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Kakashi was desperately trying not to merge his head with a wall. Kiyone was no longer in her "Terrible Two's" but at age three, she had hit one of the worse phases for children. She liked to ask "why?"

It all started around four in the morning when she asked her big brother: "Why do we sleep?"

Kakashi cracked an eye open and patted her head, "We sleep so we can be well rested in the morning."

"Why is there a morning?" She was half buried under the blankets, her head resting on his chest as she stared at him with one eye. She loved copying her big brother; she only wished she head the shiny headband like him so she could copy him all the time.

"Because we need a specific time to differentiate between night and day. Go to sleep, Kiyo-chan, I'll take you to the park in a few hours. You can ask me more questions when we're both awake." He affectionately rubbed her back in the way that put her to sleep.

"Oh," she yawned. "Okay, Nii-tan."

She had just closed her eyes when Kakashi heard a sleepy slur of "Why do they call it a park?" Kakashi could only groan and tried desperately to fall back asleep.

Later that morning…

It only got worse. Especially when they went shopping after play time in the park and Kiyone disagreed with Kakashi about what she wanted to wear.

"Kiyone...you can't keep dressing like me all the time. You're a little girl; you'll get confused with a little boy."

And then she said the last thing he wanted to hear: "No."

"…"

"No, Nii-tan. I want to be just like you."

"Kami, I hope not," he muttered under his breath and gave up trying to argue with her. She had already asserted her dominance when she glared at another child at the park who wanted to use the swing she was on. "Okay, Kiyo-chan, black turtle neck or black tee shirt?"

"…why do they call it a turtle neck? Is it made out of turtles?"

"….I feel like Sakura is better suited to answering this question than I am. At least she's a girl." He mumbled as he paid for their purchases and headed home, his sister talking about things she saw while she played at the park with the other children.

"..Kara-kun was being a poo head though. He was saying mean things about 'Ruto-tan." Kakashi paused mid step and went through his memory about which child was "Kara-kun". He had to be the Hyuuga child that Kiyone constantly argued with whenever they met. "He said that 'Ruto-tan was a monster, but I don't think he's a monster. 'Ruto-tan is nice and he plays swing with me and he doesn't pull my hair like 'Ra-tan does."

Kakashi let out a relieved sigh and chuckled to himself. He was glad that Kiyone saw the good in Naruto just like he did. But he was going to have to talk to Sakura about the hair pulling. It would explain why some days Kiyone would come home upset that Sakura tied her hair up or braided it.

A/N: A short chapter, but it's cute nonetheless. Anyone who gets the reference from the last chapter marked with a * gets an e-cookie.

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