Cross-examining
Iruka had been less fun than expected. Kakashi had tried to ask the
most awkward and humiliating questions he could muster, but the most
he got was a blush and a slight stammer. The man seemed very
responsible and to-the-rules, which made Kakashi scratch him out of
his list of suspects for the pranks. Iruka still was,
however, in the Suspicious Chunnin List. Kakashi could tell something
was amiss with the man; no one he knew, not even the most devoted of
shinobi (Gai included) led such boring lives. His track record showed
almost no mistakes and his only fault ever seemed to raise his voice
at his students or anyone threatening them. Apparently the scarred
ninja went to school, went to the mission room, went home, graded,
perhaps read and off to bed at nine. No night life, no hobbies, no
lovers, no anything. What a square. Of course if Kakashi had
been more bent on studying Iruka than most Konoha chunnin, he might
have noticed that he indeed did have a hobby and that recently he had
been sneaking out during the night to leave traps for certain jounin
he disliked.
"Is that all, senpai?" Iruka asked
politely.
"Hn" muttered Kakashi and he went off to stalk
his next victim.Iruka let out a hardly noticeable sigh
of relief and walked home, unaware that the copy-nin was following
him to find out where he lived.
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Both
Iruka and Kakashi had been having a VERY bad week. Neither ninja knew
the culprit, but they both knew they were being targeted by a
prankster.
Kakashi had
given up on trying to sort out the missions that came in his inbox
every day and was especially cautious when going around the corners
and opening closet doors.
Iruka now checked his bed sheet with military precision before going
to bed and after three days he managed to get the smell of fish out
of his hair. His neck still itched as if there were still dirt fleas
in his shirt, though. It did not help Iruka that he had Konohamaru is
his class and that the boy took every opportunity to try to trap his
teacher and skip class.
Kakashi was dead tired of spying on boring chuunins and he was
tempted to make up an offence to report to the Hokage just to end the
stupid mission.
"Nothing is out of ordinary dammit!" he yelled at her in
his head. He sighed and took out his smutty book, while he let his
chakra follow the chuunin instead of his eye. He wanted to
relax.The afternoon found him in the Konoha Laundromat.
As he turned the page to the ending of his Icha Icha he saw a figure
moving towards the door with a huge load of clothes. Feeling polite
he went to open the door. A disgruntled chunnin with a scar across
his face stared back at him while he was trying not to fall over
under the weight of the dirty laundry.
"Oh, it's you",
said Kakashi, tempted to close the door on his face, but decided
against it, since he had went all the trouble to walk across the room
and open the door.
Iruka muttered his thanks without meeting him
in the eye and heaved his clothes to the nearest washing
machine.
Then he went over to the change machine and slid a 100
Ryo note into it. The machine spit it out. Iruka took the note,
smoothed it a bit and tried again. And again. And again. Kakashi
watched the proceedings with amusement as the machine remained as
stubborn as ever on denying everyone change and Iruka's patience
started to run short and his temper high. When the chunnin looked
ready to rip the machine off it's hinges and beat the change out of
it, Kakashi materialized at Iruka's shoulder."If
you need change for that 100, I have some 25", he said casually.
Iruka startled, a little uncomfortable with having the man so
close.
"Um...yeah, thanks, that would be nice of you",
he tried to make his reply sound casual, but it took a nervous edge
he didn't intend.
The jounin gave him the change and then turned
around to take his own clothes out of the drier. Iruka could not
resist looking. Yes, he was washing his underwear, and it was light
blue! Kakashi in blue boxers. Iruka concentrated on setting the
machine to wash trying not to laugh out loud or let his smile
show.
"You're putting all your clothes in one load? No
separating colors?" Kakashi was suddenly at Iruka's shoulder
again. Iruka was startled out of his mind plan of distract Kakashi
somehow and steal his underwear for later blackmail.
"Erm,
yeah, that's how I do it." Iruka didn't know what to make of the
question.
"If you do that, they all come out looking the same
color."
"I don't mind, most of it is dark anyways. Ninja
uniform, you know?"
Kakashi just shrugged, took his clothes
and left.
"He doesn't seem like such a bad guy after all,"
thought Iruka, while he sat down to read a magazine while he
waited.His opinion changed drastically in 20 minutes,
however, when he opened the washer and found out someone had slipped
a blood pill in. Everything was crimson red.
"BLOODY HELL!!!"
He yelled, because as a school teacher, he felt obliged to restrain
his language even outside the classroom.
Somewhere not so far
away, a perverted jounin chuckled to himself as he finished his dirty
book.
