Kakashi sat with them and talked for what seemed like forever, occasionally glancing at Naru with confusion. He already knew that the girl was his supposed bride and though he knew that, he kept wondering why she was ignoring his presence.

Honest to god, she was acting like he didn't even exist!

It was the most perplexing, most...odd feeling he'd ever experenced before and after a while it grated on his nerves.

Finally after being ignored for so long, he decided to try an experiment of sorts and reached out and grasped the girl's hand as she was reaching for her drink. She blinked and frowned as if puzzled about where the hand grasping hers had come from then looked at him.

"What are you doing?" She asked in a peeved tone.

"Holding your hand-" He said with a charming smile, trying to get her to sofen a bit towards him. For a moment he thought his charm might be working on her. And then she stabbed him with her fork causing him to yelp and quickly let go of her hand and pull his arm back then looked at her funny. His silver eyebrows nearly meeting in the middle of his forehead as he stared at her- hard.

Then turned his head and looked at Tsunade and mouthed, What's wrong with her?

Tsunade picked up her drink and shrugged her shoulders, knowing that he wanted to ask her some things. But she couldn't give him the answers he wanted while Naru was sitting at the table. It would simply be too cruel. And she had worked far too hard to try and heal Naru's wounds simply to reopen them for Kakashi.

Frankly, the destruction of Naru's life wasn't worth it. "Uh...Angel, if I give you my wallet then would you mind leaving for a few hours? Kakashi and I have some things to talk about."

The girl- Angel looked at Tsunade with a peculiar experssion on her face and asked in an almost child like tone of voice, "Are you going to talk about lovey dovey stuff?" Kakashi frowned at her use of words and wondered who the hell talked like that as Tsunade gave the girl a grin and tossed her a little violet and poka dotted wallet as she nodded.

"That's right. We have lovey dovey things to speak of-"

"I'm gone!" The girl said as she jumped up out of her chair and tucked the wallet into her front right side pant pocket and all but ran for the door. Kakashi let out an impressed whistle then glanced over at Tsunade who looked totally somber now.

"I've never seen a girl her age run so fast when the words 'lovey' and 'dovey' are mentioned... There is a reason for that right? Just like there must be a reason why she looks exactly like my late sensei."

Tsunade looked taken aback for a second then sighed. Crap. "I'm sure that you must already know why she looks like your sensei-"

"Yes. And I'm furious with you, that idiot sage, and our Kage over it too." Kakashi murmered as he crossed his arms over his chest and then asked in a growling tone. "Why didn't any of you assholes see fit to tell me that Naru still lived? Did you think that I would try to take her from you?"

Tsunade's mouth opened and closed a few times before she managed to demand. "Wouldn't you have?" Kakashi glared at her as she started a long rant about how well she knew him. "You think I don't know your personality enough to know that if you had known, you would have come after us and dragged her away from the only family she knew? The only peace of mind anyone had ever given her?"

"Oh shut up you old hag!" Kakashi snapped. Tired already of her righteous indignation.

Who the fuck did she think she was getting pissed at him? Had she spent sleepless nights hovering over Naru after she'd had nightmares as a toddler? Had she arrested and murdered twenty people in cold blood for daring to lay a hand on that precious little girl when she'd been in trouble?

No. Kakashi highly doubted it.

If she had there would certainly be a lack of good nins running about the leaf village.

Had she spent the past ten years throwing birthday parties for a child that she thought was dead? Had she cried herself to sleep year after year over the injustice of having the only family she'd had left- ripped away- again, he didn't think so.

He took a shakey breath to keep himself from expoloding at her and said in a deadly calm voice tinged with bitterness. "You three had ten years. You had ten years of knowing she was alive and well and safe. And you left me with nothing... Nothing but memories of a child that no longer exists."

His lips curved up into a sad smile and he suddenly said, "You know, when she was a little girl I used to go and see her everyday, before breakfast- when I knew she wasn't asleep anymore. And around lunch time, I'd take her out of the village and play games with her. Hide and seek, tea parties, house- She used to run up to me and hold her arms out and say, 'hold me, hold me'; and I would pick her up and hold her as close to my chest as I could."

"I didn't care how tired I was. How much pain I was possibly in due to missions. It didn't matter if I had killed or lost comrades. Nothing mattered to me like she did. And the day that Sarutobi removed her from my sight I knew it was the end. I begged him Tsunade, on my knees- Please don't take her away from me. And I felt as if I were dying when he pried her from my grasp and sent her to the orphanange. Where I knew she would be mistreated, and abused."

"I would fall into bed exhausted and think that I could hear her crying and have nightmares. I lost so much sleep that I had to be hospitalized. It felt like my mind was being unraveled. And when Sarutobi came to see me while I was hospitalized all I could think was, I'd rather be dead. Anything was better than knowing what was being done and being unable to stop it."

He looked at her again and without raising his voice even the slightest bit, said. "You had ten years to come clean and you never said anything. What little respect I held for you, and your two idiots is gone. I hope the three of you are damned proud of yourselves because you've ruined everything. Her. Me. Whatever life I could have given her if I'd been given the chance... You've ruined it all." He stood up, his chair clattering and almost falling over as he got to his feet.

He gave Tsunade one last scornful look, letting her see how much he hated her and walked off. He needed to get himself back under control before he tried talking to Naru next.