An excruciatingly long half-hour passed.
Kakashi pretended to close his eyes, but he kept it open by a millimeter to look at Minato, at his face, at his body.
Kakashi couldn't stop looking at the scars on Minato's body. Oh, how he wanted to touch. To taste Minato. To feel his muscles on his fingertips.
He was further drowned in desire. He was almost losing all control.
"This is bad."
The girls' side was peaceful, only little splashes could be heard from Rin and Kurenai. Sadly, the same couldn't be said for the men.
Not happy with the reaction he got for his first henge, Obito performed the technique once again. Unfortunately, Asuma noticed what he was about to do before it was too late. Asuma threw a rock straight into Obito's face. Obito evaded the rock, laughing at Asuma for missing him, but it rebounded on the wall behind him hitting him on the back of the head instead.
That seemed to sober him up.
More minutes flew by as Asuma smirked meanly at Obito, and Obito was just glaring at him unable to do anything because Minato was there.
Minato was known to be a generally kind-hearted man, but when you do something wrong in front of him, that's a different story.
"Sensei, can I not call you 'sensei' anymore?"
Minato, who was spacing out, shook his head slightly and looked at the Uchiha.
"Well, yeah. We're both jounin now, after all." he said, grinning at Obito.
"Yeah okay, Minato. Hey Minato! How about Hokage-sama?" said Obito, winking.
Minato's smile faltered, but he still tried to keep it on his face.
"Not... yet."
That seemed to make Minato uncomfortable. He stood up (Kakashi had to look away as the whole, wet body of the Yellow Flash rose from the water beside him) and said,
"Five more minutes, and let's go get some sleep."
"Hai, Minato"
"Sure thing." said Kurenai from the other side.
Kakashi jumped out of the water, mumbling "I'll go now.". He sprinted to the exit, splashing water all over the place. He grabbed his robe and put on his slippers.
Into the hallway he went, still dripping with water. He hurriedly put on his own robe, not bothering to check whose robe he grabbed. Kakashi marched along the hallway, his eyes cast down on the polished, wooden floor. He was having a hard time keeping his hands to himself back there.
Minato wasn't even doing anything that... arousing to him, but he was feeling so incredibly hot.
Kakashi entered their room, and quickly he tried to get fresh clothes from his bag. He pulled out a black shirt, and lay it on the bed. He put on his dirty pants, not even heeding that it was, well, dirty.
Ten minutes passed, and he found it hard not to act all jumpy when he heard footsteps growing louder and louder, intermingled with the bickering voices of Asuma and Obito.
"Knucklehead."
"Monkeyface."
"Oh very mature, you two." groaned Kurenai.
He saw a little shelf lined with bottles of wine, beer and other alcoholic drinks. Quickly, he grabbed one of the bottles opened it, hurriedly gulping mouthfuls. What and why he was doing it, he didn't really care. He just wanted a distraction.
"Burns, but tastes pretty good."
Kakashi drank some more, relishing the stinging taste the drink brought. The silver-haired ninja liked it. He didn't even bother to look at the label of what he was drinking.
All he cared was that it made him feel better. He continued drinking whatever it was he was drinking.
He sensed his teammates' chakra outside the door. Pushing the empty bottle under Minato's bed, he silently crawled into his own bed and hid under the covers before Minato could turn the light. He shut his eyes tight.
He was definitely not losing self-control tonight.
He heard Minato's bed creak, signaling that his incredibly sexy ("What?!" Kakashi thought.) sensei sat on it.
"Ahhh.."
Kakashi's grey eyes opened. "Why is he moaning?"
Images of Minato doing things that might make him moan raced through Kakashi's mind.
"Shit, I should've stayed away from Icha Icha Turnover!"
Hatake Kakashi bit his tongue to deter his unrightful thoughts. He raised the blanket to take a peek at Minato.
Minato was rubbing his left arm. Kakashi figured that it must be aching, and when Minato massaged it, it felt better, hence, the moan.
Kakashi rolled over and tried to keep quiet.
"You are not like this Kakashi. No, not this." he said to himself.
Kakashi reached to feel himself down there. Still, it was there.
He had never had lusty fantasies for his sensei. Not until now. His hardness was unrelenting, painful even. He had tried to suppress it since arriving at this inn.
The alcohol brought the Hatake a painful dizziness. His head was also starting to ache. Everything seemed to happen so fast, but he felt so sluggish.
"Anything wrong, Kakashi?"
A second's worth of hesitation, and –
"Yes."
Kakashi figured that it would be best to be honest ("And maybe he'd go and comfort me." thought Kakashi, his ideas of "comfort" far from it's original sense) and not let Minato worry.
"What is it?" asked Minato, his voice laced with concern.
Kakashi stood up and walked towards the bathroom door. He went inside, barely noticing his shirtless sensei standing up and following him before he closed the door.
"I think I am sick." he said.
He took his mask off and splashed some cold water on his face, hoping it would make him feel better, but it did not.
He opened the door and collapsed on top of his concerned sensei, hitting the tableside lamp. The lamp shattered loudly into pieces.
Kakashi, still maskless, was face-to-face with Minato. He could make out every detail of the Yellow Flash's face right there and then. The blonde had a look of surprise on his face, because he could feel Kakashi's hard-on somewhere near his thighs.
Time seemed to stand still as their gazes stood transfixed.
Kakashi, for so long, waited for a moment to let his feelings known. Now fate has pressed it into his own hands. He remembered the fake smiles he gave to everyone, Minato included. He faked those smiles to make them think that he was okay, to confuse them into thinking that the Hatake heir was feeling as every kid his age should feel. Under those lies a different kind of sadness. A gaping hole that no one dared to fill.
Now, looking down at his sensei, he realized that he shouldn't have waited for someone to come and save him from the emptiness and from himself. It is time he did it himself.
Now he smiled, and it was true.
He knew it was wrong, but he couldn't stop.
Kakashi tightened his grip on Minato's arms(but failed, as he was feeling very weak), as he approached slowly to kiss those soft lips he dreamed of for so long.
"Kakashi! What is the meaning of this?" said Minato, as he held Kakashi on the shoulders, preventing him from coming closer.
"I lo—…"
But then, Kakashi heard the door open with a crash, and Rin's voice saying something incomprehensible for his alcohol-impaired hearing. He felt something sting him between his shoulder blades, and he blacked out.
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Rin was already fully-dressed and laying on her bed, thinking of her truth potion blunder when she heard a crash from the next room.
She stood up, casting a look on the bathroom where Kurenai was brushing her hair. Silently, she trod out of the room. Praying to the gods that Kakashi didn't do anything the effects and side-effects of the medicine might have induced.
A loud crash rang through her ears as she approached the door. Her heart pounding fast, she opened the door and found an unmasked Kakashi on top of a bewildered Minato. Rin was momentarily amazed by the face of Kakashi; it was the first time she ever saw him without his mask. Quickly regaining her focus, she jumped onto the bed nearest the door and shouted,
"No! Sensei, it's not Kakashi's fault!"
Being the well-prepared kunoichi she is, Rin drew a senbon from her sleeve and threw it with pinpoint accuracy on Kakashi's back.
Kakashi collapsed as the senbon did its job to stun him.
Minato heaved the unconscious Kakashi up to the second bed as a bottle of gin rolled out from under it. Minato caught a whiff of Kakashi's slow breaths, and it smelled the same as the liquid from the empty bottle.
"Kakashi drunk this all by himself?" he said, utterly shocked.
He looked at Rin, her face now white with disbelief and possibly fear.
"Sensei, it's not his fault. It's mine. I can explain."
A/N: Sorry if it's a bit short and kinda hurried. I had to get this done, checked for errors and posted before I go to my dormitory. Forgive me for any errors left uncorrected, and for this chapter's shortness. But I think I got the message across. Anyway, I will start living by myself now. My parents will be taking me to the dorm now. So yeah. I can update weekly, at most. I hope I can survive alone. ;)
...and. Kakashi! Minato! Rin! (What? XD) Reviews are love. It would help me keep going at this. *grin