AN (Edit 9/1/2018)- I am so so sorry everyone I know I promised to begin revising this and I truly meant to but I went on vacation with my mother then my father took me on a vacation last minute that he had uninvited me from then changed his min and we only got back two days before my mom was moving into a new house. And now I've got a senior year of high school to worry about and looking for a college. I'll update when I can but I do not know how often that will be. I ask for your forgiveness and understanding I know how it feels to have an author not update even after the promise to.

Again I'm really sorry

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

"Naruko come on out I only dropped a plate." Kakashi tried to coax the frightened girl out. He let out a sigh as he lifted up the tablecloth to see of the girl was hiding there, she was not. It had been only a few hours since the little jinchuriki had been released from the hospital, and the abuse she had suffered over the years had shown light neon lights on a pitch-black canvas.

The silver haired 19-year-old had been drying dishes while Naruko had been sitting at the table just staring at the wall when a plate slipped out of his hands and shattered on the floor, the loud sound had scared the six-year-old. Kakashi had immediately gone to console the child after hearing her yelp of fear but when he turned around she was gone. He had been looking for her for nearly four hours now, to no avail.

He stopped to think of all the places a six-year-old could hide that he may not have looked yet but nothing came to mind. In an attempt to return to the mind of a six year old he looked to the sky for inspiration. His eyes widened. His house had not been finished completely when he bought it and he had not ever really done anything beyond that so there were exposed beams, and on one of these said beam sat Naruko. Her shocking blue eyes were wide open and staring at him. A wave of relief flooded his system.

"Hurt e?" (Hurt me?) she questioned him.

"What?" It quickly sunk in that in the troubled girls mind, she probably thought he meant to drop the plate to scare her or something crueler. "NO!" He cried out shaking his hands " The plate was an accident I wasn't trying to do you any harm."

"Tru?" (Truth)

"Truth." Kakashi affirmed.

-A Few Days Later-

After seeing the girls reaction to a plate falling Kakashi had taken the girl to a healer. Of course the healer was one outside of the village to avoid the prejudice toward the child. The healer had explained that the physical could be easily healed but she was not a mind healer and therefore could not truly help Naruko. The woman was kind enough to point them in the direction of an old man who explained that Kakashi needed to work with Naruko every day on pronunciation to heal the speech impediment and gave the silver haired ninja a bag of candies that were filled with a fruity jelly on the inside.

"Repeat after me Naru-chan; A crocodile swims in the water."

"Ah croc dily sims in the ater" ( a crocodile swims in the water.)

"No repeat slowly after me, A"

"A"

"croc" the silver haired jonin says paintianly sounding the word out.

"croc" Naruko repeats

"i" Kakashi continues

"i"

"dile"

"dile" Kakashi pauses "now repeat those parts we just talked about."

"ah, ae, a cro, croc, crociidile." The small girl struggles but the important part was she got most of it. Kakashi gave a smile under his mask.

"Well done Naru-chan that was great!" He ruffles her hair and pulls out one of the fruity candies. The small girl gives a bright smile and snatches up the candy. It did not take Kakashi long to realize Naruko knew what words meant and what words belonged to what but her problem lied in pronunciation. She couldn't form the proper sounds so her speech was more babble then actual words. But for now she was doing great. He watched as she bit into the candy causing the jelly to spill out. He chuckled when she spat out the chunk she had just bitten and sucked out the jelly. She only ever ate the jelly it was strange he laughed to himself.

-Two Weeks Later-

"Kaka what dat?" The small blonde asked as they walked thru the merchant district. The girl was pointing to a small box of crayons. Kakashi couldn't believe his ears. The child had never seen crayons before such and injustice he thought!

"Those are called crayons Naru-chan. Do you want some?"

"What dey do?"

"They make pretty colors on paper." He answered, and a few minutes later a happy six-year-old with crayons was trotting down the street while the 19-year-old Kakashi trailed behind with a smile under his mask. Kakashi didn't realize what he just unleashed by buying the little girl the crayons. "Kaka-sama when start academy?" She questioned in her odd way. The small girl was a quick learner and in the past two weeks her pronunciation had improved greatly. All that was left to work on was complete sentences.

"In about a year or two depending on multiple things Naru-chan."

"Kay."

-Later That Day-

Kakashi was around his house cleaning and organizing things while Naruko sat in the living room drawing with her new crayons. He had left her alone for about an hour now and decided to go check on the young jinchuuriki. What he saw he could not have possibly expected. The girl had a large paper in front of her and on it was a almost perfect drawing of him and her playing on the playground.

"That's amazing Naruko." He managed to gasp out. The small girl was better then some of the proffesional artist with good paints and materials that he's seen. The small girl gasped.

"Not ready go away!" She yelped. Kakashi was a bit hurt but nonetheless there was cleaning to do and organizing to be done. So with that he left the girl alone.

"Happy Birthday Kaka-sama!" The small girl cheered as she handed him the picture. Kakashi was confused his birthday was not till next week. Looking at her bright smile Kakashi's heart melted instantly and he didn't have the heart to tell her she was early by a week. So instead he took the drawing with a smile and said...

"Thank you Naru-chan this is great."

Sorry for the short chapter guys I hope this suffices for now. I'm gonna be honest I struggled thru this chapter and im not to proud of it so I hope I can make up for it next chapter. And also I'm gonna pair Kakashi/Iruka so if this isn't your cup a tea I'm sorry. The pairing isn't gonna be the main focus Naruko is. So yeah plz leave a comment on how I can Improve it is very much appreciated well

SOS out-