Welcome to Yaoi High!
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Chapter 3;
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A curious little blush was plastered on the man's face as he stalked the empty halls.
What appeared to be glee was evident on the half-covered face as his eyes curved and closed in a pleasant manner.
A barely sustained giggle was muffled before he squealed with childish mirth when he turned a page of his suspicious-looking orange book.
Icha Icha Paradise was printed in bold letters on the front cover.
Kakashi wiggled and squirmed with unconstrained joy as he swooned over the next events taking place in his XXX-rated, extremely graphic novel. Oh how the perverted-sensei worshipped the creator of Icha Icha Paradise so...
The silver-haired teacher passed by an open classroom. Fortunately for him, he had the last period free to read all the porn he wanted. And Kakashi was going to continue enjoying his novel when something caught his attention. He retraced his steps as he glanced curiously from the corner of his eyes, peering into the opened classroom. From his peripheral view, he saw a teacher stacking up some papers; a teacher he had never seen before. Kakashi was informed that they had a new addition to the teaching staff, but he was never introduced to this new staff member.
And so, Kakashi saw it as his duty to get to know all teachers.
Particularly if said new teacher was very, very cute and very, very attractive.
Closing his book and tucking it in his coat, Kakashi whistled to himself as he casually strode up to the classroom door. All the meanwhile his gaze never left the rather cute new teacher and Kakashi looked amused to realize said teacher was not aware of his presence yet.
Yes, indeed, Kakashi had a thing for cute-new-male-teachers. This one looked slightly younger than him with tanned skin and dark hair pulled back in a short pony-tail. Just-as-dark eyes scanned the papers on his desk before he closed his eyes and let out a sigh. He looked lithe and small, but not too small, just something less of 'average.' A noticeable scar crossed over the bridge of his nose and beneath his eyes, but it did little to deter the amounts of cuteness radiating from him.
Inner Kakashi looked ready to pounce and ravish his new prey.
Outer Kakashi approached the man calmly.
He raised a fist and raked them lightly on the door.
And for the first time, lazy eyes met the shy (and yet, not that shy) gaze of Umino Iruka.
"Can I help you?" Iruka asked, tilting his head the slightest bit.
Inner Kakashi cooed appreciatively. Yes, very cute.
"Aa... well, I heard we have a new addition to the staff, and since I have never met him..." Kakashi's eyes curved and closed, indicating he was smiling since Iruka could not really see a smile beneath that scarf of his. He gestured at himself as he said smoothly, "Hatake Kakashi."
Iruka opened his mouth to respond when:
"...Iruka-san!" And in all 'youthful' and green glory, Gai appeared, looking out of breath. But he quickly composed himself and beamed. "Aa, and Kakashi-san!"
"...Gai..." Kakashi drawled out, sidling to the side and away from Gai.
Gai threw an arm around Kakashi. "My Eternal Rival! I have not seen you in a while! You must join me for some laps today after school!"
"I am quite busy after school, Gai." The silver-haired man plucked the other man's arm off of him.
"You can never be too busy for some hearty exercise!"
"Hn..." Kakashi merely smiled, but a twitch of his eyebrow was scarcely visible.
"...Did you want something, Gai-san?" Iruka asked, politely clearing his throat.
"Aa, yes, yes..." The man with the thick eyebrows quickly took on a business-like attitude. "You are Uzumaki Naruto's caretaker, right?"
"Yes..." Iruka answered slowly, suspiciously, eyes narrowing the slightest bit. "...Why?"
"...Well you see... Uzumaki-kun..."
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"...Punched him?"
Iruka was furious.
"You punched him, Naruto?"
The blonde winced as Iruka's voice rose an octave higher.
"He -"
"How could you punch him!"
"-deserved it!"
"It's only your first day of school and you're already getting into fights!"
"But he deserved it!" Naruto defended himself, frustrated that his Guardian could just not understand, and frustrated knowing he could not make him understand, especially when he was in his 'Mother Hen' mode.
And it did not help Naruto at all considering his homeroom teacher was standing off to the side, smiling amusedly, while his PE teacher nodded in agreement and approval to Iruka's nagging.
"Detention, Naruto!"
"What? But... Iruka...!" Naruto huffed and made a show of looking aghast. "I already have detention! No thanks to that Uchiha-sensei-teme..."
"Naruto!" Iruka looked livid now.
The blonde cringed, realizing his mistake.
"You do not talk about your teachers that way," Iruka reprimanded, eyeing him. "...And detention already on your first day? First detention, and then getting into a fight?"
"But I didn't even do anything...!"
"That's what they all say," the peanut gallery (aka Kakashi) muttered to Gai.
"Right," Iruka said flatly. He crossed his arms and stared down at Naruto in a disapproving manner. "I will have a talk with Uchiha-san. Since you already have detention with him, I'm sure he will not mind spending an extra week with you."
Naruto gaped at him.
Kakashi couldn't help but look pleasantly amused at how much the blonde imitated a fish so well...
...and at how much cuter Iruka just kept getting, especially when he was in his 'Mother Hen' mode and so adorably angry.
Naruto opened his mouth, preparing to yell, protest, kick up a fight... but decided to take a different approach. He snapped his jaws shut and looked at Iruka with innocent, bright blue eyes. "Ano sa, ano sa, Iruka-sensei..."
(Naruto had Iruka as a teacher sometime in primary school. Naruto lived with foster parents at the time, but his foster parents never liked him. Eventually, Iruka and Naruto got close -- close enough for Iruka to see what bad conditions Naruto lived in before he managed to persuade Naruto's foster parents --although with little difficulty -- to let Iruka adopt the blonde. Even after all the years, Naruto did not grow out of the habit of referring to Iruka as 'sensei.')
"I promise not to eat ramen for three days. How's that instead of increasing my detention with Uchiha-te... sensei?"
To add to the effect, Naruto bat his eyelashes and mustered the most cutest and innocent expression he possibly could.
Iruka's eyebrow twitched.
Kakashi and Gai exchanged amused expressions, for they were not aware of the blonde's love for ramen. But Iruka was aware of this love... and that 'not eating ramen for at least a day' was a feat all in its own for Naruto.
His brow twitched again.
...But he was not swayed.
"Ba-ka," he scolded, thwacking Naruto upside the head.
Said boy held his head and pouted at his guardian slash ex-teacher.
It was worth a shot.
And yet, even though Naruto had an extra week or so of detention with that Uchiha, it was all worth it.
That bastard that had dared to comment about his manhood (which -- Naruto argues -- isn't as small as that bastard made it out to be), deserved being punched in the face.
What was his name again? Sky? Sigh? Sy? Sai? Something like that.
Sai, he figured. Well, whatever his name was, he deserved being punched for insulting his manliness.
And, if he said so himself, he radiated manliness.
(...This coming from a boy whose body physique was below your average male, skinny, lithe, slender, and had an air of feminism... or better yet, screamed uke-ness... but well he doesn't realize that yet so shh. Would hate to burst his little bubble of male-egotism, ya know.)
But really, if Gai-sensei hadn't came and interrupted their little tussle (in which Naruto was so about to kick Sai's freakin' ass), then Naruto would have done much more damage to that guy than just a black eye… At the thought of seeing Sai with a black eye, a feral grin crossed Naruto's face as he chuckled snidely to himself. He was positively bursting with glee and giddiness at the prospect of such a sight – glee and giddiness that didn't go unnoticed because of his excited squirming and his just as excited cackle.
Iruka gave him a warning look.
Not wanting to get anymore detention than he already had, Naruto instantly fell quiet.
…But grinned away for all he was worth.
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The next day Naruto went to school, it was obvious word had gotten around about what took place in the boy's locker room sixth class because he saw people glancing at him and making no effort to hide what they were talking about. Naruto ignored them though as he slung his book bag casually over his shoulder, his other hand stuffed in his pocket as he crossed the halls of Konoha's All Boy High School and stalked into his Homeroom class. Just as he stepped in, the bell rang and Naruto took his seat next to Gaara. Unsurprisingly, Kakashi hadn't arrived yet to his class.
"Can you believe I got detention just for punching that bastard?" Naruto grunted to Gaara, scowling. "Iruka-sensei can be so mean…"
"…"
"I mean, wouldn't you do the same thing if someone insulted your manhood, Gaara?" Naruto turned to the redhead with a demanding look.
Gaara spared him a glance, his expression blank and unchanged.
But he couldn't help musing over the question. What would Sabaku no Gaara do if someone did dare to insult his manliness?
While Gaara amused himself with thoughts of having powers to control sand and use said sand to crush a human body… Naruto suddenly felt someone roughly pat him on his back, and he looked up startled to see two boys standing by his desk – one he recognized as the weird sunglasses kid from his Art Class – Aburame Shino, he thinks his name is – and another guy with spiky, wild dark brown hair and dark eyes and two red triangular shaped markings on either of his cheeks, the one who had patted him roughly on the back and commented,
"Oi! You're the kid that punched Sai, ya?"
"Aa…" Naruto eyed him and scowled. "But I'm not a kid!"
"Hai, hai, if you say so," he commented absently, one hand moving to rest on his hip while he made a dismissive gesture with the other hand. "But I saw the punch…" He grinned toothily, and Naruto couldn't help but notice how his eye teeth were abnormally sharp and looked like canines. "It was awesome."
"…Yeah, I know." Naruto imitated his toothy grin.
The boy held out a hand. "Inuzuka Kiba."
Naruto took it and they shook. "Uzumaki Naruto."
"This is Aburame Shino," Kiba said, gesturing at the quiet boy with the sunglasses who gave Naruto an acknowledging nod. Kiba glanced uneasily at Gaara, but he continued grinning. "Gaara."
Gaara merely glanced at them before looking away and closing his eyes, arms crossed as he resumed ignoring.
Is he always like this? Naruto wondered vaguely as he looked at Gaara. He shrugged to himself. Whaaaatever.. Naruto grinned at Kiba and Shino. "Aa, ignore Gaara… since he's ignoring us but… I'm guessing he's always like that."
"Heh, yeah." Kiba made a dismissive gesture with his hand. Apparently everyone at that school knew exactly what Gaara was like… everyone except Naruto since the blonde was always seen following Gaara and talking to him. But well, it wasn't in Kiba's place to tell anyone who to hang out with and who not to hang out with… so if Naruto wanted to hang around Sabaku no Gaara, then hell if he would do anything about it.
…Even if him telling Naruto that Gaara was dangerous; that he had anger-management issues and tended to beat the crap out of anyone who angered him enough to be beat the crap out of… Even if telling Naruto all that would save his life… weeeeeeeell…
Let the blonde find out the hard way. Everyone else did.
Poor kid. And Kiba thought he was pretty cute too. Maybe a bit too cute for Kiba to just let him risk his life so… but oh well. Kiba grinned at Naruto as he patted the shorter boy on the head, making the blonde scowl and crease his brows at this. "Well, gotta go return back to the other side of the classroom. I'll be seein' ya around, blondie."
And with that, him and Shino dispersed to the far, far, far side (which really isn't that far) of the classroom.
"Oi! Don't call me that!" Naruto pointed after him, but Kiba simply barked out a laugh as he walked away. The blonde plopped down in his seat, cheeks puffed out with indignation before he looked at Gaara.
The red head was still sitting there, arms crossed and eyes closed and all, as if the world didn't matter.
Naruto tilted his head as he continued to study him. It was then he noticed for the first time that Gaara had some sort of tattoo/marking on his left temple. He couldn't really make out what it was, but it was Kanji, that much he knew, he just had trouble distinguishing what it meant exactly because of Gaara's bangs getting in the way. Naruto tapped his chin with the eraser of his pencil before...
Lightbulb!
Idea!
Naruto carefully leaned forward in his seat and towards Gaara as he stretched out his hand holding the pencil. He had to be cautious about this. He didn't want to disturb the red-head out of whatever meditative state he was in. He gnawed on his bottom lip as he inched closer and closer, his pencil moving towards Gaara's bangs as he focused on trying to get close enough to carefully shift his bangs so he could see the kanji. His tongue stuck out from the corner of his lips as he neared -- closer and closer still...
And then Naruto blinked as his vision was invaded by glaring jaded eyes.
The shorter boy gulped and laughed nervously, his pencil dropping from his hand and clattering on the desk where it rolled off and plummeted to the ground. Naruto flashed Gaara an innocent, toothy grin as the red-head glared at him and wondered what the hell this boy was doing in his personal space. But before Gaara could open his mouth to tell Naruto to back off, the blonde had hastily and abruptly raised his hand to brush aside Gaara's bangs. The gesture made green eyes widen, mild surprise present on his features.
Cerulean blue eyes brightened as Naruto was finally able to recognize the character.
"Aa... sou ka..."
He sat back down and grinned at Gaara, who was still looking at him with some shock and confusion. Naruto pointed. "'Ai.' The tattoo on your forehead. Love. That's nice... different, but nice."
Gaara blinked slowly before his expression returned back to the normal blank and detached one. "...Hn."
"You don't look like the type who would have something like 'love' imprinted on your forehead," Naruto mused thoughtfully before crouching down to pick up his pencil. "You look like you'd have... 'hardcore biatch' or 'don't mess with me' or something along those lines." He sat back up and snickered, flashing Gaara a crooked grin.
"...Hardcore... bi...atch?" Gaara repeated slowly, imaginary brows creasing.
Naruto started laughing.
Gaara frowned and scowled, wondering what was so funny.
Apparently Naruto understood what the look was for because he pointed at Gaara before laughing again. "...The way you said that... haaa... never mind." He scratched his cheek before resting his hands on his knees, leaning towards Gaara as his bright blue eyes lit with curiosity. "Ano sa, ano sa, Gaara... Why do you have 'ai' on your forehead anyways?"
Gaara looked at him before looking away.
He didn't feel obligated to answer his question, so he wasn't going to, and luckily their teacher's sudden appearance stopped him from having to.
The class had been to busy to notice the oddly-dressed Kakashi come into the classroom. It was only when the silver-haired teacher raised his hand and said "Yo," did the students turn around in their seats to stare at their sensei.
The man's eyes were closed in the usual manner, a smile hiding away behind that scarf of his. While yesterday he had been wearing a navy blue scarf, today he opted for a light green one with yellow stripes. It was amazing how he could wear one when it was such a nice, sunny day outside... Kakashi nudged his glasses up his nose, for they were sliding down again, and he peeked open one eye in order to peer inquisitively at his quiet class. He simply scratched the back of his head when his class groaned and shook their heads, chiding their teacher for being late -- again.
"Aa... gomen..." Kakashi took his glasses off and wiped them with the hem of his shirt. "You see... I came across this really cute kitty cat that was stuck in a tree and..."
Everyone already started tuning him out.
"...And then this little old lady thought I was trying to harm her ickle Fluffy-kins so she attacked me with her purse-of-bricks and..."
Naruto was the only one staring at Kakashi with apt fascination as he hung on to every word.
"...S.W.A.T. team and all came and tried to arrest me thinking I was harming the little old lady and..."
"Yare, yare..." someone in the back interrupted.
Naruto blinked and looked to the side. Somewhere in the middle-back, a bored looking boy with black hair pulled back in a short pony tail sat, arms crossed and an incredulous and lazy expression plastered on his face.
"...So troublesome, Kakashi-sensei..." the boy commented with a sigh.
Kakashi looked unphased by his comment as he made a dismissive gesture with his hand. "Maa, maa, Shika-chan..." the silver-haired teacher cooed, almost causing the lazy boy to topple off his chair from surprise at the little nickname. "I have no control over what happens during my mornings coming to school."
'Shika-chan' made a face before looking disinterested and shrugging his shoulders.
Naruto blinked as he continued to study this 'Shika-chan.'
He found it absolutely amazing how the boy could look so lazy so... effortlessly...
Not even he, Naruto, could look and sound that lazy.
And Naruto found this Shika-chan utterly amazing.
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Couple Classes later - Lunch time
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"Oi, Na-ru-to!"
Naruto looked over to see Kiba waving to him, Shino, 'Shika-chan', Lee, and some other big guy standing with him.
"Come eat lunch with us!"
"Hai!" Naruto waved over before turning to Gaara. "C'mon, Gaara!"
"...No," Gaara grunted, turning around to walk away.
Naruto blinked in confusion before walking around the red-head and standing in his path. "Wrong way." He turned Gaara around and started shoving him in the direction of Kiba and the others. "They're that way."
"I said no," Gaara growled irritably, teeth gritted as the blonde pushed him forward incessantly.
Naruto ignored him as he hummed happily once they made it to the group of guys. He patted Gaara on the back and kept an arm slung around the red head's shoulders to prevent him from going anywhere. A vein pulsed in Gaara's temple. The group of boys stared at them for some moments before they decided it was best not to comment on the fact that Naruto was touching Gaara -- something no smart person ever did. They already distinguished Naruto wasn't the brightest one on the block.
"Hey Kiba-kun, Shino-kun, Lee-kun! Aa... Shika-chan, was it?"
"..."
The big guy almost choked on the chips he was eating as Kiba snickered and Lee blinked and Shino remained indifferent.
"...It's Nara Shikamaru," 'Shika-chan' corrected, peering at Naruto with one eye closed before he shook his head and shrugged it off.
"Aa... okay." Naruto grinned and then looked at the big guy. "...And you are...?"
The 'big guy' straightened up and saluted rather clumsily to Naruto, his other hand holding his bag of chips close to his chest. "Akimichi Chouji!"
"Chou-ji..." Naruto mused as he glanced up at the ceiling thoughtfully. "Aa! You're the fa --"
Before he could even finish his sentence, Shikamaru and Kiba were covering his mouth, hasty and panicked expressions plastered on their faces. Naruto blinked in confusion.
"Nani?" he said, though it was muffled, so it was what he tried to say because it didn't exactly come out that way. It was more of a, "Mmf?"
Kiba and Shikamaru gave him a look before pulling their hands away. Naruto continued, "--one in my math class."
"Yeah..." Chouji answered slowly, looking at Naruto. "You were about to say..."
"Haha, he wasn't about to say anything!" Kiba roughly patted Chouji on the back and grinned. "You're imagining things, Chouji!"
"..Un..." Chouji shrugged and continued to eat his chips.
Naruto linked his hands behind his head when they started walking towards the cafeteria, but it was only when he glanced to his side did he realize that the red-head gave him the slip. Naruto paused and looked around. "Where'd Gaara go?"
"Aa forget about him," Kiba said as he slung an arm around Naruto's shoulders and urged him to keep walking. Naruto nearly stumbled but he regained his balance and footing in order to keep up with Kiba. The taller boy raised his hand and rested it on the blonde's head, ruffling his hair a bit -- something he couldn't help doing because of how cute the shorter boy looked when he puffed his cheeks from indignation and huffed. "But if I were you, I'd guard my ass around him."
Naruto stopped his huffing and puffing in order to blink up at Kiba in confusion. "Why?"
"Because." Kiba grinned knowingly and snidely, his canine fangs exposed. He then shrugged. "Ya can never be too cautious 'round Gaara."
Naruto creased his brows. He didn't really understand why Kiba was warning him about Gaara. As far as he could tell, there was nothing wrong with Gaara, other than that he seemed like an arrogant jerk because he was always ignoring people, but... no one can be perfect, right? Naruto wanted to interrogate Kiba more about his warning, but he didn't get to because he suddenly froze and his face went as red as a tomatoe when Kiba's arm dropped down from his shoulders and his hand --
The hairs on the back of Naruto's head stood on end and his face flushed brightly when he felt Kiba's hand brush against his rear end.
Wide, startled blue eyes stared at Kiba, but he didn't notice. Whether it was intentional or not, Naruto couldn't tell because Kiba continued walking and chatting casually with the others.
Oh my -- Okay, calm down, Naruto. He probably didn't mean it.
Inner Naruto wasn't agreeing. Inner Naruto was throwing a fit. Ohmygodohhedidnotjustdothat...
Okay, I'm probably overreacting like some girl. Alright. Don't be such a girl about this Naruto. It was a complete accident --
Naruto continued walking, but as he did, Kiba chose that moment to glance at him from over his shoulder and all Hell seemed to freeze over when he noticed that smug and mischievous glint in Kiba's eyes.
...oh my GOD he touched my ass and he did it on purpose!
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Haa... I never realized how fun it is to write with Kakashi until now. xD He's so cute. I love him.
But woooowww... so many reviews. -faints-
I love you guys. Ya'll are like totally awesome. I am trying to write longer chapters so I can at least feel like I deserve them... i was debating on making this chapter longer and adding more but i didn't want to make you guys wait any longer. And I had fun writing Kakashi xD He's so adorable.
And I've decided I'm just going to call each chapter "chapter 1, 2, 3, etc..." because I am far too lazy to think of spiffy chapter titles, haha. maybe another time i will. So ya.
And I promise to write longer chapters starting 4 or 5.
! sooo... don't forget to leave a review.
-gaara is love