Okay all you loyal Naruto obsessed fanatics! (me included) Here is my newest story! I've been thinking about this scenario for a couple days and it's been driving me nuts! So I wrote down how I imagined it to go and dun, dun, dun DA! Viola! Read and Review people. If you don't review then don't bother reading please. Wait, I take that back. I want you to read, but please review if you do! If not I'll get severely depressed! I really need your-guises help to make this story great, and believe me, it's gonna be a hell of a great one! I love this storyline!
Oh, and when you think of Ayumi, think of what Clare from Claymore looked like when she was a human.
Anyway, I do not own Naruto, and if I did then kittens would rule the world.
Enjoy and REVIEW!
"This is insane, Principle Tsunade!" the teacher yelled as he slammed his fist on the principle's desk.
"Control yourself, Kakashi! The documentation is right here in the will. You are the legal guardian of the kid. Whether you like it or not, you're going to have to be like a father to the girl." Tsunade yelled back, a little calmer than the man in front of her.
"I don't know how to take care of a kid, much less be like a father to one!" he protested.
"Then I suggest you learn! Besides, it's not like it's a little baby, it's just a thirteen year old teenager. How hard can it be?" she snapped back.
"Why don't they just send the kid off to an orphanage like any other person would?" Kakashi hissed.
Tsunade sighed.
"This is a special case, Kakashi. Most orphans don't see their whole family burn to death before their eyes. Such a case deserves special care. Not only were you a close enough friend to the kid's mother to be considered the best guardian if she should die, but you are one of the best teachers this school has ever known. Give me one good reason why you can't take care of the kid?" the principle said with a voice full of condolence.
"Is there something wrong with her?" the somewhat calmer teacher asked. He had now realized the girl's situation.
"Well, sort of…I guess you could call it emotional shock." she started, "She won't talk. Not even a little."
Kakashi sighed in defeat and pinched the bridge of his nose in concentration.
"There's no avoiding this is there?" he said quietly.
"I'm afraid not." came the reply he had hoped wasn't the answer.
"Where is she?"
"Right now she's in Kurenai's office. She's waiting with her there until this is sorted out."
"I see. I suppose I should go see her now."
"That would be the best."
With that Tsunade stood up and walked with Kakashi out the door toward the counseling office.
Knock.Knock.Knock.
"Come in." said the angelic voice of Kurenai.
Tsunade opened the door and walked in with Kakashi right behind her.
Kakashi looked around the small room.
Kurenai was sitting on the couch with her arms around the shoulders of a girl in a comforting manner.
He looked closer at the unfamiliar person.
She had long copper hair held in a low pony-tale, hanging in front of her shoulder, all the way down to her waist. She was staring intently down at her folded hands resting on her lap.
Kurenai looked up at Kakashi, then back down at the girl.
"Ayumi, there's someone here to see you. Would you like to say hello?" she said smoothly.
The girl looked up to the two intruders.
Kakashi held in a gasp.
The girl had bright beautiful auburn eyes, the most stunning he had ever seen, but they just stared blankly, no life what-so-ever.
After their temporary eye meet, the girl let her eyes wander to Tsunade.
"Ayumi, this is Kakashi. He's a teacher at this school and is your new guardian, so you'll be staying with him from now on. He was a close friend of your mother's." Tsunade explained in a soothing voice.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Ayumi." Kakashi said trying to break the ice.
She just stared.
"Ayumi, he's going to be taking care of you now, do you understand?" Kurenai asked.
Aymi nodded her head once.
"It's settled then." Tsunade announced. "Kakashi, why don't you take her home with you now? It'll be easier for her to get settle in over the weekend. School will start Monday for her. Here's her things." She finished, grabbing a duffel bag off of the floor by the wall.
Kakashi nodded as he grabbed the bag from her, before walked forward and holding out his hand to the girl.
"Well then, Ayumi, shall we get going?" he said with a smile hidden behind his mask, but visible in his voice.
She nodded her head emotionlessly before standing up and taking his hand in her own.
"Kakashi, I know taking care of a kid is new for you and all, but I expect you to meet with me tomorrow morning, and this time try not to be late." Tsuande announced in Principle mode.
Kakashi nodded weakly before walking out the door with Ayumi.
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"Do you think it's safe for her to be moving so soon?" the principle asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, Tsunade, in all of my years of studying the human mind, I believe that in this case, the best thing to help her move forward from her shock is to have her life begin to move forward as well." the counselor stated.
"Well, if you're so sure, but do you think Kakashi is the best thing for her?"
Kurenai took a moment to think, then she looked up with a hint of determination in her eyes.
"I believe that Kakashi will help Ayumi, but I also believe that Ayumi, in turn, will help Kakashi in ways he believes he doesn't need to be helped. By having the two together, I believe a strong family bond will form before they even notice what's happening. And right now, both of them are in need of that."
"I see."
"I don't live too far away, but there's enough space to do things without worrying about backyard neighbors." Kakashi started, breaking the silence of the drive to his house. He stole a quick glance at the girl looking out the passenger window, before directing his gaze back to the road.
He sighed and clutched the steering wheel tighter.
The silence returned, and stayed, for the rest of the five minutes of the drive.
Once the driveway was in view, Kakashi tuned slowly and made his way up the ramp, leading to the place he called home. Once he pulled up as close to the house as he wanted, he parked the car, got out, and walked to the other side to open the door for Ayumi.
"It's needs a little work, but its home." he pointed out as she stepped out of the car, clutching her duffel bag to her chest.
The house was a two story white building. The shudders by the windows were somewhat falling off, and the whole building itself was in a dire need of a paint job. The garden was full of weeds, and the grass was browning. Any women that passed the house would know that it was a man living there, and apparently one without a woman in the house. Other than that is was actually quite stunning. It wasn't luxurious, but it wasn't cheap either. The whole top floor was filled with windows looking in different rooms…or maybe a few large rooms. It wasn't too shabby at all.
Kakashi looked over to his new family member and nearly gasped.
Ayumi's once dead eyes were now wide with fascination, a small hint of life once again sparking in the deep auburn orbs, but it was gone a little while later.
He smiled at her progress…and adorableness, but it suddenly dropped into a look of horror.
She noticed the change and stared at him.
"A-Ayumi, um…w-well…you see…I wasn't expecting any company…so…um, well…the house…it's…a b-bit…messy." he stuttered.
She looked at him funny, like he had lost his mind.
Completely ignoring the traumatized teacher, she started walking to the house, with him tailing her with the house-key in hand.
She waited patiently as he tuned the key in the lock and opened the door.
Both of them walked in.
Their jaws dropped.
The kitchen and living room, which were the only rooms visible from the doorway, were a complete mess. Trash bags laid everywhere, on the couch, on the floor, on top of other trash bags… Garbage not in the trash bags were strewn everywhere. In the kitchen, the sink was overflowing with dirty dishes, and the countertop was littered with pizza boxes and crumbs. Anyplace that was free from food, garbage, and dirty dishes, was covered with dirty clothes.
Kakashi gave an inhuman sound of horror as he rushed over to the lamp in front of them to grab and hide the pair of his boxers living on top of it.
"Hehe…I told you it was a bit messy…" he laughed awkwardly.
Ayumi gave him a 'look' which Kakashi, being the genius man he is, interpreted immediately as "A bit? You must be insane! This place is a goddamn pigsty!"
Ayumi changed her stare, this time it was a look of complete disbelief.
"What?" Kakashi asked. "Was that not what you were thinking?"
Yes, Kakashi had said aloud what he thought she was thinking.
Ayumi nodded vigorously and looked back at the dirty house.
She cringed.
Her teacher glanced at her in time to see her eye twitch furiously.
He gave out an amused laugh.
The girl casually walked over to the laughing man…and punched him on the shoulder.
He stopped laughing.
"Hey! That's not fair! Beating up an old man like me…jeez!" he said sarcastically as he rubbed his arm. It hurt.
Completely ignoring the outburst her immature guardian just gave, Ayumi untied her long copper hair from it's ponytail to readjust it in a tight bun at the top of her head. Then she grabbed the leather string that was tied around her wrist a few times, and used it to tie back her sleeves to her elbows.
"Don't tell me you're going to…!" Kakashi demanded fearfully.
The only reply to his comment was a cocky grin making its way up the girl's red lips.
"You know…you don't have to do this." Kakashi reminded the girl as she ran back and forth pushing a damp cloth (she miraculously was able to find a clean one) across the floorboards with her hands.
She's been at this for two hours now.
So far the dishes had all been washed and put away, the trash had been bagged and brought out to the sidewalk for pickup with the other bags (there was a huge pile, so big it took her about twenty-three runs to get them all outside) the fridge had been raided and cleaned (half the stuff in there was months past its due date, and the poor mold-buddies had been kicked out of their house and viciously killed with disinfectants) the dirty clothes had been picked up and thrown in the wash (all of which Kakashi had decided to do himself, being most of the stuff was boxers) and now Ayumi was vigorously scrubbing down everything in the house; the walls, the floors, the windows, desks, etc.
"Jeez, you go to a new home and you aren't even a little nervous, instead you ransack the place is a cleaning frenzy without the owner's permission." Kakashi said with sarcastic boredom as he closed his eyes to take a nap from his spot on the couch. It wasn't long before he was drifting off into sleep.
Meanwhile Ayumi finished putting the cleaning supplies away when she noticed a book by her duffel bag. Finding nothing else to do, she picked it up casually and opened the cover.
After what seemed like a very short amount of time for Kakashi himself, he had awakened from his sleep to look around at the unfamiliar place around him.
He jumped up in surprise.
'This is not my house!' he thought nervously.
No, his house did not have a clean, unstained tan carpet (hell, he didn't even know he had a carpet, much less a tan one) His house did not have clean shining windows that allowed insane amounts of sunlight to shine through. His house was not this bright! His house was not this clean! This was not his house!
He looked around terrified, trying to find the nearest exit.
His sudden burst of hysterics was interrupted by the sound of a page flipping.
He looked over to the deep edged widow sill to see a copper haired girl sitting on the sill, reading.
Reality snapped back and bit him in the eye.
'That's right, Ayumi is living with me now' he remembered.
"Morning, Ayumi." He said with a yawn and stretch. He brought one hand up to one eye, and the other eye hidden by silver bangs, to wipe any form of sleep away.
Ayumi glared.
Kakashi cringed. 'S-Scary'
He lazily lay back down on the couch with his arms folded behind his head as a pillow before closing his eyes once again to get a little more much needed sleep. "Well sorry! Jeez, give a tired old guy a break, how was I supposed to know it wasn't morning yet!" he said with a voice filled once again with a mock sarcastic edge.
Ayumi sighed at his parenting tactics and went back to reading once again.
Kakashi lazily opened one eye and glanced over at her from her spot on the windowsill. What was she reading anyway?
It was a small book that much he knew. He squinted his eye to try and get a better look.
"Come……………Come……………Paradise." He made out slowly. "Come, Come PARADISE!" Kakashi instantly tried to spring off the couch to save the poor girl's virgin (he hoped) mind. Unfortunately he fell off the couch in the process. He tried to scramble as fast as he could toward the girl, but it was too late.
Her face instantly turned completely red in the deepest blush humanly possible.
'I'm too late!' his mind screamed. "You really shouldn't be reading a book like that at your age, would you mind giving that back to me? Now, come on, be a good girl and hand it over to me. Please?" he asked with insane calmness compared to the mental meltdown he was having inside.
Ayumi stared at him red faced, then at the book, then back at the man.
'Shit! I just told her the book was mine!' he mentally screamed as he ripped out his hair frantically from the inside of his head.
Slowly, Ayumi placed the book on the edge of the windowsill. Then she stood up even slower, trying to escape the wild animal in her view, and hesitantly walked backwards against the wall toward the staircase that led as far away from Kakashi as possible.
"Ayumi, this is not what it seems." He said calmly. 'Yes, just deal with her like a criminal. You are the negotiator. Just stay calm, and tell her that that this is all just a big misunderstanding. She'll understand. It'll all work out. Just tell her the truth. You are not a perverted lonely man…Oh my god! That's a lie! I'm screwed! Someone just shoot me now!'
With that happy train of thought, Ayumi had finished her delicate backward walk to the staircase, turned around, and bolted up to the second floor as fast as she could.
Kakashi chaced after her to the bottom of the staircase.
"I swear it's not like that! AYUMI!"
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I'll try to update my stories soon.
Bare with me peoples, I'm only one pathetically lazy person. I'm trying here!