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Sorry it took so long.
Iruka was so shocked he just stood there for a couple of seconds, then his brain shut down and his body took over. He heard a soft moan, he didn't know if it came from him or Kakashi; he clutched to the front of Kakashi's vest and submitted to the sensation. He felt Kakashi growl against him lips and the sound heated his blood even more. As his hands made their way up to circle around Kakashi's neck, he felt wandering hands skim his sides causing a shiver to race down his body. Kakashi tightened his hold on the brunette. Iruka lost himself in the sensation of the maddening kiss. It wasn't until one of Kakashi's wandering hands ended up on his butt pulling him closer into the alpha's taller body, pressing him into something hard that Iruka's brain finally decided to wake the hell up; causing the brunette to push Kakashi back and stagger away from him.
"Wh…What the hell was that?" Iruka stuttered as he tried to regain his breath.
"Maa, Iruka I was just trying to keep you from yelling my ear off," came the drawled response form the silver haired alpha. (Kakashi looked calm and collect, although inside he was battling to get himself under control when all he wanted was to throw the cute little slayer on the ground, rip his clothes off and lick and nip every bit of honey golden skin he could reach while thrusting into that delicious body until the brunette screamed his name.)
"WHAT THE HELL KAKASHI!" Iruka yelled pushing the alpha hard, completely forgetting any and all honorifics as he continued breathing heavily, his cheeks flushing with embarrassment and anger.
"Come on Iruka, it wasn't that bad, and as I recall you were enjoying it, until you started thinking, now why don't we go inside so I can show you your room before you spontaneously combust, you're looking a little red." Kakashi chuckled softly, kicking himself mentally for causing his mate to become so enraged, even though a flushing, panting; Iruka was very cute and enticing.
"You, you, ahh….!"
Iruka stomped his foot ( a little childish, he knew but whatever) and proceeded to glare at the sliver haired man as he followed him into the residence, planning on how to murder the pervert without drawing too much attention.
Iruka could have slapped himself, more precisely his stupid brain for shutting down and letting his traitorous body take over. Stupid body how dare it enjoy that kiss, granted it was hot and caused his libido, which he thought was nonexistent, to wake up, proving him wrong; and how dare his dumb body enjoy how that stupid, jerk alpha had just dominated his mouth, with lips that were softer than they appeared, and how dare his knees go weak when that tongue had caressed and explored every inch of his mouth, nipping at his lips until he'd yielded and opened up for that fabulous, talented tongue.
Iruka didn't know who to be mad at more, his traitorous body for doing what it pleased without consulting his brain or his brain for being weak and shutting down in the first place, not taking control of the situation until the end. And how dare Kakashi just blow off what happened, how dare he pretend that the kiss was nothing more than a way to shut him up when it had left him a confused pile of goo.
Iruka was so engrossed in telling himself off that he didn't notice when the silver haired man had stopped walking. He would have crashed into Kakashi but he teleported himself to the other side of the room at the last possible moment.
A low growl escaped Kakashi as he felt the air behind him charge with power and then vanish; he knew Iruka had teleported away from him. Afraid that he had pushed the temperamental brunette too far, he was about to turn around and go searching for Iruka to drag him back to his home, when said brunette appeared across the room from him, his cheeks turning a very pretty shade of pink from embarrassment.
"Sorry," was all Iruka whispered, not looking up; his shoes were suddenly extremely fascinating.
Kakashi smirked under his mask, it seemed his mate didn't hate him as much as either of them thought, if he only teleported himself to the other side of the room.
Kakashi was already aware of Iruka's abilities, of the powers he possessed from his slayer heritage, as well as, the one he probably inherited from his mother, since there had never been any mention or record of such ability within the slayer bloodline. With that knowledge Kakashi knew that if Iruka really wanted to get away from him he could have teleported himself all the way to the forest outside of the wolf village, putting himself out of the alpha's reach.
Looking at his blushing mate, who probably wanted to crawl under a rock, Kakashi recalled what he and Jiraiya had discussed earlier that afternoon as the two wolves had walked the grounds of the Hatake Compound.
Flashback
"The first time Iruka teleported was in the middle of a battle. We had been ambushed outside one of the human villages in the west. Iruka was so young back then; he had just come into his slayer powers. And he was dealing with being able not only to summon the ancient sword but also with being able to control its power. We had just finished a long day of practice when we were attacked, Iruka had been pinned down and was desperately fighting for his life, while I had been too far away and battling my own opponents; luckily a young Naruto had stayed at the village. I had been so afraid that Iruka would be killed; he was outnumbered and had yet to really master his slayer power. As I fought fiercely to finish off the three vamps that were attacking me, I watched in horror as one of the vampires fighting Iruka raised his sword for a killing blow; knowing full well that I would never be able to reach the boy in time, I watched helplessly as the sword came down, I heard myself scream Iruka's name, then Iruka was gone; the boy had just vanished, disappeared into thin air. One minute he had been standing there frozen, the next second he was gone, the sword cutting through nothing but air. The vampires had looked at each other wondering what had happened, they'd been so distracted that I was able dispatched them before they knew I was there. Iruka reappeared seconds later startled and confused almost 200 feet from where he had previously been."
Kakashi noticed the slight tensing in Jiraiya as he recounted how he had calmed the young boy down.
"What aren't you telling me?" Kakashi asked the old wolf.
"It's not like you're not going to notice eventually, and I think it would be better if you knew ahead of time, so that you don't inadvertently bring it up, I just don't' know how prepared you are to hear it," Jiraiya looked pointedly at the younger wolf.
"If it has something to do with my mate, then I not only want to know, but I demand to know."
"Okay, but keep in mind Iruka himself doesn't know anything about this, as a matter of fact, I'm the only one who knows; and the information I'm about to share might very well destroy him completely, at least destroy who he thinks he is." Jiraiya cautioned.
"You know I would never do anything to hurt Iruka, he's my mate and my first priority is to make sure he is safe and happy, so if what you're about to tell me has the potential to cause my mate harm, after today neither of us will ever talk about it again, and I forbid you as alpha of this village from discussing it with anyone." Kakashi looked at Jiraiya for confirmation, absolutely serious about the order.
"Techniquely you're not my alpha and you can't boss me around pup, but I love Iruka enough to agree to your terms." Jiraiya chuckled.
"Tell me Kakashi, how many species do you know that can teleport?" Jiraiya asked seriously as he sat down on one of the benches near an old water fountain.
"I know the power is extremely rare, and that are only a handful of species in which such a trait resides; the Fey, the Valkeries from the forgotten forest, one of the water nymph species and a couple of demon bloodlines, mostly those from the Southern Land. I also know that Iruka doesn't have any of the characteristics of either the Fey or the demons and the Valkerie are always female."
"Well you're correct on that fact, but you're forgetting one important group, one that shows no external differences from either lycans or humans. You know the last time I was here in this garden; you were just a little annoying pup running around chasing your father," Jiraiya sighed.
Kakashi waited patiently for Jiraiya to continue, the waves of anxiety coming off the older wolf were making him nervous. He guessed that whatever Jiraiya was going to say next was hard for the old wolf, but no matter what happened he would protect his mate from anything that threatened to hurt him.
"Tell me Kakashi what do you know about the Serp* bloodline?"
"I know they were the vampire world's most powerful royal line, but now due to power struggles and inbreeding the bloodline is extinct. It died with the last heir of the Royal family about 200 years ago." Kakashi answered wondering what all this history had to do with the topic they had been discussing and his feisty brown eyed mate.
"That's not exactly correct, the Royal family is in fact extinct, but the royal bloodline itself is still present in at least two beings; Orochimaru who I suspect is the one responsible for extracting the royal DNA with the bloodlimit from the last Serp heir. Orochimaru would have been a young vampire back when the last heir was alive; young, and ambitious and far too smart for anyone's good. It's been concluded that the Serp bloodline still continues. Orochimaru somehow managed to extract the unique DNA from the bloodline and infused himself with it. His goal was probably to gain access to their powers one of which is the ability to teleport; the Serp bloodline is the only bloodline within the vampire world with that ability. The other unique ability to the line is one that even within the bloodline was so extremely rare, that only a handful of family members throughout history possessed. They had the ability to transcend time itself and have the chance to change the future. Unfortunately for Orochimaru and fortunately for the rest of us, his plan didn't go as he expected and not only did he not acquire the bloodline's unique powers, but the experiment altered his DNA in such a way that he looks the way he does now, all creepy and reptilian like. However, that didn't stop him from wanting to control the Serp abilities to further his own ambition. He probably altered and tweaked not only the DNA, but also the way he introduced it into a new living host. I suspect he used human hosts to combine the Serp DNA, giving that human DNA is more receptive to change."
Kakashi had been rendered speechless, his mind raced in two different directions. One – how could no one have known that Orochimaru had somehow managed to continue such a powerful bloodline; one that had nearly wiped out the Lycan race during the last great war. Most importantly what did any of this have to do with his mate, his half-slayer, half- source unknown mate.
"Are you trying to tell me that you suspect Iruka is somehow one of Orochimaru's experiments? That he has the Serp blood running through his veins? Jiraiya are you implying that my Iruka is part vampire and possibly heir to an extinct bloodline?" Kakashi finally asked, a heavy feeling settling in his heart. He could protect his mate from attacks and physic al harm, but how the hell was he supposed to protect Iruka from being devastated by the truth of his own heritage. Then one of Jiraiya's comments had him turning paler than usual.
"Don't fret, yes there are a few other people that know about Orochimaru and his failed experiments, but I'm the only one that knows about Iruka and no one even suspects such a thing is possible," Jiraiya quickly reassured him.
"Now, my best guess," Jiraiya continued feeling bad for the young alpha, he of all people understood how helpless and impotent it felt to realize that this information had the power to completely destroy Iruka, "is that Orochimaru conducted his experiment numerous times without much success, the host along with the actual product of the experiment all died convincing Orochimaru that there was no way to successfully transfer such a powerful bloodline. Knowing Orochimaru like I do, and if we asked Tsunade she would agree, once the experiments were no longer viable to him, he more than likely had them all destroyed. It's only speculation on my part, but one of the hosts must have escaped prior to them terminating all experiments and since the whole thing no longer held any interest for that creepy bastard, no one bothered with a missing failed experiment."
"Jiraiya I get where you would deduce that outcome, but why would the experiment produce a viable product on the outside when not a single one became viable within Orochimaru's lab under controlled conditions?"
"Come on Kakashi, you know humans as well as I do, they're stubborn and willful and their psyches are wired differently. The stress of being captured by vampires, being held in some creepy lab by an even creepier vampire, not to mention being impregnated against their will probably didn't help the babies growing within the hosts' bodies. Chances are the one that escaped returned to a loving family who helped and supported her, the child she eventually gave birth to, probably didn't display any vampire characteristics, so they chalked the whole thing up to a bad nightmare and thanked their lucky stars that it was finally over. The only thing that endured from the experiment was an anomaly that was seen as nothing more than coincidence. It seems that only daughters were born from the first child's mixed blood and each generation only produced one offspring, one female offspring. So as generations passed and daughters became mothers and so forth the line continued one child per generation and the Serp DNA remained dormant, until 25 years ago when the last daughter of the Serp line fell in love and married a slayer. A slayer who broke tradition by marrying a "human", then a couple of years later she gave birth to a son, the first male born into that bloodline. The combination of the Serp DNA and that of slayer, who itself is a very powerful bloodline with strong magic allowed the DNA that had been dormant and recessive until now to thrive and for the first time in almost 200 years produce an actual heir to the Serp bloodline."
"Iruka," Kakashi whispered.
"Yes Iruka the last heir of the slayers is also the only true heir to a long forgotten royal vampire dynasty."
"Jiraiya you can't be sure of any of this, it's just speculation on your part," Kakashi stated grasping at straws.
"I wish it was Kakashi, but after Iruka's first time teleporting I investigated his mother, she had smelled human, when I first found Iruka and with all the death and blood around the baby I didn't bother with the odd scent that was present in Iruka as a baby. But do you know what distinguished a true member of the Serp royal family from all the rest of the vampire families that no one was ever able to fake?"
"No, that part of the history was lost after the last of the royal family was assassinated without an heir, and I remember my father talking about them as a child but I don't remember him ever mentioning such a thing," Kakashi answered.
"Every member of the royal family has a mark, a mark that appears the first time that their powers activate, it's this mark that can never be duplicated and that brands them as Serps. Iruka has that mark, after his fight with the vampires and his first teleportation he crumbled to the ground, his back in excruciating pain, when I checked afraid that he had been injured I watched as the mark burned into his skin on his lower back. Then in an instant the pain was gone, leaving only the serpent "S" behind. I looked into young tearful brown eyes and I lied, I told him it was probably the effect of his new slayer power. I could not tell my son that he had just been branded a vampire."
End of Flashback
"Hatake-san, I apologize if I was out of line..Hatake-san, Alpha, "
"Kakashi! Are you even listening?" Iruka ranted at the dazed man.
"Huh? Did you say something?"
"Seriously Kakashi, what were you thinking about that you completely zoned out?"
"Come now Iruka, if I told you, you'd only get mad, produce your sword and who knows what body part you'd want to chop off. " Kakashi answered with a smirk.
"What? Never mind, I'm tired and you're giving me a headache." Iruka finally replied in a softer tone, rubbing his temples.
At his mate's obvious distress Kakashi immediately stopped his teasing and walked over to the brunette, he gently guided the over stressed man to his room. The room had a connecting door that led to Kakashi's since it had been a study only the day before.
"Come on, why don't you lie down for a little while and rest, I'll call you when it's time for dinner. It must have been a taxing day and it seems the journey is finally catching up to you." Kakashi stated with concern guiding Iruka to the bed near the window.
"Thanks, but don't think you're off the hook, or that I'm actually staying under the same roof as a pervert like you. We'll talk about it after I rest," Iruka whispered, " I'll just close my eyes for a little bit to help with my headache…" were the last words he mumbled as sleep overtook the exhausted brunette.
*Serp is serpent in Catalan*
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