Outlandish Cries
Author: Agent Hatake
Summary: Any mission that he was sent on could be his very last and that reality hadn't particularly fazed him before. It wasn't until his friends had pushed him into loves' gentle embrace that, that reality had started to hit home. KakashiKagome IY/Naruto Xover
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto and by extension Kakashi, I wouldn't be spending my time writing this. Instead . . .I'd be doing unspeakable things to Kakashi. Alas, I don't own Naruto or its characters and I don't make profit from this story. So there you go.
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Chapter 2 Part 2
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It was ten minutes to closing time and she was praying that no more customers come in. 'Just ten minutes, please!'
All Kagome was thinking about was the nice steamy warm waters at the onsen, the nice chatter between women, and a relaxing time. She sighed just thinking about it and nearly gave an audible groan as the bell on the door rang and in stepped Hatake Kakashi.
"Kakashi-san!"
"Yo!" He looked around the shop, not really understanding why he was here considering he was just taking another stroll around Konoha to find a nice spot to read Icha Icha Tactics after the bell test with Sakura and Naruto, but found himself in front of the bookstore that she worked at instead.
'Higurashi Kagome. . .' he thought. She was interesting, to say the least. Not many women knew that the Icha Icha series was more than just written pornography. And it was much better than some of the smutty romance novels that some women read, Much Better. That by itself proved that she wasn't as close-minded and as serious as others. And she was refreshing to be around: funny, smart, and beautiful. She was nice to have around when he had nothing better to do.
"Are you looking for anything in particular?" Kagome asked, as far as last minute customers went Kakashi would definitely be at the top of her list. At least she knew him and he wasn't pestering her for a dinner date or anything like that.
"Mmm, no not really. Just browsing." He aimlessly walked around the store, sliding out random books, reading the back, and slid them back in. 'Why am I here?'
Kagome reached underneath the counter and got the box of books to restock. She crouched as best she could with her knees closed and uncomfortably tugged down her kimono as it rode up. 'Quickly. Just get this done quickly . . .' she thought to herself, frowning.
The bell rang again and she looked around the shelf to catch a glimpse of metal shin guards, a long trench coat, a mesh suit, and the mahogany eyes of a smirking Anko.
"Anko!" She exclaimed happily, leaving the box on the floor and strode over to the grinning woman. "How ar-eee! What are you doing?!"
Kagome floundered in the hold; Anko held her hands tightly from behind her with one hand and reached in front with the other to loosen her kimono opening a lot wider to where her boobs were within centimeters of showing her nipples and she blushed. A small strip of her stomach was showing too but stopped just above her bellybutton.
"You're definitely no Tsunade but you should display these puppies proudly!" She did some last few adjustments to show more of her neck and collarbone, pulled off her blonde wig and called out, "Oi! Kakashi, get your ass over here!"
She paused in her efforts to get lose, "H-how did you know Kakashi-san was here?"
There was a devilish smirk before Anko said, "It's my madd ninja skillz."
"Ye-." He froze as he looked up from reading the back of yet another book and took in the view. 'Well. . .I'll certainly never doubt the judgment of my feet ever again.' He slowly raked his eyes up and smiled with his eye when he came to her flushed face, "You'd definitely attract more customers like this." But now his wakizashi looked out of place on her back; she was more cute and sexy than dangerous and cool.
"Hmm, where'd you get this little piece of equipment?" Anko let Kagome's hands go from her hold to take the wakizashi off her back and study it closer, sliding it out of its scabbard and admired the fine edge.
As soon as the strap from the sword was pulled off her body she tugged her kimono closed and stepped away from the purple-haired deviant.
"Kakashi-san let me borrow it for the costume. Why are you here so early?" She finished adjusting her clothes back in order and tilted her head with a raised eyebrow, "And how do you know Kakashi-san?"
"There was nothing else to do. And" she scoffed, "Every ninja whether it be enemy ninja or not know of Copy Cat Kakashi. Also," Anko willed her eyes to melt and twinkle and pulled her lips into a pout, "I was hoping you'd make some coffee for me before we went?"
Kagome narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms underneath her bust. Anko's eyes zeroed in on the no non-sense pose, Kakashi pointedly looked away at the unintentional enhancement of her assets. "I don't think so. I think you're becoming addicted to the stuff."
"So? I could be getting addicted to more worse things like to drugs. . .or to alcohol. Wouldn't it be better if I got addicted to this instead of those??"
"Is this coffee that Higurashi-san makes that good?" Kakashi asked, trying to break the building tension of the oncoming battle of wills. Especially with Anko being one of them, she generally resorted to death threats and promises of torture: both physical and psychological.
"I'd marry her for it. But sadly, she already rejected my proposal." Anko pouted, giving that kicked puppy look over to Kagome.
Kagome rolled her eyes, "You'll have to wait, I have to finish stocking some books-" And before she could grab the box and finish her sentence Anko grabbed hold of it and had zipped around the bookstore, putting all the books back in their shelves and tugging on her elbow.
"Let's go." Anko whined. Kagome broke down the box and left it leaning against the cash counter, "I have to wait till my boss gets here. He went to get his dinner so he should be back soon."
Kagome looked over at the clock and turned to the windows; it was time for closing time! She leaned over the magazine stands and stood on tiptoe to reach the blinds, incidentally bearing more thighs to Kakashi's gaze. Anko gave raised eyebrow thinking, 'Maybe she isn't so innocent after all,' and she felt a grin tug on her lips as she looked at Kakashi.
The oaf wasn't even trying to hide the fact that he was checking Kagome's legs out, 'Fufufufu, lord unenthusiastic has a thing for miss cutie? Wait until Kurenai hears about this!'
Anko twirled Kakashi's weapon in her hands, drawing Kakashi's attention away from Kagome and gave a brief uncaring glance towards Anko and stuck his head back in his book.
Anko was looking at the back of Kagome's head as she moved to lock the door and tugged down the door blinds, giving no indication that she noticed what he was staring at before.
Anko hummed, content to be patient for the boss' arrival and twirl Kakashi's ANBU wakizashi. Mentally she was plotting ways to get them together and already she knew one thing she could do right now, maybe after she got back from her mission and she heard word from Ino that Kakashi was still within Konoha's walls she'd take Kagome to one of the training grounds and claim that she was just showing Kagome some of the things she could do when they 'accidentally' happened upon Kakashi's form.
"Fu fu fu fu fu."
Kakashi and Kagome glanced at each other, bewildered.
"What's so funny, Mitarashi-san?" The cultured voice of Kagome's boss, Ebisu, asked a little concerned. 'When Anko laughed. . .' Ebisu shivered.
"Ah, nothing! Well, we're leaving. C'mon scarecrow!" Anko tugged Kagome behind her and Kagome was barely able to shout a, "I'll pick up my pay tomorrow!" Before the doors closed behind Kakashi and she got a nice refreshing breath of Konoha's night air.
They were only two blocks away from the bookstore when Anko snapped her fingers and cursed, "I need to get some details for my mission tomorrow. I'll meet you back at Kurenai's house, yeah?" She directed the last bit toward Kagome, who startled at the suddenness said, "O-oh, sure."
And with a swirl of leaves, she was gone.
"You don't think. . ." Kagome trailed off.
"That she was trying to set us up? Yes, I do. But I'll walk you home anyway."
Kagome groaned in dismay, "I had a feeling that Kurenai was planning something because she had this strange look in her eye this morning but I didn't think she'd involve Anko in this too. Even back home, some of my friends tried to set me up with men." She shook her head slowly, "I thought those days would be over."
"So, how'd it go?" Kakashi asked, staring ahead.
"How'd what go? The men?"
"Hn."
"Ah, well. The guy was nice, but," she looked up to her left and her blue eyes clashed with his gray, "well, he was boring." She winced. "Nice guy, but dull."
Kakashi gave a low laugh and Kagome smiled at the soothing sound. 'He has a nice laugh.'
"If not the dull, boring type, then what type are you looking out for?" Kakashi asked with mild interest, his fingers were twitching with the urge to bring out his book and bury his nose in the print; a habit to hide how interested in the topic he really was or how disinterested in the topic he was, depending on the situation. 'Or person,' he mentally added thinking about Gai.
"Hm, I used to think I had a thing for guys with long silver," Kakashi ears perked, "hair because my lord, his older half-brother, and their father had long silver hair and I've had crushes on all of them at least once in my life." Kagome tilted her head back a bit and tilted her head before shaking her head and laughing softly.
"But then I talked to one of the most perverted monks you'd ever meet and he said that I was just hypnotized by the silver swaying hair."
"Hypnotized?" He said wrinkling his nose and giving a quirked eyebrow.
"Yeah," she laughed, "the way he described was like this: 'It's like watching that neighborhood girl with the massive tits," Kagome emphasized the words 'massive tits' by cupping the air in front of her own breasts, " running by. You just can't help but think that you love the person with all that swaying, hypnotic motion. I didn't get it but I could sort of see what he was trying to get at."
Kakashi threw his head back and laughed hard before bending at the waist and grabbing onto his gut. He was caught off guard with a cultured woman like Kagome saying the word 'tits' and saying that whole thing with a straight face.
"Ow, ow." He muttered as his side protested at the laughter and wiped a tear from his eye, "That was funny."
Kagome giggled and looked up at Kurenai's apartment complex before turning around to stand in front of Kakashi. She smiled as she said, "I guess next time you'll tell me what kind of person you're looking out for, ne?"
"Yeah, next time." He said smiling and looked up at the building in front of him, too. "Goodnight." He said tilting his head a bit and shuffling his hands into his pockets, looking aloof with his posture.
Before she could lose her nerve, she reached up and gave a small peck at the corner of his masked lips and muttered a shy, "Goodnight," looking at him from under her long lashes all the while.
She took a step back, twirled around, and disappeared up the steps.
Kakashi smiled, ghosting a finger on the warm spot on his cheek before turning his back and ambled on home.
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A/C: Uhh . . .because the holidays are coming up it's very likely that I won't update for a bit. It's very likely that I won't update until the second week in January. Parties, Finals, Christmas, New Year's, parties, etc.
I'll make up for it somehow. Most likely as a belated Christmas gift to you guys, I'll give you the third chapter in its entirety instead of splicing it up. Is that okay for a peace offering?
Oh . . .maybe as a gift for me, everyone of you all will review? Yeah? :DD
I AM NOT, NOR WILL I EVER, ABANDON THIS FIC. EVA'!
But I just got to live my life a little, alright?
On another note . . .
Oh man, I love the reviewers that review for every chapter I post; JumpingBeans 480 (I can't believe you're so young!), Inuzuka Haru, Kurai Mori (I'm reading your story Altruistic Tenacity . . .woah), PiratekitAG, Kage Otome, kakashixangela, and if I missed anyone, I didn't do it on purpose!
And even the reviewers that review sporadically are so cool. Man, I love you all!
Really, I can't thank you guys enough for your word(s, smiley faces, etc) [hahaha!]. I'm a review whore! Woot!
It's very likely that I'll update LD at least once during the holidays. And. . .
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