"Tell me something about yourself." Kakashi said gently, the need to get to know her better driving him.
"Like what?" She asked curiously, partually wondering if he was wanting to know something about heror Naruto.
"Whatever is fine. I don't want to ask something that might be painful for you to answer."
"My favorite color isn't orange." She blurted out and he looked at her funny then put a hand over his mouth and turned his face away from her as his shoulders started to shake. She rolled her eyes and waited for him to regain control of his sense of humor and turn back to her before saying. "I kind of like turquoise blue." Because the color reminded her of her oldest brother and made her feel safe.
"Thats a nice color. What else?"
"Flowers. I've never really seen any up close except once. It was a lily like flower that one of the Naruto clones brought for my on my birthday. It was beautiful, and it smelled nice, and I felt like crying when it died."
Kakashi frowned a bit. "I thought that you were asleep the entire time."
"No. That's humanly impossible. I would wake up from time to time for different reasons. Like once I was woken up when there was an explosion in one of the creation labs. A huge fire spread from the section attached to the room when I was resting. I would have burned alive like some of the other clones if I hadn't already been awake."
"How many clones were lost?"
"Thirty nine. All of them were conscious-" She wrapped her arms around herself and tried to suppress the shiver that was working it's way down her spine as she remembered the sounds of their screams as they had burned. She had run down the hall from the food hall and would have run into the room if Asuma hadn't have seen her and caught her at the door, before she could enter the room to see what all the screaming was about.
She didn't remember being able to see much. But she had seen one of the clones running across the floor screaming as his skin burned off. She could even remember the way his flesh had smelled, and the way he had begged for someone to save him.
Kakashi sensed her distress and instantly felt guilty for making her recall something so frightening. He reached out and wrapped his arm around her slender shoulders and pulled her against his side. "I'm sorry Naru. I should have kept my mouth shut."
"N-No. It's okay...it was just that I can remember seeing one of them."
Kakashi stiffened slightly and looked down at her face before she buried it in his vest to hide, her body started shaking a bit and he heard her breathing pattern changed as she mentally relived the horror. His heart clenched painfully in his chest and he started talking. Saying anything and everything that he could think of to push that one horrific memory from her mind.
He told her about the village. The people in it. The fields of flowers that he could show her, the lakes and ponds that he sometimes liked to use when he and Gai got together to go fishing or training. He talked to her about Tsunade, Iruka, Konahamaru, Gaara, Jiraiya and everyone else that he could think of. Telling her that she didn't have to be scared of anything because he would keep her safe, and the others would keep her safe too.
It took a while, an hour in a half for her to completely calm back down and to finally stop shaking. She tried to pull away from him, but he refused to let her, choosing instead to keep his arm right where it was and run his other hand through her soft silky hair, careful of her ear. "I won't ask you anything else." He said gently as he leaned his head to the side and rested his cheek against the top of her head.
"Then what are you going to do?" Naru asked warily.
"Nothing. Lets just watch the sky until we can finally drift off."
Naru said nothing, just tipped her head back and stared at the sky, and occasionally snuck a peek at Kakashi's face. They sat like that for hours, well into the early morning when the stars began to fade before Kakashi looked over and found Naru sprawled on her back on the cold stone, sound asleep.
He chuckled and shook his head before deciding that he should grab some sleep too and collected the girl in his arms and moved to someplace softer. A tree with some nice cushy moss under it and settling down with his back against it with Naru laying on the ground between his legs with her head resting on his left leg just above the knee, her jacket draped over her shoulders and fell asleep.