The next morning Naru was walking to the tower to do her work as the Hokage when she stopped in front of a store to stare at the people inside, through the window. The fixation of her interest was a mother with her two young children. She stood there watching them for who knew how long before someone spoke right in her ear. Startling her. "They look like their having fun. Are they yours?" She jumped and turned her head to look at the person who had spoken and flushed when she found herself almost face to face with a silver haired man with one dark blue eye.
She took a quick step back, to put distance between herself and the stranger. After all the last thing she would need was to accidentally kiss some strange man that she didn't even know. "Uh...n-no. No they aren't mine." She said awkwardly as she fidgeted with her shirt sleeve and looked down at her feet. Feeling like a little kid with her hand stuck in a cookie jar, feeling guilty for wanting something that was just a little beyond her reach.
"I'm sorry. Do you have family around here? Or is it just a hobby to watch others with their families?" The stranger asked. Naru felt a chill work it's way down her spine, this man was fishing for something. Information? On her? Why? She wasn't anything special. But that didn't mean that she was going to answer him honestly. Because if he was fishing, then he was after something. And if he was after something, this might not end very well for her.
So lying would be the obvious choice. "I have family, I just got distracted by that one and decided to watch them for a second."
"Your lying-" The man pointed out softly as he tilted his head a little bit and studied her. She stiffened and and was about to tell him to go sod off when he smiled at her, and she got the weirdest feeling in the pit of her stomach. "I can tell your lying because I can see you're pulse accelerate in the hollow of your throat."
Crap.
The only kind of person that could read others so easily was a shinobi. A high ranking shinobi. Similar to the ones who worked in torture and interrogation in one of the Anbu branch offices. C-R-A-P. What was this guy doing talking to her? Shouldn't he be out killing someone? Rescuing some damsel in distress and getting busy with her as a thank you for saving her life? She looked around nervously and debated on screaming bloody murder or something but one look at the man's smiling face told her that it wouldn't matter one way or another if she did. He could easily silence her if she so much as opened her mouth.
"Your a high ranking nin." She said after a second or so and the man gave her a dazzling smile, genuinely amused by how her question sounded more like an accusation.
"Yes."
"Why are you talking to me?" She sounded more than a little freaked by the fact that a high ranking nin was talking to her out of the blue. He chuckled.
"Because you caught my attention." He said almost happily. Naru blanched and took another step back, suddenly feeling as if she should run away as fast as she could. If she had caught his attention like he had just said, it could mean any number of things and not all of them good. It could mean that she was going to be targeted for assassination (she wouldn't put that past the village or it's people since they hated her so much).
It could mean that he thought her an interesting person and wanted to get to know her on a personal level (like taking her as his lover or something) Such things didn't happen often but they did happen from time to time if a shinobi got tired of his usual conquests and went looking for fresh blood. It could even mean, that he wanted to be friends with benefits.
She didn't know. And that was part of the problem. She had no idea what he wanted from her, but she knew that running would be pointless. He'd just chase her down. And who knew what he might do to her then. "Uh...okay. Why?"
"You look interesting. And I like interesting people." He said with a shrug as he stuffed his hands in his pockets and leaned against the building, attempting to make himself seem less threatening to her as he decided to finally introduce himself.
"My name is Hatake Kakashi. What's yours?"
"Really not intrested."
He shrugged his shoulders again. "Too bad. Tell me your name or I'll find your family and get them to tell that your pregnant with my-" Hmmm, that wasn't a half bad sounding idea. Kakashi thought as soon as the word left his mouth. He'd get to meet her family, and get their blessing, and get her. Nice.
"That's blackmail! And a lie!" She cried, a shocked and scandalized look on her pretty face.
"Of course it is. Now tell me your name."
"Fine! It's Uzumaki Naru."
Kakashi stiffened and pushed away from the building, a peculiar look on his face as he stared at her. "Uzumaki?" He knew that name. It was the name of the late fourth Hokage's wife. Minito...He was sniffing around Minato's kid? Seriously? Oh man if Minato were here-
He'd be laughing his ass off at the irony. Kakashi reached out and Naru put her arms up as if she expected him to strike her or something. He grabbed her wrists and pulled her closer to him despite the fact that she was digging in her heels. So many things made sense to him now. The over caution, the need to have him train her in the seduction arts, the way she had slipped out of the Anbu without telling anyone or letting herself be discovered without her mask.
It all made sense to him now.
She was Uzumaki Naru, the village jinchirkii.
