Kittens! Today is my day off! I wanted to tell some of you that I have a new story up called the nice guy. It's another Sakumo/ fem Naru. And I think it's going okay so far.
Sakumo is a quiet, ex marine with a bad tendency to take in strays. Naru is the girl that lives across the street from him. Finally at the end of her rope- no longer running from the men who had murdered her parents as a child and forced her into hiding in the witness protection program. She's done running and is wanting to start over from scratch one last time.
Please be sure to check it out.
Now on to the next chapter of Broken Dolls!
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"Kakashi is this really necessary?" Naru asked as Kakashi growled low in his throat. Obviously upset by this particular turn of events. He didn't like being out in the open when there were possible enemies running amok. Especially since she couldn't fight in her condition.
"Yes. There hasn't been any rain in weeks and the wood from the buildings are a wild fire waiting to happen." And on top of that the fire was so close to the apartment. It's as if someone wants to jump start a wild fire to flush us out. Kakashi thought darkly as he leaped from roof to roof towards the center of the village. Figuring that if someone was trying to flush them out that they would have a harder time reaching them there since there were usually shinobi swarming all over the place. Like a bee's hive.
The center of the village was the most protected and least likely place for an enemy to reach anyone.
He'd drop Naru off at the safest place then go check out the fire and try to find out what was going on and stop whoever had set the fire and forced him to drag Naru from her home.
He landed outside of an apatment complex and set Naru down and then grabbed her hand and pulled her along behind him up the steps to the second story and knocked on the door with the numbers 1750 on it and waited anxiously for Ibiki to open up. He heard the faint sounds of someone moving around inside and some swearing that made him sub consciously reach up and cover Naru's ears.
There were just some things that a lady shouldn't hear.
The door opened and Ibiki poked his head out the door looking like he was about to tear into them verbally but stopped the second he saw Kakashi standing there with his hands over Naru's ears. "Fuck. Give me a second to get some clothes on." He muttered before disappearing back inside. Kakashi sighed and slowly removed his hands from Naru's ears as she tipped her head back to look up at him.
"He didn't look happy to see us." She said almost absently as she felt Kakashi drag hsi short blunt finger nails along her scalp in a soothing gesture.
"He's never happy to see anyone-" Kakashi commented before adding. "He always thinks whoever comes to visit has something work related for him to do."
"Don't you?"
"Well yes, but it can't be helped." Kakashi said as the door opened again and Ibiki filled the door waering a black shirt and some cargo pants.
"Kakashi, what can I do for you?" Ibiki asked in a rumbling, rough tone of voice.
Kakashi sighed. "I hate to say this-" Ibiki narrowed his eyes at him, automatically sensing what he was about to say and was displeased by it. "But I have a small job for you."
"Go on." Ibiki said, curious to know what his job would be this time.
Kakashi pulled out his wallet and counted out several hundred dollar notes and handed them to Ibiki and said, "I want to hire you to act as Naru's body guard until I get back." Ibiki looked down at the money in his hand and frowned. Wondering what was wrong when it occurred to him that Kakashi was asking him to watch his girl until he returned from investigating the fire that had been set at the Yolma apartment complex.
He probably thought that whoever had set the fire might have something to do with what had happened to himself and Naru a month ago. And while Ibiki didn't know all of the details of what had happened, he knew that it was perhaps the most damaging thing that had ever happened to either the copy nin or Naru. And that in itself was saying something.
He'd also been given a heads up by Tsunade around the time that the two had come back to the village that Kakashi might knock on his door at some point and ask for his help. He held the hand with the money in it out to the copy nin and got a confused look from the Hatake before growling, "Dammit Kakashi take your money. I'd watch Naru for free."
Kakashi hesitated for a second and took his half of his money back but left Ibiki three hundred dollar notes and said awkwardly, "It's just in case she gets hungry." Ibiki frowned for a seond then looked at Naru and smiled and started to talk to her. Wanting her to go ahead and go inside and get settled so that he could ask Kakashi something.
Due to the fact that Tsunade had given him only the barest minimum of details about the two and the mission that had wounded them to the point where one was never seen without the other- He'd been curious about what was going on and had turned to the rumor mills.
Finding them useful in some cases for information gathering.
He'd heard a few rumors that Kakashi and Naru were lovers and had laughed at that since he knew the copy nin wasn't into cradle robbing. But he'd been hearing some other strange things through the rumor mills that he felt needed to be cleared up if he was going to watch Naru.
He wouldn't ask for more than Kakashi was willing to tell him. But if even one of those rumors was true then he would need to know or he could end up doing more damage than good.
It took a little bit of doing but letting Naru know that he had iced cream in the freezer seemed to seal the deal with her. Kakashi covered his mouth to smother a laugh at Ibiki's expense as Naru brushed by him and went into the apartment leaving the two men alone to talk.
Kakashi sobered up and thanked him and turned to leave when Ibiki reached out and grasped the back of the copy nin's vest, keeping him from leaving as he said, "Hold it Kakashi. I need to know a few things before you take off."
Kakashi visibly tensed and tried not to show any outward signs of distress but Ibiki's tone was all business and brooked no arguments. "What do you want to know?"
"First of all, I heard that you and Naru were on a mission a month ago that ended badly."
"What is it with everyone asking about that?" Kakashi muttered under his breath, anger coloring his tone before he said. "I don't want to talk about that."
"I understand that Kakashi. I wasn't asking for deatils just a mere yes or no will do. You were on a mission a month ago and it ended badly, right?"
"Yes." Kakashi bit out from between clenched teeth.
"Okay, moving on. Naru is pregnant and from what I gleaned of the rumors floating around you've claimed the child as your despite the fact that I know that you've never had that sort of relationship with Naru. Care to tell me what that is about?"
"Naru can't remember whether we've had that sort of relationship or not." Kakashi said in a slightly alarmed tone. Ibiki gave him a puzzled look then assured him that he wouldn't tell her anything earning his next answer knowing that Ibiki might be able to read more into his answers than he wanted him too. "No."
Ibiki sighed and closed his eyes as everything clicked together in his mind. Damn. That was fucked up. Yet it was one of the things that Koinoichi were trained to deal with. However he knew even without looking at Naru's file that the village elders had kept her from being trained to deal with such a situation when she was younger which was part of the reason Kakashi stayed so close to her.
Dammit Kakashi. Why didn't you come to me sooner? I could have helped Naru. Ibiki thought darkly before asking two last questions. Was Naru pregnant? And was the baby really Kakashi's?
Kakashi's answers startled him as much as they shocked him speechless and before he could so much as say another word the copy nin was gone.