Papa Kakashi!

A/N: Hinata's not being pedo-ey, it's just kinda hard getting over the love of your life because he's miraculously turned into a child. God, that sounds strange. And yes, fox themed stuff, how cliché. I don't even care, foxes are cute (been my fave animal since I was five), Naruto is cute, Naruto with fox is adorable and squeal worthy. So blergh ;)

Also, I'm so sorry this chapter is so short! But i have a huge exam Monday and I've been preparing! But don;t worry, just two more exams left and I have upload wayyyy more! Maybe even tri-weekly! And the chapter will be a lot longer! Believe it!;)

And, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL MY REVIEWERS! I was not expecting so many at all! Seriously, 26 reviews? I was hardly expecting anything above ten! Thank you, thank you!

PS: I've started a new time travel fic, if anyone's into that. It's called 'Yellow Thread'. I'll just post the summary^^ (shamelessly advertising...)

Time Travel. It seems death really likes screwing people over. Why have Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata and Shikamaru returned to their six year old selves? Why are they in Iwa? Why hasn't the third shinobi war ended? What the hell is going on? Brotherly!SasuNaru, NaruHina.

Warning: Overuse to the words 'cute' and adorable'.

Disclaimer: C'mon, seriously?

Enjoy!

Chapter Four- Is this for me?

Kakashi groaned as his opened his bleary eyes. A yellow blur was creating an earthquake. Ugh, I feel like death.

"'Kashi! Wake up, wake up! It's morning already!" Kakashi looked outside; it was a fairly pleasant day. The sky was a frosty blue with wispy clouds; by the sight he knew it was going to be cold. Looking at him alarm clock, he refrained from killing the yellow blur. It was already ten in the morning, if Naruto had woke him up any sooner; he might have been yellow mush. He blinked. Kakashi was surprised; he usually woke up at five on the dot, results on an ANBU regime. As he didn't answer the blonde, his jumping seemed to get more enthusiastic.

"Maa, aren't you excitable in the morning? Stop that before you break the bed." This stopped Naruto immediately. After breaking his sensei's cups, he certainly didn't feel like breading anything else. Kakashi smiled slightly as Naruto's stomach rumbled loudly. "You hungry?"

"Yup!" The blonde grinned brightly; Kakashi said he was going to make breakfast. He hoped he was a good cook.

Unfortunately, due to years of being a bachelor, Kakashi was not a good cook. After burning the eggs twice, the jounin finally gave in and made Naruto some toast. Even that was a bit crispy.

"How have you even lived this long?" Naruto mumbled over his toast, though he could hardly hear himself over the deafening crunches. Kakashi shrugged but mentally agreed. Even his toast was terrible. "Geez, next time I'm cooking!"

"Nani? You are not cooking!" Kakashi shouted. Images of burns and severed fingers came to mind and he shuddered. Naruto was not using his kitchen.

"Ehh? Why not? I'm a good cook!" The blonde protested, Kakashi sighed.

"Naruto, cup ramen doesn't count." The blonde sniffed, he was offended.

"I'll have you know I'm a great cook. 'm a natural."

"Naruto, I'm not letting a minor use my kitchen." Naruto opened his mouth to protest but Kakashi shut him up with a stern look. As the jounin got up to rinse his plate, he heard the blonde curse under his breath. This, of course, earned him a thwack on his head.

"H-hey!" Naruto's eyes became teary. It hadn't hurt at all; it was more of the shock of the gesture.

"No swearing." The parental scolding came as a surprise to Naruto.

"Che! I'f I can't swear, you can't read porn!" Kakashi's eyes widened in horror.

"It's not porn, it's fantastic literature..." Naruto cut him off.

"Yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before." He finished his gross toast. "Ol' pervert." Kakashi sighed. It seemed Naruto's four year old behaviour and his teenage behaviour crossed over at times. This was going to be difficult.

"So, what's the plan for today?" Naruto asked whilst putting his plate in the sink. It irked him that his head barely reached the top of the counter.

"We're going shopping." This piece of information made the blonde groan. He hated shopping. "Maa, you're excited."

"Shut up! I hate shopping." Naruto pouted, the copy-nin couldn't help but feel little butterflies in his chest. So cute. "What do we need, 'Kashi?" The Jounin also smiled at that. He liked his new nickname. It was, again, cute.

"We need clothes, groceries, you know, the essentials." He paused. "I refuse you buy you another orange jumpsuit." Another pause. "Or anything orange at all."

"Nani? Why not? Orange is practically my theme colour!" The blonde exclaimed in indignation. What's wrong with orange? The colour, quite frankly, made Kakashi shiver in disgust.

"It's a hideous colour, not to mention impractical. Pick a new favourite." He tried ignored the blonde's protests as he walked to his room, but it was quite impossible.

"No way! I want compromise!" The blonde pouted cutely. It didn't take long for Kakashi to give in.

"Your room. It can be...orange." He grudgingly offered. I'm destroying my apartment...

"Yeah! Thanks ' Kashi!"

"No problem. Get changed, Naru-chan, we leave in fifteen."

"Hey! Don't call me that!" Kakashi chuckled at the blonde's angry shout. It was fun to tease him.

They left thirty minutes later, because as always, Kakashi was late. Naruto swore the man spent as much time in the bathroom as a girl. He glanced at the copy-nin's hair and chuckled to himself. Such a girl. Probably spends hours styling it.

"Err, okay...we should probably get started with clothes." Kakashi fumbled with the list as they walked down the busy street. "So, where should we start? Underwear?"

"'Kashi! Don't say underwear so loud! It's embarrassing." The Jounin blinked. Did Naruto realise he just contradicted himself by shouting it even louder?

"Oh, don't be such a baby Naru-chan, everyone needs underwear." The third use of the word underwear, and the new dreaded title made Naruto stomp away from his guardian, grumbling under his breath. Kakashi grinned under his mask; the teenage attitude displayed by the four year old was too cute.

Naruto stopped and blinked when he saw the sight of a familiar girl twiddling her fingers. He grinned and ran up to her, enveloping her legs in a hug; he really was quite tiny.

"Hina-chan!" The Hyuuga blushed furiously. Since when did Naruto-kun start calling me that? She thankfully didn't faint; after all, she couldn't really harbour her crush on a four year old. She'd spent the night crying after the blonde's condition had been released. Part of her tears was from relief, she was so happy Naruto was okay, but a large part of her tears was from the realisation that she would probably never, ever be with Naruto. Of course, she doubted she would've had the courage to initiate anything anyway.

"H-hello, Naru-chan." The blonde pouted at the dreaded Naru-chan re-appearing, but since the Hyuuga seemed to harbour no ill-intent, he let it drop. Unlike the mean scarecrow!

"So, what's up? You shopping?" As the blonde looked at her curiously, her blush intensified. Hinata had followed him here, she really was quite adept at tracking at stalking the blonde now; she'd been doing it for years.

"A-ano, not really...I-I was just taking a walk. Are you?" Naruto smiled as she played with her fingers. Typical Hinata!

"Me and 'Kashi are shopping!" He pouted and crossed his arms. "I don't like it though. 'Don't think 'Kashi knows what he doin' either!" The Hyuga smiled gently. She didn't realise Naruto would be so cute, she hadn't met him before the academy started. It made her wonder how the villagers could've hated someone so... bright.

"W-well, I have a day off, I-I could lend you a hand?" She smiled. Hinata was proud of herself for being more confident around Naruto. If he was still his teenage self, she would've never probably confronted him. She'd decided, after crying herself silly, if she couldn't somehow be his girlfriend, she would be his friend. Maybe even a sister figure.

"Oh, sure! Hey, 'Kashi! Hina-chan says she'll give us a hand!" He shouted, seeing his guardian in his peripheral vision. The jounin approached them, Icha Icha in hand, and gave the Hyuuga a friendly nod.

"Maa, that's awfully kind of you."

"O-oh, it's nothing, really..." The Jounin eye-smiled at the fumbling girl; he'd noticed her tendency to watch his charge from afar; it was just a matter of time until she'd approached the kid. He was glad with the timing.

"Well, great! Here's the money, you can handle the clothes!" He waved and promptly shunshin'd away in a puff of smoke. The pair stared blinking at the now empty spot.

"Che, stupid hentai sensei! Leaving us here! I have no idea what I need!" The Hyuuga didn't comment, but silently agreed with him. She'd never shopped for anyone but herself before.

"W-well, where should we start, Naru-chan?" It was Naruto's turn to blush and twiddle his fingers. Oh jeez, how embarrassing!

"Err, well sensei said to start with underwear..." He grudgingly admitted. Hinata's blush grew even more, if that's even possible. "B-but I can do that by myself! So let's just get the casual stuff for now?" He held up his hands in a gesture that said 'don't worry'. She was silently thankful, although she'd forced herself to get over her crush (four-years-old), underwear was a bit too much.

Hinata looked down at the wad of cash Kakashi had given her and her eyed widened. This is a lot of money...

As they walked down the street, Naruto tried to enter a cheaper shop, it was a matter of habit. He'd only ever been able to afford the clothes from this particular shop- it helped that the shop owner was nice and didn't rip him off. Though, he guessed he didn't have to worry too much about that now. Everyone loved him; he was 'Kohona's saviour.'

"Ano, l-let's go to that one." He looked up curiously as Hinata guided him away from the cheap, grotty looking shop. His eyes widened as he regarded the well known, expensive apparel-only shop he'd only dreamt of entering, let alone buying something from.

"Uh, Hina-chan, I don't know if I can..." Sensing what the blonde was about to say, she showed him the wad of cash. His jaw fell open comically and Hinata giggled.

"Uh, nevermind! Let's go!" She blushed again as he grabbed her hand and ran to the shop. A bell jingled as they went through the doors, it was a welcoming sound. Naruto sniffed the air and smiled, it smelt of new fabric and leather. It was weird, foreign, but he welcomed the change. The other shop smelled of moth-balls. He also didn't mind the smiled sent his way by the shop assistants. Weird, very weird.

"Hey, Hinata, what about this?" He held up a bright orange top and pouted when the Hyuuga grimaced. What's so bad about orange?

"A-ano, that's nice Naru-chan." She twiddled her fingers, unsure whether to give her opinion. She decided she would, her least favourite thing about Naruto was his orange obsession. Of course, she'd loved everything about him so she hadn't minded, but she'd prefer a different colour. "B-but, maybe not orange?" She scanned the area and her eyes picked up a cute, deep blue sweater. She smiled to herself. The colour of his eyes. "Here, t-try this one."

"Oh, uh, okay!" He dropped the orange t-shirt and picked up the sweater. He grinned upon picking it up, the material was pure heaven. So soft! "I'll get this! It should be warm." He paused, suddenly thinking of something. "Hinata, should I be getting ninja clothes?" Hinata frowned.

"Ano...Naru-chan, you're not...fighting are you? I mean, I don't think I-I'm comfortable with you being active in your..." She paused, unsure on how to approach the subject of his condition. "C-current bodily state." Naruto sighed and nodded. He looked so forlorn; Hinata wanted to give him a hug. He shook off his sad expression and grinned. After years of watching him, she knew the smile off by heart; it was the smile he used as a mask to hide his true feelings. Somehow, it made Hinata feel sadder.

After getting assortment of black cargo pants, blue and orange (much to Hinata's chagrin) sweaters, jeans and little shoes, they finally finished shopping. Whilst Naruto just felt exhausted, Hinata felt fulfilled. She'd picked out some extremely cute outfits for her new surrogate younger brother; another point of happiness for her. Through an hour of bickering and fussing over clothes, a new sense of kin-ship was formed with a blonde, a bond she hadn't felt with him before. True, it wasn't the bond she'd initially wanted, but she liked it just as much.

"Hey, cutie! You done?" A pretty brown-haired shop assistant smiled gleefully at the small blonde. She was internally squealing over how cute he was! I've never seen such pretty eyes! The squealing grew when he gave her his signature foxy grin.

"Yep yep! Can I get this symbol on the back of the tops?" He fumbled for the picture in his pocket and gave her the folded piece of paper. It was the Uzumaki symbol.

"Sure you can, honey." She grabbed the pile of clothing from his and set them on the check-out desk. "Come back in twenty minutes, I'll have this done in no time!" The blonde just blinked when the shop assistant pinched his cheek before hurrying away. Hinata giggled as he palmed his reddened cheek.

"What was that about?" He tilted his head to the side. People, especially girls, had been acting weird around him since he'd woken up. Weird!

"Ano..t-they think you're cute." Naruto stared at Hinata as if she had two head.

"Me? Cute? Yeah right!" The thought made him laugh loudly as he skipped out the shop. Hinata smiled gently at the scene. Cute indeed.

They had twenty minutes to kill with no idea to the whereabouts of Kakashi. They settled for wondering around with some dango. As they walked down the busy streets, with Naruto barely dodging some of the adults legs, which led to him cursing his new height, it wasn't long until something caught Naruto's eye. He stopped outside a toy-shop window and placed a small hand on the cool glass. Hinata realised she was talking to thin air and looked back to see Naruto stare longingly at a dark orange fox plushie. She smiled at the co-incidence; it was practically made for him. Sure, it may not be the most sensible thing in the world, the villagers were still a bit sensitive over the Kyuubi, but she was going to buy it anyway.

"S-stay here, Naru-chan." Naruto gazed in bewilderment as she entered the shop. She couldn't be...? He didn't want to get his hopes up. She could be going in there to get a present to a relative, or even herself, there's nothing to suggest that she would be buying the teddy for him. He was soon proved wrong.

"H-here you go." Hinata held out the fox plushie and Naruto hesitantly grabbed it and stared at it with an unreadable expression. It made her brows furrow, did he not want it? "Ano...N-naru-chan, if you don't like it..." He cut her off.

"No, I love it. Thanks, Hinata." He smiled at her; it wasn't one of his usual grins, it was the small genuine smile he used when he was really, really happy. Joy bubbled in both of their chests. "I never had a teddy before." Hinata's gaped at the boy, but he didn't notice. Whilst he was gently feeling the toy, as if it was a precious item, she felt increasingly sad. The teddy, or lack thereof, symbolised the lack of a lot of things in his first childhood; stuff she'd taken for granted. He's never had a teddy before? But I had millions! Oh, Naruto-kun...

"Well, we better go get the clothes and find 'Kashi!" He turned and walked away with a grin, hugging the fox plushie to his chest. Hinata shook of her emotions and followed the boy; she blushed when she saw him hugging the little fox.

"K-kawaii..." She thought she could get definitely used to the new Naruto. She sighed; she wished she could have both. She smiled. But this one will definitely do.