A/N:I know a lot of you guys were waiting for the next installment of this little series of oneshots. The first three were the sexual implications and I couldn't think of anything else. ( if you do than pm me or stuff and I'll try to do a scene with it)

So I went over to the next topic that plagued my childhood. Monsters. Yep you read that right, Monsters. Being a lil' girl with a room stuffed with dolls and accidently walking in her brother's horror night with Chuckie on, I was scarred for life. Every night when I needed to go to bed I would stall it as long as possible because I was scared of my room. I woke up screaming bloody murder every time until they finally got it in their heads that they needed to move every stuffed animal and dolls out of my room. Until this day I'm still scared shitless whenever I come face to face with porcelain dolls. Why I'm telling you this? Well you'll find out now!

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto, only my cutie Rin-chan!

Booger monsters

Sakura woke up to someone screaming bloody murder. Her heart beat raced, her eyes going over her bedroom as her sleep induced mind tried to figure out what the hell had awoken her.

It was Rin, her five-year-old daughter, who was sleeping across the hall. Well should be sleeping.

"Dad! DaaaAAAAaaad! DADDY"

Sakura sighed and plopped back into bed. Her hand slammed onto the nightstand, crawling over the wood until she found the light switch she'd been searching for. The small lamp beside her bed flickered on, brightening the dark room.

She turned her head to regard her alarm clock, barely able to see anything from exhaustion.

It was two o'clock in the morning.

"You've got to be kidding me," Sakura groaned. Why did all these kinds of emergencies always have to come at night? Especially on night when she needed to get up at 5 to get to work. At least she didn't have to try to deal with it this time. She wasn't screaming for her, a perfect excuse to poke her husband awake and let him deal with it while she tried to gain some rest before it was her time to get up.

Without lifting her head from the pillow, she nudged her husband, who miraculously snored in blissful ignorance of the racket their child was causing. After a light shake to his shoulders, he still refused to get up, Sakura twitched annoyed . She charged chakra into her index finger, making sure he wouldn't take her blankets with him, before she flicked her husband side. He was flung out of bed, crashing into the wall before falling as a heap of flesh and bones on the floor.

Needless to say, that woke him quite nicely.

He grumbled beneath his breath as he slowly got up, trying to regain every scrap of dignity he got left. He stumbled back to bed, throwing his pillow on the mattress. His lone eyes glared daggers at the woman in bed, his hand now running soothing circles around the spot where she flicked him. That's definitely going to leave a bruise.

"What the hell did you do that for?" He growled. He wasn't pleased at all that he'd been abruptly awoken from his dream. Damnit it was a good one too.

His wife's face was still pressed into the pillow, not showing any remorse for what she'd done. The only thing she did was point to the door.

He blinked briefly, wondering what the hell she meant with that before he understood.

"Dad! Please.. DADDDY!"

He rubbed his hand over his face tiredly. Not this again, this was the fourth time this week! He peeked through his fingers to stare at the alarm clock. The moment he saw the time, he blanched. "It's far too early for this!"

He let himself fall upon the bed, struggling with the blankets for a minute before he settled back into bed. "I have a meeting tomorrow."

"So?" Sakura's voice was muffled by the pillow, but Kakashi could tell she wasn't going to let him win this time. Still, he had to try. If only to let her pay back for the way she had awoken him.

"She's your kid you know?" He muttered before he yawned again. Bad move.

Sakura lifted her head from her pillow heaven to glare at him. "Every day except on the day I'm working I take care of her. I wasn't as if I climbed on top of myself to get pregnant. So don't shove this on me! From midnight to sunrise, she's yours!" With that she flopped back onto the pillow and refused to say another word.

"How about you go now and I'll give you a book filled with sexual-favor-coupons that you can use any time, no matter where we are?" His voice was sultry, his hand stroking his wife's bare arm seductively.

The next moment he knew, his butt hit the floor, his left but-cheek aching where she kicked him. He sighed defeated. "That would have been a good thing," he muttered, rubbing his behind as he stood up.

Kakashi knew when he was beaten, especially when the sex card didn't work. He sighed once again as he shuffled out of the room, into the hallway and towards Rin's room.

He turned on the light, blinked rapidly to get used to the sudden brightness before his eye settled on his daughter. Rin was huddled in the corner of her bed, shaking like a leaf.

"Daddy," Rin whispered. "There's a booger-monster under my bed!"

"A what?" Kakashi asked. "You mean the boogie-man?"

Green terrified eyes stared at him before it quickly went down to regard the sides of her bed, hoping that the thing didn't crawl out any moment.

"He's big, hairy, dark and he lives under my bed! His name is Yunhen."

Kakashi sighed, bent down to look under the bed. He stood up and looked Rin in the eye. "There isn't any monster, now go back to sleep."

"There is too!" Rin pouted. She let go of one of her bed posters, favoring the blankets. "I saw him! He's name is Yunhen!"

Kakashi sat down on the edge of her bed, ruffling her hair to comfort her. "There isn't any monster beneath your bed sweetheart. I didn't see anything when I looked under the bed."

Rin crossed her arms, indignant that her father didn't believe her. "He was hiding from you."

Kakashi groaned, inwardly wondering why the hell it was him sitting here instead of Sakura. She was so much better than him in this department. "Listen, if there was a monster under your bed, I would have found him by now, hiding or no. Now, let Daddy get some sleep."

He gave her a kiss on the forehead before he stood and walked towards the hallway. As soon as he turned off the light, Rin screamed.

"DAD! DAAAAAADDDDD!" No! So close, Kakashi whined inwardly.

He turned the light back on. "I'm right here! What do you want?"

Rin fidgeted with her blanket, sheepishly looking at him. Then she blinked as if she discovered that if this method didn't work she could try another. He watched amused as her lower lip started to poke out, her green eyes looking at him from beneath her silver curls. He chuckled lightly, finding her attempt to do puppy-eyes adorable and funny at the same time. Sakura used that card to whenever she didn't get her way.

"Can I sleep in your bed?" she asked. She worriedly looked down at the side of her bed. "The booger-monster is still there."

"No, you can't sleep in our bed, you have to sleep in your own." Sakura will definitely hold off the sex when she found out he let her sleep in their bed again. "I will say it again, there is no boogie-monster."

"His' name is Yunhen."

"I know his name's Yunhen," Kakashi sighed. He rubbed his temples tiredly. It was clear that he wasn't getting through to Rin, and another more subtle approach was needed. He moved back to his daughters bed and sat down, making sure he was at eye-level with her.

"You see, you can't sleep in our bed because.. there's a.. a.. uhmm.." He struggled to come up with a good enough reason for a five-year-old. Man, he really needed to practice his lies more. He was clearly getting out of shape if a simply little lie didn't come out him fluently.

"…there's a boogie-monster in our bed too."

Rin gasped, horrid. "There's a booger-monster in your bed? I thought under the bed was bad enough! Is it hard to sleep?" Her curiosity got the better of her temporarily forgetting about her own problem. Exactly what Kakashi wanted.

"Yes. It has feet that are as cold as ice, it snores- er, growls viciously through all the hours of the night, and pushes me out of bed. It keeps all the blankets for itself, gets angry when you wake it up, so you have to be quiet and sleep now, okay?"

Rin nodded, not wanting to endanger her parents. "Okay."

Kakashi waited until she settled back into bed, before he moved away.

"Daddy?"

"Yes sweetheart?"

"Since my booger-monster's name is Yunhen, what's your booger-monster's name?"

"Sakura."

Rin's eyes widened with shock. "That's Mommy's name!"

"That it is," Kakashi mumbled. "What a coincidence…"

"I've got to warn Mommy that a booger-monster's using her name!" Rin called out frantically. She took in a deep breath, making her father's eye widen with fear for the first time. Oh no, oh no..

"MOM! MOMMMY! THERE'S A BOOGER-MONSTER IN YOUR BED! MOMMMMMYY!" Rin screamed on the top of her lungs.

Kakashi jumped towards her daughter, rushing to quiet her down. "Don't scream, don't scream. Mommy's fine! She's a top kunoichi remember? A boogie-monster can't do any harm. Now shush and go to bed. Your yelling will wake up the booger-man too, you wouldn't want that, would you?"

Rin stopped yelling, thinking through what her father just said. Meanwhile Kakashi was panicking. Now there was silence, he strained his ears for any sound, praying that his boogie-monster hadn't awoken from Rin's screams.

"Okay." Rin got back under the sheets, and Kakashi turned off the light. "Good night," he said and started to walk back to his room.

"DADDDY!"

Kakashi rushed back to Rin's room, threw the door open and flipped the light on. Again. "What?" he snapped, finally starting to lose his patience.

"Yunhen says he wants to eat me with soya sauce and candy!"

Kakashi gritted his teeth. "He doesn't want to eat you, okay? He was just joking. Now, for the last time, go to bed!"

Rin shrugged. "Yeah, I figured that he was joking. I told him mixing soya sauce and candy was stupid. But he wanted to ask me to ask you if it was or not. He said you eat like a raccoon."

"Yunhen doesn't know what he's talking about. Now tell Yunhen to stop talking, or I'll eat him with soya sauce and candy! He's depriving me from my healthy amount of sleep."

Rin frowned, knowing her daddy was in a bad mood to start asking what depriving meant. She would ask mommy later. Instead, she turned around slightly and whispered something to the underside of his bed. She cocked her head, listening what he replied back, nodded before she sat back up. Kakashi was starting to consider if she needed to get checked for mental illness.

"Yunhen says you wouldn't eat him. He also says you don't like candy or any kind of sweets. I didn't know that you didn't like candy, Daddy!"

That caught Kakashi attention. Rin hadn't known that he didn't like candy or any kinds of sweets. He dropped to the floor and reached under the bed. His hand met something furry and a wet nose. His hand encircled the little ball of fur to make sure it didn't escape. He scooted himself further under the bed, making sure Rin couldn't see this before he opened his sharingan eye to look at it better. Soon he realized it was one of the litters of Reyen, the demon dog that is the ancestor of his ninken. He recognized the symbols on his coat, his red eyes and the slightly larger fangs than normal ninken would have.

Play, it whispered as it wiggled around in his grasp, trying to get hold of one of his fingers. Play with little girl. "Go away," Kakashi softly commanded the dog. "This little girl isn't ready yet for the contract." He released the pup and watched it walk a circle before disappearing into the darkness. Well, he thought. There was a monster after all. He scooted out from under the bed and stood up, dusting himself off.

"Is it gone?" Rin asked quietly. She sighed with relief when she saw her father nod.

"It's gone, and it won't bother you again. If he does, just call me and I'll make sure he will disappear again."

Rin smiled, lying down as she watched her father tug her in. "Okay Daddy." She giggled as he leaned down to kiss her on the head before standing up.

He flicked off the light, glad that he would finally return to his own bed to get some sleep.

"Daddy?"

Kakashi groaned. "Yes?"

"I love you."

Kakashi turned around smiling, his hand on the door knob as he slowly began to close the door. "I love you too honey."

He moved back to his own room and crawled into to bed next to Sakura. He kissed her briefly on her temple before he sighed, nestling himself in the sheets Sakura kept warm for him. No booger-man will trouble him for tonight.

"MOMMMY! MOMMY! MmmooOOOOooMMMYYYYYyyyy!"

His eye snapped open in fright, he could feel the murderous aura around Sakura. He turned his eye to look at the glaring green eye that was seen through a curtain of pink. Fingers cracked, preparing for his upcoming doom. He whined inwardly. Why didn't Rin listen? He so said that her screaming would wake up his booger-man!

~Owari~