AN: Written for a prompt at the kakairu_kink meme at livejournal; it was of a fanart depicting Kakashi and Iruka skinny-dipping in the night. Here's the link: http: // www 14. atpages. jp/ noeen/ ura/ urara/ 0303 . html
Remove the spaces; I really hope it works that way.
S T A R G A Z I N G (stars in the water stars in your eyes)
We creep out like children into the life of night,
like mischievous boys on a mission
for fun.
to the edge of the sleeping quiet town; all is well here
all is well there
and all is well at the gates.
We sneak past the guards
(you want to paint circles of shoe-polish around their eyes; a lesson of vigilance, you claim,
but there's no time for that.)
And we snicker like children
like mischievous boys on a mission
towards the Pool of Silent Wonder.
That is the name the children
(the real children, the children that live in the daytime)
call it.
The water is dark and still when we get there
and high above our heads
the stars blaze like beauty. They rain down love.
Take off your clothes; you say this even as you remove your own.
And for that moment, we are innocent as children and there is nothing
about our utter nudity that bothers me.
(Later in the day, you will grin at me when handing over your reports;
I will remember the way the dark water licked lovingly at your pale skin
and I'll feel warm all over.)
There are stars in the water;
you show me them as we sit together, the long grass tickling my back and neck.
There are stars in the water and when you raise your leg,
constellations glitter around your ankles
and galaxies reside in between your toes.
There's a shooting star on your knee!
There are stars in the water.
When you turn to me and lean close,
there are stars in your eyes when you smile.
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