new chapter again :D I'm happy so many of you read and like the story so I hope you'll keep reading and reviewing :P
Kakashi is in a bit of a pinch here, girls in love and boys suffering? and what can he do when he is suffering himself? well the story is progressing ;)
-add: my girlfriend actually helped me write this chapter by bouncing ideas so he should have some cred in this too :) love to her (L)
enjoy (L)
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"Ano Kakashi-kun?"
The blond girl in front of him held out a letter in a pink envelope with his name written all over it. He sighed and took it, wanting her to go away but of course, she was going to stay there all day until he opened the letter? He looked at her with questioning eyes, making her blush and then run away, back to her friends. He shook his head and opened the envelope that was stinking with perfume.
"Dear Kakashi-kun. I feel for you like I've never felt for any one else in the world. Please go out with me and I promise I shall make you the happiest you've ever felt in your life
yours truly, Ayako"
He stood up as their teacher entered the corridor and went into the classroom after him, gently throwing the letter away with a small movement of his wrist. She saw it though and immediately burst into tears, her friends gathering around her to give her comfort. He sighed and made his way to the back of the room where the boy Iruka was already sitting. That girl had never spoken to him, never even looked him in the eye and still she was in love with him? That was just pathetic. He had of course been in her class for about a week now but still... so pathetic...
He sank down on the chair as he saw the weeping girl leave the classroom with the other girls and he noticed that some of them seemed almost relieved that he hadn't said yes to her. How could they be happy over her pain just because they wanted the same thing. He sighed as so many times before that day. Why were girls always so stupidly selfish?
"Do you want some?"
Kakashi looked a bit surprised to his left and found Iruka offering him a package of pocky-sticks with chocolate flavour. Ones again he was struck dumb by his fright to speak up against four eyes but Iruka just smiled and took one out for him.
"You're supposed to eat them" he said and put it on the table beside Kakashis books.
'Does he think that I'm mentally challenged' Kakashi thought and looked at the pocky-stick. 'Well it's not like I act normal..'
"I mean" Iruka continued explaining. "Put it in your mouth and bite..."
"I'm not that stupid" Kakashi answered and in a flash the nervousness was gone and replaced by his old self, he even smiled a bit.
The brown hared boy looked a bit foolish and scratched his neck in embarrassment.
"Well how could I know?" he smiled stupidly with blush all over his cheeks. "You didn't eat any thing yesterday or the days before ether so I thought that... maybe..."
"Now you know I'm not" Kakashi said as he raised his eyebrow at the boy. "I just wasn't hungry yesterday."
Iruka grinned and bit in his own piece of pocky, looking away to not show his embarrassment. Kakashi smirked a bit and looked at the pocky-stick on the table in front of him. It was a long time since he had had one of those and he remembered he had actually liked them but... He felt the fabric over his mouth as he moved his lips and smiled sadly.
"I'll save that one for later" he said and put the pocky-stick beside his pen case.
Iruka nodded and rested his head in his arms like he was about to sleep.
"Wake me up when class is over ne?" he asked but when Kakashi turned to him to answer the boy was already asleep.
Kakashi smiled and shook his head in amazement. Sometimes it was really cool that certain people could fall asleep any time, any where. Iruka seemed to be that kind of person, to happy to have the strength to stay awake at class for instance.
When class ended he gently touched Irukas hair, that by the way was put up in a tuft on his head, and the boy grumbled in his sleep, clearly not up for waking up yet. Kakashi just shook his head and let the boy sleep, after all they would stay in the same classroom all the way until lunch.
Kakashis head still hurt from the beating the day before and he wasn't even sure he had gotten all the blood out of his silver-ish hair. If Kakashi had had a mirror he would have seen that his hair was a bit pink in the back even and Iruka had noticed that, but he hadn't had the guts to ask him about it.
As the lesson passed Kakashi was scribbling some on his notebook, not following the lesson but it looked like it and because of that, the teacher didn't ask him any important questions to see if he was following. Other was it for Iruka. Of course the teacher had noticed that the brown hared was sleeping and.. well:
"Iruka-kun, can you answer this question please?"
Their teacher was almost smirking and Kakashi gave Iruka a light shove to get him to wake up.
"Eh what? Nanda?"
When Iruka realized he had been asleep for that long and that their teacher also knew about it he blushed and buried his face n his hands. Kakashi felt a bit guilty for not waking him up before the lesson had started but since he couldn't do any thing about it he didn't say any thing. The teacher kept going with the lesson and as the school bell rang he asked Iruka to stay behind.
Kakashi went with the rest of the class towards the lockers and as he was about to close it Iruka was done and came back to join the rest of the class. He looked a bit down but Kakashi didn't even have time to ask before he was gone with his friends.
Kakashi didn't mind being lonely though, it would just be boring to see the other ones eat while he didn't. He wasn't even hungry and even if he was he wouldn't touch his food if someone was looking, so he didn't even go to the food court that day. There was no use.
Instead he went for a walk in the glistening sunlight. Watching the shining colours of the autumn leaves and the moving birds fly low under the clouds. His mind wondered as it used to do during those last hoers, those last days... When his life was good for ones... When all things worked like they should and nothing, not even that stupid war could brake him... But now as he watched the sunlight shine down through the leaves he could feel no warmth nor the slight breeze that ruffled his hair. Nothing he felt and nothing he would ever feel, nothing else than the aching pain in his heart...
"Hey! How clumsy are you!? Haha!"
"Hahaha!!"
Kakashi looked up. His depressing thoughts had made him numb to everything else and he had hardly realized he had made his way down to the river shore. Some of his mail classmates were standing on the brake, shouting and laughing at something in the streaming water.
Kakashi wasn't really curious but there was some thing in his gut telling him to move closer, maybe it was his instinct as a ninja or just as a human but he listened to it and took some steps closer to the laughing group.
"Oh no don't you dare ask for help baka!" one of the boys shouted against the water. "You got your self into this mess so get your self out of it!"
In the water the blurry figure of a person lie, splashing in panic to get up but every time he got close to the shore the current grabbed a hold of him and made him sink down in the brown swiftly-flowing water. Kakashi felt his heart grow cold as he saw that brown hair and those pleading dark-brown eyes stair with horror at the boys on the shore. Iruka was fighting for his life in the September-cold water and those people didn't even try to help him up.
Kakashis mind worked instantly and without any one telling him to he ran out in the freezing water to his knees, pulled his swatter of on the run and threw one end of it to the sinking boy.
"Iruka, grab it!" he called and the boy did so as fast as he could.
Kakashis arms were tired from beating and injuries and he had no idea where all the strength came from but still he managed to pull the shaking boy into his arms and up on the shore. He had so many furious words for those guys and he hardly knew why, but he just gave them one gaze and they bailed. (while saying stuff like "come on, he spoiled all the fun...")
The boy in his arms was shaking with cold and fright. He was dripping with the freezing water and his lips had turned blue. Kakashi had no idea how long he had been struggling in there and to get the boy warm he pulled him close to his chest, lending him his own body heat. Iruka was shaking so much Kakashi almost got scared. He had felt how cold the water was and if you get to cold...
"Iruka listen to me" he whispered in the boys ear. "Do you live far from here?"
The brown hared one could do nothing but nod since his lips were shaking so much and Kakashi sighed. He checked the time with pounding heart. Eleven thirty... His stepmother would be home soon but he was willing to take that risk. Iruka couldn't go around school in soaking wet clothes like this.
"Hey" he said in calm voice and warmed him by stroking the boys arms fast up and down. "Can you walk or should I carry you..?"
"Eh?"
Iruka looked up in surprise, his lips still blue but now with a slight blush on his cheeks. Kakashi smiled and took his hand, not showing how scared he was that Iruka would fall sick from this.
"We're going to my place."
Iruka didn't have time to ether protest or agree as Kakashi started walking fast back towards the school. They crossed the yard and Iruka tried to follow as fast as his cold legs could move him. Kakashi held his cold hand warmly in his own, not even thinking about the fact that he didn't really like intimacy.
A couple of minutes later they entered Kakashis neighbourhood and he felt chills crawl down over his back like they always did when he saw those houses. His heart pounded hard as he and Iruka drew closer to the grey house where he lived and he hoped from the bottom of his heart that no one was home yet.
He opened the door and to his relief the hall was dark and silent as if there had never been a human there. Iruka seemed to not have noticed his nervousness and for that he was thankful. He didn't want that boy to know, he didn't want him to worry...
"Here you go" he said as he threw a towel at the brown hared. "If you want to use the bathroom take the one upstairs... There is some problem with the plumbing down here."
Iruka nodded understanding and Kakashi closed the door to the bathroom which no one had cleaned since the blood spill the night before. Kakashi led the still shaking boy up the stairs and into his room in the back of the house, there helping him to dry his hair.
"I'll just fetch you some new clothes..."
"Kakashi-san" the boy smiled and scratched his neck. "You don't have to lend me any thing..."
"Yeah I do baka" he said as he came back with some of his older clothes and gave them to him. "You can't go around like that all day right? And besides... these don't fit me any way."
Iruka smiled shyly and unbuttoned his shirt with shaking fingers, looking almost like a shy lover, Kakashi thought, a bit nervous before his first time...
Kakashi looked away, feeling his cheeks turning warm. Why did he think like that? Iruka had been close to death and he was thinking thoughts like that now all of a sudden. Kakashi felt almost ashamed by it and he even turned his back to give the boy privacy to change.
"I'm done Kakashi-san..."
Iruka smiled a bit and Kakashi sighed as he saw that same smile he was so familiar with. Even though this boy was feeling so bad he smiled. Even though no one realized his existence he kept on smiling like that, though his heart was braking.
"Why were you in the water?" Kakashi asked even though he knew it would take that pretty smile of his face and as expected Iruka looked down at the floor.
"They pushed me..."
He looked so small Kakashis first instinct was to put his arms around him and comfort him but he couldn't. It wasn't cause he didn't want to, more the fact that he couldn't.... and he didn't even know why himself.
"Why don't you fight the Iruka..?" he asked and dried the boys hair more with the towel.
"Cause... I'm not that strong..."
Irukas voice sounded like he was just three years old trying to explain to his mother why he had scratched his knee while playing with the other kids. His eyes were fixed on the floor and Kakashi let go of some of his angst and put a comforting hand on the boys shoulder.
"Hey" he said and even smiled, something he didn't do easily in this house. "You are strong and I know it..."
Iruka looked up in surprise without words.
"To be able to smile like you do" Kakashi continued. "You remember when I first came to class? Just by smiling for a little while like that made my cheeks hurt."
The boy looked at him with big eyes, and to Kakashis relief a slight smile broke out in his face. A gentle smile that only a boy like him could bring.
"So" Kakashi continued. "From now on don't let them get you down again... you deserve better than that."
The gentle smile on Irukas lips grew and he looked truly happy for the first time. Kakashi couldn't help smiling too when he saw that even though he felt like he was being dragged in too deep. But a smile couldn't hurt, right?
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coming up: What happens when Kakashis mother comes home? Is Iruka going to be okay from this drowning experience? And why is that boy so tired all the time? keep reading people ;)
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