Sorry this took so long to post, lol. I've been swamped with labs and exams and such. But here you go! This chapter is mostly filler. Just some funny/fluffy stuff, because, as a loyal reviewer pointed out, it's not fun when everything is serious all the time. I hope you like the change in pace :) I certainly enjoyed writing it.

I don't own Naruto, duh.

She came to slowly, one sense at a time.

As a skilled shinobi, Arya knew how to stay calm and proceed with caution when she found herself waking up in an unknown location with Kami knows who around. And so she lay perfectly still as voices began to float around her.

"-the most youthful of youthful blossoms! I, Konoha's Sublime Green Beast, will right this wrong done to our precious flower!"

"Gai…For Kami's sake. We're in a hospital. Do you want Tsunade to come back in here to tell you to shut up?"

"But Kakashi! Our blossom must be protected!"

"She's not your blossom."

"I simply meant that she-"

"GUY SENSEI!"

Arya almost winced at the new voice accompanied by the sound of a door being slammed open so forcefully that it creaked on its hinges. She could feel the air shift as the person rushed into the room, followed by the sweet scent of jasmine.

"Lee! I see you have brought flowers for our flower!"

"Not your flower," she heard Kakashi mutter again from some unknown corner of the room, but he was completely ignored as Guy praised Lee for his youthfulness. Lee had to be Guy's mini-me. She'd noticed him that day in the clearing. Then again, it was pretty hard to miss someone in an obscene green jumpsuit. She used to think Guy was overwhelming, and so she couldn't even fathom what two of them would be like. She didn't want to fathom what it'd be like. And yet she seemed to be getting an up close and personal demonstration anyway.

"I know you're awake."

At the sound of Kakashi's voice, much closer than it was a couple moments ago, Arya reluctantly opened her eyes to blink over at him. He was perched in a chair, slouching casually with one of those pornographic books he loved to read clasped idly in one hand. He wasn't looking at her, his visible eye on the pages of his book, and so after a long moment she turned to look at the room she was in.

As she suspected, she was in the hospital. The smell of antisceptic was unmistakeable, sickeningly so. She disliked the way hospitals smelled. It just gave her the creeps. Which reminded her that she did not want to be there any longer than she had to be. Not wanting to deal with the lazy copy ninja, and definitely not the two spandex clad fools who were getting overly emotional over a potted jasmine plant, she decided to phase into smoke and make her escape.

Except she couldn't.

And that's when she felt an inkling of panic clutch at her throat.

She disliked being held down, she disliked being tied down even more. Glancing down at the restraints attached to her hospital bed, Arya couldn't help but begin to tug at them. Clearly they weren't civilian restraints. They probably weren't even regular shinobi restraints, considering that she could usually phase right through those. No, these were probably made specifically to keep those with her kind of ability restrained. And she hated to admit it, but it terrified her.

She felt cool fingers on her wrist, and her eyes shot to Kakashi, muscles tensed.

"It's alright," he said gently, soothingly. He knew that restraints made her anxious, and so he seemed to be trying to calm her down. Of course he'd also know how to do that, having done it before.

And so he gently stroked his thumb back and forth across the delicate skin of her wrist, just under the restraint. Almost instantly, she felt herself beginning to relax. It was ridiculous really, how he managed to calm her with the simplest of touches, all the while looking as cool, calm and collected as always.

"Get me out of these," she whispered back to him, forearm flexing subconsciously. His finger stopped moving, and his hesitation to let her go brought her anxiousness right back.

"Kakashi. Let me out of these fucking restraints," she demanded of him, perhaps a little too loudly. At her seemingly sudden outburst, Lee and Guy finally noticed that she was awake and came rushing to her bedside at once, nearly tramping over Kakashi in the process.

"Most lovely flower of Konoha! You have awakened!"

A vein throbbed in her temple as Guy all but hollered right in her ear as he embraced her tightly. Her discomfort with being restrained was forgotten for a moment as she was overwhelmed by a sea of green. Pulling back, Guy grinned widely at her, teeth twinkling as he flashed her his customary 'nice guy pose'.

"Most youthful indeed," he said and Arya bit her tongue to keep from insulting the man. She knew he meant well, but he had a horrible way of showing it. And speaking of showing her things, Lee seemed to take that moment as his opening to offer her the plant he still carried in his hands.

"We have not officially met yet, dearest Arya, but I am Rock Lee! Konoha's Beautiful Green Beast! And I have brought the most beautiful flowers for the most beautiful-"

Unfortunately for him, and her, Lee somehow managed to trip in the middle of his introduction as he was leaping to her side. It seemed to happen in slow motion, the way the potted plant flew out of his outstretched hands, the way his eyes widened almost comically in horror, the way his body careened towards hers. Kakashi, probably out of instinct, reached out to pluck the jasmine plant out of the air before it crashed to the ground. He didn't, however, catch Lee before he landed on top of her, sprawled half on and half off the bed. Arya uttered a soft grunt as Lee's muscular body thudded into hers, and since she couldn't move away, she could only move her head to the side to avoid a collision with his. Lifting his face from where it landed in the pillow next to her, he blinked slowly at her. She was hoping he'd move, but he seemed to be paralyzed in shock. Sighing, she flexed her hands under the restraints yet again, an uncomfortable feeling blooming in her chest.

"You done feeling me up yet?" she asked bluntly, and Lee's thick brows furrowed for a moment before he looked down.

And saw his hands groping her breasts.

Almost instantly, he jumped off her, crashing onto the floor and disappearing from her line of vision. There was a long moment of silence during which Guy was staring at the spot where Lee lay, slack jawed and Kakashi was looking heavenward, plant still in his hands.

And then she heard the sniffling.

Slowly, a pair of hands appeared over the edge of her bed. Arya frowned, completely confused as to what Lee was doing. The top of his head appeared next, and when she saw his face, she had to bite back a groan. His face was streaming with tears as he held his hands out as far as he could from his body, as though he was trying to detach them from his person.

"GUY-SENSEI!" he wailed, body trembling. "I have defiled the beautiful blossom!"

Rolling her eyes, Arya began to tell him that it was fine, but Guy beat her to it.

"LEE!" he roared, chest puffing out in indignation as he rounded on his student. "How could you do something so unyouthful?!"

"I am sorry for my actions Guy-Sensei!" cried Lee, and Arya closed her eyes, not believing that this could actually be happening. She opened her eyes again just in time to see Guy deliver a roundhouse kick to the back of Lee's head, sending him crashing into the wall. The force of the impact cracked the previously unmarred surface and she heard Kakashi grumble something about Tsunade's wrath under his breath.

"We do not touch youthful blossoms in their most sacred of sacred places without permission Lee!" yelled the Jonin, tears now streaming down his own face as he shook his fist in the air. Sitting up from where he crumbled against the wall, Lee literally crawled over to his sensei, tears still coming at full force.

Arya looked over at Kakashi, giving him an incredulous look, but the older ninja didn't seem surprised at all. Instead he had set the plant aside and was reading his stupid book again, as though all hell wasn't breaking loose in her hospital room.

"What should I do Guy-Sensei!? How do I atone for what I have done!?"

"First! You must apologize to our dear Arya! And then you will run two hundred laps around the village. On your hands."

Arya grimaced, but Lee took the 'punishment' with something akin to glee on his face. Eyes bright and determined, he turned to her, shuffling on his knees to her bedside. He opened his mouth, to make an ardent apology that involved the word 'youth' one too many times no doubt, but she interjected before he could.

"It's alright, Lee. It was an accident. It's fine. It's not like I haven't been felt up before."

Apparently that wasn't the right thing to say, because a horrified look passed over Lee's face as he jumped to his feet.

"Someone else has defiled you too?" he gasped. "Who?! Who is this villain?! I will fight him and reclaim your honour!" Behind him, Guy was gazing at his student with pride, eyes sheening with happy tears now.

"Offering to help a fair maiden in need, Lee, you make me proud to be your sensei," said the emotional Jonin as if he didn't just smack his student around for feeling her up five minutes ago.

"It is I who is proud to be your student!" crowed Lee, fist clenched in determination. "Do you know who has defiled our Arya? I must confront them at once!"

She couldn't have been sure, but she swore she saw Kakashi shift slightly in his seat from the corner of her eye and she raised an eyebrow. How interesting.

"Well," mused Guy, looking off into the distance pensively as he rubbed his jaw. "There was Kakashi-"

"KAKASHI-SENSEI HOW COULD YOU!"

The man in question simply raised his book higher, so that it covered his face. Lee wasn't having any of that, and so he lunged at the silver-haired ninja, attempting to pry the book away. But of course Kakashi evaded the mini-Guy easily, simply shifting the book away at the last minute.

"How could you defile our beautiful flower?!" Lee demanded and Kakashi sighed.

"Not your flower," he muttered again and Arya was faintly amused at the fact that it seemed to be all he could say for the past little while.

"Lee, I do believe this was an instance where Kakashi had permission from the blossom in question," said Guy, still pensively looking off in the distance as though he was trying to come up with more men who've…'defiled' her. Which would be pointless considering that when she was in the Leaf, Kakashi was the only one she'd been with. No one else dared to try anything with her for fear of retaliation from him.

"But…why would Arya grant Kakashi-sensei permission to defile her?" asked Lee, the picture of innocence. Clearly the kid had never had a girlfriend before, because then he'd know exactly why she'd given her consent.

"Because they were engaging in the most youthful, and consenting, act, Lee," explained Guy, finally coming out of his contemplative state. The younger shinobi seemed to light up at that, turning wide, sparkling eyes to her. She almost didn't want to hear what he was about to say.

"Please, Arya! Would you allow me to also engage in this youthful act with you-"

This time when Lee flew across the room, it was because of a swift kick delivered by Kakashi, who still hadn't looked up from his book mind you. She and Guy looked from an unconscious Lee to the nonchalant Jonin who was acting like he didn't just drop kick someone across the room.

"Leg cramp," he stated blandly after a moment and Arya rolled her eyes before leaning back against her pillow. 'Leg cramp' her ass.

Clearing his throat, Guy walked over to his student and slung his unconscious body over his shoulder. "Perhaps it is time that we took our leave," he said, heading to the door. Arya decided that it'd be most polite to just not comment on that. "We wish you a speedy recovery, young flower," he said, oddly somber now. "And know that we will right this wrong. Nothing will happen to you here." She blinked slowly at that, at the sincerity in his voice, and she awkwardly nodded. But then he ruined it by switching back to his usual ways. "Because this Sublime Green Beast of Konoha will protect you with his life!" he hollered before flashing her a grin and disappearing out the door with a still unconscious Lee.

The door silently clicked shut behind them, and the room was so quiet that she was sure her ears were ringing. With a sigh she settled further into the bed, exhausted from all the…excitement.

"Some things never change," came Kakashi's even voice a moment later, and she turned her head to look at him, surprised to see that his nose was out of his book for a change. Instead, he was staring right at her, mask down around his neck and his visible eye unreadable. Swallowing, she just nodded, turning her head back to stare up at the ceiling. As they lapsed into silence again, she found herself trying not to think back to the last time they'd been alone in a room together. But of course, that was to no avail, because was most definitely thinking about his lips on hers.

Urg. Bad Arya, bad.

She was fairly certain that she was beginning to blush, and she could feel her heartbeat picking up. The man beside her could have easily picked up on both those things. Picked up on them and held them over her head. She half expected him to make some stupid, snide comment, but he continued to sit there silently.

Finally, she couldn't take it anymore. She turned her head back to him, intending to demand that he get the cuffs off her so she could leave, but the look in his eye kept her quiet. He'd shifted in the hospital chair so that he was sitting on the edge of it, knees brushing the bed. The position put him rather close to her, and she found herself staring intently at his face.

He reached out then, to gently touch his fingers to the side of her face.

"Do you remember what happened?" he asked in that same, deceptively even voice. It took her a moment, but she nodded slowly, the events from before coming back to her.

"Have I been out for long?" she asked, trying to ignore the hand he still held to her face. But that was working out just about as well as trying to not think about their kiss did.

"A little over a day," said Kakashi. He held her eyes for a moment longer before letting his eyes slide shut. Exhaling heavily, he dropped his hand from her face to clutch at one of hers resting on the bed. She watched, enraptured, as his Adam's apple bobbed when he swallowed. It didn't seem like much, but for Kakashi it was.

The older man usually stuck to detachedness or making perverted, offhanded jokes, opting not to be an open book. She supposed part of that came from the guilt over Rin and Tobi's deaths. Part of him still blamed himself, and he used that guilt and all those feelings to push himself to become the most powerful shinobi he could be. It was around then that he'd been enlisted into ANBU and he became distant and detached from everything and everyone. He'd made it out of that phase and had become a little lighter over the years, but part of his old mentality still stuck.

"You're okay."

It wasn't a question, it was a statement. His words broke her out of her train of thoughts, and she focused on him again to see that his eye was open and on her.

"I'm okay," she repeated quietly, her fingers squeezing his in spite of herself. Falling silent again, they simply looked at one another. She tried to hold on to her anger and her resentment, and a big part of her still felt those things, but it really was pointless to deny the fact that she was still in love with him. It'd been four years, and he broke her heart in the worst way possible, but she still felt the same way about him as she did all those years ago. The only difference now was that she was a little more guarded, a little more unwilling to throw herself back into his arms. It didn't mean that she didn't want to, a fact that was proven when she kissed him back that day in her room, she just didn't want to be hurt again.

"About the whole Itachi thing-"

He cut her off with a sharp shake of his head.

"Not now," he explained. "There's going to be a meeting, and you're going to have to tell us everything then."

Arya scowled, she didn't do well with authority figures, and now she was supposed to go and speak before a bunch of them? Kakashi caught the look and gave her a little, halfhearted smirk.

"This is what happens when you keep something like Itachi Uchiha a secret."

"I wasn't keeping secrets," she snapped with a huff. "I didn't even know who he was, alright? I didn't think he was some sort of international criminal or whatever."

"The way you greeted him leads me to believe that you've met him before. You didn't think that it'd be a good idea to let Enta know that some mysterious ninja was paying you visits in secret?"

Her scowl only deepened. When he put it like that, it did seem like a stupid move on her part. But who was he to judge her? She was going through a lot, mostly because of him, and hadn't exactly felt like interacting with anyone, let alone telling her sensei that some creep was following her around. She had just brushed it off as nothing, though some part of her mind told her that she shouldn't have done so. But it was too late to go back and fix it. She hadn't mentioned her visitor, and he turned out to be a big deal in Konoha, and now all sorts of hell were surely going to break loose. Speaking off…

"I don't remember the specifics, you know, since my brain was being liquefied and all. But I do recall you and Enta arguing with him about something. Do you know what he wants?"

Kakashi didn't say anything, his face once again that careful mask of indifference.

"I imagine it will be discussed at that meeting," he said vaguely, shrugging his broad shoulders.

"Well when is this fucking meeting then?" she asked, wanting to get the unpleasantry over and done with as soon as possible.

"Not for a couple days," he said, and before she could protest, he continued. "We have to wait for Enta and the rest of your team to get back from their mission."

"Mission? What mission?" she demanded, furrowing her brows.

"You know I can't discuss that with you."

"Well you know about it, so I don't see why I can't. Does it have something to do with this mess?"

When he simply remained silent, she very nearly growled at him. But that made her head hurt, so she simply lay back against her pillows again and closed her eyes. After a long moment of silence, she sighed to herself.

"Have you been here the entire time?" she found herself asking before she could stop herself. She'd wondered that ever since she woke up, she just didn't know if she should ask him about it. Apparently her subconscious decided that the question must be voiced. When she was met with silence, yet again, she turned her head to look at him. He was leaning back in his seat again, nose in his stupid pornographic book. Clearly he had no intentions of giving her a response. But…perhaps that was an answer in itself.

Turning her head again, she stared blankly at the ceiling for Kami knows how long. It was silent in the room, the only sounds being the periodical beeping of her monitors and the rustling of the leaves outside. Eventually she felt herself being lulled into unconsciousness again.

And as her eyelids fluttered shut, she chose to ignore the fact that her fingers were still entwined with his.

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