The morning after-
Mari groaned as she finally woke up, turning her head she smiled when she saw Kakashi asleep in the chair beside her. He's been here with me all night? She thought as she slowly sat up and rested her back against the back of the bed.
Mari coughed into her hand, her cough harsh. She didn't even have to look down to see she was coughing up blood.
"Mari." Kakashi said having finally woken up; he looked at her closely as she turned her head away from him. She felt rather than heard Kakashi stand up and move beside her.
"What is it?" he asked, when she didn't reply he put his hand on her face and forced her to look at him.
"Why didn't you say that you were coughing up blood?" he said, stroking her hair gently as she continued to cough.
"It's just started." She murmured her vision blurred slightly as she felt a wave of dizziness overcome her.
"I feel light headed." She murmured before collapsing forwards onto his chest. "Mari." He said before putting a hand on her forehead. "You have a fever" he added before gently laying her on the bed and going to the door.
Seeing a doctor going passed he stopped him "we have a problem in here she's got a fever and is coughing up blood." He said, the doctor nodded before walking into the room quickly.
He spent a while going over Mari before looking at Kakashi "luckily it's not as serious as it seems. She'll have to spend a few days in hospital. It's a good thing that we caught it quickly. I've given her something for the fever she needs to rest now, I'm sorry but I cannot allow more than one visitor at a time."
Kakashi nodded smiling slightly when he realised that the doctor had seen that he had been there all night that was the only reason he was allowing him to stay now.
Three days later-
Mari looked at Kakashi as she stood up. "Finally I'm free." She said, she'd not had the fever for two days now but the doctors had insisted she stay for another two days in case.
Kakashi chuckled "it really has been driving you mad being stuck in here hasn't It." he said, he'd stayed beside Mari for most of the time he was in hospital.
"We better go; we have to meet Sasuke, naruto and sakura. I promised them." He added, Mari nodded she knew that they'd been worried about her.
Thirty minutes later-
"You're late!" sakura and naruto shouted at Kakashi, before seeing Mari and smiling.
"Mari- san you're out of hospital?" sakura and naruto said at the same time Sasuke just looked at her.
"Yep I got out this morning. That's why Kakashi was late meeting you." She said smiling at them.
She continued talking to them before noticing the hawk circling above them; she looked at Kakashi before nodding to the bird.
"Guys we'll see you later. We have to go and see the hokage." Kakashi said before taking Mari's arm and vanishing.
"Nice of you to finally arrive Mari, Kakashi." The hokage said before looking around at the other jonin.
"You've been assembled for only one reason." The hokage said looking at them all.
"So it's that time already huh." Kakashi said lazily.
"I saw some of the other village's ninja in the village so when is it?" Genma said.
"It's in a week's time." The hokage said making them all gasp. Mari looked slightly confused having only been a jonin for a short amount of time.
The third saw her confusion and smiled "In a week's time the chuunin exam will begin." He said smiling again when he saw her eyes widen slightly.
"Would the jonin in charge of the rookie squads please step forward, as you all know genin can apply to do the chuunin exam after 8 missions. Now kurenai, Asuma, Kakashi."
"Kakashi hatake squad seven Naruto uzamaki, sakura haruno, Sasuke uchiha. I hereby nominate all three for the chuunin exams." Kakashi said from where he stood in front of the other jonin.
"Kurenai yuhi squad 8. Kiba inuzuka, shino aburame, hinata hyuuga. I hereby nominate all three for the chuunin exams." Kurenai said softly.
"Asuma Sarutobi team 10. Shikamaru Nara, ino yamanka, choiji akamichi. I hereby nominate all three for the chuunin exams." Asuma said as he exhaled another cloud of smoke.
Mari looked around when she heard the others muttering. So it's the first time rookies have been in the exam for 5 years. She thought as she listened to them all.
"Now that we know all the teams that will be participating you are dismissed. "The hokage said he waited for people to start to leave "Mari, Kakashi will you remain a moment?"
Mari and Kakashi looked at each other before stepping forwards "Mari how are you feeling?" he asked her. "I'm fine now thank you." She said softly before frowning slightly as she wondered what his real reason for asking them to stay.
"Mari I would like you to help as one of the proctors for the first and second tests of the chuunin exams. I think your abilities will be a help, just remember not to use them to much." The hokage said before looking at Kakashi.
"I want you to go through the chuunin exam procedure with her when you have the time." He said to him, Kakashi nodded before vanishing and taking Mari with him.
"Let's go and get something to eat, we can tell them about the exam in the morning." Kakashi said softly looking at her and smiling before heading back to his apartment to change.
When they got there she looked at him before smiling slightly "I have someone I think you should meet. I would have done it sooner but I was ill." She said softly "could you call out one of your Nin dogs?" she added.
Kakashi shrugged before going through the hand signs "kuchiyose no jutsu." He said as he slammed his hand on the table.
"Hello Kakashi what's up?" Pakkun said before looking around and frowning slightly.
"Hey sorry about this there's someone you should both meet. "Kuchiyose no jutsu." She said as she slammed her hand on the floor. "Kitia this is Kakashi and pakkun." She said to the white wolf when she appeared.
"Is that the wolf summons. Where on earth did you find that it's been missing for over 50 years?" pakkun said as he looked at kitia and smiled.
"She didn't find it we found her." Kitia said as she sat down on the floor. "We found her practicing in the forest just under a week ago; she was more compatible with us than anyone else we'd ever met." She looked at her master and smiled before standing up and moving beside her, Mari sat down and kitia rested her head on Mari's knee.
Kakashi nodded as he took all of the information in before allowing pakkun to go.
Mari looked at Kakashi "so do you want one of us to make something or are we going out for food?" she said softly.
"Oh, I've already booked us a table at one of the nicer restaurants. There's a present on my bed for you. Hope you like it" he said smiling when he saw the look on her face. He laughed as she headed to the bedroom and opened the parcel on the bed.
Inside was a light blue dress that fell to just below the knee with a leaf design in gold on the front near the top of the dress. "Oh wow it's beautiful." She said, she heard him chuckle through the closed door and blushed.
"I'm just going to have a shower and get dressed I won't be long. "She said as she finally opened the door.
"Don't worry about it; we have over an hour before we have to be there." Kakashi said from the front room.
Mari headed for the bathroom staying in the shower for a while before getting out and wrapping herself in one of the large white towels that were always in there.
She left the bathroom her long hair tied up in another one of the towels, seeing Kakashi leaving his bedroom she blushed. "The bedrooms all yours I have everything I need from It." he said moving past her to go into the bathroom his hand brushing her arm as he passed making her shiver slightly.
Mari quickly got changed into the dress that Kakashi had bought her, She sat in his bedroom until 20 minutes before they had to be at the restaurant. When she came out she was wearing the light blue dress as well as a pair of darker blue flat shoes. Her long platinum blond hair was curly and hung down to the bottom of her back; she was also wearing a light blue eye shadow.
Kakashi's eyes widened as he watched her walk toward him "wow. You look beautiful." He said making her blush.
"Thanks you don't look to bed yourself." She said grinning at him her eyes seemed to sparkle slightly as she tried not to laugh.
Well come on then." He said holding out his elbow to her, she tucked her hand in his before they left the flat and walked towards the restaurant. She could feel people watching them as she walked past and moved slightly closer to Kakashi. On the way there they spotted kurenai and Asuma who smiled at them both before stopping their eyes widening slightly.
"Wow you look amazing Mari." Kurenai said smiling at the blond kunoichi.
"You really are lucky to be going on a date with her." Asuma said smiling at Kakashi as he exhaled a cloud of smoke.
Kakashi smiled back at him before nodding to them both. "Well we have to go now. I have a table booked." He said before walking away.
Ten minutes later inside the restaurant-
"So have you decided what you want yet?" Kakashi said softly pulling Mari out of the day dream she was having.
"How about you choose for me I can't decide." She said smiling at him when he nodded.
Mari smiled when she saw what he had order. "I love that." She said making him smile at her beneath his mask. "I know you do, we have been living together for a while now after all." He said.
When the food arrived Mari started eating the yakisoba without looking up. When she'd finished eating she finally looked up.
"Let's get the bill and head somewhere else shall we." Kakashi said making her jump.
Mari nodded and headed outside as he paid the bill; he put his hand on her arm before walking to a nearby bar and going inside. "Come on let's relax a bit over some sake." He said as he sat down at the bar Mari taking the seat next to him.
Two hours later-
"I love you Kakashi." Mari said loudly a little the worse for wear from the sake they'd drank.
"Come on let's get you home." Kakashi said sighing slightly as he helped her rise to her feet; his arm went around her waist as she stumbled.
"Is she alright Kakashi?" Genma said having walked into them when they left the bar. "She's just had to much to drink," Kakashi said.
10 minutes later Kakashi's apartment-
W you really can be a bother sometimes." Kakashi said as he sat her down on the sofa. "Here drink this, if you don't you'll have quite a headache in the morning" he said handing her a glass of water. Kakashi sat down next to her and wrapped his arm around her waist again.
He sighed as her head fell on his chest, falling asleep quickly.
Mari groaned when she woke up a few hours later to find herself on the sofa.
"So your awake again, you sure had a lot to drink." Kakashi said when he heard her groan.
"Hey are you alright?" he asked as she snuggled up to him. "Your comfy." She said her voice muffled by his clothing.
Kakashi chuckled "Am I now." He said putting both his arms around her he hugged her "I was worried about you after your jonin test, you have to stop using your ability to much." He said softly, when she shuddered her gently put his fingers under her chin and pushed her chin up so that he could see her face.
One of his hands wrapped around her hair gently as he used his other hand to pull down the mask on his face leaning forwards he kissed her gently trying not to laugh when he saw the look of surprise on her face. She closed her eyes as he deepened the kiss, when she finally pulled away she was slightly breathless.
"You don't know how long I've wanted to do that." Kakashi said, before frowning slightly. "Mari are you alright, you look a little pale."
"I think it's the after effects of the alcohol and everything. I need some sleep." She murmured, Kakashi picked her up gently before taking her to the bedroom. He turned around as she changed into the shirt she used as pyjamas before turning back around again.
"I'm going to get some sleep now as well." Kakashi said smiling at her.
"You don't have to leave you know. I won't do anything." She murmured as she climbed into bed. She sighed as she felt him get in beside her and wrap his arm around her waist pulling her to him; she smiled before drifting off to sleep in his arms.
The next day-
Mari woke up to find kakashi's hands around her waist and smiled before snuggling closer to him her head on his chest. "Comfy." She murmured making Kakashi chuckle again.
"So are you going to let me get up to meet the genin or not?" he said stroking her hair as he spoke.