Chapter 4 – A New Home

By Fade

Fade dropped back a pace; grabbing Kakashi's other hand. Together with Crash, they pulled him, and the garbage hanging onto Crash's other hand, towards the training grounds. A very angry Sakura followed a couple yards behind.

"What is with these girls?" Kakashi thought to himself. "They're so…I don't know…sexy? NO! Can't think like that!" he scolded himself.

Unbeknownst to Fade, Sasuke was still checking her out. Luckily Sakura did not see this.

"Ah, Fade-chan! I thought we were racing!" Naruto yelled from up ahead.

"Ch-chan!" Sakura stuttered. 'Naruto calls me chan! That slut! Not that I care or anything.'

"We are racing! You're just faster Naruto!"

"Ah, thank you, Fade-chan! I'm gonna be the next Hokage you know."

"Of course you will Naruto." Fade said as they arrived at the training grounds.

Sasuke snorted.

'Uh-oh. All hell could break out…' Crash thought.

"Something funny about that!" Both Naruto and Fade exclaimed.

Sakura finally saw the opening she'd been waiting for: the opportunity to defend her Sasuke-kun.

"Hey you! I understand Naruto yelling at Sasuke-kun, because he does that everyday. But you don't even know Sasuke-kun to yell at him! You just met him today! Leave him alone!"

Fade raised her eyebrows. "I don't know him?" She asked emotionlessly.

Crash decided to step in before things got violent. Apparently, Kakashi thought the same thing.

"Easy, you two." He said, patting Sakura on the head as Crash pulled Fade away from Sakura.

"Chill, Fade. Remember, pretend to not know anyone here?" she whispered.

"Yeah, sorry Crash, but you know how Sasuke makes me mad."

"Control." Crash said simply. Fade sighed and nodded.

"Well, enough chit-chat. You girls, sit over there-" Instead, Crash and Fade plopped right at his feet, on either side of him. "Um…I guess that's fine too…" He said, stepping forward, perhaps unnerved by their closeness. "Well, today we'll be working on taijutsu, like I said…" He sighed at Naruto's exited grin, Sasuke's arrogant smirk (an: the bastard) and Sakura's look of horror.

"Well…all three of you are assigned to steal…" he thought for a moment. "I forgot the bells." The three genin fell over. "But there are always alternatives! You three have to 'save' the 'hostages'…using only taijutsu." He said pointing to Crash and Fade.

"Um, what?"

"Yeah. Um, what?" Crash said, mimicking Fade.

"Really Kakashi, Crash-sempai and I aren't hostages…Crash is like, in Taekwondo, and I was in Kung Fu…for a while…so yeah!" Fade said.

Kakashi raised his eyebrows at the foreign kinds of fighting he had never heard of.

"Oh, just play along if you don't mind?" Kakashi said. His eye pleaded with them. He didn't want to walk all the way home to get the bells.

"Alright, alright…"Crash said, making the decision for both of them. How could they resist Kakashi's puppy dog eyes?

"Okay then it's settled. As soon as I tie them up, you three…do whatever." Kakashi said. He circled behind them and began to tie their hands.

"Ouch not so tight!" Fade said.

"Sorry, sorry…"

As Kakashi finished, he looked at his three genin charges.

"Alright. You're mission is to, using only taijutsu, rescue these two from me. You have an hour, or they die."

"W-what!" Fade exclaimed.

"Not literally dude…" Crash murmured.

"This will be a great simulation for the three of you. Ready…set…"

He picked up Crash and Fade, one under each arm, and tensed, ready to jump…

"GO!" He yelled, leaping off into the nearby woods. Fade was very much enjoying being where she was, as was Crash. All too soon he was setting them down.

"All right, now we wait for the genin brats to make their move…" Kakashi said, whipping out his book.

"I wish I had something to read too…" Fade muttered.

"How would you read it? We happen to be tied up." Crash said back.

"Hmm…point taken. I could try with my toes!"

Crash snickered. Neither of them noticed, but Kakashi was laughing too.

Suddenly Naruto appeared.

"I'm gonna kick your ass!" He yelled. Kakashi rolled his eyes. (Or eye, actually.)

"Yeah, yeah…"He murmured, looking back down at his book again.

Naruto ran at Kakashi, doing his absolute best to "kick his ass" and failing terribly. Kakashi was easily dodging all Naruto's attacks. Naruto's strong point was not taijutsu.

At the same time, Crash heard a Rustle behind her. Kakashi realized the three's plan seconds before it would have been too late. With some split second thinking, he created two doppelgangers that dove into the bushes, revealing a disgruntled Sakura and Sasuke, who were in the process of reaching out to grab Crash and Fade while Kakashi was busy with Naruto.

"Good job you three, you actually worked as a team and devised a plan."

"H-hey, you cheated Kakashi-sensei! You said taijutsu only!" Naruto said.

"No, no, I said you guys could only use taijutsu. Never said anything about me!" He said with his 'n'-eyed smile.

"Anyway, I'd better take these two to see Tsunade-sama, so you guys just keep training amongst yourselves." Kakashi said, cutting the girls loose.

He walked a yard or so ahead of them, deep in thought, it was odd, he hadn't really meant to use ninjutsu at all, but when he felt like the two girls whispering to each other behind him were going to be taken away, his instincts had kicked in. He had felt a sudden desire to protect them.

Kakashi shook these thoughts off. Rubbish. He scolded.

"Oh dude, he's got a fine ass." Crash muttered super-quietly to Fade.

"No kidding, damn…"

"All right, we're here." Kakashi said, "Follow me closely. You don't want to be mistaken as intruders."

In response, they scooted up so that they were only inches from him.

"Um…" Kakashi shook his head and started into the Hokage's house.

"Wait here." He advised, as he knocked on a door.

"Who is it?" A female voice called from inside.

"Kakashi."

"Come in."

Kakashi entered then, with hardly a glance at rash or Fade.

"Is it me, or is he avoiding eye contact?" Crash said to Fade.

"Maybe he heard your comment about his ass…"

"Or better yet, he's thinking dirty thoughts…"

Crash and Fade burst out laughing, right as Kakashi poked his head out of the door.

"We're ready for you now…What's so funny?"

"Nothing, nothing!" Fade said almost knocking him down as she rushed into the room, Crash right behind her.

Tsunade's bust looked even bigger in real life. Fade raised an eyebrow. Something tells me that's not natural. Masashi Kishimoto must be a perv, drawing Tsunade like this.

"Ah, you're the two Kakashi told me about…Well…Explain your situation to me." She said.

Crash did the talking while Fade daydreamed about her fanfic.

"Hmm…that's interesting…" Tsunade thought for a minute.

"Well, you'll need a place to stay, but that's already taken care of, and new clothes and yeah…"

"Our…lodgings are already taken care of?" Crash asked. Fade came out of her little world and looked up.

"Yes, I volunteered Kakashi to let you stay with him for a while, until you get home…somehow."

Kakashi did not look overjoyed about this, but Crash and Fade looked like they could have done the Macarena for a crowd of 10,000.

"Well, Hokage-sama…I have to be going."

"Take them with you. Take this money and take them to get new clothes…"

All right…" Kakashi sighed. He exited the room, Crash and Fade running after him.

"This…is going to be interesting…" Tsunade half said, half chuckled.

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