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And this has Yaoi.. nothing serious just a man loving a man but if you don't like it don't read it and if you do then don't complain.
Why Kakashi is always late
Shortly after Kakashi started training team 7 he also started showing up very late for their training appointments. Although it is true that Kakashi started his nasty habit of being late after Obito died he had never the less never been that late before. In the old days Kakashi would spend about an hour at the memorial stone or lazily make his way to any appointments he had while reading Itcha Itcha novels but lately his tardiness had taken a turn for the worse following a new hobby of his. Iruka stalk… watching.
At first Kakashi had been rather ignorant and sometimes quite annoyed at how much his new students talked about their old sensei but soon the ignorance turned into curiosity and Kakashi decided to see what all the fuss was about with this Iruka chuunin that made him seem more interesting to his students than he himself. Because honestly he was the copy Nin for kami's sake and his students didn't even seem to care! It was all Iruka this and Iruka that.
When he finally went around to the academy to check him out he was pleasantly surprised, Iruka turned out to be that hot shy guy who he loved to torment at the mission desk, those blushes should be illegal. Soon he started to see what everyone else seemed to have seen in the chuunin and eventually more than that. Iruka wasn't just hot and shy, he was a very kind and yet strict teacher, he had a good sense of humor, very good manners and man could that guy be any cuter when he got mad. Kakashi had a very hard time controlling the urge to either drop kick him and ravish him on the spot or simply just pinch him on the cheek and coo at him when he snapped at him before the chuunin exams, of course being who he is the urge to make him even angrier and to deepen the blush took over.
After that incident there was no turning back and Kakashi spent an awful lot of time watching over Iruka. Of course he did this purely out of concern for the man, you never knew when a ninja could be in danger... even once who rarely went out of the village and spent most of their time at the academy, the mission desk or stuffing Naruto with ramen.. the dangers were endless.
Kakashi was highly suspicious of that one little student who always got such good marks on his tests, that kid was way too smart for that age and could therefore be a spy (Kakashi had just yet to find a way to figure out how he was doing it because he had already tried to dispel the henge or gengitsu and it hadn't worked). Genma could accidentally sting Iruka with his senbon needle while they worked at the mission desk together (which was the reason Genma found himself running out of senbon needles most of the time) and Naruto could eat Iruka into bankruptcy (which might be the reason Naruto got a lot of hard, useless and time consuming missions) . So it was purely out of concern that Kakashi stalk... watched over Iruka.
It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the little kids father was downright flirting with HIS Iruka on parent meetings, Genma was all but molesting HIS Iruka the whole day at the mission desk and Naruto hugged HIS Iruka a bit too much, not to mention that the father and daughter that owned the ramen stand were just a tiny bit too friendly.
Kakashi finally realized though that all this had to stop because people were starting to question his actions a bit. Asuma even mentioned that he spent quite some time in the mission room when he didn't have a reason to and Iruka had started acting like he thought someone was following him around all the time... Kakashi didn't know if he should be annoyed or proud of the guy for sensing him, he was glad that Iruka hadn't figured out who it was though.
Kakashi wasn't willing to give up watching Iruka all together though and therefore found the perfect solution. Every night from 11pm when Iruka went to sleep and until around 3am Kakashi would sit outside his window and watch him sleep. If Iruka's blushes should be illegal then the sight of him sleeping should be a sin. Kakashi then got home around 3:20am and fell asleep, after a long night he would then oversleep which caused him to be late at the memorial stone and even later for his appointments.
And thus Kakashi was always really late.