahem.... tsura-san?

kakashi: tsura. It's ok. They are my students.

She walks out from the bedroom and smiles. She waves and stands beside me. Still shy. Kawaii.

naruto: I am uzumaki naruto.

sakura: haruno sakura desu.

sasuke: uchiha sasuke.

At that instant when sasuke said his name, she stared at him for quite a long time. And... she spoke " sasuke...?"

sasuke:... hai.

Her tears flowed and she clenches her fist.

sakura: dai...daijobu?!!

" itachi !!! Did you manage to see itachi ?!! Your nii-san!! Did you?!! I mean... I mean.... before he died... Huh?!! " her tears continue to flow and her breathe thickens. Her pant becomes heavier...

sasuke: you knew my nii-san?

I grab her arm and turn her around into my embrace " it will be ok."

sasuke: I saw him. 

She turned her head to sasuke and smiled " then... it's all fine."

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" do you need help washing the dishes?" kurenai's kid asked. Tsura shook her head with a smile.

gai: you two should have one.

kurenai: these kind of things should be decided by them, not us.

sakura: exactly! gai-sensei!! 

gai: I am just saying.

sai: I read a book which one said, a man's prime reaches age 35. Maybe kakashi sensei should hurry.

sakura hits sai's head " don't make weird comments!!!"

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naruto: neh... tsura-san. Why didn't you talk to the rest of us at all? Only to sasuke.

sakura: now I think of it... she didn't speak to me at all at the hospital.

sai: tsura-san doesn't really talk. She has been thought to have a speech impairment.

kakashi: alright, enough of your discussion. My tsura just like to talk to people she's comfortable with.

naruto:... x_xllll hai.

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Everyone was outside the door and heading home...

tsura: sasuke.

sasuke stopped in his steps and turned around " hai?"

tsura: gomenasai... I treated you like your nii-san. I won't... anymore.

sasuke: it's ok. tsura-nee. I do still remember you come by our house and practiced with nii-san and helped me with my homework too. Even when nii-san left the village, you helped him to look after me secretly by watching for me from afar.

tsura: .... you... knew?

sasuke: the landlady who you asked to put things at my door that mysteriously appear told me. 

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I hug her from the back as she washed the dishes, the water went over the plate as she just held the plate at the same position for a few seconds " what are you thinking? Blanking out like that..."

tsura: huh?

kakashi: your plate.

tsura: oh. Everything seem... so... perfect now... You are hokage, sasuke remembers me... and you still listen to my heart... can it  last?

kakashi: if you wish so. I will try.

She smiled " arigato."