I do not * sniff * own *begins to ball * Naru.. (Life is just unfair).to

THIS IS THE NEW VERSION OF CHAPTER 6! THE ONLY THING THAT CHANGED REALLY WAS THE END.

HELLO! This is CHAPTER 6 WOOHOO! Thank you for reviewing my story! Getting so many reviews just makes me want to write the next chapter as soon as possible so I can see how you will respond lol! Sorry it took longer for this chapter, I haven't been able to be home but for a few minutes since Friday. And I corrected Kakashi's name in the previous chapters. Sorry I misspelled Hatake and put Hayate!

Hope you enjoy!

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Chapter 6: Snowball with a Hidden Rock

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Sasuke stood outside Naruto's apartment. He had thought over a lot of stuff on his walk over. Kakashi was right; they were stubborn brats. Sasuke just stared at the door for a second then heard some noises from the inside. He looked around and saw a window he could spy through. He wasn't ready to talk yet.

"Maybe Kakashi will do this!" And Naruto did a flying kick towards his stuffed target.

The blond was training for when they sparred tomorrow. They had been on so many lame missions lately that Kakashi said they could spar. Naruto always took up the offer to go against his sensei; after all you have to be able to beat an elite jounin to even compare to the title of Hokage.

It wasn't long before the blond noticed Sasuke at his window. In fact Sasuke had just gotten up there when he noticed but decided not to say anything. An hour passed of silence.

"Are you going to ignore the fact that I'm here?" Sasuke smirked at his sweating friend.

"No, just want to finish training." Naruto began to hit the target as if it was a boxing bag.

"Listen Naruto. I know that I don't have anyone waiting for me at home or anything but I got to go if your not going to talk to me today." Sasuke glanced up at the rising moon. It would be 9 pm soon.

"Naruto.I." Sasuke was interrupted when Naruto glared at him.

"Why?" Naruto looked over at Sasuke who just stared back.

"Because we don't need to go public with anything if this won't last long." Sasuke turned away; "It's not like we ever made any promises."

"Wrong!" Naruto grabbed Sasuke and kicked him across the room. Sasuke caught himself before he hit the wall and looked at Naruto. Naruto jumped towards Sasuke again.

This time Sasuke was expecting it and jumped out of the way. He crouched down as Naruto jumped at him again, this time to send the blond across the room flying into a lamp. Sasuke walked slowly towards him, knowing that Naruto was okay.

"Are you trying to get at something Naruto? Because I think." The lamp came flying past him. This was a battle that didn't need words, only power and force.

Sasuke ran towards Naruto grabbing one of his arms only to be pounded into the ground. Sasuke saw that some of Naruto's things had been broken and decided that this shouldn't last any longer or the boy would need a new place to stay.

Naruto didn't see Sasuke come to him with a straightforward attack. The black haired boy was known for his sneak attacks and good planning not something rash. Naruto's arms were easily pinned on the floor because Naruto stopped fighting before Sasuke even touched him. He didn't want to fight over something so stupid. Not like this.

Sasuke looked down at Naruto. Naruto had closed his eyes as if he was asleep; it was so peaceful; if he hadn't been breathing so hard then it could've fooled anyone.

Naruto opened his eyes when he felt a hand play with his hair. He couldn't move that much since Sasuke still had him pinned.

"So I can't run away?" Naruto gave the black haired boy a fox grin, only to see Sasuke smirk.

Sasuke bent down and gave Naruto a kiss then got off of him. They were silent for a while but Naruto began to laugh.

"What's so funny?" Sasuke looked a little annoyed.

Naruto walked outside ignoring Sasuke and jumped to the roof of his building. The stars were so bright. Sasuke slowly walked outside to see Naruto leaning above him smiling.

"Be careful you might fa." Sasuke's eyes widened as he saw Naruto fall.

Sasuke tried to catch Naruto but they ended up both falling over. Sasuke was sitting up with his elbows on the ground to keep him up. Naruto had his legs wrapped around the dark haired boy and was grabbing his shoulders.

"I'm sor." Sasuke was interrupted by Naruto kissing him.

"Try to stay in character. You never apologize and shouldn't start now." Naruto smiled.

"Your so clumsy." Sasuke smirked.

"Yeah but isn't that what you like about me?"

"Maybe."

"Plus I was pushed, I didn't fall." Naruto looked up at the roof.

Sasuke was confused but looked up on the roof. And there stood Kakashi with his eye curved as if he was carrying an evil smile under the mask. Sasuke just mumbled a few words before he stood up and went back inside.

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The sun from the window woke Iruka up. It blinded his eyes for moment before he glanced at his clock. Yesterday was the last day of school for Christmas break so he could sleep into today. He plopped back down on the bed. Christmas was coming up in a few days.

"Your lazy when you don't have to be a teacher aren't you?" Iruka quickly sat up with a red face as he stared towards his open window.

"It's just my day off," uneasy chuckle, "What brings you to my place so early Gai?" by then Iruka had ran to the side of the room out of view from the window and quickly changed from his pajamas Naruto gave him to a pair of jeans and some sandals. His shirts were on the other side of the room.

"Oh, I was just trying to find Kakashi." Gai smiled when he saw there was no trace that Kakashi had ever been in the room.

"We haven't been together that long so I wouldn't let him stay here." Iruka laughed as he remembered having to pry the jounin away.

/That's a good sign. / Gai thought as he began to leave.

"Would you like to eat breakfast with me? I'm heading over to the restaurant owned by the Rukaiey Lompergeys. They make good pancakes and waffles." Iruka smiled at Gai before started to find a ponytail holder.

"No that's okay. I stopped by Madame Ruby's place before I came over here." Gai would never have enough time to eat another meal even if it could prove to his advantage.

Kakashi stood at a distance as he saw Gai leave.

/ Why was Gai leaving Iruka's house so early in the morning? Either something is up or Gai is trying to track me down. / Kakashi thought as he came to Iruka's window to see the chunin shirtless and searching for his ponytail holder still.

"Your incredibly messy for a teacher ya know?" Iruka was startled by Kakashi but tried not to let it show.

/ Why so jumpy? / Kakashi squinted his eye.

"That's the second rude remark about my personal life pertaining to my teacher job." Iruka smiled as he found his ponytail holder. "Gai came here looking for you."

Kakashi smiled and began small chat with the chunin. He laughed at himself to think that Iruka was planning something behind his back. He never realized he should have been investigating his old friend Gai.

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Kakashi's POV

After me and Iruka had some chow I had to leave and go spar with Naruto. After all I had promised the boy at least one round today.

I felt like someone was watching me after I had exited the bookstore. This was obviously an advanced ninja because it took me a while to locate his general area. Normally I could locate exact location.

I was already 2 hours late for my appointment with Naruto; which meant I had a few minutes to spare. Time to investigate.

To my surprise I found Gai.

"Yo." I was obviously bored by his game; whatever it was but he didn't even notice.

"Haha! You're still as sharp as ever Kakashi. That's good." Gai voice seemed to have hidden meaning. It gave me chills.

I just smiled at my rival and began to walk away. That was odd normally he would have a reason besides checking on my skills when he spied on me. He was up to something.

It wasn't until I knew he had stopped watching me did I turn around to follow him. He might be quick but I'm sneaky. I was surprised to see we had made it to the field I was supposed to meet Naruto at and instead found Iruka looking around.

I stopped following Gai, he wouldn't be up to anything unusual, he was probably going to meet his team somewhere,

"Iruka! What are you looking for?" When he saw me he seemed to be relieved and mad at the same time.

"Kakashi! You Idiot!" Iruka gave me a glare, "I know you have a thing for being late but leaving your students out here 2 and a half hours!"

"So! I'm only 30 minutes later than usual then." I gave my uninterested stare at Iruka who didn't seem happy with my answer.

"You leave them here for 2 HOURS!" Iruka would've continued but Naruto and Sakura came running up and Sasuke walking behind them.

"No time to prep! Your late!" We began to spar even before I could get a word in. So this is how I am treated when I'm later than usual.

It didn't take long before I won. I let Naruto hit me a few times because Iruka really seemed to get into it. He wanted Naruto to win; some lover he'll make out to be. I sparred Naruto about 5 times before he finally began to tire out. Talk about stamina.

After Naruto lost Iruka seemed to be debating over whether he should be sad that Naruto lost or be happy that I won. It was really funny.

"Naruto you have improved! To be able to handle 5 matches now." I smiled at Naruto who seemed to gain all his strength back with the little praise.

"Lets make it 6!"

"No. Sorry Naruto I have plans." I smiled at Iruka who started to blush lightly.

"OH CRAP!" I was startled to see Sakura yell when she looked at her watch. "I am supposed to help out with the store this season and I just missed my shift! Bye!" It was funny how Sakura could run so fast when her life was on the line.

Naruto and Sasuke walked off together chatting if they were friends and making threats to each other like normal rivals. It's a bundle of mixed emotions coming from that bag but I still wished that they would be happy.

It wasn't until me and Iruka were alone did I take my mask off. I grabbed his hand and pulled him to me so I could kiss him when a snowball came out from nowhere.

I dodged it with no problem but I hadn't realized that I was blocking Iruka's view of the ice missile so he got hit. Poor, poor Iruka. I couldn't help but laugh a little at his face. It was one thing that he hated this season and anything cold but to get hit by a snowball.life just has some sense of humor.

I looked over to where the snowball had come from to find Neji, TenTen, Lee, and Gai running over to us. I quickly put my mask on before they got close enough to see and Gai ran straight to Iruka laughing.

"Sorry Iruka." Gai smirked, "I thought you would be able to dodge it." That sounded like an apology but an insult all the same. That was weird, Gai wasn't one to be rude to people. Maybe I just misheard him.

"It's okay Gai." Iruka gave a fake smile; it was charming really. Iruka turned and started talking to his old students while I started talking to Gai.

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Iruka's POV

I couldn't help but feel like Gai had thrown that snowball purposely to stop us from kissing. And the way he moved around when he was talking to Kakashi! I know they are friends but you don't read those body signals from your rival everyday.

Maybe I was jealous but I am not going to say anything. Kakashi likes me, not Gai.

I was listening to how Lee almost beat Neji when I noticed Gai look over at me and smirk. I haven't known Gai for long but since when does the man smirk with such a presence that it felt like he was a thief and I was the cop who never knew what hit me. That pissed me off.

Neji and Lee started an argument; which would have turned into a fight if TenTen hadn't jumped in. After that all three left when Gai told them that training was over. I wish he would have left too but Kakashi didn't seem to mind. In fact him and Gai had started a snowball fight, which I did not want to join. Some of there creations moved so fast that it could pierce skin. I caught Kakashi putting rocks in his.

I got hit by a few balls by both sides and decided to leave. Kakashi seeing this told Gai that they could make it their next competition. It made me cringe. I didn't think there was anything wrong with Gai but when I felt a cool pain hit the back of my head I knew who threw it. The only problem was that it hit me so hard I fell over.

The pain was coming from the coldness of the snow, or so I thought. When I sat up I saw some of the snow was red and Kakashi looked at me as if he was stunned and looked over at Gai who seemed confused. I felt a rock in the snow and glared over at Gai. What is he trying to pull?

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The three men walked towards the village with an air of silence. Iruka glared at Gai as he rubbed the back of his head, thinking of ways he could return the favor. Gai had a content look on his face close to the one he normally had but the aura seemed to be dark and hidden.

Kakashi just stood in between his two comrades and stared forward. He knew something was going on but decided that he other two were old enough to handle it for themselves.

"Iruka what are you doing for dinner this afternoon?" Kakashi startled his chunin with the question that interrupted the silence.

"Oh.well I was.planning on going out with you." Iruka forgot about Gai and a slight blush came on his cheek. Kakashi smiled.

"Good. I was hoping you would say that. There is a carnival in town tonight so I was hoping you didn't already have plans." Kakashi ran ahead, "I got to get some things. I'll see you tonight! Bye Gai."

The two kept walking in silence. This was Gai's chance to make a move. He turned towards Iruka.

"Gai!" Iruka screamed as a hand covered his mouth. Iruka tried to free himself from his superior but felt a sting in his neck while everything went black around him.

"Sorry Iruka-sensei. But like I promised; I'm not going to lose Kakashi to you." With a smirk Gai grabbed the limp body and took off back into the woods.

He had taken the long way to his house because he knew that if anyone saw him carrying Iruka Kakashi would get wind of why his boyfriend was missing. Gai bound Iruka's hands behind his back and tied his feet together. He would have tied the mouth but decided if worse came to worse he could gag the ninja later.

With the closing of the room door, Gai looked around his house. Iruka would wake up soon to new surroundings and wanted to make the chunin was comfortable. Gai's smirk turned into an evil smile.

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I hope you all enjoyed the new chapter 6!! It took me a long time to decide how to end it. I hope you all like it! Please tell me which chapter was better or if you didn't read the other version I hope you liked this one anyway! Tell me what ya'll think! Reviews are my motivation!

Next chapter.Iruka vs. Gai! Who will win? Will there be Kaka/Iru? Or Kaka/Gai? Or will Kakashi kill off the whole cast out of smite because he wasn't in this chapter that much!

PS: Did any of you notice my sister's pen name in the story? Or notice the winner of the quote contest's pen name?