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Chapter 2: Curiosity Kills
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"Iruka! Wake up!" A young girl pushed Iruka off the chair he was sleeping in. "Honestly Iruka! I told you here to just sit here and I have to find you sleeping! Your so lazy for a boy your age."
"Kurenai! I am tired." Iruka rubbed his eyes as he started to be dragged down the street.
"C'mon Iruka! We are late to our lunch with Asuma!" she yelled behind her as Iruka slowly fell asleep again with his body being dragged.
Iruka, who is still in the ninja academy, has been shopping with his former babysitter Kurenai all day. Kurenai is only a few years older than Iruka and is a Genin at this time. She used to take care of Iruka whenever both his parents would leave on a mission.
"Hey Kurenai! Hey Iruka!" A dark haired young teen smiled at the two figures as they walked up to him. "I hope you guys don't mind but I brought some friends with me."
Asuma is also a Genin and one year older than Kurenai. He has a very laid back yet serious attitude towards life and is currently dating Kurenai.
Kurenai just smiled as she flung Iruka next to the strangers and sat next to Asuma.
"Hey Kurenai long time no see!" One of the friends smiled at her.
"AHHHHHH!" Kurenai screamed as she saw whom the two friends were. "GAI! KAKASHI!" she looked like she was going to kill them, but Asuma held her back.
Iruka slowly opened his eyes and looked at whoever she was yelling at now. He smiled as he scooted away from Gai. Gai looked a tad bit hurt but blushed.
"Iruka why are you scooting away? I swear they wont hurt you." Asuma laughed as Kakashi whispered in his ear. "HAHAHA! Yeah I would scoot away too if Gai asked me out."
At this Gai just glared at Kakashi mumbling something that sounded like 'it could have been anyone's mistake even Kakashi thought he was a girl.'
"Gai I told you I never wanted to see you again." Kurenai glared at Gai.
"C'mon guys lets eat! It's been awhile since we've seen each other. Gai, Kakashi you guys are both Jounins now right?" Asuma tried to change the subject.
"But it wasn't my fault Kurenai!" Gai whined as she jumped off her seat and pointed to him.
"Hey Iruka! You're in the academy right? How is the training going?" Asuma leaned forward to avoid Kurenai's arm.
"Sure then the next thing you'll say is it was Kakashi who drew those perverted pictures of me last week! Bye Asuma! Call me so we can make another date." She grabbed Iruka's wrist and stomped out of the store.
Asuma watched them leave as he sighed. Kurenai had just admitted she liked him and he still hadn't gotten to tell her how he felt.
"I swear guys, you're making it hard for me to have a girlfriend." Asuma started to rub his temples.
"But it was Kakashi you made those pictures!" Gai had comical tears rolling down his face.
"Kakashi. You're going to make me take up smoking when I get older." Asuma swore under his breath before he raised his hand to the waitress to order some food.
"I'm surprised she still carries Iruka with her every where even though he doesn't need a babysitter anymore." Kakashi laughed.
"Old habits die hard Kakashi. It would appear she is still fond of his company." Gai stated with a sparkle from his smile before he ordered some sushi.
"But I don't think Iruka is very fond of being dragged everywhere." Kakashi smiled as he listen to Asuma mumbled about how rude people can be..
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"Iruka! Son, it's getting late!" Iruka's mother yelled out the door as her son ran up the street.
"Sorry Mom! Kurenai wanted to blow off steam while she shopped for some new cloths." Iruka took his shoes off and ran to his room so he could change.
"No one is in the bathroom if you need a shower!" Iruka's dad yelled out from the kitchen.
"Thanks!" Was all his parents heard before the water turned on. They smiled at each other; this had become a daily routine since Iruka started to go to the academy.
Iruka put his hair down in the shower. He was finally used to and preferred having his hair out of his face and into a ponytail. His hair had gotten longer and he would need his mom to cut it before graduation. He turned off the shower and looked in the mirror. He was 8 years old now and still had the feminine features of his mom and his small body was thin from exorcising but had started to gain some muscle.
His brown eyes still were his weakness though. It was hard to hide anything from fellow ninjas and hoped that the academy exam wouldn't be a lie detector test. He grabbed a towel and opened the door to head to his room.
"Gosh Iruka! You spend as much time in the bathroom as a girl." Iruka looked down the hallway to see Kakashi and Gai waving at him. His face flushed but he went into his room before anyone could say something.
Kakashi and Gai often come by Iruka's house either to tease the poor boy or to bring a message from the Hokage to one of the parents. They had become Jounin recently and hadn't been coming by as often so Iruka was surprised to see them.
"Gai-san and Kakashi-san you guys are welcomed to stay for dinner." Iruka's mom smiled at them as she set the table.
"No we were just coming to hand your husband a message from Lord Hokage." Gai pulled out a scroll as Iruka's dad came out of the kitchen.
"The Fourth Huh?" He took the scroll and read it quickly. "Okay I got the message." He ruffled Kakashi's hair causing the chunin to grunt at this sudden wave of affection from the most feared examiner in Konoha.
"Well are you sure you guys can't stay? We love having company." Iruka's mom looked at them with a small affectionate smile you would give children.
"Sorry we have to deliver messages to a few more people." Gai headed for the door.
"Please don't give us that face we are 11 ya know?" Kakashi grunted as Gai grabbed him and they ran out the door.
"Kids are still Kids!" she yelled out after them and smiled even though she never got a reply. "What was the message about? Or am I not allowed to know?" She smirked at her husband.
"It was just some information about possible missing-nins being spotted around the village. They are said to be from the Hidden Mist, but the only foreigners I've seen recently are from the Grass or Cloud." He hugged his wife.
"Why would you suppose the Mist is asking us to kill their missing-nins? We have enough problems of our own to deal with."
"Whatever the reason I'm sure the Hokage has everything settled but we need to be careful because apparently these nins are masochist of other peoples pain."
Usually missing-nins would be killed or assassinated by their own Village's hunter-nins to keep the Village's secrets safe. But unknowing to the Hidden Leaf at this time is that all the hunter-nins belonging to the Mist are after a young boy by the name if Zabuza Momochi.
"Hey!" Iruka came walking in the room fully dressed in his comfortable cloths.
"Iruka guess what I heard today!" His mom grabbed the food from the kitchen and set it on the table.
"What?" Iruka sat down next to his dad.
"Your two friends have become Jounin!" She smiled at her son, as he seemed to be happy for his companions.
"Yeah I heard them talk about it at lunch earlier today. It's really exciting because they are so young even if this village is full of prodigies." Iruka smiled as his parents started the table conversation over the different talents in Konoha village.
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Iruka jumped out of bed when he saw what time it was. He liked to walk around the village while it slept. It was so peaceful; Iruka was always able to clear his mind. This night he was in a rush though because he heard that two of his teachers would throw parties out in the forest this late at night.
Though it most likely wasn't true, Iruka thought he should at least check since he always took walks this early anyway. By the time he made it out his window the clock read 2:00am.
"Wow! It feels great outside, still chilly though." Iruka walked down the streets as he stared up at the star filled sky. "So beautiful."
Iruka found himself deep in the forest before he knew it. He like to wonder in here sometimes but this was his first time there at night and even though he wouldn't admit it, he wished he had brought a friend with him.
"Maybe I should have brought Gai-sensei.nah he wouldn't be into this stuff. Maybe Kakashi-sensei.but I still haven't forgiven him for showing me that book!" Iruka stiffened as he remembered the book but quickly loosened up as he went through the list of friends and why he didn't invite them.
Iruka heard some noise off in the distance and saw a small glimpse of light from a fire. He quickly did the best he could to remain stealth and got up in the trees remaining very quiet as he came closer to the fire.
/ Who would be out here camping? Maybe it's those foreign people I heard Dad mention to mom earlier. I've got to see who it is. /
Iruka came to a huge tree where he would be able to see the people at least. He saw three men wearing dark cloaks. One of the men went to go get firewood, or that's what it looked like to Iruka, while the other two chatted by the fire. Iruka decided he could get a little closer and not be sensed so he tried to ease drop on their conversation.
"I love the weather of this place don't you Ken-sama?"
"Yeah, It's a shame we have to destroy the village though Rei-kun." Ken looked over at his friend.
/ Destroy Konoha? / Iruka tried to backtrack his steps.
"Yeah but soon we and ." Rei stopped as Iruka stopped. Iruka held his breath so that maybe he wasn't heard. He would have to go tell the Hokage about this right now.
"How long has it been since you spilled blood before Ken-sama?" Rei smiled at his friend but looked up in the tree where Iruka was.
/ CRAP! /
Iruka was about to turn around when he saw a knife pointed as his throat. It was the third member of the group. Iruka had forgotten about him.
"Why what did you catch up there Li?" Ken yelled up in the tree.
"It's just a little boy my friends. A defenseless little boy." The smile that formed on Li's face gave Iruka a bad feeling and his stomach started to turn.
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Kakashi put on his new uniform and waited for Gai.
"Man! This uniform won't let people see the full beauty of my green suit." Gai slowly walked towards Kakashi and put his mask on.
"That's something to be grateful for." Kakashi folded his arms as they started to move towards the Hokage's office.
"Hey I'm going to be teamed up with Iruka's father." Gai sighed, "What about you?"
"At least you don't have a prodigy, I am with Uchiha Heidaki. I heard his cousin is the heir to the Uchiha clan. I'm getting bored just thinking about it. I hope this mission tonight will be full of action!" Kakashi and Gai disappeared together and reappeared in front of the Hokage's door surrounded by different groups of Jounins.
Kakashi and Gai departed from each other as the Jounin teams assembled inside the office. They were briefed that the strangers were missing-nins and that the village was going to get paid a good sum at their death.
The Hokage had received information regarding the whereabouts of the missing-nins and had decided that the Jounin teams would be able to do the job with the most discretion. Normally a hunter-nin would take care of the missing few but they were currently after a more dangerous suspect.
Kakashi and Heidaki had made it to the shipping department and found nothing there. The information they had received was false so they decided to disperse and search the entire city. Kakashi was about to head towards the business district when he noticed one dog going into the forest as if it caught the smell of something.
/ Where is Pakkun going? /
Kakashi pointed it out to Heidaki who just nodded as their squadron turned around to follow the dogs.
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"Don't cry little one. We just want to have some fun." Rei licked Iruka's cheek causing the boy to squirm more.
The three men laughed and quickly started to get some of their stuff. Iruka was really scared he didn't know how to get out. He quickly glanced around to see if there was some way but was interrupted when he was slammed onto a tree. His wrists were tightened to the point that almost no blood could circulate and they blindfolded him.
/ I'm going to die here aren't I? Oh I can't die here! I have to make a name for myself and find love. I have to revenge my innocence and hurt Kakashi for showing me that perverted book. I have to./
Iruka's thoughts were interrupted when he felt something really cold touch his skin. It was so cold that it hurt as if it was on fire burning into him. Iruka couldn't see but he could feel the object on his arm going through the skin. Tears began to flow down his cheeks. The pain was the worse thing Iruka had ever felt before.
Iruka tried to kick at them or squirm away from the pain but as he did the object lunged through his arm. Iruka tried to cry out in pain but the gag only let him make a sharp sounding squeal.
"I thought you said this was a boy. He looks and sounds more like a girl." Rei put the object down and smiled as the blood ran down Iruka's arm.
Ken grabbed Iruka's chin and stared at his face. Iruka didn't know what was going on since he was still blindfolded but he felt warm breath against his face. He tried to get out of the grip, which caused Ken to laugh.
"This is a pretty one! Eh boys?" Ken let go of Iruka's face and smelled the boy's hair.
"That's sick." Li smiled at Ken.
"I want to know all the noises he can make." Ken smiled as his men grabbed some of their weapons.
Iruka started to feel sharp stings in his other arm like needles were going into him. Li started to place Senbon* in Iruka's left arm. Ken put his weapons down and sat the watching the blood flow down Iruka's arm. It seemed the smile on his face would get even bigger with ever suppressed scream the boy made. He was interrupted though when Li started to laugh quietly.
"What's so funny?"
"If I make one wrong movement the boy will lose all feeling in this arm. He would never be able to be a ninja then." Li seemed to be the only one amused.
"You want to be a ninja boy?" Ken got up and pulled down the blindfold to see Iruka's brown eyes full of pain.
Ken backed away from Iruka after staring in his eyes. He seemed to be in ecstasy from the pain that the boy showed.
"Weakling." Rei kicked Iruka in the side before he started to head for his tent.
Rei went inside of his tent and found some sake, when he came back out he looked around to see the other men gone and only Iruka tied against the tree blindfolded again. He smiled and slowly made his was towards Iruka when a kunai landed a few inched in front of him. He turned around looking in the trees but he couldn't see anyone.
He looked around the ground to see if there were any signs in what direction his friends had gone but all he found was blood probably from Iruka. He felt his hairs on the back of his neck rise when he heard a footstep behind him.
Rei quickly turned around to see two glowing red eyes staring at him.
"When?" Rei shouted as he felt a kunai hit the back of his head. Rei fell dead to the ground, as Kakashi jumped off the branch he had been on and ran to check on Iruka while Heidaki made sure Rei was dead.
"Iruka! Are you okay?" Kakashi pulled down the boys blindfold.
"K.Kakashi!" Iruka started to cry again as he never had been so happy to hear his friend's voice before in his life.
"It's okay Iruka-kun. I'm here now! Be still okay this is going to hurt."
Kakashi pulled out the needles that were in Iruka's arm and untied his friend. Iruka gasped in pain as each needle came out slowly. If Kakashi had yanked them out then Iruka's muscles could have sustained more damage.
Heidaki helped out in the destroying of the camp before some more ninjas came to take the bodies away. Heidaki left with them leaving Iruka in Kakashi's care.
Iruka couldn't walk he had been so scared. He grabbed Kakashi before he let himself fall and he balanced himself using his friend. Kakashi quietly grabbed Iruka around the waist and took off for the village.
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"Iruka! What happened to you son?" His mom cried out as she answered her door to see Iruka covered in blood with marks on his face that showed he had cried. Iruka let go of Kakashi and grabbed his mom. He never wanted to leave this safe feeling again.
"Kakashi! Please tell me what happened after I draw a bath for Iruka." Iruka's mom stood up with her son in her arms and slowly went in the bathroom.
"We got bad advice so we were on the other side of the village when ours dogs smelt his blood." Kakashi looked down at the ground before he finished explaining.
Iruka's dad had arrived shortly after Iruka was left alone in the bath. Gai had found out what happened and informed Iruka's father as fast as he could. Kakashi couldn't explain much just that Heidaki was the one who stopped the men from torturing Iruka while Kakashi was left in the branched in case there was an ambush.
"Iruka? Are you okay?"
"It's fine Kakashi. You can come in just stay in the changing room." Iruka's voice cracked from the crying he had just done as he heard the door shut and saw a shadow of Kakashi.
"Thank you." Iruka whispered before he rested his head on the edge of the bathtub.
"No problem.Iruka?"
"Hm?"
"If you want I could show you the book from three years ago. I still have it and if you read the whole thing it get really interesting!"
"You can go away now Kakashi."
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A Few Months After
Iruka slowly walked down the street as he let his bag full of papers and books drag on the ground. He looked forward to see his house was a few blocks away and turned to the right as he headed for the stream. He walked about a few miles and came up to a clear blue stream.
Iruka took his shirt off and looked at his reflection in the water. He had a scare on his right arm from when he was caught. His other arm on the other hand was as if nothing happened. Iruka winced as he remember the pain he had felt a few months ago but he jumped in the water before anything else could come back to memory.
The water was freezing and it felt like millions of knives stabbing the body at once. Iruka gasped as he brought his head above the water. The feeling reassured him that he hadn't been dreaming. He swam towards the small waterfall a few meters away. He took his hair down and let the water hit his back.
"You don't want to catch a cold do you?" A boy knelt down by the stream and sat next to Iruka's stuff.
"Hey Mizuki." Iruka barely whispered before he let his body sink into the water that it had finally adapted to.
"Don't sound too excited Iruka. I'm just your friend who you've been avoiding at school." Mizuki smiled then laid back on the grass. "I followed you and you didn't even sense me! What has been on your mind Iruka, maybe I can help."
Iruka looked at his friend then sighed under the water. He hadn't meant to avoid anyone it just seemed more convenient. No one knew about the occurrences in the forest beside a few people and the Hokage wanted it to remain that way.
The Fourth had always been so nice to Iruka's family and didn't want their lives to get any harder by having rumors about what happened to Iruka in the forest. The Fourth also told Iruka to visit The Third, the previous Hokage for advice or just someone to listen if he needed it.
" Hey Iruka did you hear about the Medical Leaf Doctor?" Mizuki threw a pebble at the boy but Iruka slowly dodged it.
"No. What news?" Iruka swam over to his friend so Mizuki would stop throwing pebbles.
"He decided to adopt the enemies baby he found. He said that the boy would be raised as if he was a leaf! Hahaha! And they even named him Kabuto!" Mizuki laughed.
"What's so funny about that?" Iruka lowered one of his eyebrows at his friend.
"Just that the boy doesn't belong here Iruka. We are supposed to act like he never did anything to us when his blood is the blood of our enemies. If he is anything like his family he will want to gain power and be corrupted just like the rest of them."
"He has as much as a chance betraying our Village as you do Mizuki." Iruka swam back out into the pond making his way back over to the waterfall.
"Maybe your right Iruka. Maybe your right." Mizuki laid down on the grass and stared at the sky.
Iruka just watched his friend for a little while than went back to his thoughts.
/ Maybe I should go talk to the Third. He's retired and I'm sure wouldn't mind any company. And then I can find Gai to help me with training or should I find Kakashi.he seems to know more Justus./
Iruka's thoughts were interrupted when he felt his head get push under water. He grabbed the hand and tried to pull it in the water with him but Iruka's surprise it lifted him out of the water and into the cold breeze.
"Who are you trying to pull in there Iruka?" Iruka's mom glared at her child as he shivered from the touch of air around his body.
"I thought you were Mizuki. Where did he go?" Iruka put his shirt back on and picked up his stuff.
"I told him to go home since it was getting late. I thought I would find you here since you always wanted to play here when you were a kid." His mom looked around the trees as if she was if she was remembering every moment.
"This is kind of like my spot you know? I just can rest here and remind myself that I'm who I am." Iruka smiled at his mom as they started to head off towards their home.
"You know what son?"
"Hm?"
"You are very mature for an 8 year old."
"Hehehe."
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That was chapter 2!! I'm sorry Iruka I don't hate you or have anything against you it just so happened that you were the one that got captured but at least I didn't let them rape you or anything! That would be sick I mean he is only 8! There wasn't much if any KakaIru in this chapter b/c they are 8 and 11 so I was like ehhhhhhhhh nope still to young! But as each chapter progresses hehehehehehehe.
Oh yeah and Heidaki Uchiha is my own creation. I keep hearing stuff about a man named Obito but I couldn't find anything about him so I decided to manipulate my own character. There really isn't anything important about him besides the fact that he is an Uchiha and Itachi's cousin.
R&R!!
Hope your enjoying the thanksgiving holidays!
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Last chapter I did refer to Gai and Kakashi as sensei by accident * blushes * you see I got confused when I was trying to find out "titles" and thought that you were called sensei when you had reached chunin level but my mistake lol.
About the ages.I'm not sure exactly how old everyone is to each other besides the fact that Kakashi is 26 now so I made Gai one year older and Iruka 3 years younger than Kakashi. It's just my opinion in age differences and not actual fact.
About Jiraiya being the nonofficial author of the books.he seemed to be open about it in the manga so I just assumed everyone knew. If I was wrong then oopsie lol ! For some reason I just figured everyone knew.
I will be covering all the incidents essential for this to be a Naruto fanfic about the past and moving to the future or aka present. I got most the information I'm using for a timeline off the internet or from the manga but if you disagree where I put it you can tell me but remember I don't own Naruto manga so I don't know where everything goes yet.
I will also be adding in occurrences as you can tell from this chapter hehehe. I will also be using the more minor characters to help move the plot along such as Mizuki and etc.
I was just responding and giving my readers more information so if I didn't respond to your message I'm sorry! Thank you for reviewing my story and keep continuing please! I will hopefully be able to respond to everyone's reviews next chapter!
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Chapter 2: Curiosity Kills
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"Iruka! Wake up!" A young girl pushed Iruka off the chair he was sleeping in. "Honestly Iruka! I told you here to just sit here and I have to find you sleeping! Your so lazy for a boy your age."
"Kurenai! I am tired." Iruka rubbed his eyes as he started to be dragged down the street.
"C'mon Iruka! We are late to our lunch with Asuma!" she yelled behind her as Iruka slowly fell asleep again with his body being dragged.
Iruka, who is still in the ninja academy, has been shopping with his former babysitter Kurenai all day. Kurenai is only a few years older than Iruka and is a Genin at this time. She used to take care of Iruka whenever both his parents would leave on a mission.
"Hey Kurenai! Hey Iruka!" A dark haired young teen smiled at the two figures as they walked up to him. "I hope you guys don't mind but I brought some friends with me."
Asuma is also a Genin and one year older than Kurenai. He has a very laid back yet serious attitude towards life and is currently dating Kurenai.
Kurenai just smiled as she flung Iruka next to the strangers and sat next to Asuma.
"Hey Kurenai long time no see!" One of the friends smiled at her.
"AHHHHHH!" Kurenai screamed as she saw whom the two friends were. "GAI! KAKASHI!" she looked like she was going to kill them, but Asuma held her back.
Iruka slowly opened his eyes and looked at whoever she was yelling at now. He smiled as he scooted away from Gai. Gai looked a tad bit hurt but blushed.
"Iruka why are you scooting away? I swear they wont hurt you." Asuma laughed as Kakashi whispered in his ear. "HAHAHA! Yeah I would scoot away too if Gai asked me out."
At this Gai just glared at Kakashi mumbling something that sounded like 'it could have been anyone's mistake even Kakashi thought he was a girl.'
"Gai I told you I never wanted to see you again." Kurenai glared at Gai.
"C'mon guys lets eat! It's been awhile since we've seen each other. Gai, Kakashi you guys are both Jounins now right?" Asuma tried to change the subject.
"But it wasn't my fault Kurenai!" Gai whined as she jumped off her seat and pointed to him.
"Hey Iruka! You're in the academy right? How is the training going?" Asuma leaned forward to avoid Kurenai's arm.
"Sure then the next thing you'll say is it was Kakashi who drew those perverted pictures of me last week! Bye Asuma! Call me so we can make another date." She grabbed Iruka's wrist and stomped out of the store.
Asuma watched them leave as he sighed. Kurenai had just admitted she liked him and he still hadn't gotten to tell her how he felt.
"I swear guys, you're making it hard for me to have a girlfriend." Asuma started to rub his temples.
"But it was Kakashi you made those pictures!" Gai had comical tears rolling down his face.
"Kakashi. You're going to make me take up smoking when I get older." Asuma swore under his breath before he raised his hand to the waitress to order some food.
"I'm surprised she still carries Iruka with her every where even though he doesn't need a babysitter anymore." Kakashi laughed.
"Old habits die hard Kakashi. It would appear she is still fond of his company." Gai stated with a sparkle from his smile before he ordered some sushi.
"But I don't think Iruka is very fond of being dragged everywhere." Kakashi smiled as he listen to Asuma mumbled about how rude people can be..
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"Iruka! Son, it's getting late!" Iruka's mother yelled out the door as her son ran up the street.
"Sorry Mom! Kurenai wanted to blow off steam while she shopped for some new cloths." Iruka took his shoes off and ran to his room so he could change.
"No one is in the bathroom if you need a shower!" Iruka's dad yelled out from the kitchen.
"Thanks!" Was all his parents heard before the water turned on. They smiled at each other; this had become a daily routine since Iruka started to go to the academy.
Iruka put his hair down in the shower. He was finally used to and preferred having his hair out of his face and into a ponytail. His hair had gotten longer and he would need his mom to cut it before graduation. He turned off the shower and looked in the mirror. He was 8 years old now and still had the feminine features of his mom and his small body was thin from exorcising but had started to gain some muscle.
His brown eyes still were his weakness though. It was hard to hide anything from fellow ninjas and hoped that the academy exam wouldn't be a lie detector test. He grabbed a towel and opened the door to head to his room.
"Gosh Iruka! You spend as much time in the bathroom as a girl." Iruka looked down the hallway to see Kakashi and Gai waving at him. His face flushed but he went into his room before anyone could say something.
Kakashi and Gai often come by Iruka's house either to tease the poor boy or to bring a message from the Hokage to one of the parents. They had become Jounin recently and hadn't been coming by as often so Iruka was surprised to see them.
"Gai-san and Kakashi-san you guys are welcomed to stay for dinner." Iruka's mom smiled at them as she set the table.
"No we were just coming to hand your husband a message from Lord Hokage." Gai pulled out a scroll as Iruka's dad came out of the kitchen.
"The Fourth Huh?" He took the scroll and read it quickly. "Okay I got the message." He ruffled Kakashi's hair causing the chunin to grunt at this sudden wave of affection from the most feared examiner in Konoha.
"Well are you sure you guys can't stay? We love having company." Iruka's mom looked at them with a small affectionate smile you would give children.
"Sorry we have to deliver messages to a few more people." Gai headed for the door.
"Please don't give us that face we are 11 ya know?" Kakashi grunted as Gai grabbed him and they ran out the door.
"Kids are still Kids!" she yelled out after them and smiled even though she never got a reply. "What was the message about? Or am I not allowed to know?" She smirked at her husband.
"It was just some information about possible missing-nins being spotted around the village. They are said to be from the Hidden Mist, but the only foreigners I've seen recently are from the Grass or Cloud." He hugged his wife.
"Why would you suppose the Mist is asking us to kill their missing-nins? We have enough problems of our own to deal with."
"Whatever the reason I'm sure the Hokage has everything settled but we need to be careful because apparently these nins are masochist of other peoples pain."
Usually missing-nins would be killed or assassinated by their own Village's hunter-nins to keep the Village's secrets safe. But unknowing to the Hidden Leaf at this time is that all the hunter-nins belonging to the Mist are after a young boy by the name if Zabuza Momochi.
"Hey!" Iruka came walking in the room fully dressed in his comfortable cloths.
"Iruka guess what I heard today!" His mom grabbed the food from the kitchen and set it on the table.
"What?" Iruka sat down next to his dad.
"Your two friends have become Jounin!" She smiled at her son, as he seemed to be happy for his companions.
"Yeah I heard them talk about it at lunch earlier today. It's really exciting because they are so young even if this village is full of prodigies." Iruka smiled as his parents started the table conversation over the different talents in Konoha village.
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Iruka jumped out of bed when he saw what time it was. He liked to walk around the village while it slept. It was so peaceful; Iruka was always able to clear his mind. This night he was in a rush though because he heard that two of his teachers would throw parties out in the forest this late at night.
Though it most likely wasn't true, Iruka thought he should at least check since he always took walks this early anyway. By the time he made it out his window the clock read 2:00am.
"Wow! It feels great outside, still chilly though." Iruka walked down the streets as he stared up at the star filled sky. "So beautiful."
Iruka found himself deep in the forest before he knew it. He like to wonder in here sometimes but this was his first time there at night and even though he wouldn't admit it, he wished he had brought a friend with him.
"Maybe I should have brought Gai-sensei.nah he wouldn't be into this stuff. Maybe Kakashi-sensei.but I still haven't forgiven him for showing me that book!" Iruka stiffened as he remembered the book but quickly loosened up as he went through the list of friends and why he didn't invite them.
Iruka heard some noise off in the distance and saw a small glimpse of light from a fire. He quickly did the best he could to remain stealth and got up in the trees remaining very quiet as he came closer to the fire.
/ Who would be out here camping? Maybe it's those foreign people I heard Dad mention to mom earlier. I've got to see who it is. /
Iruka came to a huge tree where he would be able to see the people at least. He saw three men wearing dark cloaks. One of the men went to go get firewood, or that's what it looked like to Iruka, while the other two chatted by the fire. Iruka decided he could get a little closer and not be sensed so he tried to ease drop on their conversation.
"I love the weather of this place don't you Ken-sama?"
"Yeah, It's a shame we have to destroy the village though Rei-kun." Ken looked over at his friend.
/ Destroy Konoha? / Iruka tried to backtrack his steps.
"Yeah but soon we and ." Rei stopped as Iruka stopped. Iruka held his breath so that maybe he wasn't heard. He would have to go tell the Hokage about this right now.
"How long has it been since you spilled blood before Ken-sama?" Rei smiled at his friend but looked up in the tree where Iruka was.
/ CRAP! /
Iruka was about to turn around when he saw a knife pointed as his throat. It was the third member of the group. Iruka had forgotten about him.
"Why what did you catch up there Li?" Ken yelled up in the tree.
"It's just a little boy my friends. A defenseless little boy." The smile that formed on Li's face gave Iruka a bad feeling and his stomach started to turn.
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Kakashi put on his new uniform and waited for Gai.
"Man! This uniform won't let people see the full beauty of my green suit." Gai slowly walked towards Kakashi and put his mask on.
"That's something to be grateful for." Kakashi folded his arms as they started to move towards the Hokage's office.
"Hey I'm going to be teamed up with Iruka's father." Gai sighed, "What about you?"
"At least you don't have a prodigy, I am with Uchiha Heidaki. I heard his cousin is the heir to the Uchiha clan. I'm getting bored just thinking about it. I hope this mission tonight will be full of action!" Kakashi and Gai disappeared together and reappeared in front of the Hokage's door surrounded by different groups of Jounins.
Kakashi and Gai departed from each other as the Jounin teams assembled inside the office. They were briefed that the strangers were missing-nins and that the village was going to get paid a good sum at their death.
The Hokage had received information regarding the whereabouts of the missing-nins and had decided that the Jounin teams would be able to do the job with the most discretion. Normally a hunter-nin would take care of the missing few but they were currently after a more dangerous suspect.
Kakashi and Heidaki had made it to the shipping department and found nothing there. The information they had received was false so they decided to disperse and search the entire city. Kakashi was about to head towards the business district when he noticed one dog going into the forest as if it caught the smell of something.
/ Where is Pakkun going? /
Kakashi pointed it out to Heidaki who just nodded as their squadron turned around to follow the dogs.
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"Don't cry little one. We just want to have some fun." Rei licked Iruka's cheek causing the boy to squirm more.
The three men laughed and quickly started to get some of their stuff. Iruka was really scared he didn't know how to get out. He quickly glanced around to see if there was some way but was interrupted when he was slammed onto a tree. His wrists were tightened to the point that almost no blood could circulate and they blindfolded him.
/ I'm going to die here aren't I? Oh I can't die here! I have to make a name for myself and find love. I have to revenge my innocence and hurt Kakashi for showing me that perverted book. I have to./
Iruka's thoughts were interrupted when he felt something really cold touch his skin. It was so cold that it hurt as if it was on fire burning into him. Iruka couldn't see but he could feel the object on his arm going through the skin. Tears began to flow down his cheeks. The pain was the worse thing Iruka had ever felt before.
Iruka tried to kick at them or squirm away from the pain but as he did the object lunged through his arm. Iruka tried to cry out in pain but the gag only let him make a sharp sounding squeal.
"I thought you said this was a boy. He looks and sounds more like a girl." Rei put the object down and smiled as the blood ran down Iruka's arm.
Ken grabbed Iruka's chin and stared at his face. Iruka didn't know what was going on since he was still blindfolded but he felt warm breath against his face. He tried to get out of the grip, which caused Ken to laugh.
"This is a pretty one! Eh boys?" Ken let go of Iruka's face and smelled the boy's hair.
"That's sick." Li smiled at Ken.
"I want to know all the noises he can make." Ken smiled as his men grabbed some of their weapons.
Iruka started to feel sharp stings in his other arm like needles were going into him. Li started to place Senbon* in Iruka's left arm. Ken put his weapons down and sat the watching the blood flow down Iruka's arm. It seemed the smile on his face would get even bigger with ever suppressed scream the boy made. He was interrupted though when Li started to laugh quietly.
"What's so funny?"
"If I make one wrong movement the boy will lose all feeling in this arm. He would never be able to be a ninja then." Li seemed to be the only one amused.
"You want to be a ninja boy?" Ken got up and pulled down the blindfold to see Iruka's brown eyes full of pain.
Ken backed away from Iruka after staring in his eyes. He seemed to be in ecstasy from the pain that the boy showed.
"Weakling." Rei kicked Iruka in the side before he started to head for his tent.
Rei went inside of his tent and found some sake, when he came back out he looked around to see the other men gone and only Iruka tied against the tree blindfolded again. He smiled and slowly made his was towards Iruka when a kunai landed a few inched in front of him. He turned around looking in the trees but he couldn't see anyone.
He looked around the ground to see if there were any signs in what direction his friends had gone but all he found was blood probably from Iruka. He felt his hairs on the back of his neck rise when he heard a footstep behind him.
Rei quickly turned around to see two glowing red eyes staring at him.
"When?" Rei shouted as he felt a kunai hit the back of his head. Rei fell dead to the ground, as Kakashi jumped off the branch he had been on and ran to check on Iruka while Heidaki made sure Rei was dead.
"Iruka! Are you okay?" Kakashi pulled down the boys blindfold.
"K.Kakashi!" Iruka started to cry again as he never had been so happy to hear his friend's voice before in his life.
"It's okay Iruka-kun. I'm here now! Be still okay this is going to hurt."
Kakashi pulled out the needles that were in Iruka's arm and untied his friend. Iruka gasped in pain as each needle came out slowly. If Kakashi had yanked them out then Iruka's muscles could have sustained more damage.
Heidaki helped out in the destroying of the camp before some more ninjas came to take the bodies away. Heidaki left with them leaving Iruka in Kakashi's care.
Iruka couldn't walk he had been so scared. He grabbed Kakashi before he let himself fall and he balanced himself using his friend. Kakashi quietly grabbed Iruka around the waist and took off for the village.
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"Iruka! What happened to you son?" His mom cried out as she answered her door to see Iruka covered in blood with marks on his face that showed he had cried. Iruka let go of Kakashi and grabbed his mom. He never wanted to leave this safe feeling again.
"Kakashi! Please tell me what happened after I draw a bath for Iruka." Iruka's mom stood up with her son in her arms and slowly went in the bathroom.
"We got bad advice so we were on the other side of the village when ours dogs smelt his blood." Kakashi looked down at the ground before he finished explaining.
Iruka's dad had arrived shortly after Iruka was left alone in the bath. Gai had found out what happened and informed Iruka's father as fast as he could. Kakashi couldn't explain much just that Heidaki was the one who stopped the men from torturing Iruka while Kakashi was left in the branched in case there was an ambush.
"Iruka? Are you okay?"
"It's fine Kakashi. You can come in just stay in the changing room." Iruka's voice cracked from the crying he had just done as he heard the door shut and saw a shadow of Kakashi.
"Thank you." Iruka whispered before he rested his head on the edge of the bathtub.
"No problem.Iruka?"
"Hm?"
"If you want I could show you the book from three years ago. I still have it and if you read the whole thing it get really interesting!"
"You can go away now Kakashi."
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A Few Months After
Iruka slowly walked down the street as he let his bag full of papers and books drag on the ground. He looked forward to see his house was a few blocks away and turned to the right as he headed for the stream. He walked about a few miles and came up to a clear blue stream.
Iruka took his shirt off and looked at his reflection in the water. He had a scare on his right arm from when he was caught. His other arm on the other hand was as if nothing happened. Iruka winced as he remember the pain he had felt a few months ago but he jumped in the water before anything else could come back to memory.
The water was freezing and it felt like millions of knives stabbing the body at once. Iruka gasped as he brought his head above the water. The feeling reassured him that he hadn't been dreaming. He swam towards the small waterfall a few meters away. He took his hair down and let the water hit his back.
"You don't want to catch a cold do you?" A boy knelt down by the stream and sat next to Iruka's stuff.
"Hey Mizuki." Iruka barely whispered before he let his body sink into the water that it had finally adapted to.
"Don't sound too excited Iruka. I'm just your friend who you've been avoiding at school." Mizuki smiled then laid back on the grass. "I followed you and you didn't even sense me! What has been on your mind Iruka, maybe I can help."
Iruka looked at his friend then sighed under the water. He hadn't meant to avoid anyone it just seemed more convenient. No one knew about the occurrences in the forest beside a few people and the Hokage wanted it to remain that way.
The Fourth had always been so nice to Iruka's family and didn't want their lives to get any harder by having rumors about what happened to Iruka in the forest. The Fourth also told Iruka to visit The Third, the previous Hokage for advice or just someone to listen if he needed it.
" Hey Iruka did you hear about the Medical Leaf Doctor?" Mizuki threw a pebble at the boy but Iruka slowly dodged it.
"No. What news?" Iruka swam over to his friend so Mizuki would stop throwing pebbles.
"He decided to adopt the enemies baby he found. He said that the boy would be raised as if he was a leaf! Hahaha! And they even named him Kabuto!" Mizuki laughed.
"What's so funny about that?" Iruka lowered one of his eyebrows at his friend.
"Just that the boy doesn't belong here Iruka. We are supposed to act like he never did anything to us when his blood is the blood of our enemies. If he is anything like his family he will want to gain power and be corrupted just like the rest of them."
"He has as much as a chance betraying our Village as you do Mizuki." Iruka swam back out into the pond making his way back over to the waterfall.
"Maybe your right Iruka. Maybe your right." Mizuki laid down on the grass and stared at the sky.
Iruka just watched his friend for a little while than went back to his thoughts.
/ Maybe I should go talk to the Third. He's retired and I'm sure wouldn't mind any company. And then I can find Gai to help me with training or should I find Kakashi.he seems to know more Justus./
Iruka's thoughts were interrupted when he felt his head get push under water. He grabbed the hand and tried to pull it in the water with him but Iruka's surprise it lifted him out of the water and into the cold breeze.
"Who are you trying to pull in there Iruka?" Iruka's mom glared at her child as he shivered from the touch of air around his body.
"I thought you were Mizuki. Where did he go?" Iruka put his shirt back on and picked up his stuff.
"I told him to go home since it was getting late. I thought I would find you here since you always wanted to play here when you were a kid." His mom looked around the trees as if she was if she was remembering every moment.
"This is kind of like my spot you know? I just can rest here and remind myself that I'm who I am." Iruka smiled at his mom as they started to head off towards their home.
"You know what son?"
"Hm?"
"You are very mature for an 8 year old."
"Hehehe."
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That was chapter 2!! I'm sorry Iruka I don't hate you or have anything against you it just so happened that you were the one that got captured but at least I didn't let them rape you or anything! That would be sick I mean he is only 8! There wasn't much if any KakaIru in this chapter b/c they are 8 and 11 so I was like ehhhhhhhhh nope still to young! But as each chapter progresses hehehehehehehe.
Oh yeah and Heidaki Uchiha is my own creation. I keep hearing stuff about a man named Obito but I couldn't find anything about him so I decided to manipulate my own character. There really isn't anything important about him besides the fact that he is an Uchiha and Itachi's cousin.
R&R!!
Hope your enjoying the thanksgiving holidays!
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Last chapter I did refer to Gai and Kakashi as sensei by accident * blushes * you see I got confused when I was trying to find out "titles" and thought that you were called sensei when you had reached chunin level but my mistake lol.
About the ages.I'm not sure exactly how old everyone is to each other besides the fact that Kakashi is 26 now so I made Gai one year older and Iruka 3 years younger than Kakashi. It's just my opinion in age differences and not actual fact.
About Jiraiya being the nonofficial author of the books.he seemed to be open about it in the manga so I just assumed everyone knew. If I was wrong then oopsie lol ! For some reason I just figured everyone knew.
I will be covering all the incidents essential for this to be a Naruto fanfic about the past and moving to the future or aka present. I got most the information I'm using for a timeline off the internet or from the manga but if you disagree where I put it you can tell me but remember I don't own Naruto manga so I don't know where everything goes yet.
I will also be adding in occurrences as you can tell from this chapter hehehe. I will also be using the more minor characters to help move the plot along such as Mizuki and etc.
I was just responding and giving my readers more information so if I didn't respond to your message I'm sorry! Thank you for reviewing my story and keep continuing please! I will hopefully be able to respond to everyone's reviews next chapter!
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