You woke up hungover, of course, considering if you should get up or just stay in bed. You ended up taking a shower because Yugao would help you try to figure out how to sense someone. After the mission yesterday, you made it your priority for the things to improve.

The cold water did you good and you began to remember the events of last night. Good thing you didn't have training today because you would die in embarrassment when seeing your captain. You were so screwed. You needed to apologize for your attitude and thank him for his patience with you.

As you ended the shower you noticed that you had forgotten to take clean clothes with you to change. You had no other choice than going back to your backpack, which was by your bed, only wrapped in a towel, but since there weren't many people using the barracks, you didn't give much thought. But today was definitely not your day, as you got out of the showers you bumped into someone. Who, you ask, well no other than Kakashi. It seemed you hadn't embarrassed yourself enough last night. You felt the blood rush into your face and suspected you were at least as red as Kakashi was right now.

'Screw this, why do I always get myself in such embarrassing situations...' You decided best to play this down and act natural.

"Good morning Captain. You are just the person I wanted to talk to, but just in a moment after I had put some clothes on."

Kakashi had his visible eye fixed on you and glanced up and down your body before he got a hand on himself and turned around to give you privacy. "Uhm, yea, good morning (Y/N). I wanted to check up on you. I will wait outside of the barracks till you are ready then."

He left quickly and you couldn't believe the stare he had given you. Well, considering you were almost nacked, his reaction was understandable and he reacted rather quickly. It seemed he was a good guy, after all, maybe only a bit of a pervert, but your opinion had changed compared to the first impression you had of him.

Kakashi waited patiently outside. He still couldn't believe that he had to stumble against you in just a towel (in a short towel that barely covered your ass). Before he came here he had struggled with himself. He wanted to be sure you were alright, but he was also determined to get you out of his head, especially since you were with Kotetsu. After telling himself that he would only check on a team member, he made his way to the barracks. And now this. As if it wasn't hard enough forgetting how your body had felt so good against him the last night, now after seeing your long legs and half of your tattoo on your chest, the memories of the night he spent with you came back.

He changed his mind and decided it would be best to go home (maybe take a cold shower), but before he could move you caught up to him. You bowed to him to show how sorry you were.

"I want to apologize for my behavior of last night, Captain Hatake." (Kakashi flinched because he remembered the way you said 'captain Hatake' the night before and it was just so sexy but you were facing down and didn't see it.) "Although I had drunk more than what I'm used to, my behavior has no excuse. And then you even helped me to bed, which I'm just grateful to you."

"Please (Y/N) it's ok. I have done stupid things myself when I'm drunk. And I would never leave a friend in such conditions to go home alone. But maybe you should talk to Kotetsu explaining what happened. People like to gossip and maybe someone will tell him something that isn't true."

Now you were lost. "Why would I need to tell Kotetsu what happened?"

Kakashi got nervous. He didn't want to say out loud that people could think that something had happened between you two, but seeing how you had no clue, he began.

"If someone would tell him that they saw us like that in the hallway and then leave together the bar, he could think that you betrayed him..."

Somehow you couldn't follow Kakashi's train of thought. "Why would he think that? He's not my boyfriend."

"Not? I have thought, ... Master Jiraiya told me he had an eye on you, and then the other day I saw you two, so I thought you were together."

Now you got mad. "What, you have talked with sensei Jiraiya about me?"

"No it's not what you think, I asked him about you because I knew he had trained you and I wanted to know what he thought of your capabilities." Kakashi waved frantically with his hands to try to calm you down.

But you were way too mad to let you calm down. You hate when someone meddles in your life. You put your index finger accusatory on his chest (that was covered with his flak jacket).

"Since when are my capabilities related to who has an eye on me?"

He began to sweat. It seemed with every word he said, he was digging himself deeper. "That's not what I meant. You have for sure gotten to know Jiraiya in those two years. You know how he is, that old pervert."

"It seems then that you two go well along since you like to read his perverted book out in public. But don't ever talk about me again with him, do you understand? Even if you're my captain, I don't admit it."

With that, you stormed off. Maybe later you would regret talking like that to your superior and probably would go over the conversation in your head a hundred times, but right now you couldn't look any longer at him.

'That little old pervert has to stick his nose in my business. What else has he told to captain Kakashi about me?'

Kakashi was dumbfounded looking at you walking away. How was it possible that he managed for you to switch from apologise to him, to be mad.

'Well done Kakashi. Once again you embarrassed yourself. That would never happen with Sukea...'

Yugao arrived only shortly after you and you didn't have time to calm down and she noticed right away.

"Is everything alright? You seem a bit disturbed."

You inhaled deeply and considered for a brief moment to tell what had happened, but a voice inside of you held you back. Yugao seemed to be nice enough, but you didn't know her for long, so you preferred to distract her from the truth. "I think I need to find an apartment. I'm done living in the barracks."

What you didn't know was that last night, Tenzo had seen you and Kakashi in the hallway when he went grab a drink at the counter and after you two had left, your team gossiped about if something was going on between you two. Although Yugao wasn't one to gossip much, she was still curious.

"Has it something to do with our captain? Didn't you like his apartment?" She said suggestively.

"What? I don't even know where he lives, and why would you even ask that?"

"I don't know, maybe because last night you were all over him, and then you left the bar together."

You hide your face with your hands in embarrassment. "You saw that?"

"I didn't see, but Tenzo did and then he told everyone."

That was even worse. You told her what happened last night and ended up also telling her about the conversation you had with him moments ago (leaving the part out where he saw you only in a towel).

"So, do you have a soft spot for our captain?"

"What, no. I don't even know why I did that. In the beginning, I thought that he doesn't like me on his team or even have something against me because he was always avoiding me. Maybe my drunk brain saw him all embarrassed, reading that smutty book when he helped me and had just to try to see if I could get a reaction out of him. I mean, he is hot after all, that trained body, like most shinobis are."

You and Yugao giggled. It seemed she also had an eye to appreciate the looks of your captain. "Yes, he is for sure, but I wonder why he hides his face?"

You ended up talking a bit more before Yugao said: "You know, about your apartment problem, I may have a solution. My neighbor is about to move out. He's moving in with his boyfriend. It's not a big apartment, but the rent is affordable. If you want I can ask him if it's available?"

"You would do that for me?"

"Sure, why wouldn't I? That's what friends are for."

'Friends, hum. Yea, I think I like for her to be my friend.'

"Thank you. But let us train first. We have talked enough."

Sensei Jiraiya had tried to teach you how to sense someone, but you were never able to learn it. Now with Yugao's help, you understood what you had to do to feel the presence of someone. You needed to concentrate, of course, but when she focused her chakra, you could feel her. It was a strange feeling like a pressure or a pull. You were happy with the result of the training so you decided it was enough.

"Thank you so much for your help. Come, let me treat you for dinner."

"Sure, and afterward we can go talk to my neighbor because of the apartment."