Patience Is Annoying!

Disclaimer: I can only wish I owned Kakashi and Iruka…If I did I'd Hug them to death, revive them in a strange ritual and then make them go…'Cough' never mind!


Iruka hadn't been training with Kakashi for a week now.

He stumbled out of bed at five in the morning with bags under his eyes and scraggly hair. How had he let it get to this, he didn't know. Itachi had given him such good advice in the past and he thought he'd been getting somewhere until it all suddenly blew up in his face.

The sorrowful dolphin went to the kitchen for a glass of water.

RING RING

Iruka flinched at the sound. Who could be calling at this time of night?!

RING RING

That sound was so irritating! Iruka staggered to the phone and answered it with a grunt.

"What?" He snapped, before taking a reliving sip at his water.

"Um…Iruka."

Iruka's eyes widened, "K-Kakashi?"

"Yeah…" There was a pause and then small laugh, "Tsunade told me about your problem…"

"She what?!" Iruka almost fell over, as panic struck him, "S-She told you what?"

"Why you haven't left the house for the past week silly." Kakashi's voice became softer, "You should have at least phoned and let me know that you were-"

Iruka shoved the phone back onto its stand and fell back against the wall. Shit! He knows! He thought frantically.

Kakashi scratched his head worriedly, wondering why Iruka had put the phone down on him. Maybe it had something to do with the fact he was calling at such an hour. Kakashi shrugged, imagining that perhaps Iruka had been so tired that he'd fallen asleep on the floor and made a note to call him again later.

Iruka shivered and picked up the phone. Then he began dialling.

"Hello?" The voice on the other end mumbled sleepily.

"Oh Itachi!" Iruka cried nervously, "It's Iruka I-."\

"Say no more. I can hear from the tone of your voice that you are distressed. I'll be right over."

Iruka blinked as Itachi put the phone down and left him standing there in his pyjamas feeling a little foolish.

About ten minutes later. Itachi was comfortably sat beside Iruka on the sofa. Iruka had made them both a cup of hot chocolate.

"I like your slippers." Itachi commented cheerily, noticing Iruka had remained in his pyjamas, whereas he himself had thrown on merely his Akatsuki style cloak, with nothing at all underneath, but Iruka couldn't see this of course because his cloak was all buttoned up of course.

"Thanks…" Iruka stared down at his fur slipper covered feet as if they were the most interesting things on earth.

"So…what's been happening?"

"I don't know." Iruka mumbled quietly.

"The Kakashi situation?"

"Well I…" And thus Iruka began to explain.

Flashback

"Oh yeah, yeah." The girl beside Iruka sang cheerily.

"…" Iruka watched Kakashi and the red haired girl enjoying their intense tongue dance.

"Oh yeaaah…" The blonde stopped singing for a moment and then spoke so that only Iruka could hear, "If you don't wanna sing, I guess we could just make out."

Iruka forced himself to look away from Kakashi and his activities, only to be faced by the blonde leaning towards him, lips puckered, hand sliding over his leg and onto his crotch.

If Iruka had been straight, perhaps he wouldn't have yelped out in surprise and dropped his microphone.

The girl practically sat on him while she attempted to snog Iruka, making him cringe and squirm in utter disgust. So much in fact that he felt vomit rising and puked straight into the blonde girls mouth.

The girl had leapt off him in shock and screamed, Kakashi and the red head broke apart to see what she was screaming about and Iruka, feeling as if he had been kissed by an old mans farting arse, continued to vomit copiously onto the floor.

Kakashi assumed Iruka had perhaps drank too much that night and had carefully patted Iruka on the back, and shot the girls a look of apology. The girls left in disgust and eventually Kakashi had guided the tired and ill Iruka home.

The next morning, Iruka woke with a hangover and phoned Tsunade.

"I'm too sick. Tell Kakashi I won't be training today."

Tsunade had frowned on the other end of the line but promised she would.

The next day, Iruka was over his hangover, but still didn't feel brave enough to face Kakashi, what he could remember about that night was so humiliating.

He had phoned Tsunade once more, "I'm still not feeling well."

"What's wrong with you?" Tsunade had grumbled impatiently.

"I…" Iruka closed his eyes and desperately thought for an excuse, "I've got a migraine, been puking up everywhere."

The days after that, Iruka called in sick again and again.

Kakashi was not as oblivious as he usually acted though and went to visit Iruka after the third day, growing concerned, however, when he had knocked on the dolphin's door, Iruka didn't open it.

Instead Iruka had shoved a note under the door saying:

Sorry Kakashi I'm really sick right now, wouldn't want you to catch anything. Bye.

Tsunade was getting irritated and she had been the one to phone Iruka on the fifth day, "You can not be sick for this long!"

Iruka coughed in faux sickness, "But Tsunade I'm ill."

"I don't care if you're freaking dying!"

"But…"

Tsunade took a deep breath before speaking again, "Look Iruka, I know what happened the other night, Kakashi told me all about it, but that's nothing to be ashamed about, everyone throws up in someone elses mouth in their lifetime I'm sure!"

"But…"

"And anyway. I know you have a thing for Kakashi and avoiding him isn't going to get you two any closer."

Upon hearing this Iruka had meeped and put the phone down.

RING RING

Iruka hesitantly picked up the phone, only to hear Tsunade hiss the following words, "If you don't get back to training soon, I'll tell him that you like him that way…"

End Flashback

"I see…" Itachi sipped his hot chocolate thoughtfully.

"I don't know what to do…" Iruka despaired, sinking down into the sofa.

"Well…I think-" Itachi's mouth froze mid sentence as there was a soft knock at the door.

"Oh God! What if it's HIM?!" Iruka panicked, standing up and starting to hyperventilate.

Itachi set his cup down, as the knocking grew a fraction louder and more insistent. "Ssh…Hmm…Maybe it's not him?"

KNOCK KNOCK

"Uh…Iruka!"

Iruka and Itachi froze and stared at the solid wooden door, now knowing that on the other side definitely was Kakashi.


TBC

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