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Kakashi hadn't expected anything special to happen when he came back home from his latest long mission (an ANBU one). Gai tracking him down for a challenge, maybe. A particularly bratty-feeling colleague trying to prank him. That kind of thing.
When an Inuzuka spotted him, then immediately turned tail and ran, Kakashi got a feeling that 'normal' was about to take a hike. That hadn't happened since he was a very freshly orphaned genin. Or after Minato-sensei died.
He didn't have to wonder what the hell about him was repelling Inuzukas again for very long. That same guy who had fled his presence reappeared with Inuzuka Tsume on his heels.
Ah. So it wasn't about not wanting to be near. It was about telling the boss that he'd found Kakashi, then?
That was better. But it also meant that Tsume had given her Clan orders to let her know as soon as they found Kakashi, which was an oddity of it's own.
Kakashi stood still and watched the Inuzuka's Alpha stride toward him.
"Hatake." Tsume rumbled. "There is something I need you to see."
Kakashi tilted his head, waiting for more. When nothing came, he huffed and nodded. "Alright. Lead the way."
He hoped he didn't need to go far. He was just back from a mission. He was supposed to get to rest.
Tsume led him to the Inuzuka's Compound. Then toward the Head House.
What the h...
The air was smelling vaguely milky.
Kakashi frowned.
What.
Why.
Why the hell would Tsume be leading him straight toward a new mother and her newborn?
He stopped and rooted himself in place.
Tsume turned back toward him with an impatient frown.
"Come on." She growled. "Miyu has been expecting you for a while."
That unstuck Kakashi's tongue. "Miyu... Partner's Aomaru?"
Tsume blinked then smiled. "Oh, how many Inuzuka do you remember only by our Ninken's name?" Kakashi kept his mouth shut. Tsume didn't seem to take the almost admission badly, she grinned and patted her own dog's head. "Well in case you need a refresher, I'm Kuromaru's partner and my name is Tsume."
Kakashi didn't react to the light teasing, because his brain had just caught up to the newborn and milking mother's scent added to 'Miyu expecting you'.
Kakashi could, in fact, count all the way up (and even back!) to nine months. And it wasn't like he 'went around' enough to forget exactly what he'd done with Inuzuka Miyu a little over nine months prior.
Kakashi jolted and ran forth, letting his nose and instincts tell him the way.
Tsume didn't make a single move to prevent him from charging toward her vulnerable Clan members. Something that would have boggled his mind if it was still in working order.
As it was, he was finally close enough to smell cub (his cub, his!) over the stronger scent of their mother. He definitely wasn't up to thinking about anything. At all.
A door disappeared from his path and he barely had the presence of mind not to come across as aggressive in front of the new mother. His eyes caught onto a tuft of silver head resting on the woman's chest. He froze.
Miyu turned her head his way and smiled. (He only saw it in his peripherals. His eyes were glued in the perfect hair and wasn't likely to unstick anytime soon.) She moved her trunk toward him and gently turned the infant so he could better see them. Her.
"I almost waited to confirm with you before naming her, but it was just too obvious." Kakashi blinked dumbly as his legs took him closer without any input from his brain. "This is Raiden."
"Raiden." Kakashi echoed.
He stepped even closer.
Miyu's ninken (Aomaru) stepped aside letting him get close to his human and her child. A proof of trust he would have been floored by in any other situation.
Kakashi folded down on his knees by the bed and leaned into his perfect baby to inhale her perfect scent like a man drowning. She woke up and gave a perfect little giggle, patting at his face with her perfect little hands.
Tsume would need a crowbar to make him move.
Tsume did not, in fact, need a crowbar to make Kakashi move.
All she had to do was bark "Get your sorry ass up into that bed and get some proper snuggles in with the pup."
Miyu laughed and scooted sideways so Kakashi could do just that.
"And summon your partners, already!" Tsume added in a disgruntled growl. "Do I need to tell you everything?"
Kakashi blushed a bit. Right. The pack needed to scent his daughter. That way they could track her if someone stole her.
The thought made an enraged growl bubble up in his throat.
Tsume bopped on the head with a rolled up newspaper.
Where did the newspaper even come from?
