Love Song

Chapter 2: Roommates

Not for the first time going back to his apartment that Kakashi wondered why he said she could live with him. He just figured that he was responsible and so it was on his shoulders to help her get settled into her new life. That's his story and he was sticking with it. He didn't look but he could just feel her next to him. For some reason he got the feeling she was smiling as she looked around.

So he cast a glance and caught her doing just that, her was looking around at all the people like she had before. There was a small smile on her face as she just watched every day people going about their lives. He considered what he knew about her life, a life full of duty without ever known the home that birthed her. She had no idea what the Lock village even looked like. Neither did Kakashi, he bet that Lock kept itself hidden from the outside world. Most small villages did as a way to ensure their survival.

Smaller ninja villages had to remain hidden because they could easily be overwhelmed and destroyed that way. Only if a village was powerful enough could they open stand in the world, like the five great villages. Villages like Konoha could have open trade, civilians living among them all over the place, shops and stuff you'd find in any civilian village. It must have been a lot for her, for someone to have never really have a home and then to finally have one.

Hanare was looking around, the first time it was as a spy now it was a member of this village. She looked over the place that had become her home wanting to see every bit of it. She wanted to learn every street, every corner and find all the things and people that lived here. She watched the people just walking along going about their business. It was everything she had ever dreamed about and more for what a home was supposed to be like. It was no wonder she had fallen in love with this village.

She looked up and looked at the great mountain with the faces carved in there, many have heard how this village honoured their Hokages by carving their faces into the large rocks. They looked out over the village that they had led.

"It's so that they are always watching over us," Kakashi said suddenly having seen where she was looking. "They carve their faces up there so that even when they are gone, they are still watching over the village and its people."

She looked back up at the giant stone faces and she was struck by a sudden moment of insight. "Because this was their home."

Kakashi nodded, "Each Hokage that is up there is willing to give their life for the village and most have."

She noticed a bit of sadness in his tone as he looked to the fourth head in particular. She didn't say anything sensing something personal about it and she didn't want to overstep her bounds.

"I can see why," Hanare looked around to see children playing not far away. "This is a place worth protecting."

"I'll show you around more tomorrow," Kakashi told her knowing she would need to get the lay of the place soon. Konoha could be confusing to new arrivals as it was built somewhat strangely at times plus there were many streets and side streets. He wasn't even sure if he knew them all now that he thought about it.

"I'd like that," She told him as they continued on. She made sure to start memorizing the area, making mental notes of shops and streets. Soon they arrived at an apartment complex and she figured this was where he lived.

A part of her was very curious how Kakashi lived, in a way she had known him since she was a child and yet she knew very little of the man himself. They walked up the stairs a few floors as he pulled out a key and unlocked the door. She wasn't sure what to expect really, but as she walked in the place was very tidy. Everything was in its place and everything was in order. She couldn't help but smile, for some reason that seemed very him.

"Well it's not much but I call it home," Kakashi felt very subconscious about her looking around for some reason. He rarely had guests over and she would be living here, for a time at least. But for some reason he was a little worried about if she didn't like the place. He knew it didn't really have a woman's touch or anything but at least he liked to keep himself neat here.

"Actually I think it's nice," Hanare told him looking around. "I never really had much for awhile. I was given one room of my own when I was old enough to do missions, but mainly all I had was just clothing and items for the different personas I would go out in."

She looked at a few items that Kakashi kept around the apartment there were a couple of small plants that looked like they were well kept. A clock on the wall, a small TV that was something she had only seen and never really owned before. The place was very lived in, she could just feel it. She couldn't help but look around, there was a living room area, a kitchen right next to it with no wall, only a change in tiles to show where the living room ended and the kitchen began. There was a closet filled with cleaning supplies and on a top shelf extra ninja equipment. A linen closet, the bathroom was nice and clean too.

Then she noticed one thing, there was only one bedroom.

"Uh...where am I to sleep?" She was a little nervous about this. She had played her roles and seduced people, usually only in bars and out in the open, she had been a singer, musician, an artist, even a dancer. She had used her beauty to captivate others but she had never once had to spend the night with anyone before.

She felt very nervous as she wondered what his plans were. Would he say that they would share the bed? She felt a blush at that thought, it was very intimate and she wasn't sure about it. She had always slept alone but he had done so much for her. If he asked it of her she would if only because she owed him so much in her life.

"Oh you can have the bed," Kakashi said moving the small table in front of the couch away. "This couch unfolds into a bed, never had to use it before."

"But this is your house, I am the guest so I shouldn't get your bed." Hanare told him.

He only smiled at her, "Don't worry about it, besides it's been a long day and I think you might like having more privacy in the bed room."

She did figured that might be more proper, she wasn't sure she was comfortable sleeping out in the open like this when anyone could walk in on her if them entered the apartment.

Hanare looked around the bedroom she would be using for the time being. There was a desk, a dresser and a bed mainly. It was all simple and arranged perfectly. She suspected that if she moved something around she would soon find it moved back to its original place by him not very long after. She giggled a bit at that thought, seeing a bit more into this mysterious man. She went to the window and saw the large tree that grew out there. The sun was starting to set finally and the view was amazing. She just stood there watching the sun fall. This was it, this was her home she kept telling herself because she loved the thought of a home.

She felt her body start to tire it had been a long day. She undressed from her ninja outfit and placed it neatly away. She would have to get a new uniform soon, but she would keep a few things from the old one. The ninja mesh was still good, as were the pouches and the knife she kept on her back. She was thankful for the return of her gear after she had been accepted by the old Hokage. She had unsealed her civilian clothing that they had taken the time to retrieve from the bridge.

She folded it neatly and placed it on his desk for tomorrow she really did need to get more. Now she had a bit of a problem, she was only in her panties and bra now and she didn't like to sleep with her bra on. She didn't have any sleep wear but she didn't want to sleep without something covering her. There was a man in the next room. It was a thought that made her blush realizing that she was nearly naked and Kakashi was out there, maybe in a similar state? She blushed a bit more and shook her head out of it.

Why was she so focused on him?

Okay she knew that as a young girl she had always thought of that boy growing up. She knew it was her first crush but eventually she grew out of it, well she thought she had. Kakashi had grown so much but not in a bad way. He had done more for her personally than anyone else had in her entire life. Maybe it was just that, that she owed so much to him that caused her to think about him so much.

At any rate she pulled her thoughts away and went back to the original problem. She opened his dresser and found a shirt of his, she figured that if she washed it the next day he might not mind. She put it on and it was a nice fit, a bit big but it would work. She got into bed and got comfortable, it was a nice bed and she thought she could smell his scent on it. She snuggled against the covers as she thought about just how much her life had changed in just one day. But she had no regrets, looking up at the ceiling she wondered what the next day would bring.

A sudden flash of memory about earlier, about Kakashi pressing his weight on her, his masked lips on her own. She blushed as a hand went to her lips, it had been an accident but still...it had been nice. For a brief moment she allowed herself to think what his lips would feel like without the mask.

That morning Kakashi awoke to a knocking on his door. For a moment he was wondering why he was in the living room but it all came back to him. Kakashi yawed and checked his mask, it was just habit when he slept with it on. Getting up he stretched out, although not as good as his bed, the couch hadn't been all that bad. He put on his pants so at least he wouldn't answer the door in just his boxers. He heard the knock again and wondered who in their right mind would be up. He checked the clock and it was six AM, seriously he had no mission and if this was important there would be more urgency to the knocking.

He opened the door and just like that his morning was ruined.

"Ah there you are Kakashi, my eternal rival!" Gai stood there fully dressed and awake. Gai was a morning person and Kakashi hated him for it, Kakashi liked to sleep in and this wasn't the first time Gai had come over usually with some kind of morning challenge he thought up.

"I heard you were back and wanted to know if you were up for morning exercise. I wanted to prove who is superior and have developed a new course to go through."

Kakashi sighed, sometimes he hated being right. "Not now Gai, I'm busy today."

"Oh? Do you have a mission or something already? I thought you just got back from one," Gai asked wondering what Kakashi could be up to. If Kakashi was getting more missions than Gai thought he would go and ask for some more himself. He and his young team could use all the experience he could get as he planned to have them enter the chunin exams coming up.

"Kakashi?" Hanare asked rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

Both men turned to look at her, she was wearing one of his shirts that was obviously too big for her, it went just below her waist line and Kakashi thought he could see just the hint of her panties under it. He tried not to look, if only because out of respect for her. But then that meant he was looking at the rest of her. The shirt showed her figure and that she had a very attractive body under it, her long hair was slightly messy but Kakashi thought she still looked nice with the bed hair.

She blinked a few times and noticed that there was someone at the door, in the oddest choice of clothing she had ever seen in a ninja.

"Oh sorry for waking you Hanare," Kakashi said to her.

"It's okay, I slept well in your bed, thank you." Hanare told him. Then she suddenly blushed and looked down a bit, "I...I think I'll take a shower and change." She quickly disappeared and Kakashi was wondering what got into her so suddenly.

He turned to Gai who was frozen in his place his jaw trying to work some kind of sounds. Kakashi was wondering what his problem was.

For Gai there was only one thing in his mind, Kakashi had had a woman over last night, she had slept in his bed and that was one of Kakashi's shirts. His mind could only think of one logical conclusion. Kakashi had gotten laid last night by that beauty of a woman. And she was beautiful that much he could see even before she was ready for the morning. For all their rivalry there was one thing that he and Kakashi had always been even on and that was their love lives. They were both very busy men and it was hard to find time for a relationship. Gai had never seen Kakashi with a date and yet here he was with a woman.

The folded out couch didn't even register in his mind and was quickly forgotten.

But he had to ask just to be sure, "W-what is she doing here?"

"Huh? Hanare?" Kakashi asked innocently enough. "She's living here."

"Arrrrahhh!" Gai grabbed his head feeling his world spinning down into the drain. He fell to his knees in defeat. Not only had Kakashi seemed to have gotten a woman before him, but the two of them were living together! When had this happened? Was he so out of touch that he hadn't noticed this? It was a total and utter defeat like none other. Kakashi had a live in girlfriend, was marriage not that far away, a family of Kakashi's own soon after? Gai felt like he was being left in the dust by Kakashi like never before.

"What what the hell is wrong with you?" Kakashi asked him, Gai was even more eccentric than normal. If you could call Gai 'normal' to being with but then in this village normal was overrated.

"Kakashi," Gai said slowly getting up. "You have shown to have great flames of youth to have gained such a beautiful thing in your life. For what you have is the most youthful thing that a man can ever achieve. You have beaten me yet again my rival but this has only enflamed me even more! I will not lose to you in this, that I swear!"

He ran off leaving a very confused Kakashi behind. He just shrugged and closed the door, he had given up trying to figure Gai out years ago and so he just went with the flow. He heard the running water and knew that Hanare was in the shower. He stopped as his mind suddenly got an image of her in the water. The warm water running down the flawless skin of her body, her hands running over her body with soap and reaching down to her...

He shook his head, "I need to cut down on my books." He muttered as his mind had been going down a dangerous path. But then that kiss entered his mind again and he had to pause. Why did he keep thinking about that? It had been an accident nothing more, so why did he keep thinking about her like that?

Hanare felt a bit embarrassed to have been caught in such a state of dress in front of Kakashi and his friend. She looked in the mirror as she looked around. She found a comb but it was a male comb. She sighed, there were a lot of things she needed as she combed her wet hair. She never considered how simple a man's bathroom supplies were. She would need so many things today, plus a few changes of clothing. Her wallet was going to be pretty strained for the next few weeks. After she combed it as well as she could she dressed. She was thankful she thought ahead and brought her civilian clothing with her.

Quickly changing she thought she looked presentable but she would need her own supplies pretty soon. Leaving the bathroom she noticed the smell of coffee and food. Curious she looked into the kitchen to find Kakashi fixing up breakfast. She didn't know why but the thought of him cooking was a surprise.

Sensing her presence he turned to look and gave that closed eye smile of his. "Breakfast should be done soon, I figured since we were already up I might as well get this ready."

"Thanks you," She told him and noticed his look to the shirt in her arms. "Oh, sorry I hope you don't mind I didn't have any sleep wear yet."

"It's okay," He told her honestly.

"I'll wash it later for you," Hanare told him as she planned to do.

"I said it was okay," He smiled at her, "I got plenty of shirts so you can use that as long as you need it."

He really didn't mind, he had plenty of shirts like that although there was that one part of his mind that liked the idea of her wearing that shirt. He put that aside for breakfast as he would shower after since she got there first.

Hanare and Kakashi ate in a friendly silence, she had to admit he was a decent cook as the breakfast was nice. She also noticed that whenever she looked down to eat and then looked up he had already eaten his mask still on. She found it curious why he kept the mask on, was he scared under it? It hadn't felt like it yesterday. She bowed her head hoping the slight blush from remembering their kiss wasn't noticed. She tried to spy him pulling his mask down to eat but he was very quick.

In fact she looked down and then back up and another piece of his meal was already gone, just how fast was he? It became a little game to her to try and see his face but in the end she had lost. They had gone through the entire meal without ever seeing his face. She offered to clean since he cooked and he told her he was going to shower before they left. It didn't take long to clean off the plates and glasses so she looked around the place.

She noticed a book self with various books and some scrolls, although one particular section seemed to be on its own. There was a small row with only a few books filling it up, that was odd so she picked one of the books up.

"Icha Icha?" She wondered out loud never hearing of the book before. Looking at the others they seemed to be a particular series. He must have liked them as they were all on their own, so she turned to a random page to see what it was.

After a few minutes of reading she was wondering about the appeal, the story did seem nice and romantic, there was some action and it seemed like it was written by a ninja as the details of the ninja in the book were too accurate for someone that wasn't.

'I wonder why he likes the books so...oh...OH!' she started blushing as she got to a part that had a male and female character starting to get more intimate. As she read on her face got more and more red as the book was very descriptive. She had never had the chance for an intimate relationship yet, she never considered herself naive and knew the mechanics of sex, but the things that the book went on to describe were more than her imagination had supplied her.

She had been isolated from many people all her life and things like friends and lovers weren't deemed necessary for her.

Her cute face was all red as she was pulled into the scene, she felt her heart racing just reading it, her mouth felt dry and she was wondering why she was feeling so warm at the moment. She couldn't help herself reading more and more.

"Hanare?" Kakashi's voice startled her.

"Kya!" She screamed out slamming the book closed, a part of her cursed for being so obvious and another for losing her place. "Don't scare me like that," she glared at him.

"Sorry, sorry," He chuckled scratching the back of his head. He had to admit she looked kind of cute trying to glare at him. Then he noticed the book she had been reading and her red faced expression. "Ah...those books..."

"S-sorry I was curious," She placed it back in its spot feeling embarrassed at being caught reading that scene.

"Yes...those books are not to everyone's taste," He admitted sheepishly. He was wondering why he felt so self conscious about this, he read his books openly all the time and he didn't care. So why did he suddenly care what she thought of them and his choice in reading material? Perhaps it was time to avoid this subject for the time being and he knew the perfect way to shift focus.

"Well then, maybe we should start on your full tour of the village as well as start on your shopping." He told her.

She was grateful for the change in subject as well. "Yes, please let's go."

They both left the apartment the book and everything about it quickly forgotten for the moment.

Next up chapter 3: Out on the Town

I'm considering some secondary pairings, any thoughts on what they would be? And I know this was fast I'm just fired up about this fic, also if you read please review it.