The snake and the fox

Chapter 11

Naruto cringed as he felt the light of the sun hitting his face, turning away from the window and grumbling, cracking an eye open to look at his clock, an hour before he had to go pick up Megu to start on her training. That thought motivated him to get out of bed, putting a hand on his sore stomach, thinking back to the previous night with a shudder, he'd have to get back at Kakashi and knew just the way to do it, it would just take some prep time. He stepped out of the shower wearing his pants and shirt, he came up to a small cage opening it and reaching in to grab onto the mouse residing inside, he idly ran his thumb along it's back while making his way to his living room, letting the rodent on the floor knowing Menma was close by. The black snake slithered from her comfy cushion, leaning her body up to observe the grey mouse that was skittering around the floor, her tongue forked, her slitted eyes focused on her meal, silently slithering closer, muscles coiled ready to strike. Naruto was currently beating eggs as he heard a faint hiss soon followed by a muffled squeak, he though of starting a colony of mice for Menma's weekly meal and the occasional treat. Filing that thought aside he focused back on the task at hand, the egg was ready, he added some cinnamon and a pinch of vanilla as advised in the cooking book, he mixed everything up and dipped a couple slices of bread in the bowl, while he let everything sit so the bread could absorb the egg he cut a piece of butter and tossed it in the heated pan, moving it around to spread the melting cube of butter. The room was soon filled with the sweet aroma of eggs as Naruto cut up an apple, keeping a keen eye on the bread, flipping it see it had a nice brown colour, satisfied with the result he took the slices of bread out of the pan and onto one of the two plates he took out, setting it on the table along with some orange juice and the apple apple slices before returning to the counter. 

"You have some nerve to come here after what you did." he said as he put the bread on the pan

The silver hair jonin smiled as he sat in front of the plate "Mah mah, we're even now Naruto, you did stick Guy on me after all." 

Naruto turned with a deadpanned expression "You poured laxatives in my food, changed my locks and filled my toilet bowl with plaster. You realise I'm getting you back for that."

A shiver ran up Kakashi's spine but he didn't show it "So, training little Megu today huh?" he changed subjects pulling down his mask to eat 

Naruto didn't react to Kakashi's face, when it was just the two of them the jonin tended to remove his mask "Yeah, I want to make sure she's as prepared as she can be."

Kakashi smiled "What do you plan to teach her?"

"For now no physical conditioning but I'll build her endurance, shuriken jutsu, her taijutsu and I'll teach her all I know about ninjutsu and chakra theory."

"No fuinjutsu?" the silver haired asked with a raised brow

"Well, I'll teach her about each field of the shinobi art, from nin to fuinjutsu, we'll see what fits her best when her chakra will be unlocked." 

Kakashi nodded "It all sounds pretty good to me. By the way, it's poker night, you want to tag in?"

Naruto looked at his older brother "You want me to participate in a gambling game?"

"Well when you put it like that." the older man chuckled scratching the back of his head

Naruto smiled and chuckled along "Well, why not, it'll be fun." 

The two were seen walking through the streets, Naruto with his hands in his pockets while Kakashi was reading his ever present book. They attracted a lot of attention, by now it was an accepted fact that Kakashi Hatake, the famously aloof and lonely ninja had seemingly adopted the blonde container, one was rarely seen without the other close by. Kakashi soon patted his younger brother on the shoulder before flickering away to tend to his duties, Naruto continued on his way to the orphanage raising an eyebrow when he saw Megu accompanied by her three friends, his brow almost disappearing in his hair as Megu and the scarf wearing boy, Konohamaru ran up to him, finally he questioned if his ingredients were spoiled when both kids hugged his legs calling him niisan, watching the two looking up at him with huge smiles on their faces.