In the days since contacting Tsunade about Naru's condition Kakashi found himself floundering in deep, shark infested waters. He was quickly becoming obsessed with certain things. Like how much Naru ate and how nutritous the food was.

How much she slept. Everytime he saw her yawn, he made her lay down. He made sure that she took her vitamins that she drank plenty of water and juices to stay hydrated after spending a while puking.

He made sure that she had every possible comfort, that if she wanted to lay down with her head in his lap; he was available to let her. But most of all he found himself becoming obsessed with the baby.

Every chance he thought he could get away with it he'd bound across the room (most of the time startling Naru because he moved like a huge silver and black blur coming right at her) and distract her with something like pointing behind her then rub her stomach and bound back across the room and sit himself down somewhere where he could observe her.

And then there were the sketches he'd started making, trying to disconcern what their child would look like if it were a male or female. He'd look at Naru's features then use what he knew of his own to draw a little face for both genders.

The most perfect ones to date were a real thing of beauty.

But they had him going out of his mind in a really, really funny way. For starters the sketch of his son's features (if he should have one) were the perfect blend of Naru and himself. Making the child in the image so dazzling that he was already planning to get his son a mask so the pedos didn't see his face and chase him through the village.

He figured that until his son learned to defend himself, he'd need the mask to hide himself. He'd be fine though once he hit his teens.

And the picture of his unborn baby girl (like the sketch of his unborn son) was a perfect mesh of his and Naru's features making her so achingly beautiful that Kakashi had had a good long cry after finishing her picture. Then once he pulled himself together again, he started looking into nunnerys.

Because he knew that by the time she was five, she'd be so perfectly cute and adorable that a majority of the villagers would be found floating face down in every river, lake, and pond with in a hundred mile radious.

There wasn't a single man alive that was coming with in seeing distance of his baby girl! He thought with a menacing crack of his knuckles before he quickly put the sketches away where Naru would never think to look for them as Naru stirred from her nap and looked around the room in an effort to locate him. "Hey Naru." He greeted as he hastily lifted himself up a little bit and stuffed the book he'd hidden his sketches in, under his butt and then sat on it.

"I think I wanna go to the doctor now." Naru said tiredly. No doubt she was tired of throwing up and feeling weaker than normal. Either that or she thought she had the flu and had finally decided to give in to common sense and go get medical care. Either reason made him frown a little bit at first.

He took a deep breath to get a grip on himself and then stood up, making sure to snatch up the book in a way that she wouldn't detect and hid it in his weapon's pouch as he said, "Okay then. Lets get you up and dressed and to the hospital. I'm sure that Tsunade, Shizune, Ino, or Sakura are bored with treating everyone else and will be happy to see you even if you aren't at your best."

"Sounds...ugh...help me up, will you?" Naru said as she held an hand out for him to grab and help her up. He looked at it for a moment and felt his heart speed up unnatrually in his chest and wiped his suddenly sweaty gloved hand on his pants leg and then grasped her hand and awkwardly pulled her up into a sitting position.

"Thanks Kashi." Naru muttered as she started to get up when she realised that he was still holding onto her hand and looked up at him. His face was flushed red and he had the most uneasy look on his face that it was almost comical. Naru bit the inside of her cheek to smother an amused giggle as a funny thought occurred to her.

Kakashi for all his strength and intellegence seemed to be a pretty shy and awkward fella around girls. Which was sort of funny given that the man had no lack of female companions. It was kind of funny how she'd never noticed that before.

She lifted their joined hands and waved them around where he could see them and asked in an bemused tone, "Is it okay if I have my hand back now?"

He looked at her blankly for a moment then let go of her hand and gave her an shy sort of smile and slowly backed away until his back hit the wall a few feet behind him. She walked by him, giving him a funny look as she did so then disappeared down the hall to get dressed.

Leaving him standing there with his face red and wondering if he was trying to have a stroke or something.