Iruka woke to a start. Eyes searching blindly for Kakashi who currently wasn't present in the bed next to him. Sitting up he swore he smelled something cooking, bolting out of bed he threw on a robe and high tailed it down the hall.
Stopping at the frame of the kitchen door, he was shocked to see that there was actual food on the table and not splattered on the wall.
"Wha? How?" he stuttered.
"Morning Ru'! I actually made something this time. I'm not sure what it is, but Sakura talked me through it over the phone!"
His mask-less smile was charming but Iruka was trying to get over the fact that he was able to cook something edible. Even if he had no idea what it was.
Kakashi came over and placed his hands on Iruka's shoulders, steering him into a chair. As he sat he felt a weight on his shoulder and he turned to see Kakashi's hair in his face.
"Kakashi you should eat too you'll get hungry," Kakashi took a seat next to Iruka and smiled at him.
"Nah I'll be-" as he said that a loud growling noise erupted from Kakashi's stomach, Iruka had to stifle a laugh.
"Fine huh?"
He furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, "was that… me?"
"It's means your hungry. Come on, eat something, now."
After they ate, Iruka took a shower, while Kakashi was trying to 'learn' how to take one, in the end though he got wrapped up in the shower curtain.
Iruka sat the car and was currently waiting for Kakashi to finish detangling himself. As he stepped in he said, "I've probably said this before, but we guardian's are also known as god's failures as humans."
From his sheepish grin Iruka only laughed, "alright, where do you want to go then? We just ate so we can't do a picnic today since it's almost twelve but maybe we can have a walk in the park?"
Kakashi got in and Iruka started to drive towards the park. Sighing, he looked shortly out the window to see a small child throwing a frisbee for his dog, Iruka smiled.
"Sure that sounds-" from the left of the moving car what seemed to be a large wall of paper came crashing down on the car, effectively slicing off the rear bumper and making the car skid.
Iruka turned the wheels sharply to avoid oncoming traffic but he started to freak out when the tide of paper was gaining on them.
Iruka turned on his watch, "Sakura!"
Her voice came in full of static, "w-at?"
"There's a wall of freaking paper! Requesting back up immediately!" he screamed frantically, trying to drive and talk and avoid getting shredded all at the same time.
"Ir-ka? W-at sa-ing, can't he-r -ou."
The line went dead and his mind did a back flip as the car nearly did a front one. "Kakashi!" he screamed.
Kakashi didn't know what to do either, Iruka knew that much, wherever this paper was coming from, he knew it had to be a demon's work.
Suddenly the car was pulled into reverse, and even though Iruka was stepping full time on the gas, he was going backwards. Some invisible ropes it seemed were dragging him back into the sea of paper. Though he didn't know how much help it would be, he rolled up the windows and punched the gas.
The tires continued to spin but the car continued steadily back. When the walls of paper finally descended upon them, a thousand thoughts went through his head.
Were they going to get shredded? Was this it? Was he dreaming?
When the paper began to scrap the sides of the car his heart sped up, "Kakashi!"
Without much warning, Kakashi latched onto Iruka's hand and held it tightly, as the paper swooped across the windshield…
Suddenly the paper was gone. No, it was still there, but a large hallow room was what was really inside the wave of paper.
Iruka looked around, somewhat amazed, completely terrified. Turning around to where the car was drifting he saw a figure with large paper wings floating just above the air. A male stood next to her, as far as Iruka could tell in the dark room the male had orange hair and many facial piercing.
Suddenly he felt Kakashi grab him and pull him out his side of the car. Tumbling to the ground Iruka felt Kakashi cover him, trying to take most of the damage.
Iruka panicked when the two began to descend upon them. He didn't have his specialized gun on his person, it was in the trunk of his car which was slowly getting shredded by the paper that was gradually closing in on them.
"Here," something was shoved into his hands and he saw that it was the gun he was just thinking about.
"What? How did you-"
"Grabbed it when you weren't looking," he said with a wink, "now shoot while I distract them."
"But Kakashi!" he was about to shout 'you're a human now' but by the time the thought processed he was already gone. For a human, he could still run pretty fast.
Iruka got to his feet, seizing his gun and wrapping the strap around his wrist to keep from losing the object. He had installed a leather strap one day after having it kicked out of his hands one too many times.
"Behind you!" Iruka ducked and turned just as a scrap of paper went whizzing by his head, just scratching his left ear. Immediately Iruka felt the sting and held his ear as he rolled away from the person in front of him.
He stood and came back to back with Kakashi, "thanks," he murmured, out of breath.
"Being a human is hard, do you think they know?"
"Doesn't matter, let's just not try to die alright?" he said, somewhat sarcastically, but completely serious.
Jumping away from each other Iruka saw out of the corner of his eyes Kakashi being thrown around like a rag doll.
Just a few feet away from Kakashi was the man with orange hair, while he was distracted, Iruka fired two shots. One of the shots was blown back towards him while the other managed to graze the man's shoulder.
Iruka heard the beep that his gun makes when it grabs a hold of the demon and pulled the trigger a second time.
Just as he pulled it though, something sharp and painful sliced his right hand open. Instantly dropping the gun, he reached for it only for it to be kicked from his reach.
A fist punched him hard and sent him flying back. Iruka landed dangerously close to the wall of paper and he struggled to get up. A shoe landed itself squarely on his chest, looking up he saw the female demon with a plain expression on her face.
"I apologize, innocents weren't supposed to die, but if we continue to let you train your powers you will over power us."
His eyes widened as he saw a kunai being pulled out of no where, the demon held it up, ready to strike.
Looking around the demon, he saw Kakashi frantically trying to get away from the human. His arms flailing each time he was sent into the air.
"Iruka!" he heard him shout from across the way, "where's the gun!"
"Behind you!" he yelled just as the kunai came down. Mustering up all the strength he had, he managed to free one arm and hold the one with the sharp knife.
His arm shook as the demon's other arm came to put more force onto it. In the process he was able to free his left arm and support the one currently struggling with the kunai.
Their strengths were evenly matched, he noted, however the girl was just a tad stronger and the edge of the knife was slowly coming towards his neck. Hovering just above his jugular.
As he felt the tip of the blade graze his skin, everything disappeared.
Blinking, he looked up and saw bright sunlight. Not caring about what just happened, he sat up quickly, looking around for Kakashi. He spotted him about ten yards to his right, rushing over to him, he saw that he was holding his specialized gun. The trigger was pulled.
"Kakashi!" he kneeled down next to him and shook him lightly. His one eye opened, smiling.
"Hey, I think I did it?"
Iruka hugged him tightly, "yes, you did it."
He turned around and saw immediately what he was looking for. Going over to the silent body he looked at the face of the human before heaving him up onto his shoulder and finding his car.
Unfortunately his car was in ruins. The thing was shredded into a million pieces of scrap metal along with everything inside of it.
Sighing, Iruka went over to the side of the road and laid the person gently on the ground. As long as his demon was sealed away he wouldn't wake up.
From his back pocket, he pulled out his damaged and dying cell phone, calling Tsunade he asked for a ride.
Looking around, he began to notice all the damage the paper had done. The buildings lay in cement ruins, scattered everywhere. People, men, women, and children, looked on in fright, frozen by fear as they starred. The road was shattered into a million pieces, glass and other dangerous objects littered the wake of the paper Tsunami.
Police began to arrive at the destroyed scene. An unfamiliar face met his and he noticed it was a cop, "sir what happened here are you alright?"
"Ah, I'm alright," he answered warily.
"Let's get those injuries patched up," the guy left and Kakashi fell down next to him, panting heavily.
"You ok Kakashi?" He asked worriedly.
"I'm… fine, I don't like being a human," Iruka laughed, and the feeling felt good.
"Either way, we still managed to save the day together."
Kakashi sat up and looked at him, "yeah, I guess we did."
As he said that, he pulled down his mask just before giving Iruka a warm kiss on the lips.