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It has been around five minutes since Iruka left to have a little heart to heart with Sasuke.

Kakashi wondered if it was working, Sasuke really didn't seem like the type to open up, Kakashi shrugged, you never know, miracles could happen.

Kakashi walked into the kitchen to get some milk when he spotted Naruto at the eating table looking towards the calendar with sadness.

What on earth could be so depressing? Kakashi looked to the calendar; the only thing that was marked was Iruka's date with Mizuki the next Friday. As depressing as it was for him, Kakashi found no reason for it to be depressing to Naruto.

"Dad always does this." Kakashi looked around to see if Naruto was addressing someone else, nope apparently not.

"Dad always gets his hopes up when he gets a new boyfriend, he is all happy and smiles but when they dump him, dad always gets hurt." This was the first time Naruto was so serious and sad about something, that Kakashi sat down across him.

"So it is a recurring thing huh?" Kakashi asked trying to lighten up the mood.

Naruto didn't say anything.

Kakashi was slightly worried, he has never seen Naruto this sad. "So you prefer if your dad didn't date? Well isn't it a bit sad in itself? To never find that one person to love for all eternity?"

It wasn't that Kakashi wanted Iruka to date Mizuki, it was the when and yes when it was time for Kakashi to date Iruka, he wanted Naruto to be happy about it.

"It's not that!" Naruto yelled. "It's not that I don't want him to be happy with someone, it's that I don't want to see those forced smiles of his and trying to scrape by everyday until he finally gets over that person."

Kakashi fortunately has never had that experience before.

"It is so painful to watch and know that there is nothing that you can do but wait until it is over, it's painful to know that this might happen all over again… That's why I don't want you to try and break them up." Naruto'e voice has taken a dark edge.

Kakashi was in shock, how did this kid know? Maybe it was just guess work. "I don't know what you are talking about Naruto."

"You are truly a horrible liar Kakashi. You heard me, stay away from them. I don't want Mizuki to break up with dad just because you did something stupid."

Whoa, who knew Naruto could be so scary when he was serious.

"Naruto what makes you think that I am even interested in break-"

"DON'T GIVE ME THAT CRAP!" Naruto was obviously pissed.

"Okay, okay, you found me out."

"Just stay away from them, okay? There is a possibility that Mizuki could be the one…"

Kakashi cringed at that. "Mizuki is definitely not the one… because I am the one."

Kakashi could feel Naruto eye him suspiciously. "What makes you so sure?"

This is going to be hard, convincing Naruto, that is. It seems that Naruto was rather protective of his dad and Kakashi can think of only one to convince Naruto.

"I love him."

There was a widening of the eyes from Naruto's part. "You can't mean that."

"I do, I figured it out ever since the day he chose me above all of the other cats. The day he picked me, a cat that no one wanted, to be a part of his family."

Naruto gave a soft smile. "It seems dad has a love for outsiders."

Kakashi raised his brow. What on could Naruto mean by that.

"I guess dad has never told you the adoption story."

There was a pause in the conversation. Yes, Kakashi knew Naruto was adopted, but he figured there wasn't much to it, just your typical man adopts boy, kind of scenario.

"I was orphaned because my parents had died. Wow, it's kind of weird to talk about someone that's not my dad as my parents.

Anyways I won't bore you with that story," Kakashi actually wanted to know what could have happed to Naruto's birth parents but decided against it, it seems that the main point of Naruto's story wasn't about his parent's or how he got to the orphanage.

"My parents died when I was two or so years old and so I was shipped to the orphanage, three towns up from here. Anyways ever since I could remember I was always a bit of an outcast. I had no idea why, I was perfectly normal, physically, but then I found out I had ADD and apparently no one wanted to play with an imperfect person. The care takers were nice enough at first but then I became hard to handle and they started to hate me for something that wasn't even my fault."

Kakashi began to really feel for the kid, he knew what it was liked to be over looked, but he didn't know how it felt to be hated.

"I tried to be nice with the other kids and tried to act like they do, so I might have a chance to be adopted, it worked to some extent, I was called up for interviews but as soon as people found out that I had ADD and that no one wanted to play with me they backed off, I was alone with no chance of being adopted."

Kakashi knew that feeling as well, alone with no chance to be adopted.

"Sooner or later I dropped the act, I stopped trying to be happy and when people came I hid myself, so that I wouldn't get too hopeful, I would hide in the bushes at the back of the building where no one went, by the way this was when I was seven or so." Naruto sighed and paused.

Naruto took a swig of his glass of milk before continuing.

"Sooner or later, it seemed that I dropped off the face of the earth, because no one would acknowledge me, no one payed any sort of attention to me. I had no friends and the orphanage was too poor to afford any medication for my ADD, and so I would wreck havoc with my activeness and then when I felt bad about the things I had done I would always crawl away behind the bushes."

Kakashi could see that Naruto was on the verge of tears so he decided to get out of his seat and hugged Naruto, the kid needed it. Heck Kakashi needed it to make him stop feeling like a monster for not adopting that poor kid. Naruto really had a way with words.

"My interviews got less and less as people at the orphanage began to hate me more and more." Kakashi could hear the kid trying to hold back his tears.

"Naruto, just let it out." Kakashi said, and Naruto did.

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A little while later Naruto had stopped. "Sorry for the boring story."

Kakashi's heart ached at the fake smile Naruto put on. "Hey, I still want to hear the end of it, it's like finishing the story half way."

Naruto took a deep breath, "I don't remember how it happened exactly but it was just like any other day, we had been informed that a man interested in adopting a child was coming and to be on our best behaviour, you know the usual stuff. Anyways, I decided to go hide in the bushes again until it was all over, as I was walking though, I bumped into someone.

I said sorry and continued to walk not really looking at who it was, I just knew that I had to go before the person came.

After a little while of hiding in the bushes, I got hungry and bored so I decided to go inside and sneak around the orphanage pretending to be a spy or something, I don't know. Eventually I came back with an arm load of food and someone was in my spot.

Three guesses who?" Naruto said with a cheeky smile.

Kakashi smiled, this was the happy part.

"I found dad sitting in my hiding spot.

He asked if he could hide for a moment I laughed and asked why, he told me of how scary the care takers were and of course I laughed and we began talking, I told him about my ADD and how no one will talk to me or adopt me so I hide whenever someone who wanted to adopt came. He just laughed and before I got to defend myself one of those care takers found us and took him away… I could even hear her whisper something like 'he doesn't get on too well with others and he has ADD, poor thing, if only someone would adopt him,' or something like that.

It was then I knew he was the person coming to adopt, I felt sad that the only person that I had talked to and really had fun with was going away with another child, so I tagged along with him, always by his side, when the care takers tried to take me away, they were literally pulling my legs while I held on to dad's waist." Naruto said laughing at the memory.

Kakashi inwardly smiled, he could imagine a seven year old Naruto doing that.

"When they did pull me off I was bawling me eyes out, I don't know what happened but dad suddenly exclaimed that he was going to adopt me. I remember that moment so clearly, there was a moment of absolute silence before they all went, 'WAH?'

It was so funny… and the rest is history, I moved here and years later we adopted you guys! Ta da!"

Kakashi smiled at the kid, he was such a sweet kid. He also had a feeling that by telling this story Naruto gave Kakashi his consent to date his dad.

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From behind the wall Iruka smiled. Naruto seemed to really like Kakashi. Granted Iruka missed the beginning of the 'adoption story' as they dubbed it, but he was glad to catch the ending.

He was glad that they were finally pulling together as a family; it gave him a fuzzy feeling.

Iruka was glad that Kakashi and Sasuke had entered their lives… ah Kakashi, Iruka didn't know what to make of him.

On one hand Kakashi really knew how to piss him off, don't you think that Iruka didn't know about the Icha Icha books hiding in Kakashi's bedroom, and on the other hand Kakashi was sweet and loving and truth be told he didn't mind some of Kakashi's habits, it was kind of cute and endearing.

Iruka felt that there was something trying to tell him something but he ignored it, it probably wasn't anything important…

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NEXT CHAPTER: Iruka has another date with Mizuki, it must be stopped but what if Iruka catches them…

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A/N: Sorry if you found this chapter boring, however I needed the whole together family feel and Kakashi and Naruto hadn't done anything together yet so I though, heck why not? Reviews and their reviewers are loved.