Later that evening Kakashi was sitting on the couch reading his Itcha-Itcha book (Or rather he was supposed to be reading) while Naru took a nap in the reading chair. He looked up from the same page he had started reading...three hours ago and looked at Naru. His lips curved up in a smile as she shifted positions and curled up again in the chair a fer feet away from him. She looked like a kitten sunning itself while napping.

Her soft blond hair slipped over her shoulder as she drew her knees to her chest and sighed in her sleep. How anyone could managed to fall asleep in such an uncomfortable position, and make themselves look so small was beyond him.

But it worked for Naru, she was just so cute he could'nt keep his eyes off of her. He knew the begining signs of imprinting, his father had told him about what would happen once a particular female caught his attention.

He would feel the need to watch her, to stay unusually close to her, he would want her scent on his skin, the taste of her on his tongue. He would desire the sound of her voice, could crave the sound, would want to hear it constantly and memorize it so that he never forgot the sound, no matter what happened. It was irrational how easily she made him feel those things, yet he did.

He had noticed the beginning signs of imprinting earlier yesterday evening when he had begged Naru to touch him. He was a jounin, an elete, a former Anbu. He had been trained brutally to with stand anything, torture, even death and to do it silently and with a smile. But he had begged Naru. Actually fucking begged, like a weakling, for her to touch him, and she had. So damn sweetly. That shy and tentive touch had all but broken him into pieces and bound him to her side. Left him wanting, needing and longing for more.

He set his book aside and tipped his head back slightly and stroked the bare skin of his neck, wondering what he would feel once the collar was around his neck. Would he feel overwhelming joy at finally being collared by someone? By his former sensei's daughter? Or would he feel panicked, and need to escape? He sighed and dropped his hand away from his neck. He had no way to know what he would feel until he had her put the collar on him.

He stood up and quietly moved past the chair Naru was sleeping in, glancing at her as he walked into the shadows down the hall and into the bedroom that the two of them would be sharing for the next month and pulled out the sealing scroll that he had used to pack his things in and unsealed the collar and picked it up. The soft inky black leather felt good in his hands. He folded it this way and that because of the stiffness of the material and sighed again and decided that it was now or never.

He could wait to have Naru mark him after he bedded her.

He walked back down the hall with the collar in hand and leaned over Naru and reached out to touch her.

She could sense him there, reaching for her and opened her eyes and made an odd yipping sound and looked at him and stretched a bit. Arching her back like a cat before settleing back in the seat. "Sleep well precious?"

"I would have slept better if you were'nt skulking around... Is that a collar?" Naru asked as she reached out and took it from him. It was a good leather collar. The type that people bought and put on their most precious pets. The leather was just a bit stiff, unusual for something made out of deer leather, and there was a strange silver seal on the inside of the dark leather. It took her a second to realise that the silvery seal on the inside of the leather was phyphoning some of her chakra into it. What the hell?

Kakashi said nothing as she tried to hand it back to him with a worried expression on her face. Ah, so she had felt her chakra being drained by the seal a little bit. "What are you doing with this?" Naru asked as he smiled and dropped to his knees in front of her and pushed the collar back at her. She frowned and tried to give it back to him again. In her experience nothing that could drain her chakra was good.

She was staring to get scared.

"Calm yourself Naru. It's not for you."

"Good cause I'm not a pet." She snapped, her voice raising just a little above her usual whispered tone.

"I know that. Now please calm down, it is'nt hurting you."

"Then take it back."

"I can't take it from you until the seal turns red, that shows that it has enough of your chakra to make what I want you to do with it work better."

"Huh?"

He smiled and reached out to frame her face in his hands and kissed her, gently, tenderly. She made a whimpering sound and he drank it in, needing to distract her until the seal turned red. It only took a minute or so for the seal to gather enough of her chakra to turn a deep glittering fiery red color as Kakashi sat back on his heels and let Naru go. She sat there looking dazed as he took the collar from her and examined the seal to make sure that everything was in place.

It was. "Naru would you put this around my neck?" He asked as she looked at him wide eyed as he pressed the collar into her hands.

"Why-"

"It's a tradition in my clan, that when a male is married he wears a special collar and a mark or scar that his mate has given him. They are posession marks to help bind us to our mates on a much deeper level."

Naru cocked her head and thought for a second. "Like chakra rings?"

"Chakra rings? I don't think that I've ever heard of those."

"I think thats because I'm the only one who can make them. They're a small amount of chakra that is formed into a ring and hardens into a substance stronger than diamonds and metal. Once you put them on your self and your mate, you can never be apart."

"Did you make chakra rings for Sara, Naru?" Kakashi asked curiously, it sounded like an remarkable ability to him. He would have to try it out later.

Naru blinked back tears as she nodded her head. "I never got to give her hers. I buried them with her because keeping them just seemed wrong."

"I see. I'm sure that she would have been very happy with hers." He said gently as Naru looked at the collar in her hands and sighed.

"I really have to do this don't I?"

Kakashi nodded and leaned forward until his body was resting against her legs and waited. Naru took several deep breaths to calm herself and combed her fingers through his soft hair and slipped the collar around his throat and buckled it and watched as he leaned back as the buckle disappeared leaving only the leather. She blinked and was about to ask him how he would take it off it it got uncomfortable but he wrapped a hand around her ankle and tugged her off balance as his hands worked the zipper and button on her pants.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

"Giving you a reward."

"Huh?"

"Just lay back and relax, this will feel really good." He said as he grasped her pants and dragged them down her long slender legs along with her panties. Her face turned a bright pink as he ran his hands along her legs to the inside of her thighs and lifted them up so that they were resting over his shoulders and leaned down and gave her a long lazy lick.

Naru froze, her mind going blank as she felt his tongue lick along the inside of her thighs and screamed in shock.