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It was a busy day at the Hatake Household. It has already been three months since Kakashi was born, and Sakumo hasn’t been able to babyproof his house. What he needed was a playpen, which was already solved. Since Kakashi already has a room for himself. But the thing is, it’s not safe enough once Kakashi starts to walk and be curious.
He already had a safety lock on the cabinets that are reachable by infants, who knows when will Kakashi start crawling around, and could open cabinets that are filled with pans, knives, or anything that can hurt his baby. He also made sure that any sharp objects around the house are covered and out of reach.
Sakumo might be a ninja, but his Kakashi is still a three-month-old baby that will need his protection. Others might call him an overprotective father, but Kakashi is his only living family.
Kakashi was left sleeping on his bed, on the floor of their living room. While his father covered any sharp edges that he found, made sure the cabinets with knives and pans had safe locking. His weapons are strictly in his room, and lightly tapped the Tatami mat and wooden floors with his hands, making sure that no tiny sharp objects are left forgotten.
“And what are you doing?” A white-haired man asked, dumbfounded, staring at his friend, crouching on all fours, while tapping the floor.
Sakumo didn’t even bother to look up and continued checking every nook and cranny of the floor. “Checking”
“And you’re checking for what?” Tsunade responded, walking towards the front lawn with her teammate by her side. Taking off her shoe and entered his house through the engawa, followed by Jiraiya.
The additional voice caught Sakumo’s attention, sitting up and facing the source of the voice, and saw his visitors. “Tsunade, you also came” He was surprised to see her in his house since he lives not so close to the main town.
“Why? Are you not happy?” she glared, looking around to see the sleeping baby on his tiny futon. A smile was instantly on her face, as she saw the tiny baby. “And look who we have here, a tiny-looking Sakumo sleeping” she giggled, approaching the baby and sitting beside him.
Jiraiya placed a plastic bag on the table, “Sakumo here are the things you asked for”.
Sakumo smiled and thanked the teen, standing up from the floor and checking the contents of the plastic bag.
“What’s that?” Tsunade asked curiously.
“Just some baby stuff he said he needs. A baby carrier, and some stuff he needed for-” Jiraiya squinted his eyes, trying to remember what the other one Sakumo asked for.
“Baby proofing,” Sakumo added, which earned a grin from Jiraiya.
“Yup, that”
“Why do you need that?” Tsunade asked curiously.
“For precaution, and also I can carry Kakashi around town with this” The older man grinned, showing the baby carrier to Tsunade.
It wasn’t long before Sakumo started installing a baby gate to put inside Kakashi’s room and to finish checking his house for any loose objects that could hurt his precious baby. Once he was done, he walked back to the living and saw Kakashi laying on his stomach, wiggling his arms and legs.
“Look at this baby, trying to crawl” Jiraiya chuckled, amused at Kakashi who would move his grabby hands around. Tsunade would chime in, cheering the baby to crawl on his own.
And as if Kakashi could sense him, the baby stopped his squirm, his face turned towards where he thought his father was. When his eyes saw him, he instantly giggled and went back to moving his legs and arms again, as if to show his father what he could do.
“This brat sure likes you a lot Sakumo, he didn’t even smile at us when he saw us. But then started giggling when he saw you”
“Well, of course, he is his father. '' Tsunade responded back.
Sakumo chuckled, sitting near his son, who was successful in making a turn and was now facing east from his first position, making his bed crumple from him moving around.
END