Fantasies in the Night Chapter 12, a naruto fanfic

Kakashi wasn't human.

Uzu realized this now as she walked down the hall to her room to get dressed.

All his questions, his naive and seemingly careless words and actions made total sense to her now.

He asked what he had done wrong because he didn't know how to properly mingle with normal people. He didn't know what was considered polite or rude. She had merely thought that he was eccentric. Or maybe a little bit brain damaged from his fall several days ago, but everything now made absolute sense to her.

She wasn't sure if she wanted to laugh or cry. Or pop a few pills and drink some wine coolers and pass out in her bed and sleep for a very long time.

All she knew was that she wasn't sure what to do at the moment. On one hand she wanted nothing more than to go back to sleep and ignore everything until morning. And on the other hand, she had a frigging monster in her living room; with the dead body of her stalker and she wanted to call her brother.

Because as odd as he was, he was sane. And at the moment she wanted to know if she was still sane too. She reached her bedroom door and was about to pull it open when she felt Kakashi's presence right behind her.

She turned a little bit and looked behind her just to see if he was really there or if she was being paranoid and was sort of startled to see him standing right behind her looking anxious.

Curious Uzu decided to ask him what was going through his head.

"What are you thinking Kakashi?"

He looked more normal now than he had a few minutes ago. Which made looking at him a little bit easier for her regardless fo the blood still smeared around his mouth, and on his chin and his chest.

He opened his mouth a few times and looked worried then finally managed to croak out, "I didn't kill someone important to you, did I?"

Uzu frowned at the innocent and child like question. "Important?"

"A friend or something." Kakashi clarified for her. Trying to be helpful.

"No. He wasn't a friend."

Kakashi got a relieved look on his face that Uzu found oddly out of place for someone who'd just murdered someone in cold blood. But she kept her thoughts to herself as Kakashi said, "Okay then. I'm going to go get cleaned up..." He glanced at her and got another worried look on his handsome face then asked her very softly.

"Are you going to be okay?"

Uzu stared at him for a moment before shrugging her shoulders. "I dunno Kashi. I just don't know." She said before slipping inside of her room and quietly closing the door.

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Kakashi stood out in the hall way for a moment or two feeling a little bit lost.

He was worried about Uzu. Yet at the same time he was worried that she might call the cops. Not that he could blame her any since human's killing humans without reason was against their laws. But he wasn't entirely sure what laws there were against Gargoyles killing humans for intruding on their territory or threatening their mates.

Kakashi shook his head. There was that annoying thought again. The one that seemed to be popping into his subconscious mind more and more. Uzu couldn't be his mate. She just couldn't be.

It just wasn't possible.

He had far too much on his plate at the moment to be even thinking of taking a mate.

Yet he kept getting this nagging feeling in the back of his mind, that Uzu was his mate, and that he needed to know more about her. But he needed to finish letting his wounds heal so that he could go look for his captured brothers and sisters.

He sighed and rubbed the back of his hand across his mouth and started walking down the hall to the bathroom so that he could clean himself up.

Uzu finished getting dressed and picked up her cell phone off of her dresser and glanced at the clock and noting that it was almost twelve thirty before she dialed Iruka's number and waited for him to pick up.

His phone range five times before he picked up and growled, "What the fuck?" In her ear.

"Ruka." She said in a slightly shakey tone and inwardly frowned, wondering why she suddenly sounded so weak and scared. She knew that Iruka picked up on her distressed tone by the sharpness of his voice when he asked.

"What's wrong?"

"Sauske is-" Uzu started to tell him that Sauske was laying dead in her living room, but he cut her off with an vicious oath followed by him growling.

"I'm on my way down. Just stay where you are!" After that, the line went dead. Uzu looked down at the phone in her hand and was suddenly struck with the irrational fear that Kakashi would gobble her brother up if he wasn't told not to before hand.

She scrambled off of her bed and ran for the door, knowing that if she didn't hurry Iruka would be knocking on her front door before she could so much as say a thing to Kakashi.

Kakashi had already finished washing himself and was in the process of drying his hair. Which he'd re washed after brushing his teeth and changing his clothes, and was sitting on the couch alternating between finger combing his thick long silver hair and rubbing it vigorously when he heard a loud and persistant banging at Uzu's front door.

Kakashi stilled for a second and glanced towards the hall way. Wondering if whoever was banging on Uzu's apartment door now, was a friend of the guy that he'd killed or if it was the brother that Uzu had mentioned earlier.

He started to get up to go find out when Uzu came tearing into the room and looked at him, standing between her and the door and growled, "Sit. Down. Now-"

Kakashi blinked at her tone, but got the message and automatically turned and walked back over to the couch and sat down while Uzu took a second to catch her breath before saying, "Keep your mouth shut and admit nothing. Do you understand Kakashi?"

Kakashi mulled over her order and thinned his lips as understanding dawned on him. He didn't know exactly what she was planning to say to whoever was at the door, but he knew that she at least had a plan. Which was why he decided to sit back and let her handle things for now.

He half turned in his seat and watched her walk across the room towards the door, glancing down at the corpse and shuddering before moving over to the door and opening it. He heard a clipped, "Where is that son of a-" The strangers voice trailed off and there was a loud almost girly scream followed by a thud and Kakashi cringed a little bit as he heard Uzu sigh.

"Is everything alright Uzu?" Kakashi asked from his spot across the room. Uzu peeked around the corner at him and shook her head no.

"My brother just fainted, Kashi."

Kakashi bit back a snort. He'd sort of figured that was what had happened when he'd heard the thud following the scream. "Do you need me to pull him inside the door for you?" Kakashi asked, trying to be a gentleman. After all as far as Uzu was concerned he figured that he should be on his absolute best behavior or she might hurt him.

"That would be nice Kashi. Would you please?"

"Sure."