I do not * sigh * in any shape or form own Naruto. * tear * (looks over at
kabuto, kakashi, and sasuke and mouths I love you)
Chapter 1: Cold
Iruka turned over; he was lying on his back now with his body that seemed to be engulfed in the covers. It was cold. Like so many of his mornings in the wintertime, this one spared no exception of being mind dimmingly cold. He; after many arguments over whether to stay in bed or go to teach; got up to get ready. Lets face it, he loved being a teacher even if that meant he would freeze to death he at least knew that a few students who never missed school would go down with him. After chuckling to himself at the thought he left his apartment.
"C..Coooooooooold!" screamed Kakashi as he passed by the bridge. He quickly gazed at the rising sun; Team 7 should be at their meeting spot in 2 hours meaning he had at least 5 hours to waist. Running into the city to get a drink he tucked away his worn down book into the sack in his side. He had gotten stuck with guard duty early that day: really early.. 3 am to be exact; thus having lack of sleep, which wasn't unusual for the jounin, and an empty stomach he went to see if the ramen shop was open.
Iruka was actually running late to class so he was in a hurry. *If I had just got someone else to help the old lady this wouldn't be a problem* thought Iruka. *sigh* "OWWW!! Yelled the body Iruka had just bumped into, he was to deep in thought of the quickest way to get to the school that he hadn't paid attention. "Oh Kakashi!!" said Iruka first with concern but it slowly turned into a quiet laughter. "hahaha What's so funny? You spilled my ramen!!" Kakashi looked like he would eat Iruka he was so hungry. "Here take this" Iruka handed Kakashi some money "I hope you don't mind but I'm in a hurry!" yelled Iruka as he quickly ran towards the school not bothering to notice the jounin weep over his loss ramen. "Hope he doesn't want any of the change." Glumly Kakashi headed back to the ramen shop.
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"Why do we always show up on time?" shivered Naruto as he sat in the field rapped up in his cloths and what appeared to be his blankets trying to pass off as a thinker jacket. "Shut Up! I'm so cold I don't want to hear your annoying voice!" stated Sakura as she rubbed her hands together. "Why do they make us train in the winter" She almost sounded like she would cry.
"Hmph" is all that came out of a seemingly frozen Sasuke. *Gosh* Naruto thought to himself. * Sasuke is so into trying to look like nothing fazes him I think his body froze stiff from not being aloud to move* Naruto started laughing to himself as he pictured Sasuke growing old stuck in his current stance. "That's it!!" yelled Sakura "I give him 5 more minutes and then I'm leaving!" she screamed as smoke seemed to depart from her mouth.
"Really I have only 5 minutes?" smiled the sensei as he scared Sakura by saying it in her ear before she could sense him. "AHHHH!" is all that could be heard for 10 miles. "Sorry about being late, see I .." "Liar!" screamed Naruto and Sakura in complete unison before Kakashi could come up with some excuse. He shrugged it off and then smiled happily at them. "Nice weather we're having, don't ya'll think?" The looks on his students' faces were priceless; from I'm going to die if I don't move anytime soon to maybe I can get another instructor hopefully one with a brain.
The lesson in sparring was shortly ended due to it started to snow. It had been awhile since any of them had seen snow and sparring didn't seem to be helping them so Kakashi let the group out early and went towards the library. * This is the perfect weather to read the new volume of Icha Icha Paradise in* the jounin thought to himself, with a slight blush on his cheeks. The blush was either from the cold or from the recalling of the chapters he read this morning; both reasons are pointless at this time.
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Iruka was walking slowly back to his house. School had to be let out early cause they got a warning that a snowstorm was coming. "I hate this time of year." Iruka said to himself aloud. "Oh come on it isn't that bad! I mean this is the time all my new books come out." Said Kakashi who had appeared next to Iruka before the Chunin had finished his thought. Iruka slowly gazed at Kakashi who was well into his book. * I guess I'm used to him popping up so much that it doesn't phase me anymore* Iruka thought to himself then turned the corner to see Naruto trying to build a snowman in front of Iruka's house.
"Hey Iruka-sensei, I hope you don't mind but I was wondering if I could stay here because.." A few snickers here and there "The old Hermit next to my place decided to remodel the whole apartment building" Naruto seemed as if he knew the reason of why but Iruka was just too tired to interrogate the little fox today. "Sure, of course you can Naruto. You know which room is yours." Naruto was already inside in house; making himself comfortable; when Iruka felt a chill. Waking up form his mood he turned slowly to see Kakashi smiling at him. "That's so....cute." Kakashi's face didn't seem to change from that smile for a long time; Iruka's face on the other hand turned red, really red. He had forgotten the jounin was walking with him.
Kakashi ignored how red Iruka's face had gotten and walked right pass him. "I guess I'll be going now. Oh, yeah! Iruka I was wondering what your plans were in a few weeks?" Iruka caught off by the question just stared at the jounin. "A few weeks, are you talking about Christmas? I usually spend that time with Naruto." Iruka laughed to himself, while Kakashi just smiled.
"Keep New Years open then. I would like to talk to you okay." Kakashi just smiled under his mask and quickly vanished before Iruka had a chance to ask any questions. * sigh* "hmmmmm. That was odd. I wonder what he wants to talk about and why would he wait 3 weeks to tell me? Especially on the holidays?" another blush crept onto Iruka's face before being pushed back down when he entered his house to see a sleeping blonde on the floor.
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"Hey Sasukeeeeeee!!!!" yelled Sakura across the market. How he hated the shrill in her voice and knew that if didn't do something quick another evil would come, Ino. Sasuke saw Sakura making her way through the busy street, he looked around and found that all the escape routes from Sakura led to another fan girl. * this cant be happening* He thought to himself as he saw Naruto at the shop next to his. A plan.
"Sasuke?!! Why are you hanging out with Naruto? I thought you would hang out with me today." Said Sakura as she gave a few deadly glares at Naruto who wasn't moving. "No, I never said I would 'hang out' with you so please leave me alone. Me and Naruto are shopping for a ...a present." Sasuke casually said despite the gap for thought. Naruto began to try to escape. Sasuke anticipating the blond would bail grabbed his arm and forced him to reassure the doubting Sakura. "Well, * sigh * (did Sasuke have a chance to escape?) Who are you buying the present for?"
Darn HER!!* thought Sasuke. * I didn't think about that* "You see we are, umm I mean..." "We are buying a present for Iruka, I needed some money so me and Sasuke are going to split the price." Naruto said interrupting the stumped Sasuke and the surprised Sakura. "Oh I get it can I help buy one too?" she asked looking at Sasuke who stared at Naruto. *He could've told her the truth * "Sure" replied Naruto as Sasuke just realized what happened he thought he would kill the blond.
"Hey Sakura, now that I think about it maybe we should just but separate presents." Sasuke said in a soft voice. "Yeah, I know what you mean." Replied Sakura as they stared at the joyful blond looking in every window. "Hey you guys!! I really appreciate your help!" Cried Naruto as he hugged the big bag they had just bought. "He will definitely love these new."
"New? New what?" asked Iruka as he stood over his three former students who turned pale. Well despite the fact that Sasuke was already pale, they were all scared Iruka heard Naruto. "Sorry guys didn't mean to scare you." Iruka looked at them with content. They were definitely an interesting group to be put together. "Oh by the way Naruto," He looked at the blond, "I'm going to not be in until late tonight so you can go out to eat or hang with your friends. There's a lot of work to be done before the New Year so me and Hokage-sama will be busy fro awhile." Naruto looked a little bummed then once ramen was mentioned his mood changed all together.
"Hey I have an idea!" but before Naruto could finish what he was saying it seemed a giant wind came and no one heard a single word. Sakura ran away to find some warmer cloths and Iruka had to hurry to the Hokage. It seemed that everyone was gone. Except Naruto and Sasuke; who just stared at each other. Naruto looked down at the snow, he was upset that no one heard him but at least one person stayed even if it was his rival.
"Thanks" Naruto looked up in shock. "I was going to thank you earlier for helping me out with Sakura but.." Naruto just stared at his rival who seemed to actually be trying to be sincere. "Never mind Idiot." At that Sasuke vanished and Naruto was alone. * How dare he, he call me an idiot I can at least come up with decent lies. That jerk!!*
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Kakashi stared down at the snow. Hokage said that it was best the genins had some fun every once and awhile so there would be no training, until January that is. All the upper class ninjas on the other hand got settled down with tasks, even though missions tend to slow down this time of year, the paper work always piles up. Kakashi sighed as he turned around to his a big pile of papers.
"Maybe I should get some help" he snickered aloud, just then Iruka came into the door about to fall on his face with piles of paper flying every where. Iruka winced as he saw the ground approach his heavy body. Mainly heavy with the entire extra wait he had to carry to the "busy" room. When he noticed that the ground never met his face he opened his eyes. There stood Kakashi with his arm around Iruka's waist and the other holding on the wall for stability. Iruka's face flushed when he realized how close Kakashi was to him and where his arm was.
"oh Thank you Kakashi." Iruka finally said as he picked himself up and dusted off. "No problem but you should definitely lose weight." He laughed as Iruka's face became even more so red.
By the time they had the whole place fixed up; correction when Iruka finally cleaned up the mess he caused as Kakashi so put it; Kakashi closed his book signifying that he had finished other chapter and stared at Iruka who had started working on the paper work without even asking for Kakashi's help. * How odd* Kakashi thought to himself. * Iruka is the strangest person I know. To think he teaches and then does paper work all on his free time. I would be bored out of my wits.* Kakashi quietly admitted to himself. Iruka seemed to have found his calling the way he works through the papers. Kakashi had finally decided to help Iruka out; which in the end, ended up slowing the chunin down. They sat there in silence before Iruka finally spoke. "You know you said you had something to talk about? Why don't we start the talk now?"
Kakashi just looked over at the chunin who was in return giving the jounin a serious stare. "Okay, lets chat." Kakashi smiled.
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*jumps up and down * Okay this was my first fanfic so far..
WHAT DO YA"LL THINK?!?!?!?!
Please give me some reviews or ill just condem it as a total failure and
commit seppuku
I'm working on chapter 2 so those who like it the wait shouldn't be too
long
gtg need to type more lol
Chapter 1: Cold
Iruka turned over; he was lying on his back now with his body that seemed to be engulfed in the covers. It was cold. Like so many of his mornings in the wintertime, this one spared no exception of being mind dimmingly cold. He; after many arguments over whether to stay in bed or go to teach; got up to get ready. Lets face it, he loved being a teacher even if that meant he would freeze to death he at least knew that a few students who never missed school would go down with him. After chuckling to himself at the thought he left his apartment.
"C..Coooooooooold!" screamed Kakashi as he passed by the bridge. He quickly gazed at the rising sun; Team 7 should be at their meeting spot in 2 hours meaning he had at least 5 hours to waist. Running into the city to get a drink he tucked away his worn down book into the sack in his side. He had gotten stuck with guard duty early that day: really early.. 3 am to be exact; thus having lack of sleep, which wasn't unusual for the jounin, and an empty stomach he went to see if the ramen shop was open.
Iruka was actually running late to class so he was in a hurry. *If I had just got someone else to help the old lady this wouldn't be a problem* thought Iruka. *sigh* "OWWW!! Yelled the body Iruka had just bumped into, he was to deep in thought of the quickest way to get to the school that he hadn't paid attention. "Oh Kakashi!!" said Iruka first with concern but it slowly turned into a quiet laughter. "hahaha What's so funny? You spilled my ramen!!" Kakashi looked like he would eat Iruka he was so hungry. "Here take this" Iruka handed Kakashi some money "I hope you don't mind but I'm in a hurry!" yelled Iruka as he quickly ran towards the school not bothering to notice the jounin weep over his loss ramen. "Hope he doesn't want any of the change." Glumly Kakashi headed back to the ramen shop.
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"Why do we always show up on time?" shivered Naruto as he sat in the field rapped up in his cloths and what appeared to be his blankets trying to pass off as a thinker jacket. "Shut Up! I'm so cold I don't want to hear your annoying voice!" stated Sakura as she rubbed her hands together. "Why do they make us train in the winter" She almost sounded like she would cry.
"Hmph" is all that came out of a seemingly frozen Sasuke. *Gosh* Naruto thought to himself. * Sasuke is so into trying to look like nothing fazes him I think his body froze stiff from not being aloud to move* Naruto started laughing to himself as he pictured Sasuke growing old stuck in his current stance. "That's it!!" yelled Sakura "I give him 5 more minutes and then I'm leaving!" she screamed as smoke seemed to depart from her mouth.
"Really I have only 5 minutes?" smiled the sensei as he scared Sakura by saying it in her ear before she could sense him. "AHHHH!" is all that could be heard for 10 miles. "Sorry about being late, see I .." "Liar!" screamed Naruto and Sakura in complete unison before Kakashi could come up with some excuse. He shrugged it off and then smiled happily at them. "Nice weather we're having, don't ya'll think?" The looks on his students' faces were priceless; from I'm going to die if I don't move anytime soon to maybe I can get another instructor hopefully one with a brain.
The lesson in sparring was shortly ended due to it started to snow. It had been awhile since any of them had seen snow and sparring didn't seem to be helping them so Kakashi let the group out early and went towards the library. * This is the perfect weather to read the new volume of Icha Icha Paradise in* the jounin thought to himself, with a slight blush on his cheeks. The blush was either from the cold or from the recalling of the chapters he read this morning; both reasons are pointless at this time.
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Iruka was walking slowly back to his house. School had to be let out early cause they got a warning that a snowstorm was coming. "I hate this time of year." Iruka said to himself aloud. "Oh come on it isn't that bad! I mean this is the time all my new books come out." Said Kakashi who had appeared next to Iruka before the Chunin had finished his thought. Iruka slowly gazed at Kakashi who was well into his book. * I guess I'm used to him popping up so much that it doesn't phase me anymore* Iruka thought to himself then turned the corner to see Naruto trying to build a snowman in front of Iruka's house.
"Hey Iruka-sensei, I hope you don't mind but I was wondering if I could stay here because.." A few snickers here and there "The old Hermit next to my place decided to remodel the whole apartment building" Naruto seemed as if he knew the reason of why but Iruka was just too tired to interrogate the little fox today. "Sure, of course you can Naruto. You know which room is yours." Naruto was already inside in house; making himself comfortable; when Iruka felt a chill. Waking up form his mood he turned slowly to see Kakashi smiling at him. "That's so....cute." Kakashi's face didn't seem to change from that smile for a long time; Iruka's face on the other hand turned red, really red. He had forgotten the jounin was walking with him.
Kakashi ignored how red Iruka's face had gotten and walked right pass him. "I guess I'll be going now. Oh, yeah! Iruka I was wondering what your plans were in a few weeks?" Iruka caught off by the question just stared at the jounin. "A few weeks, are you talking about Christmas? I usually spend that time with Naruto." Iruka laughed to himself, while Kakashi just smiled.
"Keep New Years open then. I would like to talk to you okay." Kakashi just smiled under his mask and quickly vanished before Iruka had a chance to ask any questions. * sigh* "hmmmmm. That was odd. I wonder what he wants to talk about and why would he wait 3 weeks to tell me? Especially on the holidays?" another blush crept onto Iruka's face before being pushed back down when he entered his house to see a sleeping blonde on the floor.
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"Hey Sasukeeeeeee!!!!" yelled Sakura across the market. How he hated the shrill in her voice and knew that if didn't do something quick another evil would come, Ino. Sasuke saw Sakura making her way through the busy street, he looked around and found that all the escape routes from Sakura led to another fan girl. * this cant be happening* He thought to himself as he saw Naruto at the shop next to his. A plan.
"Sasuke?!! Why are you hanging out with Naruto? I thought you would hang out with me today." Said Sakura as she gave a few deadly glares at Naruto who wasn't moving. "No, I never said I would 'hang out' with you so please leave me alone. Me and Naruto are shopping for a ...a present." Sasuke casually said despite the gap for thought. Naruto began to try to escape. Sasuke anticipating the blond would bail grabbed his arm and forced him to reassure the doubting Sakura. "Well, * sigh * (did Sasuke have a chance to escape?) Who are you buying the present for?"
Darn HER!!* thought Sasuke. * I didn't think about that* "You see we are, umm I mean..." "We are buying a present for Iruka, I needed some money so me and Sasuke are going to split the price." Naruto said interrupting the stumped Sasuke and the surprised Sakura. "Oh I get it can I help buy one too?" she asked looking at Sasuke who stared at Naruto. *He could've told her the truth * "Sure" replied Naruto as Sasuke just realized what happened he thought he would kill the blond.
"Hey Sakura, now that I think about it maybe we should just but separate presents." Sasuke said in a soft voice. "Yeah, I know what you mean." Replied Sakura as they stared at the joyful blond looking in every window. "Hey you guys!! I really appreciate your help!" Cried Naruto as he hugged the big bag they had just bought. "He will definitely love these new."
"New? New what?" asked Iruka as he stood over his three former students who turned pale. Well despite the fact that Sasuke was already pale, they were all scared Iruka heard Naruto. "Sorry guys didn't mean to scare you." Iruka looked at them with content. They were definitely an interesting group to be put together. "Oh by the way Naruto," He looked at the blond, "I'm going to not be in until late tonight so you can go out to eat or hang with your friends. There's a lot of work to be done before the New Year so me and Hokage-sama will be busy fro awhile." Naruto looked a little bummed then once ramen was mentioned his mood changed all together.
"Hey I have an idea!" but before Naruto could finish what he was saying it seemed a giant wind came and no one heard a single word. Sakura ran away to find some warmer cloths and Iruka had to hurry to the Hokage. It seemed that everyone was gone. Except Naruto and Sasuke; who just stared at each other. Naruto looked down at the snow, he was upset that no one heard him but at least one person stayed even if it was his rival.
"Thanks" Naruto looked up in shock. "I was going to thank you earlier for helping me out with Sakura but.." Naruto just stared at his rival who seemed to actually be trying to be sincere. "Never mind Idiot." At that Sasuke vanished and Naruto was alone. * How dare he, he call me an idiot I can at least come up with decent lies. That jerk!!*
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Kakashi stared down at the snow. Hokage said that it was best the genins had some fun every once and awhile so there would be no training, until January that is. All the upper class ninjas on the other hand got settled down with tasks, even though missions tend to slow down this time of year, the paper work always piles up. Kakashi sighed as he turned around to his a big pile of papers.
"Maybe I should get some help" he snickered aloud, just then Iruka came into the door about to fall on his face with piles of paper flying every where. Iruka winced as he saw the ground approach his heavy body. Mainly heavy with the entire extra wait he had to carry to the "busy" room. When he noticed that the ground never met his face he opened his eyes. There stood Kakashi with his arm around Iruka's waist and the other holding on the wall for stability. Iruka's face flushed when he realized how close Kakashi was to him and where his arm was.
"oh Thank you Kakashi." Iruka finally said as he picked himself up and dusted off. "No problem but you should definitely lose weight." He laughed as Iruka's face became even more so red.
By the time they had the whole place fixed up; correction when Iruka finally cleaned up the mess he caused as Kakashi so put it; Kakashi closed his book signifying that he had finished other chapter and stared at Iruka who had started working on the paper work without even asking for Kakashi's help. * How odd* Kakashi thought to himself. * Iruka is the strangest person I know. To think he teaches and then does paper work all on his free time. I would be bored out of my wits.* Kakashi quietly admitted to himself. Iruka seemed to have found his calling the way he works through the papers. Kakashi had finally decided to help Iruka out; which in the end, ended up slowing the chunin down. They sat there in silence before Iruka finally spoke. "You know you said you had something to talk about? Why don't we start the talk now?"
Kakashi just looked over at the chunin who was in return giving the jounin a serious stare. "Okay, lets chat." Kakashi smiled.
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*jumps up and down * Okay this was my first fanfic so far..
WHAT DO YA"LL THINK?!?!?!?!
Please give me some reviews or ill just condem it as a total failure and
commit seppuku
I'm working on chapter 2 so those who like it the wait shouldn't be too
long
gtg need to type more lol