I've just noticed that almost all my A/N have been deleted... so here by I'll just thank the peepz I already thanked and got deleted: NarutoSasuke4evr, katsua, Hana and snow887 I love you guys and thanks again for the great reviews!
Now the peepz who have reviewed but haven't gotten a mention in my story before all those replacements...
AznNarutoGrl-91: I know! I luv him so much and still I put him in such a situation! How could I! sorry but i'm just a huge drama-queen... T.T
shinycry: thanks, and I'm glad you like it! your suggestion was great btw but I'd already made up my mind.. sorry ow and I share your sorrow for kakashi... even though i'm the one who wrote it..
jo: thanks for reviewing! and yes it was very sad, but I'll think you'll be happy what is about to happen to Kakashi's parents, though MHUHAHAHA laughs terribly evil
Kuraku
Chapter 6:
School begins
Peep! Peep!
Bam!
Silence…
"Iruka, get up, it's time for school!" Taki called from downstairs.
"Mmpf!" a muffled sound came from underneath a pile of covers.
As if his alarm clock hadn't given him a hard time to keep on sleeping, his mother was trying even harder and he couldn't just slap a button on her to make her shut up.
"Iruka, get up or you'll be late on your first day at school!" his father called.
"Yeah! I'll get up, take it easy!" Iruka yelled moodily at his parents' hurried attempts to get him out his bed in time.
He tried to roll of his bed, but instead of rolling off upon his feet, he ended up falling flat on his covered face. Apparently, he had lost a wrestling match with his covers during the night, since he was wrapped up from top to bottom in his covers and had therefore not been able to land on his feet like he had planned to.
Iruka sleepily stuck his head out from the pile of covers, which had now moved from his bed down to the floor.
An arm popped out and he rubbed his still half-asleep eyes.
Slowly he unwrapped himself and crawled into the bathroom, taking off his pyjamas to shower.
After the shower he dressed up in a black pair of jeans, a white shirt with a weird picture on it and pulled on his dark coloured sneakers. He had tied his hair in a neat ponytail and let a short wave of pride caress his little amount of arrogance. His hair and his eyes were about the only things he really liked about his body. He thought his face was just a bit too girly and his broad body didn't contrasted nicely with it. Although that was what he thought. His parents thought totally different about him. They seemed to like every little piece of him, but that of course seemed natural to him.
'Wasn't it normal for parents to love their children?' This was the thought he had always thought to be true, but now he knew a bit about the circumstances in Kakashi's family, he began to doubt about his opinion and with good reasons.
"Iruka, would you come out the bathroom already!" a hurried voice called desperately, interrupting his stream of thoughts.
"I'm coming! I'm coming! Relax! Geez…" he let out an annoyed snort, his early morning mood rising in lightning speed.
He had never been an early riser and he thought he would probable never be. His parents on the other hand loved to get up early and have a nice long breakfast. They hated to waste a perfect day by sleeping it away. Iruka didn't like to waste time either, but instead of crawling out his bed early, he just liked to get in it late.
He neither had a problem getting to bed early, but he always hated to come out in the morning. At night he wasn't tired fast, he could go to sleep, but didn't mind staying up late.
He loved vacations and weekends, not only because he didn't had any school, but mostly because he could sleep in late, until his annoyed parents finally kicked him out of his bed for wasting the day again.
Most of the times he would sleep until around eleven o'clock and have a nice brunch.
Now, to his annoyance and in the same time excitement, school was about to begin again.
"Bye mom, dad!" Iruka called as he ran out the door holding a little rucksack in his left hand.
Iruka had eaten a full bowl of cornflakes, brushed his teeth and was now finally leaving his new house.
"Bye honey!" his mother called after him, but Iruka hadn't heard it as he had swung the door tightly closed behind him.
Taki smiled. School hasn't even started yet and he has already found quite a reliable friend, at least that's how Kakashi seems to be. I think they'll become great friends! she thought happily.
Iruka ran excitedly through the streets Kakashi had led him through two days ago.
He slowed down as he was nearing the school and when he looked around the corner of a street, which he had just entered only minutes ago, he saw the big building Kakashi had showed him.
Sakaki.
He thought it to be an appropriate name for a school, sacred tree. He thought of trees as wise, strong and wild, yet with a gentle touch. He had heard that some trees could even get centuries old.
He was convinced that trees could hear every conversation that was going on around them and since they lived so long, he thought it to be natural for them to be so wise. Of course he knew that trees didn't live like humans did, that they couldn't speak, think, laugh or cry, but sometimes he could just feel what a tree would be thinking, if it could. What it would feel; sadness, happiness, wariness, joyfulness. It was like a sixth sense, which he had probable inherited from his mother.
He had never talked about it with her, but knowing how she was such a master in Ikebana, he almost knew for certain she felt the same way too sometimes.
Trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrng!
The school bell rang, not quite like his expectations. Children from all over the schoolyard and from other streets and alleys that ended or crossed the school gate ran towards the main entrance of the building.
Iruka shyly walked through the entrance and wriggled his way through the crowd to end up in a small hall. Children walking at every direction confusing him were to go next.
He stuck his right hand in his pocket and got a crumbled, yellow note out from it.
'Class 123' was written on it.
Iruka had gotten the note from his mother and she had told him his classroom was on the first floor, which was indicated by the first 1. His classroom had the number 23 and Taki had said that it wouldn't be hard to find.
Looking around the busy hall he began to doubt his mother's idea of 'easy to find'.
Slowly the amount of other children running around decreased and Iruka took a full look around.
The small hall had on both sides a stairway and in the corners of the hall were pretty high plants from which Iruka couldn't recognize their variety.
"Yo, Iruka-kun!" he heard a voice call from behind him.
Iruka turned and saw Kakashi run up to him.
"Hey" he greeted his newfound friend "Um Kakashi-kun?"
"Hm?"
"Do you know where this classroom is?" Iruka handled him the yellow note.
"123, of course! Come on, I'll take you to it!" Kakashi already ran away up the left staircase and Iruka was fast to follow.
The second last classroom had a sign with '123 – Uno Konui' on it.
"You lucky bastard, first year at school and you already get the nicer ones" Kakashi teased.
"What do you mean with 'the nicer ones'?" Iruka asked.
"You know what I mean, she may be married, but she still looks nicer than most female teachers here. She's also not too stern, but chaos never occurs in that classroom. She is a really good teacher I'll tell you that" Kakashi grinned and Iruka blushed slightly.
"Kakashi, what are you doing here?" a voice called for their attention.
A tall man stood before them with a surprised expression on his face, his blond hair spiking up in a messy way, pointing everywhere it could.
"Um, good morning Yondaime-sensei" Kakashi said quickly and tried to sneak away.
He couldn't get far though, as a strong hand, which had grabbed his collar just in time, was holding him.
"And where do you think you're going" Yondaime-sensei smirked in a playful way.
"Uh, well, I was just showing Iruka here where his classroom was and now he has seen it, I thought it to be a good opportunity to get to the our classroom" he explained.
"So Iruka, are you new here?" the man asked, his smirk had turned into a large grin.
"Yes, I've only been living here for a short time and this is the first time I'm going to school here. I have met Kakashi-kun in the vacation and he was so nice to show me the room" Iruka said polite.
"Haha, that's alright kid, you don't have to be so polite with me! I was only playing!" he man chuckled.
Kakashi thought that up until he had met Iruka, Yondaime-sensei was definitely his best reason to go to school.
Kakashi saw Iruka's blush deepen from the corner of his eye and he turned around to find a wide grinning sensei.
"Hehe, well, class is about to begin Iruka. Get in or you'll be late," Yondaime-sensei suggested still keeping his grin.
"And we should go now too" he looked at Kakashi now. "Otherwise your classmates are gonna think you killed me and that you're now busy hiding my corpse" he joked and began walking, dragging Kakashi behind him, since he was still holding his shirt.
"Bye Kakashi-kun!" Iruka called.
"Bye Iruka-kun, my classroom is in the other wing of the building, but I'll come pick you in the lunch break! Good luck!" Kakashi called back after Iruka as the shy boy slowly walked in classroom.
"Good morning" a beautiful young woman said smiling gentle at him.
"Um, g-good morning" he stuttered to the woman and his new class.
He felt his cheeks burn. He hated talking in front of a public; he was just too damn shy for it.
Luckily enough his new teacher looked friendly, he didn't know what to do if she would already dislike him for his shyness.
She was a curly brunette, dressed in fashioned clothing and deep light blue eyes.
"Well class, as you see we have a new classmate among us," she said friendly to her class. "This is Umino Iruka" she continued as she pointed at him with an open hand.
All Iruka did was nod shyly, as he was staring very interestedly at his shoes, still with a deep blush upon his cheeks.
After his introduction the whole class began whispering about this new kid. Iruka only felt his cheeks burning harder and he thought that if they wouldn't cool down in ten seconds, they would definitely set him on fire.
Soon the whispering turned to talking and into yelling.
It wasn't difficult for Iruka to hear what they were saying about him; the girls thought he was cute, especially because he was so shy and all and the boys thought he looked cool, although he did hear some questions about his ponytail, but those questions were quickly brought down to lonely muffled sounds in a crowd of thousands of other questions and remarks about the brunet boy.
At least I'm not making a bad first impression... he thought silently, but his cheeks didn't appear to be cooling down.
"Kids calm down, please!" his teacher called.
She turned to him and she held out her hand "I'm Uno Konui and I'll be your teacher this year" she said in a kind voice and Iruka finally found the courage to look up.
"O-Ok" he stuttered and he mentally slapped himself for the impolitely answer and fastly shook her hand to continue studying his shoes again.
"Haha I see your somewhat shy" she giggled in a girly way.
"Well there are still some places left for you, go pick one" she smiled at him, pointing at the empty places across the classroom.
Iruka looked at his new class for the first time and walked up to a place at the utter back of the room.
He sat down and looked at the boy next to him.
The boy was wearing a black shirt, dark pants and white sneakers. He had a pale face with a smirk on it. His hair was grey/silver coloured, like that of Kakashi, but it didn't spiked up like Kakashi's did, it hang loose at shoulder length like his hair would do without his hair string, although he thought his own hair was somewhat longer than that of the boy.
"Hey, I'm Touji Mizuki" he introduced in a whisper since Uno-sensei had already asked for silence.
"I'm Iruka" he said in lack of saying something useful.
"I know, you just got introduced" Mizuki grinned in a half mocking way and a half joking way.
"Well guys, what have you've been up to this vacation?" Uno-sensei asked her class.
While in Iruka's class many hands were raised, in Kakashi's class everyone was talking at the same time, making the room pretty noisy.
"Kids calm down!" Yondaime-sensei spoke, as the noise immediately disappeared and silence took over.
"Good, now first, I want you all to meet a few new children," he said pointing at the right corner of the classroom.
All the stares of the class followed their teacher's arm and they saw two boys and a girl standing at the end of his pointing.
The girl had curly pitch-black hair and dark eyes with a reddish glow. The boy at her right had also dark eyes and dark brown hair that spiked smoothly up.
The last remaining boy had brown hair, brown eyes and his hairstyle was cut just above his shoulder hanging straight down. He had lazy eyes and was chewing quietly on a little twig in his mouth.
"Kids, this is Yuuhi Kurenai," he pointed at the girl, "This is Sarutobi Asuma," he pointed at the dark haired boy, "And last but not least, this is Shiranui Genma" he moved his hand to the last boy with the brown hair.
When Asuma's name was mentioned, whispers filled the room. Guesses were that he was family of their mayor, since they shared surname.
"Well, you three go pick a spot to sit" Yondaime said and the three children slowly looked through the class picking a nice spot to sit.
Kurenai came sitting next to Kakashi, Asuma only a footpath away from Kakashi and Genma two rows in front of them, which was on the front row.
"Like all classes are doing now, let's talk about our vacation" Yondaime-sensei grinned happily and instantly several hands were lifted.
"What's your name?" Kurenai asked whispering.
"Hatake Kakashi" he answered.
"Nice meeting you" she smiled friendly and he nodded in response.
"The pleasure is mine" he said joking and she chuckled a bit.
The whole morning Kakashi was aching for lunch break to ask Iruka how the first half of his first school day had gone by, and finally the bell rang indicating everyone was free for a little while.
Most classroom doors quickly slammed open and happy kids came running out.
As promised Kakashi walked slowly towards Iruka's classroom and when Iruka saw him, he run up to him.
"So how was it?" Kakashi asked.
"Um, well, quite awkward actually" Iruka began blushing again remembering all the gazes he had gotten when he stood there before the big class.
"How so?"
"Well I had to stand in front of the class when the teacher introduced me and the only thing I could do was stutter and blush" his blush deepened a bit more and Kakashi chuckled imagining the moment Iruka had just explained.
"Hehe, well you're not the only one though. My class has three new kids. We probable got them because we had the smallest class, until now of course" and with that the conversation got quiet.
Kakashi led the way down to the canteen and when they arrived they sat down at the last free table.
When they had just began eating a girl came up to them, followed by two boys.
"Um Kakashi-kun? Can we sit here?" the girl asked.
Kakashi looked at Iruka who looked approving at him.
"Sure Kurenai"
"Thanks" Kurenai said and sat down as the boys followed her example
"So Kakashi-kun, are you going to introduce us to your friend or not?" Kurenai asked kindly.
"Oh yeah, sorry," he turned to Iruka "These are the guys who have just moved in my class. This is Kurenai, that's Asuma and that's Genma" he introduced them.
"And guys this is Iruka" he told his new classmates, as Iruka began blushing again
"Nice to meet you" Kurenai said, winking as the other two boys only nodded.
"Same goes here" Iruka managed to get out without stuttering and Kurenai looked a little strange at him.
"Don't worry, Iruka here is just a bit shy, that's all" Kakashi said, who had already continued nibbling on his rice ball and Kurenai nodded in understanding.
The rest of the day went by fast and after school Kakashi, Iruka, Kurenai, Asuma and Genma had gone to the cinema to catch a nice movie.
Slowly days flew by, days turned into weeks and weeks into a month until it was almost 15th of September.