Sakumo was still standing with his back against the bathroom door, waiting for Naru to call out for help when he felt the door shift just slightly and stepped away a little bit and looked down as Naru pushed the door open a little bit and peeked out. Sakumo smiled down at her. "Well, do you need help getting dressed?" Naru shook her head no and he raised a brow at her.

"No? None at all?" Again Naru shook her head no. Sakumo took several more steps away from the door and sat down on the bed next to Kakashi who was leaning his back against the mattress using his knife to clean out from under his finger nails. Something that he did whenever he was bored or trying to be patient about something.

"Will you come out then and let us see how pretty you are?" Sakumo asked in a coaxing tone as he propped his arm up on his knee and rested his chin in his palm, Kakashi sighed and rolled his eyes at his father's words. He'd have to have a long talk with his father later on about his courtly ways, before he ended up with a step mother that was just barely his age. He opened his mouth to tell his father to stop acting like a love sick troll, that she was a child and couldn't look that nice, when Naru stepped out of the bathroom wearing a beautiful amethyst purple satin dress with a lace up top.

Kakashi's jaw dropped open in shock as Sakumo's gaze flickered to him for a second before he snickered. Ah, his son had much to learn about females and their beauty.

Naru blushed and figited with one of the sleeves nervously as she stepped out and into the open where the two could see her better. Her stomach did a strange flip flop when she caught Kakashi looking at her in a peculiar way as he snapped his mouth closed and glanced over at his father-no glanced was too tame a word for the look he gave his father. The wild boy looked as if he'd like to rip the man's head off and kick it across the room.

But instead took a deep breath and then looked back at her and put his knife away and walked over to her, making sure to stop well with in arms reach, Naru stiffened and started to take an involuntary step back when he stepped on the floor length skirt and smiled at her as if he wasn't contemplating hurting her in retaliation for earlier. But he surprised her by reaching out and taking her small hand in his and slipping it through his arm and moving his foot off of her skirt and maneuvered her over to the door.

Sakumo perked up and asked. "Where you taking the pretty girl, son?"

"Out to see the castle." Far away form you pop.

"You going to take good care of her?"

"Of course. I'm not a fool." Or a brute. Kakashi thought darkly as he shot his dad a glare from over his shoulder. Sakumo waited until his son was out of the room before he broke down laughing. Man oh man, his son was such a bratling. He hadn't figured out that Sakumo had planned for him and Naru to spend some time together in an effort to establish a bond between them that could very well end in his son taking the girl as his bride one day.

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Naru was nervous around him. Understandable after how he had behaved earlier, but it was starting to upset him, and upsetting him was never a good thing so he tried to distract her and show her a good time. Trying to calm her rattled nerves as much as he could by showing her the castle's falcons, and horses and even the cat that hunted mice in the kitchen.

While they were there Kakashi made sure that they both got something to eat since he didn't know when the last time that Naru had eaten anything was, then led her out into the gardens that his mother had planted before she had been sent away.

He let go of Naru's hand and let her slip from his side to look around the garden better and smiled when she found a butterfly bush. "These are strange-" She said innocently and he had to suppress a snort. What flower in this place wasn't strange?

The flowers themselves were shaped like monarch butterflies with pretty opalescent flowers in different shades of red, green, purple and blue. And the smell...

God's it was the most beautiful smell that Kakashi had ever caught a whiff of. It was so beautiful that he simply couldn't put it into words. Naru leaned down and sniffed one of the flowers and sighed happily as Kakashi cocked his head and crossed his arms as he studied her. She must like the flowers. He mused with a smile. The look of pleasure on her face was telling. "These smell so nice!" Naru said excitedly as she turned to look at him.

He smiled and uncrossed his arms and walked over to her and gently pushed her to the side a little bit and grasped one of the stems about six inches from the top flower and used his sharp claw like finger nails to snap the stem in half. "What are you doing?" Naru asked as she reached out and grasped his wrist.

He paused and glanced at her over his shoulder and wrinkled his nose for a second as he thought. He wasn't so sure that it would be a good idea to tell her that he had snapped the stem of the flower intending to make her a bouquet that she could keep in her room. She might laugh at him. Then again, maybe she'd like the flower so much that she would grant him a boon of some kind.

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Sakumo was walking around the battlements when a group of nobles from the seelie court appeared a few feet away from him. He rolled his eyes and turned to look at the group, automatically noticing that the trickster was among them. What could he be here for? Sakumo wondered curiously. "Goblin king." One of them said politely as he nodded his head in acknowledgement of Sakumo's station.

"What do I owe the honor of this visit too?" Sakumo asked curiously as he turned his body so that his back wasn't to them. He'd made the mistake of leaving his back to these fae once, and it had cost him his wife. And it had cost Kakashi his mothers love and affection.

He owed these bastards for what they had done, and he would get them...

But for now he needed to know why they were in his territory. "We have come to pay homage to young prince Kakashi, and give him gifts that he can use now that he has come of age. Is he around?"

"He is."

"May we see him?" One fae asked, Sakumo narrowed his dark blue eyes at them. This was suspicious. Very suspicious, since most fae from the seelie court tended to stay as far away form him and his son as possible. So he already knew that they were lying to him.

Meaning that they were there for a different reason. But why? Why would they have come all this way now? The only thing that he could think of was that they were after someone's life and had chosen to come to him to cover their tracks.

The sorry bastards. He thought darkly as he turned his head to look towards the gardens where he could sense Kakashi and Naru were at. "May we see him?" The fae asked again, drawing Sakumo back to the present. He blinked his eyes and nodded his head.

Sure they could see his son, but they had better not try any funny buisness or he'd kill them and throw their mangled bodies down at the seelie high queen's feet. "Yes...but you had better not cause trouble."

The nobles nodded their heads at him, all except the trickster who thinned his lips and looked like he'd like to say something.