Well, it's late, so I'll keep this brief. I had a lot of fun writing this chapter, because, well, I'm not telling:P

OMFG! Halloween is coming up soon! I went scouting with my family today so I decided which places I had to go to. Its a great skill to know which houses to go trick or treating at. Always go for the old people, they're normally more generous, and family friends. ^.^ I put a lot of thought into this.


"I'm bored" moaned Naruto loudly.

My eyes flickered to him for a moment, before I turned my attention back to the wall. I was at a loss as to what to do. Kakashi had left and would no doubt be back late. Which left me as the babysitter.

"Read a book" I suggested dully.

"That's no fun!" Naruto complained.

"Yeah. We should be training" Sasuke agreed.

My jaw dropped. Did they just…agree on something.

"Ah! Buh-wha?" I stammered, my finger flying wildly between the two boys.

Sasuke quirked an eyebrow quizzically at me. I glared back. Stupid kid.

"We do have to do something" Sakura pointed out, deciding to jump into the conversation.

I was struck by a brilliant idea.

"LET'S GO EXPLORING!" I exclaimed.

"Exploring?" questioned Sasuke.

I nodded earnestly. "I can go get a cell phone."

"So, you want to go shopping" Sasuke clarified.

"We can go bowling too" I suggested, eyes wide.

"Bowling?" Naruto asked eagerly.

I nodded.

"LET'S GO!" Naruto agreed.

Jumping up, I pumped my fist in the air. "Get your coats on kids!" I exclaimed.

"In the middle of the desert?" Sasuke pointed out.

I lowered my hand slowly. "Then don't get your coats on" I said with a shrug.

And thus, we didn't get our coats and we went exploring.

Our first stop was a phone store.

"So, Sasuke, what am I looking for in a cell-phone?" I asked him as we walked into the store calmly.

"Something durable in your case" Sasuke muttered sarcastically.

"Something durable" I noted, ignoring his sarcasm.

"Something with free texting!" Sakura piped up. She hadn't brought her sketchbook with her, and was thus on the ball.

"That's part of phone plan" Sasuke informed her knowledgeably.

"Smart-ass" Naruto snapped.

"Dumb-ass" Sasuke retorted.

Rolling my eyes, I continued into the store. Seems like they would forever be fighting.

Picking out the phone was an arduous task, because all three of them had their own phone opinions.

Eventually, though, it was done and I was left with a sleek, shiny black phone. It was made out of a hard plastic that I made a show of dropping outside to prove to Sasuke that it was durable.

We never did get around to bowling though. Naruto decided we should go out for ramen.

We managed to get a table for four and just kind of sat around while Naruto ravenously consumed numerous bowls of his favorite food.

"So" I began slowly, "You guys have any idea why Kakashi wears his mask everywhere?"

Sakura shrugged, "No idea. It is weird though."

"Don't Japanese gang bosses wear masks?" Sasuke pointed out.

"Are you implying that Kakashi's a Japanese gang boss?" I asked.

"Wouldn't put it past him" Naruto muttered through a mouthful of ramen.

"Don't talk with your mouth full" I scolded in a motherly tone.

Naruto shut his mouth promptly. "Mmmphff" he grunted in agreement.

"Well, for all we know he could be" Sasuke stated simply.

Looks like we were back to the gang boss topic.

"Yeah" Sakura agreed, "It's not like he really tells us anything about himself."

"Hn" I grunted not all that amazed. Kakashi didn't really strike me as the type to talk about that sort of thing.

"All he's ever told us is that all the people important to him are dead" Naruto reminded the group after swallowing loudly.

"How emo" I muttered. I wasn't sure how true that was. It would really suck on Kakashi's part. Maybe I should try to be nicer to him. Then again, that would probably just make things awkward.

"More ramen please" Naruto requested loudly.

"More?" Sakura was incredulous.

"He's obviously making up for the lack of ramen for the next little while" I explained rationally.

"What?" Naruto squeaked.

"You're going on a diet" I informed him solemnly, repressing a teasing smile.

Sasuke snickered evilly as he heard that.

"A-a diet!" Naruto sputtered.

"You're going to a die an early death with all the ramen you eat" I stated bluntly. Seriously though, ramen had so much salt, Naruto was probably going to die an early death.

"On second thought, keep on eating it" Sasuke commanded.

I laughed loudly. Life without Naruto didn't sound all too terrible.

I didn't mean for that to sound so cruel, I swear.

Naruto ate three more bowls of ramen before I decided we should leave before he was broke. I still ended up paying for some of it too.

Back at Gaara's place, we went back to sitting in endless boredom.

"How late do you think Kakashi-sensei will be out?" Sakura mused.

"Late, probably" I sighed.

Sasuke nodded absently, finger's flying away at his cell-phone again.

Suddenly my phone, which I had crammed into my pants pocket, began to vibrate violent.

Flinching in mild surprise, I grabbed the phone and flipped it open. I was greeted with a message, from Sasuke.

"He's at the bar, isn't he?"

I nodded at Sasuke dully.

Sasuke shook his head shamefully. "I'm going to have a shower."

Sakura, who had retrieved her notebook, was seemingly struck by a marvelous idea.

I sighed and shuddered. Somehow I didn't think I wanted to see what she was drawing.

I sat aimlessly in the kitchen, slouched into a chair with my legs draped casually onto the clean table, while the three teens moved to and fro.

When Sasuke reentered the kitchen, Sakura had disappeared, leaving only a pile of discarding papers, some with drawings on them.

As Sasuke walked in, his eyes caught on the papers.

I watched warily as Sasuke snatched the one on the top of the pile and skimmed it over.

I had briefly had a glimpse of what had been on the paper, and, by the looks it of; it was a very steamy kiss scene. I shuddered, creepy right?

Sasuke seemingly thought different however. "Hmm" He murmured, "Interesting."

My eyes widened. He didn't see the resemblance? How could he not?!

Naturally I was starting to think I was the only one with a tiny shred of sanity left. A shred of sanity that disappeared shortly after Sasuke said his next sentence.

Turning to me, face deadly calm, Sasuke told me some interesting news, "Kakashi has a cell phone."

"Where?" I asked all seriousness.

Sasuke paused thoughtfully. "I think it's in his room somewhere."

Then, I paused. How did Sasuke know this? It wasn't like he was some all knowing god or something. Maybe he was a stalker. Hmm…I could see that.

"Are you shitting me?" I blurted out.

"No" Sasuke's eyes were wide with honesty.

"Let's go find it!" I exclaimed, leaping out of seat and tumbling to the ground.

"I'm'a 'kay!" I mumbled into the linoleum floors.

I could practically hear Sasuke roll his eyes.

Leaping up, we continued on our way. The closer we got to Kakashi's room the lower I got to the floor. Sasuke continued to stride normally beside me, making me look like more of an idiot then I already did.

Sasuke flung open the door and walked in. I did a cliché James Bond roll in.

"What are you doing?" Sasuke queried as he watched me stand up and crouch down to the ground..

"Being steathly!"

"You're an idiot."

"Shh" I hushed him, "You don't want to get caught do you?"

"Caught by whom, the dust bunnies?"

I scowled up at him. Stupid Sasuke and his stupid good grammar. "You don't how dangerous they can get" I hissed.

Sasuke shook his head. He was, quite clearly, ashamed at my antics. Of course, quite often I was ashamed of myself too.

It was then that I saw it. Navy blue, sleek and shiny. A cell phone. Using my flawless deduction skills, I decided on the conclusion it was Kakashi's.

After all, Sakura wouldn't have a blue phone, I had seen Sasuke's, and Naruto was too much of a douche to have a phone.

Also, why the hell would any of them leave their phone in Kakashi's room?

"Any time now" Sasuke said impatiently.

I stood up straight. "Fine fine."

Quickly I snatched Kakashi's phone and flipped it open. It had to be the most generic phone I had ever seen, ever. The background was the simple backdrop you oh so often see.

I quickly found out his number and programmed his number into my. I decided that it was a bad idea to but my number into his phone. After all phones did have caller id.

I was careful to put the phone back in almost exactly the same place. I wouldn't put it past Kakashi to remember exactly how he had left the phone.

"Let's skee-dadle!" I commanded grabbing Sasuke's arm and dragging him out of the room.

I dragged him into the main room, which was comfortably furnished with two couches, a small television, and a wooden door to the outside world. Ick.

Sakura and Naruto were already sitting in the room. Sakura had her sketchbook clutched tightly against her chest, and was snapping irritably at Naruto about something. Presumably the contents of her sketchbook.

"You guys even bothered with the T.V?" I queried, swinging my legs over the back of the couch.

Naruto's eyes widened as I mentioned it. Heh, guess the idea had never occurred to him.

Sasuke strutted over to the television, upon which rested the remote. Snatching the remote, Sasuke lazily flicked on the T.V.

Oh joys, news.

"Wait wait wait!" Sakura halted Sasuke before he changed the station; "This is stuff for Konoha!"

"Hn" Sasuke grunted nonchalantly, waltzing over to the couch and plopping down.

Our eyes all trained onto the television, we watched patiently as the weather, which was of on importance to us at the moment, was announced.

I was partially expecting for there to have been another murder recently, but they didn't report on anything new.

Of course, this was a good thing. No one had died, and Kakashi wasn't going to want to go back to help.

Slowly but surely the others filtered out of the room, leaving me along to stare blankly at the T.V.

I wondered when Kakashi was going to get back, it was almost 1:30 in the morning. By know it was a confirmed thing he was at the bar.

My eyelids had just started to flicker shut when I heard the door open with a slow creak. I opened my eyes with a start.

Of course, it was either Kakashi, or a burglar.

I was fairly certain it was going to be Kakashi.

Kakashi stumbled in, looking rather tipsy. "Hey babe" He slurred.

Jumping up, I walked over towards him, cringing as I got closer. He reeked of alcohol. "Your drunk" I stated, not needing to ask him.

"Yes" Kakashi agreed in a deep voice while flicking his fingers towards me.

I wasn't sure if he was trying to be cool or not, but if he was, he was failing miserably. He looked like a loser.

"I could really go for some cheese right now" Kakashi informed me.

I shook my head, walking towards the kitchen. Kakashi trailed me like a lost puppy.

There were a few processed cheese slices in one of the fridge drawers, which I then proceeded to toss at Kakashi. I stifled back laughter as I saw him try, and fail, to catch the oncoming wave of cheese slices.

"You didn't have to throw them at me!" Kakashi huffed angrily, bending down to pick up the cheese slices.

After having successfully retrieved the cheese slices from the floor, Kakashi stumbled forward as he tried to stand up straight. Unfortunately this involved taking me down with him.

"Well hullo" Kakashi slurred, staring down at me.

I frowned up at him, blushing. My back was sore from hitting the floor tile, and the fact that Kakashi was looming directly above me wasn't helping me at all.

"You…plan on moving anytime soon?" I inquired, eyebrow raised.

Chuckling drunkenly, he rolled off of me.

I lay in silence, while Kakashi continued to chuckle.

There was a sudden crinkling noise and I turned to face Kakashi. He was fumbling with the cheese wrapper. I watched in mild amusement as he eventually succeeded to open the wrapper, but failed to shove it into his mouth. The idiot's mask was still on.

Kakashi grunted in frustration and sat up. "Can't get the stupid piece of cheese in my mouth" He grumbled.

Laughing audibly now, I too sat up. Leaning towards Kakashi, I smiled softly. He was an idiot drunk. But, as weird as it was to admit, he was a cute idiot.

"Dummy, your mask is still on" I explained, reaching out and gently pulling down the mask.

What I saw next was a new sight for me. Once the mask was down, I noticed something I hadn't seen before. Across the bridge of Kakashi's nose, a slight pink tinge was appearing. He was blushing.

"You're blushing" I stated, amazed.

Kakashi's blush turned a deeper shade of pink, almost red, and I started laughing.

Kakashi stared at me, then huffed childishly. "Don't mock me!"

I bit my lip to stifle the laughter. He was like a kid. "I'm not" I lied.

Kakashi narrowed his eyes suspiciously, taking a bite of cheese out of the corner of his mouth.

It was time for a change of topic before I burst out laughing again.

"Sasuke told me you once told them that all the people you cared for were dead. It made you sound very emo".

Staring at me pointedly, Kakashi flashed a charming, yet drunken smile. "I'm not sure how true that statement is anymore."

His words, catching me off guard, made a red flush cover my cheeks.

It was Kakashi's turn to laugh. "Now you're the one blushing!"

I frowned at him. "Shut up."

He continued to laugh, until I was starting to feel slightly irked.

Standing up, I glared at him sternly. "Bedtime mister."

"Only if you come with me." Kakashi was back to using the same deep tone he had earlier.

My cheeks flushed redder, now burning.

Kakashi, seemingly unable to stand up, extended his hand up towards me.

I clasped my hand around his and hauled him up slowly. He was lighter than he looked. Kakashi draped his arm around my shoulders and leant on me for support.

I decided to take pity on him because he was drunk.

When we entered his room, Kakashi flopped down on the bed face-first. Patting the other side of the bed vigorously he turned his head to look at me. "Lie down."

I obliged, flicking off the lights before curling up on the bed underneath the blankets. I made sure my back was facing Kakashi.

Seemingly content, I could hear Kakashi's breathing start to slow. I tried to make myself relax, but my heartbeat was beating faster than normal and the blush was seemingly staying.

My eyelids had just started to close and my heartbeat was starting to return to normal when all of a sudden an arm was draped over my shoulder and I felt something warm press against my back.

My pulse sped up again. Tilting my head back slightly, my blush deepened. Kakashi's chest was pressed against my back, and his arm was now wrapped around my waist and holding me there like I was an oversized teddy bear.

Kakashi's warm breath tickled the back of my neck and I shivered involuntarily.

As much as I wanted to pull away, I didn't. Kakashi looked calm and peaceful, and not stressed in the least.

Although, the meaner side knew one thing that made up for the awkwardness of it all.

Kakashi was going to have a hell of a hangover the next day.

Well, I threw in fluff, and cheese!

"I'm not sure how true that statement is anymore" Was that a confession? A crappy, nondirect one.

:) I'll update soon. Hopefully. If Halloween doesn't distract me too much. Gotta go make sure my Waldo costume is ready to go!

R&R For free candy? Trick Or Treat?

-Y.A.O.G