I do not own Naruto, or its characters; although Hatake Kakashi is 'mine' in my dreams. ;0 I have written this fanfiction - for fun - for my daughter; and I do not follow the Naruto story arc faithfully. Thus, there are slight changes - but essentially, I try to remain true to the characters unique personalities.
Raine followed Kakashi and Kiba, being quiet for once. A few things had been revealed to her during that conversation, and she didn't quite like it. Not being in control of your own emotions is a real bummer. Raine snapped her fingers. Maybe that was why Kakashi affected her so strangely as well. She had been extremely angry at him for taking her away from Archie/Madara – yet at the same time, she was impressed at how strong and skillful he was for doing so. She had been irritated at him for talking bad about Archie/Madara, yet at the same time she had to admit she was kinda affected when she remembered how strong his arms had been wrapped around her, and how safe it made her feel. Even now, as she glanced at him, her heart started going strangely pitter-patter-pit-pat in a rather annoying manner. Raine shook her head, and started to slap both her cheeks to 'wake' herself up when she suddenly banged into a wall.
Well, it wasn't a wall. It was actually Kakashi that she had rammed into. He had stopped suddenly, and was looking at her very intently. Raine started stammering, feeling embarrassed and thanked God that she wasn't the type that blushed easily. "S-s-sorry," she said, "I wasn't looking."
"That was obvious," drawled Kakashi with a soft laugh, making her pout. He had found the entire episode quite amusing. When they had first walked out, he noticed that Raine had been deep in thought, giving her a rather dazed expression. Then, she started mumbling under her breath, as if she was arguing with herself. She then snapped her fingers, which was followed by an annoyed expression and finally, she started slapping herself. Kiba had simply stared at Raine with his wide-eyes and was seriously contemplating doing something when Kakashi just shook his head. Obviously, Raine is the extremely expressive type of person, and Kakashi found it more entertaining to watch her than reading his books. It also made him want to tease her even more.
Raine huffed at Kakashi's words, and placed her hands on her hips. She stuck out her tongue at him and decided to ignore him, and walked off quickly. Where to, she didn't care as long as it was far, far, far away from him. He really was wrecking havoc to her emotions, and she didn't like it one bit. She knew it was rather childish of her, but she didn't care. Kakashi let her rush off, though he kept pace behind her easily enough, no matter how much faster she walked (much to her annoyance). Finally, she decided that she wasn't achieving anything out of this, so she finally slowed down (though she would have probably started it again if she saw that Kakashi was laughing silently behind her).
Kiba found the entire day to be extremely puzzling. First, there was that chakra surge from Raine so early in the morning. When he had reported it to Kakashi-sensei, Kiba was only told to monitor the progress and to keep on reporting such incidences. At that time, Kakashi-sensei looked very serious. Right now, though, Kakashi-sensei appeared to be enjoying himself at the many weird antics Raine was doing, and doesn't seem too concerned about the danger she was in, nor about the weirdness she seem to have. Perhaps people from other Dimensions were just strange?
"Kibs! Kibs!"
Kiba winced, growled and turn to shout at the person who came bounding over to where they were, "HOW MANY TIMES MUST I TELL YOU TO STOP CALLING ME THAT?"
Raine turned to see who it was, and was surprised to see this pixie-like girl with a cheeky grin, her dark wavy hair flying all over the place as she came running towards them. Raine was impressed at the fact that the girl didn't seem fazed at all when the normally sweet natured Kiba appeared like a growling bear. She continued to smile cheekily, her eyes wide open and innocent as she looked at him and replied all innocently, "But but but KIBS! It's so you!"
Kibs … I mean, Kiba, however, was far from placated. He growled more as he brought his face close to hers and snarled, "I DARE you to call me that again."
"Kibs?" squeaked the girl before she giggled, turned quickly and ran off like a speeding bullet, her laughter filling the air. Kiba actually roared and started chasing after her while Kakashi just sighed and shrugged his shoulders, saying, "There he goes again. He'll be back later though – he's supposed to be on duty tonight."
"Soooooo," began Raine, "I'm supposed to stay over at your place then?"
"Yes," replied Kakashi, "It's for the best."
Raine scrunched up her face, "But isn't that more inconvenient? For you, at least. After all, from what I see, that's a bachelor's pad and there's only one bed. I can't be troubling you like that for so long, right?"
"It's no trouble," answered Kakashi, as they started walking again, "It is more convenient. Location wise, it's easier to defend as it's surrounded by the outer walls. One wouldn't be able to get close without being seen." Truth be told, Kakashi's house was built and chosen for that specifically: not only was it located in one of the harder-to-penetrate areas, it was small so as to enable him to view everything at once. It was a habit of his, to be in control always; even though it always appeared like he was laid-back.
"Does that mean you're sharing the bed?" a voice piped up from behind them. Raine jumped in surprise while Kakashi answered with a smack at the back of the speaker's head.
"OW!" shouted Naruto, rubbing his head but then quickly looked at them with a huge grin on his face, "It's about time Kakashi-sensei brought some one to his house. Otherwise, he's going to grow into a lonely, senile old man like Old Man Hokage. You can even tell the way he goes around, no girlfriend, no … "
"Naruto?" called Kakashi softly, his eyes twinkling as he faced his former student.
"Yes, Kakashi-sensei?" answered Naruto, smiling innocently.
"Run."
"Huh?"
…
For a moment, nothing happened. Then Naruto's eyes bulged wide open, his mouth went into an "O" and he ran. Raine heard a crackling noise, a humming and realized that Kakashi's hand was glowing. No, it wasn't glowing but to more accurate, it appeared like it was getting electrically charged. He then flipped something that looked like a coin, now electrically charged, towards the retreating back of Naruto. Naruto just went out of view before a loud buzzing sound erupted into the air, and a small wisp of black smoke could be seen.
Raine was flustered, then turned to look at Kakashi, who was now walking again. "Did you – what the – is Naruto okay?" stammered Raine.
"Don't worry," said Kakashi calmly, "It'll take more than that to kill that monkey."
True enough, Naruto emerged into sight – a slightly charred version – raised a finger, then flopped face down to the ground. His hand was still in the air, though, as if he was saying that he's alright. He lifted his head then, grinned then turned to onto his back to face the sky.
Raine shook her head, and sighed. She trudged over to him, kneeled down and felt his forehead, "You ok?"
Naruto blinked and looked at her curiously, "Huh?"
Raine snapped her fingers in front of his face, "How are you feeling? After getting hit by a … a … a … lightning thinga-ma-whatsit!"
"What's a thingamawhatsit?"
"It's … it's … oh, it's just a word for something I don't know, you know, like what-cha-ma-call it?"
"Thingamawhasit, thingamawhatsit …" mumbled Naruto, "I LIKE IT! Though whatchamacall it sounds better…"
Raine felt like shaking the slightly burned boy, but settled on rubbing his hair while asking, "Focus, focus. Are you ok?"
Naruto grinned, gave a thumbs up and sat up, "Of course I am. Whatever made you think I wasn't?"
"Oh, I don't know … maybe because you're smoking?"
Naruto laughed heartily at that, and waved her concerns away, "This is nothing! Why when I was just his student the last time, he had actually set of his ninken on us. His ninken!"
"Ninken? What's a ninken?" asked Raine curiously, finding this all so fascinating.
"Don't you know anything? Ninken! His pack. Eight of them, you know!" said Naruto exasperatingly.
His pack? Kakashi goes in a pack? Like a gang? He's a leader of a gang? But Naruto said he was his student and Kakashi's a ninja, obviously. So he's a gang leader of ninjas teaching kids to be gangsters?
Raine was getting more and more confused as Naruto rattled on about all the various missions he had gone into, the thins that Kakashi had done and the more Raine listened, the more Kakashi sounded like some sort of tough-perfectionist-teacher. Yet, it was obvious that his former student loves him so perhaps it's not as bad as it appeared to be?
"Naruto, that's enough," growled the usually laid-back Kakashi. Normally, he wouldn't be bothered by Naruto's ramblings and teasing, but somehow, he found it extremely annoying at the moment. Especially since Raine not only appeared to be extremely fascinated by the whole thing, her eyes were getting bigger and bigger with each tale. Upon hearing him say that, though, those two huge eyes were then fixated upon him, making him even more uncomfortable.
"I mean," he said quickly, clearing his voice, "We've got to get going. There are things to prepare."
Raine nodded, placed her hand on Naruto's shoulder and leaning over to whisper in his ear, "You can tell me the rest later." Naruto grinned while looking at Kakashi then winked at her, nodding. He gave her an 'ok' sign with his fingers and ran off. Unbeknown to the both of them, a lone figure behind a tree was wringing her hands upon seeing this exchange. She was a sweet looking girl, with long straight hair that reached just below her shoulders. Her silver eyes were filling up with tears as she kept mumbling, "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear" …
Yup, that's it for the time being. Sorry it's short - I had originally intended to make all my chapters at least 2000 words from now. Can't seem to find the time though. Hope it's enough to tide you over for another week. :)
