Chapter 3

Naruto stood there with wide eyes staring at the Hokage.

"What did you say?"

Sakura and Sasuke stood next to him in complete silent. Sakura looked as surprised as Naruto, even Sasuke couldn't hide his surprise completely. Naruto looked towards the wolf and slowly walked over to him.

"Kakashi......sensei?" he said as he stopped in front of the wolf.

Kakashi grinned. "Yo, Naruto."

What happened next was completely unexpected. Naruto brought his fist down onto of Kakashi's head, Pakkun jumped out of the way.

"What the hell was that!? You growl at me and act all territorial and yet you're you and you don't tell me and you get caught in a stupid trap and—" Naruto went on for a few more seconds, everyone in the room leaving him alone. When he was done he sighed and bent down to Kakashi who was laying on the floor after getting hit in the head. Naruto wrapped his arms around Kakashi's neck and hugged him, tears fulling his eyes.

"I've missed you so much," he said as he buried his face in Kakashi's silver fur. Kakashi couldn't help but feel a little guilty. He soon felt more weight on him as Sakura joined the hug, tears in her eye, too. Soon, Sasuke knelt down nearby and place a hand on Kakashi.

Team 7 was back together for the first time in five years.

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Kakashi being alive wasn't suppose to be made public, but the news spread like wild fire among the shinobi, the villagers were left in the dark, for now. When they left the Hokage's office it was decided Kakashi would stay with Naruto. The team separated for the day since the day was nearly over and Sakura and Sasuke just came back from a mission.

Naruto pushed the door open to his small apartment and allowed Kakashi to go in first. Kakashi looked around the room, really taking it in. This was the first time he was actually invited in, all the other times he just dropped by the window to drop off vegetables.

"It's not much, but it's home," Naruto said as he looked the door and sat on his bed. He looked Kakashi's bandaged leg.

"How's you're leg?"

"Hm, oh, I think it's find. It doesn't hurt," Kakashi said. The two sat in silence for a little.

"Kakashi sensei."

Kakashi looked over when Naruto spoke, he saw a familiar box in him hands.

"Would you like to talk?"

Naruto nodded. Kakashi walked over to him and jumped on the bed next to him.

"What would you liked to know?"

Naruto hesitated. "What happened? Why didn't we stay together?"

Kakashi sighed. "Well, something happened."

"What?"

Kakashi turned away from Naruto, bringing memories he'd rather leave buried away.

"Like you, I had a team. My sensei, as you know, was the Fourth Hokage, your father, had died." Jiraiya had told Naruto about his father a year ago, he felt the boy was old enough to know. "My teammate, Uchiha Obito, had died about a year before that. My last teammate, Rin, was the only one left. During that time, I joined ANBU. While I was away on a mission, Gai, Asuma, or anyone who wasn't on a mission would watch you for me. But on a mission with Rin, we ran into Orochimaru," Naruto's eyes widened at this. "We were clearly out matched."

Kakashi paused and took a breath.

"He..............experimented on Rin. I don't remember much, but I remember I could hear her screams. Then I just remember pain. Then, I found myself out in a forest, covered in blood with another boy. That's when I found Tenzo, Yamoto. I asked him what happened, he said Orochimaru showed me the girls body and I cracked. 'Somehow the whole place got destroyed by some demon' he said. 'I was in a cage one moment the I was getting pulled by you.' When I look back, something makes me think that's the first time I used the Silver Wolf, but what made me save Yamoto, I don't know."

Kakashi stopped and looked down at the bed.

"I'm so sorry Kakashi sensei, I didn't mean to–"

"It's ok Naruto, you deserve to know. When we got back tot the village I was in the hospital for some time and I wasn't exactly myself. The Third Hokage thought it best if I didn't have to worry about you. I could barely take care of myself, let alone a two year old. Though I didn't take care of you, I did always make sure you were okay."

Naruto felt guilty for bringing up such a painful memory for Kakashi, but then quickly realized something.

"Are you the reason my food never ran out?" he asked, remembering when he was little that his refrigerator never ran out of food for some reason.

"Hm, oh, yeah, that was me. I made sure you always had some food in your place. I stopped when you joined the academy though." Kakashi said grinning.

The two talked for the rest of the night, Kakashi telling Naruto everything he wanted to know.

This way.

Kakashi heard a voice. He couldn't see or feel anything. It was ass if only his mind was there. Suddenly a light shined. He saw the moon, a full moon. Then he saw a path. A path that had silver paw prints that seemed to glow in the moon light.

This way.

He felt he's legs move. Suddenly, he felt as if he was drowning.

Kakashi awoke with a start, opening his eyes to bright rays of sun. He panted and thought about what just happened, what he dreamt about.

'What was that?' he thought.

He looked around and saw Naruto sprawled across the bed next to him. 'I'll keep it to myself for know,' Kakashi thought as he jumped off the bed and turned to the clock.

12:34 PM.

Kakashi figured it was time to get Naruto up and went over to the bed.

"How to do this?"

Kakashi didn't feel like shouting so he took the easy way out, he bit him.

"Owwwwwwwwww!" Naruto shouted as he sat upright in bed.

"Good morning," Kakashi said.

"What was that for!?" Naruto asked as he gripped his hand.

"Shall we get going? It's already the afternoon," Kakashi said, avoiding the question and waiting by the door.

Kakashi lay with his face towards the door, his front paws clawing at it. Naruto was taking his sweet time getting ready and Kakashi was itching to get out and run. He felt the need to stretch his legs. "I wish I had hands," Kakashi mumbled to himself.

"I'm surprised you haven't jumped out the window," Naruto said as he zipped up his jonin vest and opened the door. Naruto was right, the window was wide open. Kakashi felt it best not to answer, he didn't want to say that he never thought about that.

"Let's just go," he growled and walked out, Naruto following.