"Alright then Kakashi. I get it. But if you think Naruto will give her up easily-" Tsunade said as she lifted her arm and ran her fingers though her hair again, a small sign of her agitation.
"Here is what's going to happen Kakashi. We haven't a chance in hell of taking the girl from him at this point. Naruto would rather hold her to him until he crushes her anyways-"
"Right... The old if I cant have you, I'll simply kill you thing." Kakashi said with a humorless smile as he stared at the woman.
"Right. Which is why I'm assigning you to get close to her and try to persuade her to leave Naruto of her own accord. I don't really care how you do it. Bully her, threaten her, frighten her out of her wits. Use your inhuman super former Anbu powers and make her leave him if you must." Tsunade said as she reached down and picked up one of the knives and held it up in front of her eyes.
"Tsunade-sama, that might be going a little bit over board-"
"I don't care Kakashi. I refuse to sit back and watch my gaki enter into something that could kill him." Or us. Tsunade thought darkly as she stared at the sliver blade's glint under the fluorescent light.
Kakashi closed his eye and hung his head a little bit. This wasn't a good idea. It wasn't a good idea at all. Especially since Naruto may already know about Shay's wounds. And if it didn't deter him from the girl yet, then nothing short of death would keep him from her no matter what methods Kakashi may use to try and get her to leave him. "I don't want to hurt them." Kakashi said softly, his tone forlorn and thick with sadness.
"I know. And if either of them become hurt then you can place the blame solely where it belongs. On my shoulders."
He would too. Tsunade could see it in the way he pushed the sadness aside and lifted his head to glare at her. His dark blue eye holding nothing but steely resolve now. Tsunade's lips curved up slightly in a sad smile.
Her gaki just might murder her for this. But she had to do something to save him from himself. "Do you know how you'll do it Kakashi?"
"No. But I know what to use as a last resort." He would dredge up the pain of her past and make it seem as if she were suffering again. He could even use his Sharigan to simulate pain that would last for weeks. Of course he would have to make things convincing. He would have to leave a few bruises and make her look as if she were being hurt again...
He suddenly felt the urge to puke again.
God this next few weeks were really going to tie him up in knots.
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Four days later-
Shay was released from the hospital and Naruto was happy to finally have her back in the apartment again. Especially since he was sure that the people in the hospital had been trying to kill him. (He'd had a few mishaps involving a mop, a wet floor and a garbage can) The moment that the nurse pushed Shay's wheel chair outside, Naruto wasted no time in scooping her up and speed walking away from the building as fast as he could without walking.
Shay squirmed in his grasp as soon as they were away form the building, trying to silently tell him that she wanted down to walk. Naruto however chuckled and shook his head no. "I don't think so Shay." He said in an amused tone as he kept his hold on her.
Now that she was free of that death trap hospital, he wanted to spend some time with her alone. His reasons for wanting this were simple. Over the past four days he had grown very comfortable with the idea of claiming Shayera as his mate.
He was so comfortable with the idea that had had planned a picnic, he had planned a very nice dinner in one of the private rooms in Choza's restaurant, he planned a movie marathon back at his place followed by some serious cuddling and maybe a little petting if Shay felt well enough to indulge him.
He would have to make sure that he didn't push her. Especially since she still didn't know him very well and her back was still wounded too.
Tsunade had said that he could take her home as long as he made sure not to let her do anything that could reopen the still healing wound over her spine. Naruto took the long way around the village in an effort to keep them both from being ambushed and finally after about twenty minutes or so he finally managed to get them to training ground two which was mostly a field type of terrain and found the spot that he intended to use for the picnic.
He set her down and pulled out the scroll that he had grabbed when he had gone home earlier to shower and grab some clothes for Shay to wear out of the hospital. He'd picked out a nice short sleeved white cotton shirt with pale pink and blue flowers hanging from little green vines with little seed pearls sewn on it around the middle of the collar in little floral designs and a nice ankle length blue skirt with two rows of ruffles along the bottom. He had grabbed a pair of soft white leather shoes with small heels for her to wear too.
He pulled out the scroll and glanced at her, his azure blue eyes drinking in the sight of her. She was so beautiful to him that he was having trouble focusing on his task. "Naruto, what are you doing?"
A good question. He thought as he tore his gaze away from her and opened the scroll and used his chakra to summon the blanket, basket of food that he had fixed for this occasion, and some dishes. Once he had the basket and dishes set aside he quickly spread the blanket and started to set it up for their use then once he was done he looked up and Shay and noted the wide eyed look of surprise on her pretty face and grinned as he patted the empty space beside him.
"You've...been planning this for a while haven't you?" Shay asked with a suspicious look on her face as she edged close to him, close enough for Naruto to reach out and snake an arm around her slender waist and pull her down into his lap.
Shay squeaked as he pulled her down until she was sitting in his lap and flushed an adorable pink when she felt his crotch under her butt. "N-Naruto!"
Naruto chuckled and bowed his spine a little bit and wrapped his arms around her middle and rested his chin on one of her shoulders. "Hush Shay honey-" Naruto said in a low seductive tone that sent shivers down her spine as his breath fanned against her cheek. "Let me enjoy this before I have to let you go." He said softly as he rubbed his cheek against the silken strands of her hair.
Shay twitched and squirmed in his grasp and bit her lower lip to keep herself from laughing when his breath started to tickle the side of her neck.
Naruto was enjoying the feel of Shay's body, cradled in his arms, her back against his front. For some unknown reason that he couldn't quiet explain, this felt right to him.
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Kakashi rolled out of bed with a sickening sense of dread and went about his morning routine before showering and getting dressed and leaving his apartment to go see if he could catch Shayera alone so that he could do as his Kage had asked him too.
This was the part of the job that he hated.
The part where he had no choice but to ruin the life of an innocent girl. A civilian no less.
Something that was forbidden for a shinobi to do with in their own village for safety reasons. It was a taboo for a shinobi to attack a civilian. It was an even greater taboo for a shinobi to seek to place the life of a defenselesss civilian, second to the life of another shinobi.
Attacking Shayera Michale's now that Tsunade had given her word that the girl could stay, even if Tsunade had been the one to order this done-
Would still be considered an act of treason against the village.
Yet it showed just how worried Tsunade was about Naruto's well being to have ordered him to go through with this damn stupid plan of hers anyways.
Kakashi swung by the hospital intending to send Naruto on a fools errand so that he could subtly start his mind games and rough the girl up a little bit, and was more than a little annoyed to find that Shayera had already been released into Naruto's care.
And after about an hour of trying to track the two teens down he was about to give up and go back home when he was walking by training ground two and spotted Naruto's semi long spiked blond hair and his navy blue and orange jacket, and the dark haired girl sitting in his lap squirming and laughing as Naruto buried his face against the side of her neck.
He stood still for about a second or so just observing them as an bizarre tightness settled in his chest. He wasn't so sure that he could do this.
He wasn't so sure that he could hurt either of them like he had been ordered too. But he couldn't disobey Tsunade either. He was stuck. And that fact made it hard for him to breathe much less think of a way out of this.
Which was why he set a limit.
He would try to force Shayera to leave his former student only three times before he gave up. If by the time he was finished, Naruto and Shayera could still stand to be in the same room together, then they were meant to be and he would hand himself over to Naruto to explain his actions and let the teen kill him if that was what he wanted to do.
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Wow, Tsunade and Kakashi can play the villains pretty well.
Just a quick warning. The next few chapters are going to be a little dark and maybe even a bit disturbing because Kakashi will be using genjutsu to pull Shayera's memories of her time in captivity with her attacker to the surface.
I won't go into much detail. In fact I'll do my best to only make things vague. But Kakashi will be seen by Naruto in a compromising position and Shay...
Well you'll have to wait and see what happens.
All I can tell you is that everything will be okay, the damage done will more or less form a relationship between the three that will turn romantic later on.