An: I don't own Naruto
chapter 7
up in smoke
Npov
A few days latter several hours before dawn I was walking among the trees, listening to the rising song of the forest. I loved it out here, I felt the soft light as dawn came and breathed in the sweet air. Since the mission more memories had returned, I could now remember nearly all of the times I had with Kashi and some that included Sasuke and Sakura and a fleeting memory of a white haired man.
Sometimes this happens a lot( the remembering thing) and I would end up wandering deep in the forest searching for something that I did not know and might not recognize if I found it. Kakashi often found me with tears frozen on my face and blue with cold.
Then I heard a sound that brought me out of my daydreams, and soon I was chasing a silver fox through the clearing, moonlight making him shine like a star.
This time, Kashi was the one who retreated to the forest, he seem to want to get away from the village. Once I caught up to him, he shifted back into his human form with his fists clenched and his whole body was shaking with emotion.
I could feel what he was feeling.
"You look like you want to hit something" I observed
"The village, the demon attacks" he said still shaking
I knew what he was getting at, the night my team had returned from our mission, I was waiting outside his office to give my report (waiting not really my strong point) when I heard it, her cries that faded into whimpering and then into harsh gasps as the person told her story, it was a story that seem to be repeated over and over.
Now as I saw Kashi standing before me I had to say something, it was on the tip of my tongue I had to remind him that what had happened to me and others was not his fault. I had a theory and I had to tell him about it.
"They're coming for me, because of what I am" I said
"Not just you, me as well and any one that has demon blood whether they know it or not, what I don't know is, is why?"
I sighed, it was an ugly truth of our world that our secret lives often put those we care about in danger. I knew it too well.
At night, every time I close my eyes. I let the bond that tied me to Kakashi, to my returning memories and the village flare, the memories that returned to me were full of horror. But there was too much to be felt here and now, he help me with them now it was my turn.
As I watched he turned in and out of his two forms unable to hold either, In fox form, Kashi didn't always speak in words. Instead, tonight I got pictures, mostly of the villages, the pain on their faces, and that he would never let me out of his sight.
What seemed to matter to him at the moment was his urge to find this threat and tear it to pieces, to protect them and me. that why he finally settled on his fox form, and as I changed as well.
~Are you done yet?~ I asked poking him with my nose
~Define done~ he said moving back from my touch, it hurt but I needed him to know something.
~Kashi, koi I know I am not all there yet but my memories are coming please I love you with everything that is here and would take up the pain with you if you would share~
~ That's just it you should not have to, you are getting better all the time, but I feel like you are a porcelain doll one wrong move and I would lose you, and I know that would kill me~
~You will never lose me, I will not go up in a puff of smoke or shatter like a piece of glass, I can take care of myself as I have for over fifteen years!~ I yelled in to his mind,did he not realize what I had been through, what my life was like.
Having said my piece, I went very quiet, but my words hung in the air.
~ What aren't you telling me?~ he asked
~ For so long I have had no - one to help me, even when I was sort of human, I had to work on me own, only in the last years of that life did I have people to love and care for, now one way or another I feel like I am going to lose something I love and it will kill me~
" Naruto, that will never happen, your mine and I am yours, always together never apart"Kakahi said transforming back to human as I did and pulled me in for a kiss.
While that was happening I had all these thoughts running around my head.
The situation was what it was. It wasn't fair or easy and I could not save every one, but I knew this, as my animal instincts started to take over and we were undressing each other, knowing that things were about to get rough as we took our emotions out on each other.
I had one other thought as the pleasure from Kashi's movements took what little thought had left, that I would save the ones I love.
An: Kashi's fears are the same as Naruto's, they don't want to lose the ones they love.
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