AN-Chapter 2! In this story, Kakashi does not have a sharingan eye. There is no need for it because he isn't a ninja, so I kept it out of the story. With that said, let's get on with the story!

Legend:

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Chapter 2

*Naru's POV*

On Friday morning, Naru was in her apartment getting ready to go to the University of Konoha for her classes. She put on a long-sleeved black shirt, a baggy black hoodie, a baggy black pair of sweatpants, and a pair of black sneakers. After looking in the mirror to make sure her appearance was completely hidden, she left her apartment and went to a small coffee shop she loved. She bought a small cup of coffee and a blueberry muffin. She put a little sugar and some coffee creamer in her coffee and left. She ate her blueberry muffin and drank her coffee on the way to the University of Konoha.

When she arrived, she quickly made her way to her first class. She didn't really like the course material in this class, but this class was the only class she had without the three people that insulted her, so she always enjoyed it. Her professor was also nice. The kind older woman seemed to love teaching people the basics of running a business. Naru was taking the course to learn more about how the bar was run. Jiraiya already told Naru that he wanted her to take over if he ever decided to retire.

Naru's first class always seemed to end too quickly for her liking. Naru got up and left the classroom. Naru's second class also focused on business. It taught her the basics of business law. Her professor for this class was a balding man who seemed to want nothing to do with his students. Despite this fact, he still managed to be an okay professor. After what seemed like ages of listening to boring facts about business law, class was finally over. Luckily for Naru, she had somehow managed to avoid being insulted by the three people that loved to torment her.

As Naru made her way to her third and last class, she knew that she wouldn't be able to avoid them in this class. Naru loved and hated this class at the same time. She hated this class because the teacher was always at least twenty minutes late. This gave Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and Ino Yamanaka plenty of time to insult her until they were satisfied. She loved the class because it was on human behavior. She loved learning why people acted the way they did. She was also fascinated by how the human brain works. That isn't the only reason she loved the class though. She also loved the class because the man she was in love with was always there.

She had first met him eight months ago. She was instantly attracted to him. At first, Naru just blew it off as a crush that she would get over in a couple months. When the two month mark came and went, Naru accepted that it wasn't just a crush, that she actually liked the guy. Three more months passed and Naru realized that her feelings for him were a lot stronger than she had originally thought. Her feelings were only confirmed when she started taking this human behavior course. The man she had feeling for was there everyday and despite the fact that he was far from perfect, she still cared deeply for him. It only took about a month for Naru to realize that she loved the man. So, for the past two months, she enjoyed coming to her human behavior class because she got to see the man she loved. Now, here she was, eight months later and she was head over heels in love with a guy that didn't even care about her as a friend. Life had always been cruel to her that way.

Naru had reached her classroom and found a seat in the second row. As luck would have it, the three people that loved to torment her sat down right behind her. They began hurling insult after insult at her. Naru decided to tune them out and think more about the man she loved and how life loved to screw around with her.

The man she loved was far from the guy that people who knew her would picture her with. He was twenty-nine years old. He was ten years old than her and she couldn't care less about it. She knew that if she told her best friend, Ayame Ichiraku, she would look at her like she must have lost her mind. Ayame knew that she loved someone, but she had no idea who. Ayame was a waitress with Naru at The Sanctuary and would always bug her about who the person she loved was. Needless to say, Naru has yet to crack under Ayame's constant pestering.

In Naru's opinion, love came in all types. Her type of love happened to involve the person she loved being ten years older. That wasn't the only thing that was odd about the person she loved. He was a pervert. Now, he wasn't a super pervert like her godfather, Jiraiya, was, but he read the books her godfather wrote openly and with no sign of being embarrassed or ashamed. This had actually caused Naru to wonder what was so great about her godfather's books that the man she loved read them every time she saw him in class. Naru decided to ask her godfather to borrow a copy of the first book in the series to read to see what was so great. Her godfather went nuts when she expressed an interest in his books. Instead of just borrowing the first book, she got a specially made set of Icha Icha Paradise books. Jiraiya told her they were very valuable because they were the only set of their kind that he had made. He made them for when she finally expressed an interest in his work. Jiraiya had also personally autographed each book in Naru's set. Naru read the books and found that she actually enjoyed them. At times, they were a little smutty for her taste, but the plot of the stories were actually quite good. Therefore, Naru joined her godfather's perverted collection of fans. She wasn't about to carry them around with her everywhere, but she would read the books every once and a while. Once Jiraiya found out Naru liked his books enough not to destroy them like other women did, he started asking her to look at his drafts and sketches for his upcoming books to get a woman's opinion. She has been giving her godfather her opinion on his upcoming books ever since.

This didn't mean that Naru stopped yelling at her godfather for being perverted though. She has become a little more accepting of perverts, but she still had limits. That wasn't it though. The man she loved also wore a black fabric mask covering the bottom half of his face at all times. Naru was in love with the guy and she didn't even know what his face really looked like. She had an idea of what it looked like because you could see the shape of his face, but it still wasn't the same as actually seeing his face. So, Naru was in love with a man ten years older than her and he was a pervert that always wore a mask to cover the lower half of his face. Naru was pretty sure no one would have ever pictured the man she loved as someone she would fall in love with. That is why Naru thought that life just enjoyed messing with her head.

Naru left her thoughts and was bombarded with insults again. Naru began thinking that she should have just kept thinking about how weird her life really was and how odd her choice in men would seem to other people. It was then that the object of her affection walked into the room. He was holding an orange Icha Icha Paradise book. Book number three if Naru remembered correctly. He was 5'10" tall. He was wearing a black dress shirt that showed that he was in good shape without being too tight, a pair of black pants that seemed to fit him perfectly, and a pair of black dress shoes. He was also wearing his ever present black fabric mask.

The man's dark blue-gray eyes looked at everyone that was in the room and his gravity-defying silver-gray hair seemed to shine in the dim classroom lights. "Sorry I'm late. I had to help a few old ladies cross the street and I didn't want to rush them." the man said before doing the eye smile he was known for. There was even a rumor going around the university that he had his eye smile patented.

There were a few other things Naru forgot to mention about the man she loved. He was always late and when he finally did arrive, he would make up stupid excuses that no one would ever believe. There was also one more important fact about him. The man Naru loved was her professor, Kakashi Hatake. That is why she thought some force was trying to make her life miserable. A professor and a student weren't supposed to date. Sure, there was no rule about it, but it was rare that professors ever dated students, simple as that. There was also the fact that the only time he ever talked to her was when necessary for the class. Yep, Naru pretty much wanted to kill cupid for making her fall in love with Kakashi Hatake. At the same time though, Naru wanted to hug cupid and tell him how thankful she was.

Naru may always think about all the reasons people would think that Kakashi was far from a perfect match for her, but she was happy that she loved him. This was the first time Naru had ever fallen in love. Sure, she had crushes and she had liked a few guys, but she had never had feelings as strong as the ones she had for Kakashi. So that is why Naru was happy that she was in love, but unhappy at the same time. If she thought she had a chance with Kakashi, she wouldn't be unhappy, but she knew how unlikely it was that Kakashi would ever want to date her.

Today, Kakashi talked to them about the behaviors of drug addicts and how the drugs affected their thought process. Naru found the topic very interesting and took thorough notes. Unlike other people who fell in love with their professors and ended up failing the class because of it, Naru never had that problem. In fact, she paid more attention to what was being taught because the man she loved was saying it. This caused her to get the best grades in the whole class. Being in love with a professor had some perks in Naru's unique case.

Towards the end of class, Kakashi told the students that they were having a class get together tomorrow night. It may seem sudden, but it is Kakashi we are talking about. Along with being late, he gave you very little warning about when tests and other things were going to be. Unfortunately, Naru had to work and she wouldn't be able to make it. Kakashi then said that they would be going to a bar called The Sanctuary to observe the behavior of the people in the bar. When Naru heard this, her first thought was 'Shit'. Kakashi then told everyone that was going to be there to write their name on the sign up sheet before they left class. As everyone grabbed their stuff and wrote their name on the sheet before leaving, Naru sat in her seat, waiting until everyone was gone. She then grabbed her stuff and began to walk out the door before she was stopped by the object of her affection.

"Where are you going, Naru? You didn't write your name down yet." Kakashi said as he gestured to the sign up sheet. "I know Kakashi-sensei. I do not plan on writing my name on the sheet or going to the bar with the class." Naru said. "Why? I hope it isn't because you don't enjoy our company. I am sure that would upset us all if we found out you thought like that." Kakashi said jokingly. "No, it isn't that I don't enjoy your company. I have to work and I won't be able to get out of it even if I tried." Naru said. 'Not that I would want to get out of it…' Naru thought to herself.

"Fine, you and I will just have to get together another time. The head of this university wanted all professors to take their best class out and to spend some quality time with their students. You guys are my best class. I will spend time with everyone else tomorrow night and I will just have to get together with you another time. After all, you are a part of this class. I can't leave you out, or the head of the university might get angry with me." Kakashi said. "You want to get together with me another time? It isn't really necessary. I won't force you. You can just tell the head of the university that I was there with you guys." Naru said. Kakashi thought it over for a second before saying "Nope. That isn't a good idea. I have a feeling the head of the university would find out somehow. I swear that he has eyes and ears everywhere. So, what are you doing Sunday?" Kakashi asked.

Part of Naru was happy that she would be spending time alone with Kakashi. Another part was unhappy because he was only doing it because he had to. "I have work at night, but I have nothing in the morning." Naru said. "Good. We will have coffee then. Do you know the little coffee shop with the light blue awning that is a few blocks away from here?" Kakashi asked. "Yeah, I got my breakfast there on the way here this morning." Naru said. "Okay. Meet me there at nine a.m. on Sunday." Kakashi said. "Okay. See you then." Naru said as she left the classroom. She could feel Kakashi watching her leave. She was wondering what was going through that man's head.

*Kakashi's POV*

Kakashi watched as his best student left the room. He didn't know why he decided not to pretend that Naru was there tomorrow night. He knew that he could probably get away with it, but something told him that he should set up a time to get together with her. He rarely got gut feelings, but when he did, he tended to listen to them. He had a gut feeling that it was important for him to spend time with the enigma that is Naru Uzumaki. The first day he walked into his classroom and saw her, he immediately sensed something was different about her. She hid in all of that dark baggy clothing even though it only got her picked on by the other students in his class.

At first he put it out of his mind, saying that maybe she was hiding the fact that she was fat and ugly like his other students accused her of. After a while though, he realized that she wasn't fat by the way the girl's clothes hung off of her. He couldn't say that she wasn't ugly for sure, but he had a feeling she wasn't. Then, Kakashi figured she was just an emo kid, and put Naru Uzumaki out of his mind once again. That theory didn't last long. A couple days after he came up with that idea, he heard one of his fellow professors saying that Naru was one of the nicest people he had ever met. He also heard the professor say that despite the way she dressed, she wasn't a sad or depressed person. So, there went his emo theory.

Kakashi couldn't help, but wonder why his best student hid the way she looked. Sure, he hid his face, but Naru took it a step further. She hid her whole entire body. Kakashi rarely thought about anything this much, yet he couldn't seem to stop thinking about what the girl was hiding. He finally understood why people always wanted to see under his mask. The curiosity was killing him. Not that anyone could tell. He had always been good at hiding his feelings. Kakashi eventually decided there was no use thinking about it now. He would spend Saturday night with most of his students and Sunday morning with Naru. Maybe he would learn something that would unravel the puzzle that is Naru Uzumaki.