Soft mumbling near Kakashi always served to pique his curiosity and grab his attention. That the voice was so close only served to make sure that the masked ninja would near instantly hone in on it. Once he did, he was left blinking in surprise as her wondered how it was he didn’t notice her there earlier. After a moment he decided that he didn’t really care, it was comfortable, and he was pretty sure he knew why he was waking up next to her.

The issue he was finding had much more to do with the fact that his students were still in the house. Mix in the fact that Naruto rarely seemed to be able to be quiet and Kakashi was faced with a minor dilemma. He could wake Airi up, and progress with his day as he had planned yesterday, or he could stay here and almost certainly have the rest of team seven walk in on them.

It takes him only a handful of seconds to decide his course of action. He was going to do both, stay in bed and go about his day as mostly planned, by making use of clones. His plan of action chosen he silently set about making it happen. Step one was making a single shadow clone without the normal poof of smoke and pop of sound.

Step two was switching places with it by use of the Substitution Jutsu, a technique he had long since mastered. The trick was making sure that Airi wasn’t woken up by the switch, so rather than remove her grip form his shirt he just left it behind while his clone kept his place.

Steps three and four involved Kakashi getting ready for the day as normal, albeit minus a shower and adding in fresh bandages. Then, after making another clone, which would also be ready for the day as his first was simply a clone of him from waking up, he would once again prepare for laying down, while the clone would get ready to wake up his students.

Step five was Kakashi would once again swap places with his first clone, using the Substitution Jutsu once again, before having that clone silently dispel itself. The feedback from the first clone dispelling was the sign for the second clone to set about with the original plans for the day. While the original just made himself comfortable, wrapping an arm around Airi as he did so.

All in all it took him at most five minutes to do this. And anyone who figured out would likely just stare in bafflement at the blatant misuse of a dangerous technique and deception of his team all for the sake of sleeping in and not getting caught with Airi in his bed.

Kakashi, on the other hand, would think it was a rather inspired plan. Besides it would keep him from having a clone shadow her all day, as well as make sure that they would be able to talk in private without the disruptions and distractions that the rest of team seven would cause.

Because they needed to have a private conversation, for a couple of reasons really.