Chapter 4

The wind blew its harsh wind on the lone figure. The figure dance all alone. He was as he always thought, was alone. He seems to have lost everything and even though he's gaining them back he can lose them again. Tears silently fall as he wonder of his friend's comrades and thinks he'll probably lose them again.

Kakashi P.O.V

He could comfort Iruka. He didn't know how. He never had been the one for kind words. Everything comes out blunt. He wanted to comfort him, but how?

"You know sometimes you don't need words to comfort your friends."

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The wind was strong. It was a sign of an upcoming storm. Nobody should be out tonight, except for the guards. Kakashi grabbed Iruka in mid-spin and leapt out of the way of a flying branch.

"It's going to happen again," Iruka mumbled as he tried to twist out of Kakashi grip.

"What's going to happen?" Kakashi look around. He didn't want to get taken by surprise again. He didn't know how many surprises he could take.

"Friends, enemies, comrades, traitors," Iruka started to see them all again. "I tried to forget them especially the ones that was close to me. But to see them now, I can't even keep a straight face. The ones that use to joke with me killed. The ones the use to laugh with me became traitors. The ones we just shared our problems killed, became traitors, or tried to sell you."

Kakashi looked shocked, "Is that why you never got close to anybody?"

Iruka shook his head, "That's one of the reasons, but there other reasons too. His name was Kohiki. We were cool with each other. In fact Kotetsu, Izumo, and I were the best of friends. It happen a year after we became a genin. Kohiki had been acting strange like he would constantly disappear or he was always found at the site when bad things happen. People didn't think anything about it. He was a sweet boy. But he stole a scroll from the Hokage tower and wounded a chunin." Iruka took a breath. "Since I was probably closer to him, the third wanted me to go after him. You know to talk some sense into him. That's exactly what I did. Kohiki almost immediately surrendered and said he'll come back. I didn't believe him. Even though at that time I might have act like a total fool, I was always good at judging people. We were an hour away from the village enough for me to wind down and drop my guard and that's when he made an attempt to kill me. He missed me and we broke out into a full fight. We were both genins so the fight wasn't all out, just clumsy. In our last attempt to finish each other off he cut me. That's where I got this scar," Iruka said touching his scar free face.

"So that's why it's not there. It was a battle scar."

"A battle scar I'm ashamed of."

Kakashi gave Iruka a hard stare and said, "Sure you rather much that scar wasn't made by your best friend, but it's a battle scar and you must take pride in it. You got it because you were fighting an enemy and you won. Don't be ashamed of it be proud. You're going to get a lot more scars by the time we get back in age again. And it's not because we're going to fight the same enemy or have the same battles. We're going to have scars because we're going to prevent them from happening again. Even if that mean we're going to have to die, we'll die knowing that we made an attempt to change the future and to make it better. So cheer up and keep your head up high. We'll both work hard and have fun and try to make a difference for our future. Remember as long as we can remember our past, we'll be in charge of making things right."

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Kakashi head felt like it was going to explode. He never got a headache like this.

Iruka was sitting at the table twirling his fingers. He wasn't exactly happy either.

"You choose now to remember that 'he's' your sensei." Kakashi all but screamed. He was calmed or at least trying to be calm, but it wasn't working.

"Remember when I told you that there are some things I tried really hard to forget?"

"Yeah," Kakashi said

"That was one of them," Iruka said non-chalant.

"Well duh who in their right mind wants to remember him?"

Iruka P.O.V

Iruka bit back a snort. Right now the situation isn't exactly funny now that he knows what Orochimaru is doing. He can pretend he doesn't know, but what good would that do? They needed to tell now, but they don't want to send their timeline into this timeline now.

"We have to tell, it doesn't matter if the timeline changes we need to get him out of here. It keep Anko safe and well be one step closer to keeping Sasuke safe. You need to get to Itachi."

If Kakashi eyes gotten bigger, "What?" Kakashi yelled to the high winds.

Iruka started pacing, "Think about it, somewhere deep down there still a little boy crying out for help. He witnessed the, 'The Third Great Shinobi World War.' His parents didn't try, aren't trying to help him heal. We can try to get him on our side." Kakashi was a little skeptic about it. "Itachi was already a good kid. He really cared about his brother and I seen them together. He looks so content." Happy isn't the word they could use lightly when it came to Itachi.

"So, you want to get him to open up. Be more honest about his feelings, when and if, it returns." Kakashi said trying to wrap his mind around the thought.

"There is one thing that we definitely can't stop and that's the Uchiha clan treason. So if we can get Itachi to feel, have some kind of emotion. Then he won't take up being an S-class ninja."

Kakashi thought about it. It actually made since. It was because Itachi rarely even should his emotion or try to express them. That's what caused the mess. If he was to be open about it, maybe he'll actually have the nerves to tell Sasuke what's going to happen to and why. Sasuke is a smart kid. He'll understand. Kakashi still had a skeptic look on his face.

"We'll be one step closer to keeping Sasuke in the village." Kakashi looked at Iruka he nodded.

Kakashi P.O.V

Kakashi took a deep breath. Iruka was having lung crushing moment. So much for Iruka. Kakashi went into one of the dorm when he saw little Itachi. He was so cute, but you can't let his looks fool you. He was a tiny, tiny killer and it would only get worst from there.

"Itachi, I heard you were going to be on break for the next few weeks." The kid tilted his head. Kakashi smiled behind his mask. "I'm hanging with a friend of mind tomorrow at the park. Do you want to come?"

Itachi just stared. The poor thing didn't know how to react to it.

"My dad…"

"… Can go fuck himself. Just go to Sakura Park and wait under the largest cherry tree. Okay?" Itachi nodded and Kakashi.

Iruka P.O.V

Everybody gave up on trying getting me to be class clown. It was clear that I started to take my lesson seriously now. I made friends with Hayate, Anko, Izumo, and Kotetsu. I definitely worked with Anko because she never had a good life from the get go. And my temper and my rowdiness from before just made it worst. That's how come we almost failed the chunin examine. We, I, was to thick headed and it turns out we fail right into Orochimaru hands. Or should I say Orochimaru-sensei.

"Iruka," Iruka snapped to attention. Shibai-sensei was snapping his fingers. "Iruka maybe you should go to the nurse. You're paling up on us." It was then he realizes the whole class stops to see the commotion.

Iruka nodded, and took the note that his teacher gave him.

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Iruka couldn't remember when he got a decent night of sleep. If he was with Kakashi he was fine, but other times he just couldn't get to sleep. It's like something was missing from him. What was it? Maybe it's different because nobody is the same. Or maybe… Naw it couldn't be. He and Kakashi? Never will. But he was always able to sleep better with him. It doesn't mean anything. It… It's… He didn't know.

Okay so maybe this will turn into a Kakashi Iruka kind of story.