Tsunade looked at the smoldering ruins of Naru's home again and felt a dull pain in her chest as she asked. "Kakashi has a plan to protect Naru from the villagers now that Sauske has made her a target, doesn't he?"
Neji nodded his head soberly. "He does. In fact he's probably trying to gain permission from Naru as we speak."
"Permission for what?" Tsunade asked curiously.
"Permission to act as her future husband." Both Neji and Shino said in unison as Tsunade's expression flitted from concerned, to excited, then to sadistic glee. Oh Sauske was going to pay for what he had done. And she couldn't wait to see what the copy nin did.
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Kakashi stared at Naru as she finally gave in to him. Excitement pulsing through him as he kissed her lips gently, tenderly before pulling back. He needed to deal with Sauske before he did anything else. "I need you to stay here in my apartment while I go deal with Sauske." He said in a rough tone as he moved back away from her. Naru blinked up at him, a dazed expression on her lovely face.
Her mind clouded by the strange fog that had taken hold of it every time that he had kissed her and nodded mutely. Not trusting herself to speak.
Never in a million years would she have thought that she would be getting married. And to Kakashi Hatake no less.
It wasn't that she didn't think Kakashi was relatively descent for a man. He was brave, strong, loyal, kind and so sinfully handsome that any woman would have to be dumb, blind, and deranged to say no to him.
He was.
He was all of those things and more. It was just that she had never really considered him for a potential mate because he had never really seemed interested in settling down. But after the events of last night, she now knew that he was interested, he had just never found anyone that he had believed would suite him.
But he evidently thought that she would suite him, Sauske's attempt to ruin her had opened a door of opportunity for the copy nin that previously hadn't existed. And he planned to use that opportunity to secure her as his mate for the next three years.
He had made his intentions clear to her, but she still couldn't really believe it. Not really. And if it wasn't for the fact that she had felt some sort of spark of chemistry every time he had kissed and touched her, then she would have turned him down flat and never looked back.
But there was something there, and though she generally shied away from such things, she supposed that three years was a fairly lengthy time to discover what it was about him that had caused the spark in the first place. Maybe to even become romantically involved with him.
But she didn't dare get her hopes up. After all, people were users. They claimed to care about you and want you one moment, and betray you the next.