A young blonde man stares at the image before him, speechless. When he heard a knock on his door, this wasn't what he expected. A glance to his left, then to his right and even one behind him just in case revealed he was alone. Yet, before him sat the most unusual thing. It was a large tower, taller than Naruto himself, of cup ramen. Upon closer inspection, the young man noticed that it was the most expensive and best tasting cup ramen available through stores. Needless to say, Naruto was very willing to accept this generous, albeit unusual, gift.

The blonde starts to grab the cups of his favorite food and takes them into his kitchenette. It takes him ten trips before the noodles are all sprawled out on his kitchen table. Naruto heads back to his door to shut it and is greeted by a curious silver haired man. Kakashi glances at Naruto and there's visible relief in the Jounin's eye as the blonde appears before him unharmed. Kakashi grins, his visible eye arcing upwards, then he holds up a bag with food in it.

"Breakfast again?" Naruto raises an eyebrow.

"Yup! I have to make sure my dear student is fed well." Kakashi chuckles happily.

"So… it wasn't you?" Naruto frowns momentarily.

"Eh? What wasn't me?" Kakashi blinks dumbly at the question.

Naruto motions for his teacher to enter the apartment and closes his door when the man walks in. They walk to Naruto's kitchen and the blonde points at all the cup ramen on his table. Kakashi's eye widens as he stares at the large quantity of ramen resting in front of him. This was an idea he had thought about briefly himself, but it appears that someone had actually done it. The only person that Kakashi could think of to have done this was Yamato and he felt himself bristle at the thought.

"You didn't give me all of this?" Naruto asks, slightly disheartened.

"No…" Kakashi gives Naruto a weak smile and places his hand behind his neck.

"Huh… oh well." Naruto starts to clear the ramen off of the table. "I haven't eaten breakfast yet, so let's eat!"

Kakashi's moment of anger disappears as Naruto gives him a warm and wide smile. He brings the bag over to the now clear table and sets it down the chair the Jounin had sat in before is still there. With a smile he starts to pull out several things and finally pulls out two jars of pineapple. Naruto spots the second jar and snatches it up in an instant. Kakashi chuckles as the blonde keeps it with him while heading to the cabinets for plates. Naruto also grabs a couple of glasses and brings them back to the table.

"Do you want something to drink?" Naruto asks. "I have orange juice, grapefruit juice, green tea, water and I could make some coffee if you want some."

"Coffee?" Kakashi never thought the blonde would drink the stuff.

"Yeah, I have it for when Iruka-sensei comes over." Naruto smiles fondly.

"Hmm… I'll have orange juice." Kakashi smiles.

"Really? I didn't take you for an orange juice kind of guy." Naruto opens his refrigerator and pulls out the carton.

"I normally don't drink it, but it sounds good today." Kakashi smiles, watching his student pull out another carton of grapefruit juice.

"Here." Naruto hands the carton of orange juice to Kakashi. "Help yourself."

"Thank you, Naruto-kun." Kakashi smiles, taking the carton from the tan hand.

Naruto's expression changes from a happy grin to a happy grin with a glimmer of confusion. The blonde sits down in his chair and Kakashi sits in the other one. The blonde eagerly opens the jar of pineapple and using his fingers, pulls out a piece. The silver haired man pretends that he's fully absorbed in the food he has in front of himself. However, he watches his student nibble hungrily on the piece of fruit. Naturally, this was probably not the smartest move on Kakashi's part. Watching the blonde finish the pineapple chunk and lick his fingers had an innocently sensual appearance.

"This is really good, Kakashi-sensei." Naruto purposely states in an expressive and greedy voice.

"Ah… I'm glad you like it." Kakashi manages to maintain a cool voice at the display before him.

Unfortunately, the vision of Naruto eating pineapple was apparently not meant to be. There's a knock on Naruto's door and the blonde gets up to answer it. Kakashi takes the break as a calm down minute. He was becoming rather anxious as he only had seven more days until Yamato made his attack. Kakashi sighs and hears two voices approach where he sits. Kakashi blinks as he recognizes one of them and turns to face Iruka. The Jounin can practically feel the blood in his body gain an icy feeling.

"Ah, Iruka-sensei." Kakashi smiles.

"Kakashi-san." Iruka provides a smile, but there is an inevitable feeling of danger in the Chuunin.

"Do you want me to make you some coffee, Iruka-sensei?" Naruto is positively beaming at the brunette.

"Oh, no thanks, Naruto. I just came by to drop this off for you." Iruka hands Naruto a couple of scrolls.

"Oh! You remembered!" Naruto practically squeezes the life out of his former academy teacher. "Thank you so much!"

"Not a problem." Iruka smiles and then turns to Kakashi. "Nice seeing you again, Kakashi-san."

"You too, Iruka-sensei." Kakashi smiles nervously and watches Naruto say goodbye to the Chuunin.

When he's left alone again a shiver goes down his spine and he sighs. Iruka had always thought of Naruto as an extremely annoying little brother. When the blonde comes back in he sits at the table and opens one of the scrolls excitedly. Naruto uses one hand to eat and the other to hold the scroll open as he skims it. Kakashi watches questioningly when his student grins approvingly and sets the scroll down. He prepares to ask what the scrolls were when Naruto looks at his with a priceless smile.

"Kakashi-sensei?"

"Hm?"

"I was just wondering…" Naruto pauses for a moment. "Nah… nevermind, let's just enjoy breakfast together."

"But now I'm curious Naruto-kun." Kakashi allows himself to whine unhappily.

"Don't call me that." Naruto wrinkles his nose a little. "It sounds weird coming from you."
"How about Naruto-chan?" Kakashi quips and laughs at the ghastly expression on the blonde's face.

"You sound more like a pervert!" Naruto half shouts.

"Sorry, sorry, Naruto-kun." Kakashi grins as Naruto groans, obviously irked. "If you tell me what you were wondering, maybe I'll stop."

"Maybe? It's not worth it if it's only a maybe." Naruto pouts.

"Alright, you win… I'll stop if you tell me." Kakashi couldn't refuse the pouting face.

"I was just wondering… did you dislike me when Sasuke was still apart of our team?" Naruto says softly.

"Dislike you?" Kakashi's visible eye widens a little as he stares at the blonde in front of him. "Why would you ever think that I disliked you?"
"You always brushed me off…" Naruto's face grows somber and Kakashi feels guilt well up in him.

"I didn't realize that I was brushing you off." Kakashi tries to hide his own sadness with a small almost minute smile.

"Of course you didn't, you were so focused on Sasuke and you even paid more heed to Sakura's growth than me." Naruto sighs and stares at the jar of pineapple. "Even when I came out and straightforwardly asked you for help, you just handed me off."

"Naruto." Kakashi remembers the time during the Chuunin exams when he had asked Ebisu to train Naruto. "I guess I did."
"That's why I was so happy to be trained by you, Kakashi-sensei. I never had the chance to do so beforehand." Naruto smiles briefly.

"I was happy to train you, too." Kakashi stares at the blonde sincerely. "I'm sorry I never treated you the way you should have been."

"Well… you still have time to make up for all of that." Naruto says with almost a hopeful tinge in his voice.

"You're right. I have plenty of time to treat you the way I should." Kakashi smiles in relief when Naruto grins and grabs the pineapple again.

"That means that you'll be bringing me pineapple more often." Naruto takes out another piece and eats it.

"I suppose that's an acceptable condition, but I have one of my own." Kakashi smiles devilishly.

"What's that, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto looks at his teacher.

"Promise me that when you return from your missions, you come see me first." Kakashi pauses for a moment before chuckling. "After you turn in your report."

When there's no response from the blonde, Kakashi looks at him. Naruto's face is practically glowing red. He appears frozen and has a piece of pineapple between his teeth. Kakashi doesn't know whether this is a good or a bad reaction. All he knows is that the pineapple between Naruto's teeth disappears and the blonde practically lunges himself at his teacher. Kakashi finds himself on the ground and a mop of blonde hair fills the lower half of his field of vision.

"Naruto?" Kakashi still hears no response.

"It's a promise… just make sure you're not too hard to find." Naruto nuzzles his face into the Jounin's vest and clings. "And… I think I like Naruto-kun better."

"…?" Kakashi blinks, watching the Genin sit up and look down at him. "Alright, Naruto-kun."

"I think I like Kakashi-kun too." Naruto chuckles. "Or Kakashi-chaaaaaaaaaaaan!"

"I don't think so." Kakashi winces at the sing song voice used to say his name. "However, you could leave off 'sensei' now if you wanted to."

"Just call you Kakashi?" Naruto ponders this idea for a moment and smiles. "Okay!"

Kakashi smiles and the two move from the floor. They finish eating their breakfast together and it's filled with Naruto's happy chatter. Kakashi enjoys having all of the blonde's focus for once. It's been so long since he's actually been able to sit with his student; just the two of them. Kakashi's chest swelled with joy at being able to monopolize Naruto's time. At least, he was growing closer to gaining the blonde's affections. Even with the ramen that was lying around the kitchen, Kakashi felt he wouldn't easily lose.


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