"Hey, Kakashi?", Naruto stated. "I never really got to apologize to you, didn't I?"
"No! No, it's fine, you don't need to. I mean, a rejection is a rejection, right?", Kakashi called back to her while raising his arms to move them rapidly in a waving motion while also shaking his head equivalently.
"Pfft, Kaka-baka, sorry.", she said with sincerity. Kakashi's sole eye widened and slapped his hands to his sides.
"It's okay Naru-chan.", Kakashi replied back with a small smile behind his mask. "So, what do you wanna do now?", Kakashi replied lazily to her.
"Hmmmmmm, Ah! I know!", she exclaimed to him while grabbing his arm, dragging him to their next destination. "We're gonna go do each other's favorite stuff to do!"
"Huh", was all Kakashi said, confused with the sudden outcome.
"Welcome!", Naruto shouted ecstatically. The old shed that Naruto led him to was filled with gallons upon gallons of paint, balloons of all shapes, colors, and sizes, and everything else a prankster would have to die happily.
"Naruto, don't tell me-"
"Hey! Help me carry this stuff out side dattebayo!", Naruto ordered him.
Kakashi felt trouble brewing when he saw the stuff he was about to carry. Paint, paint, and more paint. He narrowed his eyes at the sight and called out to Naruto,"Naru-chan, if I may ask, but, what are these for?"
"Nii-hee-hee! That's a surprise! Now hurry up, and let's get going!"
"No.", Kakashi stated bluntly, whilst dropping both the can of gallons of paint on the floor, in which made a clinking sound. "Sorry Naru, but I think I have some duties to fulfill, so if you don't mi-"
Kakashi stopped in the middle of his excuse when he saw Naruto with puppy dog eyes. His hands stretched out in an offending pose, trying to block and fight off the big blue eyes. He then thought up of the solution of turning around, facing his back to her, opposite to where she was standing.
"Ka-ka-shi, please! I don't wanna go alone!"
'Go alone?', Kakashi thought confusedly to himself.
"Please, please, please, PLEASE! I thought we were friends", Naruto pleaded sulkily, while kicking on a pebble, and then adding,"Kakashi-sensei.", Naruto said with a gleam in her eyes.
In a swift motion, Kakashi turning his body around, facing Naruto once again. "You-I thought we were friends Naru-chan!", Kakashi said, adding a sniffle in the end."
Getting the desired reaction, Naruto hid her smirk and replied back to Kakashi saying,"Hmph, whatever Kakashi-sensei, you're such a hypocrite." Naruto now had her back turned on his face.
Kakashi's mouth opened and closed several times behind his mask,"N-now, Naru-chan, you make me sound so old.", he stated not completely untrue.
"Hmph! ", she puffed her cheeks out, pouting childishly. "Old habits die hard, Sensei."
Kakashi's eye widened in realization and quickly said,"Oh, hmmmm, I think that my duties are at rest, so be assured, Naruto-chan, I do have some spare time to spend with you."
Naruto turned around swiftly with a smirk visible on her face. "I thought so, now let's get going!", she said snickering foxily, then turing around once more to head to their destination.
'Did she just play me?', Kakashi thought horrified to what both of them were going to get into. 'Why is it that you could rile me up, letting my guard down, Naruto?', he continued to think with a small smile on his masked lips.
"Hey, watcha waiting for, Cyclops-chan? Hurry up and bring the paint!" she shouted to him. "I just can't wait to see everyone's reaction when they see the Hokage Monument!"
Stars blanketed the night sky as Kakashi and Naruto got to their destination. The Hokage Monument looked as normal as ever, at least until Kakashi and Naruto were finished with their work.
"Just watch out Konoha! Naruto, the most unpredictable and prank-filled konoichi, is back dattebayo! Back even better than ever, with her new sidekick-in-training, Kaka-baka!", Naruto declared loudly to no one in particular.
'Sidekick?', Kakashi questioned mentally with narrowed eyes. '
The night lamp lit the Hokage Monument dimmly as Kakashi and Naruto climbed up the stairs. Naruto whistled an unknown tune as she reached to her back and into her weapons pouch. She grabbed two large and used brushes handling one to herself and giving one to Kakashi.
Kakashi stared at them slightly and Naruto began to say,"These babes are the ones I had used on the Hokage Monument prank. Man, that prank was the prank of the decade. This new "little" prank will be the prank of the century! I call it Stike on Hokage Monument! Nii-hee-hee!"
"Maa, Naru-chan, are you sure about this?"
"Of course I'm sure about this Kaka-baka! You should be lucky enough to even see the masterful art I make dattebayo!", she exclaims. "And this time, we could have even more fun because the ugly, old, and wrinkled hag's butt is on the monument!"
"You do know that she will pummel you down when she sees this?", Kakashi warns.
"No she won't."
"Really, Naru?"
"You'll see.", she says, snickering to herself. "Now let's get started!"
"Make those wrinkles more thicker so they could be visible for all to see how old the hag is, Kakashi!", Naruto yelled from the Nidaime's head. "And make sure to paint her hair white!"
"Yeah, yeah, Naruto.", he droned. So far, the Godaime looked extremely old with the mass wrinkles on her stony face. Kakashi glanced back to Naruto with his perspective vision. She had an assorted number of colors marked on her face by the paint. Her hair was tied up to avoid paint from getting towards it, but to no avail. She had taken off her green chunin vest, leaving her in only her standard jounin uniform, which had both her sleeves and pants rolled up.
Kakashi sighed, as she still looked as stunning as ever. The glow from her radiant face shown from across the paint that was littered on her face. Her petite, but curvy form was shown from the tight spots of the jounin uniform. Her long, golden locks shining as bright as woven gold.
As Kakashi was still staring at her, Naruto had just halfway finished with the yondaime. She glanced at Kakashi and accusingly pointed her paintbrush at him.
Bad mistake.
'Okay, the next time Jiraiya-sama publishes his next feature will be in t-?', Kakashi was interrupted from his thoughts when liquid was splattered on his face. He reached out to try to rub the stuff off of his face when it suddenly felt like it did more harm than good.
Kakashi lifted his hands from his face and looked at his hands; pink paint.
They stared at each other motionlessly un Naruto roared out with laughter. "Hahahahahaha! You should have seen the look on your face! Hahah-"
She stopped laughing when a cold liquid hit her painted face.
Kakashi could not hold his laughter in as he roared with laughter easily after the green paint hit her face. "There, you look even more beautiful than you already were Naru-chan, you now look just like the Grinch.", Kakashi said in between laughs.
"Ohhh, it's on dattebayo!", she battle cried.
A barrage of paint was struck on both sides like weapons and war. As both tried to avoid as many as possible, there was only so much room for them in the tiny railed painting carriage. The carriage squeaked and sounded as both opponents to each other had so desperately tried to avoid the masses that were sent flying towards each other.
However, as Naruto backed away from an incoming blow, she had miscalculated the distance the railing was towards herself.
"Whoa!", she exclaimed. The wooden carriage only help by old ropes was sent tipping to one side.
Kakashi acted quickly and pulled Naruto from the railing and sudden death before the carriage had completely tipped and killed both of them.
Both were gasping for breath as sweat poured down on both of them as they lay on the wooden floorboards of the tiny carriage. Kakashi held Naruto close to him like a lifeline, feeling her speedy heartbeat, as she did his. He held her even tighter in his arms when he felt her trying to get up. She stopped trying to get away when she felt how tense his shoulders were.
She tried to lighten the mood by saying,"Hmmm, we both just had our love flash before our eyes, didn't we, Kakashi?", she said while hugging him back. She took on a relieved face when Kakashi's shoulders were more relaxed.
"You almost got killed Naruto.", Kakashi whispered melancholily. "I could have lost you forever, Naruto". The grips on his arms loosened to where she was able to look down on his worried gaze.
She reached out to stroke his silver-now pink hair comfortingly while he wiped off wet paint from her cheek. He felt a sudden heat touch his rough hands, only to find that Naruto was blushing from the sudden skin contact.
When Kakashi discovered this, it was impossible to fight the urge that was creeping in his mind. His loosened arm tightened it's grip on her torso as his right hand, on Naruto's cheek, was positioned and gripped for the sudden involvement. As they both got closer to each other, Naruto had realized their position and lowered her head down to the crook of his neck.
Kakashi was left, looking out to the stars while holding Naruto in his arms as Naruto lay on top of him, staring at the darkness of his neck, feeling extremely embarrassed at her actions.
Feeling the awkward tension between both of them, Kakashi broke the silence by saying,"I guess it's my turn now to do what I like to do, only with someone else this time."
As predicted, Naruto's head was lifted from his neck and she asked,"What do you like to do?"
Kakashi answered with a small smile,"I like to star gaze. Or in other words, star watching."
"Hey, you mean like what Shika does, only with stars?-wait, I thought your only hobby was to read your dumb books.", she questioned.
"Mmm-hm. Kind of. And no, it isn't.", Kakashi replied back amusedly, answering Naruto's question. Kakashi than lifted Naruto up, so that she could be directly next to him, as the width of the rectangular-shaped carrier could fit both it's inhabitants smugly.
"Do you see those seven stars that you could see most visibally?", asked Kakashi patiently.
"I-I think I do!", she said surprisingly.
"Well, that is called the Big Dipper. If you look at it more closely, those four stars make a big rectangular-square with the remaining three stars, used as a handle.", he said while concentrating his chakra solely on his index finger causing it to light up with a following glow, in which he traced over the Big Dipper.
"Wow! I actually see it, Kakashi!", she said with a small grin that could rival all the stars in the sky. "Hey, Kakashi, don't you think that, that alignment of stars look like a kunai?", she asked imaginatively, while holing out her fingers to trace the stars.
"That actually kinda does Naru. Oh, look at this.", he traced a ramen bowl.
"Hey, that makes me hungry. But, yeah, it does.", she said jokingly.
Naruto then traced a heart and said,"Lookie here, this one looks like a he...art?", she stated, once again, awkwardly. She then yawned considerably fakely, and quickly said,"Oh, haha! How silly of me! It must be passed midnight, I better get to sleep!"
She grabbed Kakashi's left arm and used it as a pillow while facing him.
"Wait! We're going to sleep here-not that I mind and all.", Kakashi asked weirdly.
"Well, like I said, Kaka-baka, it seems past midnight-and no ones gonna be worried for me at home anyways.", she said the last part softly, only for Kakashi to hear the loneliness that Naruto really has at home by herself.
Her eyes were narrowed slightly, as a sign of being sleepy. He then gently caressed her paint-filled hair, whilst taking off the hair tie that kept her flowing hair in a pony tail. He saw that her shoulders were shaking and lightly felt her cheeks with the back of his hand; it was cold and flushed.
Kakashi moved closer to her, snuggling into her warmth, while hugging his free arm by her waist, pulling her even closer. He felt her tense up, but only giving in to the warmth he produced. Naruto lightly held on to him with both her arms.
Naruto sighed in content as she took shelter at the crook of Kakashi's neck. Kakashi inhaled her scent as both their legs tangled with each other.
And for the fist time in years, both Kakashi and Naruto actually felt the comfort in each other, and not the slightest bit lonely.
Laughter, as well as horror, could be heard in Konoha the next morning. However, the kage of Konoha was not pleased or humored one bit. In fact, she was the polar opposite to pleased or humored. She hurried down to get her gambling top, and ordered both ANBU and unANBU from chunin and up to go find Naruto.
"Where could one girl be!", said one jounin who was literally pulling his hair out, for the past five hours, for nothing could be seen or heard of the girl.
"Hn. We'll go check at the Hokage Monument.", said Sasuke.
Waking up by the rays of sunlight hitting his face, Kakashi opened his eyes only to see Naruto snuggled deep into his chest. Kakashi smiled at their position and snuggled back into their original position, left unknown that he would be visited soon.
"Of course that Dobe has to be there. She is just that dobeish.", Sasuke said stoicly.
Sakura looked amusedly at her raven-haired teammate. Over the years, Sasuke had opened up considerably, and she was proud of him. Also, from that time, Sakura had gotten over him and is happily dating Lee, in which were both in a serious relationship.
"Don't worry, Sasuke-kun, that Baka, Naruto, isn't that dobeish, even if she is baka.", she said with a pleasurable smile on her lips, while thinking of her blond friend. "See, we're almost at the top."
"Hn.", but even though Sasuke opened up considerably, old habits did die hard.
As both Sasuke and Sakura hiked up the Hokage Monument, Sakura pointed out,"Hmm...why is there a paint carriage there.", and saying unbelievably.
"It's the Dobe for sure.", he said while pulling the rope towards his direction.
"Sh-she was actually here!", she claimed and then shockingly said,"With...Kakashi-sensei? What's going on here?"
Both just stood looking blankly at both their silver-haired mentor and blond teammate scandalously. The paint on both of them had already dried from the Konoha sun.
Sasuke shook Kakashi, while Sakura shook Naruto to awaken and explain.
Naruto yawned and fluttered her eyelids opened. "Yawn! Ahh, that was a gre-Kaka-baka!?"
It was now Kakashi's turn to wake up. Slightly. "Ahhh, no dad, don't wake me up!", he said while snuggling Naruto even closer to his chest. "Sooo, warm."
It finally hit Naruto that two pairs of eyes were set on herself. She looked behind and quickly got untangled in Kakashi's arms staring at both her original teammates. "Sa-Sakura-chan! Teme! What are you guys doing here?"
"I think the question is, what are you doing here, Naruto, you baka?", countered Sakura.
"Hah? Me?", she said looking around her surroundings for an excuse. "I-I was just running away from Bachan?"
Both Naruto's teammates twitched one eye. "With Kakashi?", Sasuke interrogated.
"He was also running away from that old hag, so when we found out that we had mutual problems, we decided...to sleep on a paint carrier with paint on ourselves?", she said nervously while scratching the back of her head.
"What did you say, Naruto?", a very angry, blond Hokage said with a gravely threatening voice to match.
"W-we-well, speak of the devil?", Naruto said while shaking in fright.
"You have ten seconds to fulfill your lame excuse with Kakashi before I pummel both of you down.", the Hokage said. Tsunade held up 10 ten fingers as a image reference to Naruto.
Ten
"Wake up, Kakashi, before that granny pummels us to the ground!"
Tsunade twitched her narrowed eyes and put one hand down. "He-hey! That's not fai-", Naruto didn't finish her sentence when Kakashi was up.
"H-hey, what's going on here?", Kakashi groggily said.
"Hurry up! Run away before the hag gets us!"
"Too late, Gaki!"
"Noooooo!", everything when on slow motion when Kakashi and Naruto screamed mercy as Tsunade brutally beat both Kakashi and Naruto down to the ground
"You two are to be sent to Konoha Prison for 24 hours.", Tsunade said with a smirk shown on her face.
Kakashi spluttered, choking on air. "Prison!? For 24 hours!?", he exclaimed shocked. "Why?", he asked confusedly.
"Because you vandalized Konoha property, the Hokage Monument no less, and got caught.", she stated bluntly.
"What? Then why didn't Naru-chan go to prison go to prison for that other time she vandalized the Hokage Monument?", Kakashi stated, trying to get a point.
'Naru-chan?', she thought quickly. "Because she was a minor. Anyone who is 15 years of age or less is a minor, in which does not go to an adult prison.", Tsunade said, more sternly this time. "Now off, both of you, to prison you go."
The ANBU that held both Naruto and Kakashi amusedly, as Naruto was the Hokage-to-be and Kakashi was the former ANBU captain. In other words, both S-ranked shinobi had to go to prison for vandalizing the Hokage Monument; child's play.
"So when you said that you didn't want to go alone, you meant prison?", Kakashi said in the cell with Naruto.
"You're not mad aren't you?", Naruto said with worry in her eyes.
Kakashi reached out to her now cleaned hair, "Of course not, Naru, never."
Her uneasiness settled down to nothingness, and she said, "Well, going to prison is usually not my thing,", Kakashi gave her a deadpan stare," and nobody would ever do that with me because it would taint their ninja record or somthing like that-cause dattebane, I was never one to care for that flimsy stuff-and so I asked you, my new found friend!", she said with a very happy smile on her face.
"Wow, you're a sly one, aren't you?"
"Dattebayo!"
"Well, at least I have something to tell my grandchildren about.", Kakashi said with a happy tone.
"Sigh, yeah.", she said softly before laying her head don't to lay it on his right shoulder. "I've always wanted a family, with lots and lots of children.", she said enthusiastically with a slight blush toned on her face. "With a loving husband too, who doesn't care about who I was or what I am, who loves me for me."
Kakashi wrapped his arm around her in comfort. He told her,"Hmm, Naruto, I would also love to have a family, with lots of kids even, too." He smiled for a second,"She, like yours, would have to love me for me, not be afraid of what she stands up for, be good with children, have a beautiful smile, eat as much as she wants, no matter how others look in horror, and is childish in her own ways.", Kakashi stated, clearly describing Naruto, who was completely oblivious to his words.
Their bruises hurt, which was caused by Tsunade's massive strength. When he noticed this, he asked Naruto, "Why aren't your bruises done healing?"
"It's because that Baka of a Kitsune said that I was stupid for getting on Tsunade's bad side, for the time being.
"Hmph, you're so stupid to your own obliviousness.", Kurama said with a slight growl surpassing his teeth.
"Wha'd ya say you Baka-kitsune?!"
"I told you", he replied with a sly tone.
Naruto growled, but stop when she heard her name being called.
"Naruto, you just spaced out on me back there."
"Sorry, I was speakin to Kurama, that Baka-kitsune.", she said with a slight pout.
The door in the corridor swung open, and Tenzou appeared from it. He came across Kakashi and Naruto's cell.
'Huh?', he thought in confusion when he saw Naruto and Kakashi in the cell. 'Why is Kakashi-senpai here?'
He unlocked the cell door and caught both sight of the two cell mates. "Yamato-taicho!", Naruto said excitedly. "What are you doing here?"
"I think the question is, what are you both doing in here?", said Tenzou.
Naruto rubbed the back of her her sheepishly,"Humph! Everyone's been doing that to me lately-but anyways, both of us vandalized the Hokage Monument."
'Both?', Tenzou gave both a deadly stare-in which Naruto caught on-as he motioned them to follow behind him.
Both prisoners were led into the minor interrogation rooms.
Tenzou was met with two other interrogators who took Naruto with them. Tenzou led Kakashi into light room and led Kakashi to the black chair. Tenzou knitted his brows together, confusedly and asked Kakashi,"First of all, why did you do something so stupid, Kakashi-senpai?"
Kakashi gave him a look with hazed eyes and said with a visible smile,"Well, Tenzou, when you get into this stage of life, love can make you do stupid and crazy things."
(A/N: Well there you have it, my longest chapter. Sorry for some minor mistake in this plot, I don't have a beta reader. Hope you enjoyed it by writing reviews, favoriting, and/or following. Thank you for reading!)