Chapter 3

~~~Readers POV~~~

I woke up with the sun warming my face, the smell of breakfast in the air, Sakura was cooking. After debating with myself on whether to get up or not, I finally did. Rubbing my eyes as I drudgingly walked to the table and sat down.

"Good morning, love bird!" Sakura teased as she set my delicious looking breakfast in front of me. I blushed at her comment.

"W-What are you talking about?"

"You and Kakashi, duh!"

"What? No it's not like that I, I mean uh, we aren't-he doesn't think that way about me. He's just being friendly." I sighed, pushing my food around on my plate.

She giggled. "Trust me; I've known Kakashi for several years now. He hasn't opened up to anyone as much as he has to you, and you've accomplished that in a couple of days! He definitely likes you."

"You really think so, Sakura?"

"Definitely." She smiled. Now eat up, we've got places to be. She set freshly made coffee on the table for me. She's a life saver.

I gobbled down my breakfast and quickly took a shower. I threw on some clothes as I towel dried my hair, and then I washed the dishes as I waited for Sakura to be ready. I've never been much of a person to be really concerned about how I look, as long as I'm clean I'm fine. Around the time I finished with the dishes Sakura was ready. Once we were out the door we headed for the training grounds, Sakura had briefly showed me them yesterday. 'I wonder why we were going here.'

"Hey, Sakura, what are we doing here?" I asked as we arrived and stopped in the middle of the training grounds.

"Well, I heard that your village has a certain kekkei genkai. I thought that maybe if we trained together, you could remember something from home." She said proudly with the plan she had thought up.

"That's a really good idea, Sakura-chan! So what is it, my kekkei genkai?"

"Sorry, ___, I'm not going to tell you."

"Why not?" I said, puzzled.

"Well if I tell you, then you'll just be concentrating on that one thing to much, and if it does work, it wouldn't be natural. So, it just has to come to you somehow. So, are you up for it?" She said with a smile.

"Of course!" I said with a big grin on my face.

~~~Kakashi's POV~~~

I sat up in a tree on the edge of the training grounds. Sakura had told me about her plan, and I was kind of interesting to see what ___ had in her. They had been throwing shuriken and kunai, doing hand to hand combat for at least 2 hours now. 'When will they give it up?' I said to myself. Just then, ___ did a hand sign so quick I could barely catch it. Then a big gush of wind came at Sakura like a tidal wave. Thanks to Sakura's quick thinking she dodged it, with a big smile on her face. Her plan was working, I was impressed. ___ was beginning to remember some things. They kept at it for several more hours, but ___'s kekkei genkai never showed up. She did, however, use a lot of very difficult wind techniques. If they kept training together she'll definitely remember her kekkei genkai. Even without that at her use she was still a quite powerful person. I wouldn't expect it given her kind and innocent personality.' I'll keep that in mind in case I say something accidently offensive to her.' I laughed at the thought of her getting mad. By this time they were both pretty exhausted, and it was still pretty early in the day, just a little passed one. Sakura was sitting, catching her breathe and looking at the sky. Then I saw ___ stumble a bit, she was starting to fall, Sakura didn't notice. I rushed over and caught her setting her down gently and sitting next to her.

"Kakashi Sens- ___! Damn it! I pushed her too much today, and I was the one who told her to rest."

"It's okay Sakura, she's just tired. You helped her more today than rest could."

She felt a bit better by that. "Alright, well would you carry her back to my house?"

"You need to rest as well; you don't need another person to watch over right now. You go back and rest, I'll take care of her. I'll let you know immediately if something starts to happen with her."

She thought for a moment. "Okay Kakashi Sensei. But makes sure she eats right and enough and that she drinks enough water!"

"Okay, okay. I got it." I gave her a smile. "Now go rest!" I said as a carried ___ off to my house.

When I got inside I laid her on my bed and went to get some water. I sat her up and had her drink some; she was still awake, but really out of it. I laid her back down and told her to get some rest, and then I kissed her forehead. I waited to leave until I thought she was asleep. I walked out and sat on the couch and turned on a movie. When my movie was done I took a break to make her and I some food. I ate it and left hers on the table. I was halfway through my second movie when I heard my bedroom door creak open. I looked up to see ___ standing there embarrassed. She must've taken a shower because her hair was all wet; I thought I heard something earlier. I was so focused on looking at her face by the time I scanned her whole body it had been at least a minute. I felt my face go hot and I quickly turned to face to TV. 'So that's why she looked embarrassed…" She was standing there in one of my T-Shirts, but on her it almost looked like a dress.

"Kakashi…I couldn't find where your pants were, and mine are all sweaty." She said in a pouty defeat.

"O-Oh yeah umm I'll get them for you. Uh, you should eat, there's food on the table for you." She giggled slightly as she said a "thank you, Kakashi" and she danced off to the kitchen. I went in my room and fished around for some pants that would fit her 'she's so tiny all of these would just fall right off'. I blushed as the image of her standing in my doorway came to my mind. I shook my head and found some old sweats of mine from when I was much younger. "Why do I still have these?" I murmured to myself. I walked in the kitchen to find ___, sitting on the counter and dangling her legs over the side. She was happily eating the food I made.

"This is really good, Kakashi! Did you make this?" She said with her face beaming. She was so cute.

"Thanks, yeah I did. Oh! I found some old pants of mine that might fit you, they might be a bit big still, but it's the smallest thing I have." She set her bowl on the counter and hopped off gracefully, walking towards me. She took the pants from me and kissed me on my cheek, she was blushing.

"Thank you, Kakashi-kun!" She said as she danced, again to my bedroom to change. I was blushing uncontrollably as I made my way to sit on the couch and resumed my movie. I wasn't paying attention to it much, I was just thinking of ___.

A few minutes later she came out of my room and cuddled up to me on the couch. She laid her head on my shoulder. We both watched the movie in silence. When the movie was over I felt her shift and she tilted her head just enough so she could look at me.

"Kakashi?"

"Yes, ___?"

"Do you like me?"

I smiled. "Yes, ___, I like you very much."

She sat up and had the biggest grin. "I like you too Kakashi." Then she wrapped her arms around me and laid her head on my chest. I put my arms firmly around her and we sat there, both smiling like idiots.

"Oh, and Kakashi?"

"What is it?"

"…You're my home."

I smiled and lightly kissed her on her head. "And you're mine."