Kakashi was almost finished with the third candy bar he'd found when Naru's eyes fluttered open as she made a soft moaning sound. "Evening-" Kakashi said as he stuffed the rest of the candy bar into his mouth and asked around chewing. "Sleep well?"

"Kashi?" He hummed and swallowed what was in his mouth and sat back as the chocolate did it's work. Loosening the uncomfortable cramps in his stomach so that he could relax a little bit before saying,

"Do you wanna tell me why you've been running around unarmed?" Because he'd been wracking hsi brain trying to think of a possible reason for why she wasn't armed and while he kept coming back to the 'not quite human anymore' part, he wasn't sure what to make of such thoughts.

I mean if Naru was so untouchable that she no longer needed weapons to defend herself...well, what exactly did that mean? Did it mean that she was literally indestructable? And if so what did that mean for him?

"No. Too tired to think clearly enough." He hummed again and glanced at her from under hooded lids.

"But there is a reason, right?" He prompted, deciding that he wasn't going to let this go until she gave him some information to work with.

She rolled over and muttered something under her breath that sounded suspiciously like 'bite me' as her eyes fluttered closed and she fell asleep again. Her chakra must have been drained to beyond the point of exhaustion, Kakashi surmised as he watched her sleep through the better part of the day and on into the next night before she finally woke up again.

He was cooking a two fat little rabbits over a fire he'd built an hour or so before he'd gone hunting and already had the rabbits skinned and skewered on a stick. He saw Naru shift slightly and looked away from the flames to see what she was up too and grinned to himself when she pushed herself half way up on her elbows and looked around. A small frown on her face as she looked around the cave.

"Where are we?"

"An underground cave that I found." Kakashi said as he got up and moved over to where she was and dropped down to sit next to her.

"How long have we been here?" Naru asked in her usual raspy tone as she rubbed her eyes tiredly with one hand as Kakashi brushed some of her dirty hair back from her face.

"A few days. You've been sleeping the whole time."

"And I'm still tired." Naru said in wry amusement.

Kakashi chuckled and shook his head. "You look like you need a bath." He said suddenly as he shifted a little bit closer so that he could slip his arms around her and pulled her up off of the moss bed and into his lap so that he could hold her for a few minutes before saying, "There's a hot spring in the cavern just off this one. If you want you can use it to wash up a bit."

Naru hummed. "Are you trying to say that you don't like dirty girls?"

"No. I like dirty girls. I really, really like them-" He said in a fond tone that had her turning her head to look up at him. He had this stupid little grin on his face that vanished as soon as he realised she was looking at him and quickly cleared his throat and said gently. "But I doubt you would appreciate how much in your current condition so why don't you go on and bathe. I'll stay here and try to behave myself."

"And think about those dirty girls you like so much." Naru teased. Kakashi looked away, his face red. God what was wrong with him? Here he was with literally the girl of his dreams and he was thinking back on his former sexual exploits with so much fondness that he'd been caught grinning.

He was lucky Naru was such a forgiving girl or he'd have had the hair slapped right off of his head. As it was he might have to step up his efforts to woo her to make sure that she knew he cared about her and only her. He helped her up and slipped one of her arms around his neck while keeping a firm grasp on her waist just in case her legs buckled and helped her to the cavern he'd been talking about.

The hot spring was something else. Even Naru had to admit this.

The steam rising off of the water smelled faintly of sulfer, and the sand littering the cavern floor looked like diamond dust. It was such a pure silvery white. There were jagged crystal formations sticking up out of the water and the sand in vivid hues of pink, lilac, lavender, amethyst, and clear white. Naru took one look around the place and her breath caught in her throat.

It was just so pretty. "You want me to take a bath here?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"No reason." It just seems like a waste to tarnish the beauty of the cavern with the dirt and grime on her body. He slipped her arm out from around his neck and eased her down onto the sand floor and then beat a hasty retreat back to the door way of the cavern and said.

"I'll leave you to it. But if you need anything let me know..."

"Thanks Kashi, I'll do that."

He nodded his head then turned and started to leave but stopped himself and turned back to face her and hesitated for a second before saying half jokingly, "Naru, don't drown."

Naru's response was to pick up a crystal and to chuck it at his head.