Fullmoon Chapter 5: I really didn't mean to, a naruto fanfic

My obsession with Jiraiya continues... He's now my background. What the hell is it with me and anime guys who are old enough (if they were real) to be my Grandpa!?

And to all my friends who called me and yelled at me for putting the image of Gai in Rudolph undies... It was a thong too...

What? I have to make them call me somehow...

Chapter 4: I really didn't mean to...

Kakashi managed to awaken, eat breakfast, and shower before remembering that there was a guest in the house. And therein lay the problem. Wearing nothing but a towel and his mask he couldn't exactly walk into his bedroom. What if she was awake? What if she woke up? More importantly, what if Tsunade found out? Some of the threats targeting more... delicate parts of his anatomy had sounded rather painful. Besides, one day he thought it might be nice to have children...

Well, he could probably wear the same set of clothes for another day, he reasoned returning to the bathroom and taking the dirty clothes off the floor. After all, he'd worn stuff that was worse. Dressing quickly Kakashi went through the rest of his morning ritual (stretches, 50 jumping jacks, 100 finger-push ups, 200 crunches, and three chapters of Icha Icha Paradise) before ending up in front of his bedroom door again. Was she still asleep? If so, he'd better let her rest. Or...

Or had she gone out the window in the middle of the night?

If she was a normal person, Kakashi reasoned, she would have trusted her guts and fled out the window. A lone, defenseless woman staying at the home of a strong male ninja? Any sane woman would flee. Hell, most of the town would help her escape depending on who she was staying with. (Jiraiya instantly came to mind...)

Now, if she was a ninja she would have stayed. A ninja would think things through and realize that it would seem too suspicious to flee in the middle of the night. Plus, she would feel secure in the knowledge that if the male ninja did try to sneak a peek (or comp a feel) she could always beat the shit out of him claiming womanly problems and emotional scarring.

Kakashi reached towards the door knob, mentally prepared to find the room empty or to have hundreds of sharp objects flying towards his vital areas. To his slight disappointment he instead found option number three to this situation. She was sound asleep on his bed, hugging a pillow, with the blankets twisted about her. That was really too bad, he thought to himself, he'd almost been hoping for the sharp objects. At least then she would be out of his apartment and in jail where she couldn't be curled up in his bed, wearing his pajamas, sunlight streaming, her chest slowly rising and falling as she breathed through pink lips...

He shut the door and left the apartment, his hands in his pockets. Time to visit Obito, he decided stopping briefly to buy an offering. Pray for Obito's immortal soul, tell the team to practice walking on water (giving Sakura a more difficult assignment since he was sure she'd be able to do this easily), go home and try to pry secrets out of Mitsuki's head.

Day planned, the silver haired jounin continued his path to the memorial, in some way sure that the spirit of Obito (wherever it may be) would be happy to see his old friend.

Obito was pissed.

Sitting on top of the memorial he glared at Kakashi. It would figure that he was here giving his daily respects and the girl was nowhere to be found. She hadn't gone to the Uchiha complex last night, she hadn't been wondering the streets, she hadn't been in the entire village! He knew, he had checked. For all Obito knew the kid could have been lying dead in a ditch ruining all of Obito's plans.

Tuning Kakashi out, Obito silently grumbled the visit away. It wasn't as if he didn't appreciate his friend coming, it was just... He sighed. Sometime after the first hundred 'I'm sorry for failing you' apologies the one sided conversations just started to get old. Team 7 had perked his interest for awhile but now it was all 'Naruto said this' and 'You would like Sasuke because that.' It almost made Obito want to scream 'GET OVER IT!' and brain Kakashi with a stick just like he always tried to do when he was younger.

Damn Kakashi... Always so serious... Even when he was five and passing the genin test Obito had known he'd had a stupid serious look plastered on under that stupid mask of his.

Still ignoring the man, Obito turned his gaze to the sky. Why was he being so inpatient? He was dead after all... he had all of eternity.

"Damn you girl! GET OVER HERE NOW, MITSUKI!!!"

Mitsuki shivered a little, sitting up in bed. What had awoken her? She'd been having a pleasant dream about... something (she couldn't remember what) then she'd woken up with such a feeling of unease...

There was a pounding sound coming from somewhere nearby followed by a loud shout. "Open up! I know you're in there!"

Mitsuki blinked. Or that had awoken her... Scrambling out of bed, she untangled herself from the sheets and followed the noise to the front door. Yes, the voice and the pounding was coming from the other side of it, although she didn't know what to do. She couldn't remember what one was supposed to do when someone was at the door. How did one greet them? Were you supposed to bow? How about...

"Open up!" the voice shouted again. "I can hear you moving around in there! If you don't open up I'll break down the door!"

To avoid damage being done to Hatake-san's apartment, Mitsuki quickly opened the door smiling at the man who was behind it. "Hello!" she said cheerfully, not sure of what else to say.

The tall man stared over her head for a moment, as if wondering who had opened the door, then looked down. His eyes widened and he blushed grabbing his nose seeing Mitsuki framed in the door, obviously just out of bed and wearing too big for her pajamas. "Is Kakashi here?" he asked his voice muffled by his hand over his face.

Mitsuki looked up at him, confused. Why was his face turning all red? Was he feeling alright? "I'm not sure," she admitted. "Are you one of Kakashi-san's friends?"

"I am Maito Gai!" the man proclaimed adverting his eyes. With this much of a height difference he could see right down her shirt... "Kakashi's Eternal Rival!"

"Oh." Mitsuki was puzzled. She had thought rivals were a bad thing, but why would this red faced man come if he was bad? Maybe rival was another word for friend? She beamed up at him. "In that case come in!" she said happily. "I'll see if Kakashi's still here."

Gai followed the smaller woman in grimacing at the state of Kakashi's apartment. Messy as always... Really the girl fit in, he thought. Messy bed head, the ill fitting blue pajamas... Wait a second...

Mitsuki turned around, alarmed by the gasping sound Gai had made followed by a large crash. Gai had collapsed on the floor, clutching a gushing nosebleed. "Maito-san!" she gasped, kneeling by him. "What happened!? Oh, I'll get you a rag!" she said running off to find something to help the ninja with.

Gai ignored her departure too deep in his own thoughts. Girls walking about in Kakashi's clothes... Suddenly everything made sense. Kakashi's mask, those books, the A-rank missions, the girls who always tripped and fell needing to be saved while Kakashi was around, why he admitted he didn't wear anything to bed... Kakashi was a pervert!

Shocked, Gai sat and wondered how this could be so. Well, the books really were a good hint but what would cause a pervert to actually be able to snag a girl? His rival wasn't that great. He couldn't cook or sew like Gai could. He didn't have a 'good guy' pose as cool as Gai's. He didn't even have a fashion sense like Gai did! So what was it about him!? It must be the Sharigan he realized with a start. He was using that eye to hypnotize the women of the world! And... (tears began running down his face) the poor girl who opened the door was one of his many victims! Kakashi must have met her late last night at a bar, gotten her drunk, taken her home and... The poor thing! Forced to wear the pajamas that he, Maito Gai, had bought Kakashi since her own clothes had been ripped to shreds by that... that...monster.

"Ano... Maito-san..." Mitsuki said bringing Gai out of his thoughts. She was kneeling by his side, a concerned look on her face. "Ano... I brought you a towel..."

"Bless you, child!" Gai shouted and grabbed her, placing a hand on each shoulder. "Don't worry, it's over now! I'll protect you and take you to Tsunade! Together that monster... Will. Be. Stopped."

Mitsuki laughed warily, hoping he'd let go of her soon. "Ah, Maito-san," she said smiling. "You're scaring me..."

"There's no reason to be afraid!" Gai shouted, leaping to his feet and doing his 'good guy' pose. "I will protect you!"

Mitsuki slowly stood up placing the towel in Gai's hand. "Ano... Maito-san why don't you lie down for a bit? There's a futon in the living room and I'll see if I can find you some hot tea if you like," Mitsuki said slowly pushing Gai towards the living room.

"Please, call me Gai," Gai said wiping the blood off his face. "Or better yet, why not call me Gai-kun!"

Scary... Mitsuki thought to herself, helping Gai lay down. "Alright Gai...-kun. Now, you lie down and I'll make some tea," she said practically fleeing the room.

Gai lay on the futon, smiling. The poor girl... she was terrified over what that perverted Kakashi might do to her if she went to the proper authorities. It was alright though... After Kakashi came back he would defeat the silver haired ninja and show the girl that there was nothing more to fear...

Mitsuki sighed, leaving the room. She had just managed to escape the strange, scary man... Who knew that serving tea would become so dangerous? The entire time she had been in the room he had told her how everything was fine, and how he would protect her from the evils of Kakashi. This was confusing since Kakashi hadn't seemed evil at all. Oni were evil, Mitsuki thought, the image of a great red and black monster running after her through a forest she couldn't name. She shivered, setting the tea tray on the kitchen table. While she couldn't remember much of what went on before she came here, she was immensely grateful that it seemed to be over. The bed she had slept on had been the most wonderfully soft thing and while the people here were strange they seemed friendly.

Sighing she glanced around the kitchen dismayed by the mess she saw. This was just ridicules. It had been a miracle she'd been able to find a tea kettle and tea in this place. Were all men this messy? A quiet determination setting in, Mitsuki decided to get dressed, clean up Gai's blood from the main hall, and then make the kitchen spotless. After all, it was the least she could do considering all that Kakashi had done for her...

Surprising. The only one who couldn't walk on water on their first try was Sasuke. As he'd expected, Sakura had caught the hang of water walking after only a moment and Naruto had been able to do it from the get-go... Kakashi suspected that the boy's trip with Jiraiya had something to do with that, but decided to say nothing. Perhalps this would motivate Sasuke to learn the technique faster. So, instead of just Sakura practicing the forbidden ninjutsu technique of meditation (he had to put it that was so that Naruto would agree to do it) two of his three students meditated while the third tried his best to master walking on water.

Kakashi walked down the busy streets of Konoha, expertly weaving in and out of the crowd on his was to his destination. First thing first. Since Mitsuki hadn't tried to kill him that morning, that probably meant she'd be around for awhile. That meant he had to get her a spare key to his apartment. Not that she'd ever be leaving his side (Tsunade would kill him for letting her information get out of her sight), but he had to give her some small feeling of freedom to make her feel more comfortable. That being said, he placed an order for a second key to be made and began wandering the market wondering what else would be necessary for his guest to have.

Well, she was a girl so that meant more clothes, Kakashi thought walking past a few clothing stores that looked promising. After all, if Sakura (a ninja) filled her bag with spare clothes and bathing supplies for every mission (while the males filled theirs with junk food) why would a non-ninja be any different? But how much would she need exactly? And how should he present the bill to Tsunade so that she would pay for it? Maybe a business expense? Or should he just admit that she needed more clothes? Tsunade was a girl, surely she's understand.

Another thing was food. He was feeding two now, effectively doubling his food bill. Well, cooking was cheaper then the take-out he usually always ended up buying. Maybe she would cook for him? He sighed, feeling hopeful, but highly doubting that would be true. He supposed that he could be the one cooking the meals. He did know how to do it after all... But it was such a bother! Timing the rice and meal so that they would be done at the same time, figuring out what to cook, figuring out how to cook it, washing the dishes... That was all very valuable time in which he could be re-reading one of the Icha Icha Paradise volumes.

Kakashi glanced at his watch. 10:10. The key should be done now. Heading back to the locksmith's shop Kakashi wondered what he should do when he got back to his apartment. Should he act casual and pretend that it was a regular day off? Or should he sit her down and try a friendly non-torture interrogation to figure out what exactly she knew and how that information effected the well-being of Konoha?

Picking up the key from the locksmith Kakashi mused a third option. Maybe he should just give her a tour of town? She was a supposedly new comer to the area after all. A tourist... All tourists loved to tour things, right? Mentally shrugging, Kakashi walked up the steps to his apartment. He'd have to decide once he got inside. Mitsuki could still be sleeping after all... Only if that was true he'd have to call a Tsunade to check up on her. Nobody could sleep until ten o'clock in the afternoon without something wrong with them.

Opening the unlocked door, Kakashi was about to call out a greeting when something hard and fast crashed into his jaw, knocking him back across the hall. Dammit! Kakashi thought, diving to the side to avoid the next attack. She'd read his thoughts knowing that he was prepared for an attack this morning, but wouldn't be later on in the day. He jumped back and leapt to his feet, rapidly making seals with his hands and watching the open apartment door for her to emerge. He'd simply knock her out, tie her up, and bring her kicking and screaming to Tsunade where... What the hell?

Gai leaped out through the apartment door his hands in fists, coming straight for Kakashi. A transformation? Kakashi thought to himself countering the attack. His foot coming up, Kakashi round-house kicked the Gai look-alike down the hall before he could get close enough to attack. The crash of Gai hitting the wall echoed up and down the hallway causing many of the people in the building to wonder if there had been some sort of accident outside.

Ready to counter any other attacks that Mitsuki may have had ready for him, Kakashi was prepared for it when the Gai look-alike got back to his feet and charged him again. This time the charge was more defensive, a perfect imitation of Gai's attack. Kakashi knew this move well and was prepared to counter this one as well when the real Mitsuki stepped out of his apartment's doorway, broom in hand. "What's going on out— EEK!" she shrieked seeing Gai rushing towards her.

Kakashi just stared as the Gai look-alike tried to stop from ramming into Mitsuki while the frightened girl raised the broom in a meager form of defense.

"Watch out!" Gai shouted stepping to the side so he'd only clip Mitsuki and not run her over.

"Keep away from me!" Mitsuki shrieked, her voice hurting Kakashi's ears as she swung the broom. It connected with Gai's head with a resounding 'CrACk!' Gai flew backwards down the hall and through the wall as the broom snapped in two, the smaller piece remaining in Mitsuki's hands. Trembling slightly, Mitsuki clutched the remains of the broom to her chest and stared down the hall at the hole, breathing hard.

A heartbeat passed.

"Kami," Mitsuki breathed. "GAI-KUN!" she shouted running down the hall. "GAI-KUN DAIJOUBU!?"1

Cursing under his breath, Kakashi raced after her, grabbing her to stop her from falling through the large hole in the wall before looking down. A KO'ed Gai lay in the shrubs of the neighboring building's garden, a small furry dog barking at the still man. Gai's image still firmly in place Kakashi realized that the Gai look-alike had been no other then Gai himself. He glanced down at the concerned looking Mitsuki as she tried to pull away from him.

"Let me go!" she shouted, realizing that the silver haired man wasn't't releasing her. "I need to see if he's alright!"

Noticing that she was headed for the stairs, Kakashi grabbed her up in his arms (ignoring the shriek of protest) before jumping next to Gai's side. "Faster," he said, setting her down.

Mitsuki ignored his explanation and instead grabbed Gai's hand looking down at the man, concerned. "Gai-kun?" she asked looking tense. "Are you alright?"

Wondering how Gai had managed to get her to call him 'kun' Kakashi reached around her and took Gai's pulse. "He's alive," he said reassuringly.

Mitsuki nodded, but her eyes were filling with tears. Squeezing Gai's hand gently, Mitsuki took a few steps away, ignoring the little yappy dog which was angrily yipping at her feet. Kakashi watched her walk off and decided it would probably be a good idea to ignore her. This was probably one of those moments where a person wanted to be alone and...

"Kakashi-san!" Mitsuki sobbed, throwing her arms around him and burying her face into his back. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hurt him! I really didn't! All I could think about was oni and them chasing me and I got scared and..." she broke into sobs and let go, collapsing to her knees.

Kakashi gazed down at her, wondering what it was that she had just said. With her face in his back all he had heard were muffled sounds followed by sobs. Well, it probably wasn't important, he thought, slowly kneeing down. "He's alive," he repeated patting her on the head. "You just knocked him out."

"I didn't mean to..." Mitsuki cried rubbing her eyes with her hand. "I really, really didn't."

"I believe you," Kakashi said smiling brightly. "I'm sure Gai will believe you too. It's really okay, Mitsuki-chan."

From behind them, Gai gave a long suffering groan before slowly sitting up. "What hit me?" he muttered reaching for his head.

Patting her on the head once more, Kakashi stood and turned back to Gai. "Why'd you attack me, Gai?" he asked crossing his arms and standing over the man.

Gai pointed an accusing finger at him. "Because you're a pervert!" he shouted, leaping to his feet. "I know what you're up to Hatake Kakashi! You're hypnotizing all the women of Konoha so they'll fall in love with you! But now that I know I'll stop you! I swear I will!"

Hypnotize someone to fall in love with him? Now there was a use for his Sharigan he'd never thought of before... "What are you talking about?"

"Her!" Gai shouted, pointing at the sniffling Mitsuki. "You got her drunk and hypnotized her and took her home and did all sorts of horrible things to her, destroying her clothes and..." he trailed off seeing the looks he was getting and noticing that Mitsuki was dressed in a pair of clothes that actually fit her. Looking up at Kakashi he smiled briefly. "She hit me really hard."

"She thought you were attacking her," Kakashi said trying not to smile. He wasn't sure what had gone on while he was gone, but he had a feeling that it was something funny.

"I wasn't attacking her, I was attacking the pervert!"

"Excuse me!" Mitsuki said, her voice still a little strained from all the crying. "H-How about we go inside and I'll make us all an early lunch?" she offered, smiling. Kakashi and Gai exchanged looks and mentally agreed. Better to eat lunch then fight.

"Alright," he said turning and heading back towards the apartment building. Looking up at the hole still in the wall he sighed. "I'll have to fix that this afternoon..."

"Oh no, Kakashi-san!" Mitsuki protested, running up. "I wrecked it so I'll fix it right after lunch."

"Well, technically I broke it," Gai said picking up a piece of broken board and studying it carefully. "So I'll fix it."

"Oh no Gai-kun! I've got it, really!" Mitsuki said taking the board from his hands. "It was my fault it broke so I'll fix it," she promised, smiling. Then she frowned, looking around. "Kakashi-san?"

"Yes?"

"How do we get back into the building?" she asked. There were no doors leading back to Kakashi's apartment building, and a tall fence blocked off the small garden from the street.

Kakashi smiled, picking her up ("Ka-Kakashi-san, what are you doing!?") and jumped the distance from the ground to the hole in the wall. "Like that," he said setting her down. Smiling he tapped her on the nose. "And I'll fix the wall."

"No Kakashi-san, you can't!"

"She's right you know," Gai said landing next to them. "I'm fixing it."

"Gai-kun!"

Kakashi raised a hand, silencing her protests. "So what about lunch?"

Mitsuki flushed, turned, and ran back towards the apartment. "It'll be ready soon!" she called, rushing into the apartment.

Gai laughed. "So if she's not your conquest, what is she?" he asked Kakashi, one of his scary thick eyebrows raised.

"The Hokage's new mission for me," Kakashi said shrugging. "Protection and interrogation."

"Interesting combination."

"Yeah," Kakashi said studying the hole in the wall. It was a clean job, most of the boards seeming to have flown out from the impact (taking their nails with them) instead of breaking. This would be easy to fix. All he needed to do was find his hammer and pound the boards and nails back in. Really, it was nothing to worry about. The strange thing though... He'd never seen someone make a hole like that before.

Gai looked at Kakashi look at the hole. "Something the matter?"

"This is strange," Kakashi said pointing to the wall. "Have you ever seen entire boards come off when someone was thrown into them?"

Gai frowned. "No, usually they break. Maybe these weren't attached properly?"

"Maybe." Frowning, Kakashi looked down at the garden below. While Gai had flown back and landed in the bushes near the center of the garden, the boards had fallen straight down into a flower bed. However (and this was strange) the boards had fallen at such strange angles that not a single flower had been crushed. Now how had that happened? The little furry dog below them continued to yip and bark at them as though furious that they had interrupted it's peaceful day. Where had the dog been when the Gai had been smacked through the wall?

"Want me to gather the boards?" Gai asked misinterpreting what Kakashi was looking at.

"I've got it," Kakashi said preparing to leap down. Stopping he glanced at Gai. "Go into the apartment and don't let Mitsuki out of your sight."

Nodding, Gai did as he was told as Kakashi leapt down and gathered the boards up, the little dog barking at him the entire time.

Meanwhile...

"You sure you felt it?"

"I'm positive sir. She must have somehow survived the river."

The man cursed, glaring at the sky. "Find her!" he snapped, turning his gaze to his men. "Find her, get her to tell you where it is, and once it's secure, kill her."

"Yes sir!" the men said vanishing away.

The man turned and gazed up at the moon in the daylit sky. That bitch... She wouldn't escape them this time...

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That's it. Nothing really to explain in this one. I did mention Oni, but since they'll be a whole 'nother chapter about them I'll explain them later. Well, since I don't have much to add I might as well do Reviews... Just Chapter 4 though, I've got to get ready for fencing.

Watch-Da-Rain: Yes. He is very sexy. You wanna know who's sexier though? Gai in a thong... Heh Heh... (covers eyes) Oh god! The mental image! (Screams and bashes brains out)

Kashilover: Yah, I was thinking of the sixth sense the entire time I was writing that scene. Only, Obito isn't all covered in blood like most ghosts are. I wonder how he died anyway... It's not really 'poor little American me' either. When I was in high school we'd get all these Japanese exchange students and I'd ask them about things like Yuki-Onna and they's stare at me all 'Dude. What's dat?' The Japanese are raising a generation of children ignorant of their own culture who worship American Pop. It's really very, very sad... (Or maybe our exchange students were just really stupid)

Kuro Shi: Dear Black Death. Did you know I like your screen name? I do. I saw it and thought Black Four, but then thought that was silly and went for Death instead. Glad you know where the story's going. I don't. Can you tell me what goes on in the next chapter? The picture's kinda fuzzy besides the feeling that Tanuki will be involved. Or did I decide that the Anaguma would be next? (Shrugs) No really, I'm serious. If you have any suggestions I'd be more then willing to consider them. Your ideas may be better then mine. Any myths you would like be to weaved in would also be helpful too.

Kodomo: Aww... I'm touched. Really. You're grammer's fine (says the person who starts sentences with But and And). I'm an engineering major, not an English one. Don't really care how many review's I get. I almost didn't check to see if I had any, then I realized my Author's Notes was going to be really pitiful if I didn't do something quick. But you make the review number go up to 12 after all.. (pats Kodomo on the head) Wanna lolli?

Okay.. Now I'm late for fencing... Later.

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