Sasuke rolled over until he was on his back, staring up at the face towering and upside down above him. With a happy purr, he reached up and gave the man's wild white hair a ruffle, before rolling to lie on his stomach again. He positively melted, eyes narrowing into content slits, when the man kneeling beside him lightly rubbed his back.

"You're surprisingly easy to please" Kakashi commented, getting a louder purr in response.

Sasuke stretched out before turning onto his side, reaching out a hand to stroke the man's stomach, almost like returning the favor while making small mewling sounds.

Kakashi smiled, "Hm, thanks" Kakashi ran a hand over the boy's spine.

Sasuke rolled over onto his back again, batting away Kakashi's hand before weakly pushing himself up into a sitting position. With a quick shake of his head, and rubbing at his cheek with the back of his hand, Sasuke moved forward, back on to his knees and began crawling again towards the back of the sofa.

Again? Kakashi mentally queried, but got onto his own hands and knees and followed none the less.

"Oh God, tell me you haven't hit your head and think Sasuke's your parent or something Kakashi?" Naruto dropped the bag of shopping down onto the table. He'd slipped in unheard from the sounds in the lounge.

Kakashi looked up, stopping in his tracks whilst Sasuke crouched behind the sofa and made a small noise.

"No Naruto, we were just uh, I was"-

"Crawling around like a one year old?" Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"Sasuke wanted to play" Kakashi shrugged as he stood up, stretching as he did so. Sasuke peered behind the sofa watching Kakashi stand up. His expression changed slightly, as if realizing the game was over.

Naruto's brow was still raised, "Sure, use someone else as an excuse for your weird behavior, as usual" he gestured to the bag, "there, all the supplies you need, and I managed to get a few t-shirts and shorts that may fit Sasuke"

"Thanks Naruto" Kakashi smiled and walked on over, peering inside at the bag's contents.

"No problem" Naruto rubbed at the back of his neck.

Sasuke, meanwhile being ignored, remained behind the sofa, rubbing at his cheek with his small fist, while biting the index finger on his other hand.

"Yes, you can keep the change by the way" Kakashi quietly muttered.

"Hehe" Naruto nervous laughed as he put a hand guiltily to the pocket of his trousers.

"Fancy keeping an eye on Sasuke for me while I put this stuff away?"

"What?" Naruto snorted, "I mean… it'll be weird, why don't I put the"-

"Well you might as well get used to being around him, what with him staying here with me and all"

Naruto blinked, "Again Kakashi, it'll be weird… I mean, he's… he's weird!"

"I'm pretty sure he thinks the same of you" Kakashi picked up the bag, "come on, it's only for a minute, what are you so scared of? He's not going to attack you"

"He might drool on me" Naruto grimaced.

"It's a sign of affection" Kakashi walked off down the hallway.

Naruto frowned and glanced towards the lounge area. With a heavy sigh he walked over, "Sasuke?" he muttered. He walked to the side of the sofa, leaning over to see Sasuke behind it just like before.

Sasuke slowly looked up while gnawing gently on the three fingers he put in his mouth and blinked at the blonde haired boy.

Naruto stared back. "So…"

Sasuke blinked again then turned his stare towards the back of the blue sofa instead. Lifting his free hand he stroked the material of the back of the furniture.

Naruto rolled his eyes, "freak" he muttered, turning and slouching down onto the sofa. There was a time when he would have expected Sasuke to retort back 'dobe'. He rested his elbow on the sofa, and placed his chin into the palm of his hand.

He ignored the dark haired boy when he slowly emerged from his space, and sat himself down at Naruto's feet, staring up at him.

"What?" Naruto muttered after a while.

Sasuke slowly raised a hand, and wavered a little before putting it down on Naruto's knee.

"Hey!" Naruto lightly batted the hand away, uncomfortable with the touch.

Sasuke had a bit of a wounded animal expression on his face as he looked down, scratching lightly at the carpet with his finger nails. After a moment he crawled a little further into the middle of the room before stopping and looking back at Naruto. They held gazes for another long moment before Sasuke repeated what he did – staring at Naruto once more after stopping crawling.

"What?" Naruto asked, sounding a bit more annoyed.

Sasuke looked down at the carpet again.

"He wants you to play with him" Kakashi's voice made Naruto jerks a little, and twisted his head to see Kakashi stood in the kitchen.

"Play with him?"

"Yeah, just crawl around a bit after him, seems to keep him happy" Kakashi replied casually as he turned the kettle on.

"Seriously?!"

"You saw me on my hands and knees didn't you?"

Naruto looked at him like he was mad, "You're nearly as mad as he is"

Kakashi gave him a short glare, "aren't you supposed to be an immature playful brat anyway? Come on, you might enjoy it"

"What is this, the twilight zone?"

Sasuke had crawled back behind the sofa by now, leaning against the back of it whilst going back to sucking on his clean fingers.

"Naruto, you're not making any effort" Kakashi sighed. "Go on; humor me, just do it"

Naruto himself sighed as he slouched further down on the sofa. "The things I end up doing…" he got up and walked around the sofa, crouching down beside Sasuke, "happy now?"

The boy turned and looked at him, before turning his attention back to his hands.

"See, I tried" Naruto stood up.

Kakashi rolled his eyes, "I guess he's just shy around you, you haven't exactly been calm and nice have you? Stroke his hair or something"

"What?!"

Kakashi shrugged, "it seems to relax him"

"How the hell do you find these things out?" Naruto shook his head.

"If you're worried about bugs in his hair or something – he's officially bug free okay, I made sure he was thoroughly cleaned"-

"Just stop there" Naruto held up a hand. "Bug free was enough…" he looked at Sasuke, "stroke his hair?" he asked himself in disbelief.

"You don't have to – you're clearly uncomfortable. I was going to ask you to stay for some tea, but if you want to go that's fine, I understand" Kakashi placed the pot of tea down on the kitchen table, along with two cups.

Naruto glanced back and forth between Kakashi and Sasuke. He sighed. Not believing he was doing this, he awkwardly put out a hand and gave Sasuke's hair a quick stroke.

The boy's head immediately snapped around to force his gaze upon the blonde haired boy standing up above him.

"Well, my hand doesn't look infected" Naruto mumbled while inspecting his hand, "You know me Kakashi, I can never turn down free food or drinks"

Kakashi smirked.

Naruto walked over and sat down a chair, watching curiously as Sasuke crawled along following him before stopping at the table.

The dark haired boy's hands scrambled as they clutched the wooden edge, before he peered over the table surface.

Kakashi placed down some spoons and sugar, which he certainly knew Naruto loved.

Naruto reached out the grab a spoon to stir the tea with; but jumped a little in surprise when Sasuke's hand shot out and grabbed one, he gave a small growl to Naruto before disappearing under the table with it.

"What the?" Naruto looked to Kakashi.

Kakashi shrugged.

"Ow!" Naruto's chair scraped back when something metal hit his toes.

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A pot of tea later, Naruto leant back in his chair at the kitchen table and stretched. Opposite him, Kakashi finished the last traces of tea from his cup before placing it down on the table. Beneath the table, Sasuke was sat between them happily arranging all the spoons on the floor, and then rearranging them, again and again.

"I better get going" Naruto sighed.

"Yeah" kakashi nodded, "thanks for all your help today"

"Help? I didn't really do anything"

"You did" Kakashi answered and began to clear up the stuff on the table.

"Whatever" Naruto shrugged and stood up.

"Will you be coming over tomorrow?"

"Uh…maybe"

"Oh, good!" Kakashi dumped the cups in the sink and accepted Naruto's answer as on 'of course'.

"Yeah well, hope you survive the night" Naruto laughed.

"I don't know, judging by earlier when he slept, I don't think he'll be that much of a problem" Kakashi replied.

"Uh, Kakashi" Naruto raised his voice a little, enough to make the adult look at him, he nodded towards Sasuke, "you sure about that?" the expression on his face was somewhat comical.

Beneath the table Sasuke obliviously carried on with the spoon patterns while a small puddle formed around him, not quite soaked by the towel.

Kakashi groaned, "Good thing you went shopping"

"Indeed"

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"There, all done" Kakashi sighed and gently patted Sasuke's tummy.

Sasuke way lying on his back, squirming and with a slightly irritated expression on his face, and clutching a clean spoon in each hand.

"Yeah I know" Kakashi sighed as he put his hands under Sasuke's arms and helped him sit up. "Bed time for you I think" he gave his hair a ruffle, "better put these in the sink" he reached for the spoons.

Sasuke's eyes quickly narrowed as his grip tightened to the cutlery protectively, refusing to let Kakashi uncurl his fingers at get to them.

"Come on, they've been in your mouth" Kakashi muttered.

Sasuke let out a loud whine before hitting at the knuckles on one of Kakashi's hands with one of the now effective metal weapons.

Kakashi gave him a look of surprise, "Still as stubborn as before I see" he commented.

Sasuke mewled and turned around, crawling over towards his little cushion and quilt nest in the corner, burying him self into it.

Kakashi shook his head and stood up, "Okay… have it your way" he let it go this time as he began to clear away the stuff on the floor; rather that then see Sasuke angry. If his moods before had been bad, he had a small feeling his moods would be even worse now.

Sasuke rolled over underneath the quilt. Causing it to ripple with his movement. He wriggled his head free through the gap before sitting up and staring at Kakashi.

Kakashi finished pushing the things under the bed and slowly took off his shirt and arranged the spare quilts on his bed for him to sleep in. "Did you like having Naruto over?" he asked and glanced to the side.

Sasuke wriggled an arm free (hand now empty) and scratched at his head.

"Hm" Kakashi walked the short distance towards Sasuke and crouched down in front of him.

Sasuke tilted his head at him before reaching out, leaning forward slightly, and rubbing at Kakashi's face then hair briefly.

Kakashi gave him a soft lopsided smile, "Yeah, you too" he stroked the boys hair before the boy wriggled his head to nuzzle his cheek against the man's palm. The boy purred contently, eye's narrowing with the tiniest of smiles upon his lips.

"Good night Sasuke" Kakashi softly said before standing up.

Sasuke's eyes snapped back to their normal wideness again as he watched the man walk away. He leant back against his little quilt nest and wrapped the arm around himself, and toyed with the fabric between his finger and thumb.

There was a click as Kakashi turned off the light, then slowly headed towards his bed. Sasuke watched the silhouette glide through the dark, and then disappear upon the bed. Kakashi sighed as he faced Sasuke in the dark, listening to the constant purr reverberate around the room.