Kakashi didn't go by Ibiki's right away to check on Naru like he had meant too. Instead he stopped by the interrogation room where one of the men he had captured was being held- and listened in on his talk.
Trying to determine for himself if his parinoia really was getting the best of him this time or if there really was something to it like he thought. Unfortunatly for the copy nin the guy doing the questioning in the suffocating little room seemed to sense that he was just outside and became very nervous.
Ten minutes into the interrogation, Kakashi's presence was made known to the enemy.
And the copy nin had to fight against the five Anbu that now stood between him and the dumbass he suddenly wanted to rip apart with his bare hands.
So after smacking around the Anbu and making sure that they had some nice, wonderful bruises to show Tsunade, Kakashi deemed it in his best interest to disappear while he could.
Leaving the semi conscious bodies littering the floor of the hall as a silent warning to the enemy in the room. Stay away from me... Stay away from mine... Naru and their baby was off limits. Period.
Kakashi didn't care who came after them- he'd kill them all.
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Ibiki had gotten to chapter twenty when he heard the faint tapping on his front door, followed by the traditional scraping sound of fingernails across wood. The sound that he most associated with Kakashi from his Anbu days. Snapping the book closed, Ibiki quickly got to his feet and set the book aside then glanced at Naru.
Finding it a little bit odd that the scraping sound didn't seem to bother or awaken her when under normal circumstances she would have bolted upright with a kunai in both hands, her eyes wide and almost frightened.
It was as if the pregnancy was completely exhausting her.
Which probably wasn't far from true considering that one in every five Hatake offspring fed off of the chakara of their mothers while still in the womb. But most Hatake kids didn't start doing that until later on in the pregnancy. Or when they were in danger of being miscarried.
Frowning at the thought Ibiki figured that it couldn't hurt to mention that to Kakashi.
After all, he seemed unusually attached to the child. So it would only stand to reason that Ibiki might need to pass what he knew about Kakashi's clan, along, so that the man could take steps to prevent disaster. Walking over to the door, Ibiki pulled a kunai that he kept hidden under his shirt, at the small of his back and then opened the door to see Kakashi standing there looking like he'd like to murder someone.
"What took you?" The copy nin asked in an impatient tone as he looked Ibiki over, wondering if he could maybe get away with punching him for making him wait so long. Didn't Ibiki realize that by making him wait, he had already imagined a thousand horrible things happening to Naru?
He needed to see if she was okay dammit! He needed to see if their baby was okay!
But most of all- he needed to remove her from harms path. His mind kept playing over the incident a little while ago and practically screaming, Move! Move! Move! It was for the sake of his new family. For the sake of the young he wanted so desperately to hold in a few months time.
"Sorry, I was checking on Naru-" Ibiki finally said, picking up on Kakashi's bad mood and borderline panic like it was a neon sign. "What is it? What's wrong?" Ibiki asked as he stepped back and let Kakashi prowl his way past him and into his home.
The man walked over to the couch and dropped down to a squat and rested his elbows on this thighs as he looked Naru over. His earlier aggravation seeming to melt away in an instant.
Well, didn't she look like an angel? Peaceful and content in her slumber. As if nothing of the evils in the world could ever touch or disturb her. God he envied her that.
"Has she been like this the whole time?" He asked after a moment or so as he lifted one hand and gently ran his fingertips along the underside of her jaw and chin and smiled when she squirmed in her sleep.
"Nah. She fell asleep a little while after scarfing down what was left of my ice cream-" Ibiki said with an amused grin. Kakashi gave him a small grin of his own then turned his head back to the sleeping woman to hide his expression from Ibiki again. "What's wrong Kakashi?" Ibiki asked again, deciding that he could temporarily put what he had been going to say to the Hatake on hold for now.
"I think old ghosts are trying to come back to haunt me-" Kakashi finally said as he looked back up at Ibiki. All faint traces of tenderness that had been in his expression before, was now gone. Leaving the man looking like he had back in his Anbu days.
He looked every inch the cold assassin he had once been. "The ghosts can have me..." Kakashi said then looked back at Naru. "But I'll be damned if I let them take her and the little one."