"Eeeew... I don't want to touch that..."
Iruka sighed at Kakashi.
"What?", demanded the jounin, "I can't help it if it's... It's... eeew."
"Pfff. You're such a sissy."
"I am not a sissy!" the other man growled, "And don't pff at me!"
The chuunin sensei rolled his eyes, then, after a moment's pause, rolled up his sleeves as well. Kakashi was such a sissy, but he couldn't help it, the tan man supposed. He mustn't have been forced to do things like he had to when growing up alone - for example, fixing his own toilet.
"Eew."
"What?"
"Your arm is in the tank."
"Kakashi, it's perfectly clean water."
With all his money... Iruka's family wasn't rich back in the day either, but the Hatakes, as he had come to learn when the jounin decided to buy Iruka a new couch, just because it wasn't big enough in his terms, had always been... well, rich. They were good ninjas, and good ninjas had good paychecks. Kakashi, after the Kyuubi, had money to last him years even if he didn't do anything but waste it - Iruka was left with a run-down house, worn belongings, and enough tucked away gold to last him half a year, if he was kind to the memory.
Looking back, it seemed a miracle he had survived at all.
The help orphans got back in the day was minimal - half the village was gone and half of it's money earners too, there was not much the Third could do. Iruka remembered how skinny he was with wonder, it never occoured to him then that he was less in weight then normal. But many were even more skinnier, though, to their luck, they usually got adopted, either by civillians or by ninja. Even the Hyuugas managed to take in two children.
Iruka never got adopted. He was too damn proud of his name.
Kakashi never got adopted. He was a jounin already, and even the easiest of his missions earned him enough that Iruka could have happily lived by for a month or two.
(Damn jounins with big paychecks.)
"Iruka..."
"What!"
Kakashi raised an eyebrow.
"Sorry." The chuunin sighed, and pulled out his hand from the water. "It should be good now."
"Thank you, Mr. Repairman. Could you fix my micro as well? It such a nice little thing, I don't want to buy a new one."
Iruka sighed, and splashed some water from the tank on Kakashi.
"HEY! Ewwww!"
"Sissy."