Kakashi was sitting at his desk, pouring over the last of the paper work that had been piled on his desk through out the day yesterday, the same damn work that had kept him up all night and looked at the clock hanging on the wall across the room and sighed. It was eight thirty seven. Gods he was tired. He was a little bit lonely too. And wondered how much longer Naru would sleep before getting up and almost wished that he was in the room with her, curled up on his side with his arms around her.

He missed her. It was stupid, considering that the girl was just down the hall from him. Who knew that having Naru around all the time would keep him from even noticing his loneliness? It was mind boggling just how quickly he had become attached to the girl, but when he really thought about it, maybe it wasn't as mind boggling as it seemed. He had after all been in love with Naruto before he had died.

He had still loved him even after his death and had prayed to god every day since Naruto had taken his last breath that he would be returned to him in some way or another. Some maybe it was only natural that he would feel like this.

Maybe it was normal that he felt this deep, almost over whelming need to keep Naru with him forever by any means necessary.

He finished up his paper work and put it all in a nice neat little pile and started to get up when Shika came bursting into his office looking crazed as his door banged against the wall so hard that it knocked a hole in the wall, making Kakashi cringe a little bit. "Shikamaru?"

"I need Neji. Shino. Lee. Kiba. Sai and Yamoto. Then I need to send this letter-" Shika pulled out a neatly folded piece of paper out of his jacket and held it up as he continued speaking. "To Lord Gaara."

Kakashi sat back down and sighed. Damn and he had been so close to being home free. He stared at the younger man warily for a second before asking. "Why do you need my Anbu?" And why did he have a letter for Gaara?

Shikamaru looked at him. Just stood there and looked at him as if he hadn't seen him before and reached into his jacket again and pulled out another piece of paper and walked across the room and slapped the paper down on Kakashi's desk and growled. "Look."

Kakashi did. And then he started sputtering as he paled. Shikamaru studied his expression with a great deal of interest before snarling. "You son of a bitch-" Kakashi looked at the younger man with wide almost frightened eyes. Jesus Christ! Of all the people to find out about Naru...why did it have to be Shika who found out first?

The young man was more protective of Naruto than Kakashi, Gaara, Lee, Neji, and Sakura combined! "You knew about this?" The dangerously soft words made him blink at the furious expression on the young man's face.

What was he supposed to say? Lying wouldn't get him anywhere with Shikamaru. If anything lying would just piss the man off even more.

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Naru had rolled out of bed earlier than she had expected.

A pity since she would have liked to sleep in late. But she just hadn't been able to sleep. That soft kiss that Kakashi had given her, had jogged something in her mind. Something foreign and unexpected.

A kaleidoscope of thoughts, and emotions, names, faces, dates. There had been so much of it that it was dizzying. Then just as quickly as it had come, it all faded away leaving her feeling blank and empty. So much so that she had almost cried.

Almost.

Instead she had lain in her bed with her eyes closed, not really sleeping, not really dozing, just stuck somewhere between the two until she hadn't been able to stand it any more and had gotten out of bed. And now she was on her way down the hall to see if Kakashi-san wanted his morning coffee. She walked down the hall to the man's office and paused when she heard yelling from inside the room.

"You knew! You knew that Naruto had a sister and you didn't fucking tell anyone!"

"Keep your voice down, Shikamaru..." Kakashi's voice was cold, and angry.

"Oh fuck you, Hokage-sama! Do you have any idea how stupid it was to keep this from me? From the others in the village? We. Owe. Naruto. Everything. Everything Kakashi! And we could have been using these past months to find his sister and repay our debt to him! We could have been taking care of her! Do you have any idea how long it will take to find her? Do you have any idea what condition she'll be in-" Shika was on a roll. Kakashi couldn't get so much as a word in to defend himself.

"Can you look at me and honestly tell me that this girl, this person, the last of Naruto's bloodline in all the goddamn world will still be alive and well when I go looking for her? Because if you can't promise me that right now then I'm walking out that office door and I'm going to run around the village yelling, 'Naruto has a sister' to everyone who ever cared for a respected him and owed him a debt and by the time I'm done you'll have a fucking rebellion on your-"

Kakashi stood up, his chair scraping across the hard wood floor as he stood, his expression murderous. He understood Shika's feelings, really he did. But that didn't mean that he was going to just sit here and let the younger man threaten him, Naru, or the safety and stability of the village that Naru had died to protect in the first place.

It was on the tip of his tongue to tell Shika to go fuck himself when he caught a faint rustle of movement over by his office door and glanced in that direction, just for a second to make sure that one of his Anbu wasn't standing there since he didn't want anyone to over hear this little shouting match when he noticed Naru standing there in the door way and he just froze and for a moment he seemed to forget that Shika was even there.

All he could see was Naru.

Beautiful, sweet, deliciously tousled Naru, wearing nothing but the overly long knee length long sleeved button up sky blue shirt that he had given to her. He stood there for a second, drinking in the sight of her and finally snapped out of it when Shika punched him in the stomach driving the air from his lungs, and ran across the room and grabbed Naru up.

Naru let out a funny little half scream half grunt as she was scooped up by the angry looking dark haired man an instant before they vanished into thin air.