Nothing was better than the thrilling feeling that was pulsing through his body as he chased Naru down the hall. It had been twenty minutes since they had left his fathers room and so far she had managed to evade his grasp pretty well. And if that wasn't interesting enough, she had also been trying to lure him into some traps of her own.

Currently he had her cornered in the kitchen as spilled pan of boiling and scalding hot water dumped out between them and he was studying the small angry reddish splotches on his shoulder where she had caught him with some of the overly warm water, noting the steam rising up from the left side of his fur vest and reached up and patted the steaming wet fur then glanced at her. She had a horrified expression on her face and he could almost smell her horror, clinging to her skin.

But he wasn't angry, to him it was all part of the game. It didn't really hurt him anyways, it just stung a little bit, but the burns weren't anything serious or worrying so there was no reason for him to feel as if he needed to get violent with her, so instead he simply unlaced his vest and glanced at her and crooked his index finger at her deciding that it was time to end the game before she got hurt and thought that maybe his allure might work on her.

"Come here Naru." He said in a soft darkly sinful tone of voice that made her flush as her self preservation instincts flared to life and she backed herself against the wall and shook her head no. She was not putting herself with in arms reach of the wild looking boy. He might do something weird to her because she had burned him, if she did.

"N-No way."

He tilted his head slightly and raised a brow at her. "Come on heartling, I won't hurt you." He said gently as he reached out his hand to her in an effort to coax her to him. Again, it didn't seem to work. Curious. Very curious. Usually females couldn't resist his allure, yet Naru was. She was fighting it's pull tooth and nail, meaning that he would have to get in close and grab her to end the game.

"Come on now, I won't bite." Unless she wanted him too, that is. Wow, he had issues.

He thought as he took an experimental step towards her, trying to get a good feel for what she might do. He figured that he could get well with in arms reach before she decided to try running from him again. Her eyes widened a bit and she shook her head 'no' violently and he just grinned at her and took another, less threatening step towards her and she made a funny little noise in the back of her throat and took a subtle step to the left.

He tracked the movement and smiled as he took another step. She froze up and stared at him with wide almost frightened eyes and he decided to take pity on her and jumped the rest of the space between them.

She opened her mouth to scream and started to take a step when his hands slammed into the stone on either side of her head and he leaned in really close. Her small hands came up automatically, a conditioned response to being abused, her need to try and block him and keep him away from her face made his stomach drop. One of her hands covered his mouth and the other was firmly pressed against his chest, dead center over his heart.

The action made him feel very strange and without thinking he did the same to her. Covering her mouth with one hand and placing the other over her heart, yet this didn't stop him from leaning in as close as he could and pressing the back of her hand against his own and stared at her with his glowing mis matched eyes.

Naru had never been so freaked before in her life. Between what had happened last night and this...whatever it was, now, she felt as if she were about to fall apart for good yet couldn't seem to push the boy away. She was entranced by what he was doing. The back of his hand pressed against her own, her lips touching his palm, and his against her palm. It felt like an indirect kiss, causing her heart to flutter rapidly in her chest as he took a step back away from her and dropped his hands away from her and grasped the wrist of the hand over his mouth and turned his head to lean into her touch just a little bit more before letting her go completely.

He gave her a devastating smile and squeezed her small hand in his. "Nice to meet you Naru." Let me in close. Please let me in close. He thought as he let go of her hand and turned and sort of walked off, then called out.

"Unless you can find your way back to my dad's room, you should probably follow me." He called over his shoulder. Naru stared at his back and sank down to the floor and sat there wondering, Why?Why should I? Why should she follow someone that had just cornered her and given her an indirect kiss? She didn't know him! She certainly didn't like or feel safe with him. In fact she thought that he had just a few screws loose in his head.

And that was never a good thing.

He stopped a little ways outside of the door and looked back at her curiously. She didn't look so good to him. She looked pale and shaken to her core. Had he really frightened her that much? He wondered as he turned and walked back to her and dropped to one knee in front of her and studied her for a second. "You look like you're going to faint." He said as he propped his chin up in the palm of his hand, his elbow resting on his knee.

Naru gave him a dirty look and reached out and smacked his arm out from under his chin and then kicked his legs out from under him and quickly scurried to the side and watched as he fell face forward into the wall. She let out a soft snort of amusement and jumped to her feet and took off running, leaving him sitting there on the floor twitching.

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Wow, this story has a great beginning. So far I'm really liking this slightly darker than my norm fic.

Kakashi is sort of cute for someone who's very nature is to destroy life.