Kakashi was bored. He wanted something to do but was currently out of comission for health reasons. Something had been wrong with his last phyc exam, and he was waiting for the green light from the Hokage so that he could go back out into the feild.
He sort of missed going on missions and killing people. Kind of missed the sights, smells, and sounds of someone taking their last breath as their blood stained his hands. He was'nt crazy. Whatever people might think of him, he was'nt crazy. He was a shinobi, one of the most skilled killers in the village, a veteran for his young age. He had been trained to carry out his job, his tasks no matter how much it might disturb him or sicken him.
And he did his job very well. Maybe a little too well.
He hated that fact about himself but really what could he do, it was just the way he was wired. He sighed and put his orange book away and sat back against the tree trunk and watched the few people that passed by under his tree. If he was lucky another couple would end up fucking each other against the tree across from his own again. If it happened it would entertain him to watch, and wait to see how long it took before someone noticed him again.
Some people were more shy about their sex lives than others. The last couple had'nt been so shy at all. In fact they had asked if he hand wanted to join them. And though he might be a bit of a perv, he hated sharing. And he simply was'nt that intrested in sex right now.
He was just too damn bored to care.
He sat there for what seemed like hours, what could have been hours before he noticed someone walking up again and glanced down at the ground and stiffened when he realised who it was. His senses went on alert automatically, his left hand raising up a bit to tug his head band up so that hsi sharigan eye was uncovered. If he sensed any trouble he may need the extra 'kick' from his sharigan to help him defend the girl.
It had been well over ten years since he had last seen the blond walking under his tree perch. Not much had changed since then, she was a little older a bit taller, but still so very, very alone. The villagers still singled her out, still attacked and hurt her. He frowned and bared his fangs behind his black clothe face mask. They were all such ungrateful bastards to attack the one person that they should treasure more than anything else.
After all if it was'nt for her, they would all be dead and the world itself would have perished in the flames. What is she doing here alone? He wondered as she walked over to a shady spot a few feet away from where he was and dropped down to the ground with a grace that any shinobi posessed and simply sat there fisting and unfisting her right hand in the soft grass and tugged a bit. Acting as if she wanted to pull it out of the ground by the roots, but letting go before she could do any damage to it then repeated the motion again and again.
He swung his long legs over the branch and rested his elbows on his knees and watched her for a while. She was the only person in the village he longed to be close too, the only one who linked him to his past and his future.
He had tried to take her in as a child, but the council had told him that he was unfit to raise her. What they had meant to say was that he could'nt raise her because he would have taught her to defend herself. He had fought them for her, had threatened, bullied, and even murdered two of them for their involvment in the abuse that she had suffered as a child. After that he had been forbidden to go near her unless her life was in danger.
It was bullshit really. All of it was.
Everything that Naru had suffered, every tear she had cried, all of it could have been prevented if she had been allowed to stay with him. He looked around and carefully slipped form his tree limb and landed lightly on the balls of his feet and walked over to the girl. she seemed to be in her own little world, so surely a little visit would'nt hurt anything. He would'nt even speak or touch her, he would just sit down next to her and try to feel connected to her.
There was nothing wrong with that. Was there?