Hello there,

Finally (after long time) I got myself to write another part of this chapter. Also, I have been thinking where the story should lead. What to do with it? Luckily, for me I think I came up with solid plot which should mainly revolve around Team 7, Naruto and Kakashi and their relationship. Which implies KakaNaru couple in the future, but don't have to be. Who knows?

PM me for any questions or complains. (But I'm not changing the plot of story I was working on for so long. :D )

Bye, till the next time,

Cupi

There goes this popular thing called disclaimer, meaning that I do not own Naruto.

Chapter 10: Time and distress - Part II

The last week was horrible and he knew it. He was even thinking about visiting Yamanakas to have some of his memories erased or at least sealed away, that's how traumatizing were memories of last week for him. Even seasoned shinobi as Hatake Kakashi, was starting to get frustrated when didn't get what he wanted for a long week. He was dreaming about his student's cooking almost every night, even his favorite books did not help and offered no distraction, which was serious. And his frustration worsen when he remembered that his other gennin, namely Sasuke, was tailing him. Why didn't the boy got the message, when Kakashi threatened him, Naruto was supposed to be the stupid one, right?! Though Naruto proved to be faring well as kunoichi and was the best cook the silver haired man ever met.

Kakashi growled, because no matter what he was thinking about, he always ended thinking about his blonde student's cooking. And Uchiha was not helping it.

But today was different. Yes Uchiha was still stalking him, but… BUT! Today finally! He would get to eat the Kami worthy food made by no one else than Uzumaki Naruto himself. Cyclops jounin ended his team's training same time as ever and then went home. Naruto trailed off to other training ground where he would have his supplementary lessons with Kurenai.

Sasuke was trying to follow Kakashi and what amused the silver haired man was that Haruno Sakura was stalking The Uchiha. That made stalking the teacher harder for the pale boy and also amused the followed jounin. Kakashi giggled and disappeared from the boy's reach, hearing Sasuke cursing.

Once Kakashi arrived home, he needed to prepare himself for today's dinner accordingly. So he reached for one of favorite books and started to read. But after a while, which was short enough, he closed the book and put it on table. This sudden decision made him realize he was nervous. He was thrilled way too much for the food! Oh hell no! He was Hatake Kakashi always knowing his cool. He grinned sarcastically, who was he kidding? Others? Himself? Nah! He was just way too addicted to Naruto's cooking. Yeah, that was it!

Thanks to this impatience, he decided that it would be best to just snatch Naruto from Kurenai and made him cook as soon as possible, but that would mean that Kakashi failed as teacher. So he immediately formed another plan and put it in motion.

One silver haired jounin appeared in the swirl of leaf, hiding in the trees, at the training ground, where one of his students was having supplementary lessons. The plan was simple. The moment they finished their training, Kakashi appeared in from of his little cute genin, briefly greeted Kurenai by his signature 'Jo' and disappeared together with Naruto, just to reappear in front of the blonde's apartment.

"What?!" asked shocked Naruto, seeing his sensei eye smiling. One moment the boy was at the training ground just finished his taijutsu lesson and the other moment he was standing in front of his apartment, together with Kakashi-sensei. Once the blonde's brain caught up with boy, he calmed down a bit. His sensei used that fast transportation jutsu and so they were here.

Naruto swiftly reached for his keys and opened the doors and invited himself and his jounin sensei inside.

"You know, you have to teach me that jutsu, Kakashi-sensei," said Naruto getting out of his shinobi sandals.

"Why so?" asked the silver haired man.

"Because you always use it on me out of nowhere! One second I'm here and the other there, on the other side of village! It's scary if you don't know what just happened to you. What if I attacked you one of those days?" raised his voice Naruto. The boy was frightened just a moment ago and because of that he was a bit angry at his sensei.

"I'm jounin Naruto, even if you attacked me, you would not hurt me," said the silver haired man with reassuring voice.

"That's not the point, Kakashi-sensei," whined Naruto. The jounin raised and eyebrow in question, followed by blonde's groan.

"Next time just tell me when you appear out of nowhere to fast transport us somewhere, okay?" said kunoichi in training, frowning a little. The jounin sensei reluctantly nodded as they both proceeded to kitchen.

That day Kakashi cried again, because of Naruto's cooking. Followed by other two days of crying thanks to delicious cooking. First day he cried because the dinner was just too much heavenly good, second day the man shed tears because he didn't have to cook again and the third day he wept because the food was made just for him and he would get at every day from now on. At every of those three days Naruto asked his sensei, why he cried and the answer was always the same, because the food was that good. That made the blonde kunoichi in training think more about his sensei promise to always have dinner together. Eating together, spending some time with someone, not only with team on missions or training, was nice. The time spend with someone was something that would hurt loosing. And Naruto did not wanted to loose it.

But then the wave of doubts hit the blonde. Was it even possible to eat with someone every day? Will they not get bored of each other? Will they be always on friendly terms? What about the future? And then there was that fact that they were ninjas, they could really die any time. Naruto did not wanted that, he did not wanted his precious people to die and sensei was one of them.

"Sensei, will you always come to eat dinner with me?" asked the blonde kunoichi to be, hoping to be reassured by his jounin instructor.

"Of course! It's promise I'm going to uphold no matter what," said Kakashi decisively. Oh! The food was good!

"Thank you sensei," said Naruto smiling lightly. The boy then decided, that he would cook only delicious food for his sensei, so the man would have dinner with him every day. If the comfort having someone around costs cooking every day for said person, then be it.

For the last eleven days he was in heaven. He had the delicious food every evening and he was actually happy after long time. Happy, since, he could not even remember when he was looking up to something like the dinners with his student. Well he was considered genius, graduating academy at five and becoming jounin at age of thirteen. And yet with this fast forward of shinobi career he was rarely looking forward to anything. That changed the moment he was old enough to buy one of his favorite books and was waiting for another one to be published. But even that enthusiasm was fading away.

Luckily for him, he found the new addiction to enjoy, his blonde student's cooking. And maybe something more, maybe he was glad for not eating alone anymore. It was hard to describe the jounin's feelings, it felt somehow warm to not to be alone, eating cold dinner after long day. It reminded him of the time his mother was still alive and he had family. Yes it was familiarly warm.

He could not wait what would they eat tonight, even though he just woke up and the missions and training awaited him and his team. Since when did he became so addicted to something? Oh! Right on the first day, he ate Naruto's cooking. Thinking about his possibilities to pass the day as fast as possible. He almost decided to sleep trough the whole day, but after five minutes of failing to fall asleep again, he decided against it.

So the lazy jounin Hatake Kakashi crawled out of his bed to the shower and quickly woke himself up with the rather cold water. Then changed to his shinobi uniform and went to make himself some breakfast. Sitting behind the table alone, eating he suddenly realized that he would like some company. The room felt so empty, so alone and cold. That was how he lived his life so far, always on his own. It saddened him.

The silver haired man quickly shrugged it off, because he has his duties to attend, namely his three little cute gennins and D-ranks missions.

"I insist, Kakashi," said the elderly man in the white robes.

"But Hokage-sama!" said nervously the jounin instructor trying to not offed his Hokage.

"I am very well aware that yours last C-rank mission was not exactly C-rank, but your team had done more than eighty D-rank missions since then. And for yours and your team's good mental health, you should take this mission," said the Hokage who was slowly starting to loose his patience with this jounin, who was for the last half an hour trying to reject simple C-rank delivery mission.

"Hokage-sama they are not ready yet!" said the jounin almost scared! Well he knew that his team was more then ready to take the C-rank, hell they might be able to take lower B-rank. But there was no way in hell he would loose the Kami worthy food made by one of his student's so short after he regained it! What a nightmare!

That made Kakashi think about it more. Naruto would eventually one day became chuunin and jounin and would have to take the missions outside of the village, so he would not be able to cook for his sensei! The silver haired Hatake was not sure if he would be able to ever shrug it off.

"Don't make me order you the hard way, Kakashi," raised his voice third Hokage.

And so the team seven members were ordered to meet in hour in front of the village gates equipped for one week long C-rank delivery mission.