"Thank you. Come on guys. Let's find a hotel room and get settled. No need to rush back out today, we can leave in the morning." I said, and we headed off to take care of everything we needed in town.

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"Holy crow." I moaned, flopping down on the bed with a dramatic sigh. We had just finished shopping, and for the fact that I had just gotten supplies less than a week ago, the amount of stuff we had to get to take care of a chibi was insane.

"What's the matter Danny san?" Iruka asked, sitting on the other bed.

"Nothing," I groaned, sitting up and pulling out my dex, "Just thinking how insane all this is…it didn't really hit me until now."

"What do you mean?" Kakashi asked, from where he stood playing with the TV.

"It's just insane. I mean, I used to love your guys' show and manga, I could never get enough of it. The same with a lot of other bishounen. But I hadn't really watched and anime or picked up a manga in, well…at least a year or so when I got the email. And to think that I'm sitting here now hanging out with you two, and there's a Chibi Iruka here too… it's just all so surreal I guess." I laughed at myself, flipping through the dex's profile options, "We're gonna have to find some way to make money soon, I pretty much killed the little bit that they give you at orientation."

"So turn on the monster feature." Kakashi said, giving up on the tv and coming to sit down next to me.

"Huh?" I handed him my dex, smiling.

He sighed, but took it, and fiddled with it for a few moments before handing it back to me. "There, now when we go outside the city, there's a random monster generator that will give us opponents to fight. I was told that they drop gold or other items." He explained, and I flopped back on the bed next to him with my arms and legs dangling over the sides.

"Thank you Kashi kun!" I said with a grin.

"Danny san, Kakashi san, I'm going to go give 'Ruka a bath, is there anything you need before I go?" Iruka asked politely once Kakashi and I were done talking.

"Naw, it's all good Iruka kun! Thanks though." I said with a smile, waving him off.

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The door to the bathroom closed with a click, and I looked up at the swirl on the back of Kakashi's vest.

"I don't trust him." Kakashi said, and I slapped his side, the closest part of him I could reach, as soon as he said it.

"Kakashi! Why would you say something like that? You've been nothing but nice to him since he showed up…well, after he stopped trying to kill me."

"We're both shinobi Danny chan. I'm good at faking it. I'm sure he knows this. And I don't believe him. He tried to kill you. His wife is dead, and now he's saying that he wants to leave his son with us and go off and hunt down these people, but that he didn't want to stay with us in the hope that we'd help him. I don't know what his game is, but I don't trust him."

I blinked, staring up at him with a slack jaw.

"But…Kakashi… I know he's hurt, and things have gone from bad to worse for him…But he's Iruka, he's-"

"He's an Iruka, Danny." Kakashi hissed, "He's not the Iruka, he's an Iruka. We aren't the characters you trainers think you know so well. We look the same, we may sound the same, but we aren't them. We're people, and we're affected by the world around us just like everyone else. The sooner you realize this, the better!" This was all delivered in a hushed, hissed tone, but the way he said it, he may as well have been shouting.

"Kakashi san?" I looked up at the back of his head, as he had never turned around as he spoke, instead delivering his speech to the opposite wall.

"I'm sorry Danny san. I'm not trying to scare you. But that's the problem with trainers. You never seem to realize that someone's not the same as what you think they are until it's too late."

"So, are you going to beat me senseless, steal my money and leave me dead in a ditch?" I asked harshly, sitting up so fast my head spun for a second. Kakashi whipped around to face me with shock painted on his visible features.

"Danny, I never said that."

"But that's your point, isn't it? I can't know that for sure, right?" I sighed, twisting to put my back against the headboard and pull my knees up to my chest.

"I'm not going to do that!" He insisted, leaning forward towards me.

I couldn't help but laugh, and he gave me a curious look.

"See, when you do stuff like that, I know you're different. Don't think I'm stupid Kakashi, or that I'm so brainless I can't tell the different between fiction and reality. I know you aren't the Kakashi, but you're my Kakashi." I grinned, and latched onto him like a leech.

"Gomen Danny chan, I just have to protect you from unsavory bishounen." He said, not trying to free himself from my grasp.

"Aww, are you like my watchdog now?" I couldn't resist the canine jab, poking him in the ribs.

"Arf." He quipped indulgently, rolling his eyes.

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When Iruka came back out, with a clean and giggling chibi in his arms, he acted as though he had no idea of the conversation that took place while he was in the bathroom, and neither I nor Kakashi were planning to change that.

"So, should we wander around for a bit? Maybe head to the gym. I can watch chibi 'Ruka while you two train if you'd like." I offered, unsure of what else to do, seeing as it was only 4 or so in the afternoon.

"That sounds like a good idea Danny chan." Iruka said with a smile, wrapping his son in a soft blue blanket we had gotten earlier that day.

"Well, let's get moving then. Maybe we'll get to meet some other trainers, maybe get to battle with someone!" I hopped up, and grabbed my dex off the table.

"Yosh!" Kakashi agreed, and we headed out the door.

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A.N.

Yay, another chapter down! 10 Chapters! (Does a happy dance) Please let me know what you think!

Once again, if you'd like to be a trainer, please send me an email at sontsunami 06 aol .com without all the spaces, and let me know the name, appearance, age, how long in the bishi world, what bishis and how they interact. Please don't leave that info in a review, as the last time I wrote a story that let people create their own characters, it was removed because reviews aren't supposed to be used like that I guess.

Ja ne,

Tsunami