Stuff: Ok, welcome back to an entire new month...um, yeah, anyway, I'm going to start off with a joke and then you can read my awaited story. Please review.
Question: How do you get a one armed man off a swing?

Kakashi's house hadn't changed in the time I was gone and when he opened the door, the warmth of the dying heater and scent of old paper brought back old and happy memories of my time here. I smiled and accidently laughed. "Something wrong?" asked Kakashi.

I turned to him happily and sighed. "It's good to be back." Kakashi smiled and gently pushed me through the door I'd been blocking. "Oh, sorry."

The ANBU nodded. Kakashi turned to them and asked, "Where will you be sleeping?"

Haley piped up before Shino could even open his mouth. "We'll sleep in the lounge. But we would like to check out your house and secure the windows in case of an attempt to escape and find the quickest route to get to Maye's room." Kakashi nodded, familiar with the standard ANBU security procedures.

From behind Kakashi, I slowly unbuttoned my cloak, watching him turn back towards me, and revealed my Jonin outfit to him. He smiled slightly and offered to take my cloak. I accepted and actually hesitated in giving him the cloak. As the fabric slowly slid from my fingers and was taken away from me altogether, I felt a sudden pain in both my hands that travelled from my palms, up my forearms, across my chest and towards my skull. I screamed out in pain and collapsed to the floor.

The last thing I could hear was Kakashi yelling my name and the only thing that was felt before I blacked out was a pair of hands catching my fall.

Only 1 day past until I gained back consciousness, but I would back been asleep for a lot longer if Shino hadn't figured out that the cloak must have a type of spell on it and mustn't be taken off and placed it back on me. "Maye?"

I could hear a faint voice asking for me. Who was it? "Maye?" there it was again. I opened my eyes and blinked a few times to readjust my vision and saw a silver blob in front of me. It spoke my name again.

"K-Kakashi…?" I quickly jolted upright but banded head with Kakashi. "OW!" I then realized I connected with Kakashi and gasped. "Sorry Kakashi."

He groaned slightly then stood up again, groaning. "That's…ok. I shouldn't have been that close to you anyway."

I readjusted my position and offered a seat for Kakashi on my bed. He sat down and rubbed my covered knee affectionately. "So, is it good to be back?"

"Yes, but I feel like an outcast with the two ANBU in the lounge."

Kakashi laughed. "I told them not to take this mission too strictly because I know you like you freedom." I smiled and thought about our last night together. "They took it well. It seems as though Shino has finally found a girl."

I raised a curious brow. "Huh? So the Haley girl likes bugs then?"

"I guess so." He gave me his closed eye smile and added, "And the guards also told me that Lady Tsunade reduced their time here so that they only stay here for a week."

I was shocked. The Hokage would never have allowed that to anyone. What makes me so special? That thought didn't float through my head too long because I painfully lunged at Kakashi and hugged him closely. "I love you, ow, Kakashi."

Kakashi laughed softly and hugged me back, slowly placing me back on the bed in the process. I felt the crisp sheets beneath rustle as I was laid down on them with Kakashi's extra weight added to me. "Kakashi?"

"Yes?"

"Do you forgive me?"

I heard him sigh and felt him lift up from me. He hunched over my frame so he was looking right at my face; his black, emotionless eyes piercing into my thoughts and memories. I felt like I need a tin foil hat. "Yes." I smiled. "I knew you were happy here and the fact you left meant that you were either taken or forced to leave the village."

"Did you search for me?"

"I did. I search everyday for a year. Then Lady Tsunade found out and told me to go on a mission because I was making myself sick just worrying about you."

I stroked his masked face and placed my hand behind his head and onto his neck. Kakashi slowly pulled down his mask and leaned closer to me. I opened my mouth in shock. I had never seen his face properly because last time I did, I was drunk. His face was so handsome. He had a chiselled jaw that completmented his nose. I was in love with the most gorgeous man in Konoha.

Before I could close my mouth, Kakashi's landed on mine and kissed it passionately. I didn't have time to react so I did the sanest thing at that point in time and hugged him close to me. He was on top of me fully now, his legs entangled with mine, kissing me hard.

I couldn't remember the last time I'd felt so happy, and I wanted the moment to stay like this forever but Kakashi quickly broke apart and got off me, smoothing his vest and fluffing his hair. "Not now."

I pushed my bed sheets further down my body and sighed. "Yeah, I guess you're right." I then remembered about the 2 ANBU downstairs and laughed. "I wonder what the guards are doing."

Kakashi nodded and offered a hand out to me to help out of bed. I thanked him and walked downstairs only to find myself smiling broadly at the bottom of the stairs. There, on the couch, were 2 trained killing ninja kissing. I knew Haley had something for Shino, they way she looked at him and all, but Shino…well, that was another story. And another thing, Shino didn't have his glasses on.

"A-hem!" Kakashi coughed loudly, breaking the 2 ANBU apart.

"S-sorry, Kakashi-kun." Haley stammered and stood upright. She bowed low with Shino beside her.

Kakashi waited for Shino to rise before talking again. "What do you think you were doing? ANBU are supposed to be professionals. And with a prisoner seeing you two making out on my couch is a pretty poor way of representing yourselves and your village."

The 2 teenagers lowered their heads in shame. Shino finally spoke up but with his eyes closed, not wanting to reveal his eyes. "Kakashi-sensei, please do not report this into the Hokage. It was foolish of us to do what we were doing. It won't happen again."

I heard Kakashi sigh in frustration. "Fine. You have only a week here, anyway."

I looked at Kakashi, then back at the guards, frowning. "Shino, open your eyes."

"I can't. Not without my glasses. Haley? Could you please get them?"

I groaned silently. My urge to see Shino's eyes was almost as bad as wanting to see Kakashi's face. I turned my back on everyone and walked back up the stairs. From behind, I heard Kakashi talk. "…ever you're on guard, don't…" I tuned myself out from the real world and flopped onto my mattress. I was exhausted for some reason. I shrugged and turned myself over so I lay on my back.

I gently smiled to myself and unclipped the hook on my robe, allowing it to slip off my body and onto the bed. Then, slowly but surely, I lifted up my blue bed sheets, placing them on my chest and unzipped my Jonin vest and unbuttoned my navy top. It was going to be a long week.

Answer: You wave at him.
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