Kakashi rolled out of bed the next morning at about noon and was in the middle of getting dressed when the girl woke up. She stirred slightly then rubbed at her eyes then asked, "I'm still alive?"

Kakashi sat down on the edge of the bed and looked at her as she lowered her hands away from her face and looked at him, the bruises from the night before had faded a bit, much to his relief, and she wasn't looking so pale and frightened now. Another plus he supposed. "Yeah, you're still alive." He said after a second or so. She pushed herself upright and looked around the room in confusion. Where the hell-

The room that she was in looked like something out of a fairy tail.

There were beautiful royal blue velvet curtains being held open by two silver and sapphire studded short chains attached to little hooks in the stone walls. There were crystal and jewel studded knick knacks and what looked like dozens of solid gold weapons. A shield with ruby's and diamonds. A sword that had runes etched into the blade. Some ornate daggers studded with jade, emeralds, garnets and diamonds.

There were several chests across the room piled on top of a small mountain of silver, gold and copper coins.

The furniture was beautiful cherry wood oak with carvings of wolves and goblins on the sides. The large four post bed that she was sitting in was nice and plush and soft, the sheets a deep royal blue satin with silver vine like embroidery along the top and on the blanket.

And the boy-

Well he looked like he belonged in this place completely with the black fur vest that he was wearing over a long sleeved mesh shirt and the snug black leather pants and fur trimmed boots. There were thin silver bands with sapphires and diamonds around his bicep, and another one around his head and two more around his wrists. His thick silver hair was spiky on top and a little bit in the front, causing his bangs to fall over the jeweled band around his head to fall into his eyes, half hiding them from view while the back of his hair fell to his shoulders.

There was a small ornant dagger strapped to the upper thigh of his right leg.

"Where am I?" And why did everything look like something that a king would have?

Kakashi looked around the room and then back at her. She looked much cuter to him in the light of day, when she wasn't cowering in fear, that is. Her skin was a nice soft ivory color with a slight pinkish hue to her cheeks, her long blond hair hung around down her back with some strands over her slender shoulders. The clean shirt that his father had put her in after cleaning the blood from her angelic, hauntingly beautiful face, looked nice and comfortable on her. The deep shade of blue satin matching the sheets on the bed and made the color of her violet eyes stand out.

He leaned in a little bit and subtly sniffed her, and nearly had to throw himself off of the bed and across the room. Her scent was like a jolt of electricity to his system. She smelled so good. Nice and sweet-not overwhelmingly so, but more like honeysuckle, and rose, with a hint of lavender. Beautiful. Enticing. Wonderful and warm. So much so that he started to reach out and touch her. The need to get closer to her and covet her filling his mind, pulsing through his blood.

He wanted to resist the need coursing through him, knew that it was something foreign and dark and dangerous to her health. Yet he felt compelled and helpless to stop himself. He almost had her when he heard the laud sound of his father's foot falls outside before his father bellowed his name loudly enough to make his ears bleed.

"Kakashi!" Sakumo's voice outside of the bedroom made him jump and turn to look at the door through narrowed eyes. Anger smoldering in the mis matched depths as the bedroom door opened and hsi father walked into the room and started to say something when he noticed that the girl was awake.

"Oh. I didn't know that you were awake, little miss." Sakumo said as he walked over to the bed and dropped to one knee beside the bed temporarily forgetting that he was decked out in his armor and that he might frighten her.

Kakashi was in awe of his father's stupidity. Really he was. The moment that he had opened the door and stepped inside, the girl had visibly flinched and attempted to make herself look smaller. An impossible feat since she already looked small and fragile to him. Yet he didn't think he could blame her. His father looked very much like a monster in his gleaming white gold armor with the family crest on the breast plate.

It was the helmet. Kakashi thought in amusement as he cocked his head and studied his father as he walked across the stone floor without making a sound before dropping down to one knee next to the bed. The helmet on his father's head, looked like it was the top of a demon's head, the metal was attached to hard leather with ivory horns sticking up on both sides of his head, his face was cast in shadow, his dark blue eyes glowing slightly.

"W-Who are-"

"Don't worry about who I am, just know that you are safe here..." Sakumo said gently as he reached up and removed his helmet and blinked as the room suddenly looked much brighter to his sensitive eyes. He inwardly scowled a little bit.

Damn maids, they had made his room too bright again.

Naru gave the strange man a doubtful look. She didn't feel safe here. Where ever here was. If anything his words made her relive last nights events, and made her feel more than a little paranoid about being in a strange place with strange people. "W-What if I don't feel very safe here? Uncle said to never go anywhere with strangers cause they would do really mean things to me and leave me to rot in a shallow grave..." She said in a small shaky voice that tore at Sakumo's heart.

"Oh honey, that man was a liar and scum. You should'nt listen to someone so devoid of a soul. It's true that strangers are dangerous to you, but we are not strangers." Sakumo said gently, Kakashi looked at his dad as if he'd like to punch him. And in truth he might have if they were'nt in the presence of a young lady, and if he didn't have better manners of course.

Naru looked confused and Sakumo sighed and stood up to his full height. "It's day time so I'm assuming that you will want to move around the palace. I'll get you some clothes and send up a maid or two to help you get dressed. My son-" He paused and pointed to the boy wearing the fur and Naru looked at the boy curiously, finding just a little hard to believe that the tall, dark, handsome and scary man had a son. "Kakashi will show you around and act as your body guard while your here." Sakumo said as he walked out of the room, leaving her alone with the boy who was staring at her with the most peculiar expression on his face.

Naru stared back at him as if she were worried that he was going to pounce on her. A valid fear in her opinion since the boy was crawling up along her legs, slowly, looking more and more like he was up to no good. She wet her lips with the tip of her tongue, and tried not to look nervous when his gaze flickered to her mouth as he mirrored the small action. "So...uh...your name is Kakashi?" She asked nervously as she moved back a little bit.

The boy smirked at her and moved forward a little bit more, steadily closing the already much too small gap between them. "Uh-huh. What's yours?" Kakashi asked in a breathy tone as she moved back again, he bit the inside of his cheek to keep from smiling, this was just so amusing. He knew that he was making her nervous, but to be honest she should'nt be feeling any fear since he was'nt going to hurt her. He was merely practicing his stalking and pouncing skills.

It was a daily occurrence that usually fell on the shoulders of one of the chamber maids, but today he didn't want to play with anyone but her. He didn't want to stalk anyone but her. Didn't want to trap and enthrall anyone but her.

"N-Naru...my name is Naru-" She stuttered as he closed the distance even more and she finally got up the courage to ask him what he was doing. "What are you doing?"

"Playing a game." He said simply. She blinked at him and nearly screamed when she felt one of his hands slide up her upper leg over the satin sheets and he moved in closer, his face was now mere inches from her own, his breath fanning her face. She flushed and made a funny sound and tossed the blanket and sheets up over his head and planted her foot against his chest under the covers and pushed him back away from her.

Kakashi was surprised by the move, and though he could have avoided the covers and pounced on her, he decided that it was much more challenging if his 'prey' fought back and ran, so he sat perfectly still under the covers as she put her small foot against his chest, and gripped the sheets hard to keep from grabbing her foot and forced himself to let her push him back. He tumbled back with the force of her push and took it a little bit farther by rolling himself back off of the bed and hit the floor in a low crouching position and waited until she had gotten out of the bed and started running before standing up, his eyes glowing, his lips curved up in a smile as he started out the door and down the hall after her.