I do NOT own Naruto Or anything associated with it. The story is mine, and so is Arune.
Almost immediately after Naruto sent Tsunade a message about what had happened with Arune, she sent a message to Kakashi. It read:
Kakashi,
As you know your current assignment is to escort Neoma Arune back to Konoha. You will continue to that mission but now on different terms. We have received information that a tribe of nomads wants to kidnap the last Neoma in order to destroy the peace between The Wind Country and the Fire Country. From now on you and your team are to protect Arune-sama with everything. You must also deviate from the short three day path to and fro the two countries taking the longer route home. Be careful and make sure the heiress is in your sight at all times. I believe by now Naruto has heard from her about his relation to him. Keep him in tact and remind him that you are still in charge of this mission. Make sure he understands that this is not a personal mission. That baka will probably cling to her, seeing as she's his god sister. Hope to see you in a few days.
Tsunade
Fifth Hokage.
Kakashi POV:
Well well it seems that this trip will be more than an escort trip. We'll have to take the long route back to Konoha meaning we'll be travelling through the wilderness. It'll be impossible to take all of her luggage to Konoha if we are to travel by stealth. Hmm?
"Neoma-sama, I wish to speak to you in regards to escorting your daughter."
"Ah yes Kakashi. What is it that you would like?" said Hiroshi
"We have received information that some nomads ninjas are trying to kidnap your daughter. We will be taking the alternative route back to Konoha, but since we are traveling by stealth we will not be able to carry Lady Arune's entire luggage," I told him
"Yes well if it's for her safety then it'll be fine. I will have some of my servants take her belongings to Konoha. It will serve as a distraction anyway. O and please refer to me as Hiroshi, your father and I were very close friends and you are like a son," he remarked.
I said my goodbyes and left. As I walked back to my room, I noticed a maid coming out of Ruin's room holding a tray of food. I asked her why she had come back with the food and she told me that Ruin hadn't eaten since the lunch yesterday. Apparently she wasn't very hungry. HAH as if the lil monster wasn't hungry. As a kid the girl would eat anything and everything in her sight, no wonder she was fat. Maybe her lack of appetite had caused her to lose all of that weight. Then something struck me. I felt guilty for her not eating anything. She hadn't eaten anything since our little conversation on the tennis court.
Crap! If she dies of starvation Tsunade will kill me!
I took the tray from the maid and walked over to Ruin's room. I knocked on the door. "Please go away I told you I wasn't hungry. Just please leave me alone," she said. She sounded like she was crying.
I pushed the door and walked into her room. I'm a ninja I can do things like this without being recognized.
I put the tray down and walked up to face her. She was sitting on her bed wearing a light gauzy night dress. It seems like she hadn't left her room at all, it was nearly dinner time and she was still dressed in her nighty. Not that seeing her in her nightie was bad. Damn I could nearly see through it. But when I looked at it I noticed there were tear marks all over her pillow and her dress. Fuck, she hadn't stopped crying since yesterday. Was what I said really that bad?
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"Well for one thing you always put people down. You were constantly picking on me, your maids, your friends, everyone… Wait what is that supposed to mean. You changed for someone? You're still shallow aren't you? Changing yourself so you could get someone to like you. You should have changed yourself to become a better person not to impress someone."
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Yea it was bad. I pulled her off her pillow and made her look at me. In her eyes were emotions that I had never seen. Her eyes said she was in pain, that she hadn't slept all night, her heart was breaking ever so slowly. I looked her over once and realized she was much prettier than I thought before. Somehow she was fragile now, more down to earth than she was as a kid.
I apologized to her. I told her I shouldn't have said those things to her since I hadn't seen her in nearly 20 years. She looked me in the eye and asked me to give her a chance and try to understand her.
For some reason all I could do was feed her. I don't know why I didn't answer her question or leave after apologizing. I just sat there and fed her.
Normally I don't do those types of things but today for some reason I felt like I owed her. That she was someone that I could be without a shield with. I felt like I didn't have to hide anything from her.
Just then that baka Naruto came in and told me that I was manhandling her and that I had made her cry. "You pervert I know you were just looking at her. You wouldn't feed someone. Maybe theres some type of drug in it."
"Naruto. Please stop it. He didn't do anything," said Ruin before heading out to the bathroom.
"Baka listen we are leaving right after dinner. She hadn't eaten since brunch yesterday and I didn't want our mission to fail because of her stupid decision not to eat. Just be ready to leave immediately after dinner."
Arune POV:
He was so close. I wanted to touch him. To let him know how much I love him.
I don't know why I love him, he's always caused me so much pain. But today he came to get me to eat. HE apologized. He's never done that. Maybe Naruto's plan will work. Maybe traveling the long route will allow me to create a place in his heart for me. I just hope that he won't be too upset when he finds out that Naruto asked Tsunade-sama to create a fake nomad group trying to kidnap me. We just needed an excuse to spend more time with him.
I bathed for a while and then realized that I looked like shit. How the hell am I supposed to impress him if I look like a raccoon? Immediately I washed my face and applied the best make up I had, I had put it on to enhance my actual beauty. I had experimented with make up when I was a teen and noticed that it looked best on me when it was natural not to overdone. Then I dressed myself in a simple white tee with a scarecrow on it with a pair of Jounin pants. Yes I was a jounin but that didn't mean I had to dress in my uniform out of work right? But seeing as we would take the long route to Konoha I decided to dress in battle clothes, just to play the role. I packed my bags with the essentials like the first and only gift Kakashi gave me, a stuffed toy in the shape of a heart, as well as clothes and toiletries. Now I was ready to face the world.
General POV:
Dinner was done quite fast and silently. After dinner Arune and Team Seven headed out with their small belongings after Arune gave her father a tearful goodbye. Apparently she had told him that he better make it to her wedding or else she wouldn't ever talk to him again.
Kakashi stood waiting for the tearful goodbye to end and thought to himself, "She's getting married? Is that who she changed herself for? Poor girl if I knew she changed herself for a guy who she was getting married to then I wouldn't have been so mean to her. I've heard love makes you do crazy things so changing yourself isn't that crazy compared to what some other people do."
O Kakashi little do you know this is the least crazy it gets.
So Naruto planned to give them more time to get to know each other.
I don't know why but this story makes me giddy.
Thanks to those who reviewed and read. I won't be able to update till after 12/14/07. I have finals coming up.
BTW correct me if there's anything wrong. HOW come no one corrected my silly lill mistake of making the Wind a village not a country?
O and another thing. I have a hate/love relation ship wiht Sasuke so he might or might not be in here...o and if u wanna glimps of Kakashi's face(made by Kishimoto) then check out manga chapter 294