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There was a knock at Iruka's door.
"Who's there?" barked Iruka, opening the door.
"Sorry to disturb you" said Kakashi, smiling at him sheepishly. "But I just needed to…" he paused.
"You needed to what?" asked Iruka angrily, rubbing his eyes. It was three in the morning and the next day was his day off, so he had a reason to be angry.
Kakashi gave him a piece of paper with huge bloody-red drops on it.
"… to give you my report" said he, falling to his knees, report still handed in Iruka's direction.
Iruka ignored the report and went down to the floor.
"Where are you injured?" he asked, observing the upper corps with the careful attention. "I'll take you to the hospital".
"No, please, no hospital…" whined Kakashi. "It's not dangerous. Don't take me there".
Iruka signed and made an attempt to help Kakashi to stand up.
"Okay, no hospital. But you have to tell me where you are injured".
"It's my spine" said Kakashi, leaning at Iruka's shoulder. "Nothing awful – I have a blood loss because the cut is deep and I couldn't make a bandage".
Iruka lead him into his bathroom, washed and disinfected the wound and made a fest bandage. After he was done, he set on the floor near Kakashi and looked at him.
"You look not good at all" said Iruka, pushing the long silver hair away from Kakashi's face. "You are even paler then ever, I'd better take you to the hospital".
"Look, I hate hospitals! I should probably go home now. Thank you for taking care of me, Iruka" Kakashi made an effort to stand up, but failed to do it without support.
Iruka shook his head and smiled at Kakashi warmly.
"In this case you are going not further then my bed" he said.
Kakashi smiled back at him.
"That sounds great! It's a pity I get there in such a state" he shuddered and winced as Iruka helped him to his feet and lead him into the bedroom. After Kakashi got into bed and was covered with a warm blanket, he was asleep in an instant.
Iruka signed and crawled to the other side of his huge bed, covering himself with extra blanket. It took him also only a moment to fall asleep, but suddenly there was a knock at the door again and it seemed that he didn't sleep at all, though it was already bright outside. He covered his head with a pillow and growled that maybe he had a little right to rest in his day off. Then he felt a movement on his side; it made him surprised and he raised his head.
"I'll get it" said Kakashi. He stood up and went to the door, leaning at every wall he could reach, his legs trembling. Iruka growled at this sight and covered his head with a pillow again.
There was Genma at the door. And he was rather shocked to see half-naked Kakashi instead of usual Iruka.
"Kakashi, what the hell, were you sleeping here?" asked Genma suspiciously.
"I guess I did. Why?" muttered Kakashi, trying to focus, his head spinning.
"Well, sorry to disturb, but Iruka asked for these scrolls" Genma gave Kakashi a heap of scrolls and waved to him merrily. "Have a nice time, guys!" he winked before disappearing from the porch.
Kakashi closed the door, concentrating on the scrolls, which wanted to fall over from all sides. Failing to balance them, he found himself on the floor, scrolls around him and Iruka leaning to his face, calling his name.
The last thing he felt were Iruka's hands on his body, lifting him up and taking him back to bed.
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Genma went fast along the busy street, noticing almost nothing around him. He was totally swallowed by the thoughts about Kakashi sleeping at Iruka's place. Weighing pros and contras, he shook his head disapprovingly, when suddenly collapsed into something wild and weird. He raised his eyes from the ground and saw Naruto's very spirited face before him. Genma sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Don't tell me you are hurrying to visit Iruka" he growled.
A little bit shocked, Naruto blinked at Genma, but then smiled brightly.
"For sure I am! Today is Iruka-sensei's day-off, so we go to eat ramen!"
Genma smirked.
"You'd better take your time and slow down" he said.
Naruto frowned.
"Why is that?" he asked suspiciously.
"Just a good advice" laughed Genma bitterly. "You'd better slow down and bring ramen with you to Iruka's place. And don't forget to buy an extra bowl, because he's not alone!" added Genma sarcastically and went further down the street, deciding who of his friends is worthy enough to hear his news first.
Naruto looked at Genma's back stunningly, deciding what to do with this sudden information. Thinking that buying ramen and bringing it home wouldn't hurt anyway and extra bowl is always good, he decided to take his time and do everything properly. So in three hours he stood on Iruka's porch, pounding at the door.
Iruka, opened the door and froze seeing Naruto with the bag.
"Hallo, Iruka-sensei, I brought us ramen!" said Naruto and smiled, coming in.
"Oh, yes. Right" murmured Iruka, letting him in and closing the door. "Ramen…"
Naruto frowned at him.
"You haven't forgotten; have you, Iruka-sensei?"
"No, of course not!" smiled Iruka, petting Naruto's wild hair. "I just didn't suspect you to come so early. Wait a bit, I'll only wake Kakashi up" said he and went to the bedroom.
"It's not early, it's almost noon! Kakashi-sensei is here?" asked Naruto. "That's great! I brought an extra bowl!" added he, heading to the kitchen. Through the door he heard some unintelligible noises and cries.
"… look, a deer is talking!" shouted Iruka angrily. Naruto shuddered.
"You're a deer yourself!" answered Kakashi's voice in a pained hiss.
Naruto was surprised, but said nothing, concentrating on arranging bowls full of delicious ramen at the table.
"So, why exactly are you here, Kakashi-sensei?" asked Naruto when they all were finally seated around the table.
Kakashi signed.
"That's a good question, Naruto. I'm afraid your sensei's holding me as a host, I should really be at home right now…" he muttered slowly, rubbing his shoulder.
"Stop arguing, Kakashi! You are injured and you are either going back and sleep in my bed, or I take you to the hospital" pointed Iruka furiously.
"Maa, Iruka, you can't be serious" whined Kakashi.
"Everything Iruka-sensei says, he means only for good!" cried Naruto enthusiastically. "Though I don't understand how you sleeping in his bed can be meant for good" added he thoughtfully.
Kakashi smirked fondly under his mask, hoping Iruka was not aware of this action.
"For sure I can understand that" said he, almost managing to sound innocently.
Iruka threw him a wondering glance. His eyes narrowed suspiciously and he rolled them to the ceiling.
"Kakashi, you are sick, you know?" he pointed.
"Yep, and you like to be mother-hen!" threw Kakashi back.
"Here comes the talking deer again!" commented Iruka sarcastically.
It was Naruto's turn to laugh and roll his eyes.
"You have quiet a zoo here I see!" he said. "But I must go now, I have to meet Lee for a training session!" he added, slurping the last drops of ramen from his bowl and jumping away to the door. "Bye Iruka-sensei, bye Kakashi-sensei!" he shouted, waving his hand simultaneously and was gone.
Iruka looked at Kakashi, smiling brightly Naruto-style.
Kakashi blinked and then laughed loudly.
"You are something, for sure" said he.
"Shut up, you, deer" muttered Iruka, smiling back.