Sitting up Kakashi looked around; he could have sworn he had fallen asleep sitting up, leaning on Shel. He yawned and noticed the blanket covering him; dark blue; had fallen half onto the floor as he sat up. He scrunched up his face in confusion as last night came back to him; he sighed and got up, folded the blanket, and headed into the kitchen. Shel was sitting at the table a cup in her hands, staring at the table a half smile on her face, it looked sad though.

Kakashi couldn't help himself; he knelt beside her and looked into her face, waiting for her to acknowledge him. She saw the movement out of the corner of her eye and slowly turned her head, slowly coming out of the place her mind was. He tilted his head as he watched the smile show on her face, it reached her eyes, but in the depths of them, the sad thoughts were still there.

"Shel… you ok?" He asked softly, trying not to fall over, he'd been kneeling there for a min, and his foot had started to fall asleep on him. Her eyes finished un-glazing and she fully looked at him, the question settling in her mind. She was a slow one to wake up, only having woken up a couple of minutes before him. Gai had gotten up first and staggered around the apartment until she woke up and made him go back to bed, almost forcing him. She then grabbed an extra blanket and put it over the tall white haired hot guy she'd slept on. She blinked a couple of times before the question finally registered that she needed to answer.

"Ya, I'm fine, why do you ask?" He squinted at her and shook his head.

"It's there in your eyes." She looked shocked and didn't know what to say so she just turned back to her cup and stared at it. "What're you drinking? I don't smell coffee." He looked around the small kitchen.

"Its milk… well chocolate milk, I made it myself… kinda just started drifting off to sleep sitting here." She stopped talking and sat there zoning out again.

"Your not a morning person are you?" He chuckled, his smile evident in his one showing eye.

"Nn…. No. Gai woke me up and I basically had to force him to go back to bed again, and then I thought about going for a walk, but this city isn't familiar to me… so I didn-"She stopped talking again. He laughed and stood up, nearly falling over, catching himself before he tumbled onto her.

He looked at the clock hanging on Gai's kitchen wall next to the refrigerator and nearly swore. Iruka should be moved out in about thirty minutes, he knew Iruka would try and skimp out on giving him the key, but he wanted that key back, that was the master key, and he needed to turn it into the locksmith so he could get his locks changed.

"Shel, I have to go back to my apartment. You want to go for that walk?" She looked groggily at him squinting her eyes; thinking it over in her slow moving brain.

"Sure, why not." She stood up and left the kitchen and disappeared down the small hallway to the room she was temporarily staying in. She reappeared a couple of minutes later changed into a black 

girls muscle shirt and a pair of shorts. Her black with blue highlighted hair up in a ponytail. He liked her hair, it was straight and looked soft, his fingers twitched, he wanted to run his hand through her hair.

Mentally slapping himself he opened the front door for her and she nodded, slipping her shoes on she stepped out into the midday sun. "That's really bright." She shaded her eyes and squinted looking around. He smiled, shutting the door he stepped behind her putting his bigger hand above hers to block out more sun. "AH! Thanks!" She said happily.

He leaned close and said, "Your welcome." and she blushed slightly. She turned partially to look at him but his eyes said that his thoughts were elsewhere. He blinked at her when she spoke again.

"Well are you going to tell me when we're going to start walking?" She raised an eyebrow at him until he smiled, but it didn't light up his eyes like it did last night.

"Ya, this way." He said, leading her in the right direction to his apartment. When they got in sight of the apartments he hesitated, he wasn't sure what was going to happen. He was glad she didn't see him hesitate; she was looking around at the Sakura trees. They were in full bloom since last week; he reached up and picked one of the flowers. Their eyes locked as he brought his hand back down; placing the flower in her hair, to the side, tucking it into her hair tie.

As his hand came down from placing the pink Sakura flower in her hair his hand brushed her arm, giving her goose bumps and a light shade of pink creep up her neck. He smiled at her and just motioned her to continue walking with him. Rounding the last corner to his apartment they saw a couple of Asuma's and Iruka's with a bunch of different objects. Three Asuma's were carrying Iruka's dresser. Kakashi smirked, remembering that to get that dresser inside the first time was a piece of cake for just him, no clones or anything.

As they made their way to the door all three Iruka clones turned to look at him, causing them to run into the real Asuma who was supervising the moving. Kakashi and Shel got to the door and walked in, immediately running into Iruka himself. He looked between the two and narrowed his eyes them.

"Kakashi you're late." He said curtly, putting down the box he was carrying.

"Iruka." Kakashi said in return, his voice emotionless. He turned to Shel and motioned to the couch. "You can sit I'll only be a minute." She nodded and went to take a seat. Kakashi made his way to the kitchen, noticing how bare it was without Iruka's stuff to clutter it. Iruka walked in behind him and closed the door part way. "I need that key back." Kakashi said, turning around to look at his young ex lover, while leaning against the kitchen counter.

"It's packed in my stuff." He said quickly. Kakashi only looked at him, knowing he was lying. He only answered a question quickly when he was lying or had been thinking about what to say when it came up. Iruka shifted his weight to the other foot and looked over at one wall, away from Kakashi. "Fine, here." He said pulling it out of his front pocket. He had to walk over to Kakashi to give it to him. Once he had put it in his pocket Kakashi stood up straight, and looked Iruka in his eyes.



"After this, don't come back ever. I don't want to see you around except when it's inevitable. You used me, and you took all I had and I don't like people like you. I don't know why I didn't see it sooner." Iruka was shocked by his words so much so he struck out at Kakashi. Not caring anymore, his heart had shut down sometime within the last 24 hours; Kakashi caught Iruka's hand and punched him in the face. Iruka stumbled back a few feet and felt his jaw.

"You ass whole!" Iruka yelled, he couldn't believe Kakashi would hit him… HIM of all people! Kakashi just stood there looking with shielded eyes at the younger man. Iruka's anger surged forth as he charged Kakashi and got him in the shoulder, he had aimed for his chest but Kakashi had shifted and the punch landed there. Kakashi grabbed Iruka's wrist before he pulled back and smirked at Iruka.

"Resorting to name calling are we?" He threw a punch into Iruka's stomach, "alright," with every word he threw a punch at Iruka, "you. Are. A. arrogant. Self-centered. Whore. i. don't. know. What. i. ever. Saw. In. you!" With the last word and punch Kakashi let go of Iruka's wrist and he skidded a couple of feet away. Both men were breathing hard and Iruka slowly looked up, glaring daggers at Kakashi.

"I'm a whore? Who are you to bring that woman into our home?!" He looked like he lost it, stalking up to Kakashi and jabbing his pointer finger into his chest. He swatted the hand away and Iruka slapped him in the face, the side without the forehead protector on it. Kakashi pushed Iruka who stumbled back, but he kicked out at the older man and caught him in the chest, sending him into the counter. With an 'umph' he pushed off of the counter and did a swing kick into Iruka's side, as Iruka started to fall back he swung his leg out and knocked Kakashi over. When Kakashi landed on his back Iruka crawled over and held him down. Kakashi shut his eyes for a moment and when he opened them Iruka saw nothing in his eyes, just an emotionless void. He was shocked enough to loosen his grip and sit up a bit.

"OUR home? You are mistaken; it's my home, not yours. You need to get your stuff and get the hell out, NOW!" Kakashi yelled the last word at Iruka, who got up and ran out of the room, grabbing the box he'd been carrying earlier. Getting up and leaning on the counter his head in one hand the white haired shinobi wasn't aware of the presence in the room until he felt a hand on his un-bruised shoulder. Snapping his head up to look at the person he sighed in relief as he saw it was Shel. She took his face in her hands and waited till he turned his head to her.

"Your face is red, and I heard a commotion, is everything ok?" He turned his face away from her, not wanting to answer her question. "Answer me Kakashi!" She forced him to look at her and saw many things flit across his face. The one she saw the most was his shock at her forcefulness. "Thank you." She said as she examined his face. She started to pull his mask down when his hand stopped her. "Let me see, do not be difficult, or I'll slap you myself." He dropped his hand and looked defeated from the row with Iruka and being told what to do by a woman.

She pulled the mask down some more until she saw the whole hand print and she gently touched it until he gasped. "Sorry." She put the mask back and she stood sternly in front of him. "Is there anywhere else?" He shook his head and sat down at the table. She turned away and made a frustrated sound, getting inturupted by the phone. "Are you going to get that?" He shook his head and 

motioned that she could. She got up and walked over to the phone picking it up and turning her back away from Kakashi.

"Hello, Hatake residence." She waited to hear who was on the other end and sighed when she heard Gai.

"Shel, that you?"

"Yes."

"Thank Kami. Ok, I didn't know where you were, anyway I have to go on a mission, and I won't be back for a week, you have a key don't you?" She shook her head and realized he couldn't see.

"No, I must have left it."

"Ok, well I've already locked my door and I'm at the Hokage tower now." He paused.

"Hold on Gai-sempia." She turned to Kakashi and saw he was slumped to the table. Visibly defeated now. She placed the phone against her stomach so Gai couldn't hear them talk. "Kakashi… Kakashi." He looked up at her, his eyes glazed over. "Kakashi I need a place to stay for a week because Gai's going on a weeklong mission." He looked at her for a minute and contemplated what she said.

"You can stay here." He said slowly, dragging the words out. She nodded and put the phone back to her ear, locking gazes with Kakashi.

"Ok, I have it worked out."

"What do you mean?" He asked confused.

"I'm going to stay with Kakashi till you get back, or till he can get me into your apartment." He grunted his ok and hung the phone up. She hung the phone up as well and then moved over to sit at the table as well. "So…" Their eyes still locked he slumped back over the table. She sighed and got up, shaking her head at his expense while she went to make sure Iruka wasn't there.