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[It is early in the evening when he finally begins to stir. A hand slowly reaches up to rub at tired eyes as they blink into focus, Naruto staring up at the ceiling above him. Immediately he frowns as memories of new and old jumble together. It had felt like a dream, though it couldn't have been. Why didn't he have chakra? Oh yeah- Johto.

Feeling the presence of someone else in the room distracts him as he turns his head to the side, immediately greeted with the sight of long, flowing red hair.]

....So when are we going to Violet? [You hit hard enough to knock him out Mom, he'll concede this time.]

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[A little time later the Pokegear shows Naruto sat on a bed as an excitable Carnivine is wrapped around his shoulders, happily chewing on his head once again. Some things never change!]

So--yeah. I guess that thing happened to me, y'know, when people fall asleep and have the dreams? But they're not real dreams? [Descriptive as always. On that subject though, there are some people he wants to talk to. He should probably send them some private messages.]

Oi Neji. Sasuke. I wanna talk to you guys.

[...Or just do it that way instead. He has a pretty serious look about him for once, so they should probably get in contact with him.]

[With a huff he moves around and attempts to unwrap the Carnivine from around him. Since he has it on, he may as well ask that question he had before the coma stuff happened.]

I'm still gonna go check out that dragon place up here, the one Tenten told me about. What's the best dragon type out there? I have Ryūka-chan already, she's a Charizard now and she's grown really strong.

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[Naruto is silent.

Dead silent.

He is obviously putting a lot of thought into this.

Finally.]

Kakashi-sensei having a wife?

[....Really, Naruto?

You really got hung up on that, and not the moral quandary he threw at you?

He stares at Naruto with an expression caught somewhere between bewilderment and disgust.]

...Kakashi is a powerful jonin. After the war, political marriages will likely be the norm at least for awhile. With Kakashi's position, skill and age, it's likely he will find himself a wife early on.

[Yes he did, it's so weird!]

Yeah but it's Kakashi-sensei. He's weird-- and always reading porn, can you picture him having a wife?

[It's progress and life, Naruto.

But fine, if you need to wrap your head around this to get to the important question, he'll try to help.]

As I said, he has great skill and a heritage to pass on with a new generation should he have children. As...eccentric as he may be, there are a great number of kunoichi who would be interested in becoming his wife should he become available.

Argh! I don't wanna know about him getting married and having children!

[CAN THEY STOP THIS CONVERSATION NOW?]

[THERE WAS A PURPOSE TO THIS CONVERSATION UNTIL YOU DERAILED IT NARUTO.

...He sighs.]

Even so. Hypotheticals aside, how would you react to a stranger telling you that you murdered Kakashi in the future? Would you want him to be the one to tell your teacher that, whether or not he might also be his child?

....I would never kill Kakashi.

[This doesn't even need to BE a hypothetical, he simply would not do it.]

Fitting. That's exactly what Obito said of his sensei.

Well, there's a difference. I wouldn't. Ever.

[Are you comparing him to Obito? That Obito, the one they were fighting? He's irritated at the implication.]

Exactly. The same. Words.

[He's comparing Naruto to the Obito that exists now.]

Stop it.

[Stop comparing them.]

You have gotten as far as you have through your empathy for others. Don't discard it now that you've reached your goal, Naruto. [Glare all you want, he's never been frightened of you, Naruto.]

It's not the same as others. He's didn't just leave like Sasuke, he's not like Nagato or any of the others I've fought with and forgiven. There's nothing good about that guy we're fighting, so quit saying I'm like him.

I can't forgive him, just like that. [Not yet.]

If you think that I have forgiven him or expect you to do the same, you're wrong. [Also you apparently haven't been listening and are annoying him now.] What I expect you to do is consider that the one living here is not the one living there. Consider how he must feel with the news of things he's yet to do that are beyond his comprehension as he is now, much as it would be if it were you, and then consider how to best treat him as he exists in this place, rather than what you would do to him as he exists there.

I know that, but it's not that simple alright!

....I gotta go think about this. [And talk to his Dad.]

[He gestures in a vaguely dismissive way. You're the one who contacted him, he just happens to be...opinionated. About certain things.]

Do as you must.

Yeah. Later, Neji.

Hm. [That's basically all the 'see you' you're getting out of him, he needs a drink. Of water, because he's been talking too much and you interrupted training.]

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