Okey doke, so here's chapter 5. (Huzzah)
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All Kakashi could hear were Renita's restless movements and the screams that emitted from her in the room furthest away. They rang about in his head and he couldn't bear it anymore. He was sitting on the couch, elbows resting on his knees and his hand clasped firmly and propped against his forehead, for his face was bent down and he stared at the floor. His muscles were tense from lack of sleep and tightened with every moment from worry.
A single betraying tear slid loose from his right eyelid, slowly trailing down his face and dissolving in the mesh of his material. It was then that the almighty shell of Kakashi Hatake began to crack and an outpour of tears erupted, and he neither wished for them to stop, nor would he be able to, because he was powerless to help the one he had grown so fond of. Renita was in a place that he could not venture into, and he could not protect her from the agony which ensued in both her mind and body.
He cried for everything to be ok, because he was now addicted to something, and she was the only thing that he had ever felt a connection to. She was a drug to him, and he knew perfectly well that she could only lead to trouble, but he couldn't stop being human. In every tear that was shed from his eyes, a little more of the pain inside left his body and seeped into the floor, for his mask had become sodden quickly from the outbreak. He could now physically and emotionally step on everything else in his life that had hurt him, because right now, nothing was as important to him as the girl in the room beyond, however young she was. It was right now he confirmed all of his suspicions which had haunted him for the past week.
He loved her.
He couldn't hear much over his crying, so he didn't notice Iruka walk in the room and stop infront of him. Iruka looked at the shinobi, confused as what to do for he had never seen him in this state. Ever.
His heart when out to him, and he put his hand on his shoulder, which caused Kakashi to jump slightly and look up at Iruka, feeling weak at his emotional display which wasn't intended for others to see. Kakashi's eye was pink and his eyelid puffy from the tears, which had made his eyes sting slightly. Both of the men stared at one another, and an understanding immediately made its way between them. This was never to leave this room. Iruka smiled at Kakashi with his 'cute-boy' smile.
'Kakashi' Iruka whispered 'She's awake'
He nearly knocked Iruka over with the speed of his jump and he bounded off the couch, wanting to run into the other room and never let her go again. Iruka whipped infront of him and stopped him by holding his hands up, like a jockey would stop a spooked horse.
'Don't go rushing in just yet!'
'Why? I need to see her!'
'You will, just…calm down.'
'Why?' Kakashi's movements were frantic, and he was trying to push his way past the smaller ninja, but his attempts were fruitless. Although he was smaller, Iruka was putting up quite a defensive barrier.
'She's just woken up and…' Iruka swallowed hard.
'And what?'
'She's pretty embarrassed at the moment, because I… caught her without anything on' He turned bright red, wincing as if he was expecting a punch to the face at this. Instead, there was this ominous awkwardness between the two, and while Kakashi then blushed a vibrant pink, Iruka glowed a deep maroon and both just stood in silence, the occasional sniffle from Kakashi.
'Well…yeah. So, let's just be…quiet when we go in.' Iruka said, his eyes avoiding Kakashi.
'Yeah…alright' Kakashi said, face still burning and wiping his eye just a bit more to dry.
The two walked down to the far end of the room, and Iruka knocked on the door this time, and Renita's voice called for them to come in. The two entered and Renita was sitting on the bed, though she had made it neat and tidy. She looked worn out, and she smiled weakly to them in the doorway. Her heart started to go faster at the sight of Kakashi and Iruka together, and she blushed a little at the two of them. As she looked at Kakashi, she noticed his eye was pink and the eyelid red, and she wondered what had been going on.
'Are you going to tell me what's going on now?' she said, her voice soft, and it caused a ripple to run through the two men. How they loved her voice, the way it seemed to dance across the air and rest in their ears.
'Where do you want to begin?' Kakashi said.
'Well, where am I and how did I get here?'
'You're at my place' Iruka said, sitting down on the edge of the bed, and Kakashi went and leaned on the desk to his left, infront of a window that had the curtain pulled across.
'And I brought you here' he said, folding his arms across his chest.
'So why am I here exactly?'
Iruka looked at Kakashi to let him explain.
'Well, do you remember when we were talking by the river?'
'Yeah… It was yesterday.'
'It's actually been a week becau-'
'WHAT?'
'You passed out on me and you had stopped breathing.'
Renita looked at both of them, her head darting from one side to the other as if she was watching a tennis match.
'Okay, okay…tell me what happened next'
'Well, Iruka's place was the closest landmark that I felt comfortable leaving you. So, I had to break in and I put you to bed.'
'So it was you that took my clothes off?' (Kakashi blushed a deep red at this, and mentally wished that it was him that did it)
'Aha, no. I didn't' he said, scratching head, his hair matted and tangled. 'It was Lady Tsunade that was'
Renita slumped at this news. She was so confused.
'I ran to the Hokage because I didn't know what to do, and I figured that she'd be able to help you…more than I could.' He sighed at this, a knot in his stomach growing because he wanted to be the hero for her.
'I was waiting at the academy for you to show up when Kakashi came and told me what happened' Iruka said, seeing a moment to stop any tension from rising up. 'I dismissed the class early and came back here as soon as I found out, while he went and fetched Lady Tsunade'
'So… what happened to me?'
'She said that your heart had suffered an internal rupture, and that it was probably due to a traumatic state.' Iruka looked a little confused at this point, but he didn't dare ask Kakashi anything infront of her. He knew that the other shinobi was hiding something, but he cared too much about Renita more than anything right now. 'She also said that at the rate you were thrashing about, if you kept any of your clothes on, you would end up strangling yourself, which is why (he paused, swallowing guiltily)…yeah. Kakashi never left this house, in case you woke up because he wanted someone to be here when you did.'
Renita looked at Kakashi with a look that melted his heart. She was looking at him with such gratitude and affection that he wanted to photograph it just so he could be able to look at it again and again. His eye curved up a bit, because he was smiling and invisible smile underneath his mask. He was tired, and it showed, but both Renita and Iruka kept quiet about it.
Renita sat there quietly, taking in everything that she had heard, and processing it through her head. Traumatic experience...
She remembered dreaming about her past, and how it felt so real as if it was happening again. An image of a boy's face which was smiling and then changed to an open mouth surprised and horrified expression. Screams filled her head and the white noise that happened in the hospital the other day began as a low hum and then began to grow louder and louder as she thought deeper about it. She winced and clutched at her head, letting a gasp of pain escape her lips.
Both Kakashi and Iruka scrambled over to her, each holding her either side and she felt the two hands warm her back where there palms rested. She peered at them and smiled weakly.
'I'm ok guys…really'
'Are you sure?' both of them answered simultaneously, looking at each other and the realisation that both of them felt for her in the same way dawned on them.
'Yeah, I'm alright.' She said, taking her hands away from her head and resting them in her lap.
'I can't thank you two enough for everything that you've done.' She said, looking at the faces of both of them. She leaned over and gave Iruka a hug, slipping a peck on the cheek as she did so and then hugged Kakashi, also giving him a peck, though his was more underneath his eye due to the mask being in the way. Both of the shinobi had a hand fly up to the spot where her lips had been, and smiled at her.
'You must be starving.' Iruka said. 'I'll go make you some food'. He stood and walked out of the room, the clattering of pots and pans making their way into the room as he prepared a meal for her to eat.
'Thankyou so much Iruka' she said, sighing and leaning back into the pillows. Kakashi sighed with relief, finally knowing that she was ok.
'Kakashi?' Renita whispered.
'Yes?'
'Go get some sleep.' She said, looking at him with a small smile. 'Thankyou for everything.'
As much as Kakashi didn't want to leave, he knew that she was right, and that the best thing for him was to go and sleep. It took all of his strength to lift himself from the edge of the bed, but before he left, he pushed a lock of her hair that had fallen over her right eye behind her ear, letting his fingertips lightly caress her cheek on the way down. He left without a word and she closed her eyes, breathing in heavily and sighing, realising that she could not have done anything without the aid of these two. In her heart, she knew that they had become intertwined into her life, and there was no way they were going to leave.
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As Kakashi walked away from Iruka's place, his hands in his pockets, head bowed at the ground but still maintaining his slacked demeanour, he couldn't stop thinking about how hard it was to walk away from Renita and how broken she looked just sitting there. There was this dense feeling in the pit of his stomach that wouldn't go away, no matter how hard he tried, but there it sat, festering and gnawing away at him through every hour of the night. He was relieved at the fact that she was ok, but now he knew that Iruka felt the same about her, and he wasn't sure how to prepare himself for that. Iruka was his friend, a dear friend at that, but he also didn't want to relinquish his chance with Renita, if there was one. If Iruka was with her, he would be happy for them, but then what would he do? He'd never been so fixated on one entity in his own life, and he wanted to keep it all to himself. It was selfish to think that way, but what else could he do? Nothing like this would ever come around again, and he felt like she was the missing link in his life; the one that could hold him as he slept and comfort him when he was the one in need, instead of relying on his Icha Icha Paradisu books to take him away from reality.
As he walked through one of the many streets that made the village a maze, he wasn't focused at all on where exactly it was he was heading. His destination was indeed his apartment, but he found himself wandering further and further away from his home, aimlessly heading into the outskirts, where the wind grew colder and sharper. It sent Kakashi's hair into a tangle, and he thought to himself that it was going to take a while to brush the knots out and get his normal fluffiness again. He was still walking, trudging mostly, when he came across a ramshackle building, with its panels of wood falling off and shattered windows. Something about this building drew his interest, though he needed to get home to sleep, after being awake with worry for a week. Denying any voice of reason that was screaming at him to go home, he walked to the front door and pushed the door lightly, letting it swing open of its own accord.
There was a thick layer of dust over the floor, except sets of footprints which disrupted the dust, travelled from the front door, across the floor and down into a dark corridor, leading to an unknown destination. His curiosity grew, and he stepped into the same footprints, but his feet were slightly bigger than those, so he caused the clean spaces in the floor to meld into one another. Kakashi's feet made a soft 'pad' sound on the floor was he walked slowly and carefully down the corridor, following each footstep with intense curiosity. He was lead into a small room that had been fixed up enough to maintain a living area. The windows had been replaced with another complete sheet of glass from somewhere in the house, and the wood panelling on the walls nailed up enough to keep the wind and rain out. The bed was strategically placed under the window, so when it was sunny outside, the light would filter in and warm the host. Kakashi felt rude for intruding on someone's home but as he was turning to go home, he saw something that stopped him dead in his tracks.
Placed delicately on the pillow was the napkin water lily that he himself had folded, and he suddenly knew who it was that lived here. He then lay on the low bed and rested his head on the pillow, staring at the delicate little lily still in pristine condition. He sighed and closed his eyes and curled his knees up to his chest, at last finally falling to sleep.

Renita didn't realise how hungry she really was as she was gulping down the soup that Iruka had made for her. It was delicious, and it spread comfortable warmth throughout her body and rested satisfyingly in her belly. She exhaled with satisfaction and hugged the empty bowl to her, soaking in the residual warmth in the ceramic to her body. Iruka smiled at her.
'It was alright then?' he asked.
'Alright would have to be the understatement of the year. It was amazing!' she replied, a large grin spreading across her face.
Iruka chuckled and took the bowl from her to wash it up 'I'm glad you liked it. It's nice to see you awake and with us again.'
Renita seemed to deflate a bit at this news, and her smile faded from her face.
'Iruka?'
'Yeah?'
'How bad was it when I was…'asleep'?'
Iruka's smile also dropped, and he seemed to don a parental look about him. It was kind, but serious and his gaze looked deep into his subject.
'Honestly, it was bad to hear. We were told not to come in to you unless it was an emergency or you…had stopped screaming'
'I was screaming?'
'You were. Can I ask you something?'
'Sure'
'What was going on in there?'
Renita looked embarrassed as she remembered the images that had replayed in her head. Her temples started to throb slightly but she didn't want to make Iruka worry about her again.
'I don't really want to talk about it right now' she said, looking at her hands folded comfortably in her lap. She wanted to tell him, she really did, but inside she felt that it was going to be too painful to do so at this point in time.
'It's ok I understand' Iruka replied, placing his hand on her left arm. He hadn't seen it before, but the ridges in her arm looked painful to him, though she never seemed to show that it hurt. He ran his fingers over the ridges, letting them fall into the crevasses softly until he had traced the entire arm. He was scanning it with his deep brown eyes, and he marvelled at the way her skin stayed soft and smooth like velvet. It sent chills up his spine just thinking about that, but knowing that she didn't stop him and that she was right infront of him doubled the intensity of these chilling ripples which were going to keep him distracted for the rest of the afternoon, along with other personal thoughts about this curvaceous kunoichi…
'Iruka?'
It was Renita's voice that snapped him out of his fantasy, and he took his hand back and leaned on his elbows to listen to her.
'I need to cover it' (she indicated to her arm) 'do you have any bandages?'
'Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's a roll in the first-aid kit. Let me find some for you'
Renita smiled at him again, feeling relieved he didn't pressure her to tell him about her dreams.
'Thanks a bunch' she said, watching him walk away into his bathroom and thinking over how lucky she was to have someone that she could trust. Iruka returned with a roll of bandages and wrapped her arm for her, rolling the material between his fingers with an expert motion and swinging it up and over her limb in a perfect rising swirl. He tucked the end securely into the layers with a successful 'ah'.
'Wow' Renita said, admiring the skill in the wrapping 'that's the best it's ever been.'
'I have a lot of practice with the children at school when we do kunai practice' Iruka chuckled.
Renita laughed her tinkly laugh, and it sent the squirming sensation shooting into Iruka's stomach again. She put her left hand on the top of his head and ruffled his hair.
'I really need to go, darling' she said, looking at him and grinning wide. 'I can't thank you enough for your hospitality'. She wriggled down the bed and hopped up off, stretching up towards the roof, hearing a satisfying bunch of clicks travel through her back. She looked over her shoulder at him with a cute smile 'I'll visit the academy tomorrow like I promised'.
'Aha, that's alright. Just stay safe ok?'
'Promise' she winked at him, leaving the shinobi to stare at her back as she gracefully and silently walked away out of his place.
She needed to see a particular genin at the hospital.

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