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Chapter 14

Night Terrors

Gai sighed, looking over his cards he rarely won at these poker games but he enjoyed having time to spend with two of his dearest friends. "I fold."

"Man, Gai… you're doing worse than normal…" Asuma chuckled, softly looking at his friend.

Kakashi snorted, "Maybe it's cause he's not been youthful enough."

Gai rolled his eyes, "Soo… how is dating Kurenai going?"

Asuma blinked in surprised at the expectant glances from both his friends, "It's pretty good I mean Kagome likes Kurenai and Kurenai likes Kagome…"

"I think he meant on a dating level." Kakashi replied coolly, before he laid down his hand.

The two watched his eyes soften before a slow smile seemed to go across his lips, "Pretty good… she's been helping me stop smoking… so it's been pretty good."

"So that's why you're been asking me to watch her so often at night?" Kakashi asked, a small smirk on his face.

Gai rolled his eyes, "So how is that little dolphin you're interested in?"

"Dolphin?" Asuma asked, a light of amusement in his eyes.

"Haha… he's interested in this little chunin that starts blushing every time he comes round… they've gone out a few times… Kagome has met him," Gai finished, soft laughter escaped his throat at Kakashi's twitching.

"Leave Iruka alone… besides he teaches Naruto and Shikamaru… he's a nice guy…" Kakashi felt a faint blush run across his nose.

Asuma chuckled, "That's good then… I mean is he accepting of Naruto?"

Kakashi nodded, he'd recently gotten permission to get Naruto to live with him a lot of clan's had been displeased and civilians had looked at him with something close to what they had given his father. Those looks of betrayal as if he'd walked out to the other four hidden villages and given them a copy of their secrets. It was obvious that someone was letting secrets out of shinobu meetings…

"Yeah… they go out for a bowl of ramen after school and I join them when I can." Kakashi replied, wondering when they'd gotten around to talking about his love life.

All three men went completely still as a soft breathy sigh, seemed to float through the room and Asuma got up leaving his card on the table to look into his daughter's room. Kagome was face down into her pillow she was sniffling lightly as she squirmed, a small plush of a monkey was tucked under her body and she was shivering.

Then again he wasn't really surprised, Asuma had soon realized that his daughter would not keep still unless she was sleeping with someone. If Kagome wasn't sleeping with someone the sheets and covers usually ended up on the floor and she ended up being cold. Shaking his head, the young man picked the covers up off the floor and wrapped the girl up. Asuma was sure that the covers would be on the floor by morning and she would more than likely end up in bed with him or snuggled up to Kakashi if he slept on the couch.

As he walked toward the room he found them looking at him with unspoken questions, "She just knocked the covers off again… Kagome does that all the time, if she's sleeping with someone its not so bad. Kagome is usually completely still when sleeping with someone else, when she sleeps along my little monkey kicks and squirms all night."

Kakashi chuckled, "I heard she slept with Yoshino and Shikaku last time she was at their house."

Asuma nodded, "Yeah the air and heating unit went on the blitz… it started blowing cold air all night… he said he was really happy that the clan switched over to the unit. If they'd still been using a pilot light it would have been blowing in gas all night and could have killed them all."

"That's a scary thought, didn't he make suggestions that more households switch over?" Gai replied.

"Hmm yeah… I think it scared him more that Kagome and Shikamaru were in the house when it happened…" Asuma replied, he could understand the fears of being a parent and all the things that could and would go wrong. "Hey, Gai, is it true you're thinking about taking in the Lee boy?"

"Been thinking about it, if I take him in I'd have to take in Bankotsu too… those two are practically attached to the hips. That boy has the craziest strength I've ever seen, Aka Ishiro dropped his halberd nearly a week ago, Bankotsu picked it up like it was a hand bag." Gai simply shook his head at the thought.

Both Kakashi and Asuma looked surprised, "Doesn't that thing weight close to 500 pounds?" Kakashi finished.

"Yep… I ended up taking him to the hospital because that just wasn't normal you know? He's using his chakra like Lady Tsunade and he doesn't even know it… I've been thinking about putting them both through my training regime…" Gai continued to mumble ideas.

"You're not going to make them wear that green monstrosity you call clothing are you?" Kakashi asked.

Asuma sighed, "Anyway where is Naruto tonight?"

"Oh… he's with Ru for tonight." Kakashi stated absentmindedly, ignoring the looks of amusement.

They all paused again when soft whimpering could be heard, then soft pattering of feet could be heard before a dark head appeared in the hall way before continuing into the kitchen before a sad face looked up. They could see the tears that covered her cheeks, before Asuma reached to his side and pulled the girl into his chest.

"What's wrong sweetie?"

"Nightmare." Kagome voiced sounded, weak and weepy she had no idea that her father was grateful and relieved she'd never had one near Shikamaru or her other friends.

"Kay, guys I'll see you tomorrow." Asuma sighed, before walking into the back bed room to settle in for the night.

"Hmmm, I'll be at Ru's." Kakashi simply waved, he'd been woken by Kagome's upset cries of a nightmare before they were closer to terrors than any nightmare he'd seen.

Gai nodded before leaving, Asuma smiled weakly when he looked back before looking at his weeping daughter, and damned the woman who's hurt her so badly before he'd known about her. One day she would be forced to tell her friends if the rumors didn't begin to surround her… he and Kagome to an extent were very lucky that the people of Konoha had little problems with those of illegitimate birth.

Sighing, he removed his shirt and shoes and pants before slipping into bed with his precious cargo. Stroking her head he let her cry away, cuddling and nuzzling his chest, she was such a sweet thing he didn't understand what the woman had against her daughter. "I love you, sweetie."

"I love you to, daddy." Kagome replied, listening to her daddy's heart beat always calmed her down. It helped that he always rubbed her back and tried to make everything better again. Sighing in contentment sky blue eyes slipped closed while gentle arms held her close, to a large safe chest.

Edited: 9/3/2012