A/N: FINALLY finished this. It was hard to decide which movie to pick—I thought all your suggestions were so good, but I finally picked one.
Enjoy!
And beware, this is one WEIRD chapter. At least, in my opinion.
XD
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Chapter 4 – A Movie
"Iruka-sensei, what the hell!" Naruto repeated. "Legally Blonde cannot be your favorite movie! That is so uncool." He crossed his arms over his chest. "I mean, I haven't watched it, but—"
"Dobe! You haven't even seen it and you already have an opinion?" Sasuke scoffed. "You're redefining the term 'dumb blonde' and making it much, much worse."
Iruka raised an eyebrow in amusement as the two rivals bickered and the other Genin stood there in shock. "Look, I think you guys should give it a try."
Neji narrowed his eyes. "Alright, but only because I want to see if this main character's hair is really prettier than mine." He shot a glance at Lee, who had insulted his hair earlier. Lee ignored him, sticking his nose in the air.
Tenten gazed at her boyfriend lovingly. "Don't worry, Neji my love," she cooed. "Your hair is way nicer than hers."
"Thank you," the Hyuuga said smugly.
Sakura rolled her eyes. "I guess I'll watch it if you guys are going to."
"Yosh!" Lee cried, raising his fist in the air.
"Fine, I'll watch it," Sasuke reluctantly agreed, nodding at Iruka. "But I have to say, it sucks being the only gay guy here besides Naruto. I mean, other wise we could watch something about two boys falling in lo—"
"Not listening, Uchiha-boy!" Neji yelled, holding hands over his ears. "I am so not a fan of yaoi."
Sasuke glared at the Hyuuga and turned to Naruto, sighing. "Naruto, I think you might be the only other gay ninja in the whole world, not counting me."
Kakashi laughed silently at all of this and winked at Iruka. The Chunin did a double take and blushed furiously. "Oh, there might be a couple more gay ninja in the world," the Jonin murmured. "You never know."
Iruka was speechless. Had Kakashi just winked at him?
Had he really?
What?
WHAT?!
The Chunin shook himself and tried to pull himself together. He turned to the Genin. "Alright everybody, if you have to get stuff from your houses now would be the time. Sleeping bags, tooth brushes—that kind of thing. Be back within half an hour and we'll start watching the movie."
"Okay, dattebayo!" Naruto exclaimed, grabbing Sasuke and dragging the Uchiha outside. Sasuke muttered something about 'overenthusiastic obnoxious dobes' but looked extremely happy to have the blonde's arm wrapped tightly around his waist.
Lee, Sakura, Neji and Tenten walked to the door and waved before going off in the directions of their houses. Iruka turned to Kakashi. "Uh, well, do you need to go get your stu—"
"I already have my stuff here." Kakashi pointed to his bag.
"Oh, right!" Iruka said, smiling nervously. Kakashi grabbed his stuff and walked up the stairs.
The Jonin turned to Iruka. "What are you doing?"
"Uh . . ."
"Aren't you coming?"
"Coming . . . where?"
"To change into your pajamas, get ready to go to bed so you don't have to do it after the movie, you know . . ."
"Um, I think I'll clean up a bit down here first."
"Mmkay."
Kakashi disappeared into Iruka's room and shut the door. The Chunin breathed a sigh of relief. Changing in the same room as the Kakashi . . . it was just out of the question. He knew he would make a total fool out of himself and probably stare . . .
Iruka brought his hand to his forehead. Had he just admitted that to himself? The Chunin groaned. Well, it was probably safe to go upstairs now. Kakashi would be done changing—it was at least five minutes since he had gone into Iruka's room. The brown-haired ninja walked upstairs and knocked on the door. "Can I come in?"
"Yeah," came Kakashi's voice from within.
The Chunin pushed the door open cautiously and looked up. He breathed in sharply at the sight before him. Kakashi had changed into a pair of comfortable-looking baggy grey sweat-pants already, but he hadn't finished changing completely yet . . .
"Hey, Iruka. Do you have a shirt I could borrow? I didn't remember to bring an extra one . . ." Kakashi said sheepishly, putting his hands behind his head in a way that reminded Iruka eerily of a certain blonde hyperactive loud-mouth ninja. His visible eye curved into a half-moon as he grinned, laughing silently beneath his mask.
The Chunin tore his eyes away from Kakashi's bare and very well-muscled chest. "Uh . . . yeah . . . look in that drawer over there." He pointed to his dresser. "S-second one from the top."
Kakashi turned around and rummaged through the drawer. Iruka stayed rooted to the spot, eyes once more fixed on the Jonin. Kakashi eventually turned back, holding up one of the Chunin's shirts.
"How's this?" he asked. The shirt he was holding up was sleeveless and pale blue with a dolphin in the center, jumping above the blue waves of an ocean.
Iruka smiled, stifling a laugh. "That's one of my really old shirts. You can wear it if you want."
Kakashi pulled it over his head and looked down at it. "It's so cute!" he cooed. "You know, this dolphin kind of looks like you. It's adorable."
Iruka nodded without thinking, and then blinked. Had he heard that right? It looks like me . . . and he thinks it's adorable? What . . . ?
He stared at Kakashi blankly, trying to process the Jonin's last statement, and also noticing with some interest how good the masked ninja looked in a sleeveless shirt. Those arms, those shoulders . . .
"You should hurry up and change. Everybody should be back pretty soon."
Iruka closed his eyes. "Oh, right. Um . . . could you . . ."
"Could I what?"
"Um, never mind."
Iruka had been planning to ask Kakashi to leave, but it seemed that it would be too awkward to actually have to say that. The Chunin turned around and started pulling of his shirt. He'd change as quickly as possible.
Iruka folded his shirt and reached out, about to place it on one of his shelves. Suddenly, Kakashi was standing behind him. "Iruka, what happened?" the Jonin asked worriedly.
Iruka froze, dropping his shirt to the ground and turning around slowly. "What do you mean, Kakashi?"
The Jonin reached out to touch the side of Iruka's waist. A long gash ran from the Chunin's hip to the middle of his stomach. Kakashi's fingers traced it gently.
"How did you get this?" Kakashi asked, eyebrows furrowed.
Iruka shuddered as the grey-haired ninja ran his hands over the wound. "Oh, don't worry about that. Uh, it was some mission a while ago and I got . . . hurt . . ." The Chunin blushed as the grey-haired ninja took both sides of his waist. "Um, Kakashi . . . what are you—"
To Iruka's surprise, the Jonin hugged him. "Why didn't you tell me?" Kakashi whispered, hands resting on the bare skin of the Chunin's back.
Iruka swallowed. "It wasn't that big of a deal. I'm healed now, you know. It's just a scar." He paused. "What, do you expect me to tell you every single time I get a scratch?" the Chunin asked, laughing apprehensively.
Kakashi pulled away, eye curved in a half-moon. "No. I'm sorry. I'll stop worrying about it."
"I guess I should finish changing then," Iruka mumbled, blushing as he realized he was still without a shirt. He grabbed one and pulled it over his head hurriedly.
Kakashi laughed. "That's an awesome pajama shirt, Iruka."
The Chunin looked down and turned a brilliant shade of red. He hadn't meant to put that shirt on—the one with the lettering that read-
"'Kiss the sensei,' eh? I like that," Kakashi remarked.
"Kakashi," Iruka groaned, still blushing. "Look, Anko gave it to me. You know she has a weird sense of humor."
The Jonin laughed. "Yeah, that's Anko alright. 'Kiss the sensei' . . . that's hilarious." He walked past Iruka over to the door. "Hn, well, I actually might have to try that sometime . . ."
Iruka paled.
"What? I'm just joking," Kakashi said with another wink. He walked nonchalantly out of the room, leaving a very flabbergasted and very confused Chunin behind him.
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"Kakashi-sensei, Iruka-sensei, we're back!" Naruto called, opening the front door. The blonde had changed into his pajamas as well—his black shirt had the word 'dobe' printed on the front in orange, and above it was a slightly less noticeable 'Sasuke's'.
Because, after all, he was Sasuke's dobe.
He walked into the living room and grinned at his teachers. The other Genin came in behind him. Kakashi raised a hand lazily in greeting. "Yo." Iruka didn't say anything—he was hiding on the couch under a mountain of pillows.
The younger ninjas put there stuff down and sat around the living room, continuing the conversation they had been carrying on outside.
"Sasuke, how on earth did Naruto get you to wear that shirt?" Tenten asked in disbelief.
The Uchiha folded his arms across his chest, slightly obscuring the word on its front, 'bastard.' "I'll do anything for my stupid blonde boyfriend," he explained in a noncommittal voice. His eyebrow twitched. "What I don't understand is how you got Neji to wear that shirt."
The Hyuuga glared at Sasuke, a faint pink tinge coloring his cheeks. Tenten grinned. "I thought it was so perfect. I just couldn't pass it up," she explained.
Sasuke glanced at Neji's shirt, which read 'Nejipunzel.' He raised his eyebrows at Tenten.
"I mean, his hair is long like Rapunzel's, and he has this whole ninja-in-distress thing—it's hilarious!" Tenten explained. "There are just too many similarities between them. And naturally, I'm the brave knight who comes and rescues Princess, yes, Princess Nejipuzel. Hence my shirt which says 'Sir Tenten the Gallant.'" She pointed to it in triumph. Neji sulked in the background.
Sakura rolled her eyes. "You have a strange sense of humor, Tenten. STRANGE, I tell you."
"Not as strange as Anko's," Iruka added in bitterly, coming out of his hiding place. The Genin turned to him, stifling laughter as they read the words on the front of his shirt.
"Sensei?" Lee choked. "Why are you wearing that?"
The Chunin merely hid his face in his hands. Kakashi chuckled. "That was Anko's present to him a while ago. Poor Iruka, he's so embarrassed!"
The Chunin punched Kakashi half-heartedly in the arm. "Shut up. Let's just watch the movie already!"
Naruto nodded in agreement with his former sensei. "I think that's a good idea, dattebay—"
Sasuke clamped a hand over Naruto's mouth. "Enough with the dattebayo-ing. Let's watch it." The Uchiha snuggled closer to the blonde and smirked as Naruto relaxed against him.
Lee switched the lights off and sat back down next to Sakura. Words appeared on the screen of the TV.
'Legally Blonde'
"Go blondes!"
"Shut up, Naruto."
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A/N: My older sister, shimmeringrain99, actually wrote a fic about Nejipunzel and Sir Tenten the Gallant. You should totally read it—it's completely insane, but genius! It's in my favorites if you want to check it out. You'll be glad you did. Although be warned, it's CRAZY.
Next time: the movie and the rest of the night. o.O what will happen? Kakashi has been hitting on Iruka for so long . . . isn't it about time something happened? Yes, it is! And I'll try to make it next chapter, but if it isn't, then at least there'll be more flirting between them (or more Kakashi flirting with Iruka and Iruka blushing cutely, aww X3)
Anyway, reviews are appreciated! I'll try to update sooner this time.
- Snow