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WARNING: Het and Slash, Yes, this is another slash, m/m coupling fic. Turn back now. Please read no further and do not flame me if you are not a fan of Yaoi or Slash. If you've read this, you've been duly warned.
Please pardon some of the strange formatting. FFnet's formatting thing seems to like to make document formatting a pain and screwy.
SLIGHTLY REVISED VERSION (5/10/2008)
Pairing: (eventual) Iruka/Kakashi
Mizuki is also in the story. Things are a little on the AU side.
Summary: What's a girl to do? She needs her best friend. Best friends are always the maid of honor. Iruka happens to be that friend. Too bad nothing he says or does will convince her that he's a guy and can't possibly be her maid of honor. On top of all of that though; she's also determined to see her dear friend hooked up with someone and in wedded bliss. Feelings begin to grow between Kakashi and Iruka but Kakashi has a lot of rivals for Iruka's affections at the top of the list are Mizuki, an OC, and of course possessive Naruto and his little bunch of followers who call him Boss, you know who, Konohamaru and his little gang of delinquents, that's who! Ha!
Silly Fic dead ahead.
SLIGHTLY REVISED VERSION (5/10/2008) CHAPTER ONE
The Mission's Desk was a place of activity and the hub of gossip. Iruka wasn't expecting his best friend Kagome and long time crush to show up and announce her proposal, her engagement, and her up coming wedding day, in that order, all in one explosive breath.
Iruka was stunned. He wasn't ready to let her go. They'd been friends since childhood since before genin and the academy and his orphan days. He'd always believed that he would someday be the one she would marry.
"Will you be my maid of honor?"
There was utter silence in the room. Genma almost lost his senbon. His jaw hung open in shock.
"Well I….well that is…." Stuttered Iruka. I'm a guy! Can a guy even be a bride's made, let alone the made of honor?
She knows I'm a guy, doesn't she?
Flashes of their childhood made an appearance at the forefront of his consciousness.
Flash
Two young children hanging out together in a field of yellow flowers. Iruka dressed in a feminine style kimono girly pink and decorated in sakura blossom designs. Flowers as well as ribbons decorated their long dark brown locks.
"Ru-chan!" squee and giggle. Small hands encompassed other small hands in a warm clasp. Smiles of great joy and open love in their young expressive faces there was nothing the two of them loved more than one another and spending time with each other.
Another Flash
Another girly kimono, this time in yellow. The two youth were flower picking, and their hair this time was styled by chopsticks. One loved his chopsticks because they were practical. He could have ramen at a moment's notice and use his chopsticks out of his hair just as quickly.
This time Iruka was helping Kagome with a make believe picnic. They were pretending they were ninjas infiltrating some special function with lord and ladies in attendance. One of them their target, to be assassinated by a special poison flower.
Another Flash of memory
Long hair. Always long hair and kimonos. Thought little Iruka sourly. He was so tired of being dressed like a girl. He was not a kunoichi.
"Mama! I'm a boy!" little Iruka whined ready for a full on tantrum throwing fit. He was tired of people mistaking him for a girl. He was a boy. And it was his Birthday.
His special day.
It was time people took him seriously. He was nine years old now. He was a boy!
Suddenly the door was flung open as his two best friends stormed in Kagome-chan and Mizuki-kun, they looked thrilled and excited to be spending the night and celebrating their best friend's birthday.
"Ru-chan, I hope you like the barrettes and the bracelet's I got you." Cried Kagome happily.
Mizuki-kun scowled. "Now you've ruined his present. Don't worry though." Mizuki smirked. "You'll never guess what I got you, Iruka-chan."
Iruka blushed. Mizuki always had that affect on him. He couldn't explain why it was Mizuki had that affect on him. He liked Mizuki and admired him. Mizuki was so bright, and kind, and fun to be around; not that Kagome-chan wasn't wonderful, but she wasn't a boy like he and Mizuki.
Hours later the Sleepover was in full swing. Iruka like Kagome was dressed in a frilly night gown (another gift from his mom) while Mizuki was dressed in pajamas in camouflage colors. Mizuki was so cool!
Iruka clutched a stuffed dolphin (Mizuki's gift) in a death grip as terrible and frightening ghost stories were told and pranks were pulled after the lights went out and their movies were ended for the night.
End memory flashes.
The present.
"Ru-chan, please!" begged Kagome. "You have to say yes! You're my best friend."
"Kagome-chan, you do know I'm a boy right?" asked Iruka, seriously.
Kagome blinked, then laughed. "Oh, you, Ru-chan, same old Ru-chan, always with the joking." She tittered and giggled. "I've missed that most about you and it's what I love so much about you! So you're a little on the masculine side and your breasts never quite grew in, pish posh! Haven't I always said you shouldn't be so self conscious?"
Iruka was denied a replying opportunity as Kagome continued to talk.
"I have the perfect kimono picked out for you and everything. We'll do up your hair and put some make up on and you'll have the men falling at your feet, or girls if that's your flavor. You know, I love you Ru-chan and if you're gay that's all right with me."
Iruka sputtered and tried to protest while loitering jounin and missions' desk chunin watched the spectacle unfold. Iruka looked around at every single one of his co-workers in a panic. "That's not.. Kagome-chan!" he protested but was cut off as Kagome continued to talk over him and yanked him out of his chair dragging him away from his responsibilities by the wrist.
"We'll go shopping and get you the right feminine outfits and before too much longer someone will snatch you up. Now come on. I have someone I want you to meet, my fiancé and another man I talked to about you, if you want he could be your date! He's a great guy, a jounin, even!"
She continued blithely to drag Iruka away ignoring his protests and the bystanders who were by turns either laughing or staring in shock. Their gossip quota was met in spades that day. Iruka would never live it down. The shinobi at the Hokage tower were determined to make good on the information that had just fallen into their laps. Iruka had bossed them all around and played tricks on them all of their lives and now it was time for a little pay back. This kind of thing only came around once every blue moon or so, they'd be fools not to use it to their advantage. Shinobi grinned and cackled madly as each one of them daydreamed about their one moment of boss-free Iruka bliss!
Iruka was floundering and flabbergasted. Horribly embarrassed that his best friend thought he was a girl and soon he was being forced into women's and kunoichi outfits against his will.
"I haven't even agreed to being your made of honor yet!" he protested half heartedly.
Once Kagome made up her mind about something she was impossible to persuade from her chosen course. Prime example the fact she still thought he was a girl instead of a boy and she would not listen to facts or note the evidence. She was good at self delusion like Maito Guy.
"Oh Iruka-Chan you must, you have to!"
Iruka sighed and bowed to his fate. He never could say no to her.
TBC
Have recently watched the film: The Iron Man with Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow. I found the film to be spectacular. And I don't say that very often about Marvel turned Films very often.