NA: So! Ya! It's hard doing two stories at once! I'm trying to keep Hinata's closer to the same amount as Iruka's but Iruka's is a little easier to think of! So it might take me longer to update Iruka because I'm trying to write for Hinata…but don't worry! Iruka's story will have an ending! Thank you for all the favorites and stuffs! ^-^
When Iruka got home he saw Temari and Sasuke just talking on the couch in the living room, which was ok, could be worse. He walked into the kitchen and leaned on the counter. He couldn't believe how late it had gotten, it was dark outside.
I need to go for a run, but not with Sasuke here alone with Temari. He's only a couples weeks from being an Immortal and will then have the power to kill her…I can't let him do that. Iruka thought as he looked out the window.
That night was a full moon. In all the stories you read you hear that that's the only time a Were-Wolf can change, well obviously that's not true. It is the night that they are their strongest and the night their want to change is the toughest to ignore, but they do not have to change that night. Usually if there were a tribe of 'wolves then on the full moon the males would fight, either for a female to mate with or for leadership because that was the night of their full potential.
As the beams rained onto Iruka's arms and chest he felt his muscles twitch with excitement. He flexed his arms a little for the feeling to subside slightly but it was still there. He felt his chest tightening and his throat vibrated and he badly wanted to howl at the moon and her glory, but he couldn't. He couldn't give his secret away to a Hunter even if they only hunted Vampires. Iruka and Temari were both creatures of the night and a Hunter had every right to slay him as much as one did Temari. Iruka shook his head and sighed.
Out of nowhere there was a light coming from beside him. Iruka jumped and turned around to the Sasuke looking in the fridge. "Iruka, where's the soda? All I see is blood." Sasuke asked not even looking at his teacher.
"I don't keep a lot of soda Sasuke; I don't have many reasons to have it. Temari usually only drinks blood and Sakura and Hinata are healthy kids." Iruka said closing the fridge in Sasuke's face.
"Whatever, I thirsty," the teen complained.
"Sasuke! Come back! The show's back on!" Temari called from the living room.
"Ok!" He called back.
Before Sasuke could leave Iruka grabbed Sasuke's arm, "don't you dare hurt her Hunter, if you do you have to answer to me, got it?" Iruka muttered into the Uchiha's ear. Sasuke pulled his arm out of the man's grasp, shot a glare, and went back to Temari.
Iruka growled and left the house. He could feel his muscles shifting and moving under his skin, begging to morph into his inner beast. Within a few seconds that's what he was, a wolf.
He ran through the trees and bushes, jumped over logs and holes, and he splashed in a little creek. His senses overwhelmed and almost too much for the man. When he lay in the creek he was at peace, no more twitching, no more wasted energy and certainly no more worries. When he was in this form he didn't think about the girls, he didn't think about Hunters, and he didn't even think about school. One thing he did think about thought was Kakashi.
Iruka wondered how Kakashi would look under the full moon light. His hair would probably glisten under the silver beams, his eyes more of a grey, and his skin pale. Iruka could only imagine the man this way because with how things were currently going it would never happen. Iruka imagined the other man with him in the creek, standing and smiling down at him as if he could see the man behind the fur.
Iruka tilted his head up and howled. Not to shower the moon in praise but with a hurting heart. His howl ended in a whine and he buried his nose into the water and looked at the moon herself. It's said at one point the moon loved her children but then one of them disobeyed her and killed a child of the sun. The sun, angry at his wife's child, told her to punish all of the children, for his children were greater than hers. The moon, so sad but a good wife, did punish her children, making them 'monsters' and so rare that they felt that way. With her sadness her face was no longer smooth and beautiful but full of craters and rocks.
Iruka felt bad for the moon and asked her to grant him one wish, to help him with these feelings for Kakashi, with another howl. He wanted the feelings to either disappear or to be returned. His howl was loud and long. It even made other wolves to howl and even though they were regular wolves it made him feel better.
Iruka covered his eyes with his paws and let tears fall. He whimpered and whined for so long he thought his voice would be hoarse in the morning.
As he trotted home Iruka's previous worries came back and he remembered the Uchiha at his house. After Iruka was able to sneak up to his room, he walks down to the living room.
There on the couch was Temari asleep with Sasuke's arm around her shoulder, also asleep. Iruka couldn't help but smile, he personally thought that the Vampire and Hunter looked cute together, but in the circumstances given he was scared of what their relationship, if they ever made it official, would do to their lives.
Iruka wanted his girls to be happy. He knew Temari liked the Uchiha by the way her eyes would glaze over when he was brought up in a conversation and he just figured the boy was beginning to fall for his natural born enemy. Sakura, obviously in love with the Hunter, seemed to also enjoy Naruto Uzamaki's company as well. Naruto clearly liked Sakura more than she thought he did, the poor boy would do the girl asked without question. Hinata…well Hinata was a mystery, but Iruka had a feeling that soon enough it would be clear to him at who the lucky boy was.
Iruka turned the T.V. off and covered the two secret, and yet to be, love birds with a blanket and walked up to the girls' room.
When he opened the door he saw two lumps in to beds and smiled. They're all wonderful girls, they just get to deep into drama…but I guess that's what being a teenager as all about…he thought as he went to his room.
Once there he took off his shirt and looked at himself in the mirror. Iruka sighed, slightly disappointed at the man he saw in his reflection. There before him was a man in his early thirties, a four pack barely seeable, and a lean body. A regular Were-Wolf would have a six pack and muscles galore, but having three girls and a teaching job, he doesn't have time to work out and become a wolf whenever he can like normal 'wolves. Iruka runs a hand over his belly and sighs. Whenever he himself was in high school he had the six pack and all, but now it was disappearing. It upset him a little bit.
When he looked at his clock on the side table he groaned. I have five hours of sleep…great…he thought crawling onto his bed. Iruka fluffed his pillow and fell right to sleep, not really ready for the next day.
AN: Another chapter down! Yayz! I'm trying to figure out when to make Kakashi find out about Iruka, I know how just not when. Do ya'll want it sooner or later? I'll be honest, if its sooner the story will end sooner, and later story will be longer. I'm just worried if it's too long you'll get bored with it…help? Please? Tell me! I'm begging!