Sorry it took so long to get something posted. I'm writing on my broken comp, despite the fact that I shouldn't and the damn thing went totally black and unresponsive for a while.

So, here is the next chapter. And I will try to have the another one up soon.

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Naru's unease about her physical had quickly morphed into horror when she was pronounced dead and wheeled past Tsunade and Kakashi who both had such desolate looks on their faces as Sakura sobbed out the details of her 'demise'.

Frankly she thought that they should know better. I mean they knew about the Kyubbi and some of it's abilities for gods sake, was it really that much of a stretch for her to simply be experiencing a-an internal hiccup of sorts? Did they automatically have to assume the worst and make her nightmare even more real?

She heard the faint thud of someone hitting the floor- probably in a dead faint from shock or something. And heard Shizune shriek Tsunade's name. So it must have been her hitting the floor.

Naru blunk her eyes under the sheet and tried to focus.

Detecting no hint of sound from Kakashi at all though she could sense him walking next to the gurney and felt him slip a hand under the sheet, and grope around for a moment for one of her own.

She hesitated for a moment then subtly slipped her hand in his and willed herself to remain still as she heard him give a shuddering breath.

Things got silent for about ten minutes or so aside from the person pushing her telling Kakashi that he couldn't stay with her. To which the Copy nin would reply in a rough tone, "Watch me." Before falling totally silent again with the exception of the elevator dinging when it opened and closed twice.

Once when they boarded and again when they got off in the basement where the morgue was.

Once there Kakashi thanked the person who had wheeled her down there then none too nicely kicked said person out of the morgue and slammed the door shut, then after bracing the door shut with a metal chair walked back over to the gurney and pulled the covers back from her face and leaned down and hissed.

"Breathe if you know what's good for you."

Naru took one look at Kakashi's masked face and wanted to breathe, but- He tugged his mask down while jerking off his headband and leaned over her again, this time framing her face with his hands and growling in a furious sounding tone. "Breathe!"

Naru mentally frowned at his tone. There was a wealth of worry, fear, anger and sorrow mixed together in it, she could see more in his eyes, his expression. He really was scared that she was gone wasn't he?

She took a small breath and blinked her eyes- it was just as well that this ended now. She had no wish to hurt anyone with this. She merely wanted to avoid more trouble and maybe get out of her physical. Kakashi made a strained sound and put his fingers against her throat to count her pulse, unsure of what exactly to make of what had just happened and nearly had his legs go out from under him when he felt nothing under his finger tips.

No thudding. No pulsing. No reassuring vibration of her heart beating under her skin. There was just nothing. And it horrified him.

He dropped his hands from her and staggered back, his face going pale as she pushed herself upright and took several more breaths. "Y-You don't h-have a p-pulse." He said stuttered stupidly. He didn't know why he was bothering to say anything at all, to his knowledge dead things couldn't hear.

She looked at him and held up one finger and took a deeper breath, some of the color returning to her face before she said. "Don't need a pulse most of the time. Can't die one way or another." Kakashi gaped at her for a second as he recalled her earlier anxiousness over being examined and quickly put things together in his mind and made a relieved sound as he put a hand over hsi heart and mentally swore.

Gods in heaven this girl was going to be the death of him. He could almost swear by it.

And while he was relieved that she was alive (pulse or not) he was a upset with her for not warning him. No scratch that he was pissed that she hadn't bothered to warn him. "Goddammit Naru! What the hell were you doing putting us through this-" He shouted angrily, he couldn't believe that the little chit would be so insensitive as to pull a stunt like this.

It was horrible! And sick and twisted and depraved. How dare she! How dare she make him think that he had lost her for even a second. If not for the fact that he held his temper fairly well under stress, he would have wrapped his fingers around her throat and strangled her.

"Did you see what you did to Shizune and Sakura? They're both hysterical thinking that they've killed you and Tsunade was so devistated that she fainted!" He shouted, his voice getting louder and louder by the minute before he stopped with a snarled, "Are you fucking proud of yourself? Are you proud of the fact that you nearly gave me a heart attack and cause phychological damage to Tsunade and the others-"

Naru visibly flinched and gave him a wide eyed stricken look. She hadn't meant too. She hadn't meant to hurt anyone, she'd just froze up and hadn't been able to pull herself together in time to prevent the damage that had been done.

Her eyes teared up and she blinked several times to keep from crying. She didn't want Kakashi to know how deeply his words had just hurt her as he banged his hands on the wall and pointed at her and growled warningly for her to stay put while he went and got Sakura and the others so that she could apologize for her sick joke and clear this mess up then kicked the chair holding the door closed out of the way and storming out.

Naru bit her bottom lip and wiped at her face when some tears finally slipped down her face. She couldn't believe that Kakashi thought that she had done this on purpose. It just seemed so...horrid. Especially after the amount of time they had been spending together.

God, didn't he know her better than that?

It was starting to look like he didn't. And it was that point right there that made her feel the most hurt and betrayed. She got up off of the gurney and made her way over to where the sink was and climbed up on it so that she could get to the window above it and slipped out.

She didn't want to see Kakashi for a while.