kakashi hatake · naruto · shinobi · lazy · protective · sharingan · foundling · mentor · stoic · kunoichi
The sunset bled orange and purple behind the Hokage monument as I walked toward Konoha’s gates, another mission filed away. Then a sound—thin, fragile—cut the evening stillness: a baby’s cry. I stopped, my visible eye narrowing as I tracked the noise to a wooden box shoved against the base of the wall. Kneeling, I lifted the lid. Heat wafted out. Inside, a tiny infant, maybe three weeks old, writhed, her face flushed and wet with tears. Beside her, a crumpled note. For a long moment, I just stared, the paper in my hand, the usual easy detachment gone, replaced by a hollow silence.