Theme: Candy Cane
"Not so much! I'm going to look deformed!"
Iruka heaved a long-suffering sigh. "I warned you."
"Maa, but…" One of Kakashi's hands was wrapped around Iruka's wrist in a desperate attempt to control the damage, and he flapped the other to illustrate his point. "I thought it was more of a token protest." His voice slipped into a cracking falsetto. "'I can't concentrate when you're reading that stuff aloud to me' and 'I have grading to finish, Kakashi, don't touch me there.'"
Iruka's frosty gaze met his in the mirror. "Is that supposed to me?" The tone held a dangerous undercurrent. "You sound like a twelve-year-old girl. You do realize that I have a pair of scissors in your hair right now, don't you?" He cocked his head to the side pensively. "I do wonder how long it would take you to notice if I clipped you bald back here?"
Kakashi twisted frantically, tightening his grip on Iruka's wrist and hauling the scissors away from the silver strands.
"Oh, relax, hold still and stop whining." A few snips and the offending bit of striped candy fell free.
"I can't believe you got a candy cane stuck in my hair." Kakashi pouted.
"You're the one who tackled me when I was eating it. I even told you not to!" The sweet now had a fine coat of fur, and Iruka made a face at it before tossing it into the garbage.
"My hair better not have any red stripes it in."
Iruka ruffled the slightly matted section that he'd cut the candy from. Hopefully Kakashi wouldn't realize that, with the trajectory they'd taken when they fell, Iruka would have had to actively smash the candy cane into his hair.
He had been grading, after all, and he didn't want to be touched there.
Well, at least not until his work was done.
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The Kakairu group on DA is having a 12 Days of Christmas Challenge, so expect 11 more of these Christmas themed shorts!
Hope you like it!