Kakashi lept from tree limb to tree limb going over the events of the other day along with how furious/beside himself the past three days and made a fist. Damn her for just up and disappearing like this! Did she have any idea how worried he'd been? How worried they'd all been?
Did she know that they might have forgiven her right away if all she had done was apologize for her prank? But no- she'd left. Just up and disappeared into thin fucking air. No letter or note. She hadn't even taken any of the things that he'd gotten for her so that she could stay with him indefinately if she wished.
But what really, really pissed him off was the fact that he had been going out of his mind- Literally driving himself crazy because she wasn't right goddamn there where he wanted-er, needed her to be. Honest to god, he'd trashed his apartment the other night in the hopes that she might be trying to hide from him there.
He'd ripped apart every room, shattered and smashed his furniture and knick knacks. He had even burned some of his clothes and shit because it carried her scent. And he couldn't fucking concentrate with her scent clinging to everything! How was he supposed to track her through scent when everything smelled like her?
Jesus, he was frazzled.
And annoyed. Man, oh man he was annoyed. Hatake's didn't do well apart from their mates. Even if they were pissed at her for something stupid. His apartment and behavior these past few days were a testimant to that fact.
And underneath all of these upsetting and somewhat insane impulses, was his desire for Naru's company again.
He knew that he'd blown up at her. He hadn't meant too but when he had first though that she was dead he had stubbornly clung to the hope that she was alive. And if not then he had already resigned himself to living the rest of his days pining for her, miserable and alone.
Or he could have secretly harvested some of the eggs from her ovaries and run off somewhere to find a surrigant mother and raise their children in peace away from the village. Hell, he still might do that if he wound up strangling her for making him so crazy. And since she had said before that she couldn't die, then well, at least he wouldn't be alone once the urge to strangle her, passed.
"Where do you think she went?" Sakura asked curiously as she caught up to him. She'd been observing him for the past few days and had noticed that her former sensei seemed to be manic about something that she couldn't quite put her finger on, but she knew that it must have something to do with Naru since his behavior suggested as much.
He looked at her with both eyes and she felt herself shiver at the look in his eyes. She'd only seen her sensei look like this several times before when she was younger. Once was when team seven encountered Zabuza and Naru had just freed Kakashi from the water prison and was floating in the water, helpless. Kakashi had risen up with a look that positively screamed 'retrubution' before he'd wounded Zabuza to the point where the man's accomplice had had to fake his death.
But this look- this look was something else entirely. Eerily similar to retrubution, yet not that exact look. It was more like the look of a wolf on the hunt for a fat little rabbit to prey on. Although something told her this particular wolf had no interest in rabbits. He wanted to sink his fangs into something more substantial.
Like a kitsune. Team seven's kitsune to be exact.
Good lord Naru if you've got a brain in your head you'll stay away until Kakashi calms down. I don't want to lose you for real this time... Sakura thought nervously.
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Tsunade was in the middle of reading a report when Jiriaya appeared in a puff of smoke with Naru standing next to him. The woman made a frustrated sound as her golden brown eyes zeroed in on the source of her ire as Jiriaya handed something to the girl then promptly pushed her towards the office door.
Tsunade started to get up and go after the girl, wanting to reprimand her for her poor taste in practical jokes but Jiriaya stopped her by moving quickly enough to block her way and push her back down into her chair. "Jiriaya..." She said the man's name warningly as she smacked his hands away from her.
"Shut up and listen Tsunade. Naru wasn't trying to play a prank or hurt anyone. What happened at the hospital the other day is something that she has no control over-"
"It's one of the things that Kyubbi gave her right? The ability to live even if her heart isn't beating-" Tsunade asked suddenly. Jiriaya looked a little bit surprised and started to ask her how she had pieced even that much together when the woman kicked him in the shin and hissed as he jumped back and yelped. "She more or less said as much when she told Kakashi that she didn't need a pulse."
Jiriaya rubbed his sore shin and grunted. "And you're still pissed at her?" He sounded surprised. Like really, really surprised.
"I'm not so much as pissed at her as I am irritated that she hasn't shown up to explain her side of things to me yet. Besides, it's Kakashi that you need to be worrying about. Since the incident the other day he's been losing it in a big way. Why just a day ago he started a huge ass bon fire in the middle of the living room. Nearly burned down the whole damned building. And on top of that his place looks like a hurricane has hit it...six or seven times."
Jiriaya frowned at Tsunade's warning. He'd known Kakashi since his pop had died and had never, ever heard of him behaving so out of control before. I wonder what's causing him to act so strangely? He wondered before shaking his head and pulling out a small leather bound book and a thick yellow file with Naru's name on it and put them both down on Tsunade's desk.
"These contain notes and medical findings about Naru. It explains why her heart stops, how her chakra works now and other things that you may find intresting. The book here-" He tapped the top cover with his index finger. "Has diary notes about her and her re training and some rather...traumatizing experiences she had inbetween. This book will explain why she didn't say anything to warn any of you about her heart and other things."
"Alright, I'll look at them and hand them over to Kakashi and Sakura once they've returned. Now, is there anything else your here for?"
"I want to take Naru out of the village for the mission you sent me on a few days ago-"
"You mean that you haven't completed it yet?"
"No... I got a little bit distracted by Naru showing up on my hotel door step crying her heart out." Jiriaya growled and caught Tsunade winch a little bit in sympathy before sighing and nodding her head.
"Alright. Take her with you. But make sure to bring her back in a week other wise Kakashi might go homicidal and kill everything walking through the village streets."
"Done. Just sedate the brat if he gets out of hand." Jiriaya said before leaning down and giving Tsunade a quick kiss on the cheek before straightening his spine and turning on his heel and walking out of the office. Leaving Tsunade smirking at her desk.
She was sure that she wouldn't have to sedate Kaskashi since he was already off on the hunt. She had no doubt that the man would track Naru down even if he had to track her to the ends of the earth. Hatake's were notoriously relentless when they were after their mates, after all.