italics-iruka's thoughts
bold italics-Kakashi's thoughts
"Hatake Kakashi, get your lazy ass up from bed." Iruka shouted for the umpteenth time from the kitchen as he tried to wake his lover up.
"Hmm..." Kakashi groaned, as he turned around in bed. He was tired and sore and did not want to get up at all. He could hear Iruka in the kitchen yelling at him.
"Just let me sleep, Ruka. I'm tired." Kakashi mumbled. It wasn't loud enough for any normal person to hear Kakashi's mumbles, but being a ninja Iruka picked up those words and fired up even more. He stepped out of the kitchen and walked into their bedroom. He could barely see the top part of Kakashi's hair but thought he had a great shot of it. So, without contemplating another second, he threw the spatula that was in his hands, right for the silver hedge.
"Oww." Kakashi cursed as the spatula hit his forehead, right in the center. Iruka secretly grinned at himself as he heard the curses.
"You trying to kill me, Ruka." Kakashi yelled from the bedroom. Iruka fed up with the Jounin , who was distracting him from getting his work done, answered back.
"Yes, I am. Maybe then you would gain some commonsense. I mean, you come home from a mission, and refuse to go to the hospital. And then you sleep away the whole day to recover. Why can't you just go to the hospital, and save both of us some pain. I mean, its not like you are losing something. If you just went to the hospital you would get better right away." Iruka finished in a huff, even though he knew half the things he said weren't really true. He waited for an answer from the Copy-Nin, but none came.
"Ugh! KAKASHI! Are you even listening to me?" Iruka burst into the bedroom once again, only to see the man sprawled on the bed, unmoving.
"Kakashi?" Iruka called, as he felt something really off. He hurried to his lover's side and bent down beside the bed. Iruka just stared at Kakashi's pale face for a moment when he noticed that he couldn't feel the Jounin's chakra anymore. He quickly put his fingers to Kakashi's neck to feel his pulse, only to find none.
"Wha...what the? Hey! Stop playing, I know you aren't dead. Wake up? Kakashi! kakashi, wake up!" Iruka started shaking the body vigorously as he couldn't keep his fear at bay. By now, he was panicking and you could even make out tears gathering in the corners of his eyes.
Thinking that it had been enough, Kakashi jumped up from the bed and startled Iruka.
"Ahh!" Iruka screamed as he fell down flat on his butt. All the poor Chunin could do was stare in shock.
Did he just....he just played dead....
Kakashi was chuckling and Iruka was furious.
"You think that is funny." Iruka asked the chuckling Jounin.
"Maa ne. You said to die, so I died." Kakashi said as his eye curved into a crescent.
"You...you..I HATE YOU!" was all Iruka could manage as he started panting in anger. He couldn't believe that Kakashi had played such a trick on him. Even though in some part of his brain, Iruka knew that maybe the Jounin was playing around. It still wasn't funny. Iruka never wanted to see the dead body of Kakashi, of his lover. He had seen his share of dead bodies and he didn't want to see anymore if it could be helped.
Iruka got up and was going to make dash out of the room, when Kakashi caught his hands and pulled him into his arms. Iruka struggled for sometime but then gave in.
"Ok. I'm sorry. I was just being stupid. You know me. My mind doesn't work in the morning. I'm sorry Ruka." Kakashi apologized sincerely, hoping Iruka would forgive him.
Now that I'm thinking, that was a very idiotic thing to do. Ahhhhh!
"You thin I'll just forgive you, just like that." Kakashi groaned aloud and Iruka shot him a dirty look.
"Come on, Ruka-ru. I'm sorry. It was stupid. I wasn't thinking. Please....." Kakashi put on his puppy-dog face. He knew Iruka couldn't stand the face. Just like Kakashi could stand Iruka's.
"Only on two conditions." Iruka said and Kakashi had the feeling he knew what they were.
Go to the hospital and turn in your mission report to Tsunade-sama, as you were instructed.
"Go to the hospital and turn in your mission report to Tsunade-sama, as you were instructed." Iruka said were his conditions. Kakashi inwardly laughed.
"Ok. Now can I get something to eat. I'm starving." Kakashi said as he nibbled on Iruka's ear lobes.
"You can. But not me, food." Iruka said as he pushed the Jounin backwards to get himself off of him. Then he headed towards the kitchen to finish his cooking. Kakashi hauled himself off the bed and headed for the bathroom to freshen up.
After breakfast, Iruka had also decided to go along with Kakashi, not trusting the man to go to the hospital even though he said he would. After the trip to the hospital and finding out that the wound on Kakashi's back was worse than they thought. Iruka gave the Jounin another lecture as the nurse patched Kakashi up better and told him to come back tomorrow.
I knew something was not right, when he said it was just a scratch. He was covered in blood.
FLASHBACK-NIGHT THAT KAKASHI CAME BACK FROM THE MISSION
Iruka was just sitting around and doing particularly nothing much, when he heard the knock at his door.
Whose coming at this hour?
As soon as he reached the hallway that led to the main door, he felt the familiar chakra. He ran for the door and opened it only to have Kakashi crash into him.
"Kashi! Kashi! Oh my god, your hurt. We have to get you to a hospital." Kakashi just shook his head. Iruka knowing the man very well, again insisted but to no avail.
"Ruka, its nothing really. Just really tired. Wanna sleep, here. With you." Kakashi words shortened to two to one syllables as he passed out on Iruka's lap.
Deciding he had no other choice. Iruka pulled Kakashi up from the floor and kind of carried and dragged the man to their bedroom. Kakashi, being slightly taller and heavier, Iruka wasn't able to carry the silver haired man. As soon as they reached the bed, Iruka gently put Kakashi down and started to strip him off his clothes. He could see and smell the blood on them. It was revolting, but he was glad that most of the blood didn't belong to Kakashi. But the wound on his shoulder had scared the Chunin.
This is bad. What if gets an infection? Why does he have to be so stubborn about going to the hospital.
FLASHBACK-WITHIN THE FLASHBACK
"Kakashi, why on earth do you hate going to the hospital?" Iruka asked
"Hmm...Why are you asking he this now?" Kakashi asked, as the question caught him by surprise.
"Just cause. Every time you come from a mission, you refuse to go to the hospital unless you are dragged there or if there is no other option. But why don't you ever go there on your own accord. Because I know, that when you have some small wounds, even if they are deep and could be life threatening you just brush everyone off and say that you don't need the hospital. So, I'm just asking why?" Iruka finished.
Kakashi just looked at his lover for a second and decided to give a straight answer.
"Because the hospital only reminds me of death. It reminds me of all the people I lost in there. That's why. Nothing too complicated really." Iruka stopped walking at Kakashi's answer. They were just taking a stroll through town.
"Iruka?" Kakashi looked questioningly at his lover.
"I know that. I feel the same way, but you should also think of the positive side to it." Iruka said, as he looked in to the single blue eye.
"Positive side?" Kakashi asked, truly not getting where their conversation was going.
"Yea, because even though people die at the hospital. There are also those who are alive because of it. You can't just look at the bad things in life, Kashi. You have to look at the good things too." Iruka explained. Kakashi smiled lightly under his mask.
Leave it to Iruka to find goodness in everything.
"Ok. Ok. I get the point. Can we go now, I'm starving." Kakashi asked as he extended his arm to the school teacher. Iruka gladly excepted and they walked towards Ichiraku Ramen.
END FLASHBACK-WITHIN FLASHBACK
Because it reminds you of death.
Iruka let out a sigh as he pulled the remaining clothes off of Kakashi and went to get something to wash the Jounin up.
END FLASHBACK
He scared me and look now. I was right. Well, kind of. He almost got an infection.
After the hospital, both lovers headed for the Hokage towers to meet Tsunade-sama. Iruka said that he would wait outside as Kakashi went in to give his reports to the Hokage.
"Ah! Kakashi, you're early." Tsunade said as she looked up from her paper works.
"Thank you, Hokage-sama. It's cause I missed you so much." Kakashi said, teasing the lady. And right on cue, came flying a pen right for Kakashi's head, which he dodged with ease.
"Brat! I can feel Iruka outside. He really has you under a leash doesn't he. Ironic, no? Sharingan No Kakashi, trainer of ninkens, got himself on a leash by a Chunin." Tsunade teased the Genius.
Kakashi disregarding their little spat session, reported the contents of his last mission.
While, Iruka waited outside the room, he was gazing out the little window. It was a nice day outside, and maybe if Kakashi wanted they could have dinner out today. But Iruka's thoughts turned for the worse and went back to this morning, when Kakashi was playing dead.
That idiot. How can anyone call him a genius. He has nothing but dirty thoughts in his brains, from Icha Icha. I really hate that book. I never want to see him like that. Dead. I never....sigh...
Kakashi walked out of the office to see Iruka in deep concentration. His face was scrunched up and he could tell that whatever the Chunin was thinking, he didn't like it at all.
Guessing what his lover night be thinking, Kakashi sighed himself and slowly approached Iruka. Before Iuka could turn around and look at Kakashi, he embraced the younger man from behind.
"I'm sorry. Really. I promise I won't do anything stupid like that anymore." Kakashi said. Iruka smiled to himself and reached for Kakashi's hands that were on Iruka's chest. He squeezed them tightly in assurance.
"I forgive you." he said as Kakashi turned him around to place a gentle kiss on Iruka's lips. Iruka moaned quietly and rapped his arms around Kakashi's back. Not being able to get much of the Chunin since a whole week, Kakashi couldn't control himself. He deepened the kiss and it seemed that Iruka wasn't protesting either. But soon reality hit them as they heard the Hokage clear her voice, very loudly.
The two men separated immediately. Iruka blushing 3rd degree and Kakashi just scratching behind his head.
"I think some place a little private would be better, no?" Tsunade smirked as she said that and saw Iruka blush deeper. She chuckled as she walked away, Shizune on her toes, who was blushing as red as Iruka.
"So...You wanna have dinner out or just go home." asked Kakashi, eve though he knew the answer.
Iruka looked at him still blushing but also smiling a little. I mean, he also had a hard week. Kakashi smiled under his mask as he picked the Chunin up bridal style and vanished in a cloud of smoke.
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