Okay kittens.

Tomorrow is my anniversary so I won't be on the computer all day. And the day after I"m taking my computer to be fixed if I can afford it. So I may not be on for a few days after Tuesday either.

So this may be the last update you get for a little while.

This may not be the last chapter that I post tonight though- So I thought I'd go ahead and give you a heads up. Now I'm off to take a shower so that I can think of what to put in the next chapter.

See you soon.

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About twenty minutes later Kakashi had to pull Naru to a stop, he was sure that the silly girl was hopelessly lost. But that wasn't what made this situation funny to him. No, what made the fact that Naru was lost, funny to him was the fact that they were standing right outside his apartment building.

Naru stood there for a second or so in the middle of the street, looking around before turning to look at him while blushing and said, "Well, this is embarrassing."

"Are you a little bit lost?" Kakashi asked, assumming the reason behind why she looked so embarrassed at the moment. Naru gave him a dark look and muttered something under her breath and he chuckled and pointed to his building and suggested. "You could always get directions from the guy in 335. He knows all the in's and outs of the village and can point you in the right direction."

Naru frowned and looked towards the building on her left where he was pointing and gave him a peculiar look before reluctantly agreeing. He walked up to the stair way leading up to the third floor where his apartment was silently snickering to himself about the prank he was pulling and not even a moment or so later Naru was knocking on his apartment door, and one of his shadow clones was answering it.

She looked first at him then at his clone then growled at him as he busted out laughing hysterically, unable to resist doing so any longer. "You're a punk Wolfy." Naru muttered despite the fact that she wasn't upset with him for deciding to mess with her.

He must have felt that messing with her now was simply too entertaining to resist. Not that she could blame him any.

Jiriaya had done the same thing once she had re learned everything to help her get used to being picked on a little bit. In an effort to keep her from becoming upset and better understanding some people's sense of humor.

So it wasn't like she could be upset with him for his joke. Especially when she really thought about it. It was kind of funny. Though not hysterically so.

Kakashi sombered up and dispelled the clone and slipped inside of his apartment for a second then came back to the door minus his shoes and his mask and headband and asked her if she wanted to stay with him for the night since she got lost so easily and he didn't have the energy left to make sure that she got home.

He told her that if she wanted, she could take his bed for the night. Naru gave him a measuring look then politely declined his offer feeling that despite his kind offer, if she said yes to him; he'd be uncomfortable with her in his home. So instead she turned him down flat then turned and waved and started off for home when he called out, "Naru if you get lost, just come back here and you can stay with me for the night!"

She waved again once she got to the street to indicate that she had heard him then pulled her hood up and started walking again. She doubted that she would be back tonight.

But because she couldn't always help herself about getting lost, she made sure to attach a small spider silk thin wire to the railing just outside of Kakashi's door to help her find her way back and walked around until she realized that it had been two hours since she had left Kakashi's building and she was hoplessly and irrevocally lost.

"Well hell." She muttered as she looked around for anything familiar. And found very few things that could help her get her bearings. So after twnty minutes or so of silently debating with herself she sighed and turned around and started to make her way back to Kakashi's, following the small trail that her wire had left behind her.

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Kakashi had been sitting up in his living room, waiting to make sure that Naru didn't wind up coming back to crash at his place. He'd already picked up around the apartment a little bit in his parinoia.

And had also bathed and dressed himself in a sleeveless wifebeater and a pair of cotton draw string sweats and was starting to doze off when he heard the faint but distinct sound of small feet touching down lightly outside of his apartment door and sat up a little straighter, his eyes wide open as he held his breath and waited.

A second later there was a small tap at his door. Not a knock. A tap. Like Naru had simply drummed one finger on the door, yet the sound was loud enough to let him know that she was there.

Kakashi got up slowly and made his way over to the door and cracked it open to make sure that it was her, and had to bite back a grin when he saw the hooded figure standing there. He opened the door a little bit more and leaned his shoulder against the door frame and stared down at her. "You got lost again, huh."

It wasn't really a question, merely an voiced observation about why she was back there. Naru's head bobbed a little bit as he frowned then asked. "If you got lost so easily then how did you find your way back here?"

Naru opened her mouth to answer when suddenly from somewhere in the streets below someone let out a hysterical scream and hit the ground shouting. "Oh my god! I've been caught! Help! Help!" Followed by several shinobi coming to the person's rescue also shouting.

"What the hell is a wire doing here!"

"Quick, untangle him!"

Kakashi gave her a strange look through narrowed eyes and stepped out of his apartment just long enough to loscate the wire that she had used to find her way back and cut it away from the railing outside of his apartment and stood there watching for a second as the nins trying to help the hysterical person all got tied up in her wire too.

Before reaching out and hooking an hand around her nape and pulling her flush against his side and dragged her, flailing her arms into his apartment while muttering that he was not going to be blamed for the mess below and quickly slammed his door shut and locked it before letting her go and saying, "A wire. Really?"

She pushed her hood back away from her face and shot him a disgruntled look before shrugging and saying defensively. "I didn't have anything else."

"Yeah, I figured. But still you shouldn't have used a wire." Kakashi said a little more sharply than he meant too. Naru flinched a little bit at his tone and dropped her eyes to the floor and muttered.

"Sorry."

Kakashi sighed and reached out and grasped the zipper of her jacket and pulled it down about half way before she grabbed his wrist and looked at him again. "Tomorrow after we've both rested up, I'm taking you around the village to help you re familiarize yourself so that you don't ever have to use a wire again. Okay?"

Naru nodded her head then dropped her gaze again as Kakashi sighed again and pushed away from his door and walked out of the room for a second and came back a moment or so later with a towel and a large long sleeved shirt and pressed them into her arms and explained. "Go take a shower and try to relax. You can wear my shirt for tonight." While he waited for her to take the stuff from him.

She nodded again and lifted her arms to take the towel and shirt then left the room as he pointed her down the hall.