Icha Icha Obession

By: Hatake Ai

"Once upon a time, there was a- BLABLABLA!!! Sasuke-kun, i'm so bored!!" Naruto whispered frantically to Sasuke during Kakashi-senseis' new mandatory 30-minute silent reading session.

"I know, I know..." Sasuke whispered back, "I never knew that 'Ninja Digest' was such a boring magazine...I mean really; 'The Dangers of Shirukens and other Ninja Tools & How to Protect Your Friends And Family'? We're friggen' NINJAS!!!!"

Kakashi shushed them, and continued reading his 'Icha Icha Violence' book, which Naruto could have sworn that he saw the Jounin reading last month.

"Hey, Naru-kun, how many Icha Icha books do you think Kakashi-sensei has?" Sasuke asked.

"Tch, I dunno, probably shelves-ful of them. I bet he and Iruka-sensei read them when they-"

"HEY!!!! NARUTO UZUMAKI AND SASUKE UCHIHA! SHUT THE HELL UP!!" Kakashi yelled; it seemed almost unnatural because he was normally so lax.

"But-"

"Look you two, my relationship with 'Ruka-chan is really none of your business." Kakashi explained, calming down.

"Heh heh...'Ruka-chan...heh heh heh, he calls 'im a girl..." Naruto snickered, while Sasuke noticed Kakashi glare at him with such intensity, it could have burned through even the strongest of shinobi. Just then, the timer next to the tree where Kakashi was sitting chimed loudly.

"There," Sasuke said, "30 minutes is up. Can we go now?"

"Yeah, yeah, alright...Meet back here tomorrow, at the crack of noon." Kakashi told the Genin. Naruto and Sasuke began to trudge home, with Sakura ever at their heels. Kakashi brought up the rear, reading his book. When Sasuke and Naruto returned to Narutos' house, Naruto began to think about Kakashi and Irukas' relationship. They SEEMED like the perfect couple, but what if Iruka was...annoyed by Kakashis' obsession with those books? Did he like them too? Or was he pretending to like them for Kakashis' sake?

"Hey Sasuke..."

"Hmm?

"Do you think Iruka-sensei ever gets annoyed with Kakashi-sensei?"

"Like...about his Icha Icha obsession?" (Sasuke choked on this, realizing he had just thought up a pretty damn good name for an Icha Icha book)

"Yeah.."

"Well, I think that if he was, he would have told Kakashi-sensei that by now..."

"I guess so...hey, "Icha Icha Obsession' is a pretty damn good name for an Icha Icha book, you know."

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