Author's Note

Prescripto13: the protection that Jiraiya was referring was the fact that Kakashi was afraid that he will slaughter an entire village again, just for Naruto's death. He knew that he was capable and that he might not even able to control. So previously, I even can't remember where, but that Naruto said that he will protect Kakashi, as he is a priest of the Konoha, he has the skills to stop the vampire from harming others. It is one of the reason that Jiraiya came, as I can imagine Kazuhiko wrote to his kohai, asking him to teach his god-son as he, himself could not leave the Sasaki clan issue behind, and more obviously, Kazuhiko would not leave An alone, even for that short amount of time.

To be honest, that's why I begin to add more so called buffer chapters as I think I have not explained myself clearly in the chapters and so I definitely need to revise the whole story once I have completed it. And that, I truly quite enjoy writing this tale too.

Dreamer1084: lol well, to me, initially he is famous for writing icha ichas. and that you have written the first hundredth review that I have ever received! ^O^

As always, reviews are welcome!

Vi.

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Even though Naruto left An's room under Kakashi's request, he was not sure what exactly he needed to do. He plainly let the silver paper wolf show him the way, passed though different corridors inside the Sasaki Mansion. He passed though a few vampire on his way and he realised that not many of them have silver haired, as all of them that he encountered have dark hair. Even though it was extremely rare for a human, especially a Konoha priest to be inside the mansion, but with the guide of the wolf, he reached his destination, the library, without problem.

He opened the door and let the paper wolf to make its way. There was no one visible, but the wolf kept walking to the far end of the room. The room was filled with musky, earthy scent, indicating the age of the collections. The silver wolf stopped right in front of a raven, that Naruto recognised, as he has the unique byakugan. "Ano-sa, Ne-ji?"

The said raven looked up and then nodded to the paper wolf softly, "if you are collecting the books that Kakashi-san has requested, Kazuhiko-sama has already picked them up 5 minutes ago. He should be making his way to Kakashi-san's room."

"Right, doumo." Naruto wasn't sure whether the man was talking to the wolf or himself, but just thanked him nonetheless. He actually don't really like Neji, as he reminded him of his old friend, the remaining Uchiha. Both of them have the odd scent of coldness and distance… but of course, the Uchiha before they were friends. Nonetheless, he then made his way back to Kakashi's room.

The vampire was sleeping and the vampire assistant was sitting by his bed, holding a yellow book in his hand. "Neji-kun told me that Kakashi wants these books, so I bought them up along. Come, I know the reason that Kashi-kun wants you to read this. Such memories," he smiled.

Naruto's gaze followed his great uncle's finger and looked at the photos. Some of the photos were quite torn, but as Kazuhiko said, those were Kakashi's memories. He grinned as he saw a photo with 3 silver haired men. "No wonder the young Kakashi thought An-san was his mother. They looked so alike, just like a family… And that his father looked bit familiar… I think I saw his photo somewhere when I was tidying the archive…" He added as he saw Kazuhiko's beam, "well, I used to be mischievous and so Iruka sensei always made me to tidy up the paperwork with him…"

"He is Hatake Sakumo. The Hatake family used to be part of the Church, but because we have made Kakashi to be the jinchuriki, we have converted him to a Sasaki." Kazuhiko paused as he decided to not to reveal more, "if you want to know more about Kakashi's father, just look up the title of Shiro Kiba, as he is one of the legendary priest in the history. I am pretty sure that Hizuren-san can tell you various stories in that era."

Naruto nodded softly, as he flipped pages. Those only contained the photos of the young Kakashi, who was still a boy. In those photo, apart from Sakumo, An appeared in most of them. He began to understand the bond that the vampires' have, not just sensei-protégé, not just the brotherhood that they described; he felt that it was more like a father-son relationship

The Kakashi insides the photos gradually aged, stepping into his teenage-hood. The boy began to grow, getting into the look that he has now, looking slightly alike to An than Sakumo. And that Kazuhiko appeared more frequently in the photos.

"So… did he train as one of the priests? It is odd that if his father did not bring him up in the Church." Naruto was curious, as the documents that he read in Konoha did not record everything properly, he felt. He learnt about the manslaughters incident, and the purpose of those tattoos, but somehow, most of the basic information went missing.

"He did, but then, in those eras, the education was not as structured as you have received these days. The village of Konoha was not even established; Konoha was just an unstructured unit of the Church, forming by various families. Besides," Kazuhiko added softly, while checking Kakashi's temperature with his hand on his forehead. "Sakumo-san sacrificed himself for the seal when Kakashi was aged 7. From then on, I took over his education, training him as a Sasaki instead, especially the Tsuki has decided to have him as the carrier, rather than An-sama." Then he pulled an understandable smile at the young blond, "and if you are curious of Kakashi's ex-lovers, you won't able to see them here as this isn't a private album, but a family album…"

"I am not intending to find out who was Kakashi's lover dattebyo!" Naruto interrupted as his face was flushed. "I told Kakashi that I don't mind at all. Everyone has his own history. I love him as what he is."

"Hai hai…" Kazuhiko grinned, as he stood up and handed out a small pile of books. "Well I have other issues to address, so you can kill your time with these books, as I don't think Kakashi will wake up before lunch. He needs to rest properly." He then put a bright orange paper frog on the nightstands, on top of a silver paper, where the wolf was previously. "Kakashi's wolf won't last long enough for you to use while you are here. So I have got you a replacement, though I am not sure whether you need it all with Kakashi around," he teased.

"Kazuhiko-san," he flushed.

Kazuhiko tapped Naruto's head gently, "just joking. The frog will show you the way around the mansion, and no one will dare to question your presence in here, as you have seen, everyone here have different origami animal, they are messengers and also representatives." He titled his head, "talking about this, I remembered the scarecrow that Kashi-kun used to fold when he started to live with us after his father's death. This remains me of the mystery on Kashi-kun's name. Although we could guess the meaning behind, we never know the true reason, as Isami- fujin named her son on her death bed." He looked at the sleeping vampire again, "anyway, just give me a shout if you need. Ask the frog to fetch me, it will know where I am."

Naruto nodded quietly, despite the fact that he did not truly enjoy reading. However, when he opened the first book, he grinned softly as he recognised the book. It was one of the fairytale that his lover used to read, before Ero-sennin wrote the infamous Icha Icha series. He slid into the bed silently, sitting next to the sleeping vampire and began to flip the book.