Kakashi spent the better part of the morning looking for Naru and by the time he realised that he'd walked by her like...uh, six or seven times. Well he was pretty good and frazzled by then.
But he finally managed to find her and made a comment about how he was going to have to put a damned bell around her neck just to be able to keep track of her before grasping her wrist in his hand and dragging her off of the crowded streets while trying to ignore the weird looks he was getting from everyone watching.
He couldn't believe how hard it was for him to keep track of someone that stood out as much as Naru did.
And she did stand out. With that damned black hoody and her size and the peculiar way she carried herself. Even Kakashi had noticed before walking up, that there were a number of people on the street that had been watching Naru like hawks. A combination of curiosity and puzzlement in their expressions.
They hadn't been able to place her as a nin or some random crazy person out for a stroll. Frankly Kakashi was beginning to think that Naru now fit in the catagory of a random crazy person, but in a good albit slightly frustrating way. One thing was for sure though, the next time he wanted to really work up a sweat he'd play a game of hide and seek with her.
She'd probably run him into the ground. But what the hell. You only live once. "Okay, oh lost one. I'm going to re teach you directions so that you can get from point A to point B without problems from now on. First we have-" Kakashi tipped his head back to look up at the sky so that he could use the sun's placement in the sky to point out a direction when he noticed for the first time in an hour that it was cloudy.
Uh-huh... Kakashi thought in bemusment. It was looking more and more like the gods were conspiring to drive him crazy again. What the hell did I do to deserve this, this time? He wondered as he looked back at Naru who was just standing there with an amused look on her pretty face, her soft pink lips were thinned and she was shifting from foot to foot restlessly.
A sure sign of her humor at the situation. He gave her a mock angry glare. "You noticed the sun disappearing."
Naru nodded and giggled as she said. "An hour ago."
He sighed and let go of her wrist so that he could pinch the bridge of his nose in an effort to keep the headache he could feel coming on, away. Well hell. Now what was he supposed to do? Sure it wasn't like he needed the sun to actually teach her anything, but he sort of needed it as a prop to help her learn. Without it she'd just get even more lost than she already did.
"Okay, here is what we're going to do. I'll teach you directions when the sun comes back out..." Naru reached out and tugged on his shirt sleeve to gain his attention. He dropped his hand a little bit and looked at her. "Yes Naru. What is it?"
"I already know the directions. North-" She pointed north. "South-" She pointed south. "East-" She pointed east. "And west." She pointed to the west of their current location and Kakashi gave her a funny look before saying.
"You know the directions and yet you still get lost."
Naru shrugged. "Basically."
"How do you- What the- Huh?" He asked with a flabbergasted look on his masked face. Naru flushed a little bit and fidgeted with her jacket sleeve nervously as Kakashi pulled himself together and muttered. "Well...thats just a little bit pitiful Naru." Kakashi finally said before chuckling.
Naru cocked her head and stared at him curiously, not knowing what to make of his sudden drastic change in behavior when he reached out and slipped one of his hands under her hood and pushed it back then bent down a little bit and touched his forehead to hers and said in an amused tone. "I guess some things never change- Hey! How about I just take you around the village the old fashioned way? I've got nothing better to do today and it's really boring just sitting around doing nothing all day. So how about it?"
Naru started to open her mouth to answer him when he grasped her wrist again and said cheerfully. "Okay let's go!"