Guilty.

Kakashi was feeling guilty about his earlier behavior at Naruto's, as he walked with the two through the village, watching them walk side by side. Noting the way that Naruto kept reaching out and brushing Shay's dark hair back from her face and how he would lean in and whisper something to her, or how he would occasionally link their hands together and make Shay blush.

They looked so cute. So happy. So-So...in love that Kakashi found himself frowning at them from behind his Itcha-Itcha book.

But they didn't really know each other. His mind kept saying over and over again.

Naruto had known Shay all of a few days, so what was holding their fragile relationship together? What was it that they had seemed to bond over? It was obviously something that no one else knew or he wouldn't be giving himself a headache trying to figure it out simply to satisfy his own curiosity.

He reached up and massaged his temple (not for the first time in the past twenty minutes) and caught Shay looking at him with a worried frown on her face before she looked away, apparently not wanting him to know that she knew something was up with him. And he almost growled at her for taking her eyes off of Naruto to even look at him. After all Naruto was the one trying to woo her, not him.

They reached the training ground in twenty minutes and found Sai and Tenzou waiting there for them.

"Hello Shay." Tenzou said as they walked up. Shay smiled shyly at him and greeted him back before turning to greet Sai who looked more than a little surprised that she was talking to him as Naruto pulled the blanket that he had brought with him again, out of the scroll, the loud popping sound startling Shay so much that she tripped over her own feet and fall back against Kakashi who was forced to drop his book so that he could catch her before she could fall all the way down and noted that her face looked a little pale.

"W-What the-"

Naruto looked at her and paled a little bit.

Fuck. He'd forgotten that she wasn't aware that he was a ninja. He was about to explain to her what had just happened along with his job, specifically, but Yamoto beat him to it. "It's a summoning scroll. Haven't you ever seen one before?" He asked as he stared at her face, studying her reaction. More than a little suspicious by her reaction.

Kakashi and Sai were too, though they didn't say anything about it as she shook her head no as Naruto stood up and reached for her.

She stiffened a little bit and looked at his hand as if she expected it to bite her or something. Naruto waited patiently, deciding that if she couldn't look past this then they had no real future together and was more than a little impressed when she still reached out and took his hand.

She's braver than she lets on. Kyubbi said in the back of Naruto's mind.

Naruto suppressed the urge to snort. Of course she was brave. She had engaged in sort of love making with him earlier and it took a certain special sort of person, to look past the demon, to see him enough to do such a thing. "Shay, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you this sooner, but I didn't want to chance it because I knew how much things like this freaked you out-"

Kakashi listened with interest as Naruto spoke, his visible eye widening a little bit as he realised that Shay was a civilian. And not just any civilian but one who was living with the village biiju.

Oh dear god. Kakashi thought as Naruto explained things to Shay.

Kakashi had thought Naruto was being stupid before for letting her stay with him. Now he wasn't so sure that Naruto was being stupid.

It was true that most civilian and shinobi relationships didn't work out very well, but some of them managed to work out. Still, the thought of Naruto tying himself to someone who would be utterly defenseless when Naruto was away on missions, with no one to protect her or keep her safe, made Kakashi's stomach churn.

"But I'm a ninja and-" Naruto stopped speaking as Shay lifted her hand in the air and braced himself for impact, just knowing that she was going to hit him, and he was going to deserve it for entering some sort of relationship with her without warning her first. But Shay was just full of surprises and smacked him firmly on the rear, hard enough to make him yelp and jump away from her before she said.

"I had a suspicion after the way Kakashi knocked you around yesterday, but I didn't want to say anything... Still, try and warn me before you pull anymore shinobi tricks with scrolls and such." Naruto blinked and slowly nodded his head as he rubbed his sore butt cheek.

"Alright. I will." He assured her with a wary look as she sat down on the blanket, which was under the one tree in the middle of the training ground, far, far away form all of the other tree's. No doubt Naruto thought it would be best to keep Shay well within sight after yesterday's incident in the woods.

Shay smiled at him and made a shooing motion with her hand and Naruto shook his head as he turned to the to the others to see what they were doing today as Shay lay back on the blanket. Naruto paired off with Sai and Yamoto to spar since Sakura was no where to be seen or heard from today. And Kakashi decided to sit in the tree above Shay and watch her for a little while from behind his book.

After an hour or so passed Shay seemed to doze off, giving Kakashi the perfect oppertunity to study her in her sleep. He dropped down out of the tree and landed soundlessly beside her and shifted so that he was shoulder level and stared at her face.

She really was a beauty.

Almost like Snow White out of the fairy tail. Skin like fresh snow, lips as pale as roses. And probably just as sweet. Eyes so deep and green that they surpassed the beauty of the finest emeralds. She was slightly taller than most girls, slender, delicately boned, much like Sakura, but with lusher curves.

He followed the slight rise and fall of her breasts as she breathed. She made a soft sound in the back of her throat and turned her head slightly to the left, several strands of her silken hair slipping across her cheek to her nose making her squirm in an effort to get away from it because it was tickling her nose.

She turned onto her side and rubbed her face against the blanket and sneezed as Sai came walking up to him and sat down next to him on the blanket. "You seem interested in something."

"So naturally you got curious and had to come and investigate." Kakashi said in a slightly amused tone. Sai shrugged his shoulders. He hadn't really gotten curious, though he was just a little bit curious about why the copy nin was hovering so close to Naruto's girlfriend.

"Not really. Naruto and Yamoto-san are almost done sparring. They wanted to know if you wanted to join us for lunch. Their planning to hit the Korean BBQ."

"Sounds like a plan. Is Naruto going to wake Shay or let her continue sleeping?"

Sai shrugged his shoulders, reached out and quickly poked Shay in the side, hard enough to make her yelp and jerk upright and look around as he laughed and jumped up and ran over to Naruto, calling loudly. "Naruto! Kakashi poked Shay and woke her up!"

Kakashi stared at the younger man's back through a narrowed blue eye and mentally growled.

That little-

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Kakashi glared at Naruto as they walked down the street.

He wanted so badly to knock that damn evil grin off of the teens face, but there was a lady present and he didn't want to get yelled at for decking her man, so he decided to wait and nail the little punk later, like he was going to do with Sai. But Naruto had other plans. And the second he looked away from the blond little fox, the heel of Naruto's hand connected with his face, pushing his head back as he went sprawling to the ground with a faintly amused expression on his masked face.

So the kitsune wanted to play huh?

Naruto stopped walking when Shay paused and turned to look at him, a wide eyed expression on her face as Kakashi got up and let out a low growl before he grabbed Naruto around the waist and picked him up and then body slammed him. Naruto hit the ground with a loud grunt as Kakashi flopped down on top of him elbow first knocking the air from his lungs.

Oh no he didn't.

Uh, yes he did. Kyubbi snickered in delight.

Sai decided to enter the fight with a quick, "Winner gets a kiss from Shay!" As he jumped on the two of them and started rolling around punching whoever ended up in his way.

Shay watched the three with a disgruntled look on her pretty face as Yamoto walked back to her and stood there beside her watching the three and wondered how he was going to break them up without being drawn into the fight himself since his senpai had obviously fallen prey to Naruto's playful nature first.

After several moments of watching the three, nearly grown men roll around in the dirt and beat the hell out of each other Shay had finally had enough and walked up to the three and grabbed the back of the two heads that she could get her hands on, and slammed them together once, twice, a third time before grabbing the two men by the scruff of the neck and dragging them away from the third person, and dropped them unceremoniously onto the ground with a loud yelp from both.

Naruto and Kakashi blinked up at her as she turned her head and looked at Sai before saying, "I had better not get my hands on you."

Sai grinned at her. She wouldn't. He had just wanted to do some bonding with his teammates and that had just seemed to best way to go. "Say no more." Sai said as he conveniently recalled having something else to do right at that moment and ran away laughing like mad as Tenzou gaped at her with a mixture of horror and apprehension.