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"Alright Kakashi what do you want?" Ibiki asked, annoyed.

Ibiki had just finished with his team's training an hour before and he'd intended to check in on Anko to make sure she was doing her job. That was until Kakashi started to follow him.

At first Ibiki ignored him in the hope that he would leave peacefully. He wasn't in the mood to be screwed with and Kakashi was doing a number on him just with his presence. Ibiki turned left and right in the hopes that Kakashi would finally get bored and go but to no avail. Finally he'd had enough.

Appearing behind him Kakashi materialized and strolled to the side of him. The scarred man threw Kakashi a long glare, silently asking his question again.

Instead of answering Kakashi looked forward and whispered, "Not out here."

Furrowing his brows Ibiki nodded. A hand-sign, Ibiki shunshined into his old office with Kakashi grasping his shoulder firmly.

Anko's eyes slitted when she saw Ibiki standing in front her desk and was about to ask why when she saw Kakashi step out from behind him. She just raised her eyebrow in annoyance. "Need I ask?"

"No, but I need you out."

"Why?"

"Because Kakashi was about to ask me some questions." Ibiki said bluntly.

The kunoichi turned her glare to Kakashi where he withered helplessly. He never did like angering her. She was the only kunoichi who could effectively put him down for some reason. "It's about Naruto."

"Than I'm staying. Anything about him, I can answer." Anko stated simply.

Raising an eyebrow Kakashi gave her a bored look. "Than can you also explain some things about his friend Haku as well?"

"Yup."

Kakashi eye-smiled and nodded before turning back to Ibiki. "I'm assuming that you will want to hear some of my questions too?"

He nodded.

"Alright, my first question that I want answered was about Haku." Kakashi stated, "I remember Hokage-sama saying something about her once, but I can't remember what exactly."

Anko grabbed the picture on her desk and held it close, looking at it. "First thing you should know Kakashi-san is that Haku-chan is the most moral person you will ever meet in your life-time. The only reason she would turn on someone would be if someone decided to do something to Naruto and vice-versa."

"I've heard that from Hokage-sama, but it's not what I was thinking."

Anko nodded. There was so much she could praise about them, but what exactly did he want to hear?

"You'll have to be more specific because I'm not going to spill their lives to you."

The silver-haired jounin scratched his head sighed. Pulling a seat from near the wall he sat down in a contemplative pursuit. What was it that the Hokage had mentioned about her during the assigning's? Something about her... innocence? No, that wasn't it.

"Well," Kakashi snapped his head up, "Haku has always said how she hates to harm something. So I know she doesn't like to kill." Anko said quietly, almost dazed in Ibiki's opinion.

Kakashi tilted his head and leaned on his hands. Without needing to ask Anko answered, "I think the only reason she even became a ninja was because it was what Naruto wanted."

"She's always looked out for him, ever since those two were little." Anko said smiling. "Ever since Naruto took her in she's become his best-friend and as disturbing as it is her reason for living."

"But wouldn't that be bad?" Kakashi asked.

Shaking her head Anko clarified, "It isn't devotion. At first it was, but now..." Anko sat quiet for a moment, "It's more love than anything. It's the way a husband would look at a wife."

She snorted, "But I'm not one to talk."

Over in the corner Ibiki listened to all this wish closed eyes. The way those two looked at each-other made sense. Their jaded pasts prevented them from actively or effectively reaching out to anyone beyond themselves and since they'd lived together for so long their perceptions were different. Why not as a brother or sister Ibiki didn't know.

Ibiki's eyes opened slowly. Now that he thought about it... If parent's never taught their children right from wrong than he was sure that incest would be a common ordeal in ordinary life. After all, if one wasn't taught something how else were they supposed to know?

Kakashi looked sceptically at Anko.

"Than do you know how Haku came to live with Naruto then?"

Surprised Anko silently thumbed the picture frame gently and set it back down. She gave both of them a glare and merely pointed to the door. "That's something that I can't say, now get out!"

Nodding Kakashi left, but not without taking the scowling Ibiki with him. He didn't like being forced out of a office that was previously his so Kakashi generally pulled him out, escaping death by snake. Kakashi would've asked why but seeing how Anko reacted the subject must've been a sore one for her, but for her to be aggressive towards it meant that it was also sensitive to Naruto and Haku by extension.

"Well?"

Kakashi looked back at Ibiki and saw the sizable glare Ibiki sent. "Well, what?"

"Are you going to approach my student's about this or are you going to leave it alone?"

Kakashi rolled his head in thought. Should he? Nah. "No, I don't think I should." He boredly glanced at him. "Would you let me if I wanted to later?"

Ibiki shrugged. He didn't care. As long as they were ready for training, and soon missions, he didn't care. It's not like he knew them for that long.

Nodding once Kakashi shunshined back to his apartment leaving Ibiki standing in the bland white hallway. He stood dimly lit in the moonlight and smiled. Things would get more interesting soon if things kept up.

Riding high the sun bore down on Naruto and Tenten as they made their way through the streets. Their destination, a drug store. Just the night before when the trio were about to fall asleep Haku had started coughing harshly into her elbow. And from the way Naruto looked he'd stayed up all night comforting her when she could do nothing but lose her strength coughing in his arms.

Tenten walked closer to him and took his arm around her causing him to peer over. "You're tired. Let me help support you, k?"

Naruto nodded and leaned a little on her. He really was tired.

Arriving at the drug store Naruto pushed open the door with his free arm and walked inside looking for the owner. After a few minutes of just looking around they heard someone call, "I'm sorry, I'll be right there."

Opening a door in the back was Kakashi's student, Itsuki. He looked fairly surprised when he saw Naruto, but did a good job concealing it. "Hello, how may I help you." He asked pleasantly.

Naruto and Tenten smiled a bit somberly and told of the condition Haku was in before they were railed into finding the medicine. Itsuki asked about the symptoms, when it happened, and even what they did the day before which should've been obvious but then Naruto realized that he was most likely following protocol with the questions.

Nodding a bit after hearing the symptoms Itsuki motioned for them to follow him. Walking swiftly over to a shelf Itsuki nimbly fingered his hands through the shelf and finally with a proud sigh he showed them the medicine they needed. "Haku will most likely need to take a few days rest from all the strenuous activities." He raised his hand silencing Naruto. "And don't worry, she's just got a small cold."

Seeing the relief on Naruto's face was worth it. If he hadn't chosen to protect his family through becoming a shinobi he would've easily become a doctor and protected them from disease. And as a testament he always operated the store when his parents were doing something. Whether that something being a short-time away trip to test new drugs or a simple walk to the grocery store and back. Either way, he loved working there. But he loved being able to protect more.

That's why he envied the blonde for the love he gave and received from his team. Just by seeing them in action once could he deduce that they were a strongly knit unit. And the blonde's action's only went to strengthen his beliefs. His on the other hand were... for a lack of better words, unstable.

The Uchiha was constantly brooding over something while his fan-girl was always fawning over him. They had next to no team dynamic which made his education worthless at the end of the day. If things kept up that way he would go personally to the Hokage and request to be placed back into the academy to await for team assignments again, unless things started to seriously improve.

He sighed. Better keep his day-dreaming under wraps until he could go back to his room.

Thanking Itsuki, Naruto walked out medicine in hand with a peaceful looking Tenten supporting him still. Quickly they traveled back to their apartment with Naruto's step sagging every once in a while as a bi-product of his growing exhaustion.

When they reached the apartment Tenten walked him in and set him down on his couch. It seemed to engulf him as he muttered a thank you.

Tenten championed a soft smile before kissing his cheek and walking into their room. On the bed laid a a pale girl with black hair and a wet rag on her head. The sheets were pulled close as she opened her eyes sullenly. She was miserable.

Though her sickening look softened a little when she opened her eyes to see Tenten standing there with a bag. Haku was about to say hello to her but was silence when Tenten shook her head and motioned for her to stay silent. "Stay quiet, keep your strength."

Haku smiled went to push the sheets off of her. Her hand was grabbed and she looked to see Tenten placing two pills in here hand and a glass in the other.

"The drug store owner said that you just need some rest and these pills. You won't be able to train with us for a few days to get your strength back up but you'll be feeling much better tomorrow so you could probably come and watch in the shade while we train." Tenten said.

The only reason she even mentioned Haku's coming was because of her iron, no steel will when it came to staying with Naruto.

She remembered the last time Naruto was sick and Tenten had urged her to go to school the next day. Haku had looked miserable, constantly glancing out the window, biting her lip, and finally gripping her hands white. It was torture for Haku, Tenten was sure. And at some point Tenten had guessed that it all got to be too much because she basically walked calmly up to the class door, opened it, and dashed out.

Later that day Tenten came home to be greeted with Haku snuggling Naruto's sleeping form as she played mother hen, as Naruto called it.

Tenten would've laughed had it not been so sad.

Haku smiled, a little wider and gently swallowed the pills.

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