Kakashi must have fallen asleep with Naru nestled in his arms, clinging to him like he was her proverbial life line, because when he finally woke up he was laying partially on top of Naru with one hand resting over her right breast, his face buried against the hollow of her throat. He had a terrible crick in his neck and for some odd reason whenever he thought of trying to move, his fingers would flex.

Opening then closing a little bit around the soft mound of flesh that was pressing against his palm.

He knew that this was horrible and inappropriate for the situation.

Especially since Naru didn't seem to be awake to slap him or push him off of her. But he just felt so- well, content at this moment that he was loath to move for any reason. No matter how uncomfortable the crick in his neck was. Or how his back was starting to ache a little bit.

He lay there for several more minutes after removing his hand from Naru's breast and simply enjoyed the feeling of having a soft pliant body under his own and finally sighed and planted his hands on either side of her head and pushed himself up a little bit and looked at Naru to make sure that he wasn't disturbing her.

The blasted woman was dead to the world. Her head was turned slightly to the left, no doubt to accomidate the position he'd had his head at a moment ago. Her pale reddish pink blond hair was a tangled mess around her face and shoulders, some of the strands hanging across her cheek sticking to the corner of her pink lips.

Kakashi snorted and used one hand to move the strands away from her mouth and nearly jumped out of his skin when she muttered something in her sleep then wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down as she turned her head just enough to...

Get him on the lips with a clumsy, yet well executed kiss that had the Copy nin frozen in place even when her arms finally fell away from his neck and she lay there still sleeping, unaffected by what she had just done to him.

Where as Kakashi was responding to the innocent act on levels that he hadn't even known he had.

His toes curled. His heart and mind were racing with dirty thoughts and ideas that a thirty year something year old man shouldn't have for an innocent twenty year old woman like Naru. To him it just seemed wrong to react to such a small thing like a kiss with such a state of high arousal.

And yet...he couldn't help himself. Naru was just- well, too cute for words. Even in her sort of borderline child like state. But because he felt too much like he was taking advantage of her, he couldn't help feeling guilty.

Which was why once he managed to collect his scattered thoughts enough, he removed himself from the couch just in time to take down the barrier and answer the door to let Neji, Shino, Shikamaru, Choji, Lee and Kiba into the apartment and after a few quick whispered words to tell them to try not to make too much noise or wake her.

He slipped his shoes back on and went out to get flowers or something to alleviate his guilty conscience for lusting after his former student.

Naru's eyes were open and she was sitting up the second that the door closed behind Kakashi. She groaned and rubbed her forehead under her hair, feeling a slight ache forming there from her earlier experience and rasped, "Kashi?"

"Kakashi-sensei is out running an errand, Naru. He said that we could sit and visit for a little bit to make sure that your really okay." Someone said from a few feet away. Naru turned her head and looked towards the source of the sound and smiled and gave a small finger wiggle in greeting as her friends came in closer. Three of them sat down on the corners of the coffee table a foot or so from her while the others hovered just behind them.

Naru recognized their faces. Knew that they were her friends and wouldn't hurt her, but for some odd reason she didn't feel the least bit comforted by that fact. They all looked far to lethal and menacing to her. Even Shadow looked a mite more menacing than he had several weeks ago.

Yet when he noticed the bandages on her hands and arms, his touch was very gentle, his concern evident in his expression as he grasped her arm just above the bandages and closely examined the area's around the wounds. "Do these hurt you any?" Shadow asked in a curious tone.

Naru looked down at her arms, at the bandages wrapped around her wounds and blinked as if she was surprised to find that she was wounded. "No. They don't hurt."

"Well that's something." Shadow said in a strange tone that made her cock her head as one of the others dug out a bamboo container and set it down next to Shadow's hip on the coffee table.

"That'll help it heal faster." The person with eyes like Quicksilver said as he gave her an awkward smile as he straightened his spine. Shadow picked up the container and held it out to her. Naru blinked and hesitantly took the container from his hand and flushed a little bit.

Well. This was a little bit uncomfortable. "Thank you." She said as she set the container aside and then folded her hands in her lap and sat there trying hard not to think about Kashi and where he might have gone off too.

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Kakashi walked into the Yamanaka flower shop to see Inoichi sitting behind the counter and cringed a little bit. Crap. Kakashi thought as he started to turn around and walk back out fo the store hoping that maybe he could find some nice wild roses and such in the woods surrounding the village that he could pick for Naru.

However Inoichi saw him and just before he could soundlessly slip out and disappear, and jumped to his feet and practically shouted, "Kakashi! What brings you here?"

Well hell. Kakashi thought in annoyance as the sound of Inoichi's booming voice froze him in place long enough for the man to manage to come up behind him and slip an arm around his shoulders. And dragged him further into the store as Kakashi sputtered and tried in vain to escape his grasp as the man started prattling about his wife and daughter before shifting over to the flowers in an effort to get Kakashi to buy some.

What he didn't seem aware of was the fact that Kakashi was mortified enough at being caught by one of his friends in the flower shop and he would have bought Naru the whole fucking store if it would have shut the man up and made him let him go.