Chapter 6- Budding Feelings
By Fade
When Kakashi had first seen Crash and Fade, he had noticed them looking at him like he was the only person in the world. It had unnerved him greatly.
This confused feeling didn't get better when he had started thinking of them as hot. Now going with them to buy underwear was definitely not going to improve matters.
But he couldn't not go. It was getting dark, so he couldn't ask Sakura to do it again, and with darkness came more danger, and it was his job to protect them. Sakura wouldn't be able to handle anything big anyway. This was a serious battle between his orders and his emotions. And it was not the first time he had a battle with himself over the same thing.
"Alright, I'll come." He commented after a tense few minutes.
"Yay!" Fade said, prancing out the door.
Was it him or did Fade seem oddly hyper when she said that?
Crash grabbed his hand and pulled him along. They reached the street and looked around for Fade.
"Oi, Fade, where are you?"
"Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yah!" Each call got louder and louder until at last Fade came blasting around the corner. Apparently she had run around the entire block.
She came to a stop in front of her two confused friends.
"Hyper, hyper, hyper, hyper!"
"We can see that…"Kakashi said.
Crash raised her eyebrows. "Why…?"
"It's Friday!" Fade said as she jumped up and down. "I'm… really hyper on Friday nights and Saturday nights!" She sprinted around them. "Always!"
Kakashi Sighed.
Why me…? He thought. He clapped a hand on Fade's shoulder, and she looked up at him quizzically. Kakashi gave her a small sly grin, and then before she knew it, he had her over his shoulder.
"We can't have you running loose. You'll get into trouble or get hurt and I'll be blamed for it." He said. "Come on Crash, where is this shop?"
"That a way!" Crash said pointing randomly while smirking at Fade.
Fade smirked right back and started to rub Kakashi's back. Crash glared at her.
"Cut that out, Fade." Kakashi said.
"Sorry." She said halfheartedly.
Crash snickered.
"This is it!" Crash said, pointing at the store where they had been earlier on.
"Alright then," Kakashi said setting Fade down. "You girls go do what you need to do, and I'll wait here for you."
Crash did some quick thinking.
"What if we're attacked and you're not there to protect us? It is nighttime in an unfamiliar world for us," Fade nodded in agreement exuberantly.
Kakashi sighed. "I'll come in, but only far enough so that I'll be able to hear you if you get in trouble." They entered the store, and Kakashi paused and looked at Fade.
"Don't break anything in your hyperness." He stated.
She smiled innocently and followed Crash to the back of the store.
He sighed and sat down in an unoccupied chair. He had felt shivers run down his spine when Fade had rubbed him. That couldn't' be a good sign. Or was it?
"Sensei…"
Kakashi whirled around to find Sasuke standing behind him.
"What are you doing here?" Kakashi asked.
"I could ask you the same thing. But anyway, I saw you enter here. I need to talk to you about our two visitors."
"Go on. They're back there, keep your voice down."
"Don't you find it strange sensei?"
Kakashi looked at him with a brow raised.
"I mean…strange that they just appeared out of nowhere? Sensei, I think that they are spies. We shouldn't trust them. They could be dangerous."
Kakashi looked down towards the end of the store, where Crash and Fade were starting to walk toward them. Fade was laughing at something Crash had said, and Crash was smiling innocently.
"Yes, I see where you get 'dangerous' from Sasuke."
"But-"
"Don't worry, I'll watch my back. If they are spies, I'll stop their plans before anything happens."
"All right…"
"Oi, look it's Sasuke!" Crash said, pointing.
Fade wrinkled her nose. "We have to pay." She said. Apparently the hyperness wore off…
She nudged Crash and they went off to the counter.
"That Sasugay."
"He didn't even do anything this time Fade." Crash said as she handed money to the smiling lady behind the counter.
"He was born." Fade said venomously, crossing her arms. "And he actually was doing something."
"He was? What?"
"He was plotting something."
"Oh, please, Fade"
"I'm not kidding! Did you see his face? He had the eyes slightly narrowed, and he had the 'Oh I'm so arrogant' look on! It's Sasuke's plot face!" Fade said, taking a bag from the lady behind the counter.
Crash took the other bag.
"You know, you may be right, we'll have to watch out for him."
Fade nodded sincerely, and then the hyperness came back over her, and she ran to Kakashi, while pointedly ignoring Sasuke.
"We got what we needed, Kakashi-kun! Let's go home!" She said, dancing around him.
"Ku-kun!" Sasuke exclaimed, eyes widening a little.
What was up with the sudden jealousy that had flared within him?
Kakashi shrugged, "they both just keep calling me that…"
"Kakashi-kun, Kakashi-kun, Kakashi-kun!" Fade said singsong like, while skipping around him in circles.
Crash rolled her eyes.
"Do you ever get tired, Fade?"
"Not on Friday and Saturday nights!"
Oh no…I'm in for a long night Kakashi thought sadly.
Sasuke raised his eyebrows, stifling a laugh.
"Well, I must be off. See you tomorrow, sensei…"
"Liar!" Fade started, but Crash clapped a hand over her mouth.
"She meant to say 'later' but it came out wrong, right Fade?"
Fade nodded reluctantly. Kakashi led them out of the store.
They walked the whole way in silence, with Crash and Fade occasionally glancing up at Kakashi with adoration in their eyes.
"Alright then…now we have to decide where you two will be sleeping…"
R and R and see you next time!
Fade signing off