I am so so sorry for the delay. Its just that my mind isn't working so I can't come up with good ideas. So, this might sick. I know that some parts do suck. So, I apologize. But I hope you guys will still review and give me some feedback.
Recap:
Naruto and Sasuke lay snuggled close to each other, unaware of the eyes that were watching them.
The cave was lit by a single candle light. The surrounding could be barely seen. But, the ominous feeling that it gave off was enough to scare even the bravest of men.
A whimper escaped from the prisoners lips. He feared for what was to come. He saw a shadow of a man approaching him. He tried to hide himself, but to no avail. He tried to break free from the ropes that bound him to the cold concrete surface. But, he knew that it was too late. Finally, the face of the unknown man revealed features of a snake ready to devour its prey. Its sharp slits for eyes narrowed as the man dived at its poor captor.
"Orochimaru-sama, everything is according to schedule." a boy with white hair, approached the prisoner.
"Good." whispered Orochimaru. He unbound the ropes and examined his new vessel. Orochimaru's face turned to a look of disgust.
"None of them are good enough. I want him. His the only one that can complete me." Orochimaru shot a deathly glare at his subordinate and whispered in a deathly tone.
"I want no mistakes this time. You better make sure of it, Kabuto." the white haired boy nodded his head in agreement.
"Don't worry, my lord. This time we will succeed."
"Ok. Thats it for today. Make sure you do your homework and study for the test." Iruka announced to his class, as the bell rang.
It has been a little over a week since the incident at the roof. Iruka still couldn't figure out what had happened with Kakashi.
The man disappeared in a cloud of smokes. Huh! He didn't even bother to come by later. His been ignoring me all week. That...BUMP
"Ah! I'm sorry. I wasn't looking..." Iruka looked up to see that he bumped into none other than the man of his thoughts.
Kakashi stared at those big dark brown eyes. Those eyes that were beeging him to say something. Anything.
"Its ok. I wasn't looking either." Kakashi just said as he averted his gaze. Iruka felt a pnag of pain inside of him.
Is that it. Is that all your are going to say. Damn you Hatake Kakashi! I hate you.
Iruka got up and wiped at his unfallen tears that didn't go unnoticed by the silver haired man. Iruka was about to rush away when Kakashi caught his hand from behind. Iruka gasped at the touch but then he could no longer control himself. He let the books he was carrying fall and he threw his fists at Kakashi chests and began sobbing.
"Why did you ingore me all this time. I was so worried when you suddenly disappeared. I hate you! I..hate...you!" Kakashi just held onto Iruka all the while the younger man cried. After the waterworks finally subsided. Kakashi brought Iruka's face up to look him in the eyes.
"I'm sorry. Please forgive me." Kakashi asked as calmly as he could. He was breaking inside and Iruka knew that. Iruka shook his head and turned away.
"I won't forgive you. Not before you tell me everything. Not until you explain every single little detail and I don't care how long it takes you." Iruka finished. Kakashi thought things over in his head.
Whats the point of telling you the past when you won't remember anything. Why are you so damn stubborn. Dammit!
...Sigh...
"Fine. Fine. I'll tell you. But you won't understand any of it."
"We'll see. Come on. We are going to my place." Iruka dragged the older man by his arm and down the stairs and just when they were about to get in the car, Naruto came running and screaming for them to wait.
"Naruto!" Kakashi broke away from Iruka's hold and ran towards the frantic boy. Iruka right on his heels.
"Sensei! I..(insert panting) I remembered something. We need to talk. Can you come to Sasuke's place. Its really important." Kakashi nodded and looked towards Iruka. Iruka looked at Kakashi and said
"I dont' care, but I'm coming with you." Kakashi sighed in defeat ans beckoned Naruto to the car and shrotly afterwards they arrived at the Uchiha mansion.
Sasuke answered the door and was not expecting to see his teachers.
"What are you guys doing here? Is everything ok?" Sasuke turned his gaze at his lover. Naruto had just gone out to get some fresh air. But, he looked like he just ran a marathon. Buth of them didn't go to school as Naruto wasn't feeling all that good in the morining.
"Everything fine. I just needed to talk to Kakashi-sensei and so I kinda ran to school and barely caught him." Naruto replied as all of them walked into the house and made themselves comfortable.
"So, what to did you remember, Naruto?"Kakashi asked
"We were ninjas in our past life. Thats what I remembered." Kakashi just stared at the blond boy.
"If I'm not mistaken I already told you that the first time I told you the whole story."
"Thats not what I'm saying. I asking can't we be ninjas again." Kakashi stared at Naruto once again and replied
"We still are ninjas, Naruto."
"So, we can defeat Orochimaru, right?" Naruto asked excitedly, only to stare at a grave expression on Kakashi's face. Everything became quiet. Sasuke and Iruka were left out of the conversation as usual and it didn't bode with either of them. So, Sasuke interrupted.
"I wanted to ask what this was about. Sasuke handed Kakashi the paper that he had given Sasuke a week ago." Kakashi took it and asked
"What about it."
"What am I suppose to do with this. You said Naruto might know, but since nothing happened I didn't bring it up and he never explained what it was." Sasuke said
"God! Of all people the old man had to choose me for this." Kakashi mumbled under his breath which didn't go unnoticed by Iruka.
"Choose you for what?" Iruka asked.
"Nothing." replied Kakashi. Iruka's face srunched up as if he was in pain and that killed Kakashi. Kakashi sighed and hung his head.
"I'm sorry. I just..Iruka-sensei, Kakashi-sensei loves you more than you can imagine and he would rather die himself than let you die again." Naruto interrupted Kakashi, stunning everyone.
"Na-Naruto." Kakashi and Iruka said in unision.
"Look, we all have problems at hand. No matter how much I want to not believe Kakashi's words, I can't ignore Naruto's dreams. So, can we just figure these out first." Sasuke said as he sighed. Everyone nodded in argeement.
"Wait." Iruka interrupted as Kakashi was about to speak again.
"How..how did you disappear that time."
"Ok. Just don't freak out." Kakashi replied back. He then performed a couple of handseals and he disappeared in a puff of smoke and appeared at the top of the staircase. Everyone was stunned. Sasuke was staring wide-eyed, Iruka was gaping and Naruto looked relieved and overly excited.
"Its ninjutsu. By controlling your chakra you can use jutsus. My chakra control was unsealed when I remembered the past. Naruto's chakra had to be unsealed by me. After than he will probably have his old abilities." Kakashi said as he walked down the stairs.
"So, unseal me." Naruto shouted
"Its not that easy.It might not work. I'm not the same person I was back then. I may not be able to. And even if I do, defeating Orochimaru by ourselves isn't gonna work. Even the Hokage couldn't defeat him."
"It doesn't have to be just you guys. Can't you unseal my chakra." Sasuke asked.
"I don't think so. You don't remember the past, I don't think it will work. Same goes for Iruka." Kakashi said as he saw Iruka about o speak up.
"But, we can still try." Naruto said.
"We have to. We are running out of time."
"What do you mean, Naruto." Iruka asked.
Naruto hesitated at first but continued.
"I had another dream. Orochimaru,..he..he became someone else. Its like he took over that person's body. Also there was someone else there. He was talking about a plan and everything being ready. Orochimaru said that he wanted someone." Naruto finished
"Its probably Sasuke that he was talking about." Kakashi plopped himself down on the floor and rubbed his head, waiting for the headache he knew was coming.
Iruka looked at his lover and saw that the stress was finally showing the marks of aging on his face. Iruka got up and wrapped his hands around Kakashi. Kakashi stiffened for a moment but settled down immedietly. Naruto and Sasuke just stood there watching.
"Kashi, you do what you have to do. We have to protect them. I may not be able to help much, but I'll try my best just like you are. So, stop worrying. I can't bear to see you like this. I know you can defeat this Orochimaru person." finished Iruka.
Kakashi wrapped his arms around his lover and breathed in his smell. And it calmed the man down. Then he whispered
"Thank you, Ruka. I love you and I'm sorry." Iruka just smiled.
"How sweet. Ne, Kabuto." Kakashi froze at those words. Naruto's whole body went numb. Iruka's heart began to pound in his chest and Sasuke...
"Ah! Sasuke. It is so good to see you. You look as beautiful as always." Sasuke was disgusted by that voice and that face. Something in him just wanted to pound the man to death.
"Orochimaru." Kakashi stood up and pulled everyone behind him.
"Hehehe! Oh how noble of the great Copy Nin, trying to protect his comrades. Too bad. You couldn't protect the one you love last time. How do you expect to protect him now." Iruka felt his breath caught in his throught and he gasped for breath.
"IRUKA! IRUKA! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO, YOU BASTARD." Kakashi yelled as he tried to control the now gasping Iruka.
Dammit. No. No. I'M NOT FUCKING GONNA LOOSE HIM AGAIN.
Kakashi uncovered his left eyes to reveal a red swirling pupil with tree dots. Sasuke was mesmerized by his eye. He knew that he had seen it somewhere but he just couldn't remember. But he was soon taken out of his trance by the yells of a frantic Naruto. Sasuke looked at his lover to see him leaning over Iruka-sensei trying to make him breath.
Kakashi charged at Orochimaru only to be stopped by Kabuto.
"We only want the Uchiha." Kabuto said
"Over my dead body." Kakashi replied back. Kabuto just smirked and pulled back. Kakashi was surprised at that move.
"This is your last chance, Hatake Kakashi." Orochimaru spoke this time.
"Next time we meet we will end this game that was started so many years ago. And I will finally get what I desire. Also, I will make sure to kill each and everyone one of you. Till then." Orochimaru glanced at Sasuke as he and Kabuto disappeaerd like dust.
..Cough..Cough..gasp..huff..huff..huff
"Iruka-sensei! Breathe. Its alright now." Kakashi rushed back to Iruka's side and was rubbing soothing circled on his back.
"You're okay. You're okay now." he whispered sweetly. Naruto looked back at Sasuke to see him staring at the spot that Orochimaru had been just a minute ago.
"Sasuke?" Naruto called out. Sasuke looked towards the blond and embraced him in a tightly.
"Its okay. I'm okay." Naruto just nodded as he himself calmed down.
"What the hell just happened." Iruka asked still panting a little. He looked towards Kakashi and stared into the mismatched eyes. This wasn't the first time Iruka had seen that eye. But it was as beautiful as always.
"I'm sorry. I couldn't do anything again." Kakashi said through gritted teeth.
"It wasn't your fault. Don't blame yourself I don't even know what happened. I just suddenly couldn't breath." Iruka said
Kakashi let out a sigh as if making a final and grave decision.
"Naruto, tomorrow I'm gonna unseal your chakra. He is stronger than I thought he wouold be. I can't defeat him alone. We might not be able to defeat him together either. But, that never did stop any of us." Kakashi's lips turned upwards a little as he remembered the past. Those were the happiest days of his lives even though back then he wished that he could just live a normal life.
I guess the saying "be careful what you wish for" is something you need to be cautious about.
Naruto nodded and stood up. Kakashi and Iruka followed his actions.
"I need you to tell Sasuke everything about what you remember. Maybe, just maybe something cant trigger the locked memories. The Hokage told me that if I ever needed for Sasuke's memories to be revived, only you could do it. He said that there was a chance Sasuke would remember you when you two met. So, give it a try. There still might be hope for us yet." Naruto and Sasuke nodded in agreement as they led the two teachers to the door.
"Be careful. Both of you." Iruka said
"I rather you two come with me, but I don't think it should be a problem. But, I'm still gonna put protection seal around the house." Kakashi said as he did what he said and then he and Iruka left the boys to deal with their own problems.
THAT NIGHT
"Everything is gonna be okay, right Sasauke?" Naruto asked as they lay on their bed.
"I sure hope so." Sasuke replied as he placed a gentle kiss on Naruto forhead.
"Good night, teme."
"Night, dobe."
IRUKA'S PLACE
"Kakashi." Iruka called out to his lover who was lying down on his back in the bed.
"I know. The story." Iruka nodded and Kakashi began telling Iruka the story of how Kakashi fell in love with him and everything that had happened in the past.
The hands of Fate are nearing an end. The story of ancient time is finally reaching its end. Time will tell the outcome of it all.
Ok. So if anybody is confused let me know in your wonderful reviews and I'll clear things up for you. HOPE YOU ENJOYED. REVIEW!!