A/N: I had the time and the idea and figured, what the hell? Why not post two drabbles today? ^^

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Bully for you!

By General16


Iruka resisted kicking the door open, though he pushed it with enough force to make it slam into the wall behind it with an adequate bang. The furious and very embarrassed brunette stomped inside the apartment, turning on his heels to scowl at his sheepish lover and said lover's equally sheepish son.

Crossing his arms over his chest tightly, Iruka gave them the best glare in his arsenal, refraining from snorting with smug pleasure when man and child cringed at the sight. They stood just inside of the door, wearing the same expressions of reluctant attendance.

"I can't believe you did that!" Iruka exclaimed at length, when he couldn't take the fidgeting and eye-contact avoidance any longer. Kakashi crossed his own arms and locked his gaze on the floor, refusing to meet the brunette's eyes.

"He started it", the silver-haired man muttered petulantly, lower lip pouting in a way that managed to distract Iruka. But only for a moment.

"He's a kid! He doesn't know any better!"

"Well he picked with mine, what would you have me do?" Kakashi muttered, sending the grinning Naruto a glance. Kakashi really hoped that Iruka was too focused on him to notice. If not, they were both in for the scolding of a lifetime.

"Well I wouldn't push him to start with!" Iruka yelled and waved his arms, finally losing the battle to hold his temper in check. "And I certainly wouldn't have punched the kid's father!"

"He called us disgusting fags! I was only defending your honor", Kakashi yelled back, his own temper – rarely displayed and usually kept on a tight leash, flaring. Okay, so Kakashi maybe regretted pushing that annoying brat – Kei something – but what would Iruka have him do?

The boy had been pushing Naruto around, calling him freak and unnatural for not having a mom but two dads instead. How could Kakashi not storm up to the little shit, push him away and cradle his little sunshine in his arms? He had sworn on the day Minato and Kushina died, when Naruto became his to care for and look after, that he would protect him. And that included to get rid of little pests and their likewise annoying parents.

Really, Iruka was making too big of a deal out of the whole mess. Kakashi would've gladly left the kid well enough alone after getting him away from Naruto, it wasn't his fault the damn kid's dad had taken offense and started sprouting off his homophobic bullshit.

Kakashi could've taken it if the man had only said those things about him; the silver-haired man couldn't care less what people thought of him. But when Iruka got dragged along that had been where Kakashi's patience had come to an abrupt end and he'd ended up punching the douche-bag in the face.

His knuckles throbbed with something Kakashi suspected was satisfaction, and secretly agreed. He would never regret defending Iruka no matter what his lover thought about it.

"I don't care!" Iruka almost bellowed; face bright red and breath coming out in quick huffs. "You're supposed to show that you're a better man, turn the other cheek and all that crap! What the hell were you thinking?"

Kakashi surmised that Iruka was talking about the lecture he'd been given by the principal of the daycare center, once she'd gotten wind of the incident. Or it could've been the two month ban to not set his foot in the immediate area that Kakashi had received straight off from Tsunade.

"And now I'll have to be the one to pick Naruto up, for two months, Kakashi! I'm in my final year, how the hell am I supposed to manage to be there in time, every day, five days a week for two fucking months?"

"Ruka said a bad word", Naruto took the opportunity to chime in, the happy grin that had been glued to his face ever since Kakashi had appeared like a proverbial superhero, sliding right off as Iruka now zoomed in on him.

"And you…" the brunette breathed and Naruto shrank back, slowly edging closer to stand half-way behind Kakashi's right leg. "Go to your room. Right now. And you're grounded for two weeks."

"What?" Naruto yelled, clearly upset at the prospect of being trapped in his room for the rest of the evening. "What did I do? It was daddy who pushed and punched!"

"You pushed that other kid, I saw you", Iruka informed Naruto coolly.

Naruto turned red and averted his eyes. "He said mean things", the blond defended, a small finger poking the leg seam of Kakashi's jeans.

Iruka's face softened a little and his eyes warmed ever so slightly. "It doesn't matter, Naruto. We don't answer to goading or baiting. You should've ignored him."

Seeing that Iruka wasn't about to relent and revoke the blond huffed and emerged from his shelter behind his dad, stomping down the hallway towards his room.

"This fucking sucks", Naruto muttered angrily.

"And don't use that word ever again or I'll add another week!" Iruka snapped after him, turning back to Kakashi once Naruto's door had slammed shut behind him.

"Well?" Iruka snapped when feeling that the silence had gone far enough. "Don't you have anything to say for yourself?"

Kakashi turned and stomped the same way Naruto had gone, muttering, "No. And this fucking sucks. I'm not a kid!"

"Stop acting like one then!" his lover replied and went into the kitchen feeling the need to cool his head before saying something he'd regret later. Honestly! Punching a guy just because he said some nasty things? Kakashi should've known better. Iruka waited until he couldn't hear Kakashi and then allowed the smug grin he'd been holding back ever since Kakashi had spotted the kid bullying Naruto when they'd gone to pick him up, to overtake the scowl on his face.

"Man", he sighed and leaned back on the kitchen counter, resting the back of his head against the cupboard over the sink behind him. "You're such a kid sometimes, Kakashi", Iruka murmured to himself with closed eyes. "But what you did was still so cool!"

FIN


A/N: Comments, anyone? ^^