Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews from the previous chapter. As I read, I could tell that they were a little mixed as far as feelings towards the story. But I see the majority likes the story so I'll be happy to continue.
Name
Iruka's parents died when he was too young but at the same time when he was too old. He remembered them, what they sounded like, how they looked, almost about everything. However, what he didn't remember was how they raised him.
After they passed, Iruka had become so angry and so destructive that he completely forgot their methods of teaching.
Looking at himself in the mirror, he became a little worried.
You're a school teacher. He told himself. You can handle kids.
But as he pressed his hands on his stomach, he thought otherwise. What if he screwed up and his child acted like him, or worse...Naruto.
What if his child had the mellow uninterested "to smart for you" attitude like Kakashi? Iruka would hate that.
"I'm not that big...I'm only a month. Maybe I'll stay like this?" He asked and laughed a bit as he went and slipped his vest on over his head. He pulled it over his stomach and smiled.
That day, he was to head to Tsunade's office for a checkup. Nothing had really changed inside of him, except the fact that he heard and felt a second heartbeat. At first it startled him but presently, he was afraid that it would stop at any given moment.
On the other hand, he felt confident about his check up. He was eating healthy, he made sure of that and he was sleeping healthy.
Still, it didn't hurt to be nervous.
Shizune sat in Tsunade's chair, holding an album of faded pictures in her hands. The photographs held memories that she didn't remember.
They were pictures of Orochimaru and Jiraiya, however there were more of Orochimaru. Shizune wasn't sure why this man even made it in Lady Tsunade's photo book, but she didn't dare question.
Tsunade entered the room with her arms crossed, prompting Shizune to quickly place the book back where she found it. Luckily, the old Hokage hadn't noticed her yet as she stood up and went to her place.
"Lady Tsunade." Shizune said, getting her attention. "Good morning."
"Good morning. Great, you're here already. Has Iruka shown up yet?" She asked, advancing past Shizune and taking her seat.
"Not yet, I figured he'd be running late, after all, everything is changing for him. He's probably trying to find something to eat that won't make him vomit."
"Figures…" Tsunade said, taking a file folder from her desk. "And on this topic, Kakashi is still oblivious to it. His mission with Hanare seems to be going as planned, but I can't help thinking that she had something to do with Iruka's attack. I mean we are fully aware that she placed the Jutsu on Kakashi but still. I believe Iruka was thrown into this game on accident."
At that moment, the door opened and Iruka stepped inside. Today, he was actually dressed for January's cold winter storms. He wore a black, long wool coat over his clothing.
"Sorry." He said. "I'm late. The snow is pretty thick out there."
" I know, you don't have to be sorry, now take a seat…" Tsunade said without really looking up at him. Shizune gave him an awkward smile before bowing and exiting the room, leaving the two in privacy.
Tsunade shifted in her sleep before she spoke. "Let's get started then." She opened the folder and read to herself for a while before addressing him. "Iruka, how have you been feeling lately?"
"Oh, I've felt a little nauseas for the past few mornings and lately I've gotten annoying cramps. Sometimes I get hungry all of a sudden or really hot. But other than that, I feel fine. I'm just really excited."
"Good, that's what I wanted to here." Tsunade announced.
Iruka managed a smile as the Hokage stood from her desk and walked over to him.
"Remove your coat and vest please." The chunnin did as he was told until he was down to only his navy blue shinobi garb. "I'll start the check up soon." She stood before him and made a quick hand sign.
He watched as Tsunade's hands began to form a green glowing aroma around them and then, she lightly pressed her hands to his stomach. Iruka felt her energy coursing through the small life inside of him causing him or his baby to jolt."
"It's okay," Tsunade said, still feeling though the green aroma was now a dim glow. "That's a good reaction."
Minutes passed before she finally drew her hand's back and headed over to her desk. Iruka watched and waited nervously as she filled in some paper from the file folder. The clock on the wall ticked, and he began to fell a dry lump forming in his throat. In his mind, Iruka thought something had gone terribly wrong, that's why she was taking so long filling out papers. But in the end, she only smiled at him.
"Your baby is healthy and so are you. You've been eating right and you haven't been over working yourself. The only things that you should worry about now, are names. You should think of a name for both genders." She crossed her arms. "Think of a different name though, not something normal like we have around here."
"Different?" Iruka had slipped his vest back over his body and now worked on putting on his coat. "What do you mean?"
"Something out of this world. You can surprise me, and oh, I almost forgot. Here," She quickly walked over to him and handed him a packet of papers. "This is your progress and information during your term. I've got a copy for myself, this one is yours."
"Thank you." Iruka bowed as the Hokage walked back to her desk. "And I'll try to search for good names."
"Great, good luck Iruka." She sat down, and sighed.
He turned around and walked to the door, prepared to leave. His hand was already on the knob when he realized a second too late, that someone was on the other side of the door. Both Iruka and the other ninja collided into each other, causing papers to fly everywhere. The young chunnin quickly lost his balance and felt his heart race several beats faster.
Iruka, with his eyes shut, braced himself to fall flat on his face until he realized that someone had caught him before he made contact with the floor. Opening his eyes, he looked up and stared right into the visible eye of Kakashi Hatake.
"It's been about a month since I've seen you, and you're still as clumsy as ever." The silver haired jounin joked. Iruka didn't find it funny as he forced himself out of Kakashi's grasp like a wild cat.
He bent down to pick up his papers but it seemed like Kakashi had already beat him too it.
"Give those back." He ordered in a monotone voice.
"There's a way to ask." Kakashi teased succeeding in making the chunnin even angrier. With a quick hand movement, Iruka snatched the papers from the older man and stuffed them in his coat.
"I have a class to teach, I don't have time for your horseplay." Iruka said, attempting to advance past him, but Kakashi grabbed his arm.
"What's gotten into you, Iruka?"
"Let me go Kakashi."
"Not until you tell me what's wrong." Kakashi spun Iruka around to face him, snaking his hand around the younger man's back and holding him like that. "Has somebody hurt you?"
The way Kakashi asked the question, or the way he started into Iruka's eyes made his heart melt. Did Kakashi think that this was some type of game? Hadn't he realized that he had broken up with Iruka about two months before this?
"Kakashi_" "If it's for the breakup, I'm sorry. If it's Hanare, I'm sorry too_"
"I don't want your damn sympathy!" Iruka pushed him away. "I don't care about you or Hanare! You two are together, what does it matter to me?" He looked up at Kakashi with fury in his eyes.
"You're still hurt, and I need to resolve that."
There was silence, deadening silence between the two before Iruka spoke up. "So you think that you can just say something and…and everything will be resolved between us? You think that's how it works? You think that you can say anything to make up for what you told me that night?" Iruka fought back the tears in his eyes but some had already escaped and rolled won his cheeks. "I'm sorry but if you think like that, you're crazy! You didn't have time for me, but yet you have time for Hanare? What, is she more important to you than I was?"
"Iruka no_"
"Then why did you leave me? There has to be an explanation or something! You have no idea what's happening to me now while you two are happy and in love! My life is changing drastically and it's all your fault! But you don't care about me do you, because I'm not worth your_"
"Iruka!" Kakashi yelled. "There_"
"I don't want to hear anything you have to say_" The young chunnin made a poor effort in hiding his tears, as his voice broke with every word.
"IRUKA!" Kakashi grabbed both of Iruka's arms and held them in a tight grip. "Listen to me, please!"
"Let me go!"
"No, there is an explanation Iruka…but I just can't tell you." He loosened his grip and felt Iruka pull back, he then headed towards the door and looked over at Kakashi. The tears were completely gone from his face. He just wore a mask of hidden anguish.
"You just leave me alone. Both of you, and we won't have any trouble." And with that, Iruka was gone.
"Not much of a charmer, are you?" Kakashi quickly looked ahead to see Tsunade, sitting in her desk. "At least, not from what I see."
"I had no choice." Kakashi walked over to the Hokage's desk and took papers from within his vest, placing them before Tsunade. "This is what I have found in Hanare's things. From what I've inquired, she's made an alliance with both the Akatsuki and the half of the Mist Village."
Tsunade took the papers and read. "She's an information vessel between the Leaf and Akatsuki, and from the information you've given me, it looks like she and her allies are spearheading an attack."
"That can be resolved, Lady Tsunade." Kakashi smiled from underneath his mask. "If you'd give me permission to kill her_"
"No. She'll be taken into custody." Tsunade urged. "She has too much information." She then looked nervously at Kakashi. "And you feel nothing for her?"
"My heart is still with the man who just walked out of the door. It is and always will be. He can marry someone else and I'll still be crazy in love with him. Of course he doesn't know that. Icha Icha Paradise has filled up that depressing void in my heart, since Iruka is gone." Kakashi looked visibly saddened.
"Hanare is beautiful though, is she not?" Tsunade smiled. "You can't lie about that."
"I'll give you my honest opinion on her. She looks like a pig, and if I had to kiss her with my mask off, I think I'd die from her garlic breath. The fact that she wanted me to impregnate hers she could produce a child with the sharingan makes me angry beyond belief. If that poor whore thought she'd ever catch me in bed with her then she is insane."
"However, she still placed the Jutsu on you which meant that you must have impregnated someone." Tsunade knew that she should not have said that, but she couldn't help herself. "Perhaps her Jutsu, mixed with your Sharingan caused you to do something that you don't remember. Perhaps you have impregnated someone else, that's not Hanare?" Tsunade couldn't help but smile as Kakashi itched his hair.
"That seems factual but it's highly unlikely. After all, if I sexually assaulted any woman and she is now pregnant with my child, I would know and the sharingan would recall it."
"That Jutsu allows you to impregnate anyone no matter what condition, fertile or infertile that's why Hanare used it on you, she is infertile."
"Because her job as a spy requires her to have intercourses with many men. She lost the ability to get pregnant by naturally causes years ago."
"Whatever you say. But that being said Kakashi…would you have known if you sexually assaulted and impregnated someone of your same gender. Perhaps someone very close to you?"
As she expected, there was a pause, a long one before Kakashi shook his head. "Iruka is the person I'm closest to. I broke up with him two months ago for the purpose of this mission…mind controlled or not, I can't imagine myself hurting him even more. But thank you Tsunade, I'll continue on my mission." He bowed.
"And no killing."
"No promises."
"Kakashi!"
"Fine! No killing."
"Goodbye Sensei!" The students yelled as they ran out of the classroom. "Have a nice day."
"You too, every single one of you." He smiled and waved as his he dropped his hand and it made its way to his stomach. In the back of his mind, he prayed that his child would hold the same respect for its peers as his student's did.
In a slow pace, Iruka made his way back to his seat and literally melted into his chair. He threw his head back and closed his eyes taking a small undisturbed rest. As he closed his eyes, he rested his hands on his stomach and attempted to drift off into a peaceful sleep. However, that was short lived as he felt something or someone poking his stomach.
He opened his eyes, and standing before him, he saw Hinata.
Hinata, always kind and gently was never one to question things. However, when Kurenai handed her a box of baby clothes and ordered her to take them to Iruka (without telling anyone!), she was curious.
She'd let that small bit of curiosity get the best of her as she used the Byuakugan on Iruka Sensei before he even realized she was in the room. Inside him, she saw his chakra stream disrupted with something else. It was a smaller, chakra stream, it was a smaller life. That was how she figured out her former Sensei was pregnant, notwithstanding the fact that he was a man. She also noticed that his whole anatomy was slowly changing, but she didn't know how.
Kind Hinata, knew that she didn't have the right to question him, so when her eyes and vision returned to normal, she only poked his stomach to wake him up. She wasn't as surprised as she thought she would be when she felt the difference.
"Hinata!" Iruka sat up quickly in his chair. He looked more agitated than surprised, but his voice betrayed his expression. "What is it you need?"
"Oh um…Kurenai Sensei wanted me to give you this…" She placed the box in his lap. "Don't worry, I didn't look inside." She lied.
"Oh. Thank you." Iruka managed.
"Well, I'll be off_"
"Oi!" At that moment, at the worst possible moment, Naruto had entered the room. "Hey Iruka Sensei, how is the baby coming? Is he kicking yet?" And then he noticed Hinata standing there, a blushing Hinata.
"Oh…oops."
"Naruto_" Iruka had already escalated his voice.
"Please don't get mad at him Iruka Sensei, I already knew! I'm so sorry but I looked in the box and saw baby clothes. I got so curious that I used the Byuakugan on you when I arrived, before I woke you up. I saw the baby inside of you, so I already knew. Please don't be mad at Naruto, but don't get angry at me either!"
"Hinata_" Naruto began before she cut him off.
"I swear I won't tell anyone! I promise…" She tapped her fingers together. "I don't have anyone to tell! I want to help you, and I can help you! If Kurenai is in on it then I should be too. It's not like my family will notice I'm gone, after all they're just focused on Hinabi. Please don't push me away Iruka Sensei and Naruto, I promise I won't say a word. I'll help you in any way possible."
"Hinata," Iruka stood up and placed a hand on your shoulder. "I'm not mad at you, I promise and I know you won't tell anybody. But I feel that if you start helping me, that'll be selfish on my part and_"
"Iruka Sensei, what are you talking about? I can use a partner! I mean come on, who else is going to help us, Sakura? Give me a break! Hinata is kind, nice and sweet if anything she'd make a much better god mother than Sakura, after all, I'm going to be the awesome and strong God Father right? Hinata will be the sweet and kind Godmother, won't you Hinata?"
She would've answered, if she hadn't passed out after hearing Naruto's heartfelt words. Naruto had to scramble to catch her in his arms so she wouldn't hurt herself.
All the while, Iruka placed a hand on his head and frowned. "Children are so troublesome…now I'm more worried than before."
"Don't worry, she does this all the time."
I went to the zoo today and it was so hot.
In my honest opinion, Hanare looks hideous. Her forehead is too big and her hair is terrible. You know what, I wonder while he killed Rin for being a "spy", but he let Hanare live. You see, that just pisses me off, so I hate Hanare. Hey, btw, I have a new story on my LJ account if you want to check it out. Don't worry it's KakaIru. Also, can someone volunteer to do some good fanart for this story please? Oh and for every reader, please vote on my poll! Thanks for all the reviews for the previous chapter, I hope you like this one as much.
And by the way, on the topic of "names", what strange name can you come up with. It doesn't have to be Japanese because I was actually thinking, if it's a boy 'Dawson'. Go ahead and tell me. On top of that, what do you all think its gender should be?
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