At Hokage Café
Chapter 1:
It was Saturday! Kakashi hated Saturdays! There were always so many people at the café that day. That resulted in him getting more work. And what teenager actually liked to work?
Kakashi didn't like it, Gai didn't like and Obito sure didn't like it. Rin thought it was okay, but she didn't like it either. Being sixteen sure was a pain. They were too old to not have a job, but too young for anyone to give them an okay job! Not that Kakashi hated working there.
He had always loved Hokage Café. He had come there every day for as long as he could remember. The owner of the café, Tsunade, was married to his uncle Jiraya. That was why he had gotten the job in the first place. Since his father had taken him there since he was a kid he had helped sometimes and eventually it became his job.
Gai started working there a couple of years ago. He was annoying, yes, but really helpful. The customers there knew Kakashi and Gai well and liked how they always competed about everything. It was a good show every time!
Rin got a job there because she was saving up for a vacation to America. Since she had been a customer there for many years, Tsunade gave her the job. Obito didn't want to work at all, but after he ruined the window in the cafeteria at their school, he had to get a job so he could pay for the damage. He wouldn't have to work there for more than two months, but when he found out Rin was going to work there too, he kept the job.
So even though none of them liked working they loved the place. It was like a second home for them! Maybe except for Kakashi; it was like his first home since he worked there every day after school and was hardly home at all!
The café, or the Hokage as most people called it, was a very cosy place. The lights were always a bit dimmed, it smelled of coffee and brownies, and the music that was played there was from the 80s. Kakashi loved all of those things! Especially coffee Gai had noticed. He started to think his friend was coffee addicted.
The only people working there were those four and Tsunade herself. Jiraya said he would be happy to help, but he needed to do research for his books. Everybody knew that was just a lie, but no one really cared to say anything. It took too much time to convince him to do anything at all.
Usually there weren't many people at the Hokage. Except those damned Saturdays! But even though they had a hell of a lot to do, they always manage to entertain.
Obito didn't even mean to! He was just so damn clumsy and stupid he managed to make people laugh. Like when someone ordered something like soda and he didn't hear it, he would say, 'What, Yoda?' Kakashi swore his friend watched Star Wars and superhero movies too much. Everything could be assassinated with stuff like that through Obito.
Rin was very good at singing, so she used the karaoke stage to entertain. When she had a lot to do she sang while she worked. The customers loved her voice and thought she was very cute. Every time someone smiled at her, she would smile back. She could also force herself to blush to make herself even cuter.
Kakashi and Gai made up competitions all the time, even when they were very busy. They also took requests from the customers for what they could compete about. It could be anything! They were told to compete about who could make Hokage Coffee the fastest once. Kakashi won and the time he had used, twenty-three seconds, was still a record at the Hokage. Gai tried to break that record, but didn't manage to do so.
But all in all they hated Saturdays. They truly did! When they got home they all fell asleep on the couch in their living room. It was such a pain to work! But this Saturday was different! Kakashi wouldn't hate it that much. All right, at first he thought it was just another painful day of work, but later he would realise how great it was.
Because that Saturday a boy named Iruka Umino entered Hokage Café for the first time.
It wasn't that Iruka had never known the café was there. Everybody knew about it! It was just that his parents didn't want him to go to 'such filthy low-life' places. Iruka's parents were among the richest in Konoha. This meant they only went to fancy restaurants, but Iruka was a teenager and wanted to go to places other teenagers went to.
So that evening Iruka had said he would visit Genma so that he could visit the Hokage. Genma's family was just like Iruka's, so he had wanted to go to the Hokage as well. He had been there before with Raidou, but he agreed that he would go there with Iruka.
And now that Iruka had gone through the door to the café, he understood why everybody loved the place so much; the walls were dark brown, the ceiling and the floor were crimson red and the lights dimmed. It looked so stress less!
Stress less wasn't the correct word to describe the kitchen! Obito managed to burn the brownies, Rin burned her hand when she tried to put up the fire he had set, and Tsunade found out she was never going to let Gai boil water again; the water was all of the floor now.
Tsunade told Gai to clean up the mess he had made. He gave her one of his 'Yosh!' and got to work. Obito had to help Rin with her hand. Since he was busy doing that, Kakashi had to put out the fire in the micro oven. Then again, if Obito had done that it would probably explode.
Luckily for them Tsunade knew Obito and Gai were idiots so she had a back-up micro. She had a back-up everything actually. The smoke from the burnt brownies filled the kitchen. Gai opened the window and stuck his head out. Obito and Rin joined him. Kakashi went out of the kitchen to the café.
The first thing he saw was a boy at his age. He was a bit short, with dark skin and hair, and way too big clothes. The boy was looking at him. Then he noticed the smoke coming from the kitchen.
"Um… what's going on in there?" he asked. Kakashi turned his head to look over his shoulder.
"Looks like it's burning," he said with no worry in his voice at all. "Don't worry, it happens all the time."
Then he went into the kitchen again, to help the others clean up. Genma came over to Iruka.
"What's up?" he asked when he saw that Iruka was staring where Kakashi had been standing moments before.
"Oh, nothing," Iruka answered and smiled to his friend. "Hey, Genma, who's the albino working here?"
"Oh, that's Kakashi Hatake," Genma said. "One of the coolest guys ever. He goes to our school."
That was what Iruka had thought. He had had a feeling he had seen him before. Not that he would have much trouble remember albinos anyways, but that guy seemed to be more important to remember than other albinos. So he attended his school?
After twenty minutes the kitchen was all right again. Gai came out and told all the customers that they shouldn't worry at all. Not that they did anyways since they were all used to trouble at the Hokage. Instead of worrying they cheered. They always did that when something had been fixed. This was at least once every Saturday.
"We did have some accidents though," Gai said. "So if you find Rin's finger in a brownie it's Obito's fault."
Iruka looked at Genma.
"Is he serious?" he asked. Genma shrugged.
"I'm not sure," he said. "You never know when Gai and Kakashi are serious or not. What do you want?"
Iruka told him and Genma ordered two brownies and two cups of cacao of Rin. She smiled her cute smile and went off to the kitchen. Iruka and Genma sat down in a corner.
"Hey, do you think I have a chance on her?" Genma asked and nodded his head towards the kitchen door. Iruka shrugged. He didn't even know her. Ten minutes later Kakashi came with their brownies and cacao. Iruka looked at him.
Kakashi was very pale of course, with a messy bush of white hair. He was very tall and thin and had grey eyes. Well, the right eye was. The left eye was closed and had a scar down from above his eyebrow to the corner of his mouth. Iruka was sure he wasn't able to open that eye anymore.
He wore a black t-shirt, black pants and a black apron from the middle down to his ankles. The colour made him look even paler. He would have looked almost dead if it hadn't been for him smiling. Iruka also noticed that Kakashi's left arm was bandaged.
"Genma?" Iruka said after Kakashi had left. "You know a lot about everybody, right? Does that guy hurt himself a lot?"
He nodded his head to Kakashi. Genma looked like he was deep in thought. The only problem about that was that Genma was never deep in thought. People sometimes wondered how he was supposed to take over the family business. Genma was too lazy and stupid. He said so himself.
"Yes, I believe so," Genma said when he was done thinking. "He says himself that he, Gai and Obito hang out after school and do what Gai saw on Jackass the day before. I believe they do."
Iruka laughed a bit. Three teenagers being stupid enough to do what TV showed them? Seem reliable. Also since the TV said they shouldn't do it.
Tem minutes later the two of them went outside to go home to Genma's. Just when they left they could hear a lot of people cheering for Kakashi and Gai. The competition for he evening was to see who balance most glasses on the top of their head. Apparently Gai won and Kakashi ruined seven glasses. The last thing they heard when they walked away from the place was Tsunade yelling.
So this was a normal night at Hokage Café? Iruka knew now he had to go back. No matter what it cost him he would go back!
At the same time Kakashi, Gai and Obito did everything to get away from the place. They had been working non-stop the entire day and were now sick of listening to Tsunade yelling about lots of stuff. Rin had already left because she had behaved and was very nice.
Obito told Tsunade that he hadn't ruined any of the glasses by balancing them on the top of his head. Tsunade said that it was impossible for him to do so since he apparently hadn't brought his head to work that day, and reminded him that he had blown up a micro oven. That shut him up.
It took the boys half an hour to clean the mess they had made up. After that Tsunade said they could leave. They were tired, sure, but they ran away from the café anyways. They wanted to get away from anything that ad to do with work!
Kakashi knew he would have to work again when he got home; he would have to clean the apartment and make dinner. Not that he minded that work at all.
At ten o'clock that night Kakashi went to bed.
"I don't wanna go back there tomorrow," he muttered into his pillow for no reason.
"I'm so going back there tomorrow," Iruka said happily for no reason at the same time. He fell asleep a few seconds later, at the same time Kakashi did on the other side of the village.
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A/N: Yes, here's a new fan fiction about KakaIru. I know I'm doing 'The New Legend of Houkou' too, but this AU has been on my mind forever. I just had to start on it!
It's a bit shorter than I would want, but the chapters will be longer. It's just that I've been working on a café today and I'm so tired! I couldn't write more if I tried! Yes, I worked on a café. Funny, isn't it?
I hope you guys liked this. I'll write more soon.