To make herself feel a little less lonely Naru moved herself around a little bit, ignoring the tiredness she felt along with the heaviness in her limbs. She walked around the apartment, observing the little things that Kakashi hid in plain sight. Like bits and pieces of his old Anbu uniform, his books, a bizarre movie collection.

He had an odd looking spoon that looked like it was an interigation tool, sitting on his kitchen counter and when she moved closer to get a better look at it she started to get that fuzzy feeling in her mind again. She moved around the counter and leaned down a little bit to rest her chin on the surface and caught the faintest scent of blood coming from the spoon as she got another more vivid flash of something in her head.

She could hear the sounds of an distraught baby screaming and could make out two dark figures rolling around on the floor. one of the figures, a man with a heavy build and dark glittering eyes lay under a smaller more wirey built man in an Anbu uniform with wild silver hair.

Silver's mask had been broken in the struggle and his other mask, the clothe one had been partially shreded by the metal claws that the other man had been wearing.

His face was bleeding where the claws had dug into his skin just under his scarlet red eye and silver had the most murderous look on his face as he dug something out. It took Naru a moment to realize that silver had pulled the odd spoon sitting on Kakashi's counter out of his weapon's pouch as he snarled at the dark man under him.

"You like hurting little kids. Let's see if you like being picked apart piece by piece-" She saw him lift the spoon up so that it was level with the dark man's left eye and flinched as he drought the spoon down and forced it into-

The baby's crying got louder and without meaning too Naru moved to go see if the baby was okay since she couldn't see it in the same room as silver. She moved what coould have only been no more than a few steps from Kakashi's kitchen counter and found a little blond baby in a shreded shirt sitting on the floor covered in cuts and bruises.

The baby looked up at her with wide blue eyes and held it's little arms out to her, wanting her to pick it up.

Naru frowned at the implications of this situation because lit looked like the infant could see her. But this is just supposed to be a hazy memory of something that occurred many years ago, isn't it? She wondered as she dropped down to one knee next to the child and started to reach for it when silver came tearing into the room looking furious and a mite crazed with the blood spattered across his face and neck.

He looked right at her and shouted, "Hey! Get away from that baby!" Naru jerked her head around to look at him, her vermilion red eyes wide and startled as she dropped her hands away from the child a little bit and pointed to herself and asked curiously.

"You can see me."

Silver snapped. "Of course I can see you, your doing a piss poor job of hiding yourself."

Naru gave him a bemused expression as she tried to figure out what exactly was going on, missing the calculating look that crossed Silver's face as he looked her over before demanding. "Are you here to-" That was about as far as he got before Naru's eyes rolled back in her head and she crumpled to the floor in a dead faint.

The last thing she heard was Silver shouting, "Hey!" as he ran forward to catch her.

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Kakashi was still digging through the smoking remains of Naru's home after almost everyone else had gone home.

Sakura had decided to stay behind along with several others to dig through the ruins for anything that could be saved, however Kakashi didn't think that they would find anything more than what he held in his hands. So far he'd only managed to dig out the crinkled picture of team seven from it's earlier days.

It was a little bit damaged, the corner that had once held Sauske's image was completely gone. Leaving just his picture with Naru and Sakura. He was sure that Naru would want the picture back so he planned to take it to her until he could get it replaced.

It was nearing seven o'clock in the morning and everyone was worn out from all the shifting and digging through the ashes, the burnt wood, metal and glass and finally Kiba clapped his hands together, drawing all eyes to him and said, "Are we absolutely sure that Naru isn't in this mess somewhere?"

Kakashi shook his head at the dog nin. He'd already told the kids five or so times that Naru was safe and sound and asleep at his place. "She wasn't home Kiba." Sakura said tiredly as she shuffled over to Kakashi and leaned into him for a second. A habit that she had developed when she was tired and he was close by.

Kakashi patted her back for a second as he straightened his spine and sighed. God he was tired. And from the looks of it the rest of the kids were too. "Everyone go home and get some rest. Then later if you want to come by my apartment and see Naru then you can do that." Everyone muttered and started off in different directions as Sakura moved away from him and asked.

"She's really okay sensei?"

"Have I ever lied to you about her well being before?"

"No."

"Then why would I start now? Go home Sakura. Get some rest while you can." Kakashi said as he made a shooing motion with his hand. Sakura gave him a sleepy look and staggered off. Kakashi didn't remember much about his trek home aside from getting dizzy at one point and having to stop moving until the feeling passed. After all the last thing he needed was to collapse after he'd just escaped Tsunade's damned hospital.

Especially when the woman would take great pains to make him utterly miserable. Still he managed to make it home after about twenty minutes or so and had just slipped into the apartment when he saw Naru laying sprawled on his living room floor either asleep or unconscious. What the hell?