you've got to be kidding me...339 hits and no one wants to reveiw. Really?

Oh well.

On to the next chapter.

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Sakumo was in the middle of a crisis.

A funny one. But a crisis none the less.

He was currently trying to placate an angry silver haired boy and trying to keep him from doing serious bodily harm to little Naru. "Kakashi...put your claws away." He said nervously as he pushed the little girl behind him. Kakashi bared his fangs in a malicious smile and took a swipe at the girl as she peeked around Sakumo's leg. Naru yelped and quickly ducked back behind him as he grabbed his son and tried to force him to put his claws away and make the mistake of making an opening.

Naru stepped out from behind him, reared back her small hand, closing the fingers into a fist and punched Kakashi in the face, once, twice, three times then kicked his legs out from under him and flopped down on top of Kakashi, elbow first. Sakumo winched and looked around nervously as his son yelped, growled and started thrashing around as Naru grabbed a hand full of his hair and started slamming his head against the stone floor.

Sakumo could only gape at the two kids and stare in horror as Kakashi flipped them and tried to scratch her again and ended up being kneed in the nuts for his efforts and writhing on the floor in pain. Oh dear god. Sakumo thought as he pushed his hair back from his face and decided to drag the girl off of his son before he ended up being seriously maimed or something. Reaching down he grasped the hissing and spitting little girl and wondered what Kakashi had done to piss her off this badly.

Probably something stupid, knowing his son. But that didn't change the fact that Naru was obviously pissed, and was terrorizing Kakashi for it. He wrapped his arm tightly around the girl's waist and held her against his side and stepped on Kakashi's chest to keep him from springing to his feet and trying to scratch her again. Naru growled and dug her little nails into his chain mail, forcing the metal to bite into his skin painfully as he reached up and wrapped his free hand around her little neck, causing her to freeze completely.

He made a soft humming sound as Naru sat in his grip glaring down at Kakashi as if she'd like to knock him around a little more, and Kakashi was looking at Naru as if he'd like to eat her alive. A distinct possibility knowing Kakashi's twisted personality. "Naru, before I let you knock my son around some more-" He'd only let her do it because Kakashi needed to learn a healthy dose of fear towards angry females, and this would be a great way to teach him that healthy fear. He'd get some cuts, some bruises, maybe an concussion, but essentially he would walk away a better man.

Maybe.

Hopefully.

"Tell me what he did to earn such a fierce wrath."

Naru glared at Kakashi and pointed at him and growled. "That little jerk kissed me!" Sakumo blunk and looked down at his young son, Kakashi forced his face to go blank and tried to look innocent. Tried, being the operative word.

He most certainly had not kissed her, though he'd be sure to pay her back for the knee to his groin, the punches to his face and other things as soon as she was alone. Sakumo gave Kakashi a calculating look. "Really? Did he now?"

"Yes he did!" I did not, you damn stupid girl. Kakashi thought darkly as he stared up at the girl half in vexation half in curiosity and tried not to feel something like admiration towards his little nightmare incarnate. Tried, but failed.

Naru was perhaps the most awesome female that the boy had ever come across. Seriously. He really kind of liked her, even though she had just humiliated him in front of his father, he still really liked her.

Sakumo sighed and picked up the dress that he had found for her and thrust it into her arms along with the woven white gold belt and a pouch of jewelry that would go well with the dress and walked over to the bathroom and pushed her inside and closed the door and said from the other side of the door. "If you need help getting dressed, just say the word and I'll get a maid to help you." He figured that a maid helping her would make her a little less uncomfortable since most of the maids in the castle were female. And after what Naru had been through last night, she probably didn't want to be around-

"She won't ask for help." Kakashi said as he flipped himself up onto his feet and dusted himself off a little bit. Sakumo looked at his son and cocked his head a little bit.

"You think so?"

Kakashi nodded his head and wiped a little bit of blood from his mouth and Sakumo chuckled, man, oh man, that girl was like a rabid animal. Kakashi's face was bruised, and his bottom lip was bloody, and there was a small ball of silver hair that fell from Kakashi's head. Sakumo clapped a hand over his mouth to keep from snickering as his son watched the silver ball of hairs waft slowly and gently to the floor before he hung his head and sighed heavily.

Oh yes, he owed Naru for pulling out some of his hair too.

"Well, she does seem to have a mind of her own. Doesn't she?" Sakumo asked as he studied Kakashi. The boy nodded his head curtly and ran his fingers through his hair and checked to make sure that none of it had come out, tangled around his fingers.

"She certainly is fascinating." Kakashi said kindly. Fascinating didn't even begin to cover what he really thought and felt about the girl, but he wasn't about to let his father con him into spilling his guts. No way. No how. Ugh-uh. Not happening.

Sakumo bit the inside of his cheek to keep from needling Kakashi. The only thing that stopped him was the thought of the kids years from now when they were all grown up.

It was a well known fact that only those with royal blood could take the throne. It was also a well known fact that though his son was betrothed to someone else, he didn't care much for the spoiled little bratling. Not that Sakumo could blame him much. He didn't like the female either.

Still, since his son was going to one day take the throne then he should have a female of worth by his side. So maybe he and Naru could get together...arranged marriages weren't all that uncommon for their kind. especially when there was a title and wealth and status to be gained.

Naru might not like the idea, and Kakashi...could be a bully at times. But he would take care of her if he gave his word too.

But that wasn't enough. So it probably wouldn't work. Naru would be unsatisfied with anything less than the world that Kakashi's love could create for her. And since the two fought like cats and dogs already, it was entirely possible that they already hated each other.

Still, a man could dream right?