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Sasuke glared daggers at Rakuto as they all stared at each other in an amazing spectacle of a glaring contest. Seeing this the blond leaned over to Iruka slightly and whispered softly enough for the brunet to hear. "Hey, what's going on. Do they know or hate each other or something?" He asked seeing how they still weren't moving.
"Well actually I don't think that they know each other, but their clans do. Naruto you know why the Uchiha's and Hyuuga's don't get a long right?"
"Nope." The blond replied with a big grin.
The brunette teacher sighed. "So much for paying attention in class." He thought trying not to go and roll his eyes in frustration at the blond's dumbness.
"Supposedly the Uchiha bloodline came from the Hyuuga bloodline." He said waiting for the blond to comprehend the information and after a small minute he nodded his head. "The Hyuuga's had became such a huge number of people that after a while they formed a clan. Well, they were both very strong clans, but with different ideal's so they despised the way each other saw things then." Iruka finished explained while redoing his pony tail and Naruto led the information sink in. "And then comes to Rakuto's clan. Now his clan is a lot more complicated. Uchiha's are still Uchiha's as long as they're strong fighters, wear their crest with pride, and have a strong ability to mimic their opponents moves. Hyuuga's on the other hand are known for being able to counter attack a person on a short range battle or hand to hand on combat and their white mysteries eyes."
At that Naruto glanced over at Rakuto taking notice of his posture. He always did stand up straight, while taking notice of his surrounding, even when it would be only the two of them.
"But I thought Hyuuga's had whitish eyes. Maybe even a close to a whitish mix with a hint of lavender while Rakuto has cobalt blue eyes." He asked slightly confused.
"That's true, but Hyuuga's have a third branch and that branch is called the outside branch, were Rakuto is. Meaning that who ever is in that branch is going to take its place of any important Hyuuga that needs to be killed sense they're half breed. Sorta like a an exchange in clan leaders, except they'd use a servant from the third branch. That's because they're a mixture of a Hyuuga and another person or a different clan member other than their own."
"Why half breeds? That's a really messed up way of saying it. I mean... can't they all just get along? And what happened to people loving whoever they wanted? " He said while gritting his teeth together and clutching his hand into a tight fist just knowing the kind of pain that they're probably going through.
He asked, glancing over at his father who now had a slight depressed look on his face.
"Sadly, no Naruto. Hyuugas are persistent. Maybe even more than Uchihas. That's why they became a separate clan. Because they had different views on things."
Naruto nodded his head and looked back at both the men and stared in amazement at how none of them had yet to blink. Yet he was quickly snapped ouut of it as Kakashi cleared his throat and everybody glanced at him.
"Well. Now that we're all here why don't we go and get some dinner. Its already getting late outside." He mentioned even though the sun was still out, but in a few quarters it would nighttime filled with stars sprinkling the night sky. Everyone nodded their head as Rakuto was asked to lead the way.
Naruto smiled happily completely ignoring the tension in the room or tried his best to be oblivious of it. Fallowing Rakuto behind him closely, he allowed his hand to gently brush against his own while Sasuke tried his best not to pay attention to the love scene, while Sakura was staring at them as if she's never seen a gay couple before. Well, knowing her and how oblivious she is to the world except for Sasuke, than yeah. It could have happened.
Finally reaching the dinner table they all sat down in the long wooden rectangular table with Kakashi on one side and Iruka on the other. Meanwhile Sasuke sat next to Naruto and Sakura sat in front of Sasuke. As the servant was about to leave to go on with his regular duties Kakashi insisted that he stayed sense he wanted to hear more about them. Naruto obviously smiled while the servant, seemed slightly worried, but didn't show it. Apparently the only ones to catch that were Kakashi and Iruka. Ignoring that moment Kakashi just summon for the rest of the servants to set the table.
In a matter of moments it was filled with different types of food such as soft succulent udon noodles with the tantalizing smell of fresh herbs and a good six different types of ramen varying from pork, chicken, and to shrimp. Then deep fried shrimp with salmon was served into neat five silver neat plates and glazed over with a sauce that would make any fish lover's mouth turn into a waterfall of drool and Yakitori dipped in tare sauce with some Sake to drink and tri colored Dango on a stick for dessert.
To Iruka and Naruto this was more food that they had ever seen in their home in a month. For them to have this much food was like having a party and even with that they were practically asking for helps from the neighbors and friends. They even had to hold themselves down to not go and ravish the food in front of them. Unlike the other to poor fools, Sakura and Sasuke weren't even the slightest surprised to say the least.
They were completely used to having almost everything given to them and that meant for them to not have to go and bother to cook for food or even look for it when times got bad. Sakura was use to eating only foods that would make her skin keep on staying that healthy glow color that it has, but yet Naruto, someone who could barely dig into his pocket to find one yen seemed to have the same glow to his skin as so did Iruka. Sakura noted as she reached over for the udon noddles and filled her plate with a healthy portion. While Sasuke reached for the Salmon and set it on his plate as so did Kakashi.
As Iruka glanced over at Naruto seeing him eye the ramen as if he were the lion about to attack his pray he whispered only a few words so that the blond could only hear and smiled to himself as he got a curt nod and a blush of embarrassment run across Naruto's cheeks.
Naruto could feel the palms of his hands start to sweat as he reached over to the chicken ramen and filled his bowl with a more than healthy portion, but thankfully Iruka ignored it and nobody paid attention until the slurping noises that the blond was emitting from his side of the table caught everyone's attention. Kakashi, noticing how the blond was too busy eating noticed that Rakuto wasn't eating and raised a curios eyebrow up.
"And why are you not eating Rakuto-san?" Kakashi asked attracting the servants cobalt blues shift back from his state of thinking back into reality.
"I already had dinner Hatake-dono." He said giving a grace full bow while sited down as Sasuke tried his hardest to not roll his eyes.
"Well, sense Naruto will be working over me I'd like to ask you guys, Iruka-san, Rakuto-san, and you, Naruto-san, some questions." He asked as he was replied with acknowledgment nods from all three of them.
"Glad to see that you all agree. Now lets start. How long have you, Rakuto, been going out with Naruto-san?"
"Six months." said Rakuto.
"Four months." said Naruto at the same time as Rakuto and the both looked at each other for a second as Naruto's eyes widen slightly and went back to eating and Kakashi just stared at them beyond confused.
"Actually its six months. Naruto is just bad with numbers so he tends to forget things like these relatively easy." Iruka added in as he slapped his forehead with frustration. At that Sakura just chuckled and Sasuke knew that something was fishy and it wasn't his salmon either. Not to worry, he'd find out eventually. Besides there was more to this relationship than those to led on.
"Well, that's fine." Kakashi continued. "What does Naruto-san and Iruka-san work as?" This question Iruka saw coming, but caught almost everyone else on the table of guard as Sasuke stared at them.
"I use to be a teacher before my illness, and now I work as a gardener for the Yamanaka's." He said grabbing the pink haired girls interest.
"You know the Yamanaka's?" She asked curiously as she tightened her grip on her chopsticks ever so slightly.
Now it was Naruto's turn to speak up. "You bet. Iruka's been working for them for five years now. I just help him around as much as I can when he can't bend over or something." Meanwhile Sasuke and Sakura tried not to laugh as Kakashi let out a soft chuckle and Iruka glared at them all while trying to hide a blush creeping onto his cheeks while Naruto didn't even get what was going on.
Sighing the blond kept on knowing that Iruka would scold him later for it so he tried not to pay that much attention to it.. "Also other than working as a thieve, or was until I was just recently caught, I do whatever job there is out there for me to do. That includes helping build houses and to even pluming." Naruto admitted as Kakashi shook his head in amazement.
"Even prostitution?" Sasuke asked out loud, but immediately took it back as he saw anger flash through Iruka's and Rakuto's eyes while only a slight hint of sadness appeared on Naruto's eyes. "No. Not now at least." He said trying to not show the anger that was about to rise in his voice as he resumed eating his food.
Kakashi not wanting the tension to get any worse than what is was he coughed and continued his questionnaire. "Well that's a good thing Uzumaki-san, that means you know just a little bit about almost everything." He smiled as Naruto replied back with a grin. "Now do any of you two have any fighting experiences with a weapon or hand to hand on combat?" He asked slightly intrigued onto how slim and muscular both males were. Even Sakura took this chance to eye them quickly enough to notice that. Made her wonder how she didn't notice the blond's toned chest while she was stitching him up.
Iruka replied first. "Actually yes. I have a second degree black belt in Karate. I haven't fought in a while, but i still do have some moves." He said while rubbing his right shoulder with his left hand and Naruto agreed. "Trust me. I have the bruises to prove it. Oh, and I know a little Karate, but my specialty is with the Katana." Then Sasuke interrupted.
"How come you didn't have it when we captured you?" He asked as Rakuto glared at him and and he replied back the same way.
"It was taken away from me. Then I retried it from that guy and ran into you were we had our little conflict. Besides, what do you care?"
"Hm... I have to know who I'll be working with for the next year."
"What?! I have to work with this bastard?!" Naruto screamed pointing at Sasuke and glaring at Kakashi. "You never told me I was going to have to work with him! Fine, to do your work for a year, but work with him? Nah. No way. I won't do it!" Naruto said while looking at another direction as Rakuto sighed and stared at Iruka who was glaring daggers at the blond.
"Naruto. Shut up. Be lucky you're even alive at this moment." He said calming the blond down. "I know you don't like it, but its for the best." Iruka said as he saw Naruto calm down in a few moments as everyone stared at the blond's miniature tantrum.
"Don't think I want to do it either. Not like your any better than me blondy." Sasuke thought irritatedly. At least that part didn't come out of his mouth.
Kakashi nodded his head as he noticed that everyone was almost done with their food. "Well my last question is, and sorry ahead of time if I'm wrong, but is Naruto really your child?" he asked eying the blond. Naruto stared at Iruka with pleading eyes as Rakuto looked up to the ceiling in deep thought trying not to pay attention to the situation or even bother to mention a word about it. Even Sasuke and Sakura who had both wanted to know that looked at them.
"No. And that's all I'm saying."
At that Naruto and Rakuto both let a breath that they were holding in escape their lips. At this Kakashi nodded his head and smiled. He wanted to know more. Pry into their private lives, but not now. He'd live it for another time. "I see. Thank you very much for passing by here Iruka-san. It would be a pleasure that you could pass by again, not that you'll need to. Naruto will start to stay here in two days. That should be more than enough time for him to pack all his belonging and yours." At that both of them rose an eyebrow. "And do not worry. I'll leave a spear room here for you to stay also. As a guest for a year."
Naruto glanced at Iruka and smiled. "Well I'm okay as long as you keep that bastard a good distanced away from me. Tch. Thinks his all that cool and stuff." He said standing up about to leave, but before that he walked back and gave a kiss to Rakuto's cheek and grabbed Iruka's arm to lead him out as Rakuto helped them. Sasuke could not control the boiling point of his anger, that the wooden bamboo stick on his hand broke in half because of his tight grip.
"Yes Hatake-dono. I really appreciate your concern. I would gladly stay." He said as he stood up slowly fallowing Naruto and the servant out. "Not like I have a choice. Arguing with you would be a waste of both our times. Besides if I said no, I'd sound rude and if I would have said yes too quickly then it would've seemed that I was just dieing for this to happen." He thought tiredly.
Sakura smiled happily at the couple walking out while Sasuke, was well Sasuke. Grouching either about how he doesn't have a lovey dovey relation with anyone that he likes, not that it has to be the blond, or he just really really hated them. As the small trio in the dinner table saw the group leave Kakashi smiled and looked over at Sakura and Sasuke who had just recently started to talk softly within themselves about random things and decided this was the best time to ask them a few questions.
"So... " he began. "What do you guys think about them."
"I don't think they're so bad. Probably a little less well mannered. I mean the blond didn't even give us his name and ate enough for eight people" she said as everyone looked at the leftover bowls of ramen the blond had finished by himself. "But other than that... they're okay." she said with a small smile.
"And you Sasuke?"
"Tch. Worst idea ever. That blond and me are like oil and water. We will not mix." He said as he stood up in one swift movement almost knocking over the Sake bottle while in the process and left. Then the pink haired girl followed behind him squealing about how much handsomer he looked than usual and if they could spend the night together today. But sadly she only received a shudder as a response meaning a very straightforward than usual, no.
"Kids now a days are no fun." He said grumpily as he finally closed his fan and put it to the side and started to eat his dinner. "Oh this is going to be fun. I wonder how much Sasuke can take before he blows his well covered anger." He thought aloud. "Eh. I'll give him a week." He said as he finished eating his food in a flat out one minute and a half, then he shrugged his shoulders, scratched his neck, and opened his fan and hold it in front of his face where it always was.
Sasuke was pissed. Beyond pissed to be truthful. Not only did he have a yapping chihuahua fallowing him through the hall ways, but now he saw the blond whispering something into that servants ear and kiss his cheek. What was up with that? Did the blond had any sense of dignity or was he trying to rile things up with him. And man was it working. Seeing the servant wave goodbye to them and be walking into the same hallway he was, he took this time to show his hatred for him, but without getting Sakura involved. So he decided to whisper to the servant "Hyuuga." He said it as if it was something dirty that he had to spit out.
But the servant didn't hesitate and replied back with a smirk of his own and word or two.
"Uchiha, watch your back."
"Likewise." Were the only words that were exchanged between them as they both past each other. Secretly they both wanted the other to die a cruel and painful death, but sense this story is only beginning it could take some time. Although Sakura didn't even get was going on. If she didn't know any better she though Sasuke was trying to make a move on the servant and smirked.
"Aw Sasuke-kun. Don't tell me your jealous of Naruto-san for having a boyfriend and your trying to steal him away" she said as she punched his arm playfully. And if hell could break loose and demons could come out Sakura would have been dragged to hell at that very exact second. Sasuke had turned around and gave her such a nasty glare that she was shocked to the core and was even slightly terrified of him for a second. Not to push the subject anymore she laughed nervously and slowly backed away.
"Ah... I think I heard a patient screaming for help. Um, later Sasuke-kun!" she said as she ran off the opposite direction they came from. Sasuke still glaring into the nearest by thing which was a poor tree sighed in frustration. "How the hell is she a nurse and still be so dense!" He muttered to himself still trying to control his anger. Ignoring what had just happened he walked away and resumed his daily activities of going over the plans. Nothing had happened sense they had almost practically finished controlling the main areas of Edo and were now headed to a new region.
Meanwhile, Naruto was walking out of the Shogun's castle with Iruka. Leaning over he smiled and Iruka patted the blond's back. It was night time already and the sky was clear showing the millions of stars that lit their way. Thankfully it had also stopped raining so the ground didn't suck you in right away as it would have when it was raining.
"So Naruto, we'll be home in half an hour or so. More than enough time to start a good conversation. So mind explaining me how you got caught?" he said as the had finished walking out the pavement and submerged themselves into a sea of trees.
Naruto looked away at the piercing gaze that Iruka was giving him and sighed in frustration. "Fine. I had finished robbing some of the jewels that he had and I tripped on the roof and sprained my ankle. Then I was caught and was brought into the Shogun's castle and fell asleep as that pink haired girl fixed my sprained ankle and then you appeared and well you know the rest." he said so see if Iruka would buy it.
Although Iruka wasn't really buying it he decided not to pry. If his son had anything to say to him he would tell him due time. Maybe not in the best of moments, but he still would hear about it. he was a Dad. They knew everything.
"Okay Naruto, if you say so. So just answer me one last question." He asked as he received a short nod from him.
"Where are the jewels?"
At that questioned the blond looked up to the now starry sky and thought about it deeply."
"To say the truth, Iruka, I don't know. I think that some of them might have slipped and fallen to the ground when I feel from the roof, other in the castle, and maybe even some in the forest." Iruka nodded his head at the man next to him. "Well at least you have a hint." he said as they exited the quite forest and into the bustling streets of Edo where the first thing that came to your senses other than the pretty lights where the delicious smell of food. "Why do you ask though?" he wondered. "Because you'll be looking for them and when you find them you'll return them." Iruka said with a bright cheerful smile.
"WHAT?!" Where the only words that slipped out of the lips of him. "Why?!" He pouted as he groaned in tiredness.
"I don't wanna!" he said and crossed his arms over his chest. "Its not a matter of I wanna or not, Naruto. Its a matter of you're going to or else." Naruto knew that tone of voice and it was something he didn't mess with. Sighing he nodded his head and grumpily agreed. "Fine."
"Good. That's my son." He said as he pulled the blond over and gave him a soft kiss on the forehead earning a smile from him. Those kisses had never meant anything flirty or something like that when Iruka did it to Naruto. Well mostly because he really did think of Iruka as a guardian, a mother hen, and an amazing protector that even though he has made some bad choices in his life, like that one he just did of robbery, he was still by his side unlike his parents.
Finally reaching their house Iruka sighed in relief of his aching feet and opened the door. The house was not that big, but perfect for them. It consisted of two floors with two bathroom, one on each floor. The first floor was where all the flowers where sold which were located by the window to attract the customers' attention. They varied from white roses to red tulips all coming from the Yamanaka Flower company. The floor was chestnut hard wood decorated with leaf and flower printings on it. Then cash register was on the back of the shop where two people could come in and help out either to pay for the flowers or make bouquets in front of the customer. And next to it were the stairs that led to the second floor. Also the walls were soft tones and hues of browns and pinks making it for a calming and relaxing environment for the costumer.
Meanwhile the top floor was where they lived. It had two bedrooms and a kitchen where Iruka did most of the cooking. Iruka's room being the biggest was painted with different shades of greens and light blues while the tatami floor seemed to compliment it in an unusual way. While Naruto's room was painted a bright shade of orange, which Iruka hated, but what was he suppose to do? The blond was old enough to make his own mistakes... decisions. How ever you see it. It was also filled with ramen cups every where that Iruka was sick and tired of cleaning up and some porn magazines under his bed. Not that he did a good job at hiding them in the first place.
Helping Iruka up the stairs and into his room he helped him sit down on his bed. "Feeling okay, Iruka?" Naruto asked seeing how Iruka's face was more tired than usual. "Yeah. just a little tired. A lot has happened today and I haven't taken my medication." He said while he reached for few pills next to his bedside and swallowed them without water. Not that they were prescribed to be drank with water anyways. Knowing that, Naruto was glad he didn't tell Iruka about the whole sword incident. He would have probably freaked out and made it harder on him. As Naruto stood up and was about to leave he felt Iruka grab the hem on his sleeve and stare at him directly in the eyes.
"Naruto. How long are you and Rakuto plan to keep this game up. You two are just really good friends, I still don't know why you said that lie in front of the Uchiha and the Shogun." He said while looking at his blond with a slightly worried look on his face. "Nothing much really." he said while sitting down next to Iruka and pushing him down to the bed as he snuggled into the brunette in a childish way While wrapping his arms around him. "I just don't want to get hurt by an Uchiha again." He said feeling that pain in his heart start to appear again.
"Don't worry Naruto." He said as he ran his fingers through the blond's locks of hair trying to sooth him seeing how he was already clutching the fabric of his clothing. "Last time there wasn't anybody to warn you or protect you about what happened, but this time you have me and Rakuto. And I promise you nothing will happen. Not this time." Hearing those reassuring words the blond nodded his head and snuggled his head deeper into the brunettes chest as Iruka just looked up at the pale colored seeing before closing his eyes and thinking about his son's past as Naruto also started to fall asleep.
"I swear Naruto. I'll protect you." he mumbled softly to himself before his dreams engulfed him.
I would also like to mention the whole Uchiha and Hyuuga thing. I just added the third branch to make it seem a lot more interesting and well the rest was just probably made up by my. I hope you can understand it. I was trying to make it as simple as possible. Sorry if I confused some people.
Thank you all for reading this chapter I hope you all enjoyed it. tell me what you think about this chapter and review it please. I'd really appreciate it. Oh and if anybody could beta read this then please help me out. I've already asked a large sum of people, but they either don't reply or seemed to be occupied with beta reading somebody elses stories. I'm not mad, just incase if they're reading this and wondering if I am. I not, no need to worry. Actually good luck to them ^_^. I'll try to update as soon as I can. So goodnight ^_^ And please review.
