Naru woke up laying in her bed, her head aching, and no memory of what had happened or how she had gotten there. Odd since she could usually remember things pretty easily. She sat up in bed and groaned when the room spun a little bit as her head throbbed. "Ow."

Her bedroom door opened and Genma stepped inside. "Naru! You're awake." He sounded almost as surprised as she was by the fact that's he was awake. Honestly why had she woken up when her head was killing her?

"W-What happened?" She asked as he disappeared into her bathroom and went through her medicine cabinet and brought her back some aspirin and handed the tablets to her before answering.

"Dunno. You went out grocery shopping earlier today and didn't come back. I was out looking for you, cause I thought you had gotten jumped by some villagers and found you propped up against a building about a block or so from here out cold. No wounds, no blood, no anything to suggest foul play. You were just out." Genma said as she took the pills and swallowed them dry. Not worried in the least about choking.

"Brings a whole new meaning to the words 'shop until you drop' huh." Naru said half jokingly as Genma scowled at her.

"Well, no harm now foul I guess." Genma said with a sigh as he ran his finger through his dark hair.

"Fantastic. Is the food ready, I'm starving." Naru said as she tossed the covers back and swung her feet over the edge of the bed and stood up.

Genma gave her an comical look of disbelief as if to say; Are you fucking serious? I find you unconscious and now your hungry. Incredible. "Yeah, yeah, come on. I'll take pity on this little kitsune I found and feed it." Genma said jokingly and got kicked in the ass for his efforts.

"Hey!"

"You're not funny." Naru snapped at him as she staggered a little bit. Genma reached out and grasped her upper arm and steadied her. She looked up at him and smiled a little bit and leaned her body into him, her legs felt much weaker than they should have and she feared that she might fall without his support.

"Naru? Are you okay?" Genma asked as he wrapped his arms around her to hold her in place.

"I-I'm fine. Just dizzy."

"Tell you what princess, get back in bed and I'll bring you some food in here." Genma said gently as he helped her back into bed and then left the room as she stuffed her pillows between her back and the head board so that she could sit up for a while and looked out of the window, noting that it was getting dark out and frowned. Hadn't it been full day light outside a little while ago? Just how long had she slept anyways?

The curtains were still drawn back, giving her a clear veiw of the world outside her bedroom, and on the roof across from her apartment she could almost swear that she saw a dark figure with shocking silver hair standing there staring at her through the window. But the very second she blinked, the figure disappeared and she was left to wonder if she had imagined the dark figure and the silver hair.

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Wolf had stayed with Kitsune, hidden in the shadows, watching her to make sure that no one tried to hurt her while she had been unconscious. He had waited for someone to come for her. Her father. Her mother. A sibling. And after a few hours he had started to think that no one was going to come looking for her, and had been about to take her home with him when a jounin showed up and carried her off.

Wolf had been relieved that someone had come after her, but that hadn't stopped him from getting curious about why a jounin would come looking for her, and following her the man to some three level apartment that looked as if it should have been condemned and knocked down.

He had been watching her sleep from the roof top across from the apartment, had seen her interact with the jounin and felt a stab of jealousy and hatred for the man. He didn't know what sort of relationship the two had, but it was obvious that the man was taking care of her.

Wolf wasn't sure that he liked that since it was his job to take care of her. But he had some problems to sort out before he could even think to get close to her again. 1) He needed to find another way to get close to her. One that wouldn't frighten her or make her feel threatened like earlier today. 2) He needed to do some research on personality disorders since he was starting to suspect that his Kitsune and the girl, Naru were two different persona's stuck in one body.

Two very different hearts, and minds. Two very different sets of shinobi skills. Two lives.

But essentially they were one person, and he didn't mind that. After all Kitsune was Kitsune, weather she remembered or not. And right now she needed him. Just like he needed her. "Wait for me Kit...just a little bit longer. And then I'll keep you with me." Always. Wolf thought as he disappeared, deciding to call it a night so that he could get some rest and start fresh in the morning.