I don't own Naruto, if I did, I assure you it'd never be seen on the cartoon network again. I make no money off of this; therefore anyone looking to sue me may now go away!
Rating: Rated MA for gore, blood, violence and more in later chapters.
Warning: Heavy lemon in this chapter.
A/N: I would like to thank Macavity the Mystery Cat for allowing me to use the idea of Ibiki being team seven's sensei. For allowing me to use some of her plot at all. Thanks. You should all go check out her story, the one that gave me the idea for this, Something to Die For.
My Dark World
Chapter two :
"Now the fun's really going to began." Ibiki-sensei said as he puffed into the room in a cloud of smoke and leaves. He looked at the three genin and wondered if they really were going to make it. There was one love-obsessed girl, one loud mouth brat, and one brooding boy.
He wanted to go back and choke the Hokage until he changed his mind and let him get on with his life. Still, trying to choke the Hokage could have him in one of his own chambers. That on its own wouldn't bother him, but with the chance that Anko would want to be the one to 'interrogate' him, he thought it would be safer to just give them the test he knew they would fail.
"Alright you lot, meet me up on the roof." Ibiki-sensei said before puffing out of the room. The three looked at each other, grinned, then started to walk out of the class room at an even pace; if he made them wait, they could make him wait. That, and they were trying to figure out where he got all those scars from.
"Hey Sakura-san, where do you think he got them?" Naruto asked his 'crush.'
"I don't know, most likely from a battle. Oh and we're still going to go with the whole 'You love me, I love Sasuke, and you and Sasuke are rivals' thing, right?" Sakura asked to make sure that she had what they were going to do down. Sasuke smirked and nodded before knocking fists with Naruto who also grinned.
"Yeah that's always one of the funniest parts to play, what with me and Sasuke being as close as we are." Naruto said as he put his hands behind his head and began to move a bit faster.
"Don't I know it. Every time you two pretend to hate each other I have to bite my lip to keep from laughing. Still, it's better this way. We don't want everyone trying to run our lives. I've checked up on Kotetsu-kun and Izumo-kun like you asked, and you were right, their parents had kicked them out just because they wanted to be together. How did you know about that? And why did you want to know more about it?" Sakura asked as they paused to continue their conversation.
"I actually overheard Iruka-sensei and Hokage-sama talking. I didn't know it was that, just that something involving their families had happened. I wanted to know because I had been asking Kiba and Shikamaru to tell their families. I was scared that they had been ashamed to be with me, what with the way that almost everyone in the village acts towards me. They keep saying it's not that; but I guess I'm just worried. Still, if that's what's going to happen to them, then I would rather stop seeing them. I know how much their families mean to them. I could never ask them to give that up for me." Naruto said as he looked down thinking about what might have to happen now.
"Don't be stupid- tell them what you just told us. They'll understand and I don't care what you say, I know they won't want to leave you. Now come on before he gets suspicious about how long were taking." Sasuke said as he tugged on Naruto's hand before letting go to walk ahead of the others. Sakura nodded her agreement before following as did Naruto.
"If you remain on my team, your speed will be needing improvements. You should have been here within three minutes after I got here- not seven!" Ibiki-sensei told them as they all moved to sit on the steps of the roof. Sasuke scowled, Sakura looked down, and Naruto glared at the man.
"Now, tell me about yourselves." Ibiki-sensei said while discreetly looking over all three and assessing their strengths and weaknesses. When none of the three offered to go first, Ibiki sighed but decided to get things moving along.
"My name's Ibiki, you will be calling me Ibiki-sensei if you're any good. I like finding interesting ways to get the things I need, and I hate people who don't know how to do what they need to in order to help Konoha with what it needs or the people in Kohana and what they need. You next." Ibiki said, pointing to Sakura.
"I'm Sakura. Saku for short. I like…" she glanced at Sasuke with a blush and squealed. "I hate Naruto! I also like to help people. I can remember anything anyone says to me. I've got a great memory." Sakura said as she looked down, pretending to be embarrassed by saying that.
"I'm Naruto! You can call me the future Hokage! I like Ramen! Ohh, I really like the ramen that Iruka-sensei buys me. I hate the time I have to wait to eat the ramen! I like to practice my jutsu and train. I'm going to be great! Believe it!" Naruto shouted when Sasuke hadn't started to go after Sakura had ended.
"I'm Sasuke, so that's what you'll call me. Nothing else matters besides training so that I can kill a certain man then revive my clan." Sasuke said, then brooded about all the things in his life that sucked.
Ibiki wanted to laugh. Really, as if he wouldn't notice the little things that gave them away as liars. Still, they were doing what any good shinobi would be doing- trying to get everyone to underestimate them so that they could be the ones to take them by surprise.
"Humm, that was good, though if you really hated Naruto you wouldn't have tapped in Morse code that you were sorry, Sakura. Naruto you did a bit better by seemingly giving out a lot of information while not really giving any. Sasuke, it's just to easy for you to fool everyone, you just let them believe what they want to, or what they think they already know; that you're a stuck up punk. Maybe you have some skill after all." Ibiki-sensei said, starting to like the three brats. Still, he and his team would have a lot of work to do with them.
"Alright, maybe I'll keep you three after all. First we have to have a small test. Nothing to worry about. If you fail, and there's a 66 percent chance that you will, you'll just never become a shinobi. Now, the test is simple, really. You just need to decide one thing. Who will die?" Ibiki said all of this calmly, before pulling a kunai out and grabbing Sasuke by the back of the head. He put the kunai to Sasuke's throat.
"One of you must die so that the other two can go on, you can decide with a vote; majority wins." Ibiki suggested while Naruto's eyes widened then narrowed. Ibiki could hear a low growl and saw the boy's hand inching towards his kunai. And here he was, thinking the kid was smart! Surly he didn't think he could take on a Jounin? He was probably just reacting without thinking, which could get you killed in the ninja world.
"Now, I wouldn't be so hasty about getting a kunai if I were you, boy, wouldn't want me to get worried and just pick off this one right now. Would you?" Ibiki asked, making him try to calm down and think rationally for a moment so that they could come up with a plan; as a team.
"No, but I could tell you that your going to be the one to die if you don't get that kunai away from my throat." Sasuke said, as if he weren't the one who was being held at kunai point. In fact, he sounded down right smug. It was just about then that he felt the tip of a kunai being pushed against his own throat. He shifted his eyes to look behind him; he knew it wasn't them, they were all in front of him. It was Sakura.
"What?!" Ibiki asked; she was standing right in front of him! He shot the kunai and, just as he thought, it had disappeared. It was the clone jutsu.
He smirked; he would like these three. "You pass. Barely. The point of that was to get you to work as a team, though I don't think I will need to be working on that much; you seem to know more about working together then most people. Though, I wonder if you were working together, or if it was all a coincidence." Ibiki said as he moved towards the door waving at them to follow him.
"Now, lets go. We have a few things we need to discuss. You can stop talking in Morse code now, I do know it, so there's really no point in trying to keep your conversation quiet." Ibiki said to his new students. All three stopped and just walked quietly. They were all thinking the same thing- who is this guy??
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Kotetsu grinned as he pushed Izumo up against the wall of the small office they were in. It had been far too long since they had gotten to do this in the office.
Really, Iruka always keep the place trapped. It was by luck that he needed to run out early and asked them to lock up for him.
He started to kiss down Izumo's neck as the other tried to tug off his shirt. He lifted his hands up and pulled off his own shirt before taking Izumo's off too. He then went back to kissing down Izumo's neck and bit down lightly, leaving a mark on his collarbone.
"Ohh, Ko, please." Izumo mumbled. He started to kiss at any skin he could get his lips on as Kotetsu started to kiss down his chest before taking a hard nipple into his mouth and biting down, making Izumo moan. Izumo's tent in his pants was now noticeable. He thrust his hips forward looking for any type of friction, only for them to be pushed back by Kotetsu's hands as he continued to play favor to his left nipple. Izumo threw his head back and moaned, before letting his hands slid down to reach for Kotetsu's pants.
"Ko, baby, please. I need you now!" Izumo said in a husky voice.
Kotetsu looked up with a feral grin on his face. He slowly let his tongue lick around the abused nipple before sucking on it again, knowing how sensitive Izumo was there. He had him whimpering in pleasure.
"I'm going to have you begging me to fuck that tight hole." Kotetsu said as he quickly pulled off the rest of their clothing. He then let go of Izumo, who whined at the loss of contact. He walked over to the desk and swept all the things off of it. He paused for a second. He leaned down and pick up his pants and searched them, all the while Izumo was groaning and talking dirty, trying to get him interested in him again.
"Shit 'Zo, I don't have any lube on me." He said looking a bit pissed. He always refused to take Izumo dry, no matter how many times Izumo told him he wouldn't break, ever since they found out that he bled too easily doing that. Hell, he bled when he was lubed.
Kotetsu had said that he had seen people raped before, and he refused to let it look like Izumo was raped. Izumo tried to tell him it couldn't be rape because they loved each other, but when Kotetsu started to refuse sex in any form with him, he let it go.
"Fuck! Ko, just this once, please. Baby, I need you in me!" Izumo begged. He was hard and he would be dammed if he didn't get Kotetsu to take him here and now. Then he got an idea.
Iruka always had lotion in his office. He used to always tease the man about it, but now he was grateful.
"Ko, Iruka always has lotion, we can use that. Try the third drawer, and hurry up!" Izumo demanded as he walked over to the desk to get on.
Kotetsu grinned, but grabbed him before he could get there. He kissed him, forcing his lips open then dominating the kiss, letting him know that he was in charge. He quickly turned him around and pressed him onto the desk so that Izumo was leaning onto it, his ass in the air. He quickly went and got the lotion, and spread some on one of his hands. Using his other hand, he grabbed a handful of hair and pulled Izumo's head back so that his throat was exposed to him. He leaned forward and sank his teeth into the exposed flesh.
Izumo whined, low in his throat, showing his submission. After a minute, he thrust his ass back grinding into Kotetsu's hardening erection.
Kotetsu yanked on his hair a bit, this time pulling him into a rather gentle kiss which left Izumo gasping for air. He then pulled back and started to let his covered finger rub at Izumo's opening, making him gasp and then moan.
"Ko, please, baby, push it in!" Izumo begged shamelessly. He wanted to be fucked!
"Now, we wouldn't want this to end too quickly, would we? I haven't been able to play with you like this in a long time. When was the last time we had more then a rough quickie in some room or office? No, I'm going to drag this out for as long as possible." Kotetsu said before pushing lightly against his opening but not actually pushing in.
Izumo gasped then whined when what Kotetsu said sunk in. He smirked and thrust his ass back, making the tip of the finger slip in.
Kotetsu growled, snatched up a kunai, tied a ninja wire to the loop at the end, and thrust it into the wall in front of them. Then he grabbed Izumo's hands and tied them up. He bent down, grabbed a leg, pulled it to the left side of the desk, and tied it there. He did the same with the other leg, effectively pinning Izumo down and spreading him out before him like an offering- one which he was more then happy to take. Izumo tested the strength of his bonds; they wouldn't be going anywhere without Kotetsu's permission. He whined.
"Ko, I want you to fuck me!" Izumo said, starting to get a bit pissed at Kotetsu's lack of fucking him.
Any other time he had to try and keep the man from molesting him in front of others.
He was about to break the wire, leave via transportation jutsu, and jerk himself off when he got home. Apparently his thoughts showed on his face because he felt Kotetsu's chakra near his member. He cursed, then moaned when Kotetsu racked his nails over his opening.
He had just used his chakra to keep him from cumming without his permission.
He was going to kill him for this later.
Kotetsu grinned, knowing that Izumo wouldn't try leaving now since he wouldn't be able to cum without him releasing his chakra from within his member first. Which also helped to hold them in this longer. He started to rub around the opening again, making Izumo gasp, moan, and beg for more. He then got an idea. He couldn't believe he had never rimmed Izumo before. He smirked, walked around the desk, grabbed Izumo's face and kissed him for all he was worth before pulling back.
"I want this to last. We always have a quick tumble, get off, then go back to work. I got Genma and Raidou to cover for the rest of our shift. I want to be inside of you, so that you can feel every move I make, so you can feel how much I love you 'Zo." Kotetsu said.
Izumo's eyes softened and he stretched his head forward, licking at Kotetsu's lips, asking to be let in. Kotetsu allowed him entrance and kissed him back before pulling away. He then leaned forward and sucked on Izumo's tongue, making his eyes slip down and moan. Kotetsu walked back around and kneeled behind Izumo. He spread his cheeks and ran his thumb over the opening, making Izumo whimper in pleasure yet try to hold still and let Kotetsu do as he wanted. Kotetsu grinned knowing, that he would just love the reaction that this would pull from Izumo who always tried to be a quiet lover. He put both his hands on the other man's ass and spread them before leaning forward and licking at his entrance.
Izumo threw his head back and meowed in pleasure. Loving the sound, Kotetsu did it again, getting the same reaction, only louder. It was nothing compared to the shout of pleasure and the begging for more he got when he finally thrust his tongue in past the first set of muscles.
"Please, please, please! Gods Ko, I need you so bad. Baby please, I want you in me. Only you." Izumo begged, trying to get him to go a bit faster, wanting to feel his lover in him.
After another ten minute of licking and sucking at his entrance, making him meow and moan and whimper in pleasure, Kotetsu moved back and coated his hand in lotion again. He started to rub around the entrance before slowly pushing his first finger in, making Izumo moan in pleasure and anticipation. He started out slowly, forcing Izumo to feel his finger every time he moved it. Then he started to speed up while rubbing his now rock-hard erection against the back of Izumo's leg, making them both moan. He then pushed in another finger and started to search for his prostate, wanting to make his lover scream in pleasure. He always loved the wild look of pleasure on his lover's face when he pressed into his prostate. He knew he had found it when his lovers head was thrown back and a scream of shock and pleasure tore from his throat. He then pulled his hand out and backed away completely. He looked down at his lover.
At his Izumo. He loved this man more then life itself. Izumo, not feeling him anymore, looked behind himself and groaned. He tried to wiggle his ass temptingly, but the movement was cut short with the wires holding him in place. He never understood why Kotetsu would sometimes stop making out with him to just stare at him for a few minutes. He groaned again when Kotetsu made no show of moving to finish what he started.
"Ko, baby, come on. I love you. Come on baby, I need you. I want you to fuck me so hard that I won't be able to walk straight for a week. I want you to make me get on my knees and blow you until you see stars. I want you to fuck my mouth like it's the last time we'll ever touch." Izumo said, knowing Kotetsu loved it when he talked dirty in bed. It always made him hard again. He was right, as Kotetsu smirked and started to move forward to continue.
He, however, did not move to take Izumo like he wanted so badly. He walked over and pulled the chair out and away from the desk. He then sat in it. Slowly, he started to run his hand up and down his length, making it even harder, if that were possible. He then turned his head to look at Izumo who was watching the whole time, and then had started to lick his lips.
"Well then, what are you waiting for? I want you on your knees, hands behind you, using only your head. You're going to suck me dry." Kotetsu said, spreading his legs a bit more.
Izumo was out of his bonds in one moment and in front of Kotetsu the next. First he leaned up and stole a kiss from the other. Then his head was down and he took Kotetsu's erection into his mouth. Keeping his hands at his sides, he started to movie his head up and down, sucking all the while. Izumo tried to stroke himself as he listened to the pleasured mewls coming from Kotetsu, but the other smacked his hands away with a warning growl.
Right when Kotetsu seemed to be about to cum he pulled Izumo back. Then, grabbing the man, he kissed him and pulled him up, onto his lap. Continuing with the kiss, Izumo slowly lowered himself onto Kotetsu's member, making both of them groan. Kotetsu slowly started to trust up into him, making him moan. Soon they found a rhythm that they both found good and continued with it until Izumo felt like he was going to explode; he still had not cummed.
Looking up, he saw Kotetsu smirking as he kept thrusting into the man on top of him and hit his prostate each and every time. That was when he remembered that Kotetsu alone could let him cum. He cried out in pleasure as his prostate was hit again. He knew what Kotetsu wanted. Deciding that cumming was more important, he gave in and truly begged the other.
"Kotetsu, love. Please, let me cum. I need to cum!" He begged him, letting the other know he was in control of him.
"Tell me you're mine; that nobody but me will ever touch you." Kotetsu demanded and hit his prostate with every word, making him call out in pleasure.
"I'm yours; I will always be yours. Nobody but you will ever mark me. Nobody but you ever has!" With those words, a few strokes to Izumo's erection, and one last pinch to a bruised nipple, Kotetsu leaned forward and captured Izumo's lips with a growl as he let the other cum.
Izumo came, but Kotetsu was far from finished, so he just kept pushing into his lover's body. After Izumo came down from the high, he still felt Kotetsu pushing into him. He groaned, but this time it was not such a pleasure filled one; he was sore. Still, he didn't want Kotetsu to be left out, so he angled his hips, and slammed down, making Kotetsu throw his head back and moan as he came. Izumo rode him until he was sure Kotetsu was finished. Panting, he leaned forward and placed his head on Kotetsu's shoulder, trying to catch his breath.
Kotetsu wrapped his hands around his waist, not allowing him to move or to pull off of his now soft member. As much as he loved the other, they had to clean this office up before Iruka got back and murdered them. He started to shift, but the other would have none of it. He tightened his arms and growled.
"Ko, baby, we have to clean up and get dressed before Iruka sees this. He'll kill us for sure. Hell, I don't know what's gotten into you if we had no shift to return to. We could have gone home and did this." Izumo said, slightly worried about his lover's motives.
They had been a bit pissed with each other lately, even if they never showed it. Kotetsu sighed.
"I didn't want to wait. Izumo, do you still love me?" Kotetsu asked the other man, his voice unnaturally quite and sad sounding. Izumo was startled.
"What do you mean? Of course I love you! Why would you even ask that?!" Izumo demanded, trying to figure out what was going on. He didn't have a good feeling about this.
"It's just that lately you seem so distant and, well, we have been together for a long time. I know it can get boring. Maybe it's time we give each other some space? You know, see other people?" Kotetsu said all of this in the same voice and never once looked up at Izumo, whose eyes had widened upon hearing what the other had said.
Tears started to collect in his eyes. "I know we've been together for a long time, and I know things can get dull. I've honestly tried to keep them interesting…. You really want to leave me?" Izumo asked, terrified of the answer. Kotetsu's didn't react to what he said right away.
"I don't know. I want you to be happy. Lately all we seem to do is fight. And when we touched, it was a quickie just to get off, nothing about caring about each other. I don't want what we had to become nothing but meaningless sex. That's why I wanted tonight to be slow. And not at home where we might have started fighting again. We can remember tonight, and go away with knowing that what we had was great." Kotetsu said, thinking it might be better to simply end things while they still could hopefully be friends.
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"You both are idiots! Why would you give up something you both love just because you have had some fights? Be grown ups and talk it out! I know you love each other! Kotetsu, is that what you meant when you asked if I thought Izumo wanted to cheat on you but felt like he couldn't out of respect to you?" Iruka asked from the door way. He looked a bit pissed, but whether it was because of them being caught having sex in his office or because they might break up, they didn't know.
"You thought I was cheating on you? I would never do that! Damn it, Kotetsu, I love you! I don't know what to do to make things interesting for you again. Just tell me and I'll do it, because I love you, Kotetsu. I don't want to lose you." Izumo whispered the last part. Kotetsu's head finally shot up at that.
"I'm not bored with you! I thought you were bored with me! I didn't think you were cheating on me, but I thought that maybe you wanted to, you know, so you could have fun again, but didn't out of respect to me." Kotetsu said, thinking that he had lost Izumo.
"Kotetsu, what made you think that? Any of that?" Izumo asked as Iruka handed them their clothes quietly while they talked things out. They both started to pull on their boxers as Iruka raised an eyebrow at the kunai in the wall before going to pull it out.
"Well, I thought that with the way were barely talked unless we were fighting, working, or getting off, we were losing focus on what really mattered. Us. I don't know what happened, but I just seemed to bore you; like you didn't want to waste your time with loving me anymore. I don't want it to come to the point where we can't be together unless were working or fucking, Izumo. That's why we should leave each other." Kotetsu bit his lip when he said that, hating that he was losing Izumo. Izumo shook his head and his lips trembled. He bit his lip and choked back a whimper as his tears started to come down.
"I don't want to leave you, Ko. I love you. Really, I do. I'm so sorry, I am. I swear I'll make it right. Just give me another chance. Please, baby. Loving you is never a waste of time. I know you don't like the way we've been, but we can fix that. Without breaking up. Please say you'll stay with me." Izumo whimpered the last part as his shoulders started to shake. When Kotetsu didn't say anything right away Izumo started really cry.
"Ko, please! I love you! I swear I'll change! Please!" Izumo begged. He refused to believe that they had to break up to fix things. He couldn't lose Kotetsu- not after everything they had been through together. Not with how much he loved the other man. Still, Kotetsu said nothing making Izumo cry harder. Iruka, who had stayed silent while they tried to fix things, even had a few tears falling out of his eyes as he saw the pain his friends were in. Izumo dropped to his knees; tears falling freely now, as he tried to hold back his sobs in order to talk.
"Kotetsu, please, I swear I will do anything you say. We can work this out! I love you! You can't tell me that you don't love me to. Please say you do." Izumo begged him. His hands grabbed onto Kotetsu's as he looked at Kotetsu's bowed head. He had dropped to the floor so he could look the other in the eye. He had tears falling down his face, as well. He was crying.
With that one though, Izumo started to really sob. He couldn't lose him here. Not like this, not for this. His head went forward and he buried his face in Kotetsu's waist, his hands circling around the other and held on as tight as he could as they cried.
"What if it doesn't work? What if you come to hate me even more? I don't want to continue this if it'll hurt us even more. I'd rather just accept that you don't love me and move on. Well, let you move on, because you are my only love Izumo." Kotetsu said at last.
"I don't hate you! I love you! I know we've been having problems, but they're not so big that we can't fix them! Even if we did end up breaking up, I'd love you forever, and that would hurt worse then you just staying with me. Kotetsu, please, we can work this out. I know we can. We're not leaving each other." Izumo said, not moving and refusing to let Kotetsu go.
"Why don't you give it a trial like thing? You know, try fixing it for a month. Not really together, but not really apart. You would still be living together, but you could take your own rooms. Start off by dating each other again. Reconnect, because it sounds like you two are just spending too much time together, and not appreciating that you were together." Iruka said, trying to think of a middle ground that would lead them back together again. He couldn't believe this was happening- they had just been so happy this morning! Hell, he was so worried for the two that he was no longer even mad that they had had sex in his office. If it would fix things, he'd leave and let them go at it again.
"What do you think, Ko, want to try what Iruka said? I don't know if I like the part about not really being together, but if it works, we'll get back together for sure at the end of the month. We had better get back together, or else your not getting any." Izumo tried to tease, hoping to get him to do this. He knew he could fix this, given time.
"Yeah, sounds good to me. Umm, what does this all entail though?" Kotetsu asked, not really wanting to give Izumo up without a fight either. They both turned to Iruka, who blinked.
" Well, one of you takes the spare room to stay in. You start to talk over some of the issues you've been having. Find ways to fix it that you both can live with, then go about doing what you have to in order to do so. Then just sort of start over. You know, by remembering that no matter how long you've been together, you are both still human, and therefore need to know you both make mistakes, and that you want to know that the other loves you." Iruka tried to explain. He was just thinking about giving them time to sort out their problems without them actually breaking up.
Izumo looked to Kotetsu. "If you were planning on leaving me tonight, why did you sleep with me?" He asked quietly.
"I love you. I wanted to remember what it was like to be together- to feel like we used to, not just wanting to get off- one last time." Kotetsu explained. Izumo bit his lip and looked down, fidgeting, before turning to Iruka.
"Were allowed to kiss right?" He asked knowing he needed to take this very seriously.
"Yeah, you're allowed to still be together. This is just like giving yourselves a small break or time out to think things over, only, together instead of apart." Iruka said with a smile, happy that they were going to work things out. Izumo nodded and then shyly leaned his head up to kiss Kotetsu gently, who was more the happy to return the kiss.
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They finished getting dressed and cleaned up real quick while Iruka told them about Ibiki getting a team of Genin. They both found this to be hilarious.
"It's not funny! You both know what field he works in. Just think about it! When we were in anbu, we only ever did horrid things. Hell, we still are in anbu doing horrid things. They'd be doing that and more, but they're only genin!" Iruka hissed at the two as he finished straightening his desk out. Their laughter died away when they realized that he was right. They both sighed then, suddenly much older then the 22 years of age that they really were.
"I know. It's getting harder and harder to pretend to be a chunin during the day and then go and do an anbu mission every night. I know we all agreed that we didn't want to become the faceless killers most anbu do, but I don't know how much more I can take." Izumo said as he settled in the chair after he put his vest back on and handed Kotetsu his.
Kotetsu nodded, too.
That had also been a part of the problem. They had a lot of stress from both doing all that work, pretending to be lazy chunin, and having to do all that paper pushing and anything else the Hokage needed during the day, only to go out every night and do some sort of assassination mission with his two partners, only to come back sore, tired and hurting. Then they started the process all over again.
"I know, but what can we do? Do you really want to become a faceless killer?" Iruka asked. They had long ago decided that what one did, all three did. The majority would win if they couldn't agree on something. That's how they all went into Anbu instead of becoming Jounin sensei. Kotetsu wanted to be an anbu, and then Izumo wasn't going to let him go alone. Iruka wasn't going to let either of those two do work like that on their own. They would end up killed, or worse. So they went together.
"We could get out of anbu, altogether." Izumo suggested quietly. Both heads snapped to him, but he refused to look at either of them. This kind of life was slowly killing them. One life had to give to the other.
"We should choose, anbu forever, or go for the jounin exam and become legitimate jounin. We can't keep both lives. It's just too much to take on. We need to plan this carefully. There're many fall backs for each choice." Izumo continued on when he knew they both were listening to him intently.
The other two nodded; they needed to make a choice.
" Like, if we took Anbu, Iruka you would lose the kids. You'd never teach again. Plus, weren't you going out with Kakashi for a bit there? If we take anbu, you wouldn't be able to have him, or anyone outside of anbu again." Kotetsu said, knowing that this kind of decision was big, but they were going to make it right here right now and stick with it.
That's how they always did it. No matter how big the situation is, they would decide what they want, weigh the pro's and con's, and then decide. If it wasn't not unanimous, then majority rules, and they accepted what ever lay in store for them together. They always did everything together.
"Actually, I was with both Gai and Kakashi. I'm not with them anymore. Not that we didn't like it, because we did. It just didn't work out. Kakashi was idiotic with his life sometimes, and he lives to regret his past mistakes. We don't work that way. We live for the here and now. If we make a mistake we, accept that, learn from it, and move on to never make it again. We can't live in the past, only the here and now. He couldn't understand that, and I couldn't accept watching him waste his life away. I just hope that Gai listens to what I said before I left. It might save Kakashi if he does what I said. Anyway, I'm not the only one with something to lose. You would lose all your friends, and your house. I know what that means to you. Are you willing to give that up?" Iruka asked them, wondering what he would do without teaching or caring for kids in his life.
Kotetsu looked to Izumo who looked a bit sad but squared his shoulders. "I would hate to lose the place where we were finally free. The first place where we could be ourselves. Where we could be with each other without worries. I'd hate to lose our home. What I would hate more is to lose you. I know why you wanted to be in anbu. I would understand why you would want to stay in anbu, no matter what. Just like last time, I would stand by your side, through thick and think Kotetsu." Izumo said with a soft smile to the other man.
Kotetsu smiled back and seemed to struggle with himself for a minute before holding his hand out. Izumo took it without hesitation.
"Still, there is repercussions for leaving anbu and going for the jounin exam, too. We would never be able to take on anbu status again, and the people we know would think us weak for leaving the anbu service alive when all have died before us. We would constantly have to watch our backs, and we may even be considered treasonous if one of the missions we did as anbu came back to bite us. Not being able to take on a mission to fix it, we would be executed. That, and just because we leave anbu doesn't mean that the missions are gone. Just that some other team, or inexperienced rookies take our place and if they die on a mission that should have been ours there deaths would be, even if indirectly, our fault. Could we live with that?" Kotetsu asked the others, already knowing his answer.
"No, no I couldn't. I guess that leaves me with anbu. I can't be the reason someone's dead. Not when it's because I've been to far stretched trying to keep a fake life going. One that I choose to have. Even with that said, it'd look a bit funny if we just stopped showing up for our daily lives. " Iruka said; he could not be the reason somebody died. Not because he couldn't keep up a front. He knew that Kotetsu wouldn't want to leave anbu either, so that meant that they were going to move into the anbu headquarters and start living as the full time anbu teams did. He was going to miss this life.
"To make it decided, I can't leave anbu, not when my mother asked me to make her proud and be in anbu to serve Kohana until the day I die. She asked on her death bed. I promised her I would do it. She hated that she could serve in anbu but that it was a cold that killed her in the end. Her name was never etched into the stone. I tried to comfort her and the doctors told her it didn't matter how strong she was, her immune system was weak, nothing in the world could fix that. She begged me. I choose the anbu." Kotetsu said. Izumo looked at Kotetsu with wide eyes. He has known it had something to do with his family but not the details. Apparently Iruka had known what it had been all about.
He felt kind of hurt about this.
"How come you never told me? I knew that it had something to do with your family. I remember when the Hokage told you that she was in the hospital asking for you. You never told me what happened that day. Just that she had died and that you were to become anbu. I guess that makes it final then. We're going into anbu. Iruka's right, though. We can't just disappear. We'll explain to the Hokage what's going on, and we'll have him give us an emergency mission of some sort, and a few days later he can announce our deaths." Izumo said, making it final. The other two nodded their agreement.
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TBC….
I know I said that the romance was going to be a small part of this fic, but even if that's true, I'm a romance fic writer at heart so it still will be there. Just not to such a degree that that's all the fic's about. Not that many should complain, after all who doesn't love a good lemon scene?!
Anyway I know that the scene for the three genin we all love is hardly there, but trust me, this will play a big part later on in the fic. The next chapter will introduce everyone with their paired partners, and all the genin learning about what their future is going to be like. Plus some action (not the kind you got in this chapter).
So Read and Review!