A/N:
Why hello my most favorite readers in this whole damn world :D
How areya'll doing? Hope good!
here are my comments to the reviews I've gotten:
shinycry: good you took it the right way! and no, Iruka didn't blush cause he has/is going to have/had a crush on Yondaime-sensei. I just made him really shy... maybe just a lil' to much.. but anyway glad you liked it and yes, I'm going to update the next couple of weeks as fast as I can... well I always try that, but for the next weeks I think it's also going to work out! (it's vacation for me)
jo: whaha I think you still have to wait quite a while before I'm gonna write my revenge on Kakashi's ol' folks! I have to mess up whole Iruka's life first mhuhaha... no I'm just gonna try and follow what really happened in manga/anime, that story line at least.. I mean there is so lil' known about Kakashi's personal life and his ralitives and friends, but it's pretty his parents are dead, since his dad killed himself in the manga...
Ow and what happens on the 15th of September can you read in this chappie, but didn't you really know that our very beloved and adored Kaka is born on that date?
I guess now you do though... ;P
I also want to vocalize my respect paying on the victims from the terrorist attacks today in London!
-bows and holds silent for a minute-
I really hope this was the last time anything like this ever happens again and I'm really sorry for all victims, relatives and friends of them and also the bystanders. although they may have been hurt, I can't imagine what a nightmare it is to see, for example that bus explode in front of you!
alright that was it for my A/N, go on, read and enjoy the chap and I'd apreciate it very much if I'd get some reviews from one of you! I promise to answer to all of them and update chappie 8 really fast:D :D
Ja ne
Kuraku
Chapter 7:
Happy birthday Kakashi!
It's was the morning of the fifteenth of September and Kakashi woke up by his alarm clock that was making a lot noises, which was probably annoying most birds outside, who were trying to sing nice songs despite the fuss from inside the large house.
Kakashi shut his alarm up by giving it a fierce hit on it's front side and sat up in his bed, slowly rubbing his eyes.
Ding Dong!
The doorbell rang and Kakashi stood up quickly. It was probably the household helpers he thought. He was too sleepy to remember they all had keys.
Kakashi opened the door and was greeted by his friends; Iruka, Kurenai, Asuma and Genma.
"AAAAAH KAKASHI! FOR THESAKE OF ALL THAT'S PURE, PLEASE PUT SOMETHING ON!" Kurenai shrieked when she saw her friend and covered her eyes as quickly as she could.
Kakashi was still so drowsy that when he had gone to open the door he had forgotten to put some clothes on and now he stood there in his doorway in his shorts eyeing his friends lazily. Iruka blushed and both Asuma as Genma chuckled in amusement.
"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR! GO PUT SOMETHING ON!" Kurenai shouted on the top of her longs still covering her eyes.
"NOW!"
"Yeah, yeah relax! Geez…" Kakashi said rubbing his eyes once again and turned.
"Make yourself comfortable" he said as he slowly walked off towards his room, still drowsy, "I'll be back in a minute"
"Woow!" Kurenai said in awe, as she finally let her hands fall down and took a peak at the inside of Kakashi's gigantic house.
Neither Kurenai nor Asuma or Genma had ever been at Kakashi's place and they all found it quite amazing.
Iruka had been there several times and Kakashi had given him a full tour around the house, so he wasn't in such awe as the other three visitors.
Iruka had sat down comfortably on the big sofa and after a few minutes Asuma and Genma joined him, leaving Kurenai to investigate the rest of the house on her own.
"So what are you guys doing here?" came a sudden voice behind the three boys on the sofa.
"Can't you remember?" Asuma said without turning his head to see who was talking to them, recognizing Kakashi's voice immediately.
"I can't remember what?" Kakashi asked still sleepy.
"It's the fifteenth of September, is it coming back to you again?" Genma said giving away an important clue.
"No, what should be coming back to me?" he asked remembering nothing important.
"What have you been sniffing?" Kurenai asked lightly annoyed by Kakashi's attitude.
"Nothing."
"Then clearly you've lost the last of your remaining brain cells, who would otherwise forget about their birthday!" Kurenai said beginning to sound more and more annoyed by the minute.
"Oh yeah, right, my birthday! Is it already my birthday again? I can't remember the last time I've actually done something on it" Kakashi laughed sheepishly and scratched the back of his head in an apologetic way.
"My god! Kakashi, when was the last time you celebrated your birthday?" Iruka asked looking a bit strange at him as he stood up from the sofa and walked near his friend.
Kakashi thought for a minute "Um, if I remember correct, I was four when I last celebrated it" he said still scratching the back of his head and grinning sheepishly.
"WHAT? YOU WERE FOUR THE LAST TIME YOU CELEBRATED YOUR OWN BIRTHDAY?" Kurenai yelled, a bit shocked by her friend's statement.
Kakashi just nodded and kept laughing sheepishly.
"How-" Kurenai wanted to continue her questioning but was cut off by Iruka.
"Well than that'll make this birthday only more special" he said cheerfully.
He knew the most possible cause of Kakashi's lack of special occasions; his miserable social life right there at his home.
He didn't wanted to make Kakashi or say such a depressing thing to his other friends, or just lie about his parents on his birthday, so Iruka just decided that he wouldn't let the conversation lead to that point.
After the short explanation he had gotten on the second day from when they had met, Kakashi had never spoken about his parents.
Iruka only knew that Kakashi's parents practically ignored him and that he didn't have had any true friends until he himself came to live in the village.
Kakashi had never felt any need to explain anything more, even when the conversation had led to questions about him and his miserable life at home. He in that case would shut his mouth and refused to say anything or he would continue in a fake happiness on another subject. So Iruka never dared to press on the subject.
"So what are you guys gonna do then?" Kakashi had grasped the second intention of Iruka's sentence, which held a suggestion to move on to a next topic.
"We're gonna make this an unforgettable day!" Asuma said happily. "And I can be the first to congratulate you" he began standing up from the big sofa, but Kurenai, who was already standing, ran towards her friends and flung her arms around his neck.
"Congratulations Kakashi, you're already eight, I'm so envious of you and Asuma!" she kissed Kakashi lightly on his cheek and let him go.
"So far for being the first, I guess" Asuma sighed with a soft smile.
Asuma had turned eight on the eighteenth of October and had gotten quite a raise in allowance. Kurenai had gotten so jealous of him and was waiting impatiently for her own birthday to come along, which was on the eleventh of June. She was expecting an even higher raise than Asuma's, because she thought she was just too adorable to keep any money away from her at all.
Her friends knew of course that this was unlikely to happen, but since they knew she was to suborn to listen to them anyway they decided not to ravage she girls' illusions. She was just too naive to see it for herself and she listen to no one.
"Happy birthday buddy" Asuma offered Kakashi his hand and it was taken gladly by his friend.
"Thanks" Kakashi said happily and his eyes curved into slits.
"Aaaw Asuma! Why don't you just hug him!" Kurenai whined, he hated it when boys were too macho to hug another boy.
"No, thank you, I'll pass" Asuma said chuckling.
Genma stood up now too, and hugged his friend, also chuckling.
"Happy birthday from me too" he said between his chuckles.
"Way to go, Genma!" Kurenai cheered.
Iruka followed Genma's example and hugged Kakashi tightly.
"Happy birthday Kakashi-kun!" he said blushing slightly and let go.
Kakashi was deeply touched, but couldn't let it show.
All those years of his parents' harsh treatments made him surrender to the coldness in their demeanour and now, when the moment asked for it, he couldn't show how happy he was.
"Thanks," he let his hand rest on Iruka's shoulder, as he looked into the younger boy's eyes and then let his eyes wander over his other friends. "Thank you everyone, and I mean it!"
His eyes became splits again as he truly meant his thanks from the bottom of his heart. Though, probably only Iruka would know just how much it meant to him. He wished he knew a way to show his friends how much he appreciated it all.
"Aw, that's just too sweet!" Kurenai had almost melted under Kakashi's stare.
She knew she shouldn't, but slowly over the last months as she began to know Kakashi better, she had begun developing a crush on him. She thought it was wrong, they were just friends and that was the only way they should feel about each other.
How could the two of them ever be a couple? And was it really a crush? Was it really love? Or did she just like him so much that she thought she had a crush on him?
"Kurenai?" her name brought her back in reality by the main subject of her thoughts.
"Huh?" she looked at the silver-haired boy who had just spoken to her.
"Are you coming?" he asked.
"Where to?" she asked curious.
"Have you listened at all to what I've just said?".
"No" a light blush was forming across her cheeks.
She had been so pulled into her own thoughts that she hadn't even heard her friends speak.
"Hehe, were gonna get some breakfast, it's my treat" he grinned at the girl's innocence.
"Oh, okay!" the slight blush disappeared and a big smile took its place.
She quickly bumped happily out of the big house, as Kakashi closed the door behind her.
"So what are we gonna eat?" Kakashi asked carelessly.
"I'd like some ramen" Iruka blushed as he was the first one to speak up.
"Good idea, I'm in" Asuma agreed.
"Me too" Genma said.
"Me three" Kurenai chirped happily.
"Then ramen it is" Kakashi stated.
They walked down the long driveway from Kakashi's house, went through the gate and started walking towards the best ramen stand in the village, Ichiraku.
Kakashi looked pretty lost in thoughts and Kurenai wondered about what. So being Kurenai and having a very bold character she just asked.
"Penny for you thoughts?"
"Oh I was just wondering how you came past the gate?" Kakashi answered.
"Quite simple" Asuma answered and Kakashi looked confused at him.
"We climbed over it" he said and Kakashi's face formed in a 'oh-I-knew-that' kind of way.
They slowly walked towards the stand, talking all the way down there.
They arrived, ordered and ate their steaming ramen quietly. Then it was finally time to head towards school.
School had been the same throughout the day, except that in the morning Yondaime-sensei had taken the time to sing a birthday song for Kakashi, which he by the way really appreciated, but had pretended to hate.
After school the five friends had agreed to meet up and school was about to finish any minute now.
"That was it for today, class" Yondaime-sensei said and he was followed by happy whispers.
'Trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrng!' the bell rang, announcing to every class that the school had ended.
Kakashi, Asuma, Kurenai and Genma slowly left the classroom to look up the last remaining piece of their gang.
When the four of them deserted the school, Iruka was already waiting for them.
They slowly walked off the playing ground and guided Kakashi through the many alleys and streets the village had.
"So what are we gonna do now?" Kakashi asked Iruka lazily.
Kurenai and Asuma were busy talking and Genma was walking in front of them so only Iruka was left to talk to, not that Kakashi found that bad, more the opposite.
"We still haven't given you your birthday present, that's what we're gonna do now" Iruka said mysteriously.
"Why do you all bother giving me a present?" he asked carelessly.
"Kakashi, we're you friends, it's normal to give friends presents at their birthday" Iruka looked sympathetically at him.
Kakashi looked thoughtfully back at him.
While gazing deep into each other's eyes they both knew they had no need to say anything more.
"We're here" Genma suddenly spoke up and demanded the attention of the others.
"Where's here?" Kakashi asked.
They were standing in front of an old building, red painted kanji decorating the creamy wall of the building. The kanji were saying: 'Welcome students or visitors, we hope thou find thy peace here'
The windows were almost too dirty to look through and the dimmed light from inside the building didn't quite help Kakashi to take a peek inside.
"Let's go!" Kurenai said cheerfully, as she stepped happily inside and was followed by Asuma and Genma.
Kakashi looked suspiciously at the building, but was pushed in by Iruka.
"Come on, it won't hurt you, I promise" his voice was still holding that mysterious tone.
"Alright, alright, I'll play along" Kakashi said playfully as he slowly sauntered further into the gloomy building.
"Who's there?" a low voice came from the pitch-black shadows in the back on the dusty room.
"It's us sensei" Asuma seemed way too relaxed in the creepy situation.
"Ah, it's you youngsters" suddenly a light was turned on by the person in the back of the room.
The light flickered a few times and when it stopped a broad man was standing in front of them. The man had long white hair, a slight blush and naughty eyes wandering across a light blue coloured book that he was reading. The book had a big cross on the back and a smaller R underneath it. On the cover of the book were two kissing people shown. The woman's beasts were almost bare and the man had his Romeo-like-shirt only hanging loose over his arms, as the buttons were all undone.
The broad man was dressed in a grey kimono, with two red dots on the chest and he wore a net shirt underneath it. On his feet he wore original Japanese wooden sandals.
"So what do you want?" he asked, not looking over at them as his book seemed ten times more interesting than the kids in front of them.
"We're here to become students" Genma said.
"So, you brats wanna get your ass kicked, ne?" he said still not looking up.
"Oi Iruka, who's this freaky hentai?" Kakashi asked loud enough for the man at the back to hear him and he finally looked up from his book.
"You've got some nerve coming in here and calling me a freaky hentai, brat" he said as his eyes were becoming darker by the second.
"What? It's truth, isn't it? It's not my fault you read dirty hentai novels" Kakashi said carelessly.
"And how would you know this is a dirty book?" he questioned the boy, pointing with his finger at the now closed book
"I just happen to know what that R means and if I wouldn't know that, the couple on the front say enough, if you ask me" he snorted in dislike of the perverted man.
He had seen the books many times lying around in his father's bedroom and had once gotten the misplaced curiosity to look into one of the books.
What he had read and the pictures he'd seen had haunted him for many long weeks. How could people ever like to do those things? he had thought disgusted.
"Yeah right and I'm a very wealthy queen who's undercover on a dangerous mission to save the world" the man said sarcastically.
"That's noticeable, it's the hair that betrays your cover, but suit yourself, I'm outta here!" Kakashi was about to leave when Asuma grabbed his collar and pulled him back.
"You're not going anywhere yet," he held Kakashi next to him.
"So? What about it?"
"As long as you guys have the money to pay for the lessons I have no problem with it" the white-haired man said carelessly and continued his reading.
"So when do we start sensei?" Iruka asked shyly, he didn't quite knew what to think of the careless, perverted man before him.
"I don't know" he was still reading his perverted novel.
"But you're our sensei now!" Kurenai finally spoke up.
"Yes, so?" he seem to care less about his new students than he did about his novel.
"Can we start tomorrow?" Genma decided to end the stupid conversation and to just pick a day.
"Fine."
"Sensei what's your name anyway?" Kurenai tried to get into a useful conversation one last time.
"Jiraiya"
"Who cares? I'm just gonna call him ero-sensei" Kakashi decided stubbornly.
"Well, just so you know, brat. This book is just to gather information, I'm gonna become a great writer, you'll see."
"And what sort of books are you going to write? I bet it'll be perverted ones."
"So? Have a problem with that?"
"Why would I care what you'll be doing in your spare time?" the tension between the two was mounting with every second that went by as Jiraiya had now taken the time to look at the silver-haired boy.
Suddenly they both turned their heads in another direction in a very childish and stubborn kind of way and both crossing their arms like four-year-olds.
"Geez, how troublesome" Asuma sighed.
"In what is the hentai going to teach us anyway?" Kakashi said still not looking over at his new sensei.
"Karate."
"Why?" he opened his tightly shut eyes too look at Kurenai, who had answered his last question.
"Iruka came up with the idea and we all thought you'd like it" her face fell. "Guess we were wrong after all."
"No, not at all, I think I'm gonna like it really much" he hated to disappoint his friends.
"Really? Do you really like our present?" Kurenai questioned and looked straight into the dark eyes that belonged to Kakashi as he nodded with his eyes curved.
"Just have to get used to our new sensei, but it's the best gift I've ever gotten from anyone" he smile sweetly at his friends.
"Great!" she said cheerfully.
A/N:
hope you guys enjoyed it and if anyones wondering about the Japanese in this chap or in any other chapter, just put your question in a review or mail me or something like that, I'll be happy to explain... (then I actually feel smart for once ;P)