Title: Straight
Author: milkychaitea
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Sue me and you will be hit by lightning.
Warnings: Gender-bended characters, mentioned slash, abuse of parentheses and tea. Expect ooc-ness since this is a fanfiction. May cause brain fart. Tread carefully.
Pairing/s: KakaFem!Iru, mentioned GenRai
Note: Any confusion in personal pronouns is intentional. If you are still confused, well- damn you. Just pm me!
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Chapter 3
**Current Day- Iruka's House**
Iruka gingerly walked around the house after setting a bowl of steaming hot Ceylon tea (with two sugars!) for the wayward ninken, half expecting Pakkun to jump out and say Kakashi had once again ordered them to spy on Iruka again. But after searching her house twice, including the gardens (The Umino's were well known for their love of nature) Iruka had given up, thinking that the ninken would simply show himself when he was ready. (That, or the passing chakra flare was just a passing Anbu.) Thus she simply decided to have dinner and maybe spend an hour or two in a hot spring. Ah, the perfect evening.
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Dinner was a rather scrumptious affair. A bowl of miso soup, soome nori with somen and topped off with a bit of takoyaki and ramen had gotten the sensei full, and so she was now making her way to the hot springs.
Genma and Raidou had recommended the hot springs a couple of months back, saying 'The hot springs near the business district are really nice. Perfect ambiance and did I mention it's totally private?' Cue perverted giggle from Genma. 'You should go there with someone soon, I-ru-ka." Cue more perverted giggles.
Iruka had been mortified, nearly fainting at Genma's perverted insinuations and had completely forgotten about it until now. Still, Iruka mused, better late than never.
After paying the required fees, Iruka headed to the nearest spring, eager to soak away her woes. While stripping herself of her mission gear and getting rid of those bandages (for you-know-what) she couldn't help shake that nagging feeling. Maybe someone, or something had been watching. Watching her every single move.
If only she knew. Sigh.
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When Kakashi had decided to trail Iruka that day after Pakkun's cryptic message, he had a couple of scenarios planned out. One- trailing Iruka, confronting Iruka, confirming said sensei's identity then saving Kakashi's mascu- er, sanity, in that particular order. Or maybe even number two- Kakashi not being able to control his attraction (and his rather nefarious stalking) and asking Iruka out for a date (irregardless of his/her gender), eventually ending with a confession of endless love from Kakashi after being blinded by Kakashi's love. Both scenarios were acceptable in Kakashi's book.
What Kakashi's little genius did NOT expect was: One- following said sensei into the comforts of his/her home, Two- watching said sensei gobble down dinner made for three (Inevitably solving the case of 'Where does Naruto get that appetite from' problem.) and Three- getting an ohmygodshesnaked reaction by following said sensei to the hot springs. Really. Totally unexpected.[
Though in retrospect, inner Kakashi chastised, he should have expected some kind of skin at a hot spring. Just not that much. Or that kind.
She has nice curves!
Inner perverted Kakashi quipped, and Kakashi had to pinch his nose to stem the blood lest he suffer dizziness and fall in with the sensei.(Not that he'd actually mind, inner perverted Kakashi thought.)
After waiting for an agonizing forever for Iruka to finish, Kakashi immediately rushed to his apartment for fear that he may just explode from excessive blushing and nose bleeding. Why didn't Iruka tell me she was female! Kakashi lamented this fact.
So for the next couple of weeks, Kakashi deftly avoided anything and everything that had to do with Iruka. Everything.
If Kakashi needed to deliver something to the Academy, he would badger some newly-minted chuunin or a hapless genin to do it. (Lest he encounter Iruka and die via flashbacks.) Or whenever Kakashi had a mission he would only take team missions, hereby avoiding having to personally retrieve the mission details. Also, whenever Kakashi had to file the odd mission report every now and then, he would make sure to write it legibly (Le gasp!) and send it via Naruto to avoid having it sent back.
Unfortunately for Kakashi, the village was conspiring was against him. You see, when a jounin acts crazily different, everybody notices. (Jounin are generally 'bat-shit' crazy, but when they go beyond their 'normal' crazy, people get concerned.) At first, it was only those shifty, beady-eyed looks when they thought he couldn't see. But gradually, these looks became whispers 'till finally it became a full-blown rumor that maybe Kakashi had somehow impregnated Iruka was now avoiding him to prevent himself from taking responsibility. (Again, inner perverted Kakashi did not mind the insinuation, but then he thought about the sanity of the village. After all, the general populace of Konoha knew Iruka was male. And Kakashi was male. Omo. Inner perverted Kakashi decided not to continue this train of thought. Brain vomit much.)
Kakashi realized he had been way too obvious in his 'Avoid-iruka-at-all-costs-to-prevent-death-by-epistaxis' when Naruto had noticed. Naruto!
While Naruto was an 'awesome ninja' as Konohamaru loves to put it, the blonde jinchuuriki was not the most adept in the social department. Heck, Kakashi had a higher EQ than Naruto! (And that's saying something, premature graying and Icha Icha and all.)
When Naruto notices, it won't take long before the mother hen would notice too. (On a side note, Kakashi found it entirely amazing that Iruka wasn't aware of ANY of the 'conspiracy theories' floating around the gossip-vine. Kakashi took solace in that particular oversight.)
Kakashi took a deep breath, locking away both inner and perverted Kakashi in the deepest caverns of his mind as he turned to talk to his most 'prized student'.
(His prized student award used to belong to Sasuke, but when he came back dressed in drag and sporting purple lipstick, Sakura had forcefully and painfully stripped him of that 'prized' title and awarded it to Naruto instead. Kakashi stayed far, far away when Sakura had done the 'stripping'. Cue excessive shuddering.)
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Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it!
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Luv lots,
milkychaitea
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