Shel walked through the apartment and didn't hear anyone moving around so she went to the front door and looked out, Asuma's truck wasn't there anymore. She sighed and shut the door and walked around taking a grand tour of Kakashi's place. She opened the bedroom door and looked around she noticed the king sized bed and the tousled sheets, there was a strange smell in the air. Wrinkling her nose she walked over to the bed with purpose, standing there for a second she noticed white stains on the sheets and she realized she smelled the after affects of sex; she went over to open the window.
Doubting that it was from Kakashi and Iruka she started undressing the bed. She walked out with them bundled in her arms and placed them on the floor by the front door. She'd find some place to wash them soon. She was glad she had her hair up in a ponytail otherwise she'd be spending the next couple of minutes putting it up. Kakashi had managed to pull himself back into the real world and he was now standing against his kitchen door.
"Looking for something?" He joked with her; she jumped not realizing he had come out of the kitchen. His eye smiled at her as blushed.
"Ya, actually. Do you have any sheets?" He tilted his head and looked at her.
"Why?" She sighed and walked over to him so they weren't talking across the room.
"Well because you're other ones had smelt gross, so I wanted to change them for you." He shrugged and pushed off the wall, barely bumping into her, he shifted around her and walked toward the bathroom where in the cabinet of towels there was the extra sheets.
"I'll help you make the bed. Afterwards, what would you like to do? I don't have to be anywhere until tomorrow." She blushed at the tone in his voice and was glad he was reaching up for the sheets and blankets. He handed down some pillow cases then the sheets, she backed away a few feet and he grabbed the blanket.
"I'm not sure, maybe take a nap, or clean. I noticed your house is dirty." He chuckled and placed the blanket on the floor. He grabbed the sheets and pillow cases from her. He couldn't believe himself, he didn't know what was going through his head, one second they're having a decent conversation and then there seems to be a moment that his heart leapt in his chest and he wanted to pull her into a hug.
"Alright, how about you take a nap and then clean, or vice versa. Maybe I'll even spot you." She walked to the other side of the bed and was trying not to flirt back with him by keeping her mouth shut and her walk straight. As they made the bed she had to lean over the middle to grab part of it, leaning too far over it she tripped onto the bed. He hadn't seen this and was putting the top sheet on and she was slowly getting tangled in it. He laughed when he noticed this he reached down and started tickling her stomach. Screeching and trying to move away her head popped out of the sheets but the rest of her was all tangled in the sheets.
"I don't think this is making the bed!" He had such the strong urge to bend down and kiss her, while running his hands through her blue-black tousled hair. He stopped himself before he did and instead helped her undo herself from the sheets. A couple of times his hands brushed a part of her and
they both blushed, pausing and then continuing to undo the sheet. Once she was free she sat up on the side of the bed facing away from him. He fixed his side with both sheets and sighed before walking over to sit next to her. They sat in silence for a couple of minutes.
"How came I keep getting the feeling you're holding something back?" He didn't say anything just sat there staring at the wall. "Ok, fine, don't answer me; I just wanted to ask the wall what it's holding back from me. Gosh Kakashi-" He stopped her by putting his hand on her upper arm, causing her to look at him. His eye was pleading with her to stop where she was going with what she was saying. "No, I want to know. You can't tell me not to ask, because then I'll just ask more." He sighed and his hand fell from her arm. She took his hand in hers and craned her head down to look up at his face. "Hello, anyone in there?" He just kept his eyes closed.
She was fed up with the way he was acting, it was like he had ADD or he was Bipolar or something. Gosh he pissed her off, but she was going to be patient, she knew where he was coming from, but she had gotten through it, and she wasn't about to let her new friend suffer from it. She'd do whatever she needed to, to pull him out of his revere. She stood up in front of him, her hands on her hips, and waited till he looked up. When he did she had a stern look on her face and determination burning in her eyes, he was suddenly afraid.
"Hatake Kakashi, you sir, are going to get your arse off this bed and go into that kitchen and busy yourself with cleaning it. Now." She was forceful enough to make sure he knew she was serious. He gulped and stood up slowly, she didn't back away even though he was taller than her. She pointed where she wanted him to go and he crossed his arms, a gleam appearing in his eye.
"No." She looked a bit taken aback and her arm came back down to her side.
"What?" She sounded how she looked.
"I said 'No.' I will not take orders from you. Only person to give me orders is the Hokage." Her eyes smoldered with anger and he cringed on the inside.
"Well listen here, I'm going to be in charge while I'm here because your too busy moping around to notice you have to clean up after you ex lover. Those sheets I took off, they were covered in semen, you know what that means right? Well it means he was cheating on you. I don't think you noticed did you. Or if you did, you turned a blind eye to it!" She glared at him and he met her glare with his own.
"He was not cheating on me! How dare you say that! You have no right and you have no proof." He hissed out between clenched teeth.
"No proof? Unless you had a clone here this morning that semen isn't from you. It's fresh, from this morning or late last night, sometime when you were with me and Gai. So you tell me I have no proof, go look at those sheets yourself!" She crossed her arms and shifted her weight so she was even more threatening. He just looked at her for a couple of minutes and turned to stalk out of the room. Once he slammed the door behind him she sat down and sighed. Maybe that work…? She wasn't sure
about what to do with Kakashi, but she didn't want him to go into a depression, it would hurt him in many ways.
She finished making the big bed on her own, and started straightening up the rest of the mess Iruka left in his wake of moving out. She kept cursing the young man while doing so. Kakashi was only in his mid twenties, he didn't need this now, not when his life was supposed to be coming together. She finished the bedroom and moved onto the living room and then when she was finished in there she moved onto the kitchen. When she walked into the kitchen she stopped. Kakashi had cleaned the whole kitchen and was making dinner. She looked at the clock on the wall and saw it was nearly dinner time anyways. She walked over to Kakashi and looked around his arms to see what he was making.
"What're you making?" He looked down at her and smiled, shielding the food from her sight.
"You'll see when we eat. Could you set the table?" She pouted but nodded anyway, getting the two plates, cups and silverware on the table didn't take but a minute and she was back at the stove trying to see what it was he was making.
"It smells great, what is it?" He shook his head and moved her away, she pouted again; he just chuckled at her.
"It'll be done in a couple of minutes. Why don't you go sit down and wait." It wasn't an offer or a question, he told her to do it. She shook her head and sat on the counter instead, crossing her ankles. "Since I'm making dinner, how about you do dishes?" she thought it over.
"I'd rather not, thanks though." She joked with him. He caught the joke and poked her leg, she laughed and he joined in. "I'll do dishes, but your not going to leave me in here alone. You have to do something in here." He got a mischievous look on his face but his words didn't convey it.
"Alright, I'll find something." He said in a monotone. He didn't want to be joking and flirting with her, but it seemed so natural, he couldn't help it but when he thought about it. "Tomorrow, you want to go with me to give the master key back and get a new lock on the front door?" She nodded and started swinging her feet. She started to zone out but was snapped out of it a couple of minutes later when Kakashi was standing between her legs, reaching up above her for something.
Her face was beat red and she noticed the hand that was stabilizing himself was on her thigh. "Ready to eat?" He said bringing a big bowl down, he looked at her red face and he smirked, his hand making a lazy design on her thigh. "Need help getting down?" she gulped down the lump in her throat and shook her head. When he moved back to the stove she hopped off the counter and walked to the table, sitting down in her spot across from his.
When he set the bowl on the table she saw it was a mix of rice, chicken and some veggie's. Spooning some on her plate she didn't look at Kakashi, and she didn't all through dinner. She kept running that instant over and over again in her brain, how close he was, how she could have wrapped her legs around him and pull… no, no… she couldn't think like that. She sighed and kept eating the food. It was good and she ate like a pig, getting two bowls of the rice/chicken/veggie mix.
When they finished eating she helped him clean the table off and she started running the dish water while he picked the leftover food up. While she was doing dishes he couldn't help but watch her. All through dinner he kept thinking about that moment when she could have been his. She could have wrapped her legs around him and… NO! He mentally slapped himself, he couldn't be thinking of her like this. It wasn't like him, how much he was thinking of her, a woman, hasn't he always grown up liking guys? He didn't get what his heart was doing to him. One moment it was trying to tear him up over Iruka, now it wanted him to try something with her? He was so confused and he wasn't sure about what to do, he wanted to do anything to get over Iruka, but he didn't want to get hurt again.
He walked over to the sink and started rinsing and drying the dishes while she washed, she smiled up at him and he smiled down at her. They soon got lost in their own thoughts about each other, after dishes they went and sat on the couch, he had turned on the radio and all that he seemed to be able to find were love songs. He gave up and left it alone and sat back on the couch, resting against one corner and stretching his legs out. He looked over and noticed that she was starting to fall asleep, curled into a ball. He reached over and tapped her she looked at him and he patted his shoulder. She smiled and shifted so that her head was on his shoulder and his arm was draped over hers, his hand resting on her thigh, making lazy patterns in it out of reflex.