He smiled at her but said nothing before turning around and starting to walk again. His mind going into overdrive as he walked.

Oh my god I just basically asked her to marry me and she said yes. Sakura is going to kill me. Eekk!

Dinner went off without a hitch, the two of them sat across from each other making idle chit chat like they were old freinds. And htought Kakashi knew that they were, Naru was'nt aware of just how close the two of them had once been, so it was a bit odd to see her trying so hard not to get let behind in conversation. They were in teh middle of dessert when she finally seemed to work up the curage to ask him something that he had'nt expected at all from the way he started choking and such.

"Kakashi, you were in love with my former self. Were'nt you?" Kakashi's mis matched eyes nearly popped out of his head and he strated wheezing as the piece of double decker chocholate cake he had just put in his mouth slid to the back of his throat before he could chew it, effectivly cutting off his air way. Naru stood up and moved to stand next to him and started to thump him on the back until he coughed a time or two then gave her an tight lipped smile before grabbing his drink and downing half the glass before he could fully breathe again.

"W-What makes you ask?" He wondered as he cleared his throat and looked at her with a deer caught in the headlights look on his face. She smirked at him. She may not remember much about her old like, but she knew enough from watching Kakashi to know that he was genuinly intrested in her. Even though he was a perv, he went out of his way to make her feel comfortable.

He didn't stare at her chest, or make colorful comments about her ass, or her mouth or anything. He made her feel like she was respected by him, and she got the feeling that she really was.

"You act strangely. Like your nervous, and you don't want to offend or chase me away. You hold my hand, as if it were the most natural thing in the world to you. Am I wrong?"

"No. Your not wrong. I'm just a bit suprised that you noticed so easily."

"The old me didn't?"

"Ah, no. And I never really worked up the curage to say anything."

"I see." Well that was one of her questions answered. She had wondered why he would attach himself to her side like this, and now she knew. Now what the hell was she going to do about it? She didn't really know him. She knew that she was comfortable in his presence, but not much else.

"Doe's that bother you Naru?" Kakashi asked weakly as he studied her expression. She tilted her head to the side a bit and smiled at him.

"No. It does'nt bother me. It's odd...I don't really know you. I don't know anything about you, but I'm happy to be here with you." Naru said honestly as she smiled at him again, and Kakashi's breathing hitched for a second before he reached out and took her hand.

"I don't really know what to say...but I'm really happy that your here with me too." Kakashi said gently as he squeezed her hand a bit then let go.

"It's getting late, you must be tired by now, and I still have a mountain load of paper work to do. Come on, let's go home." Kakashi said softly as he stood and offered his hand to her, once again ignoring the stares of the people around them.

Naru smiled and took his hand and let him lead her out of the resturaunt and back out onto the street. "Say, Kakashi where is home anyways?"

Kakashi turned to look at her and smiled. "Your home...is with me." Where I can watch you and keep you safe. He had lost Naruto once, he was'nt going to lose her again.

As soon as they reached the tower Kakashi showed her to her room and watched her look around a bit before making her way over to the bed and flopping down on it. He chuckled and put the bag down at the foot of her bed and leaned over her a bit. "Tired?" He asked in an amused voice. Naru cracked an eye open and looked at him as if she would like to tell him to go away, but smiled instead.

"Yeah, a bit."

"Then go ahead and rest a while. If you need me; I'll be in my office right down the hall. I'll keep the door open so that you can find me." He said as he brushed some of her hair back from her face. She nodded her head and buried her face in the pillow above her head and sighed softly as he walked across the room and shut the door behind him while shaking his head. Out like a light. He mused as he walked down the hall to do all that damndable paper work that had broken so many men before him.

Naru woke up at about eight that evening and yawned ashe got up and looked around for a second. She still felt tired, almost too tired to stay up any longer than a few minutes, but before she did go back to bed she decided to go check on Kakashi. She changed her clothes first since she would be going back to bed after she looked in on him, and took her hair don from the ponytail that she had had it up in and used her fingers to combe the tangles out of her hair before walking out of her room and down the hall to the only open door there and peeked in.

Kakashi was sitting behind a large oak desk, wearing a white silk robe over his dark clothes, his chin propped up in his hand as he looked over one of the reports in his hand before he growled in irritation. Dear god in heaven how did these guys ever get to be Anbu?

The report in his hand was from a failed mission that had supposed to have been carried out several days ago, however the ones on the mission were new ot the Anbu ranks and somewhat jittery about their first mission as an Anbu. That was fine, it was expected even, but what pissed him off was the fact that one of the newbies had been startled by a dog, screamed like a little girl and got them spoted by the enemy. How dare they do such a thing and call them selves shinobi elete. Pathetic wannabe's. Kakashi snarled as he threw the paper down on the desk and leaned back in his seat when he felt someone staring at him, and looked towards the door and sighed as the tension drained from his body.

"Naru, is everything okay?" Kakashi asked as he got out of his seat and walked around his desk and grasped her hand and pulled her into the office since she seemed to be afraid of crossing the threshold on her own. She gave him a shy smile that made his heart do a weird jump in his chest.

"Yeah, I was just peeking in to check on you." He raised a brow at her and she blushed a bit.

"Checking in on me, hmmm." How odd it used to be the other way around. He used to check on Naruto all the time, even before he had been placed on his team, he had checked on him.

"Do you need anything?" Naru asked curiously, he had looked so irritated a second ago, something must have happened. He smiled and and thought for a second.

"Now that you mention it...I could use a hug, if that's alright." Naru blinked at him and then gave him a nervous smile and moved to wrap her arms around his waist, and he chuckled as he wrapped his arms around her and tangled his fingers in her soft hair.