Warnings: Other then the age difference, there's nothing bad about this fic.

Pairing: Ebisu/Naru

Summary: When there's a knock on his door in the middle of the night Ebisu didn't know who he'd find on the other side, but a frightened blonde jumping into his house was not what he was expecting.

Genre: Romance, a bit of humor

Rating: PG 13

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''-thoughts

It was a clam, still autumn night and Ebisu deeply inhaled the fresh air that was coming in through his open bedroom window. It had been a hectic day for him, Konohamaru had so much that he needed to be taught and the child seemed to be getting brattier by the day!

Ebisu sighed and removed his sunglasses while massaging his temple. Just thinking about tomorrow's lesson was enough to give him a headache. 'The more time he spends with that trouble making brat, the more he becomes like the trouble making brat. One day this village may be cursed with another Naruto.' He shuddered at the thought before readying himself for bed.

Truth be told though, Ebisu had to admit that Naruto had earned some respect from him, even if it was only a little. But damn it! His pranks were still irritating! And he was still a bad influence on Konohamaru!

It was mere minutes after he had slipped between the sheets that he became aware of distant sounds of shouting. 'What the hell?' He slowly rose from his bed and stood up, planning to find out what the whole fuss was about, when he heard loud, rapid knocking on his door. 'I'm coming, I'm coming…' He made his way towards the front door and swung it open, not expecting an armful of person to leap onto him, causing him to fall back on the floor.

Naruto kicked the door shut and sighed happily on his perch, before looking down to check if the person he'd fell on was alright.

"Ah! Closet Pervert!" The blonde quickly jumped off of Ebisu and darted into a corner of the room.

Ebisu, who still felt slightly dazed from the fall, only managed to glare at the ignorant child for the time being.

The noises were getting a bit louder, and by the sounds of it they were barging into every household, trying to find Naruto.

"Just what exactly did you do to make a mob of people chase after you like this?" Ebisu asked dryly and Naruto, seemingly ignoring the question, quickly jumped straight into begging-mode.

"Please don't tell them that I'm here, onegai." Naruto fluttered his eyelashes and Ebisu felt his eyebrow twitch. Realising that he was getting nowhere with this Naruto quickly form a hand seal. "Henge!" A small burst of smoke filled the room and Ebisu waved it away, annoyed. "Just what do you think you are doi-"

"Ebisu-sama." 'Oh damn.' Ebisu looked on in morbid fascination as the most beautiful, voluptuous, cutest, sweetest looking girl appeared, still covered in smoke.

Smoke that was starting to disappear.

Well, he had managed not to have a nose bleed at the mere sight of her, which in itself was an accomplishment. Or maybe he didn't have a nose bleed because he was trying to distract himself by listening to the really close sounds of a mob.

"Ebisu-sama, please don't look away from me." Oh God, she was holding onto him, pressing her soft young figure against his firm body. "Ebisu-sama, I want you-"

He could hold it in no longer! Blood came sprouting from his nose and he sailed backwards, crashing into the wall.

The female just blinked. "-to hide me." The roar of the mob seemed just outside and Naruto shivered. 'They're right next door! What do I do?' Thankfully Ebisu emitted a low groan at this point and Naruto quickly remembered his plan.

Blonde pigtails fluttering behind 'her' Naruto walked over and knelt down beside Ebisu, only feeling slightly disturbed by what 'she' was about to do. "Ebisu-sama, don't let them take me away, onegai?" She fluttered her eyelashes and was pleased to see it had more of an effect when she was a girl. "Please Ebisu-sama? I'll give you a kiss." And true to her word she leant down a placed a small, chaste kiss on Ebisu's lips.

"EBISU-SAN! PLEASE OPEN THE DOOR!" Ebisu snapped out of the dreamlike state he had wafted into and frowned, quickly getting up and striding towards the door as Naruto huddled in the corner, changing back into his original form as he watch Ebisu with unsure eyes.

Ebusi opened the door slowly, his glare fixing the person on the other side to his spot. "And what, pray tell, are you doing knocking on my door in the middle of the night?" He asked with a dangerous edge to his voice.

"W-Well Ebisu-san, we were j-just wondering… You see we're looking for the Kyuubi brat and-" "And you think I'd let that brat stow away in my apartment." Ebisu questioned, the dangerous edge in his voice growing. The other ninja before him shook his head furiously. "N-no sir! We'd never think that sir!" "we'll then, I suggest you put this whole, angry mob thing to an end, it's late, I'm sure that you've disturbed enough people for one night." "B-But-" "Go home." Ebisu hissed out, eyes darting to the crowd in front of him. "All of you, just go home."

The crown muttered amongst themselves a bit, but eventually dispersed and Ebisu smirked in satisfaction as he closed his door, dark eyes glancing over to Naruto, who seemed a bit shocked.

"What?" "Nothing! It's just… You must have a lot of respect if you can do stuff like that." Naruto answered shyly and Ebisu scoffed. "Flattery, my dear boy, will get you nowhere. Now then, care to tell me why a mob of angry villagers were chasing after you. I really don't want to find out that I've just protected someone who's just killed someone's dog or something." "No! It wasn't anything like that!" Naruto proclaimed and Ebisu made his way to the other side of the room, gracefully flopping onto the couch.

Silence reigned over them for a few minutes before Ebisu, sick with the silence turned to face the boy, who was still sitting in the corner.

"Look Uzumaki, just tell what's going on, for my peace of mind at least." "Fine fine!" Naruto rose up from his place in the corner and began pacing.

"I was at the park, right, and there was this kid sitting on a swing and looking really depressed. So I went u to him and asked if he wanted to be pushed, he said yeah and so I started pushing him on the swing. I guess he knew that everyone hates me or something, because after a dozen or so pushes he jumped off of the swing and landed face first on the ground. Then he started screaming about how I was trying to kill him!" Naruto huffed and crossed his arms, still pacing fretfully across the room.

"I tried to tell him that he jumped off of the swing, but the kid's mother just went berserk on me and so I started running. I would have gone to Iruka's, but he wasn't there and all the door and windows were locked. And I couldn't go to my own apartment because they'd have it surrounded." He stopped pacing in front of Ebisu and frowned. "Is that enough of an explanation for you?"

"That doesn't explain why you barged into a stranger's house. What if I was the father of the child?" Naruto rubbed the back of his head and chucked. "Well, you see, I though that this was Sakura-chan's apartment. I guess I'm on the wrong street." Ebisu let out a sigh and rubbed at his temples, although there was a small smile spreading across his lips.

"Anyways, thanks for vouching for me Closet Pervert." Ebisu's eyebrow twitched and the smile disappeared. "But I should probably get back to my own place." Naruto turned to leave, but was stopped short as Ebisu's hand clamped down on his wrist.

"Oi! Just what do you think you're doing Closet Pervert?" Ebisu pulled the boy away from the door and pushed him down on the couch.

"Do you really think that it's safe for you to go out there already? I highly doubt it." "But those people all went away when you told them to!" "It may seem like that, but they could just as well be hiding around somewhere, waiting for you to come out of hiding. I seriously doubt that most of those people would give up in their search for you that easily." Naruto blinked in confusion. "What do you mean?"

Ebisu made a move to adjust his sunglasses, before realizing that he had taken them off before he went to bed. So instead he sighed and sat down beside the boy.

"What I mean is I know most of the ninjas that were after you, and all of the ones I know had a beloved family member killed by Kyuubi. They're probably using that child's grievance as an excuse to hunt you down and get rid of you." He noticed the boy beside him seem to deflate, his eyes turn dark with sadness, glittering with unshed tears and Ebisu felt pity stab at his heart.

"Alright then Uzumaki, you can stay here for the night and in the morning I'll escort you to your apartment, but you have to promise to lie low until this thing blows over, alright?" Naruto looked up at him with wide eyes, a grin stretching over his face. "Really?" "Really." "Thank you Ebisu!" The boy called out as he glomped onto the older man, who was beginning to feel quite uncomfortable with the boys arms folded around him in a strange sort of embrace.

"Alright alright, that's enough of that." Ebisu managed to get out as he pried the boy off of him, feeling his cheeks grow warm. "Just remember that you own me one Uzumaki." Naruto nodded happily and curled up on his side of the couch, ready to drift away at any given moment.

Ebisu stood up and glanced down at the kid, trying to crush the smile that was trying to make itself known. 'He must be exhausted after running from that group of angry lunatics all day. He forgot to even take off his sandals.' He moved towards his supply closet and took out a blanket before moving back to Naruto's still form and carefully placing the sheet over the boy.

"Oyasuminasai Naruto-kun." He whispered to the sleeping boy before making his way to his own room, slipping into bed and falling into a dreamless sleep.

His eyes fluttered open, squinting slightly in the sunlight and Ebisu vaguely wondered what had woken him about, he was about to dismiss the odd feeling that he was being watched, when something delightfully soft made contact with his lips. His eyes snapped open, half expecting to see a certain naked blonde female kissing him.

His eyes grew even wider when he saw it was a fully clothed, male Naruto.

Naruto pulled away uneasily, pouting and blushing. "There, now we're even!"

It took Ebisu's sleep deprived mind a bit longer than usual to figure out what the boy was talking about. 'Huh? ... Even? Oh yeah… I told him he owed me one.' Still not completely awake Ebisu sleepily replied. "It's going to take a lot more then one kiss for us to be even Naruto-kun." He let out a yawn and Naruto bit his lip, cheeks now rosy pink in colour.

"Well then! I'll be sure to give you a satisfactory amount of kisses and then soon enough we'll be even!" Naruto said as he struck a pose that eerily reminded Ebisu of Gai, the dark haired man shuddered.

"Ja ne Closet Pervert! Don't miss me too much!" Naruto said rushing out the window and Ebisu cocked an eyebrow. 'Wasn't I going to escort him home? … Waitaminute! What did I do!' He gripped at his hair mercilessly, eyes wide at the thought of what he'd made Naruto vow.

Well it wasn't too bad, the boy did have a pair of awfully nice lips, softer than any girl's by far, even Naruto's female form didn't compare when it came to that.

'Well, I suppose it's alright, he is a fairly good kisser from what I know.' "Alright Naruto, I'll go along with this, but don't think that you're going to walk away from this experience still kissing like some thirteen year old virgin-" Ebisu coughed a bit, realizing that Naruto was, indeed thirteen years of age and probably never had sex. "Never mind that, as Konoha's greatest teacher I shall be sure to advance your technique!"

And boy did he ever, and Naruto didn't really mind, even after his 'dept' was repaid.