Disclaimer: Unfortunately, neither me nor my friend own Naruto or any characters from the show. I, however, do own Karashii and my friend owns Kanna but has given me full permission to use Kanna in any of my new stories!

First Meeting

"Well I've never been to this part of Konohagakure before…." Kanna said walking around the ninja academy and chuunin quarters, trying to find a nice, cheap hotel or motel to rest in.

Karashii is running the opposite direction, and bumps into Kanna, knocking her over. "Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't see you!" Says Karashii.

Kanna sees the Konoha headband, and looks down. Shadows fall over her beat-up looking Iwagakure headband, but her blood red eyes stick out through the shadows. "Sorry, it was my fault, Chuunin-san…" Says Kanna.

Karashii looks up and smiles, but notices Kanna's eyes. She gets up and offers Kanna a hand, "It's quite alright… Do you need a place to stay? You look very tired!"

Kanna raises one hand to Karashii's and moves her other hand to cover the tattoo on her non-covered arm. "I don't want to be a bother," Kanna says as she yawns quietly. "I've had to travel very long to hide—I mean travel…"

Karashii hears exactly what she says, but ignores her "mistake" and says, "No, you'll be no bother! I actually have an extra room in my house!" Then holds a hand out to 'greet' her. "My name is Karashii, by the way!"

"I'm K-kanna," she says, hesitating then taking Karashii's hand to shake it. "Are all you Konoha-nin this nice?"

Karashii laughs at the question, but then tightens her grip and pulls Kanna toward the middle of town. "I have to introduce you to my, um… Father!" Karashii says.

"F-father? Is that one of those 'parents' people I used to see?" Kanna asks, but Karashii ignores the question, mostly because she doesn't understand it. They stop right outside a house. "Here we are!" Karashii announces. Then Karashii leads Kanna in, "Kakashi? I have to introduce you to someone!" Karashii yells.

Kanna's eyes widen and she says with panic in her voice. "Wait! As in THE Hatake Kakashi?" she then thinks 'Shit, if the rumors are true, and he doesn't like Iwa-nin… I'm done for!'
 Without looking Karashii laughs and says, "Well, duh! Wait, how do you know him?"

"Well not personally. He's just so… famous, everywhere." Says Kanna, then she thinks, 'SHIT! This is really bad!'

Then they hear, from behind them, "Yo! Oh, hey Karashii. Who's your friend?" Karashii recognizes the voice, and turns around and gives him a hug. "Sorry Kakashi, I'm kinda hyper today!" She says with a smile. "Oh, my friend! This is Kanna!"

Kanna bows deeply and says, "Konbonwa Hatake-sama." She stays lowered as to cover her headband in the shadows from her bangs.

"Konbonwa, huh? It's that late already? Wow, I must've lost track of time!" Says Kakashi, they could see a twinkle in his eye, meaning he was smiling. Karashii looks behind to Kanna, and sees she is getting uncomfortable. She runs over to Kanna and whispers, "You seem uncomfortable, you wanna go to my place, and call it a night?"

Kanna is trying not to stare at Kakashi, and whispers, "Y-yes, please?"

"Alright." Karashii says turning around to face Kakashi, "Kakashi-san, we are going to head over to my place, I'll get her something to eat... and I'll make sure to report back in the morning!" Karashii says with a smile, and starts to lead Kanna out the door. Then Kakashi calls to Karashii, "Karashii, come here for a sec."

Karashii tells Kanna to wait right outside the door for her, and goes over to Kakashi, "Yes?"

Kakashi gets a serious look in his eye and says, "Karashii... I don't know if you sense it, or not, but I want you two to watch out for each other. She's sorta in the same boat you're in. I heard that her home country, Iwagakure, was working on demon sealing. If you sense it or not, she has a demon within her; I'm not sure what exactly it is, but I can almost guarantee that at least a couple nin are gonna be after her, even the possibility of Orochimaru's nin. Just watch her back, m'kay? I trust ya to watch your back and hers; I don't know how strong she is though..." Karashii has a look of surprise on her face.

Then Kakashi's posture becomes more relaxed, and hands Karashii more than enough money for dinner, "But anyways, you have something good to eat. Enjoy yourselves, see ya tomorrow morning!" And once again, Karashii could tell he was smiling by the sparkle in his eye. She takes the money, gives Kakashi another quick hug and runs outside to where Kanna is. "Well, we have dinner tonight," Karashii says and shows Kanna the money, "You in?"

Kanna looks at the money, and then at Karashii's face in shock, she hadn't expected the legendary Hatake Kakashi to pay for her to have dinner! "Um… alright, you know your way around, so lead the way! Please?" Says Kanna, trying to not show how surprised she is.

A/N: So I tried to make the actual characters, ones my friend and I didn't make up, as in character as possible but they all seem to be getting really out of character too easily so I've basically given up... haha! I have officially revised this chapter, but more changes may happen, depending on my mood. Just stick with it, trust me, the ending gets better! Mostly cause Sasuke comes in... but... yeah!