It is 2am and I have to be up in less than 5 hours. 7_7

I love idea's and playing around with them. This is one of them ^ ^ Un-beta'ed so if there are any mistakes I apologise.

Obvious disclaimer: Do not own characters! Kishimoto does. But there will be an OC.

Will not be KakaIru despite any obvious implications throughout.

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Good night!

Chapter 1

Iruka's dark eyes narrowed at the jounin's remark; his students are not soldiers. They are still children. And how could Kakashi say that "crushing them would be fun?" Iruka felt the shift in his eyes before he could control it, struggling to keep his anger in check, but for once not really caring if anyone saw.

The Sandaime however, did. He saw Iruka's eyes change to an inky blackness and he knew that if he didn't intervene things could get ugly, quickly. "Iruka," he said. "Enough."

The young chuunin heard the words and the underlying threat and immediately his eyes went back to their telltale liquid brown. He scowled, and deciding that it would be in his best interests to leave Iruka brushed past the arrogant jounin's, paused and bowed to the Hokage then left the room.

Out of the jounin's present only Kakashi saw the way the irate chuunin's eyes had darkened. He frowned wondering, some sort of blood line trait maybe? The old man obviously knows. It would be safe to say that Kakashi's curiosity was slightly piqued and he decided 'for the good of Konoha' and not to satisfy his curiosity, that he would do a little intelligence gathering on the chuunin.

Iruka was angry, no, he was severely pissed off. It had been 2 days since the chuunin nominations and since then someone has been following him around; watching him, at the academy when he is teaching, when he's been training and at his own apartment. He had an idea as to who it was, and that is what has got the chuunin so pissed off.

Why don't you invite him out to lunch or something?

That sudden suggestion surprised Iruka, not the fact that it was a voice in his head that only he could hear.

And I would do that why? The chuunin asked back.

Well the man is curious about us, which is why he has been following you around these past couple of days. You know that he saw me at the nominations.

Yeah I suppose so. But what has asking him to lunch got to do with anything?

Quite a lot actually.

...Care to elaborate?

Hmm, not really.

Iruka sighed, beginning to feel exasperated. You are the epitome of elusive.

I try, came the witty remark.

Alright then, why don't you tell me why I should ask him to lunch and I'll consider it.

I already told you that I won't, plus I gave you a hint. And besides if it is Kakashi that has been following you around he won't pass up the opportunity to achieve his goal.

And what exactly is his goal? Iruka asked, although he felt he knew the answer.

To get to know me. And that is exactly what I want.

Wait, you want him to find out about you? He asked, shocked.

The voice only chuckled.

Why?

I have my reasons.

...You're incorrigible. Not going to elaborate?

I feel that it will be beneficial for the three of us.

I'm not even going to try to understand what you mean by that. And it doesn't answer my question.

Good, because otherwise your head will explode and I don't want that.

Of course not, Iruka deadpanned.

So will you ask him?

Iruka sighed. Let me think on it.

Don't take too long.

Kakashi was frustrated. He had been tailing the chuunin for almost a week now and the man has done nothing to warrant attention. He taught the little hellions called children at the academy through the day; worked the mission's desk during the evenings; slept at night and trained in the early mornings. Truly an unremarkable man, the jounin thought. But he knew he knew what he saw that day.

Kakashi was broken out of his thoughts when he heard the kids all screech in excitement as they were allowed out to their lunch break. He watched from his perch in the tree as Iruka closed the classroom door and walked about the room placing papers on each of the student's desks and picking up the few bits of debris that the kids had scattered around. After throwing said debris in the bin the chuunin did something that Kakashi did not expect. He walked over to the classroom window, threw it open and said rather loudly, "Alright Hatake. Get your ass in here now. We need to talk."

To say that Kakashi was shocked was an understatement. He was certain that he hid himself rather well, and had cloaked his chakra, so how the hell did Iruka know he was there? He stood up from his perch and leapt rather gracefully to the window sill.

"Maa, Iruka sensei, how did you know it was me?" He asked in a bored tone.

"...Aside from the fact that you have been stalking me all week?" The chuunin asked arms folded, clearly not happy.

"..." Kakashi rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

Ask him out to lunch baka.

Fine, if it will get you to shut up...

Aww I'm hurt.

Iruka sighed and glared at the jounin. He felt a blush work its way up his cheeks as he said angrily, "If you wanted to get to know me all you had to do was ask."

He could tell by Kakashi's reaction that that was not what the older man was expecting. Still he ploughed on ahead, "Meet me at Ichiraku's tomorrow at 12:30."

The jounin was flustered, "Um..."

"Now if you will excuse me, I have a class to teach." Said Iruka promptly ending the pretty much one sided conversation.

Iruka watched in amusement as Kakashi fled out the classroom window seconds before his students filed haphazardly into the room and took their seats.

"Now that you are all back from lunch, as you can see on your desks you have this afternoons test on the topics of basic hand signs and the application of chakra." He pointedly ignored the groans, and went on. "There are 15 multiple choice questions, 3 short answer questions and one structured response question. You have 20 minutes to quickly go through the questions and the actual test will be for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Once you have completed the test you are free to go. You may begin."

Aside from the rustling of paper the classroom was blessedly silent as the pre-genins started their test. Iruka sighed and his thoughts went back to the way he handled the conversation with Kakashi.

Conversation? You didn't let the man get a word in, then before he could accept your invitation to lunch tomorrow you promptly dismissed him. Quite rude actually.

I was nervous and angry with him, what did you expect?

A polite, sociable conversation.

...You're kidding. I find it difficult to be polite to him after the way he spoke to me at the nominations.

Well you had better get your act together before 12:30 tomorrow, because you have a date with him.

It's not a date! It's just lunch, and it was your idea to start with.

Yes but you could have very well decided to not act upon my idea.

Not like you gave me much choice.

True, true. Better pay attention to your students sensei, Ryu's cheating and Konohamaru's trying to escape.

The quirks of being a teacher. Iruka sarcastically replied, before drawing breath to shatter his student's eardrums.

Whoa, that was not what Kakashi was expecting. In truth he expected to be thoroughly scolded and to be told not very nicely to leave, but certainly not an invitation to lunch! Okay Iruka was a little rude but he was angry, so it was understandable. Before Kakashi could make some sort of intelligent reply he heard a babble of excited children's voices, and was out the window just moments before the door slammed back on its hinges as a prelude to a miniature stampede of pre-genin coming back from their lunch break.

When Kakashi felt that he was a safe distance from the Academy he whipped out his orange bound book and buried his nose between the pages. To a casual observer he was totally engrossed in his book; to a more observant observer he was slightly engrossed in his book. But to an observer who knew the great Copy-nin well, his mind was not on the contents of the infamous Icha Icha Paradise, but was rather going a million-miles-a minute trying to decipher any hidden implications to the chuunins invitation. Not to mention the fact that said chuunin had also somehow known that he, Kakashi, a jounin no less, who could mask his chakra so well that other jounin didn't know he was there, was stalking him. That fact in on itself made something not quite right about Iruka Umino.