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Atashi wa tomashita ka?
I can live here?


Until then, you'd never quite realised how badly you missed your computer. How VITAL it had been to you daily entertainment. You were starting to miss the people you had been talking to for several years, now. The guys from Texas, that dude you'd helped quit drugs, and all those other guys on Gaia Online, that super awesome RP site you were on for ages, it seems... All the people you RPed with. Like Naruto RPs... But the person that was in your mind most was Lauren. The girl you had been currently Rping with. And how convenient would it have been that you were into an OTHER Naruto RP?

How had it gotten this bad? You'd only been around Kakashi for three weeks now, and already you had been forced to go out on a date. Though it hadn't happened yet(because of various work times and random missions), you couldn't help but be a little anxious among the excitement of it all. You rolled over on the couch, facing the ceiling. Last week, you had forced Kakashi back in his room, insisting on the fact that you had overstayed your welcome there. And besides, you loved waking up, thinking you were home, but still feeling happy you were in Konoha. A few nights, you'd cry a little, quietly weeping yourself to sleep, but that wasn't often.

...Again. How the hell did you manage to get in this deep, only three weeks into knowing someone? Last time you'd gone out on a date, it'd took a few MONTHS before you felt at ease around him. But, for some reason, you just naturally felt comfortable around Kakashi. You blamed that on the fact that you'd watched Naruto one too many times... And also the fact that the guy just WAS that sexy. You sighed again, closing your eyes. You jumped and fell off the couch, though, when your watch beeped again.

"And here I was wanting to give you a good scare." A voice came over you, as you groaned and nursed your painful head. That stupid jounin doesn't know how to treat a woman, you thought bitterly, pushing yourself up to a sitting position.

"Okaeri." You muttered in a sour undertone, as you walked to the kitchen, whipping up two plates with the few things you had kept on low heat over the stove for the past hour. It didn't take a genius to see that you had been waiting for the forever-late jounin after having gone through the trouble of preparing a healthy dinner.

"Which reminds me." Kakashi spoke up, his plate cleaned, as always, without you so much as seeing him move. You had gotten used to it, though. Just as people were used to seeing you two walk around together from time to time, and just as Okawa(whom you had finally gotten the chance to see), Genma and Aoba had gotten used to seeing a woman in Kakashi's apartment.

"We still haven't gone out on that date."

And then you almost choked on whatever it was you were eating. You had EXPECTED him to bring up the subject one day or an other, but after two weeks, you had thought he forgot everything about it! Looks like you'd have to learn not to underestimate Kakashi. He might look like the carefree idiot at times, but he still has... SOME sense of logic, and a remainder of a brain. Enough to remember things like dates.

"I see you didn't forget." He added in a pleased tone, resting his chin on his interlaced fingers. Oh, yeah! Did he expect YOU to forget something like that..?! You'd nearly died of a heart attack..!

"...Of course I would!" You said, taking an offended tone, crossing my arms and looking away. "Wait, WHAT?!" you yelled, pointing at the elder jounin. Woah. He had NOT just said what you THOUGHT he said, right..?

"...You heard me." He replied slowly, his eyes not diverting themselves from that damned book. Which you really shouldn't call a damned book since you read it just as much as he did. "Though maybe not tonight. Kurenai would annoy for ages..." He sighed, closing his book with a light 'flump'.

"Y-you're going out tonight?" You asked in a stutter, fighting to keep your place on the dinning room chair. Because, you admit, you had nearly fallen off once or twice. Not that anyone could blame you, really. And all you wanted was sake, for Pete's sake...

"Gai and Kurenai seemed to find it a good idea to bring me out at a bar some night... I'm going just to make them happy so they can leave me alone." He shrugged, looking away.

"Sure you are." You smirked, getting up and prancing back you your (ex)room.

"It's a little hard to forget when you randomly shoot it out of nowhere." You mumbled, crossing your arms and looking away, after having taken the last bite out of whatever it was you had been slaving over for the past few hours.

"Well, are you still up for sake? Hm?" Kakashi asked, and you could see his eye lightly curved, distinctively telling you he was smirking again(you sighed at that).

"Sure, why not? Shima said I was off for the weekend. Might as well take advantage of the moment and not care if I have a serious hangover tomorrow, right?" You chuckled, running a hand through your hair. You got used to its being so soft. Though what pissed you off is that it would be growing back that dark ebony brown... Yeah, you dyed it that blood red every month or so.

"Then you should get ready, Yuuko-chan. I'll be waiting outside." Kakashi said, and vanished in a poof. Well CRAP.

"...WHAT THE FUCK?! What the hell am I going to wear?!" You cried, almost falling face first on the floor before running to the bathroom, snatching a few articles of clothing in Kakashi/your closet on the way.

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"NEVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN!" You yelled at the taller jounin in front of you and you angrily ran down the stairs. "Do you even know how stressful it is to do something with my hair this late at night?! I can't THINK straight!!" you growled, sighing as you heard Kakashi chuckle. True, maybe you were overreacting a bit...

"Trust me, you look fine." He said in a cheery tone, as you looked down at yourself. True. You DID look pretty good, even though you thought your body wasn't the dream body you always wanted, AND considering you weren't some hot supermodel...

You were dressed in some stuff you had picked up for nights like this, nights out at a bar. You wore a long, flare-sleeved fishnet shirt under a blank tank top, under a sleeveless black vest. As for your pants, they were also black, with three slashes at the knees, strapped from the lower slash down. Chains hung here and there, and you wore a decent sized black belt. Something only you would be wearing.

"Shut up." You muttered, stuffing your hands in your pockets and following beside Kakashi as he started walking off in some unknown direction. "Just to make things clear, this is just a friendly outing at a random bar because we have nothing better to do with our lives than drown our past problems." You said after a while, looking up at the full moon. Already, eh..? You smiled lightly at it, reminding you of the last night you'd spent at home...

"Whatever you want it to be." Kakashi said simply, not tearing his eyes away from the horizon. Wait. Since when DOESN'T he read that book of his when he knows something going to be utterly boring..?

"...Are you okay?" you asked, quickening your pace to stop in front of him, tilting your head to the side. "You usually drag that book around wherever you go. Especially when you know things are going to be boring." You said, narrowing your eyes in suspicion.

"I'm just not bored around you." Kakashi replied in a simple tone with a curved eye, indicating he was smiling. Walking around you, he left you pretty perplexed. Just not BORED around you? And how the hell was THAT possible?! You were the most boring person alive! You weren't a kunoichi(speaking of which, Hitaru's brutal sessions had started to shape you up a bit), you weren't all that beautiful, you didn't have anything particularly interesting...

So what the hell?!

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"...To drinking the night away?" You offered in an airy voice, after having been drinking for an hour already. You always were one to start being a little tipsy early... But you wouldn't be DRUNK before an other hour or two...

"To drinking the night away." Kakashi agreed with a poorly dissimulated smile, though you guessed he was just playing along, thinking you were more than just a little tipsy, and not wanting to make you feel... Alone in your intoxicatedness.

You actually felt quite at ease like this. Spending the night with Kakashi, and your beloved sake... Just trying to ease the pain of being away from home for almost four weeks. And now, you were starting to wonder what else could go wrong. Or marvelously well. So far, you'd managed to get a job, be accepted in the village, live with Kakashi(until you get the money to move out, and even then, you might not move out anyways)...

Which brought up the subject of housing. Would Kakashi let you stay at his place after you'd got the necessary amount to move out? Probably not... After all, you'd known him to be that type of guy who'd rather be alone. But then again, maybe you were wrong; maybe he DID enjoy your company...

Nothing better to clear your conscience than to ask, right? And if he ever asked you what that was all about, you can pretend you didn't remember.

Good going Yuuko!

"Kakashi...? Even if I ever get the money to afford my own place... Would you still let me stay with you?" you asked in a hushed tone, looking fixedly at the bottle of sake at your right.

"...Why not?" Kakashi replied after a while, downing an other shot of sake. "After all, who would say no to a lovely woman who cooks dinner every night?" He chuckled, raising his cup to you. So, he WOULD let you stay...! You were actually quite relieved. You didn't want to move out anyways. But, you had already made that clear to yourself.

"You're going to have to go buy an other bed, then." You stated, gulping down more of that delicious liquid, feeling the familiar warm sensation in your throat. "'Cause I sure as hell ain't sleeping on the couch forever."

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Beep. Beep. Beep. HA! Stupid watch was muffled under the couch cushions! You started doing that after it randomly started beeping at midnight. And it was NOT stopping. You swore at it and had to run away from Kakashi(who wanted to kill the damned with with a kunai) and shut it up for good by slipping it under the cushions of the couch. Too bad watches don't listen to threats. Otherwise... THIS little watch would've been scared out of its little plastic skin.

"...CRAP! I have to go meet Hitaru!!" You yelled, jumping off the couch, running to Kakashi's room, grabbing something comfortable to train in, before running into the bathroom, going back out, gulping down a glass of orange juice along with painkillers before bounding out the door, leaving Kakashi a note on the dinning room table.

'Ohayou, Kakashi-KUUUUN!

Sorry I left in a hurry(and for making a racket when I got ready), but I forgot I had to go training with Hitaru this morning. Blame our night drinking yesterday. Don't worry; plenty of painkillers left for you to abuse. Just remember to leave me some!

I'll be back for lunch, so don't eat, I'll fix us something up, okay?

Later!

Yuuko'

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"Tadai--Ooh, smells good..." You muttered happily, slipping off your sandals and throwing your practice sword against the wall, heading straight towards the kitchen. Were Kakashi was actually COOKING something. You actually nearly fainted at that. "W-what are you doing?"

"Okaeri." Kakashi greeted with a pleasant tone, already serving two plates of what seemed like marinated and cooked pork with fried rice. You were almost drooling, just smelling it. Man, that guy had talent both as a shinobi AND as a cook. Man. That guy would make a fiiiine husband for whoever would be marrying him.

If he ever GOT married, to begin with, or even if even lived long enough to hear those bells ringing. Which, in fact, you hoped he WOULD.

"Since when do you have any talent in the kitchen?" you asked in a tone of disbelief you had poorly managed to hide, making the jounin chuckled quite a bit. Well what? Was it really THAT funny that you couldn't believe the lazy ass could cook?

"Since I've been watching you cook for the past three weeks." He explained shortly with a smile, turning to face you, so you could see his forehead protector was up. So THAT'S how! He'd been memorizing everything with the Sharingan, while you weren't watching!

...lazy-ass.

After conversing mildly about this and that over lunch, you insisted to do the dishes, since you were suppose to make lunch and had obviously been bested at that. Though, afterwards, as you both held your cups of tea, you were expecting the question that was coming.

"...Why did you ask me if you could stay here last night..?" Kakashi asked, both his eyes boring into yours. Damn. You'd been expecting it, but you hadn't really been thinking of an answer. In fact, YES, you had... But it's like everything had just evaporated in thin air. Poof!

"Because... I... Hate being alone... I mean, I've lived all my life around my parents and brother... And I don't HATE living with you. I mean, I actually like living with you. But, I just kept on thinking that maybe you'd rather kick me out the minute you had the chance to... I mean, you never really seemed like the type of guy who'd like having to live with someone else..." You sighed, letting your head rest on the table. This was winding up to be harder than you expected...

"Do I really look like that evil of a person?" Kakashi asked with an obvious smirk, resiting his chin on his right fist. "I never really thought of myself like that."

"Th-that's not what I said!" You stuttered, shrugging and gulping down the boiling tea. You bit back a yelp, wincing though sighing once the burning sensation had dulled a bit. "It's just that... I didn't think that you'd actually want someone in your way." You muttered after a while, looking away.

"Like I said." Kakashi replied quietly, taking an other sip of his cup of tea, without your really knowing how. "I enjoy your cooking AND company. I'm not the one who's going to kick you out if you ever get kicked out." He finished, an empty cup of tea now sitting in front of him.

"That's actually quite reassuring." You sighed with a nervously chuckled, scratching the back of your neck.

"...Why did you go see Hitaru to train...?" He asked suddenly, his eyes riveted to your face. Honestly, it made you a little anxious, what with the scenes from his fight with Itachi and Zabuza whirling through your mind.

"I figured... That since she knows what it's like to be from a different world, and since she's been trained in kendo, she might teach me what her sensei taught her..." You answered weekly, staring down at the table.

"You could've asked me, you know." He muttered, and you blinked a few times. Had he just sounded OFFENDED? Yes, you believed he DID.

"I'm sorry if I offended you, you know. It's just that I thought you'd be too busy to teach ME anything." You said, trying your best to hide a tone of disbelief.

"...Whatever." And then he whipped out that famous book of his.

"I thought you said I wasn't boring!"

"Who said I was bored?"

"THAT BOOK."

"It can't talk, as far as I know."

"You read it because you're bored!!"

"...yes."

"So I'm BORING?"

"No."

"...What the fuck?!" You growled, leaning back in your chair...

After three seconds, though, you started wondering if your chair not stopping its leaning back was a normal thing. Until you found that the ground had decided that it wanted to be friends with you. You, you never really DID make friends with the ground. And, for a while(maybe three seconds), the world around you seemd to freeze. Kakashi's arms snaked around you to keep you from falling, your chair alomost hanging in the air, along with Kakashi's, which was thrown back.

Time took its normal course again, and both chairs fell down with a clatter of wood on tile, as you looked up at the mismatched eyes.

"You could've just let me fall, you know, I would've survived." You stated simply, still hanging barely a foot above the floor. Tch. Honestly.

"I just didn't want that colorful rainbow of words to fly out of your mouth again." Kakashi said with both eyes curving, and that's when you slammed a hand to his face, pushing him away from you. Which resulted in you falling on the ground ANYWAYS.

Weird moment right there. He had actually seemed to hold a weird GLEAM in his eyes for a moment. Oh well. You shrugged it off, jumping to your feet and head to the bathroom.

"I'm off in the shower!!" you announced cheerfully, closing the door to the bathroom shut behind you, and sliding down said door.

Seriosuly.

What the HELL had just happened?