I'm thinking… Processing…AH HA! A perfect KakaIru has finally made it's way into my pitiful brain!
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That Damn Nightmare, is now my favorite Dream
Chapter uno numero: Naruto brought us together! Well not that Naruto…
He came up, as always, and we danced, as always. It was so incredibly painful to do this. Every. Single. Night. Seeing this beautiful man only to see him run off. Every fiber of my being wanted nothing more than to hold this mysterious stranger until we became something more.
A dance. An amazing dance and an almost kiss only for it to end in a very Cinderella like state. Running, and I'd chase him for what felt like hours in my dream, through a thick maze too, but this man always seemed to elude me. Not a shoe was left, but instead it was a picture. A picture that had never happened, but was there none the less left behind.
A picture of him and the man. Together, happily married…
Though he would never know if that was truly the purpose of photo, his mind made up the idea for him and he gladly went with it. He would then realize he knew nothing of the man. Only that he was incredibly handsome with his hair down, he was quite muscular they way his dream portrayed him, and he loved him.
But there so many other things he didn't know. Favorite color, favorite food, favorite position.
Kakashi didn't even know his name.
Kakashi woke to a start. It was the dream. The one that hunted his subconscious and wouldn't leave him alone even if he got a brain transplant. And trust me, he was very much contemplating on that particular idea.
"Shit I'm going to be late!" the man with strange silver hair, though he was only in his twenties, hurried to get dressed and ready and all but flew out the door to make it to his job on time. Kakashi just barely made it and his manager was not to pleased by his almost late arrival.
"Kakashi!" Tsunade yelled at him once more for being a lazy late bastard and that he needed to get there on time or else he'd be out of a job.
But he knew she wouldn't fire. He did what he did best and that's one of the reason people come to that particular library.
Yes, Kakashi Hatake worked at a library. He loved it though. Not to many people knew this, but he loved to read. Books were his passion and though he was caught more often then not by Tsunade when he was reading the Icha Icha novels behind the desk, he still loved his job.
It was a typical day, Wednesday to be exact, halfway through the week. He had just began to ponder the reoccurring dream he never wanted when that very dream seemed to snap to life and stand in front of him, very much alive.
His breath caught in his throat.
His hair in a lose ponytail rested atop his head, his beautiful scar running across the bridge of his nose, and his chocolate brown eyes searched the place full of excitement.
He turned to a bouncing blonde boy and Kakashi's heart felt as if it literally was ripped from his chest and was left barely beating on the floor when he heard the brunets next sentence.
"Son, go pick out a book to read it, if you like I can check it out for you ok?"
"Ok!" The little blonde boy ran around and picked numerous books off the shelf before shaking his head and putting it back until he finally he settled on what looked like a comic.
The man picked up some books from the shelf that had teaching books and he placed them lightly on the counter. The books, Kakashi noticed, were math and science books.
"Are you the new teacher by any chance?" It was a fairly large town, Konoha was, but with one of his closer friends, Anko being the gossip whore she was, Kakashi knew everything there was to know. Down to the very last relationship and person. She was blabbering on about a new teacher coming to there school (since she teaches there also as the ninth grade arts teacher) and about how he's really cute.
Kakashi hadn't thought he would be this cute.
"Yes I am! I work over at Konoha High, I'm the new science teacher. Though I thought it would be good to brush up on my math too! By the way my name's Iruka!" Iruka stuck out his hand and Kakashi shook it hesitantly.
"Kakashi. Kakashi Hatake." Iruka smiled and Kakashi found himself smiling too.
Suddenly there was a thud and there was a huge pile of books on the floor. I inwardly groaned knowing I'd have to clean that up later.
"Naruto! Clean that up!" The boy called Naruto nodded his head and began frantically picking up books and stocking them in random places. "I'm sorry, Naruto sometimes just…does things."
"So is he your son?" Kakashi found himself asking that rather selfishly but couldn't help his curiosity though he didn't really want the cute brunet's answer. Though he was quite pleased with himself for asking.
"No. Well, not blood related anyway. Both of his parents died in a horrible accident and so I took him and under my wing as guardian and official adoptive parent. He so full of energy too sometime he just drives me crazy! That's why I bring him so I don't end up strangling him. At least in public someone will stop me." Iruka chuckled and so did Kakashi. It felt to good to laugh after all those years. He also found himself inwardly sneering at the fact Iruka was (hopefully) still single, and that little blonde ball of crazy wasn't actually his birth related son. That last thought may have been a bit mean, but Kakashi was happy, he couldn't really help it.
"Hey! Hey look at this Iruka!" The boy held up a little comic ironically named Naruto. (A/N: anybody get the irony in the chapter Title now?*snicker*)
"Hey cool it's named after you." Though the boy didn't know that because of that comic that's why he was named Naruto in the first place.
"Can I get it? Please Iruka? Pleeeeease?" Kakashi caught a glimpse of huge blue puppy eyes and almost said yes himself. Though the boy was slightly irritating, he found cute, to some extent.
"Sure Naruto." Putting the comic on top of school books, Kakashi was about to scan them but then realized he had no card.
"Your card?"
"Oh!" Iruka handed him a credit card with a confused smile. Kakashi smiled and laughed a little.
"No your library card."
"Uh…" Iruka looked confused and Kakashi nearly slapped himself for not realizing sooner.
"That's right your new. Would you like to get a card?"
"Oh uh…that's fine. But um…how long will that take?"
"Just a few minutes." Iruka nodded and Kakashi went to the computer to pull up the file for a new card to be created.
"Name?"
"Iruka Umino"
"Age?"
"Twenty-six"
"Email?"
Iruka stumbled over himself. "Uh w-why?"
"For the card information in case we have to ask for the book back because you were hogging it too long." Inside Kakashi was laughing furiously as Iruka was blushing cutely. Iruka quickly gave him an email.
"Phone number" again Iruka blushed cutely, but instead of saying it he wrote it down on a piece of paper.
"W-we just moved so the land line isn't set up. Here's my cell. Uh, don't put in the computer yet until I get the house phone. After that you can just ugh…keep that." The heart that had been lying lifelessly on the floor suddenly got up, brushed itself off, and jumped back into his chest beating at full speed and mending that huge gap in his torso. Because he was pretty sure Iruka had just given him his number.
Kakashi continued filling in the info Iruka gave him and in about five minutes a little plastic card was spat out from the special machine on the other side of the counter. He scanned the books and comic then the card and handed all the items to Iruka and when he left, Kakashi all but stared at the little slip of paper resting peacefully in his hands.
What Kakashi loved about way he was given the paper, it was the subtleness. It was so smooth Kakashi felt like his moves were just a bunch of sharp jagged edges of glass while Iruka was the smooth never-ending side. Oh man look at him! Ugh he's been reading way to many Icha Icha books lately.
As the day went by it was pretty normal but Kakashi was on an all time high from receiving the man of his dreams (literally) phone number and being told he could keep it! As six o'clock rolled by, the guy who had night shift came in Kakashi left. Giving a polite 'goodnight Yamato' before exiting the library.
Kakashi just started down the street to his apartment when he saw the cutest ponytail bounce above the crowd. He only saw that ponytail this morning, but he just knew. Going with Kakashi instinct, he ran to catch up to the tanned beauty.
"Iruka!" Iruka turned around and gave him a hello and a wave. Kakashi fell in step next to him. "So what are you doing?"
"Hmm? Oh nothing just seeing around town." Kakashi was about to say something back when both his and Iruka's stomach growled audibly.
"Heh. Guess it's getting late. Iruka would you like to join me for a meal?"
"A-A meal? Where?"
"Well, I know this nice little ramen stand. And if you want, "he knew he was going to regret this because he wanted it to be just them but he wanted to please the brunet, "you can bring Naruto."
"Ramen? Ok sure! We both love ramen! Um thank you Kakashi."
"No problem." and he meant it.
Stopping by Iruka's apartment (which Kakashi was pleased to find it was only a block away from his own) he picked up Naruto who was now screaming happily about ramen. Kakashi led them to the small restaurant and opened up the doors for his new friends to enter first.
Naruto ordered almost everything on the menu not sure which one he would like best and even though Iruka told him no, I said fine. Though I could have sworn at that moment my wallet was audibly screaming 'no.'
Suddenly an emo looking kid walked in alone with pink haired girl totally fawning over him. Kakashi recognized them as Sakura Hurano, and Sasuke Uchiha.
"HEY!" Naruto suddenly shouted very loudly and got up to join the two, taking his bowl with him. "I saw you two earlier! We go to the same school! Sasuke and Sakura right?" Sakura gave nod of her head and continued to fawn Sasuke while Sasuke just grumbled in response.
While they talked, Naruto doing most of the talking, Kakashi continued his own conversation with Iruka.
"So how far is Naruto on that comic?"
"Finished" Iruka said in between slurps.
Both of Kakashi's eyebrows raised, that may have been a comic, but it was still pretty big.
"The whole thing?"
"Yep" Iruka finished the rest of his bowl before continuing. "He read it non-stop though the rest of my errands. Then as soon as we got back home, he plopped on his bed and didn't leave until he was one-hundred percent complete. He was on the last page when I went to go get him. I think I'll get him is own card, then he can check out whenever he wants."
Kakashi nodded in response noticing how Iruka's eyes sparkled in the setting sun through the window. Kakashi found it impossible to break the brunets gaze as he looked into his never ending sea of chocolate. Kakashi quickly checked to make sure he wasn't drooling. He did not want to mess this up!
After what felt an eternity (a nice eternity because Iruka was there) they all stood and left, Kakashi paying. Sasuke and Sakura had left a long time before and Naruto was talking to them about the comic.
Kakashi was going to be the gentleman and walk Iruka and Naruto home. And he was pleased to do so. It was quiet but when Iruka broke the silence after Naruto had gone inside.
"Thank you so much Kakashi. I hope we can do this again sometime." there it was again, that subtleness.
"Of course." Kakashi replied with a soft smile, though on the inside he was doing a happy dance, dancing with Iruka that is *snicker.*
"Good night." Iruka said, somewhat hesitantly. Kakashi closed his eyes, smiling and waved. As soon as he did though, he felt something warm on his cheek that left a pleasant tingling. Kakashi knew, he had just been kissed.
Wanting to jump for joy and dance in the streets, he instead went down the block to his own home, smiling like an idiot all the way. However, as soon as he got inside Kakashi just went all out doing some stupid dance that only he could come up with and screaming "YAY!YAY!YAY!YAY" at the top of his lungs. He had to cut his moment of joy shot though because of the banging below and above him and voices screaming "shut up!"
Kakashi then went to bed where he, once again, had that dream. Only, it was ten times better, because he had a name.
Dancing. The same as usual. Almost kiss, the running but now my mind had a name. "Iruka!" Kakashi shouted at the top of his lungs and was begging this man to stop running away. From must have been initial shock, Iruka stopped running only for Kakashi to run into to him and embrace him a spine crushing bear hug.
"H-how do you know my name?"
Kakashi just smiled and buried his head in Iruka's shoulder and said nothing. But this moment, like all others, didn't last. Iruka broke the embrace and ran again. Kakashi fallowed as if his life depended on it, because right now, it felt like it did. Kakashi would do anything to be able to hold Iruka again, if only for a moment…
"P-Please come back Iruka!" but he didn't. He just kept on running. Why, Kakashi didn't know, but he wish he did. If only he would stop running long enough for them to speak, to have a decent conversation...
Kakashi chased him longer then usual it seemed and then suddenly, the ground gave way and he was falling. Falling into a black endless abyss of nothing. He felt like nothing here. He had nothing here. He was nothing here…
He'd never been in this black emptiness before, but it was uncomfortable. It was unsettling, suffocating to even try and look around. He felt so alone here without his Iruka...
RIIING! RIIING! The alarm clock woke Kakashi from his dream-like state and as he forced himself to turn it off he screamed, "SHIT! I'm gonna be late!"
If he wants to stop being late, he should set his alarm for earlier. Lol silly Kakashi.