He showed up on Iruka's doorstep, panting and shivering from the cold and wondering if it was safe to go home or if Naru would sneak up on him like she had a few minutes ago at Sakura's place. He sighed and ran his fingers through his hair and decided that he needed some pants on before he did anything at all, and knocked on the chunin's door and heard the man muttering swears and curses as he walked across the room to his door and opened it.
Iruka blinked in suprise when he saw Kakashi standing there. What was the Hokage doing on his door step? His dark eyes looked the frazzled silver haired man over, and raised a brow at his current state of semi nakedness. "Well, this is weird. It's not my birthday, so why are you-"
Kakashi growled at the amused chunin and pushed his way inside as he yanked the sides of the silk robe together to hide his dick. "Shut up. And you don't want to know. I just need to borrow a pair of pants."
Iruka gave him an odd look and smiled. "If you say so, but should I be worried that my pants are going to end up missing too?"
"Only if Naru thinks you have a banana in them-" Kakashi muttered darkly, Iruka cocked his head unsure of what to think of Kakashi's dark musings. The chunin shrugged and was about to close the door when he heard a girl call out Kakashi's name as she came to a stop outside of his apartment. Iruka stared at the girl in shock as she turned to look at him, as Kakashi groaned and swore.
Oh god kill me now.
It was one thing to have your most beloved person come back from the dead, not know you or anyone else, then innocently mistake your dick for a banana and try to help you get rid of it. It was another entirely for said person to run into their former adoptive brother and shock the hell out of the guy.
Iruka just stood there looking at Naru before finally turning to him and pointing at her as if to say, 'do you see what I see?' Kakashi was'nt sure what to do other than nod his head and confirm that Naru was in fact real and Iruka was not seeing things. Naru smiled at Iruka before noticing that Kakashi was standing in his living room and gasped and pointed him. "Kakashi! What are you doing here?"
"I came to get some pants-" Kakashi said weakly as he gave her a nervous smile quickly taking note of the few exits in the apartment while mentally curseing Iruka for being the only shinobi in all the damn village paranoid enough to turn his apartment into a fortress. But then again he could'nt exactly blame the man, teaching grade schoolers was a difficult and dangerous job.
"If you wanted your pants so badly why didn't you just stop running and come back to me?" She would have given him the damn things without a fuss. It was'nt like she wanted to keep them or anything. She had had her fun at his expense, and was ready to call it quits for the day.
Iruka chose this moment to reach out and poke her in the chest, directly in between her breasts with his index finger to check and see if the girl really was real. She looked so much like Naruto that he felt he had no other choice but to touch her. "Naruto...are you-" Iruka started to ask the girl if she was Naruto when she looked at him and smiled then said his name.
"How have you been, Iruka-sensei?"
Iruka made a funny sound and fainted right there in the doorway, causing Kakashi to let go of the robe and lunge forward to catch the man so that he would'nt be hurt when he fell. He grabbed him just in time to tumble back and land on his ass on the floor half cradling the chunin in his arms as he stared at Naru who was just standing there with a blank expression on her face.
"Naru, did you just...remember something?"
When Iruka woke up, he had questions. He kept looking at Naru, opening his mouth, but then he would start pacing again. He was shaken, understandably so but still, his pacing and odd behavior was starting to put Kakashi's teeth on edge.
"Who is she? Naruto never said anything about having a twin sisiter."
"That's because he didn't have any siblings Iruka."
"Then who the fuck is she Hatake? She's much too old to be his daughter."
"Her name is Naru-" Kakashi started and paused when the girl in question turned her head from across the room and looked at him. He gave her a smile and waved. She waved back then turned back around on the couch to watch TV like he had told her too.
"And she's exactly who she looks like Iruka."
"What do you mean? Naruto was dead, I was there when we buried him, remember?" Kakashi flinched at the chunin's tone. Of course he remembered. Who would forget the chunin flinging himself into the open grave crying and trying to dig Naruto up as the gravedigger started to throw dirt on the coffin?
"Listen to me, we don't know the specifics...but she is Naruto. She just looks different on the outside."
Iruka ran his hands through his dark hair, pulling at the long strands in distress. "How could this have happened?"
"I think the Kyubbi had something to do with it." Iruka pulled out the chair across from him at the kitchen table and sat down. Ah, now he had the man's undevided attention.
"What about the Kyuubi?"
"It's just a theory but in a way it makes sense. Sakura and I were trying to think of why Naruto came back as a girl instead of a guy like before, and so far we think it had to do with how badly Naruto's body really was. If Kyubbi really did bring our Naruto back to life, then he probably had to change somethings around to compensate for the lost tissues and flesh. It probably took months just for her heart to restart. So by the time she regained concousness in the grave..."
"Naruto was a different person." Iruka finished his sentance for him, and Kakashi nodded.
"She said that she does'nt remember her old life, what kind of person that she was, she can't remember her dreams or anything else. But she seems to remember you enough to recall your name just by looking at you."
"Then our Naruto is somewhere in there."
Kakashi smiled and nodded his head again. "Yes, our Naruto is in there somewhere. But there is no telling if she will remember anything beyond what she already knows."
