Naruto: Home Before Dawn

Everyone knows Kakashi Hatake as the Copy Ninja, the elite jōnin who never backs down from a mission.

Few know that beyond the training grounds and battlefields, a porch light is always waiting for him.

Aoi Hatake was never a shinobi. She never sought glory, power, or recognition. As the owner of a quiet bookstore in Konohagakure, she built a peaceful life among shelves of stories and worn pages. Years before Naruto Uzumaki graduated from the Academy, she met a quiet man who preferred romance novels and silence over conversation.

That man became her husband.

While heroes shape the fate of the shinobi world, this is the story of the home they return to.