Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Parenting Skills ❯ Spirit Fingers ( Chapter 2 )

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Chapter 2: Spirit Fingers

Kakashi picked up his book after he finished his outburst.

“I think you must be mistaken. I have no family,” Kakashi said flatly.

“You're the one that is mistaken, Hatake. Your father's brother's son lived outside of Konoha borders. Apparently, he had a daughter and the shinobis' from the lightning country found his body with his head taken. With no other living family or godparents alive, as you once said. Hence making you the sole guardian of Hatake Taki,” he took a puff on his pipe.

Kakashi took in some deep breaths. How could this happen? Hadn't he done everything right in his ninja life? It must be karma playing with him because he didn't tip that rude waiter.

`I never knew I had any relatives. Stupid parents leaving me in the dark,' he thought.

Kakashi signed at the dotted lines. The Hokage tapped his pipe on the desk and the door opened. The sad Kakashi slowly turned around to see the person that will ruin his life forever. Not that he had a life anyways. Iruka appeared and something was behind him.

“Hey Kakashi,” Iruka smiled at him.

Dude; get the hell out of out of the scene. He spoofed off; there was some coughing, and the smoke cleared. Kakashi prepared himself for the viewing. He stared down to see a little girl.

Hatake Taki, about as tall as Kakashi's knee, had green-gray curly hair in two pigtails, button nose, and big wide orange cat eye. Strangely, ironically, and unreasonably scary, she also had something covering up her left eye just like Kakashi. A black eye patch covered her left eye. She didn't have the infamous gray hair but she had the Hatake face, if you understood that.

She was wearing a purple dress with black shorts underneath, a white bunny backpack, and black shoes.

Taki looked at his shoes and up to his face. She jumped and gasped when she looked at his face. Kakashi saw her eye watered and then went cloudy.

“Daddy!” she ran over to Kakashi and hugged his leg.

`Hmm guess I look like him,' he thought as Taki was cutting the circulation off his leg.

Kakashi looked at the Hokage. He cleared his throat.

“Taki-chan, that isn't your daddy,” the Hokage plainly said.

She slowly let go of Kakashi's leg. Her hands scrunched the bottom of her dress. Taki looked at the floor and back at his face again. Her eye widened, blushed, looked at the floor again and fidgeted.

`How did my life turn this direction?' he cried inside.

“Taki-chan,” she looked at the Hokage, “This is Hatake Kakashi. He's going to be your…He's going to take care of you,” he didn't know how to handle these kind of situations, usually he'd leave it for Iruka cause he's such a do-gooder.

Taki nodded and looked up at Kakashi again waiting for him. Kakashi looked back at the Hokage, he gave him her file of information, and waved him off.

“Hatake,” Hokage said before Kakashi closed the door.

Kakashi stared back at him.

“We fixed your house to accommodate Taki-chan. It needed cleaning anyway. You may go now.”

How dare he mess with Kakashi's house! I wanted to do it. Kakashi was pissed that someone went through his stuff and clean it. I mean leave it alone. If people wanted their place messy, they can be messy. He was hoping they didn't mess with his books. Or all hell is going to break loose in Konoha.

Back to Kakashi and Taki, they were outside. Taki followed Kakashi around, getting used to his presence now, she finally spoke.

“Who are you again?”

“I'm Hatake Kakashi.”

“Same last name as me!” she brightened and quickened her pace to catch up to him to which he slowed down for her.

“Right, I'm your…” he thought about that, `what am I again? Cousin, grandfather, brother?'

“I'm your father's brother's son,” he said.

Her confused expression turned on, “Ho? Whuh?”

/Don't get pissed at the kid cause you can't explain yourself clearly/ his Inner Self said.

“Your daddy has a brother.”

She nodded.

“And his brother is my father.”

Her opened mouth nodded.

“So that makes me your cousin,” he explained to the little girl.

The expression came on again, “Wuzz uh cousin?”

This parenting thing was going to be harder than he thought.

“Okay you know what an uncle is right?”

She nodded quickly.

“I'm your uncle,” he crossed his arms.

“Didn't you say you was my cousin?” her eyebrows furrowed.

“No, I'm your uncle.”

“But you just said so,” Taki said.

“I did but I'm your uncle.”

“So a cousin is an uncle?”

He shook his head.

“Just forget about the cousin thing.”

“If you're my uncle, how come I've never seen you at my birthday parties?”

Eeee, quick come up with a good lie. Think think think!

“Well how old are you now?” he asked her.

Good distraction. Taki looked down at her fingers and started wiggling them. She held up her hands.

“This much!” she did spirit fingers.

“You're ten years old?” well she was putting up all her fingers.

Taki was really short to be a ten year old. She shook her head and shook her hands again, “This much!” she clenched her hands and then opened them four times and then on the fifth opening only eight fingers.

He nodded slowly, 48 fingers, a year has 12 months, do you know how old she is? Sorry, had a Blues Clues moment.

“Your four years old.”

She nodded her head so hard he thought it was going to fall off.

“Yosh! I am!”

“Okay then,” `Now what the heck am I going to do with her?' “Ano, want to go to the park?” he asked.

He just wanted to prolong the moment when they see the inside of his house. Her eyes lit up and started running ahead. She skidded to a stop and looked back at him.

“What's taking so long Uncle Kakashi?” Taki called out.

Uncle. Uncle? Uncleh! Okay, guess he's going to have to get used to that.

“The park's back this way,” he thumbed back.

She zoomed back and passed him.

`She's going to bulldoze into something if she doesn't look where she's going,' he followed the little green speed demon.

Again review to get another chapter out of me. This story takes place where everyone (I mean Naruto, Sakura, Shino etc) is still little.