They aren't too OOC in this chapter, are they?

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Pup? Pup? Are you alright? The voice of his inner demon whispered through his mind as Kakashi slowly regained consciousness from his nap with Naru. He opened his eyes and looked around Naru's bedroom. It was just a quick sweep to make sure everything was still in it's place. He didn't know why but he had a knot in his stomach that was twisted up so badly that he felt as if he might puke.

His mind regeistering that something was wrong within the village even if it wasn't wrong in the apartment. He shifted and tried to sit up but found himself stuck by the slight weight of Naru's body partially resting on one of his arms and partially across his stomach.

He snorted softly and carefully nudged Naru so that she would move and watched her more or less scramble across the bed in her sleep and pull the covers up over her head as she buried her face in the pillow that she had at some point stolen from him. He snorted again as his inner demon tried again to ask him if he was okay, this time more impatiently.

Pup? Hey answer me brat! Are you okay or not?

I'm...fine. Kakashi thought, trying to sooth the wolf demon within him. But the demon seemed to know what he was doing and growled at him, the sound echoing in every corner of his mind. Warning him not to test his patience with a lie of any kind since he could sense Kakashi's unease among other things.

You shouldn't lie to me pup. Even if it's with good intentions, you should never lie to me. Now tell me what has your stomach so twisted up in knots.

Something is wrong... Maybe not here or with Naru but elsewhere in the village something is happening. He could almost smell the disturbance occurring elsewhere on the air that he breathed. The air felt so heavy, so thick that it made it difficult to draw it into his lungs. Then there was the undertone of smoke and ash that he detected.

Could it be an omen? Or was his mind playing tricks on him because subcousciously he was still rattled by Neji's question?

If you're worried then take Naru-pup and leave this place. Go where no one will think to find you. Where no one can drag you back.

Leaving the village would be the same as a death sentence, if anything were to happen we would be defeseless. Besides, Naru needs the comfort and support of the people here. Without them she would wither like a flower and die. Kakashi thought as he looked back at the bed, at the blond laying there sleeping so soundly before he silently picked up his shoes and slipped from the room.

But if you are sensing a threat-

Then I will deal with it accordingly. Kakashi thought firmly, his chakra flairing a little bit in his agitated state. If there really was a threat to Naru and their baby, he'd deal with it. Even if it meant slaughtering any innocent people who foolishly got in his way.

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Tsunade was in the midst of a crisis when she felt the slight frissure of demonic power from someone within the village and jumped to her feet knocking over her tea cup and her ink bottle a second before her office door opened and several shinobi came running in to report about some enemy nin's that had slipped into the village and killed several of their people.

Tsunade barely heard them as she tried to focus on the source of demonic power she had felt a moment ago, but it was already gone. Dammit, if we have another bijju running around the village that I don't know about, I'm going to be pissed. She thought darkly as one of her shinobi stepped forward and grabbed her wrist, jolting her out of her thoughts.

"Lady Tsunade! We need Kakashi!" The man holding her wrist said in a desperate tone. She jerked her arm from his grasp and shoved him back a few steps and snarled.

"Kakashi is unavoidably detained. You'll have to deal with this yourselves!"

"But-"

"What about Naru ma'am?" Another shinobi asked.

Tsunade gave him a mean look wondering why he would bother asking for a pregnant girl to help them fight when it occurred to her that he might have just come back from an extended mission and didn't know that Naru was with child and wouldn't be able to fight again until the baby had grown to about the age of seven or eight.

And even then there was no guarantee that she would want to return to the shinobi ranks. Hell there was no guarantee that Kakashi would allow her to return to work as a shinobi. He may decide that it's far better for her to stay home where he can watch over her and protect her every second of every day.

And if that was what they both wanted from their lives after the baby was born then Tsunade would allow it. It was about time those two crazy kids had some damn peace.

"Naru is in no condition to fight. If you want some back up then I suggest Neji, Lee, and Gai to help you. Now go and take care of those shinobi!" The men looked uneasy for a moment but jumped to do as Tsunade said the second she slammed her hands down on the desk.

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Kakashi paced restlessly across the living room floor trying to figure out why he still felt so uneasy and sighed. God he was giving himself a headache. He walked over to the window for what felt like the hundredth time in the past thirty minutes and looked through the blinds again.

And bared his teeth in a silent snarl at the sight of thick black smoke rising up and traveling across the once pristine blue and cloudless sky before silently calculating how far away the smoke was.

It was less than a block from the apartment. Far too close for comfort.

He moved away from the window with quick purposeful strides calling out for Naru to wake up. He wasn't staying here and waiting to see if a wildfire swept across the way and burned the apartment and everything else to ashs. He was moving Naru to a safer loctation.