Kakashi watched the brief, bizarre exchange between the white haired teacher and his Naru and growled in anger. Naru had looked so scared and uncomfortable when the man had spoken to her that Kakashi had felt warning bells going off in his mind.

He could'nt blame his Naru-pup for feeling such things since he had been reading the man's body language from where he sat in the tree outside of the class room. He had seen the man's dark intent and could almost smell the lust coming off of his body. He knew enough about seduction to spot certain signs in a person's body language.

Fury boiled up and pulsed through his blood. That filthy mongrel was panting after his pup like she was in season!

How dare he!

How dare that damned filthy male lay so much as a finger on his sweet little Naru!

He growled and debated on going in the building and dragging the man out kicking and screaming by the scruff of the neck and disposing of him so that his little Naru wouldn't be bothered by the man any more. I think it's time to have a little parent teacher confrence. Kakashi thought darkly as he dropped out of the tree and landed lightly on the balls of his feet and stuffed his hands in his pockets, an old habit that he had formed as a kid so that he wouldn't be tempted to snap someones neck if they got with in reach of him and walked towards the front door.

He made his way down the hall and paused outside of Naru's class, with his hand on the door knob and looked towards the other door thirty feet away as it slowly and quietly slid open and a small blond headed kid-dammit what the hell was Naru doing crawling around on the floor?

"Naru?" He walked towards her and stopped right in front of her and crossed his arms as she looked up, and up until she was looking at his face. He raised a brow at her as she paled. "What are you doing girl?" He asked gently despite the fact that he was seething inside.

It was one thing for his pup to be unhappy, scared and uncomfortable in class. It was another thing entirely for her to think that she should skip out on her lessons. "Uh...would you believe me if I told you that school was let out early today?" She sounded so hopeful. He smiled and bent down and grasped her upper arm and dragged her to her feet and slipped into the class room and pulled her back inside with him and waited for a second or so until the teacher, the slightly tall brunette standing in front of the class with a book in his hand, looked up and noticed him.

The man looked confused for a second and told the kids to all sit quietly and read the next five chapters then gave some page numbers as Kakashi pushed Naru down into her abandoned desk chair and told her to pull out her book and read while he had a little talk with her teachers.

Naru gave him a murderous look that surprised him just a little bit. He had never seen her look at him in such a hateful and angry way. He wanted to ask her what thatlook had been about but the brunette was already on his way up to them, temporarily drawing his attention away from his pup.

"May I help you, sir?" The brunette asked as his dark eyes flickered to the little blond girl in the seat half behind a tall, silver haired man. The stranger was a jounin from the looks of him, Iruka could tell from the way he carried himself, he could also see the protective way the man stood near the girl and knew instantly that this man was her father or brother or guardian.

"I hope so. I'm Naru's brother-" He held his hand out to the brunette, remembering that it was considered polite to shake hands when introducing one self. The brunette took his hand hesitantly and Kakashi forced himself to smile at the some what timid man. "Kakashi Hatake, and I came here today to check up on her progress in school and ask some questions. Do you have a minute to indulge me?"

Iruka blushed and stammered his name as he shook the jounin's hand and quickly motioned for him to join him at his desk, they might not have a lot of privacy but the kids wouldn't disturb them any. Kakashi glanced at Naru then followed the man down the steps that ran through the middle of the class room. He stood off to the side and watched the teacher grab a chair for him and almost smiled as he stammered an apology to him about not having a chair for him since he hadn't known he was coming.

Kakashi kindly assured the man that it wasn't his fault since Kakashi hadn't told anyone that he would be dropping by. He sat down when Iruka gave him the green light and crossed his legs and waited for the man to pull out some papers that he assumed had something to do with Naru. "Okay...these are her grades, a list of her classes, conduct reports... What exactly did you want to know Mr. Hatake?"

"Everything. Tell me does she come to classes regularly?" Kakashi asked, figuring that if he could find out that she skipped on a regular basis he could ground her or something.

Iruka looked a little startled by his question and checked his attendance sheets. "Uh...yes, actually. She does attend classes every day. She does her work quietly and sometimes we let her go early because she finishes ahead of everyone else."

"Really?" Kakashi said as he glanced up the stairs at the little girl's desk and saw her glaring at him. He smiled and gave her a small wave, and she squeaked and ducked her head, trying to hide her face. Iruka watched the display and noted the pride that he heard in the man's voice. Kakashi Hatake had a lot to be proud of.

Not only was Naru a very well behaived child, but she was very polite and well liked by the students in her class. She had a strait B and C average and gave everything one hundred and ten percent. She even did remarkably well in her advanced classes!

Something that shocked the hell out of Iruka.

"What is her grade average?"

"Strait B's and C's. But you must know that since you've seen her report cards."

Kakashi looked back at the man. Report card? He had a vague idea of what those were, but Naru had never let him see hers, she had ripped them to pieces before he could see them. Something that had always puzzled and worried him. But since she had seemed much happier not letting him see them then he had stopped asking to see them. He hadat one point asked the Hokage if he should be worried and had been told by the man that everything was fine.

That Naru was fine.

"No. She's never let me see her report cards."

Iruka looked a little surprised by his comment and gaped at him. "What? Really? But-" He stopped and shook his head and shuffled some of the papers.

"Uh...I've been meaning to ask Mr. Hatake-san. But has Naru been asking you for help with her homework for her advanced classes?"

Kakashi looked at Iruka strangely. Advanced classes? "What are you talking about? What advanced classes?"

Iruka gaped at him again and Kakashi looked a little pissed. "Uh..well, about two weeks after she started the academy some teachers took her aside and put her in five advanced chunin level classes and at least three jounin level classes. She only has English in here, the rest of her day is taken up by her other classes."

Kakashi gave him a stunned look and looked back at Naru with a frown on his face. Why would the teachers do such a thing to a new student? To Kakashi's knowledge they couldn't without a parent's permission. "Tell me, doesn't the faculty staff need permission from a parent or guardian before they can do such a thing?"

"Oh my yes. Because the classes are so time consuming and stressful, and some of the students have suffered mental illness from the lack of rest and such, the faculty does need permission to place a child under the age of fourteen in the classes... Wait a second. Are you saying that you didn't give anyone permission?"

Kakashi looked a little more pissed. "You're correct. I did not give my permission."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"I'm pulling her out of those damned classes and for the next few days I'll be keeping her at home so that she can rest. I noticed this morning that she didn't look so well." Kakashi said gently as he looked at Iruka. The man made an 'O' with his mouth and quickly gather some stuff together for her to work on so that she didn't fall behind and gave the papers to Kakashi who folded them neatly and stuffed them in his weapon's pouch and stood up as Iruka called for Naru to grab her things and get ready to go home.

"Make sure that you stop by Mizuki's office to talk to him about pulling Naru out of those classes." Iruka whispered and Kakashi nodded his head curtly and waited for Naru to come walking down the steps, she looked wary of him. Like she expected him to be mad at her for some reason, and for a moment he wondered what was going through her mind.

She walked up to him and stopped right in front of him and looked up at him blankly as he reached out and put his hand on top of her head and smiled at her behind his mask. "Come on pup, I'm going to be keeping you home for the next few days." He said gently and she frowned at him as he closed his hand around the nape of her neck and rubbed the soft skin with his thumb as he said good bye to the brunette and maneuvered Naru out the class room door and stepped out behind her and closed the door and started walking.

"You seem mad." Naru said after a second or so as he led her down the hall.

Kakashi looked down at her and nearly snarled. Of course he was pissed. He had every right to be! She had been placed in classes that were far too dangerous for her health and well being! He knew for a fact that the chunin classes dealt with several different types of genjutu that bordered on torture. And the jounin classes taught one how to kill, stalk, track, and fight.

The kids were often paired off and told to kill the one that they were paired off with. And more often than not someone ended up dead.

And that was just one of the many lessons taught to the kids in the jounin classes.

"I'm not mad." He was fucking furious! How dare these people do something like this to his Nartu and not ask for his permission! Naru could have been wounded, or worse, killed! "But I am pulling you out of those advanced classes." He said gently as he stopped and looked around. Where was this Mizuki guy that Iruka had mentioned?

Naru paled a little bit and stared up at him. "I wish you wouldn't." She said softly and he glared down at her. He dropped down to one knee and grasped her slender shoulders and shook her a little bit.

"Why not? Those classes could ruin you. You'll be forced to do things in there that you aren't prepared for. Things that you're too young to do. Why would you not want out?" He growled at her. Naru looked scared, her face a sickly grey that he had never seen before.

"B-Because...they s-said that they'd h-hurt Nii-san if I didn't take the classes..." Naru stuttered as her eyes teared up, Kakashi stared at her in confusion then shock. Who had said that? Who would dare to threaten him to get Naru to do something? Whoever they were, they were dead once he got his hands on them. He thought darkly as he pulled the distraught little girl into his arms and picked her up, she wrapped her little arms around his neck and sobbed against his shoulder and he felt lost.

"Shhh. Don't cry Naru. No one is going to hurt me..." Because I'll kill anyone who tries to take me from you.