Ibiki was still reeling in shock when he finally went into the apartment to do what his friend had asked him to do. Naru was sitting at his table with a bowl full of ice cream in front of her looking like the most content person in the world as he pulled out a seat across from her and sank into it. "Hey Naru. Got enough ice cream?" The girl took a bite of her cold treat and shivered as she nodded.

"I left you some if you want it." Naru said once she swallowed what was in her mouth.

Ibiki smiled at her. "I'll get it later. So... Kakashi told me that your expecting."

"Yeah."

"How far along are you?"

"A month. Give or take a few weeks."

"Ah, so that's why you aren't showing yet-" Ibiki said as she finished off her ice cream and leaned back in her seat and looked at him. "Has Kakashi been taking good care of you?" Naru frowned a little bit at his question and wondered why he would ask such a strange thing. Anyone that knew Kakashi knew that he wouldn't not take care of her.

Then it occurred to her that Ibiki was questioning her in such an obvious way because he was trying to gather information. Though she had no idea what sort of information he was after or who it was on. Kakashi or her. She wasn't sure, but for now she'd just go with it since his questions seemed harmless enough.

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The enemy nins that had set fire to the buildings that had driven Kakashi to remove Naru from their home, went easier than expected. By the time he caught up to the men Gai and his team had already captured and tied them up. Which was all well and good but before Kakashi let his old freind take the two away he felt it necessary to question them.

His paranoia about the men that had forced him to harm Naru- somehow managing to track them down to the village to see if they had self destructed, driving his mind. After all hadn't he sworn to protect her? Hadn't he made a contract that had changed him into a demon container just for that purpose? "Gai, would you mind if I questioned these two before you take them to Tsunade?"

Gai looked at him strangely, apparently finding his need to ask them anything, odd in itself. Yet he said nothing about it. "Sure. Go ahead." Gai said as he shooed his team off and told them to leave for a little bit. Lee, and Tenten did as they were told easily enough but Neji refused to be shaken off so easily.

Something that made Kakashi's attitude towards the young man increasingly hostile since he took the chance to fling a kunai at the Hyuga while he argued with Gai about the reasons why he should stay.

The kunai missed the young man of course, and earned a few looks of shock and disbelief from Gai and his kids before Kakashi growled at Neji to get lost. Now. Before he lost his temper. He didn't have time to deal with the brat's stubbornness. Not when he had some men before him that may know something about the incident a month ago.

Gai slipped an arm around Neji's shoulders and half pulled half dragged him off to where Lee and Tenten were standing, well out of earshot forty or fifty feet away. Leaving Kakashi with some privacy.

The copy nin squatted down in front of the two nins and looked at their headbands. The gleaming silver metal bore the insignia of Rock country. That was a great deal further away than Kakashi and Naru had been on their last mission so while it was slightly doubtful that they had come to see if they were dead yet, he couldn't help but wonder if the men really were from Rock country or someplace else.

Hell, it was easy for a nin to become someone else.

When it came to shinobi vs shinobi, all one had to do to blend in was kill the enemy. Take his headband, his vest and any distingushing weapons and voila you blended in with everyone else. You didn't always have to change your appearance, or facial features.

So he couldn't completely rule out the fact that the men were from the same area he and Naru had escaped from. That they had come to the village looking to see if they were dead. "So you guys are from Rock country?"

The two men looked at him and subconsciously shifted closer to one another before they bothered to nod their heads. Kakashi narrowed his eye at them, wondering why they didn't answer him verbally. "Hn. You know your lives are on the line right now. You could try harder to convince me that you're not after a certain pair of individuals in the village." Kakashi said casually as he studied the pair for any odd reactions to his words.

The two shifted closer to one another and glared at him. He smirked under his mask, his expression dark and menacing. It would seem that things weren't totally over between himself and the men that had caused Naru's wounds. They must have hired these two to flush him or Naru out for recapture so that they could finish what they had started without breaking the contract that they'd all signed with their blood.

Bastards. As if I'd ever let you near Naru again. Kakashi thought as he leaned forward a little bit and grasped the men's headbands in his hands as he whispered. "I hope you've settled everything with god. Because you'll be leaving the village in pieces once I'm done with you." He pulled off their headbands and then stood up and waved a hand at Gai to let him know that he was done then vanished to go speak with Tsunade.

As far as he was concerned any man that so stupidly strode into the village hoping to capture himself or Naru (especially Naru in her current condition) deserved the most painful death imaginable.