When Kakashi first woke up, he thought he was caught in some weird Genjutsu. Sadly, that was immediately disproven when he dispersed his chakra multiple times, and nothing happened.
He even tried to bite his lip to draw blood, hoping the pain would wake him from this odd dream, but nothing happened.
It was really just his fuck-ass luck that Kakashi would be the one caught in a seal like that. And now he woke up in a body that wasn't his, in God knows what universe he'd been dumped into.
How does he know he's in the wrong body?
Well, unless Kakashi's memory was failing him, he was pretty sure he hadn't had boobs the last time he checked.
He was losing his mind!
According to what he read on the seal and what Naruto was implying, the bloody statue might have the power to jump through time and space.
Only as he tried to sit up on the thin, cheap futon he'd been lying on did something finally happen.
Jumbled memories started to flood his mind. They weren't his, but belonged to the body he was currently occupying.
The woman this body used to belong to was called Hatake Sana.
Wait-
Hatake?
Kakashi clutched his head and desperately tried to make sense of the images flooding in.
But there was no mistaking it. This body he was possessing used to belong to another Hatake.
A young woman who had just become a widow. She couldn't handle the grief of losing her husband and decided to reunite with him by eating the leaves of a poisonous flower.
It seemed she had long since departed this world by the time Kakashi took over.
Kakashi rubbed at his, er, her face?
God, this is so confusing.
Is this his life now? Is he going to be a she?
No, the existential crisis could wait until he figured out exactly where he was. According to the memories he was receiving, he was no longer the last of the Hatake clan line.
If he was understanding the chaotic mess that was Sana-san's memories correctly, there should be an entire clan outside this shack's door, alive and going about their day.
Could the seal have sent Kakashi's soul back in time and made him possess one of his predecessors?
Kakashi looked down at his lap in contemplation, then immediately looked back up when he caught sight of the extra flesh now attached to his body.
Kakashi couldn't think of any way to fix the predicament he found himself in.
The only option was to…
Accept it.
Well, thinking about it, this could be much worse. He could have possessed the body of an animal, or an inanimate object, unable to speak and with no opposable thumbs.
Even worse, he could have possessed the body of a child, or even a fetus. Imagine being born again, but this time fully aware of what is happening around you.
Ugh.
Just thinking about it made Kakashi shiver.
Yeah, being stuck as a young woman isn't that bad. It wasn't like Kakashi hadn't disguised himself as a woman before for a mission. This was just like that, but with extra bits and no way to undo the disguise after the mission.
Kakashi bravely placed both of his trembling hands on his chest, his face twisting in discomfort.
Why did they have to feel nice to hold?!
Kakashi wiped a tear in mourning for his absent dick. You would definitely be missed, little buddy. We had such a good time together.
Kakashi hopes that Naruto, wherever he is, is going through the same suffering.
Awkwardly, Kakashi pushed off the covers and stood up. He almost fell back down as he realized his center of gravity had shifted, which he really should have expected, given that his body mass distribution had changed.
He shuffled to a wooden water basin on a low table. His eyebrows shot up in surprise as he caught his reflection in the water.
His face… it didn't look all that different. Actually… it looked more like him than like Sana. Hatake Sana never had a beauty mark next to her mouth, and she certainly never had a scar carved vertically through her left eye.
No, in her memories, Sana's face was always smooth and unblemished. These were Kakashi's.
Now that he thought about it, he seemed to have kept his own height, and he felt sturdier than her memories had told him she would be.
Kakashi pulled up the sleeve of the yukata and twisted his right arm around, and there, where he remembered it, was a scar he had gotten while he was still a chunin.
Did Kakashi fuse with Sana-san's body rather than simply possess it?
What even was the purpose of that seal? What even was the purpose of it?
However it worked, seeing his own face looking back at him soothed his heart in ways he couldn't even begin to explain.
It was just as if he were using a normal transformation technique, a mere Henge that he now had on all the time.
Kakashi can totally rock being a woman. It was just like playing a role. There was no need to freak out. Kakashi can just pretend.
He looked up at the wooden ceiling of the little shack and sent a prayer to Sana-san and her husband. Kakashi hoped that the two of them were having fun together.
He also hoped that his, probably, ancestor would give him her blessing.
Just as Kakashi finished the prayer, he heard a loud commotion coming from outside.
Furrowing his, er, her brows, Kakashi looked around for a second before she found a piece of cloth to cover her mouth and nose. It was normally used to cover the mouth while cleaning, but it would do the job for now until Kakashi found a proper mask.
She quickly smoothed out the yukata she was wearing, fixed the neckline, and pushed the door open.
Immediately, Kakashi was faced with a crowd of light-haired people.
A herd of them. All of them were Hatake.
There were so many that Kakashi felt disoriented. Going from being the only Hatake left to seeing so many huddled together was quite an experience.
Kakashi slowly walked forward to see what all the excitement was about. They seemed to be gathered around some guy.
Kakashi leaned down to talk to one of the bystanders. "Excuse me, what's this gathering about?"
The young man answered carelessly, not looking at who he was talking to. "It's Minoru-sama! He is finally going to drag Sana, the widow, out of her house and make her marry him."
"Oh?"
At the cold, detached sound, he finally turned away from the gathering to stare up at Kakashi. His face paled immediately.
"Sana?!"