I know it's been a while since I last updated. I'm sorry for keeping you all waiting.
I've had a lot of things going on and wasn't able to update any of my stories.
Now that things have gone back to normal I'll be able update more often.

-hyperemoninja

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UNBETAED- My beta reader has started school again and hasn't had time to check over my chapters T_T


Tsunade looked up at the person who walked into her office.
"So have you decided on who it's going to be?" she asked looking up at the sliver haired man.
Kakashi gave a happy little eye smile and nodded " I asked Asuma if he could bring him over here."

Tsunade blinked and stared at Kakashi. Had she heard right? Why couldn't the baka just bring whoever he had picked with him instead of sending poor Asuma after the guy. Had the fool done something and was to afraid to confront this person? What could have possibly happened for Kakashi to be sending someone else to retrieve his chosen person...unless he had...no Kakashi wouldn't have done that now would he? She frowned, already she was getting the feeling that she wasn't going to be to happy with Kakashi's decision.

"Kakashi..." Tsunade said her eyes narrowed into slits, she was quickly starting to lose her temper at the copy nin's silence.

"Mah Baa-chan" Kakashi finally said using Naruto's word of affection. "Stop looking at me like that. I didn't seduce the guy if that's what you were thinking. " Kakashi chided giving the Hokage his a upside down 'u' eye smile.

"Kakashi what did you do. Why did you ask Asuma to go get this person instead of going yourself." Tsunade said glaring in disapproval at him. This wasn't something she really wanted anyone to find out about. It was a risk for Kakashi to be even thinking of having a child there were many people who would be interested in getting their hands on Hatake's heir.

"Asuma doesn't actually know why I asked him to bring this guy. He isn't the kind of person to get involved in other people's business." Kakashi replied defending his actions and his friends loyalty.

"Who was it Kakashi? Who did you ask Asuma to bring." Tsunade asked voice dripping with anger at Kakashi for not coming out and just telling her who it was.

"Who was it? Hmm...it was a little dolphin... I believe he goes by the name of Iruka Umino." Kakashi answered sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
"WHAT!" Tsunade yelled making her the walls tremble.

Kakashi looked unfazed at her outburst and continued as if nothing had happened. "Mah you know the academy teacher, cute scar across the nose, always wears has his hair in a pony tail. Although I do wonder what it would look like if it was down." Kakashi murmured to himself lost in thought of what Iruka would look like with his hair down. He realized he had trailed off and continued where he had left off. "and for some reason he doesn't seem to like Icha Icha, but I have no idea why he wouldn't..."

Tsunade shut her eyes, taking deep breaths trying to tune Kakashi out and calm herself down before she punched him through the did Kakashi have to chose one of her best teachers? As if things weren't as bad as they were with having to hide the fact that Kakashi wanted to be father. If this got out then her office would be swarmed with kunoichi and village women wanting to be the ones to carry Kakashi's baby. That wasn't counting the swarm that would come on Iruka behalf. Now Kakashi had his eyes set on having Iruka of all people. When Tsunade finally felt she had calmed down enough she slowly opened her eyes and caught Kakashi's last words.

"...has a fiery temper, likes to yell, is good with brats, has the most beautiful brown doe like eyes, seems to not respect those who are on a higher rank them him, has the most perky..."

"KAKASHI!" Tsunade yelled quickly interrupting him from finishing the sentence, she gave him a scandalized look.
"Oh sorry I got carried away there for a moment." Kakashi said grinning underneath his mask.

"What the hell were are you thinking Kakashi, you and Iruka don't have the best relationship as it is, hell you don't even have one. Iruka doesn't have the best opinion of you since the Chuunin nominations and you insulted and embarrassed him in front of his peers with your they are no longer you students but my soldier's comment." Tsunade reminded and sighed sounding distressed

She looked Kakashi straight in the eye. "Just what were you thinking..."

"Lady Tsunade" Kakashi said losing all playfulness and becoming serious "I understand your worried and I admit you have a point with the fact that Iruka and I are not on the best of terms, but I thought about it carefully and chose among the few I believed would work. I came up with Iruka as the best candidate, not only is he good with children he has experience with them as well, he's loyal, patient, understanding, loving, considerate, and well I believe he's the most suitable for this." Kakashi finished giving her a serious look the usual slouch was gone. He was now standing at his full height, no longer was it the laid back, lazy Jounin standing before her, but the intense sharingan Kakashi, the Anbu, the man of over 1,000 jutsu's. He new were she was coming from with her comment about what he was thinking when he had set his mind on the young Chunnin. Iruka was the only one who might be able to understand him and truthfully Kakashi didn't trust anyone else, but Iruka to raise his child.

Tsunade gave a tired sigh and looked at him. She knew that Kakashi had thought this through, but she was still irritated about the fact that he had gone ahead and not consulted her about his particular choice when he knew what her reaction would be. Now she would have to explain the situation to Iruka and honestly it wasn't something she was looking forward to. Of course Iruka wouldn't have to agree to this, but knowing Kakashi he wouldn't give up easily on him. No, matter what the damn council said she would not make Kakashi do something he didn't want to do. There was no way she could force Kakashi to chose someone else when he had his eyes set on somebody already. She understood that Kakashi wanted someone who would be a good parent and help him with raising the child.

"Kakashi, I really don't now what to say. What if Iruka says no then what will you do? You know the council will be pushing you into having a child and although I won't make you do anything against your will they might decide to take things into there own hands."

"Lady Tsunade, I'm sorry, but I've made my decision and nothing is going to change it. I've been wanting this for years and I've finally been able to get my life on track. my life is finally stabilized and the only one who I believe will help me achieve this is Iruka. He doesn't worship me like so many others do nor does he treat me different just because I'm Kakashi Hatake. Iruka treats me the same as any normal person. He doesn't care about all my titles, my accomplishments or failures, wither I'm handsome or ugly. He doesn't care about any of these things. I know he and I are not on the best of terms ever since the Chuunin exams and I know my teasing doesn't help in that matter,but I can't seem to help it. Honestly, I can no longer take the lustful looks he's getting and I didn't want someone to snatch him away from me." Kakashi answered sincerely.

Tsunade took in his words she understood what he was saying. Kakashi wasn't an emotional guy he kept his emotions in check and for him to be this honest and heartfelt about this was something else. Although this didn't mean it would make things any easier it told her how serious he was about it. He was a Jounin after all and most Jounin were rather strange but for him get to the point of the matter and with so much emotion...it was truly something.

"I understand Kakashi I'll explain things to Iruka, but I want you to give him some space afterwards for him to think things through alright? I don't want him to feel pressured." Tsunade said.

"I understand" Kakashi answered.

"Oh and Kakashi, I'm going to send someone to tell Asuma not to bring Iruka. I'd like you to bring him here tomorrow morning." Tsunade stated. She couldn't help but notice that Kakashi seemed ready to protest and she stopped him before he could. "If it will make you feel better you can go in your Anbu attire."

Kakashi gave a nod and teleported away to the living room of his house. He walked to this bathroom and turned on the water, slowly undressing and stepping into the shower letting the warm water help him clear his thoughts. He had been attracted to the Chuunin for a while now, but for some reason he had the habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. He would sometimes say the worst possible thing to him, always insulting him, degrading him for being a mere Chuunin and being so soft hearted. It wasn't that he meant it...he just couldn't seem to ever say anything that didn't offend the guy. Kakashi actually admired the little Chuunin for not shutting off from his emotions and allowing himself to love and care for others even though he had already lost so many of his loved ones and knowing that the possibility of loosing more was still there. He really hoped things would work out. He quickly rinsed himself and stepped out of the shower,put on a robe, dried his gravity defying hair, which at the moment was dripping wet, with a towel and got ready for bed. His thoughts filled with a certain brown eyed Chunnin and what was to come tomorrow.

____The next moring_____

Iruka awoke to the ringing of his alarm clock, he groaned as he turned to read the red numbers, why was he so sore?And why was he on the floor? He slowly sat up and winced at the pain that ran through his sore back. He remembered coming home yesterday after eating ramen with Naruto and the others from team seven, how he had walked home and into his house to be grabbed from behind by Radiou and...Hold on a minute. He glanced on the bed and found a rather content Jounin who seemed to be hogging the whole bed. Iruka eyes narrowed as he glared at the man who had taken over his bed. At least now he knew why he had ended up on the floor. One thing many people didn't know about Radiou was that he was a bed hogger. He would end up knocking most of his bed mates of the bed. How Genma dealt with it was beyond him, but maybe the fact that their bed was against the wall had something to do with it. Iruka stifled a yawn and got into the shower, glad that the warmth had soothed his sore muscles. Once he was done he got out of the shower and put on some boxers. He wiped at the foggy mirror and looked into it trying to figure out wither he should get his haired trimmed or not. Even when it was put up in a ponytail it would end up brushing the back of his neck.

"I don't think you should cut it." Radiou commented watching from the bed were he was putting on his shoes. "Even if you do it wouldn't stop you from looking so pretty and cute."

"I'm not pretty!

"Stupid Jounin." Iruka muttered as he continued getting dressed. That damn comment was going to bug him all day and Radiou new it too. Every time his hair brushed against his neck it would remind him that many men and women alike would think he was even more prettier with longer hair.

Iruka turned and looked at Radiou. "I told you nothing was going to happen. No one came not Kakashi or anyone else."

"I know." Radiou sighed standing up and stretching. He had been so sure that someone was going to come last night. He couldn't have been mistaken something strange was going on.

"Hey does Genma know that you spent the night here?" Iruka asked hoping that Genma wouldn't think the wrong think.

"Yeah he knows. I told him yesterday that I was going to sleep over here." Radiou answered.

"He was probably happy that he was going finally got the bed all to himself." Iruka commented grinning at the look he was getting from Radiou.

"Hey! I'm not that bad." Radiou said trying to defend himself.

"Sure your not. There must be some other reason as to why I ended up on the floor." Iruka replied trying to keep a straight face.

"There is!"

-------Sometime later after Radiou left------

Once he grabbed his things he made his way to the door, but before he could open it he heard a knock. He blinked in surprise who could it possibly be? It was still to early for anyone to be visiting and he still had to get to the academy. When he opened it he found an Anbu standing on his porch and not just any Anbu ,but the hound himself. Looks like Rai was right Iruka thought to himself.

"Hound-san how may I help you?" Iruka asked nervous at finding an Anbu of such high rank standing at his door step,
"Lady Hokage wishes to speak with you." the Hound answered.
"What? Right now?"Iruka asked.
"Yes" the Anbu answered.
"But I have my class to teach." Iruka protested.

The Hound couldn't help but smile underneath his porcelain mask the little sensei was just so adorable.

"It has already been taken care of. A subsitute will be taking over you class for today."
"Oh...alright then." Iruka said "Let me just put my things away."
"Very well then. I'll tell her your on your way." and with that the Anbu was gone.

Iruka turned to look at the spot the Hound had just been at. Why would Lady Tsunade need to talk to him. Could Radiou be right about Lady Tsunade sending him on some kind of mission?

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Tsunade looked up as the Hound entered her office.

"So have you given Iruka the message?" she asked.
"Yeah he's on his way." the Hound said taking off his porcelain mask reveal a rather amused Kakashi " He didn't seem to happy with being called on before school or that he would have a subsitute taking over his class."

"I see. Well, the sooner we get this cleared up the better." She said as she rearranged some of the paperwork on her desk.

"Kakashi I told you yesterday that I wanted you to be here when I talked to Iruka, but I would like to talk to him in private first."

"Fine then I'll go and get changed." kakashi said getting ready to leave.
"Oh and Kakashi if your planning on listening in make sure to conceal your chakra and don't come in until I say you can understand." she said giving him a stern look. She knew he was planning on listening in through her window. Kakashi just gave her an innocent look and then a nod and was gone.

A couple of minutes later there was a knock on her door and Shizune peeked her head in.
"Lady Tsunade Iruka-sensei is here to see you."
"Tell him to come in." Tsunade said getting herself ready to face an unhappy Iruka.

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Once at home Kakashi quickly changed out of his Anbu uniform and into the Jounin uniform he normally wore. He had to admit he was slightly dreading the encounter with Iruka. Fixing his head band he thought back to what had caused him to make his decision. After coming back yesterday from a c-rank mission with Sasuke and Naruto he had been planning on telling the Hokage who he had chosen, but first he had gone to turn in the mission report. When he got to the mission room he had overheard a conversation about a certain brunets attractive body and what the speakers wanted to do to him. Kakashi wasn't dense he knew how attractive Iruka was and it was a miracle that he hadn't been snatched up yet. Being Kakashi he had snuck up on them and had made a little innocent comment to them about how to keep certain precious body parts attached to their person. They had all watched him twirling his kunai in his hand and had quickly fled. He knew he really didn't have any right to behave as if Iruka was his, well at least not yet. He could tolerate some of the looks Iruka got but lately Iruka's admirers had gotten bolder, teasing the sensei in hopes of getting him to blush, openly flirting with him, the not so discreet accidental gropes, the lingering touches. Every man had to draw the line somewhere and Kakashi had already had enough. When he had seen Iruka inviting Naruto and Sasuke out to get ramen he couldn't help but tag along. When he had left the ramen stand he had gone to ask Asuma the favor of getting Iruka and then he had gone straight to the Hokage. Thinking back on it the only reason he has asked Asuma to bring Iruka instead of going himself was because he didn't want to face Iruka before Tsunade had talked with him. Now all that was left was to talk to Iruka and explain the situation to him.

Iruka walked in and stood in front of Tsunade's desk.
"Lady Tsunade, can I say something before you tell me why I was called." Iruka asked looking at her straight in the eyes.
"Go on." she said folding her hands on her desk and gave him all of her attention.
"Last night after taking Naruto and Sasuke out to eat I went home and found Radiou waiting for me. For some reason he thinks you and Kakashi are planning something."Iruka stated.

"Really now?" Tsunade asked frowning slightly. "I wounder how much he knows?"

"Knows about what?" Iruka asked clearly confused. "Lady Tsunade what going on? Why was I called?"

"Iruka, I think you should sit down." Tsunade said motioning to the chair in front of her desk.

Iruka obeyed and sat down waiting for his Hokage to tell him what was going on.

"Before I start ,Iruka, I would like you to stay quiet and listen to what I have to say. Don't interrupt until I'm finished." Tsunade said giving him a rather stern look.

Iruka gave a small nod. He had to admit he was starting to get nervous.

"As you must know Kakashi is the last of the Hatakes, the last of his bloodline. His father never had any other children, so Kakashi ended up being an only child. The family name and legacy now lays on Kakashi's shoulders. Since Kakashi is one of the most elite Jounin his life can be rather hectic with him going on dangerous missions on a daily basis, risking his life for the well being of the village and its people. Many shinobi find it difficult to settle down and raise children since most of the time only on parent stays home to raise the child because the other has to continue their ninja duties. Kakashi had finally been able to get his life together and wants to have a child, apart from that the council has been reminding him that he has to have a heir." Tsunade paused to take a sip of her sake and glance at the window.

"Lady Tsunade with all due respect I still don't see how this has anything to do with me." Iruka commented.

"I haven't finished yet Iruka you'll understand everything when I'm finished alright." Tsunade said giving him a small smile.
"Alright." Iruka replied waiting for her to continue.

"Now that Kakashi is ready to be a father there is still the problem of him finding a suitable...person to carry his child, but there's a slight problem. Kakashi's sexual preference doesn't include women, and he doesn't want to have anything sexual to do with any woman. So we had to come up with something else, some other solution to this problem. Together Kakashi, Shizune and I have study certain forbidden scrolls and we found a jutsu that can solve this problem of having a woman carry his child. We have finally been able to perfect the jutsu so all I needed Kakashi to do was to choose the person he wanted to carry his child. I of course helped him make a list and once he had picked the person he informed me yesterday. I know your probably wondering what this has to do with you so I'll go ahead and get to the point. Iruka, Kakashi has picked you. He wants you to be the one to have his child...."

Tsunade had done her part in informing Iruka and she could feel Kakashi growing anxious. She sighed and hoped she wasn't making a mistake."Kakashi you can come in now."

Kakashi peeked over the side of the window and climbed through it moving to sit on the edge of Tsunade desk, right in front of Iruka. A shocked, pale Iruka just sat there staring at Kakashi. He hadn't been expecting to see Kakashi so soon after getting told about his decision.

"Yo" Kakashi said giving Iruka a little wave and his eye crinkling up into a smile.
"You...." Iruka said trailing off.

"Me" Kakashi said.

"You...."

"Yes?" Kakashi asked.

"You want me to-to...What the hell Kakashi!" Iruka asked finally getting over the shock.

"You can't be serious!"

Tbc