Another chapter upand only one to go. (Or so I plan.) I'm hoping to get the last chapter up tomarrow or the next day, but I'm notorious for not doing what I plan, so you never know. Anyway, hope you enjoy this. (Ignore the chapter title, I didn't know what else to put.)

Disclaimer:I Don't Own Naruto.

Now where did that boy disappear to? Arashi thought to himself. He had arrived at the shelter that he'd left him in only to discover him missing, the lady working there had insisted that she had talked to him only a short while before Arashi had shown up. Of course that meant nothing considering the kid was gone now.

First, he and his two guards searched the entire surrounding area, how far could a little guy like that get anyway? Then they started off in the direction of the Hatake residence, searching along the way. Hopefully the boy knew how to get home.

Arashi was dreading having to talk to the boy, how were you supposed to tell a three, no four year old, he just turned four today, that his entire family was dead. Well not his entire family, there was still Amida, but that bit of information was highly classified. Amida was dead to the village until he returned next year.

Truth be told, Arashi didn't truly know if the eldest Hatake son was even still alive. Nobody would know until the scheduled meeting, which wouldn't take place for three weeks.

When they arrived at the house Arashi motioned for his guards to wait outside while he went in.

The house was a wreck, nothing was left in one piece, and he had to climb over the couch to reach the stairs. He used chakra to keep his full weight from resting on the steps, they didn't look all that structurally sound, and he wasn't willing to test it at the moment.

Kakashi was asleep, curled into a ball, under the covers of one of the beds in the first bedroom he looked into. He moved through the room, nudging kunai aside with his feet to clear a path to the bed, and sat down next to the little lump under the covers. The only reason he knew for sure that this was Kakashi was the tell tale silver hair sticking out from under the covers.

He pulled the blanket back to reveal the little boy. It was hard to imagine that this small child had taken out three fully trained cloud jounin with one hit. He set his hand on the boys shoulder and shook him slightly.

Kakashi opened his eyes slightly to see the blonde haired man from before.

"Time to wake up little one." Arashi said softly.

The silver haired boy sat up and pulled his knees to his chest. "They'we all dead, awen't they?" he asked.

Straight to the point. "I'm afraid so." Arashi started to rub the boy's back as the tears came.

Kakashi fell forward into the blondes arms and cried harder then he had in a long time.

It wasn't fair, he was happy, his family was happy, and other then that Gai kid his life was perfect. Why would someone want to take it away? He wasn't a bad kid, and he never got into any real trouble so he was sure he didn't deserve this, did he?

After a while the boy's cries turned into soft sobs, then he was quiet. Arashi turned his head to look at the kid's face, light blue eyes stared into dark blue eyes. "You don't want to go back to that shelter do you?"

Kakashi shook his head.

Arashi smiled. "Alright then, I suppose you can stay at my place for a bit, it's a little messed up at the moment but that'll be fixed soon enough." He stood taking the boy with him and resting him on his hip. "What do ya say?"

"Okay." Kakashi nodded.

The blonde man looked around the room. "Is there anything from here you need immediately? What you want to keep can be sorted out later."

Kakashi pointed to a small stuffed bear that was lying face down by the closet.

Arashi knelt down to pick it up. It was a fuzzy grey bear that, unfortunatly, was half burnt and had a kunai imbedded in it's head. Another casulty of war. He sighed mentaly. "How 'bout I buy you a new one, hmm?"

"Uh-uh." Kakashi was on the verge of tears again, that was his favorite stuffed animal, Amida had brought it home from the wave country for him. "I still want it." He said softly, but didn't reach for it.

"Aright then." Arashi slipped the small bear into his pocket, already making notes on how to fix it, and planning to buy a new one anyway.

He hopped out the broken window and landed skillfully on the ground in front of the ruined house. His guards were at his side immediately, though he knew for a fact, before he had jumped out the window they were playing Janken. He should really send them elsewhere, where they would be doing actual work. As a Hokage he should be able to protect himself, otherwise he wouldn't be a Hokage, what did he need guards for?

He turned to the one at his right. "Kakashi will be coming with me, inform the shelter he was staying at please." The Anbu disippeared in a poof of smoke immediately. At least he was doing something.

Arashi leaped into a tree and started off through the village, the remaining guard not far behind.

Kakashi was watching the scenery go by when something occurred to him. "You know the new hokage's face," He pointed to the monument, where construction had ceased in favor of reconstruction of the village. "looks kinda like you."

Arashi stopped on a building and looked to where to boy in his arms was pointing. He turned his head to the side, examining the monument. "Only kinda? I'll have to talk to the sculptors about that later, it's supposed to look a lot like me. Though I suppose there's only so much one can do with rock." He turned again as if looking for a better angle. "Though you can't expect them to capture my handsome face perfectly, that's just impossible." The blonde laughed.

Kakashi's face went from confusion, to disbelief. "You mean to tell me that you'we the new Hokage? I may be a little kid but I'm not gullible." He crossed his arms over his little chest and glared.

"No, no I'm the Hokage." He waved his guard over to them. "Tell him I'm the 4th Hokage."

"He's the 4th Hokage." The Anbu said nuetraly.

Kakashi wasn't buying it. "He's youw guawd, he's supposed to do what you tell him." He stated.

"Why do you think I have a guard?" He asked.

Kakashi shrugged. "Weak diplomat shinobi?"

It was Arashi's turn to look disbelieving. "We…weak diplomat?" He could distinctly hear his guard snickering behind his mask.

"What would a Hokage need guawds for?" Kakashi asked.

He started jogging over the rooftops again grumbling about insubordinate guards and annoying children, and would it kill someone to make his stone face on the monument actually look like him?

Face safely hidden in the blonde's shoulder once more, kakashi smirked.

A/N

I couldn't resist putting that bit of humor there at the end even though the last chapters were supposed to be serious and dramatic and what not.

Sorry it's not longer, but like I said in the last chapter, I'm trying to draw it out a bit more. But I am pretty damn sure the next chapter will be the last. UU

Review Please!!! (Kakashi needs hugs! Send him hugs?)