Kakashi's had a hard life, from school, to family and friends and now his love life. His band's been doing just fine and now there on the verge of a major record deal. But Kakashi starts falling in love, not with his best friend Rin, but with a Junior, Iruka. Asuma thinks that he should go for it, that life is short enough as it is when you have to doubt your own heart. However some people think different.
Character Listing:
Kakashi: Age 17Asuma: Age 17
Iruka: Age 16
Gai: Age 17
Kurenai: Age 17
Naruto: Age 4
Arashi: 4th Hokage is alive
Sakumo: Is alive as well
Obito: Age 17
Rin: Age 17
Chapter One BZZZZ BZZZZ BZZZZA pale hand slid out from under the blankets before finally flicking the off switch on the alarm clock. Raising his head slightly to check the time, Kakashi groaned before pulling his duvet over his head. It being only 7:30, he didn't need to be up for another hour at least. He rolled over, and was soon fast asleep once more.
Seconds later, it seemed, Kakashi awoke to an annoying banging on his door. Pulling the blanket over his head, he shouted incoherently at the assaulter.
"Kakashi!" Sakumo's voice filtered through the door. "Get up! It's ten to nine."
A muffled groan, which sounded suspiciously like 'screw off' was Sakumo's only reply. The elder Hatake sighed, running a hand through his silver hair before pushing his son's door open, and approaching the bed. Stepping over piles of Kakashi's both dirty and clean clothes, garbage, and some questionable books and magazines, Sakumo pulled his son's blanket off him. When Kakashi still made no signs of getting up, Sakumo grabbed onto Kakashi's ankles and pulled him off the bed with a yelp from the teen. Kakashi pulled him self into a sitting position, and glanced at his Father. Sakumo didn't leave the room until Kakashi had stood up and started pulling on a pair of jeans.
Another 15 minutes showed Kakashi running out of the old, run-down house slinging a backpack over his shoulders with a piece of toast shoved into his mouth.
-ignorance-
"Why are you always late?" Asuma whispered to Kakashi as the pale teen slid into the seat next to him.
"You know better than to ask that, Asuma." Kakashi whispered back with a grin.
"Kakashi, you're disrupting the class by walking in late, I don't need you distracting Asuma from his work." Mr. Hopfner, the Applied Math teacher, snapped, standing before the two teens.
After glaring at the two teens well after they had started their trigonometry, Hopfner turned and stalked back to his desk. Asuma glanced over to Hopfner and after making sure he wasn't looking, passed the folded piece of paper onto Kakashi's binder.
To Kakashi: So what's your excuse this time?
Kakashi rolled his eyes, smirking over at Asuma, before scribbling out his reply.
To Asuma: What's my excuse everyday, dumbass? Oh, and next time you come to my house and eat my breakfast, I'ma beat yo' head in.
It took a whole five minutes before Asuma could decipher Kakashi's chicken scratch. It took another five minutes for Asuma to pass the note because Hopfner kept looking in his and Kakashi's direction.
To Kakashi: Sorry. You were taking too long, so your Dad offered it to me. I always love second breakfast… and, dude, lay off the chicken scratch.
To Asuma: What're you talking about? My writing's very legible. Just because you write like a girl.
Anyway, when are we supposed to be at the club?
To Kakashi: I do not write like a girl! You take that back Hatake!
And we're supposed to be there by 6:30.
Kakashi was unable to give Asuma his reply until nearly the end of class.
Kakashi and Asuma left their first class and began conversing over a play list for the club, when a girl Asuma had been crushing on walked past him and distracted his listening.
"Earth to Asuma. She's got a boyfriend." Kakashi rolled his eyes. "I think we'll play 'Always Gone' with 'Pushy Tongues' for opening and close. What do you think?"
"Huh? Always Pushy, sure." Asuma closed his locker door for a split second while Kakashi strolled into their next class, with a very attractive female teacher, Ms. Loriz.
"Asuma are you even listening? Errr." Kakashi smacked him upside the head and drew him to his seat by the collar of his shirt.
"Oh, right… the club tonight. Uh… I'll get the playlist from Gai tonight." Asuma stretched out in his chair, the legs screeching on the linoleum floor.
"Riiiiight, I forgot he's been working on that this week." Kakashi rolled his eyes. "He better not've written any love songs to himself again."
Asuma cocked an eyebrow at the teacher, trying to hit on her. "Hey Hatake, you think the hot teacher would go out with a student?"
"Asuma!" Kakashi blinked, but let out a long sigh and sat back on the 2 legs of his chair. The legs slipped and the chair fell out from under him and tossed him to the floor. 'Great. Second time I've landed this way in the past 3 hours.'
Asuma spent the next five minutes laughing at the now slightly bruised Kakashi. Glaring at Asuma, Kakashi's open fist soon collided with the back of Asuma's head.
"Alright boys, that's enough." Ms Loriz scolded, standing before Asuma and Kakashi's table. The two muttered a 'sorry' and she walked away, Asuma's eyes fixed on her backside. Kakashi shook his head. 'Idiot…'
-Lunch-
Asuma and Kakashi met up with Gai at the lunch table. Gai, of course was dressed in his customary tight jeans and T-shirt. Kakashi sat down across from Asuma as he took a seat beside Gai. As Asuma finished fishing his Oreo's from the paper bag, Kakashi expertly snuck Asuma's ham and cheese sandwich out and began munching away. He, himself had forgotten his own lunch since he had woken late. Besides, Mrs. Sarutobi always made the best sandwiches.
"Hello, my youthful followers! How does this wonderful spring day find you?" Gai exclaimed, giving the two his infamous 'Good Guy' grin.
Kakashi stopped in mid bite of "his" sandwich, while Asuma cocked an eyebrow, his Oreo halfway to his slightly open mouth.
"Gai… this is why you don't have a girlfriend." Kakashi stated in his 'I'm-mocking-you-like-I-would-a-size-year-old' voice.
Gai pouted lightly before sitting down next to Asuma and pulling out his own lunch.
"So, Gai, how's the … DAMMIT! Who stole my sandwich!" Asuma screeched, standing up and looking around. His glare landed on Kakashi who held a none too convincing innocent look.
"Hatake…" Asuma growled in a dangerous tone.
"Now, now, Asuma. No need to – GYAH!" Kakashi yelped as he slipped backwards off the bench and ran out of the cafeteria, Asuma hot on his trail.
"Well, there they go again." Gai sighed, turning back to his lunch, munching through his food. He looked at the table beside his, seeing a few girls a year younger than him. "I wonder if any of them would go out with me…?"