I've had a horrible week kittens.
First my credit card was stolen and someone used it to purchase strange things, and then a woman got into a car accident outside of my house.
I'm not totally sure, but I think she died. She had a death rattle when she breathed. And to make things even worse, she was pregnant.
That was two days ago, and I still feel sick...
Anyways, it's been a while since I wrote something for this story and I keep losing my train of thought.
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After cleaning Naru, Kakashi sent for one of the hotel employee's to go shopping for him. He asked that the person who would run his errand was a female, because aside from his own clothes, Kakashi needed to get some new and clean clothes for Naru so that she could rest more comfortably.
Once that was out of the way Kakashi went into the bathroom to clean himself up. The first thing he did once in the bathroom was jerk his mask off and look at himself in the mirror.
It was startling how different he looked to himself.
He looked like a total stranger with his mismatched eyes rimmed red from all of the crying he'd been doing, his silver hair stringy and matted with sweat and grime, his face was paler than usual, his jaw dusted with faint silvery hairs.
He looked like he'd aged five years in the past two nights. Maybe if I keep aging like this I'll disappear and then Naru would never have to see my pathetic lying face again. Kakashi thought as he ran his hand along the side of his jaw, feeling the two days growth covering his face and sigh.
He needed a shave. Badly.
But the second he caught himself starting to look for a razor, he stopped himself. If he touched a razor in his present state of mind; he'd probably slit his own throat. Which left him feeling more than a little lost about what to do with himself.
After a few minutes of mentally debating with himself he descided to skip shaving until he felt a little bit more stable and instead stripped out of his clothes and climbed into the shower and just stood there under the spray letting the warmth unknot and sooth his tired, stiff muscles.
He grabbed the soap and started scrubbing the dirt and grime from his skin, taking the time to clean under his fingernails, before grabbing the bottle of shampoo and lathering his hair up. Using his nails to scrub at the stubborn filth clinging to his scalp, ripping out some of the silken strands while he was at it.
He scrubbed himself from top to bottom five times. Three to get the dirt and grime off of him and twice more because he'd started to freak out a little bit again. And by the time he was done his skin had bloody reddish pink places all over and he was shaking a little bit as he tried to breathe through his panic.
It took a little doing and a lot more will power than he was aware that he had, but he finally managed to calm himself down and climbed out of the shower feeling almost just as tense as he had when he went in.
He sat down on the edge of the tub and buried his face in his hands and took one shuddering breath after another until he heard a knock on the room door outside. He jerked his head up and got to his feet and walked out of the bathroom and over to the room door and opened it a crack and peered through the sliver at a safe distance just in case someone decided to try and stab him in the eye with a kunai or something and blinked at the woman standing in the hallway with her arms full of clothes.
He gave a small inward sigh of relief that she wasn't an enemy nin and told her to hold on a second then ran for the bathroom so that he could grab his pants.
The woman's stay was brief, consisting of a little bit of conversation, an offer to dress Naru- Which Kakashi gratefully accepted since he didn't want to undress Naru from the dirty, torn panties and bra and then re dress her. Every time he touched her now, he felt like he was taking liberties that he shouldn't.
He retreated to the bathroom, leaving the door open a crack so that he could check on the two if necessary while the woman changed Naru, and pulled on the clothes that the woman had gotten for him.
The clean clothes made his skin itch, but other wise was comfortable. The royal blue long sleeved cotton shirt fit without restricting his movements. The black cargo pants hung a little low on his hips, but were comfortable enough.
He heard the room door open and then close, and quickly moved over to the door and pushed it open so that he could check on Naru. The woman must have finished and decided to leave without distubing him. She was no where to be seen.
While Naru was neatly tucked into the bed, her strawberry blond hair had been brushed and pulled into a thick braid that hung over one of her slender shoulders. Curious to know what sort of outfit the woman had brought for his former student, Kakashi walked over to the bed and gently pulled the covers back and then blinked in shock.
The woman had picked out one of the most lovely dresses Kakashi had ever seen before for Naru. The white summer dress was sleeveless with a heart shaped bodice with pastel pink and blue and green beaded flowers and stems and little blue and lavender butterflies along the lankle length hem of the skirt.
Naru looked beautiful.
Kakashi frowned and pulled the blanket back over his former student as he wondered just what the hell the woman had been thinking when he'd sent her to get them clothes. Couldn't she have gotten Naru something more practical? He shook his head and sat down on the edge of the bed. It didn't matter, he supposed.
All that mattered now was thinking up a way to help Naru recover and sending a message to the village to let Tsunade know that they were alive and needed help.