Sorry this took so long, I got a job as of yesterday and will be spending all of my days at my parents house watching my grandma until she dies.

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Kakashi didn't find Naru with in the first two or three days and several things happened in that time. One) Sakura had decided to go at her own pace and had gone back to the village to try looking there and had half assed talked Kakashi into going back and checking with Tsunade one more time before he struck out on his own again.

After Two) Finding out that Naru had come back just long enough to get permission to leave for a week long mission. At which time- Three) Tsunade had given him a small leather bound book and ordered him to read it before he found Naru.

So here he was on day four of his hunt and he had managed to finally catch up to Naru and Jiriaya in a small town where Jiriaya seemed to be gathering information on the Akutsuki and their movements.

However instead of going to get Naru like his instincts were screaming at him too, he sat himself down to thumb through some of the pages of the small book that Tsunade had given him in the hopes of understanding why she had been compelled to give him the book and tell him to read it.

And after an hour or so he was starting to understand the why of things. Including why Naru had run. He sighed and let his head fall back against the trunk of the tree he was leaning against and closed his eyes as a feeling of gut wrenching shame washed over him.

God he was an idiot. A real world class A-grade son of a bitch.

Why didn't I at least give her a chance to explain herself before blowing up at her? He wondered as he lifted a hand and ran it through his wild silver hair. If he had known that Naru couldn't control some of her body's functions anymore then he probably wouldn't have thought that she was playing a prank on them, and gotten pissed. He should have known to ask first, but he hadn't and now Naru had placed herself in temporary exile because she wasn't sure if he and the others would welcome her back.

I'll just have to make up with her and let her know that she'll always be welcome with me. Kakashi thought as he lifted his head and snapped the book shut and stuffed it back into his weapon's pouch. And slipped off of the tree limb that he had been resting on and let himself fall down to the ground below where he landed on the balls of his feet and slowly stood up and started walking.

He needed to catch up to Naru and tell her that he was sorry. He just hoped that once he did, she would forgive him.

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Naru was sitting in the hotel lobby with a modest meal and some sake in front of her, trying to kill time until Jiriaya came back while observing the various people around her.

So far the most facinating people she'd seen had been the two step siblings who had also been lovers.

She'd seen them fooling around out of the corner of her eye a little while ago and hadn't been able to stop herself from looking towards their table as the sister had given her brother a blow job before more or less mounting her brother right there in plain sight. To say that this was shocking to Naru would be an understatment.

She hadn't known what the proper reaction to such a spectical was so she had looked around at some of the other people in the room, noting that they weren't really paying any attention to the pair then had started watching them out of curiosity. Her confused and befuddled mind taking this as a chance to study human coupling without anyone embarrassing her by giving her any pointed or funny looks.

Eventually watching the two go at it like animals started to make her feel even more uncomfortable. So she stopped watching and concentrated more on her food and managing to choke it down while she mentally went over the small conversation she and her master had had last night before bed.

"Something is going on with Kakashi-" Jiriaya had said suddenly out of the blue. Curious about what he meant, Naru had given him her undevided attention. Stopping the chakra manipulation exercise that she had been doing absently to distract herself from thinking too much.

Jiriaya had been on his third bottle of sake at the time and was probably partially drunk, still he seemed lucid enough to be able to tell her what he meant before she decided to dismiss his words. He had set his cup down and took a deep ragged breath, the past few days he'd come up with nothing on the Akutsuki. And Naru knew that the waiting was starting to get to him.

"Tsunade said that he hasn't been acting like himself. Said that he partially destroyed his apartment the other day and nearly burned down the whole damn building."

Naru cocked her head and frowned a little bit. "Was he cooking?" She asked. Jiriaya shook his head no and Naru hummed. Well that was a mite alarming. Especially if he did it on purpose.

Jiriaya poured himself another cup of sake and lifted the cup to his lips and said, "If we don't hear anything about the Akutsuki by noon tomorrow I'm going to hit the local record keepers and see if I can get any information on the Hatake clan's bloodline limits."

Bloodline limits? Naru thought in surprise.

She hadn't been aware that Kakashi had a bloodline limit. Sure she had heard rumors, who in the leaf village hadn't? But no one had ever seen proof of his bloodline limit and had merely started to assume that it had skipped Kakashi or merely died out with the rest of his clan. So hearing news that Kakashi's long supposedly lost bloodline limit may have finally surfaced was facinating to her to say the least.

It would certainly explain certain behaviors in the Copy nin if he did have one. Like why he was so particular about scents. Why he wore a mask. The fact that his canine teeth were unusually sharp like her own without having to be filed to sharp points. It would also explain why he was so cunning and ruthless.

She stopped eating and pushed her plate away as something occurred to her. He had been behaving strangely when she had been staying with him as well. Like when he had smelled Shikamaru's scent and had sniffed her neck to check and make sure that his scent wasn't mixed with her own.

She knew it was a territorial impulse that had fuled him that time, but there had been other things since then. What if his destroying his apartment had something to do with her leaving? And if it did, then did she need to worry about what he might do if his peculiar behavior escalated? Would he be a danger to himself? Would he become a danger to someone else?

Her stomach felt like it was in knots by the time she paid for her food and ran out the hotel door to look for her master. She needed to know exactly what sort of bloodline limit Kakashi had and how dangerous it was. And she needed to know now.