Title : In Her Eyes
Genre: General/Romance
Rating: PG
Disclaimer : Not mine.
Summary : Sakura's thoughts about her sensei's love life
Pairings: KakaIru
Author's Note :
Betaed by bronzetigress from KakaIru LJ. Thanks dear:)
I'm not an experienced writer and this's the FIRST TIME I've ever written a short kakairu one shot. (The other one is The Kunoichi's Heart, a mega long story. U can find it in my profile page) Be gentle please.
- Izky, MD
IN HER EYES
Sometimes she wonders.
Being the female teenager she is, she always imagines how the face under that black mask looks.
Having been taught by him and having worked on the same team – even after Sasuke's disappearance and his return – for years, she often wonders how come she or Naruto or Sasuke never manage to see what Kakashi-sensei looks like under that familiar mask.
Is he good-looking? So good-looking that he hides under that mask? To avoid being hunted by his fan club (which recently she learned about from the gossiping female jounins) maybe?
Or is he so ugly that he is ashamed to show his face before everyone? (Ashamed and Kakashi-sensei….. two words which Sakura never ever used in the same sentence before, wow.)
Or is it simply because he loves the mysteriousness and the curiosity it's caused?
Knowing Kakashi-sensei, maybe it's the last one.
Still, she often wonders what kind of female would be interested in her sensei (and vice versa), whose face is (always) more than three quarters covered by a mask? And who spends twelve hours a day reading that Icha-icha porn under his nose?
She imagines a woman who's beautiful, sexy, with the kind of gorgeous body that she thinks would be in the Icha-Icha book her sensei always reads. She guesses that sensei likes that kind of woman. If not, why else are his eyes always glued to that book?
Still, that thought brings a very disturbing image of her Tsunade-shishou kissing the said jounin.
She can't look at either of her sensei for two days straight after that particular image.
When she asks her teammates, both guys just blink back at her. One with his blank look. The other with his –huh-did-you-say-something?-look.
"A jounin with his status thinks more about his mission than his social love life, Sakura. You realize that."
"Huh? Who wants to marry who?"
She just sighed at both responses, having predicted them as usual. Although growing more and more handsome nowadays, both her guys are still just useless in this kind of thing.
It's sad actually, even after working in the same team for years, how little they know about their silver-haired sensei. They know him well, yes, as long as it's mission-related of course. Still, there are only a few facts that aren't mission-related they know.
He always comes late, except for a mission. He reads porn. He hates tempura. He has a dry sense of humor.
That's it.
Where does he live? Does he have a family? What's his hobby besides reading Icha-icha? Is he married?
That last question particularly disturbs her more than she lets on.
Reading from the official documents, she knows he's 31 years old. Young enough to be still active in piles of A or S-missions. Yet old enough to get married and have kids of his own. It is a shinobi's village after all.
Even with the mask in place, she just knows that he's handsome. His figure is lean, smooth, but packed with muscles enough to do 1000 push ups every day. His silver hair is always falling in the right way, covering his left eye as his right one stares deeply at you, filled with an unknown past and surprising wisdom. She often wonders how that single eye surprisingly always manages to show people what his expression is, considering how little of his face is visible.
Still, being the girl she is, she just knows more than enough kunoichis who set their eyes on her sensei's figure every time they pass the mission room.
Kurenai-san is her first bet. Her red eyes, particularly after Asuma-sensei's death, stare longingly at Kakashi's back. Still, Sakura knows that her sensei never answers them, honoring his dead friend and their unborn child.
Shizune-san always blushes whenever they go into the Hokage's office, to give reports of the A-missions they manage to finish. Still, Kakashi-sensei never says a word about that, eyes dropping low as usual at the Hokage's words.
Anko-san just winks suggestively at him for a reason that until now she never understood. They have just take a mission from the desk staff (and manage a short chat with Genma-san and Iruka-sensei) when the purple-haired woman pats his shoulder. "As usual, eh, Kakashi?"
She knows there are several more kunoichis that cross paths with him. Yet she has never seen any kunoichis that have held her sensei's eye for more than a few seconds besides those three. (She doesn't dare to imagine Tsunade-shishou- it's just…eww…)
Maybe her sensei isn't interested in a kunoichi then? Maybe it's… …. a civilian?
It makes sense to her, really. For a jounin of his status, it's considered dangerous to reveal any relationships openly. And he has enough shinobi life in his without adding another. Maybe that's why he instead chooses to be with a civilian and hide her from prying eyes, particularly (& hopefully) those of his enemies.
She has just decided to find out more about this civilian theory when suddenly an ANBU appears before her and her team in the middle of their training.
"He's wounded. In the hospital. Godaime-sama said to find you and tell you to meet her at the hospital first."
The ANBU barely finishes his words before their sensei vanishes in smoke.
Being curious as they are, the three of them follow their sensei. To the hospital.
Who is this 'he' anyway?
It's a great shock for them (especially Naruto) when they see their current sensei sitting beside a bed where their ex-academy sensei's sleeping.
"Kakashi-sensei!? What's happened to Iruka-sensei?" Naruto cries out, rushing over to the other side of bed.
"Iruka-sensei…? How…?" She manages to walk and stand beside Kakashi-sensei, followed by Sasuke when the door suddenly opens.
"Geez….Kakashi. I told you to meet me first." Tsunade, scowl in place, walks into the room and stands before their sitting sensei.
"How is he?"
She's surprised to hear the worry and panic in his usual emotionless lazy tone. A quick look at both of her teammates confirms that she isn't the only one who notices that.
Tsunade sighs, brushing the long strands of brown hair on the pillow. She has rarely ever seen her shishou show her caring side more than necessary to the patients (Being Hokage and the best medic is very time consuming & tiring, Sakura realized that). Apparently, Iruka-sensei is an exception.
"He's fine. A few kunais nearly pierced his right lung. A few broken ribs and a concussion. And he spent nearly all his chakra. Fortunately, we managed to stabilize him. He'll be fine in a week or so."
"Who?" She can feel the chakra swirling slowly around her unmoving sensei. There is a tension in his laid back posture.
"Three Rock jounins. He killed them all, Kakashi. It was an A-mission, classified."
Her eyes widen at that. Three jounins? A-mission? Her eyes turn back to the unconscious man before them. As far as she knows, Iruka-sensei is rarely out of the academy, being busy with his students, and only goes on a mission if they were short-staffed or something. And here he is, in hospital after successfully killing three jounins in A-rank missions?
The same shock in Sasuke and Naruto's eyes tells her they're surprised by the news as well.
Tsunade, understanding their shocked faces, just sighs. "Don't look too surprised, kids. Iruka's one of the best chuunins we have. He's on jounin level, but he always refused to take jounin exams. He's used to these missions, right Kakashi?"
Their sensei just nods, silent as his solemn single eye never leaves the unconscious man before him. Hearing Tsunade's explanation, Sakura can see someof the tension leave his body, but he's still as stiff as a board.
"How long until he'll be awake?"
Tsunade just pats his shoulder, "Maybe in a day or two. You can take him home after that. Make sure he gets well rested at home, okay?"
"What's all of this got to do with Kakashi-sensei, Tsunade-baachan?" Naruto voices the question they have really want to ask since they entered the room.
Tsunade in return only blinks back at the three of them, disbelief in her next words. "Huh? You don't know? Both of them are living together."
Huh? Live together?
Kakashi-sensei and Iruka-sensei? They're so opposite of each other that she is surprised that they managed to meet each other, much less live together. She even could describe in detail what differences both senseis have from each other to support that fact.
When Kakashi-sensei has a tendency to be late for everything, Iruka-sensei always manages to come on time for everything.
Kakashi-sensei always loves to read that porn with the same bored expression when Iruka-sensei will blush so hard at reading the mere first page of that book which Naruto insisted on giving him as a birthday gift a few years ago.
Kakashi-sensei is a jounin, trained to hide his emotions under that expression of his when Iruka-sensei is always free to let out his temper every time the students play pranks in class. (Oh yes, she still remembers that particular fact)
Kakashi-sensei is so unpredictable, doing anything anywhere he likes without telling them the reasons. In contrast, Iruka-sensei is so organized, doing everything from the very start until the very end and he always twitches at the slightest disturbance of his carefully planned out class.
There are so many other differences between them that she doesn't bother to count anymore.
But, the point is… Kakashi-sensei is a jounin, ex-ANBU, the copy nin, the genius who has mastered more than one thousand jutsus. He kills so many S-criminals and lives to tell it. Sakura even won't be surprised if in the next few years he'll reach the level of the the Sannin like Tsunade-shishou or Jiraiya-san.
She doesn't understand how a genius extraordinaire shinobi like him finds himself beside an academy teacher, chuunin, normal shinobi like Iruka-sensei., much less live together with him as roommates.
It's two days later that she finally realizes the reason, having seen it herself.
The careful and tender ways her sensei handles the still unconscious man. The way his eyes curve as those familiar brown eyes finally open and look at all of them. The slight brush of the paler hands against those tan ones.
She's never imagined her sensei to be interested in guys. It's just that…it's like imagining Sasuke would fall in love with….Naruto…or Shikamaru with… Kiba…
…
…
It's hot actually. She ignores that part.
At least, she knows now that her sensei has a crush on his supposed roommate. His handsome roommate.
She's finally aware of how handsome her academy sensei is, having –finally- a chance to look at that brown hair – without its usual hair tie – falling down around that smiling face as he greets them after finally waking up a few minutes earlier. She has to wonder why Iruka-sensei never goes outside like that.
She glances back at both of her teammates. Both of them have a similiar slight blush on their cheeks as they greet the waking older chuunin.
"Thank you for visiting me, Naruto-kun. Sasuke-kun. Sakura-chan. But I'm fine now." The chuunin brushes his nose sheepishly, smiling at them.
The effect is so downright adorable that Sakura barely manages to keep herself from squealing and jumping into her academy sensei's lap. Sasuke and Naruto's blushes grow redder and redder by the second.
Kakashi-sensei, apparently aware of the situation, just sighs and gives the sensei a hair tie. "Iruka, tie your hair please."
The younger sensei, much to her (and the boys') disappointment, does what his roommate said and smiles back at the older man. "Thank you, Kakashi."
It is in that short moment that Sakura finally could see why her extraordinary sensei chooses the brown haired chuunin.
It shows in his dark brown eyes and his smile, shining brightly toward the silver haired jounin himself. It's similar to the ones Iruka-sensei gives to his students, but it's still different.
It is pure love.
She isn't surprised when the jounin answers it with –oblivious to Sasuke and Naruto's gaping mouths – a soft masked kiss on the sensei's cheek.
"Anytime, Ruka."
And she smiles.
You're extremely lucky, sensei.
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The End
A/N :
What do u think? I like Sakura. She's one of my favorite characters in Naruto. It's a bit sad that some people hate her simply because her ignoring Naruto before time skip. People change u know. -sad-
And don't forget, please review….. Let me know what u think of this little story ... -bows-
- Izky, MD