Summery:

When Tsunade finds out Iruka has never had a vacation she decides to give him one, for a month. Needless to say Iruka almost has a heart attack and faints in the mission room in front of a ton of jounin when she gave him the news. Poor Iruka has never had a vacation and doesn't know what to do. Unfortunately the Jounin decided since this was the last day/shift Iruka would be working for a month (he has to finish his shift) to give the poor Chuunin hell. Well all but Anko after all she's the only one who knows the true Iruka (and there's a fine line between teasing him friendly like and ending up a target, plus the famous Sannin was sensei to both of them, but no one knows that) so she ends up safe, Ibiki does too since he has seen Iruka in action down at T&I. So because of all the trouble the jounin have caused him Iruka decides to get even, thus effectively keeping his sanity over his 'vacation'.

Iruka's Vacation

Hokage's Office:

Tsunade was going over files of the current mission desk workers, specifically Iruka Umino's file. Frankly she could tell something was off about the file, but not what it was. Everything looked to be above par. He was never late reporting in for mission room duty, in fact if he was late it was because of parent teacher conferences. He often stayed late to finish filing, and often picked up extra shifts if someone was sick or needed to go on a mission, or just couldn't make it that day. The scarred face chuunin she was beginning to think was a workaholic. Ah maybe that was it. She'd get Shizune to grab his file concerning his academy teaching.

"Shizune!" yelled Tsunade.

"Hai!" Shizune answered running into the office carrying TonTon the pig.

"Get me Iruka Umino's academy teaching file stat!" she ordered.

Shizune left and swiftly returned with the file. Tsunade snatched it out of her hand and quickly poured over it. Ah ha! That was what was wrong. The chuunin had never had a vacation since he became an academy teacher. Well she would fix that. Tsunade stood and strode out of the office and to the mission room. She entered and brushed past the jounin just starting to gather to turn in mission reports. She halted before Iruka and waited. It took less then a minute for him to notice her, and he swiftly rose and bowed saying, "Hokage-sama. What can I help you with?"

"Iruka Umino, You may finish this shift, but then you are going to take a month of vacation."

Iruka paled then rallied quickly, "Do you mean a vacation from the mission room or the academy?"

"Both." A stern Tsunade said.

Iruka went dead white and fainted. Tsunade sighed the chuunin had not taken the idea of a vacation all that well. "Shizune! Get the smelling salt you use for when I pass out drunk." Shizune scurried forward and threw a small packet of smelling salt underneath the passed out chuunin and backed quickly away. Iruka startled violently awake, and to the surprise of everyone present did a small fire jutsu to incinerate the smelling salt packet. He then looked up at Tsunade and said, "Pardon me Hokage-sama. I must have had a dizzy spell and fainted. You were saying?"

Tsunade sighed and braced her hands on her hips and glowered sternly at Iruka, "Umino. You fainted after I told you that you will be taking a month of vacation starting tomorrow from both the mission room and the academy. If I hear a single word of you setting foot in either of these places and working. I'll send you on a mission to mist during monsoon season."

"Is the mist mission a promise? Cause I could so go for that."Iruka replied a hopeful look on his face.

Tsunade face palmed. "Iruka if you actually want a mission to mist during monsoon season say so. I can never find a willing ninja to go. Look whether you like it or not you are going to have a vacation. Understood?"

"Hai, Hokage-sama."Iruka replied, "But the academy is having parent teacher conferences this week. I need to be there for that."

"Iruka Umino! You are not working! Though I can understand about parent teacher conferences, you may of course attend those, however you will not be teaching. Got it?"

A glum and put out chuunin replied, "Hai, Hokage-sama."

"Good!" Tsunade smiled and swept out of the room. Leaving a quiet and depressed chuunin behind, and a bunch of scheming jounin. The jounin were thinking that since it was Iruka's last day for a month, then they should give him something to remember.

Iruka shivered suddenly, he cautiously peeked up at the jounin filling the room and his scalp prickled, they were planning something...shit! Before Iruka could dodge he was hit by a water jutsu soaking him to the skin. The jounin responsible apologized and another offered to dry him off. Before he could decline an icy wind jutsu blasted at him, now he was not only wet but cold and shivering too, as he was about to give those jounin a piece of his mind, a third shouted, "That's not how you do it!" and he proceeded to make hand signs really fast for a fire jutsu. Iruka barely managed to dodge, his desk and paperwork caught on fire though so Iruka threw himself on top of the flames and smothered it. He managed to put out the fire and because he was so wet didn't get burned, but the paperwork was now a blacked mess, and so was he. His famous tick mark appeared but the jounin took no notice, however they did get in line. All in Iruka's line ignoring the other desk chuunin. Iruka tried to send the jounin to the other lines, but they would not listen. They handed him badly written reports, or reports so smudged with other things they were unreadable. Yelling at them to fix the reports didn't help matters they had to be redone three times each. By the time Kakashi reached the front the poor chuunin was ready to have a heart attack. Kakashi however paid no attention to the irate chuunin, just handed in his report and waited for the usual, "Thank-you for your work jounin-san." hold it that wasn't right. Kakashi pulled down his Icha Icha book to view his report sitting in front of Iruka. It look like his always did, so why was Iruka just letting him go? Why wasn't he berating him for being three days late? Not to mention his bad hand writing. Iruka seemed to guess what was on Kakashi's mind when he looked up and saw him standing there, "Look Kakashi-sensei for some reason or other your report is in the best condition I've seen all night. So just this once I'll let you get by." Kakashi unsettled by this soft spoken and slightly defeated sounding chuunin decided to watch and see when the chuunin headed home, and make sure he wasn't sick. Naruto wouldn't forgive him if his favorite academy teacher fell sick, and he didn't help.

Iruka was tired, but he still had to file all those reports, not to mention translate quite a few of them as well. A noise at the door caught his attention, "Anko? What are you doing here?"

"Well Ibiki wanted me to tell you that he couldn't get the nin to crack down at T&I, so report will be late. He said if you wanted to take a crack at it, to come on over. And I came here to help you. I know how to file and translate too you know. And it'll help you get done that much quicker."

"Thanks Anko. I guess you heard I've been given well ordered to take a vacation?"

"Yes and I want to point out that she said you couldn't work in the academy or the mission room. So you could come and help at T&I if you wanted. Or do you want to spar for old times sake?"

"Clever Anko as always. I think a spar would be a good idea. It'll be fun. And then I think I will find a way to get even with those jounin."

"You know I still don't understand why you just don't increase your ranking. Hell Iruka you could easily be a jounin or even Anbu if you wanted."

"Because. I don't want to be like him. By teaching at the academy I don't have to worry about killing frequently and coming to like it. Surely you can understand that?"

"I can, but Iruka you are nothing like him. You are so kind and gentle, I could never see you liking killing."

"Thanks Anko, but lets just drop it." The two ex-teammate finished the filing and translating in peaceful silence before heading companionably over to T&I. Kakashi puzzled by Anko walking with Iruka fallowed silently. What was Iruka doing with Anko? Surely he wasn't that kinky...was he? No! No that was soo wrong. But strangely they were getting along quite nicely, which seemed strange to the perverted jounin. How did the straight laced teacher know the wild and bat shit crazy Anko? Why where they going into the T&I building? Kakashi was going to go crazy with curiosity. And if he didn't cut it out, then he would soon know just why curiosity killed the cat. After waiting an hour, Iruka, Ibiki, and Anko existed T&I. Ibiki clapped Iruka on the shoulder and went off with Anko while Iruka went back to the mission room.

Kakashi shadowed Iruka all the way there and fallowed him all the way to his apartment. He watched through the window as the chuunin walked into his apartment and paused briefly to remove his sandals, after which he flopped down on the sofa and feel asleep. Kakashi sitting in a tree conveniently placed outside Iruka's apartment window (come to think about it there was always a tree placed conveniently outside the window of where ever the chuunin was. You'd think Tenzo had been stalking him.) and frowned in concern. Iruka was the type of guy that would yell at you if you didn't take care of yourself and yet here he was sleeping on a couch without even a blanket. Iruka could catch cold. Come to think of it could the chuunin get a cold? He had never seen Iruka sick, but then again he had never really paid too much attention to the scarred face nin before. But the way the other jounin had acted today and the way Anko had acted as well suggested that there was more to the chuunin then he knew. Anko was wild and insane why hadn't she joined in with the others in making Iruka's mission room shift hell? Why were those jounin behaving that way anyway? Didn't they know that Iruka was his to tease and get all huffed up and angry? Iruka had the most interesting reactions. They were so human, so full of life, something that he the copy-nin could never be. He should ask Tsunade if Iruka could be his touchestone. Hell the chuunin practically was anyway. All it took to get him to feel safe and relaxed and get out of mission mode was one blushing irate chuunin. How an irate chuunin equaled safe he had no idea. It must be the blush. Yeah that was it, the blush that explained it. But first he would ask her what was wrong with Umino.

Kakashi took off over the roofs and towards the Hokage tower, not paying any mind to how late it was. Shizune always made Tsunade finish any paperwork she had received that particular day. This was only on Monday however, not even Shizune was cruel enough to force her Hokage to stay and finish paperwork every single day. He wondered how the famous knuckle-head ninja was going to get around all that paperwork if he became Hokage, he'd have to remember to ask. He finally reached the tower and entered through the window.

"Hatake! What the hell are you doing in my office get out!" Tsunade threw a punch at him and he dodged and held up his hands in a I come in peace sign.

"Mah, Mah, Hokage-sama, I just have a question. A single question! And if I get to ask it I'll show you where Shizune stashed your saki."the copy-nin wheedled.

"Ask."

"Why does Iruka Umino look so...not himself?"

Tsunade sighed, "I really didn't think he would take it this hard." she muttered a little louder she told Kakashi, "I told him to take a month vacation from the mission room and the academy, but that he could finish his shift at the mission room tonight, and that he could attend the parent teacher conferences for the academy but he would not be teaching. Happy Brat? Why do you need to know this anyway?"

"The jounin were giving him hell."

"So?"

"He passed my mission report, without a single complaint."

"Wow. It must have been bad. Shit I should have insisted he leave right then, or told him the news in private. Where's the saki brat?"

"She hid it in TonTon's toys."

"Brat! Keep an eye on Umino. Consider it an unofficial mission. He hasn't had a vacation since he started teaching at the academy and to top it off halfway through his first year he started working in the mission office. I'm a bit worried. If he can't handle a vacation, let me know."

Kakashi nodded and transported in a poof to his apartment. His mind was buzzing with this new information about Iruka.