The Girl Under the Mask-Kakashi x OC Romance

Chapter 34

After months and months of making you wait, here is your long awaited next chapter.

I'm so sorry I was gone for so long. I had a lot of changes happening in my life and decided to focus on that for a while. And in order for me to focus I had to go cold turkey of Wattpad because this becomes like an addiction to me writing these stories. I will kiterally spend every spare moment I have just working on chapters when I'm not working or with my boyfriend, but that also means I'm not doing ANYTHING while I'm doing that. One of the changes I made while I was gone was making myself get healthy and active. I was the heaviest I'd been in my life and I didn't like it. I've now since lost 29 lbs and counting.

That being said, while I am coming back, I won't be publishing as frequently as I used to. I'm writing 2 stories at once right now, and I don't want to fall back into my patterns of sitting on my butt for hours and days while I write, so I'm just going to publish 1 chapter a week. And since I have 2 stories, I'll be going back and forth between them to publish chapters. So in the end, each story will be getting 2 chapters a month.

And once I finish one of my stories, I'm just going to force nyself to only write one story at a time so I can just publish 4 chapters of that story a month. Although right now I only have 1 other story idea on the brain, anyway...

Enough of me rambling. Onto the chapter!!

I couldn't take my eyes off her. Maya sat there at the kitchen table, humming to herself and swaying her legs abesntmidedly under the table. Or so that's how she was making it seem. She was at the end of the table and Itatsu sat to the left of her, facing me. The two waited patiently for their breakfast while I was at the stove cooking it.

And this morning, breakfast cooked more slowly, as I couldnt seem to get out of my own head. Couldn't stop watching that girl out of my peripheral. I knew she was bad news. I felt it in my bones...if only I could get someone else to see-

"Ama" Kakashi breathed my name just over my shoulder, and effectively making me jump. I didn't hear him come up behind and he had spoken so softly, I suddenly felt his presence more than heard.

I turned to Kakashi with a hand to my chest, trying to still my beating heart. "Are you trying to give me a heart attack?" I quipped with playfully narrowed eyes...but the look that Kakashi gave me didn't seem so playful, and I stopped. I cupped his cheek in worry, "Is everything alright, Kakashi?"

"I don't know..." He pointedly glanced over my shoulder and I followed his gaze-to Maya. He saw my stare. He knew what it meant I was thinking about that girl and he didn't like it. He still wasn't convinced like I was, and he didn't like my horrid thoughts about such a sweet innocent girl. "Is it?" He asked.

Before I responded to him, I turned back to the stove. I turned off the stove and plated breakfast before it could burn while him and I got into it. I took the smaller plates of eggs and bacon to the kids, and I did try my best to give Maya a sweet smile when she looked up at me...at least for Kakashi's sake. "Go ahead and eat up. Daddy and I will join you in just a moment." I told Itatsu when he looked at me confused for not automatically sitting down to join them for breakfast.

Then I turned back to Kakashi and nudged his arm to move farther from the kids. I hoped this wouldn't be another argument, but I didnt want them to hear it if it turned into one.

"We haven't made it to breakfast and you're already upset with me?" I pointed out incredulously.

Kakashi gently grabbed my arm, "if you really want to talk about this, then let's take it to another room." He insisted, and tried to pull me with him as he stepped towards our bedroom. Not expecting that, he managed to get a step out of me before my feet planted. "Ama, you are right that the kids shouldn't hear, but I don't want them to see either." First I gulped... How bad was he picturing this talk to get?  Second, I couldn't stop myself from glancing over my shoulder at Maya. I didn't want her out of my sight with Itatsu. When I looked back to Kakashi his face was right in mine, anger evident in his eyes. "That's what's wrong-" He didn't really want them to not see us...it was a test...my reaction to leaving Maya...