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Scenario One: In the Universe of Gods

Greek god and roman counterpart AU - found from the tumblr authorkurikuri

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Kakashi, the mighty god of military victory and wisdom, watched his friends and fellow heavenly beings go forward in excitement to find their counterparts. Cheerful exclamations and laughs echoed around their haven in celebration for this blessed moment.

Ever millennia or so, it was tradition for replacements to come for their positions. Kakashi had taken over after his father, and wow had Kakashi been nervous about replacing him. Sakumo had created a pious fervor hard to follow. Despite this inevitability he had always been aware of, Kakashi could not help but feel a little saddened by the idea of simply handing over his position.

Thousands prayed in desperation and hope to him, and suddenly he had to hand it over to some green horned tyke straight out of the Almighty Academy? Yes, once you retired it was apparently great, but Kakashi liked his position. And he was not that old.

Despite not being able to do anything about this trade-in, Kakashi would be sure to thoroughly question whoever thought themselves great enough to take his seat of power. Sure, he had to stick around some thousands of mortal years to train whoever it was as required. But that was just a blink of an eye for them; Kakashi had to make sure this person had the true character to uphold his responsibilities.

Passing Obito, who was staring into an equally grinning (although much blonder) version of his happy persona, Kakashi sighed and slouched further into himself. Looking around, he watched Guy embrace someone with an eerily similar haircut, Asuma talking to some kid whose hair resembled a pineapple, and resisted the urge to shiver as Anko talked to a dark-haired youth who looked like he could easily take over the position of beauty and treachery.

It seemed that everyone found familiar reflections of themselves in the younger generation and were more than excited about this change. Maybe he should at least attempt to be excited over the change over.

"Kakashi-sensei?"

Turning, and then looking down, Kakashi took in the sight of a slight young woman with pink hair and vibrant green eyes. While Kakashi's armor was of black and silver, her armor was a glowing, warm gold accented with red. Kakashi's face was hidden with both a mask and blood-red scarf, while her pretty face was open for all to see.

Kakashi, the god of vicious victory through slaughter and carnage, was going to be replaced by someone with pink hair. Pink hair.

"Excuse me, I'm searching for my new half," Kakashi said as he tried to move. Maybe if he tried hard enough, he could ignore the voice of reason saying that she was his obvious replacement.

"That's me. My name is Sakura. It's an honor to meet and succeed you, Kakshi-sensei."

Oh, and she was named after a fragile flower. It just got better and better. Now he was definitely more than just a little concerned about his legacy. Turning, and accepting his fate with what felt like an axe to the neck, Kakashi looked back down at her. His visible eye narrowed.

"You are but a girl."

Puffing up, and almost making her armor look ridiculous despite its glamour, Sakura put her hands on her hips and stood her ground. "I trained with the legendary Tsunade, who was before the time even of your predecessor. I am more than capable of taking your post."

"Well, it is a start," Kakashi said lazily as he scratched at his silver hair. "Tell me, what is your other form? I myself turn into an eight-headed dog who can reach the size of a mountain and kill anything within my sight and jaws."

"I turn into a giant slug."

Kakashi was sure this was not his immortal life.

"I can separate into hundreds to heal and save their lives no matter how grievous the wounds," she continued on, oblivious or simply ignoring the fallen look on his face.

"My right black eye allows me to judge any mortal before me to see if their actions are just or not, and to absorb all they know. My left red eye is a gift from Obito and can see into the future of any fight. I use this ability to predict events in a battle so I can give ultimate victory for whichever side I choose. What can you do?"

"I've read every mortal book that's ever been. I can rejuvenate parts of myself an infinite amount of times," she said proudly, gesturing to the diamond sitting in the middle of her forehead. Well, if anything, the large size of the forehead offered promise.

Ignoring the coos of Kurenai as she attended to her other-half who had pale, lavender eyes, Kakashi took a threatening stop forward.

"Do you accept that I will mentor you for the next ten thousand mortal years? So I can knock some sense into that gigantic forehead of yours?"

He noticed her hands form fists, and Kakashi opened his left eye just in time to see that she was going to try and punch him. Easily ducking the swing, Kakashi ducked behind her and kicked Sakura's knees in, causing her to fall. The clatter of her armor caused the other gods ands replacements to turn in bewilderment. It was rare that gods of the same affinities did not get along together.

"Do not strike out against me. You will be sorry," Kakashi said, his red eye spinning with all the scenarios that could ever happen.

He watched as Sakura ducked her head, her hands still balled into fists at her knees.

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"Greetings my dear friend!"

"Greetings Obito, Naruto."

"Where's Sakura?" Naruto asked excitedly as his jumped out from Obito's transportation port.

"Oh, somewhere down there," Kakashi said with a shrug as he sipped his tea.

Below them was a fight between thousands of mortals. Kakashi watched Naruto's eyes dart over it, looking for the focus of his affections. It was no mystery that the new leader was entirely in awe of the future goddess of war and wisdom. Yet she was destined to be paired with Sasuke, her perfect opposite and match.

"I don't- Oh!"

Just then, an earthquake rumbled and the battlefield cracked in half. Kakashi hummed as the sounds of utter misery and pain welled up, individuals caught between the rubble or fallen down to meet their untimely demise.

Naruto did an exclamation of amazement before he leaped down into the battle himself, not even asking for Obito's permission first.

While Kakashi used lightning to strike those he wanted, Sakura preferred to use her actual body as a weapon. It didn't seem very smart, and also seemed awfully dirty and below a god. Kakashi enjoyed the feeling of crushing those beneath his paws to put them in their place, but Sakura was much too involved. If this battle had been up to him, Kakashi would still be in this position, sipping tea and artfully directing bolts to those he wanted gone. Instead, she was directly in the middle of it, muddling her armor with mortal blood and demeaning herself to stand with them.

It seemed that her sudden earthquake had made the invaders retreat. Kakashi sighed as he knew she would now be transforming into those slimy little things and would attach herself to those who needed her help.

"How is she fairing?" Obito asked as he sat at his side. He pulled his mask aside, sighing in relief and smile visible. Unlike Kakashi, who had perfected it into a lifestyle, Obito did not really like the necessity of covering his face. Yet it seemed the practice was a fragment of the past, as no one in this new generation bothered to hide their faces from the mortals. It made Kakashi again think how disgraceful they were in becoming closer to the humans.

"She does not listen and thinks she knows best at all times," Kakashi said with a frown. "She does not understand that although she knows their literature, it does not mean she understands their wild emotions or drives."

"You are concerned she will get wounded," Obito said with a grin that never failed to infuriate Kakashi.

"I do not understand why she could not replace where Rin had been. Her healing ability is unprecedented," Kakashi said, and regretted it the moment he said it.

Sensing his sudden concern, Obito sighed: "It was a long time ago."

"Not long enough for you to ever forget."

The position Rin held in their realm would forever remain empty, since she had not trained a successor before her passing. The gods would forever mourn one who was cut down in her prime. She was the only occurrence of one of them perishing directly because of mortals, and it had been because she had been too nice. To giving. Too trusting.

His best friend laughed bitterly at that before saying: "Of course not. But soon I will not have to wait much longer."

Immediately understanding what his friend meant, Kakashi turned to him with both eyes wide. It was forbidden to talk about their own deaths if they decided it was time. The only one who Kakashi knew to go through it was his own father. Suddenly Kakashi wished he could see into the future of all things like Obito, so he could affirm just how serious his ruler was.

"I know she awaits for me. We could not save her, but I cannot be saved without her. I just hope that you will be alright on your own," Obito said kindly, his sole eye focusing back on Kakashi. "Promise me you will be alright, even after I am gone?"

Kakashi turned away and stood, his scarf flaring about him as his anger rose. Suddenly Kakashi wished the battle had not finished so soon.

"Kakashi."

"It is our duty to watch over this realm. Why do you feel that you must leave it so soon? Is it because they forced me to kill Rin? That you do not believe they are-"

"Those humans and all the creatures on this realm are truly worthy of my attentions! Do you think this decision is easy? I am torn, but you do not understand the love I feel towards Rin. Maybe if you opened yourself up and thought about more than just yourself, you would understand."

"You know nothing of the pain and worthlessness I carry because of Father! Do you think I want to feel powerless as I had when he went to the Great Unknown? I was but a child."

Hearing the sound of footsteps fast approaching, Kakashi turned away from a frowning Obito. There was no use in making their successors knowledgable of this disagreement.

"I feel like we interrupted something," Naruto whispered to Sakura aside of her.

"Kakashi-sensei, I bring you the head of the unjust emperor," Sakura said as she kneeled before him, offering up the head of a human.

"I do not need anything from this place," the silver-haired god said icily as he kicked the head off of her hands and down the cliffside. Feeling the urge to be free of all this inability despite his power. Kakashi added in a snarl: "You will leave all leave me alone. Do what you will, but do not disturb me."

The last thing Kakashi saw before he transformed and bounded off was the blood-splattered face of Sakura looking at him in a mixture of anger and sadness.

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When Kakashi finally returned to the heavens above, the tense aura that permeated the place told him he had stayed away for much too long. Something had happened.

"Kakashi!" Obito yelled as he sprung up from his throne. "Where have you been?"

Narrowing his open eye at how distraught Obito seemed, Kakashi asked: "What has happened?"

"It seems the mortals greatly miss your presence, and became increasingly reckless in their bloodlust get you to reveal yourself. There have been wars waged over you, and Sakura has attempted to mediate it, but without success. They ignore her and do not accept her as their new goddess no matter what she does."

"Why is it that they always focused on the battle prowess and not the intelligence I also hold within me?" Kakashi muttered angrily. "Where is she?"

"Therein lies the problem: we do not know. We have Hana and Kiba out searching, but they have not found her still."

Kakashi's left eye snapped open in shock. Never had Hana had been unable to sniff something out. Even with the giant expanse of world their domain had, be it a demigod, nymph or spirit of a single tree: she always found what she searched for. With her successor brother coupled with her, Kakashi wondered how it was possible.

"We think that they have gone somewhere where your presence is masking hers, but we checked your main temples and there was nothing. None of us know all of your secret cult gatherings like you do, and since you were also nowhere to be found until just now," Obito said with rare anger.

"I will find her," Kakashi vowed before Obito blinked his single red eye and they were on the mortal's surface. "And I know just where you need to place me."

"I will join you," Obito said, mask hiding the resolve in his face, but his tone making it more than clear how serious he was in this matter.

"While I appreciate it my friend, I need to remedy this myself," Kakashi said with a shake of his silver head, concern suddenly heavy in his chest. Sakura was so strong and independent, never listening. What if something had truly happened to her?

"It seems you grew in that time you were gone," Obito said, and it Kakashi could tell his anger was finally leaving him. Obito held out his hand and Kakashi took it; Kakashi focused on the exact location. Obito nodded once, confirming that he knew where to send him, and Kakashi let go with another solemn nod.

"I will save her," Kakashi said with conviction before Obito transported him away.

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Kakashi believed his followers had captured Sakura for a future sacrifice, a last-ditch effort to make him appear. When he spotted her chained to the ground in his most zealous cult temple by the sea, his suspicions were confirmed.

While Sakura slowly took his power and energy to transform herself into the new goddess, she was gravely weakened in this space. His enthusiastic followers here steeped it in his presence and self. Meaning, that if any other god came their power would be challenged and ultimately defeated with such an overwhelming presence of Kakashi's power from the follower's dedication.

Here, even with his give and her take relationship, Sakura and been stripped of her ability and self.

Kakashi's eyes narrowed and he bared his teeth because not only was she chained up, but she was impaled with one of his claws he must have lost during a time in his other form. The claw was speared straight through her body, nearly cutting her in half. If not for her regenerative power, Kakashi was sure she would have perished.

(The claw must have come from when he'd battled Guy over who could outrace the sun. Guy tricked him into falling into a The Silent Valley and Kakashi had barely managed to climb out in time to catch up and win by pulling out one of his claws and using it as a grappling hook. He must have forgotten it in his haste; it and been when he'd been young and still foolish.)

Deciding to end this, Kakashi moved closer and watched as Sakura's body convulsed as he stepped closer. If he hadn't feel entirely destroyed about what he'd done to her, this was the final blow. Disgust and guilt twisted deep inside him.

He had done this. By refusing the natural order of things, Kakashi had made her doubt and be allowed to be captured in such a way. The last time this had happened, Rin had been overpowered and Kakashi had been forced to kill her. To take her out of her misery before she became something she was not.

Finally coming to crouch to her level on the floor (Kakashi would never allow her to fall so low ever again), he reached out and touched Sakura's face. Kakashi willed his energy to flow into her, giving her new strength, and Sakura seemed to finally breath.

"Sakura, I'm here," Kakashi said softly, gloved fingers ghosting over her cheek briefly.

"Kakashi?" Sakura whispered softly, blood leaking out from her mouth and dripping to the floor in a soft pitter-patter. Without her armor and strong personality, she suddenly seemed so weak. It was uncanny and surreal in Kakashi's head, and he hated it.

"I tried to talk to them… to your followers, but they wouldn't…listen to me, and then…"

"It is alright, Sakura. I am here now," Kakashi said in promise before he stood.

He felt this mortal-looking form morph and twist, crack and adjust, until Kakashi felt himself change into his true form. He pushed out the roof of the temple with his wide silver back, knocking pillars with paws and heads easily.

The eight differing faces roared in unison before one leaned down to grab the claw and pull. At the same time, another head caught Sakura and reverently held her. She whimpered lightly, and then was still between his teeth.

Kakashi turned and saw his followers had come and were on their hands and knees, tears streaming down their faces in the presence of their ultimate god. He looked at them and saw their pride and praise that their actions had worked.

Despite this, Kakashi could only focus on the taste of Sakura's blood and feel pure rage bubble up in his chest. Who were they to think that he would be happy with this? That he would desire the sacrifice of a goddess before she even had the ability to rule? Did they really see him as such a beast?

He would crush them all.

"Kakashi, please… They don't know any better," Sakura said, her soft voice loud in his thoughts of madness.

Holding back his rampage, Kakashi bent to her will. If this was what Sakura wanted, he would not refuse it to her.

"You have disgraced me in the worst possible way," Kakashi said in the lowly language of the mortals, his voices merging once again into one. "Never again will this temple stand, never again will you see me and never again will you say my name, else you will all face similar fates of destruction."

Kakashi allowed them a moment to focus after being addressed before he lifted up on his back paws and stomped the ground three time. He fell the cliff tremble and waver, the structure begin to bend to fall in to the sea.

As the mortals rushed to save themselves, Kakashi transformed back into his smaller self for Obito's convenience.

"Where do you need to go?" he asked, holding Sakura against his chest protectively.

"To my forest," she said as her body convulsed again. "I need to get back… to the tree I was born from. I've told you about it before. Can you find it?"

Kakashi forced himself to remember: it was in the far reaches of his unconsciousness. She had told him about it when he still disregarded her, just as his followers had. He could be extremely idiotic considering he was supposed to be the master of all knowledge.

"Hold on," Kakashi ordered before calling Obito.

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Kakashi looked out at the rich forrest all around him. Kindly spirits danced and frolicked by the cool pools in harmony with the plants and animals who came to drink. He looked down at the huge root he sat on and put a hand to it.

The tree seemed to sense his concern, as it gave a calming aura in return. Sakura's mother told him not to worry, that she was in good care.

Taking his hand off the root, Kakashi walked along it into a cavern at the base of the tree. There, surrounded by roots, lied Sakura coated with slugs. Multiple eyes turned and stared at him before retreating back into their little bodies. Obviously they were adamant about keeping their biggest sister safe and helping as much as they could. She had protected them and their beautiful pink mother long enough that they were clearly eager to return the favor.

Kakashi stood and watched before he felt himself shift into his dog form. He was careful to keep his body as small as he could, so he would not burst apart this tree from beneath, or even make the slugs feel threatened at his presence. The silver-haired beast only hesitated for a moment before wrapping his body around hers gently, one of his noses tucked close to her neck to feel her breathe.

And so time passed for Kakashi.

He only left the root's cavern when he needed to allow Sakura to maintain her true self. He was giving her all the energy he had neglected to when he had disappeared. It would not do good to overwhelm her, as his power had at the temple. Kakashi also had to be careful about giving too much, else he become a lesser spirit who would then not be able to go into the realm of beyond that was for gods alone.

In those moments where Kakashi had to sit and wait, he thought under the massive tree of perpetual pink flowers and green, first-spring-day's leaves.

Kakashi realized he had been born in a similar way to Sakura. During a battle of demons idiotically summoned by mortals, his father's liver had been torn out and flown far away from the battlefield. By the time Sakumo had managed to leave the battle to retrieve his organ, it had been absorbed by a field of corn. Taking it as an omen, as Sakumo had also been born through a field of crops, he had lied and waited. He protected the field patiently, daring to hope.

Sakumo kept constant vigil over the field and eventually Kakashi had given out a loud whine and split from a stalk of corn. His father had always joked Kakashi had so many heads because it was like the multiple cornels on a cob.

Now Kakashi found himself in a similar position of his father, but this time he was protecting something he himself had nearly killed through his neglect.

Shaking his heads, Kakashi trotted back into the cavern. The slugs had done what they could, and now Sakura lied in a glow of her own healing ability. Whining and snuffling, Kakashi moved closer to wrap around her closer than before.

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Kakashi had been sitting outside, trying to decide what to do with the claw he had taken with him, when Guy and Lee appeared. Guy had tears streaming down his face, and Lee looked downtrodden himself.

Kakashi did not need to hear what had happened but Guy confirmed it all the same: Obito had taken his own life.

They left him to grieve in peace, and Kakashi stared dumbly at nothing. He would never be able to give back his eye, would never be able to see that idiot grin from ear to ear, or trick Obito into teleporting in to the middle of an ocean. Kakashi would never again see his best friend who had been with him nearly all of his existence.

But now Obito was with Rin, where they could finally reunite. It was seen as disgraceful for a god to take their own life, but Kakashi thought it also brave. His father had done it after disgracing himself and his legacy; Rin had sacrificed herself before she hurt anyone; Obito had decided to follow his one love.

It still did not comfort Kakashi, or make him feel any better about it. They and still all left him.

For the first time, Kakashi cried in his lesser form. When his Father and Rin had passed he had howled with all his voices to the moon, but this time he felt too weak. Kakashi felt utterly drained from giving Sakura so much of his strength in so little time, and then now of taking on all these emotions.

As Kakashi went back to attend to Sakura, he continued to openly weep. He lied down and stared up at the ceiling of roots, hoping that maybe Sakura's mother could help heal him as well.

"Kakashi," he heard Sakura whisper, and he looked over to see that she had her eyes open; she had awoken from her healing hibernation.

"Sakura," he said, and was nearly overtaken with the sudden want to hold her. To feel that she, too, would not leave him. That he was not as utterly alone as he felt.

She smiled at him before turning to face him, reaching out with a silent invitation. Kakashi didn't think twice as he moved closer to her, resisting the strong urge to crush her body against his. To feel their auras intermingle into something new and amazing.

Instead Kakashi held onto Sakura gently, face tucked into her neck.

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Despite how she had awoken to offer Kakashi comfort, it still took a little bit longer for Sakura to fully heal and rise. No one knew just how long she had been at Kakashi's temple, but it must have been a long time if her injuries had taken this long to fully heal.

As Sakura finally got up and started moving, and then sparring with him, and then easily defeating him, Kakashi knew everything was suddenly different.

He could feel something pull when he looked at her, and she responded back to his gaze with a bright smile. True to his promise, Kakashi did not show himself to mortals anymore, and watched from afar as Sakura became more and more prominent. He explained that she had been taken advantage of because she was not being authoritative enough with them: as she literally put her foot down, mortals soon began bending to her will.

Unlike with him, they seemed to remember just how intelligent and crafty she was. Intellects, warriors and healers alike prayed to her with honest, innocent devotion. Her following was not as instantaneous or intense as Kakashi's, but she was slowly growing and gaining a reputation.

He and his father, and Tsunade before them, had always been reverared in fear and terror. But Sakura brought a soft touch to it, and Kakashi found himself mesmerized to try and better understand how that was.

"I don't think my figure is really that curvaceous," Sakura said absently as they stared at one of the first statues of her made. Kakashi knew it would soon be one of many. Not to mention paintings, plays and literature. There was sure to be a plethora of material about her soon; maybe it was time Kakashi started reading again.

"Do you know how inconvenient it would be to have that chest? Tsunade told me all about it and how her armor needed to have special measurements. I bet Tenten is happy I'm not that difficult."

"You should have seen the first statues of me," Kakashi hummed in response. "They get better in time. At least they know what you face looks like and will not invent ridiculous ideas about it like they had with me."

But soon enough they were forgoing Sakura's armor altogether and going into the inevitable naked phase. Kakashi could barely manage to stop her from rampaging. It would not do well to let her destroy a following she had taken thousands of years and countless battles to foster.

Still, internally, Kakashi commended the artists for their enticing interpretations.

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It seemed that it was only mortal days since Kakashi had first laid eyes on Sakura, and not the nearly ten thousand years. Now the time for when they would separate was fast approaching.

Soon the induction ceremony would happen and Kakashi would be forced to leave this world to travel to one of past generations. Hokages could come and go easily, and it was not impossible for Kakashi to return for a visit, but they would be rare and brief. There, in that abstract place, Kakashi would live out the rest of eternity with those he cared about. Well, except for his Father, Obito and Rin: the three people he truly desired to see.

During the days at Sakura's mother tree, where he had time to think, Kakashi had decided on two things.

First, that he cared for Sakura; that affection had only grown through the thousands of years until he now felt nothing but all-consuming love. Second, that he would take his own life after Sakura's induction.

Kakashi decided it would be too painful to be forever suspended between two realms where those he loved existed. He could not exist in this realm as Sakura was to take his place, so he would choose his Father and friends over an existence of solitude.

Oh, Obito was surely laughing at him now: lovesick worse than he had ever been. Not only had Kakashi followed Obito's advise and opened himself up to another, no, he had gone ahead and fallen in love.

And then Sakura told him something that crushed any remaining doubt.

"It was deemed that Sasuke and I are fit to become one."

Kaksashi remembered during the beginnings of her training how obsessed Sakura had been about bringing Sasuke courting gifts, seemingly already enamored with him. While Kakashi had never seen their favoring of each other affirmed lately, they got along reasonably well.

Kakashi himself had resisted the advances of Anko. He had never felt the pull, and Kakashi resigned himself from the assignment. While some positions were pressed into certain pairings, if either of the gods did not feel reason to follow it, the union did not need to happen.

All consuming, true love was almost nonexistent with the gods. Yes, there were strong kinship and friendship loves. But any form of romantic affection were from matches of convenience, where they were trained to compliment and live in cohabitation, just like this one with Sasuke. Truly, Kakashi was gifted from above with this ultimate gift of agony, this pain and pull of his entire being to Sakura.

And that was just the problem: Kakashi knew love was not meant to be ignored, but he had no inkling if Sakura returned his feelings. It would unbearable if she did not feel the same, but decided to be with him out of pity for their short amount of time left.

No, it was better to remain silent and let her find peace with Sasuke since he would be able to actually stay with her. Kakashi was used to suffering, what was adding love? Now he fully understood how eager Obito was to leave this all behind.

"Congratulations," Kakashi said as he smiled at her beneath his mask. "I can see the sensuous art already."

They had always loved poking fun at the subject, and seeing her not even smile made Kakashi's smile wither into a frown. She just stared blankly at him before turning away. Kakashi never thought he'd see defeat on the goddess of victory.

"You'll get used to it. Anko and I never cohabitated, but you and Sasuke I believe can be at least content.

"You know best, Kakashi-sensei," she answered morosely.

"You should stop calling me that. You are now my equal in strength and ability. At the coronation you will finally be able to put this old dog out of his misery and rise above."

Sakura gazed emptily at him and gave another sad smile that had Kakashi worrying. He lifted a hand, intent on ruffling her hair playfully, before it fell back down in to his lap uselessly.

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Kakashi stood with the other gods patiently, the gift he would give Sakura held tightly between his hands.

It was his scarf, which had been his father's. It had protected both of them against injury from lesser gods and creatures too many times to count. It would serve her well, and would perfectly match with her already red-accented armor. Kakashi wanted it to keep her safe since he himself could not anymore. To know that at least a part of Kakashi, no matter how small, continued on with her was a great comfort.

Naruto was the only one who would not join the customary celebration, as he had already succeeded Obito in necessity after his passing. The blond had solemnly accepted the man's sorrow as reason enough and deemed it ungodly for anyone to speak ill of him. Not that anyone would: everyone had loved the dark-haired Hokage's antics.

"Have you heard from Sakura about our newer-selves' union?" Anko asked, bringing Kakashi back to the present. "It's a shame we never were together. But I think this generation will do us good. Those mortals do so love it when we predictably pair up."

Kakashi rested the urge to tear her head off with his bare hands; it would only do to make Anko spring two more.

Thankfully the new gods and goddesses started entering before Anko could bother Kakashi further. Their heads and youthful faces were held up high, ready to finally take their rightful places they had been promised. Kakashi lazily watched everyone, and then noticed with a jolt that Sakura had not entered with them.

Immediately fearing the worst, Kakashi remembered back to when she'd been captured and almost involuntarily burst into his true form. Kakashi had to find her, he just had to.

Then she entered, but not in the ceremonial garb made of pure, white energy. Instead, she was wearing her armor and her entire front was coated in blood.

Guy dropped his wrist cuffs he would give to Lee with a clatter. Everyone else stared in equal parts shock and disbelief. Because behind Sakura's blood-soaked figure were the past five supreme rulers. Tsunade had a wide grin on her face and was the only one seemingly uninjured.

"I demand to be heard," Sakura said, the Hokages' blood still dripping from her armor and creating lesser sprits that drifted down to the material world.

She stared down everyone before focusing her eyes directly on Kakashi. He blinked, not knowing what to do or how to react.

"I love Kakashi. I demand that he remain here with me to rule together."

Everyone's eyes moved in near synchronization to stare at Kakashi. His fingers gripped the scarf in his hands tightly, feeling his chest expand in something entirely foreign.

"Kakashi?" the first and ultimate creator (who looked like an eye punched in) asked with a wide smile. "How do you respond?"

"I already do, and would continue to, adore you with every part of my being," Kakashi answered truthfully.

Kakashi had not wanted to get in the way of her union with Sasuke like he had gotten in the way of her taking his place. Kakashi had worried he would cause her more grief and pain, but now he understood that it was just the opposite. Unlike him, Sakura had been brave enough in her resolve to demand what she desired.

"So it is decreed," Tsunade said as the other Hokages gave their muttering affirmations. Four turned to return to their world (Tsunade flashing a thumbs-up to Kakashi), but Minato stayed and went to Naruto, where they laughed about his beat-up persona before hugging.

Kakashi felt himself move closer to the one who had defied everything and everyone, including Kakashi himself. Sakura attacked the doubts of her feelings and past Hokages and had come out not only alive, but the victor. Kakashi did not believe it possible, but maybe her love for him was bigger than his for her. Kakashi would try everything to remedy that.

The king of war and wisdom stopped before his queen and silently wrapped the scarf around her neck.

"So I might have done something a little crazy. Like sneak-attack the Hokages," Sakura said as she reached up and placed a hand on his cheek. "But all I knew was even though you always refused to show me your face, I couldn't imagine even a mortal day without seeing you."

"Even with my eyes, I have been blind," Kakashi said as he leaned eagerly into her hand. She could smite him where he stood if she wanted, but instead she just brushed her thumb back and forth comfortingly.

"Always the dramatic one," Sakura said with a laugh.

"Said the romantic who wants to reign with me," Kakashi coupled.

And as he stood there, basking in Sakura's affections, Kakashi finally understood why there were so many wars waged over love.

Some clarification: Other than Kakashi/Sakura as Minerva/Athena, the others were not very accurate but in my mind were: Obito/Naruto = Jupiter/Zeus; Anko/Sasuke = Venus/Aphrodite; Guy/Lee = Hermes/Mercury; Asuma/Shikamaru = Apollo; Hana/Kiba = Artemis/Diana; Tenten = Vulcan/Hephaestus.

Posted: 9.26.2014 (Edited 9.30.2014)