The sun to fill his heart

Chapter 2: Glimmer of hope

The sky was red and leaking blood and the air taste of rotten iron. Kakashi stood there frozen in fear by 5 silhouettes standing before him. Each of them revealing themselves to Kakashi.

One figure emerged as Kakashi's father, Sakumo Hatake, his stomach open exposing his entrails and a line slashed across his neck where he decapitated himself during seppuku.

"Kakashi...you didn't defend me when my name was being thrown in the mud by the village, if it wasn't for your lack of courage then I would not have killed myself like I did." Kakashi looked at his deceased father and puked at the disgusting imagery before him.

Next to his Father emerged Rin, there was still a huge hole in her chest from where kakashi had run his hand through.

"Kakashi...You Killed Me!" Rin said, scowling at kakashi.

"Please...please stop." Kakashi begged, now falling on the floor crying

The next three figures appeared. Obito with half of his body dismantled and bloody while Minato and Kushina stood next to him both with large holes in their chest from where the kyuubi had stabbed them. They each spoke one after another

"Kakashi...You couldn't keep your promise, YOU LET HER DIE!"

"Kakashi... You didn't help us during the attack of the kyuubi, you let us die when you could have stopped it."

"Kakashi... how can you protect Naruto when you couldn't protect anyone else you loved?"

"Please, I'd do anything to keep Naruto safe! Please believe me I won't let him die!" Kakashi pleaded to those before him.

"How can we believe you when you let us die in vain." They all said in unison. He covered his ears to drown out the noise, but he could still hear their screams clear as day. He could barely keep his composure as he fell to his knees. But what he saw scared him the most as he looked up to an image a Naruto being torn apart before his very eyes.

"NO, NO, NOOOO!!" Kakashi screamed.

It was late at night, the apartment was quiet and peaceful until a scream was heard. "NARUTOO!" Kakashi woke up and bolted to Naruto's room, which used to be the storage room. He busted into the room to see Naruto in his crib awake and crying from the sudden outburst by Kakashi. He was standing in the doorway panting and sweating but he didn't care, all he cared about was Naruto's safety. Once he was sure Naruto was alright, he took Naruto from his crib and went into the kitchen to make some baby formula for Naruto to calm him back down.

'3:36 nice, It seems that Naruto is somehow helping my sleep insomnia.' Kakashi was relieved that he could finally let his body rest a bit longer, which was weird because usually babies mean less sleep but Naruto was different. Adopting Naruto seemed to have a positive effect on Kakashi's emotional state as he was starting to worry less and less about the death of his comrades. After Kakashi finished preparing the baby formula for Naruto he went to feed it to him and rock him back to sleep. Kakashi decided to stay up for the rest of the night, not really in the mood to sleep, and so he could keep watch over Naruto.

Kakashi sighed "Maybe Naruto will be the death of me one day." he said remembering the Hokage meeting from a few days ago.

4 days ago

"I'll take in Naruto Uzumaki" I had said and as I expected everyone in the room was shocked to hear this statement from me.

"Kakashi, do you even know how to care for a child, it is no easy task" One of the elders asked me, skeptical of my abilities