Chapter 4

(Sings out of tune) It's the weekend BABY! So here's the next chapter thanks for those who have followed… I jumped up and down like a fan girl! .Just a little side note in case you get confused:Italic: Means it's a dream

Happy reading, please R&R

Chapter fourMinato stood next to the door in the corridors while Kakashi and Rin sat on the chairs opposite the doors. Inoichi had been in there for twenty minutes already with the kid trying to determine his memory loss and what else he knew. The ANBU refused to move from the room but Inoichi asked if they could wait outside as they knew the most about the kid and it would make things harder for the techniques to work properly.

"Well the kid has long term memory loss, no genjutsu no mind traps, no nothing but fuzzy memories. He only remembers things that are hereditary like his age and training as a shinobi but I don't understand why he doesn't remember his name or anything about family or even where he came from, people with this type of memory loss normally can or at least remember a letter of their name or something that has a connection to their name or even their village. He's had quite a bit of mental damage being a shinobi… This kid's had it rough. Go easy on him Minato and maybe his memories will return." Inoichi said, stepping out of the room.

"Can we see him?" Rin asked hopeful.

"Well he's sleeping from the stress of not remembering but you can see him, just let the poor kid sleep. If that is all Minato, I'll take my leave?" Inoichi asked and Minato nodded and smiled at his old friend as he went back to the T&I department.

"Looks like we won't be getting answers after all." Kakashi sighed, looking up at the ceiling with his arms crossed.

"Yes, this is quite an annoying position to be in." Minato mused. "Well, I've got work to do, see you later Kakashi, Rin." Minato said, leaving with a smile and a flash of yellow.

"Coming Kakashi?" Rin asked him when she stood up and saw he made no move to stand up as well.

"You go on ahead, I'm going to go home and get some sleep for a while." Kakashi said yawning and standing up, heading for the exit. "See you around Rin."

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Rin sat peacefully next to the kid's bedside and decided to fix some of her clothes while she was sitting and waiting as she hand sewed the rips and tears closed. Using a special technique and chakra to bind them together to make the clothes look like new again otherwise all ninja would spend their pay on new clothes and uniforms each time.

She hummed a tune with a small smile on her lips as she sewed the fabric together. She was glad the kid was all right and awake but as for his memory loss, it really was a shame, it must be absolutely horrible not to know your own name and Rin frowned a little at the thought.

"You look prettier when you smile." A voice said and she looked to see the kid sitting up carefully with a crooked smile and Rin blushed and battled to keep a grin back.

"Um… Thank you." She giggled a little and put her smile back into place, putting the clothes aside for now.

"You're most welcome… Do you think I can take some of these bandages off now, they're a little uncomfortable?" He asked, pulling at the bandages on his arms already, taking some of them off.

"Sure, let me help you and place smaller bandages on the wounds you have left." Rin said, standing up and helping him with the bandage on his head, covering most of his head but the senses. Rin gasped as the last wrap of bandage came off and stared at his hair, springing back into place already and giggled a little and the kid smiled. "You're hair really is a midnight blue, it's amazing." She said and he cracked a crooked smile.

"Thank you Rin-san. And thank you for taking care of me, I really appreciate it." He said, Toulouse his hair with his hand as his bangs fell over his face and swept to the right of his face while he ran a hand up the back of his head as his hair pointed up and back behind him in perfect points from the longest at the top to the shortest at the bottom. (A/N: Imagine Soul eater but with his hair pointing back behind him, like Sasuke's, almost like a mixture, Soul's bangs with Sasuke's hair.)

"Um… I was wondering since you don't know your name… What do you want to be called by? For now, I mean." She said as he watched her with his steely gaze and an amused smirk.

"I don't know, I never really thought about it but I really don't mind… Do you have a name in mind?" He asked and she blushed and giggled again.

"Well I think Rei would be perfect, short for Reiji… You know 'Midnight' like your hair, easy to remember." Rin suggested and he smiled at her.

"Well then Rei it is. Hi Rin, my name's Rei and it's nice to officially meet you." He said with a grin and held out his hand towards her. Rin smiled and grabbed his hand in hers and they shook hands. His hands were so strong and softer than Kakashi's and so much warmer than her own as she was reluctant to let go. Pulling the stool back next to the bed, she sat down again and started fixing her clothes again as Rei laid back and closed his eyes. "Hey, can you hum again, it nice and soothing." Rei asked and Rin smiled before humming again and Rei sighed and relaxed back into bed again.

"Chikara, do you understand what needs to be done?" A man in a Kiri ANBU masked asked him.

"Yes Taicho. It shall be done." He found himself saying with a salute, looking through two slitted holes for his eyes as he headed down the dingy underground prisons. He looked around before running down the cold and heavy air tunnel for a room that held a prisoner he had to save to stop the war for good but he'd become a missing nin, this much he knew.

"Hey… Konoha kunoichi, can you hear me?" He whispered through the grating, hearing the sobs of a girl not much older than he was.

"Who's there?" Her voice came out a little shaky but determined.

"I'm going to get you out of here but you have to trust me. Promise?" He asked, holding his gloved hand through the grating with his pinky out when he felt another pinky wrap around his own.

"I… I promise just please let me get home." Her voice sobbed and he closed his eyes with anger… This war has to end now!

Rei took a deep breath as he woke up and sat up at the same time. His head was pounding and the blanket was on the floor, explaining the cold in the dream but it felt too real to be a dream… Those emotions he felt were real. Was it some of his memory returning to him? Perhaps. But what sparred it on? He looked around the empty room to feel ANBU still sitting in the shadows and it looked to be about midnight already.

He took a deep breath and carefully swung his legs over the edge of the bed with minimal pain in his right side but bearable as he stepped off and stumbled to be caught by a pair of arms around his waist.

"You shouldn't be getting out of bed yet kid. You could have just asked." A familiar voice said, holding him up still around his waist.

"K… Kakashi-san? You're ANBU?" He asked with a slight smile and was pulled gently to stand up and come face-to-face with a ceramic white wolf mask in a snarling position.

"If you keep it a secret I'll say yes." Kakashi said and Rei could feel him laughing, an iron yet gentle grip around his waist still. Rei glared through the eyeholes, not liking to be seen as weak as he pushed Kakashi away and reached for the bed to hold him up.

"Don't mock me and my name's not 'kid' it's Rei… Rin gave it to me now can you please get me my blanket so I can go back to sleep?" Rei asked with annoyance as he sat gently back on his bed and Kakashi picked up his blanket.

"She's always the kind and caring one on the team." Kakashi mused as Rei lay back in bed and Kakashi effortlessly laid the blanket over him.

"And what does that make you, the team clown?" Rei asked but then the air became awkward and still.

"No… It makes me the stuck up know it all bastard… we lost the clown a year ago." Kakashi muttered with a stone voice before disappearing out of the room completely.

"Kakashi-san, wait…" Rei called and reached out but he was already gone. "I'm sorry." Rei muttered before falling back into a guilty and restless sleep.

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"So, I heard you gave the kid a name." Kakashi asked Rin, standing right behind her as she jumped and turned around in a flash with a hand to her heart, breathing heavily.

"Geez, Kakashi, you scared the shit out of me! Don't do that." She complained and she could see his shoulder's shaking from silent laughter. The hospital was quiet that early in the morning and Rin always liked to come in early and prepare for the day ahead.

"Sorry, couldn't resist." He said, clipping his chest armour off to hang loosely around his frame and rolled the gloves down past his elbows and loosening his red scarf he wore. "So Rei huh? Short for Reiji I presume?" He asked and Rin couldn't help the blush that dusted her cheeks rosy.

"Y-Yeah, he asked me for a suitable name and I just thought that with his hair it would be easy to remember and then we wouldn't have to call him kid, he's only a year younger than us." She said with a pout turning back to the table with her work on it only to come up to Kakashi sitting on the desk and on her papers, a mischievous glint to his eye as he hooked his heel on the edge of the desk, bringing his knee up.

"You think he's cute don't you?" He asked with amusement in his deep tone and Rin blushed further.

"N-No! Of coarse not… I, I'm just worried for his health and his memory loss." She spluttered and Kakashi smirked under his mask.

"Ma, does that mean I'm not the flavour of the week anymore? Bummer." He said with some fake hurt to his tone.

"I told you I don't like him." Rin said angrily and Kakashi raised an eyebrow.

"Please, you were interested in him since I told you he looks like me but with midnight blue hair and silver eyes. You've taken care of him since he came in plus you're denying it a little hard when your face gives everything away about you Rin." Kakashi said, waving his gloved finger in a circle around her face and snatched it away when she snapped at it.

"And who might Rin be interested in that isn't Kakashi?" A familiar and amused voice called and both teens froze and knew they had stepped into dangerous boundaries with papa bear Minato-sensei.

"Come on, we can have girl talk over it." Kushina said with excitement as Naruto babbled in her arms happily. The teens turned towards the faces stiffly and they were smiling, laced with sickly sweet poison.

"This is all your fault Kakashi." Rin whispered seriously as the happy family approached the teens with their eyes glinting with mischief.