What is it with Cats and Dogs?
Chapter 4
Iruka stood outside his house, steeling himself for what may be in store. He thought later, after Kakashi and Urako left him to get new clothes for the girl, that he should have taken the day off and done the clothes himself. With how Kakashi shopped, she would have fourteen of the same outfit…
He sighed and walked into the house, putting down his bag and looking around for Urako and his husband.
"Kakashi? Ura-bo?"
He heard a silvery laugh and noticed the top of a violet head of hair peeking over the back of the sofa, followed by a pair of huge silver-grey eyes. When Urako saw him, she ducked down and giggled again. Iruka smiled and looked around to try to see where his husband may be hiding, but not really expecting to find him. He saw the white haired ninja sitting in the dining room with a cup of coffee and one of his horrible books, looking like he had no idea that there was a giggling child in the house.
"Hey there. Have you seen Urako?"
Kakashi shrugged and flipped a page in his book and glanced around.
"Nope. Haven't seen her for a good hour."
"Huh. Funny, I think I just saw her in the living room… But you're sure she isn't in there?"
Iruka smiled when he heard another quickly stifled laugh and looked back into the living room tapping his chin.
"Well, I'll check again. Maybe she showed up while you were reading."
Kakashi looked up at Iruka, then at his book, then back up at his husband. Iruka rolled his eyes at the look of 'What's the problem?' on his unconcealed face and stalked into the living room.
"Now, where could Urako be?"
He looked behind Kakashi's worn old chair, under the coffee table, behind the decorative screen in the corner, even behind the long curtains. Not once did he go to the sofa. On the few times that he had gotten close, he saw Urako flatten herself to the back of the sofa and hold her breath.
Finally, he stood in the middle of the room and pretended to be stumped. Then, when he was sure that Urako was getting ready to peek out over the top of the sofa a second time, he teleported behind the sofa and sat looking at her and waited for her to tip her head in confusion. When she turned her head and saw him, he raised his hands like they were claws and made a face.
"Boo."
Urako yelped and tried to jump over the back of the sofa, falling over the front and falling with a crash onto the floor, cracking her head on the coffee table as she fell.
"Urako!"
The little girl was sitting on the floor with her head between her knees and her hands over her face.
"Urako, look at me."
Kakashi came out when he heard the crash, and was sitting with one hand resting on the girl's head. Iruka got a flashlight and made the child look at his nose while he shined a light into her eyes. To his relief, her pupils reacted normally to light, and she wasn't confused. She wasn't even really crying. Tears ran down her cheeks and her chin was shaking, but she was barely hiccupping. Iruka saw her eyebrow and almost fainted.
The girl's right eyebrow was split and the skin around the wound and her eye were already turning black and blue.
Later, as Kakashi held Urako on his lap while she held ice on her injured face, Iruka went to inspect the clothes that his husband had purchased for their adopted daughter. He picked up a bag and looked inside.
"Kakashi, what on EARTH did you buy?!"
Inside the bag were a few pairs of boy's pants, shorts, tee shirts, and a few hoodies that were obviously for little boys, displaying pictures of dragons and other monsters.
"She likes them."
As if to prove her white haired father was telling the truth, Urako reached out and picked up the closest tee shirt depicting a scowling samurai brandishing a sword and running toward another samurai. With a smile, she pulled it over her head and looked up at Kakashi and Iruka.
"But they're boy's clothes, Kakashi! The kids might laugh at her!"
"I dunno, I kinda like the rag doll look. What do you think, Rag Doll?"
Urako grinned and bounced up and down, hugging her 'father's' leg, then smiled up at the man she was starting to think of as her 'mother'.
"Can I have them?"
When Iruka started to say that they were going to take the clothes back in the morning, Urako made such a sad face that Iruka stopped mid-sentence.
"Alright. Now, we need dinner and then you need to take your bath and go to bed. You start classes tomorrow."
Urako's smile grew as she and her parents walked out of her bedroom, not seeing the slight glare that Iruka directed at a equally unaware Kakashi.
A/N:
Okay, this story came to me when I was talking to a friend, and I'm amazed how well it's progressing in my head!
Okay, you know the really cute look that Puss in Boots gives people in Shrek 2 when he is getting ready to beat the snot out of them? I was shooting for that with Urako. Hahaha! The first power of children! Sad Eyes of DOOM!!!
Ahem. Anyway, reviews and ideas are accepted and appreciated. If you are going to criticize, please do it in a constructive manner, that way I can attempt to fix problems pointed out to me!
Chapter 5 is coming soon!
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