Welcome to the third instalment of Stupid Cupid, I own nothing as always.

It didn't take long for the toad sannin to find Kakashi. The distinctive giggle of a seasoned pervert enjoying excellent smut gave away his position. Jiraiya leaned against the tree Kakashi was hiding in and crossed his arms in a relaxed pose.

"I've got to hand it to you Jiraiya-sama, you have really outdone yourself with this volume!" praised Kakashi, "What is your secret?" he asked.

"Heh, that would be Naruko." he replied with a smirk. Kakashi stopped reading.

"Wut?" fumbled its way out of his lips as he tried to process what he had just heard. Jiraiya laughed,

"Oh yeah, you heard me right! Turns out she has a real knack for character creation. She helped me out quite a bit while we were travelling! I had her fine tuning relationships and editing the transcript." said the sannin.

"You let Naruko write porn?" asked Kakashi, clearly a little disgruntled at the revelation. Jiraiya frowned, it wasn't simple porn, it was sensational erotic literature.

"Well sure! She's a natural! Besides, she needed the practice. She couldn't read or write for shit when we started. Her handwriting is still pretty shit. Not a lot of hope of her learning seals, that's for sure. Anyway, have you reached the part where they introduce Miku-chan yet?" asked Jiraiya.

"Yes?" Kakashi said cautiously.

"All Naruko's idea. Some of her best work really. You should really ask her to show you the henge some time!" Jiraiya exclaimed with a laugh. Kakashi nearly choked, he could feel his mind slowly breaking.

"You," started Kakashi, "You were supposed to be teaching her how to control the nine-tails and protecting her from the Akatsuki. You weren't supposed to… to.. corrupt her innocence with porn!" accused Kakashi.

"Ahh, so that's what all of this is about." Jiraiya said, nodding his head sagely. Kakashi's eyebrows drew together in confusion.

"What all of what is about?" he inquired.

"I just realized why you ran away from your reunion so quickly, and why you are trying to post-pone your spar. I thought they called you the copy-cat nin, not the scaredy-cat nin. Yet, here you are, running scared from your gennin student!" said Jiraiya. Kakashi jumped down from his tree, arms crossed and brow raised.

"Oh? And pray tell, why would I be scared of Naruko? What are you trying to say?" he demanded. Jiraiya matched his eyebrow raise with an even bigger eyebrow raise.

"I'm saying that Naruko is all grown up now, and that scares the shit out of you." responded Jiraiya. Kakashi tried not to flinch at the accusation.

"Of course she has grown, it has been three years. I don't see why that would scare me." countered Kakashi. Jiraiya shrugged.

"I'm just calling it like I see it. You look one look at Naruko and tried to reconcile the differences between the child she used to be and the woman she has become, and you couldn't. It broke your little brain. Kind of how thinking about Naruko writing porn did. Come on Hatake, did you really think she would never grow up and learn about things sex or romance?" teased Jiraiya. Kakashi's hands had curled into fists.

"No, I just –" he started saying, but Jiraiya cut him off.

"No? You didn't expect her to stay innocent forever? Then what has you so upset? Was it too sudden? Is it because you didn't get to see it happen?" he asked. This time Kakashi did flinch, and Jiraiya's eyes widened as understanding settled in.

"Oh." he said, and relaxed his posture. Of course this was about Kakashi's separation issue. He pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. He owed the man an apology, he would have to go about this more gently.

"She's changed." said Kakashi, shoulders slumping in defeat, "She looks different, sounds different, acts different. I'm starting to realize just how much I've missed. She really has grown, huh?" said Kakashi.

"She's still Naruko." Jiraiya offered, "Sure some things are a little different, but she hasn't changed at the core of herself." he said. Kakashi hummed and looked away, refusing to answer. "Look, I wont pretend to understand what you are thinking right now, but just because some things are different doesn't mean that everything is. Naruko has a number of people that she considers important to her now, but it wasn't always like that for her, and you are one of the first people she ever felt close to. She isn't going to forget that and neither should you." said Jiraiya. Things were silent between the two ask Kakashi thought over what he had said.

"You are right, she is still my student." Kakashi admitted, "I may have been overthinking things." he said. Jiraiya laughed.

"I'll say! Jeeze, for a little while there I was starting to think you were panicking because you thought she was hot, not because you were feeling left out!" laughed Jiraiya. Kakashi's posture became awfully stiff.

"Ha. Ha. Of course not. That would be crazy. And wrong. On so many levels." said Kakashi a little robotically. Jiraiya rolled his eyes.

"Who you trying to convince, kid? Me or yourself?" he mumbled.

"Pardon?" said Kakashi, but Jiraiya waved him off. He didn't feel like opening that can of worms today.

"Never mind. Tsunade and the kids are going to be waiting for you in training ground seven soon. I wouldn't keep them waiting too long." He said and with a parting wave he lept away and left Kakashi standing at the tree. Now that Minato's emotionally constipated student was dealt with, there was a bath house in the southern district that had been missing him for the last three years. It was probably time for him to pay it a visit.

And Jiraiya uses therapy no jutsu. Sorry for the long wait and short chapter. That's just how I roll.