A/N: I own nothing but Reyna. Kayha and Katara are property of a friend. Everything else belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. Enjoy!
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Sakura was still laughing when she left the room a few minutes later. Reyna settled back again and resumed staring at the ceiling while she waited for Kakashi to get there. It was getting close to lunch when she finally pushed herself up and swung her legs over the side of the bed with a groan. Pain shot through her chest, but it wasn't as bad as she had expected it to be. Carefully she leaned over and dug through the bag that Kakashi had brought for her the day before, digging out a pair of black fuzzy pants. As quickly and painlessly as she could, she pulled them on and dropped back onto her bed, eyes closed and head bowed. It was several minutes before she attempted to change her shirt and she had resumed her position sitting on the edge of her bed, head bowed and eyes closed.
Her nose twitched and she spoke without lifting her head, "Hello, Kakashi."
"There are days that being team mates with a wolf can be a bad thing," Kakashi smiled as he crouched on her window before stepping down to the floor.
"So we're back to just team mates now?" she asked with a touch of a growl in her voice.
"No. I didn't mean…I just meant…" Kakashi muttered.
Reyna chuckled a little before pressing a hand to the healing wound in her chest, "Damn it, don't make me laugh, it hurts."
"Sorry," he muttered as she looked up at him finally.
"I take it you're going to take me home now, right?" she demanded.
Kakashi nodded, "Of course. As soon as you're ready; I already talked to Sakura and she cleared you."
Reyna nodded, "Good, then let's get the hell out of here."
She carefully pushed herself to her feet, jaw clenched as pain jolted through her chest. She briefly closed her eyes as a concerned Kakashi stepped up beside her. She shook his hand off her shoulder and started slowly for the door. Kakashi grabbed the few items she had in the room and quickly fell in step beside her as they headed down the hall for the main doors. Kakashi stayed close to her side as they headed through the village, noting the slight pain in her eyes and the fact that she was very nearly panting by the time they reached his building.
"You can lean on me for the stairs," he muttered in her ear but she shook her head.
"I'm fine," she panted in response, pinning him with a glare.
He nodded and followed behind her as she started up the stairs for his apartment. By the time she reached his door, she found herself needing to lean against the wall bent over slightly as Kakashi unlocked the door. She stepped in ahead of him and immediately headed for the couch, collapsing onto it and closing her eyes as she leaned her head back.
Kakashi closed the door behind him, locked it again and stood watching the pained, exhausted look on Reyna's face. He dropped the bags in his hand beside the door and asked Reyna if she needed anything.
"Actually…I've been wanting to talk to you about something. How long have we been together?" she asked, her eyes still closed.
"Awhile I guess."
"So why is it that you've never even attempted to kiss me?"
"Is this what you and Kayha were talking about that you two needed to talk to me and Gaara about?" Kakashi asked, attempting to avoid the question.
"Yes. Now answer the question," she snapped.
Kakashi sighed, "In all honesty, I don't really know."
Reyna sighed and relaxed against the couch a little more, "Well, as far as answers go, that sucked. Then again when it comes to an answer from you, it's more than I actually expected."
"Why did you tell me you loved me?" Kakashi asked, still standing by the door.
Reyna shrugged, "It's the truth and it seemed like a good idea at the time?"
Kakashi chuckled at that and shook his head, "Does it still seem like a good idea?"
"Depends on which answer will avoid me having to walk my sorry ass all the way across the village to my own apartment."
Kakashi continued to laugh, "Are you expecting me to tell you what I think?"
"Kind of. It would make this a lot easier if you did, it would be even more helpful if you'd admit to having some sort of feeling."
"Now why would I want to make your life easier?" he asked, even as he reached up and slipped his mask off his face and headed over to the couch, dropping down to sit beside her.
"Right, my bad; I forgot you are Kakashi, the Ultimate Unfeeling Ninja."
Kakashi shook his head again, "Reyna, Reyna, Reyna."
"What?" she asked, having still not opened her eyes.
"I feel; I just don't let people know that I do."
She sighed and shrugged, "For your future reference, people that you want to be your girlfriend usually want to know that you like them at the very least."
Kakashi sighed in turn and turned to face her a little more, "I've found actions usually speak louder than words and I have let you practically move in with me, I share my bed with you and I buy you things…on occasion."
"True, but when you really stop and think about the circumstances surrounding each of those occurrences it is virtually impossible, unless one can read minds, to really know what you're thinking."
"Huh, guess I never thought of it that way. There are certain things that are also virtually impossible to misinterpret though."
"Like what?" she asked.
Reyna felt Kakashi shift on the couch beside her but couldn't bring herself to gather the energy needed to open her eyes and look over at him. It was a complete shock when she finally realized that he had leaned over her and had pressed his lips to hers in a light, somewhat brief, kiss. It took her a second to realize that she was feeling his lips and not the cloth of his mask against her own lips and as she took a second to comprehend that, he had pulled away. Her eyes snapped open to reveal a grinning, mask less Kakashi sitting very close to her.
"Like that. If you can find a way to misinterpret that action, I'm pretty sure that you still have pain killers in your system."
She shook her head, for a moment unable to form a coherent thought, let alone words, "No misinterpretation there, Kashi."
"Good, now do you need anything else? Food, coffee?"
"Coffee would be good and maybe something to eat would be a good idea. Oh, and entertainment of some sort. Preferably not the DVD of Make-Out Paradise either."
Kakashi grinned, "I do own other movies now you know. You check them out and find one, I'll make something to eat and I'm pretty sure that I can make your coffee after watching you make it so many times."
"Sounds good, but the movies are all the way over there," she muttered, joking.
Kakashi shook his head at her, but on his way to the kitchen he grabbed the small pile of movies from his entertainment stand and set them on the couch beside her. She grinned at him before he disappeared into the kitchen to cook and she scanned the movie titles, finally settling on an older action film. She set the other cases on the floor and laid her chosen movie on the coffee table in front of her before she settled back again. It wasn't long before she could smell whatever it was that Kakashi was making. She sniffed the air and finally identified the meal; miso soup. She sighed; it wasn't exactly her favorite food, but she had been around Kakashi long enough to know that it was one of his. Then she really started to wonder if Kakashi was even a good cook.
"Guess I'm going to find out," she muttered to herself a few minutes before Kakashi reappeared in the living room, a steaming cup of chai in his hand which he handed to her.
"Food shouldn't be too much longer either, but I figured you'd want that right away," he offered.
She nodded, taking the cup from his hand and sipping it with a small sigh, "You make a mean cup of chai, Kakashi."
"I take that as a compliment coming from the coffee connoisseur."
"You should. And if you don't go and stir your soup, we're going to have scorched soup."
"Crap!" he yelped and bolted back into the kitchen while Reyna stifled a laugh.
A few more minutes and he appeared with two bowls in his hands which he set on the table in front of her before starting the movie. She reached out and carefully exchanged her cup for a bowl and tried his soup. She was slightly surprised by how good it actually was and complimented him on it as he dropped down beside her, taking his own bowl and also starting to eat. She suddenly realized that for as long as she had known him, she had never actually seen him eat but he still hadn't replaced his mask and she found her attention drawn more to his face than to the movie.
"I'm assuming you've already seen this movie, considering I think you've only actually watched about five minutes total of the entire two hour film," Kakashi observed at the end of the movie when he stood to take their empty dishes back into the kitchen.
"What do you expect when you're sitting next me looking all hot and sexy and mask less?" she asked.
"That was my plan all along; to keep you so distracted that you didn't complain about eating miso," he chuckled.
She shook her head with a grin, "Actually, that wasn't too bad…for miso. Who knew you could cook?"
"The same person who knew you could," he shot back before disappearing into the kitchen to wash up the few dishes he had.
The following morning, Reyna was the first awake and slowly pushed herself up to sit on the edge of the bed. She glanced back at Kakashi who was surprisingly still asleep. Stiffly she managed to get to her feet and headed into the bathroom to have a quick shower and change. She glanced at the wound when she stepped out of the shower and frowned. She had been expecting a normal wound, not one that was black through and through. She shook it off, deciding that it must have been something that had been on Sasuke's blade. Slowly she started to pull on clean clothes but hit a snag when it came to her shirt.
"Kakashi?" she called softly, not really willing to wake him up if he wasn't already.
"Everything alright?" he called back and it sounded like he was in the living room.
"Um…not really. Can you give me a hand for a second?" she asked, unlocking the door even as she spoke.
It was a matter of seconds before he pulled the door open and she quirked a brow, realizing that he still wasn't wearing his mask. He caught her staring and instantly had his hand up and covering his face as much as he could.
"Kakashi? What are you doing?" she asked, reaching and pulling his hand away.
"Keep in mind; I'm not used to this. I'm not entirely sure how much I like not having a mask on. I feel naked," he muttered in reply and she shook her head.
"Trust me, if you were naked I wouldn't be staring at your face," she grinned and shook her head when a blush touched his cheeks.
"That's not what I meant…"
"I know…" she started and about that point, Kakashi realized that she was wearing a pair of her fuzzy pants and a bra and that was it.
His visible eye widened slightly and the blush deepened, "I think you forgot something."
She shook her head, "That's kind of what I was having issues with. I can't get myself twisted around enough to actually get my shirt on…"
"Ah, so you want me to dress you…isn't that a little reversed?" he grinned, taking the shirt from her hand as he spoke.
"Hey, you've had your chance how many times since I've shared your bed for how long now? But did you make a move? No. Not until I called you on it and confessed the fact that I love you while I was dying on the battle field because I couldn't stand the thought of leaving without you knowing," she spoke as Kakashi aided her in getting her shirt in place.
At least he started to but he paused long enough to get a good luck at the wound on her back, "Reyna, why is this wound black?"
"Probably from something Sasuke had on his blade," she replied before continuing her rant, "I'd lost so many people that I hadn't told how I felt because I was mad about something trivial or I was a ninja and it just wasn't something done."
"Like your shadows?"
"Possible. Are you even listening to me?" she asked even as he finally helped her get her shirt in place and proceeded to button it up the front for her as well.
"Of course I have been, Reyna."
"Then what was I talking about?" she demanded.
"Um…something about regretting not telling the people in your life how you feel because of trivial matters?"
She shook her head, "Nice save, Hatake."
He shrugged, "I try. Now, breakfast?"
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