Naru fell asleep in his lap just barely an hour after he'd pulled her into his apartment and treated her wounds, and the only words he'd heard from her lips on the matter of her home being destroyed was, "My house is gone. I guess I'll be sleeping outside for a while, huh."

To which Kakashi had merely hummed and ran his fingers through her silken hair and said. "Not outside. Not now that you have a record of being struck by lightning. Too dangerous."

"But I don't want to be a burden-"

Kakashi had sighed and shifted his hold on her a little bit, pulling her as close to his body as their clothes and positions would allow him too, and rested his chin on the top of her head for a moment. He thought it was ludicrous that the chit would think that she would be a burden on someone just because her house was struck by lightning and burned down.

Acts of god didn't make people burdens. Doing nothing at all when you were supposed to be pulling your weight made you a burden. "Don't think anymore about it tonight Naru. Just close your eyes and get some sleep." Kakashi said gently. He felt Naru nod her head once then fifteen minutes later she was out cold.

Kakashi waited until he was absolutely sure that Naru was asleep before he stood up and carried her back to his room and put her to bed, not the least bit bothered by the fact that his bedsheets would smell strongly of smoke come morning, then got dressed and slipped out of the apartment to go see if he could help salvage anything from Naru's apartment.

Naru's apartment burned far faster than anyone anticipated it would and by the time five a.m. rolled around the whole building she had once lived in was nothing more than smoldering ruins. Which meant that Kakashi's apartment would be an epicenter of activity once everyone found out that Naru was safe at his place, sleeping off the stress.

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Naru's eyes snapped open as soon as Kakashi slipped out the front door to go try to help save her apartment. Not that it mattered to her any since she hadn't been staying there anyways. On the nights that she didn't find herself in wolfy's home, she found herself in the graveyard, or curled up on a rooftop somewhere- Anything that she could do to avoid going back to the apartment to sleep.

Tonights incident had been a good example to her of why she had been avoiding her former home.

Due to the knowledge that Kyubbi had given her it had also given her something akin to 'enlightenment'. Or perhaps it was a sixth sense about things.

She'd known from the moment that she stepped foot in the village that her home would be destroyed. That it would be a disaster that could possibly hurt her or others and she had been doing her best to avoid it and had come to the safest place she could think of out of blind instinct. She simply hadn't known when it would happen. Which was why she had gotten burned when it had finally happened.

She'd just been so shocked by how it had happened that she had stood in the middle of her burning living room just long enough to lift her arms and look up at her ceiling and growl, "Really?" In a dismayed tone before throwing herself out the nearest window.

Not realizing that some of the burning slivers of wood had floated down and caught her jacket on fire around her hood (she'd put that out as soon as she had touched down outside of Kakashi's apartment) then had patted out her sleeves with her bare hands. It wasn't like the flames really bothered her. Hell the damn things didn't even hurt her.

But she'd been pretty sure that Kakashi would freak out if he opened his door and found her standing there in flames. After all that just wasn't normal. And a sense of normalcy was what she had been missing since her transformation had happened.

Jiriaya had treated her like spun glass for a while after she had woken up. In some senses, he still did. When he wasn't looking at her like she was something odd stuck to the bottom of his shoe that is.

That was part of the reason she liked Kakashi, it was because she knew that no matter whether she was human or not, he still looked at her like she was the same girl she used to be. There was no disgust, no worry, not even fear in him.

He never looked at her like he was worried she was going to jump him and eat him alive. He never really treated her like she was fragile. He treated her like a friend. Or a companion.

She got up and looked around his room a wry smile curving her lips she she looked down at the mattress under her and thought, It seems like I'm destined to spend a lot of time in Wolf's bed. She just wished that he'd had the foresight to make a clone that she could curl up against.

She was starting to get lonely here by herself.