A/N: Alright as you all already know I don't own anything other than Reyna…All credit goes to Masashi Kishimoto for creating Naruto and his world. Kayha also deserves credit for her role in helping me in the new ideas department and creating some of her own characters that make life so much more fun in my head! Anyway, on with the story!
APOLOGIES AND REVELATIONS
Reyna was still stunned and talking lightly with Pakkun when Naruto stepped into the room, "Sorry, I'm not interrupting am I?"
Reyna and Pakkun both shook their heads, answering in unison, "No."
"Hey, Reyna-Sensei how are you feeling?" he asked, guilt in his voice.
Reyna narrowed her eyes, "Like I was stabbed in the chest and nearly died. What's with the self-guilt, Naruto?"
"You know, sometimes being friends with a wolf is a bad thing," he muttered before answering, "I hated you."
Reyna quirked a brow, "And yet here you are."
"I got over it with a little help. I'm sorry, I should have been here. You could have…." He trailed off unable to finish that thought.
Reyna sighed and motioned him over and into the chair by her bed which he sat in, looking depressed, "Naruto, I'll be fine. Look, I know you wanted to find a way to save him, but I couldn't let him kill off my team. I couldn't sit back and watch while another pack was killed while I could do something about it. I didn't want it to come to that, I really didn't. I understand if you don't want to be on the same team as me anymore. Just say the word and I will step down, return to being the lone wolf who takes all the solo missions and everyone is terrified of."
Naruto's head snapped up and he looked horrified at the idea, "No! I don't want you to leave the team! I know that if there was any other way, you wouldn't have done what you did. Please don't leave! I can't lose you too!"
Reyna grinned, "Well then you're stuck with me. At least you will be once I can return to actual training and the going on missions but from the sound of things that's not going to happen for a while."
Naruto nodded, "We'll be there when you're ready to get back into it! I won't even complain if we have to do D-Rank missions for a while again either."
Reyna chuckled and shook her head, "I don't think that's going to happen. I am still a Jounin which means we'll be on our regular missions."
"Hey, thanks for the puzzle box by the way."
Pakkun looked at Naruto, "Puzzle box?"
"Yeah, um…Reyna-Sensei gave me this puzzle box with a few items in it," Naruto replied.
"Pakkun, this doesn't leave this room or I'm in deep shit," Reyna cautioned.
"What did you do, Reyna?" Pakkun asked.
It was Naruto who answered, "She gave me clues to find out who my dad was. I never would have thought that it was the Fourth though."
Reyna grinned and shrugged, "You deserve the truth."
Naruto nodded, "Did you know my dad?"
"Not really well, but yes. He sent me on my first mission and I even ended up going with him to the Chuunin exams one year after I made Chuunin."
"You'd be better off to ask either Kakashi or Jiraiya about that. He was Kakashi's Sensei and Jiraiya taught Minato. They'd be the ones that could tell you things about him," Pakkun suggested.
Naruto nodded, "I was just curious about how well Reyna knew him."
Reyna shrugged, "Like I said, I did know him, just not as well as I would have liked to."
Naruto nodded, "Maybe I'll go and see if Pervy Sage is still in the village. If not I guess I'll send him a letter and see if I can meet up with him somewhere."
Reyna nodded and Pakkun lifted his head, "Yeah, I should go and make sure that Kakashi gets some real sleep for a while today too, if you don't mind being left alone for a bit, Reyna."
Reyna shook her head, "Nah, I should be fine. I think I'll try to get some sleep too."
Naruto and Pakkun both headed out of the room and disappeared into the hall, leaving her room door open behind them. She was about to call after them to have them close it, but decided that she just didn't want to put in the effort. She settled back against her pillows and closed her eyes with a sigh. She wasn't really all that tired, but she knew that if anyone would be able to convince Kakashi to get some sleep in his own bed it would be Pakkun. The sound of light footfalls on the floor a while later had her lifting her head again.
"Kayha?" she asked.
"Yeah, that would be me. I can leave if you want," Kayha replied, standing just inside the door.
"No, it's fine. I was starting to get a little bored actually."
"You too, huh? You'd think there would be something to do that's remotely entertaining in a hospital, but no," Kayha spoke as she took the chair that Naruto had vacated earlier.
Reyna noticed the fact that Kayha was wearing fuzzy pants and couldn't help but ask, "You don't happen to have another pair of fuzzy pants here do you?"
Kayha shook her head, "Nope."
"Damn. Do you have any idea how uncomfortable hospital gowns really are? I would kill for a pair of fuzzy pants right about now."
Kayha chuckled, "Another victim falls to the lure that is fuzzy pants."
"Well, you kept talking about how comfortable they were when we were in the Sand and I had to find out if you were right so I bought a pair. Now I absolutely adore them," Reyna replied.
"And you left chai in the Sand and now I'm addicted to that, so we're even I guess," Kayha grinned.
"Damn it! I knew I'd bought more but I could never find the damn cartons!" Reyna exclaimed.
Kayha laughed again, "You should bug Kakashi until he buys you fuzzy pants. And chai."
Reyna sighed, "I would, but I sent him home to shower."
"Good, he was really starting to smell up the place," Kayha joked.
"You're telling me and you're not even the one with the sensitive sense of smell."
"Am I interrupting?" a voice at the door asked and they turned their attention to the speaker.
Reyna flashed a bit of a smile to Iruka who was standing in the door, "Not really. We were just discussing the finer points of fuzzy pants and chai."
Iruka slipped into the room and grabbed the other empty chair in the room, pulling it up to Reyna's bedside, his back to the door, "How are you doing, Reyna?"
"I'm alright considering everything that's happened. How's the teaching?"
"It's alright," Iruka started and soon the three of them were laughing about the antics of Iruka's students and his complaints that every year he seemed to end up with a student almost as bad as Naruto had been.
Iruka had his head down on the edge of her bed near her hip, the three of them laughing hard at the story he was trying to tell about what one of his students had pulled when Kakashi walked in.
He called out into the hall as soon as he noticed Kayha, "Gaara! Kayha's in here!"
"Thanks, Kakashi," Gaara spoke as he entered the room behind the platinum haired ninja.
Kakashi's attention returned to the others already in the room and glowered at Iruka's back, "Iruka, what the hell are you doing with my girlfriend?"
Iruka's head snapped up, all traces of laughter leaving his face as he looked over his shoulder at him, "Just talking. Wait, girlfriend?"
"You heard me," Kakashi growled and Reyna sighed.
"Kakashi, enough I'm not going to stop being friends with someone just because you don't like it," she snapped even as Iruka stood.
"It's alright, Reyna. I'll catch up with you later," Iruka muttered before taking his leave of the group.
Reyna glared at Kakashi as he moved to sit down in the chair that Iruka had just left, "What do you think you're doing, Hatake? I want fuzzy pants."
"Oh, and Gaara, I want some chai," Kayha added, looking to Gaara.
Kakashi and Gaara shared a look before Gaara asked, "Wait, isn't that reversed? Shouldn't Kayha want the fuzzy pants and Reyna want the chai?"
"Hey, yeah, I want some chai too but I really need fuzzy pants. I mean you have to know how uncomfortable hospital clothes are, Kakashi; you spend enough time here."
Gaara snickered at that as Kakashi shook his head, "Fine. I'll go and get you fuzzy pants and chai."
"I'll join you, Kakashi. I know that if Kayha doesn't get something she asks for she's just going to continue to annoy me until I relent. Do you know where I can buy chai?" Gaara asked.
Kakashi nodded as the two of them left. They spent the next twenty minutes tracking down fuzzy pants for their girls and heading to the Coffee Hut. They were on their way back to the hospital when they passed the flower shop owned by Ino's family. Kakashi paused at the door and glanced at Gaara.
"I'll be back in a second," he told the Kazekage.
Gaara nodded before he thought about it for a second and followed Kakashi into the shop knowing that Kayha would demand something as well. Kakashi picked up a single red rose while Gaara bought a box of chocolate for Kayha. The two of them finally headed back to Reyna's room loaded down with bags. Gaara buried the box of chocolates in a bag as they walked.
"Chai and fuzzy pants, as ordered," Kakashi announced as they re-entered Reyna's room.
"And a flower, it would appear," Reyna smirked; taking the items from Kakashi's outstretched hands and sipping her coffee.
"What about me?" Kayha asked Gaara.
"Here's your coffee and your pants are in the bag," Gaara replied.
"What? No flowers for me?"
"No."
Kakashi shook his head and dropped into the empty chair, his back to the door. Kayha glared at Gaara but dug through her bag, finally coming across the box of chocolates. She smirked and pulled them out, starting to munch away on them.
"What the hell? Why don't I get chocolate, Kakashi? I mean, flowers are great and everything but they wither and die and more importantly they aren't sweet and sugar filled!" Reyna exclaimed.
"What is it with girls and chocolate?" Kakashi asked no one in particular.
"Oh yeah, I forgot. You're weird and don't like sweet stuff. You didn't even eat any of your cake on your birthday!" Reyna shook her head.
"Well, Gaara's afraid of naked girls!" Kayha laughed.
Gaara actually started to turn red and exclaimed, "I am not!"
"Well, anytime I start to get naked, you do something so you don't see!" Kayha argued.
"I am not having this conversation here," Gaara muttered, starting out of the room.
"See? He's even afraid of a conversation about naked girls," Kayha shook her head.
"I am not!" came the exclamation from the hall.
Kakashi sat there chuckling until Reyna turned her attention to him, "At least Gaara doesn't claim a mate status without informing their so called mate!"
Kakashi shook his head, "I was trying to help."
"How can you be helping if they don't know what you're doing?" Kayha asked.
"By getting people to leave the person alone," Kakashi explained.
"Right…but that only works if I know the plan so they don't catch me off guard by telling me I'm mated and I have no clue about it," Reyna pointed out.
"I should find Pakkun," Kakashi muttered before standing and following Gaara out the door.
Gaara was sitting just down the hall from the room and glanced up at Kakashi's approach, "They got to you too, did they?"
Kakashi nodded, "There is no reasoning with them when they're together. I think I liked it better when they avoided each other."
Gaara nodded, "Me too. They're starting to scare me when they're comparing notes on us. I thought Kayha was bad alone, but the two of them together?"
Kakashi nodded, dropping down to sit beside him, "This could turn into a disaster."
Meanwhile in the hospital room, Reyna and Kayha continued to discuss their boyfriends, "So out of curiosity, has Gaara kissed you?"
Kayha quirked a brow, "Only when he was dared which doesn't count."
Reyna sighed, "Well, at least it's not just me then. Kakashi and I have technically been together for how long? And shared a bed for how long? And he still hasn't even made an attempt?"
"Remind me later to talk to Gaara about not kissing me!" Kayha responded with a shake of her head.
"I'm pretty sure they're still in the hall; call him on it now before we both forget," Reyna replied.
"Good point, I'll be back in a second," Kayha stood and stormed into the hall. "Gaara!"
Kakashi cringed and glanced over at Gaara, "I'd hate to be you right now, Kazekage."
Kakashi tried to make his escape but Kayha caught him before he could, "Don't think you're getting out of this so easy. Reyna needs to talk to you too."
Kakashi bolted down the hall and out the door before Kayha started her necessary discussion with Gaara. It wasn't long before she returned to Reyna's room.
"So? The verdict is?" Reyna asked.
"Kakashi is terrified of either me or the fact that I told him you need to talk to him," Kayha replied.
"Oh this could be fun now," Reyna smirked, "What about you and Gaara?"
"I'm not done with him yet. He just went silent," Kayha shrugged.
"Isn't that just a Gaara thing?"
"Yeah, but I'm still laughing at Kakashi running away. I don't think I've ever seen anyone run so fast in my life."
Pakkun walked in on Kayha's reply and spoke from the floor, "I thought that blur looked familiar."
"Pakkun!" Reyna reached down and lifted him onto her bed.
"Yo," Pakkun replied.
"Awww…he's such a cute little puppy!" Kayha reached down to pet him.
"I am not a little puppy. The cute I can deal with, but I am not little!" Pakkun growled.
"If you can't jump onto a bed by yourself, you are little," Kayha reasoned.
"Call me little one more time and I'm gonna bite you. And you don't get to touch the paw," Pakkun threatened.
"Why would I want to touch your paw?" Kayha asked.
"Because it's soft…so soft!" Pakkun exclaimed.
"Aw, is the little puppy getting upset?" Kayha asked.
Pakkun launched up at her hand, catching the side of her palm in his teeth, "Ow, son of a bitch!"
"Told you not to call me little," Pakkun muttered as he settled in beside Reyna again.
"Gaara, I don't think I want a puppy anymore! Pakkun just bit me!" Kayha hollered as she left Reyna's room.
Reyna laughed to herself at that as she heard the two of them disappear down the hall. She settled back against her pillows and glanced down at Pakkun who had jumped from her bed to one of the chairs beside her.
She shook her head and yawned, "Sorry Pakkun, but I don't think I'm going to be very good company right now. I'm going to end up passing out, despite the chai."
Pakkun shrugged, "It's alright. I'm just going to hang out and wait for Kakashi to get back, which with any luck won't be until tomorrow morning now."
Reyna nodded, "He needs to get some actual sleep."
Pakkun watched as she settled more comfortably in her bed and closed her eyes. It wasn't long before she was asleep once again. Pakkun curled up on his chair and it wasn't long before he was asleep as well. When Reyna opened her eyes again sunlight was just starting to shine through the window and Pakkun had disappeared from his chair. Sighing she stared at the ceiling until she heard someone heading down the hall towards her room.
Sakura smiled as she stepped into the room, "Good morning, Reyna-Sensei! How are we feeling this morning?"
"Like I was stabbed through the chest with a big assed sword, nearly died, and had two of my team mates hate me for killing their former team mate," Reyna responded dully.
"I didn't really hate you, you know. It was just hard to accept everything at once and then the way Kakashi-Sensei reacted to your condition and finding out about you and…" Sakura sighed.
"I am sorry, Sakura. If there had been any other way, I would have taken it."
Sakura nodded, "Yeah, I know. But seriously, how are you feeling?"
Reyna shrugged and cringed slightly, "Sore but going stir crazy being stuck in this bloody bed."
"That's what I thought. Everything seems to be alright now, and Kayha seems to think that as long as you don't do much you can go home this afternoon."
"Perfect. I can annoy Kakashi that way at least," Reyna grinned.
A/N: YAY! Back to my nice longish chapters! As always my muse must be fed and clicking that link below delivers food directly to her system! Hmm, maybe I should lay off the chai for a while…meh! Next chapter should be done for tomorrow!