Destiny
Barely
Kori Ryuen
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Disclaimer: I own two ferrets, but other than that...okay, a (blank) load of DVD's and I'm thinking
Derricks heart and nice clothes...but other than /that/ I own absolutely nothing. Hear me? Zip nada,
you will be sad.
Notes: The dreaded sequel...gah, well, I wrote it in like ten minutes, and my head hearts...I need
some asperin...Derrick, my lemon-merang pie? rub my temples pitty pease? *pause* you /wont/? but hunny-bunny...
Music: Garbage-When I grow up
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Iruka sat quietly watching the other children around him. Today was his first day at this school,
he'd gone to preschool back home, but now he was learning how to be a Shinobi, a /Ninja/. Daddy and
Sasuke-san were inside of the door to the left of him, talking to the frail white eyed woman who
talked quietly; leaving him there to sit on the wooden bench while the other children watched him
with curious eyes.
He watched them, though his head was tilted down, and his long hair obscuring most from seeing his
eyes. Adults often walked down the hall, many staring at him in curiousity and then understanding.
Children walked by every so often, most stared at him with more open facination.
He knew that the girls liked him, even back home girls had taken a fancy to him. But the stares
these girls were /giving/ him...he wanted to go back home or to Oji-sans house, he promised Shadow
he'd bring him some of the 'Good-grass*' from the Dark mans garden.
Inside of the room, the three adults stood. Hyuga Hinata, the head of her clan but also a teacher
at the school, Uchiha Sasuke, the last of his clan and a Hunter-nin, and Uzumaki Naruto, only Uzumaki
ever mentioned in the series and the parent of the little boy who sat outside of the small office.
Hinata smiled gently, happy to see Naruto; yet the way that the two men stood, the small investigation
that she had done when she found out that Naruto was home again...these two were lovers, had been
before, and the little boy was to be her student.
"It's good to see you, Naruto-kun...it's been too long, I think." Faintly, she felt that attraction
she had had for him fade a little. She was happy for him, to be back and have someone who cared about
them, but she also feared that he had gone to Sasuke because of lack of options.
Sure, Iruka-sensei would have kept them for a time, but Iruka-sensei was a teacher, with a limited
salary and two more mouth's to feed would have run the poor man out of house and home. And Naruto had
left for a reason, the blonde never did anything without some logic, no matter how twisted and odd
that logic may have been.
Naruto smiled back at her, not the foxy grin he had donned as a youth, but a smile which spoke of
maturity and forced wisdom. As a single parent, he'd have to have grown into an adult sooner than he
should have, and with the boy at six already...sixteen was too young for anyone to be a parent.
"Yeah, I missed you." He said, and they exchanged a brief, friendly 'you've been gone and I've missed
you' hug. Sasuke watched and felt a small prick, but settled it down; jealousy was un-called for now.
As they pulled away they exchanged a smile, "So you're a teacher! I never figured you'd be one, but I
really don't know what else you would have done either..."
Hinata smiled, going around the back of the desk and taking out a folder of forms. "It's all very
exciting, I hope this class is as good as everyones hoping, I have a cousin and an Aburame in this
class, so it looks like I have my work cut out for me. And now a Uzumaki! I hope he's not as mischeivious
as you were at that age."
Naturo blashed slightly, but rubbed the back of his head, "Iruka-chan is a very polite boy, he learns
very quickly...a little too quickly someitimes..." He laughed slightly before sitting down, Sasuke
saking the hard plastic chair next to him.
"I need you to sign these, basic information, a few forms to keep track of what he already knows and
what he doesn't." She sat the forms in front of them, setting down a pen. "There are also the school
fee's, but we can take care of those once he gets started in class. MAterials are mostly taken care of
here, but if theres something extra or he breaks something, the fee is how much it was."
Naruto nodded, basically the same as public school back with Oba-san, though the curriculum would
definatly be far different. He took the forms, read them over, filled them out as best he could
before handing them back.
"When will he start?"
Hinata smiled, "It's lunch time right now, you could leave him here and he could start the afternoon
part of class. School's done at 3:20, so you could pick him up then." She offered.
Naruto looked a little apprehensive, '/leave him here now? But...I haven't given him any foreknowledge
of this, what will...?/'
Sasuke watched Naruto fight with himself a little bit before laying his hand on the blonds shoulder,
drawing the sea blue eyes to look at him. "it'll only be a couple of hours, and I'm sure that he'll
make some new friends. We can just pick him up after we get the errands done, he'll be bored with the
shopping anyway." Sasuke coaxed, drawing a slightly hesitant nod out of Naruto, and a frown out of
Hinata.
Since when had Naruto let others make decisions for him?
Hinata smiled, though it wasn't real, and she stood, gesturing to the door. "You'd better inform him
then, he can have some of my lunch and you two can get your errands done."
Naruto smiled at her, walking to the door and opening it. Iruka-chan looked up and smiled, scrambling
off the bench and hugging his dads thighs. "Iruka was wondering what you were doing in there."
Naruto smiled, running a hand through the dark thick hair atop his sons head, pushing the little boy
back and kneeling to look into the little boys eyes. "Hey, Aka-chan, you wanna go with Hinata-sensei
to class?"
Iruka looked aside Naruto and looked at the dark haired woman that stood smiling behind Sasuke-san.
Looking at all of them he looked back at Naruto.
"Doesn't Daddy want Iruka with him?" The little boy asked, looking up into mirrored blue eyes.
Naruto was quick to appease, "Oh Iruka-chan...I want you to have fun, and Daddy and Sasuke-san are
going to go out and do boring stuff, and Hinata-sensei will be doing fun stuff with some kids your
age, and I thought that maybe you would like to play here and see some nifty ninja stuff."
Iruka perked up a little, "Like those knives you throw?"
Naruto smiled, "Yep, Hinata-sensei teaches how to do that, wanna go play with her?"
Iruka nodded, "Iruka wants to play."
Hinata took the little boy down the hall and to the door that the classroom was in. Iruka turned and
waved before entering, and Sasuke gently polled Naruto back and gave him a brief hug, "C'mon, I'll get
you some ramen, then we can get the shores done, and then we'll come and pick him up...just like normal
parents."
Naruo smiled a little, "Just...gotta let them walk a little, huh?"
Sasuke smiled, pulling him back and snuggling him, "Don't worry, just baby steps now."
Naruto nodded, but something in his stomach told him there was something...something he should know,
but couldn't place his finger on.
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Leave you hanging?
I thought so, next one will be up sooner.
Barely
Kori Ryuen
* * * * * *
Disclaimer: I own two ferrets, but other than that...okay, a (blank) load of DVD's and I'm thinking
Derricks heart and nice clothes...but other than /that/ I own absolutely nothing. Hear me? Zip nada,
you will be sad.
Notes: The dreaded sequel...gah, well, I wrote it in like ten minutes, and my head hearts...I need
some asperin...Derrick, my lemon-merang pie? rub my temples pitty pease? *pause* you /wont/? but hunny-bunny...
Music: Garbage-When I grow up
* * * * * *
Iruka sat quietly watching the other children around him. Today was his first day at this school,
he'd gone to preschool back home, but now he was learning how to be a Shinobi, a /Ninja/. Daddy and
Sasuke-san were inside of the door to the left of him, talking to the frail white eyed woman who
talked quietly; leaving him there to sit on the wooden bench while the other children watched him
with curious eyes.
He watched them, though his head was tilted down, and his long hair obscuring most from seeing his
eyes. Adults often walked down the hall, many staring at him in curiousity and then understanding.
Children walked by every so often, most stared at him with more open facination.
He knew that the girls liked him, even back home girls had taken a fancy to him. But the stares
these girls were /giving/ him...he wanted to go back home or to Oji-sans house, he promised Shadow
he'd bring him some of the 'Good-grass*' from the Dark mans garden.
Inside of the room, the three adults stood. Hyuga Hinata, the head of her clan but also a teacher
at the school, Uchiha Sasuke, the last of his clan and a Hunter-nin, and Uzumaki Naruto, only Uzumaki
ever mentioned in the series and the parent of the little boy who sat outside of the small office.
Hinata smiled gently, happy to see Naruto; yet the way that the two men stood, the small investigation
that she had done when she found out that Naruto was home again...these two were lovers, had been
before, and the little boy was to be her student.
"It's good to see you, Naruto-kun...it's been too long, I think." Faintly, she felt that attraction
she had had for him fade a little. She was happy for him, to be back and have someone who cared about
them, but she also feared that he had gone to Sasuke because of lack of options.
Sure, Iruka-sensei would have kept them for a time, but Iruka-sensei was a teacher, with a limited
salary and two more mouth's to feed would have run the poor man out of house and home. And Naruto had
left for a reason, the blonde never did anything without some logic, no matter how twisted and odd
that logic may have been.
Naruto smiled back at her, not the foxy grin he had donned as a youth, but a smile which spoke of
maturity and forced wisdom. As a single parent, he'd have to have grown into an adult sooner than he
should have, and with the boy at six already...sixteen was too young for anyone to be a parent.
"Yeah, I missed you." He said, and they exchanged a brief, friendly 'you've been gone and I've missed
you' hug. Sasuke watched and felt a small prick, but settled it down; jealousy was un-called for now.
As they pulled away they exchanged a smile, "So you're a teacher! I never figured you'd be one, but I
really don't know what else you would have done either..."
Hinata smiled, going around the back of the desk and taking out a folder of forms. "It's all very
exciting, I hope this class is as good as everyones hoping, I have a cousin and an Aburame in this
class, so it looks like I have my work cut out for me. And now a Uzumaki! I hope he's not as mischeivious
as you were at that age."
Naturo blashed slightly, but rubbed the back of his head, "Iruka-chan is a very polite boy, he learns
very quickly...a little too quickly someitimes..." He laughed slightly before sitting down, Sasuke
saking the hard plastic chair next to him.
"I need you to sign these, basic information, a few forms to keep track of what he already knows and
what he doesn't." She sat the forms in front of them, setting down a pen. "There are also the school
fee's, but we can take care of those once he gets started in class. MAterials are mostly taken care of
here, but if theres something extra or he breaks something, the fee is how much it was."
Naruto nodded, basically the same as public school back with Oba-san, though the curriculum would
definatly be far different. He took the forms, read them over, filled them out as best he could
before handing them back.
"When will he start?"
Hinata smiled, "It's lunch time right now, you could leave him here and he could start the afternoon
part of class. School's done at 3:20, so you could pick him up then." She offered.
Naruto looked a little apprehensive, '/leave him here now? But...I haven't given him any foreknowledge
of this, what will...?/'
Sasuke watched Naruto fight with himself a little bit before laying his hand on the blonds shoulder,
drawing the sea blue eyes to look at him. "it'll only be a couple of hours, and I'm sure that he'll
make some new friends. We can just pick him up after we get the errands done, he'll be bored with the
shopping anyway." Sasuke coaxed, drawing a slightly hesitant nod out of Naruto, and a frown out of
Hinata.
Since when had Naruto let others make decisions for him?
Hinata smiled, though it wasn't real, and she stood, gesturing to the door. "You'd better inform him
then, he can have some of my lunch and you two can get your errands done."
Naruto smiled at her, walking to the door and opening it. Iruka-chan looked up and smiled, scrambling
off the bench and hugging his dads thighs. "Iruka was wondering what you were doing in there."
Naruto smiled, running a hand through the dark thick hair atop his sons head, pushing the little boy
back and kneeling to look into the little boys eyes. "Hey, Aka-chan, you wanna go with Hinata-sensei
to class?"
Iruka looked aside Naruto and looked at the dark haired woman that stood smiling behind Sasuke-san.
Looking at all of them he looked back at Naruto.
"Doesn't Daddy want Iruka with him?" The little boy asked, looking up into mirrored blue eyes.
Naruto was quick to appease, "Oh Iruka-chan...I want you to have fun, and Daddy and Sasuke-san are
going to go out and do boring stuff, and Hinata-sensei will be doing fun stuff with some kids your
age, and I thought that maybe you would like to play here and see some nifty ninja stuff."
Iruka perked up a little, "Like those knives you throw?"
Naruto smiled, "Yep, Hinata-sensei teaches how to do that, wanna go play with her?"
Iruka nodded, "Iruka wants to play."
Hinata took the little boy down the hall and to the door that the classroom was in. Iruka turned and
waved before entering, and Sasuke gently polled Naruto back and gave him a brief hug, "C'mon, I'll get
you some ramen, then we can get the shores done, and then we'll come and pick him up...just like normal
parents."
Naruo smiled a little, "Just...gotta let them walk a little, huh?"
Sasuke smiled, pulling him back and snuggling him, "Don't worry, just baby steps now."
Naruto nodded, but something in his stomach told him there was something...something he should know,
but couldn't place his finger on.
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Leave you hanging?
I thought so, next one will be up sooner.