Title: Never Really Home (Chapter Six)

Pairing: Sasuke/Naruto, Kakashi/Iruka, one-sided Sakura/Sasuke, hints of Lee/Naruto

Rating: M, mostly for language, but for some sexual content as well.

Warnings: Eventual spoilers up to recent chapters. Sorry for the labeling mix-up and anything else that may have gone wrong thus far. I'm still getting used to posting on fanfic.

Disclaimers: Don't own Naruto.

"Kakashi, mind getting off my back?"

"Yes, I do actually."

"I can't carry you all the way to Tsunade's office."

"Who says?"

Iruka let out an irritated sigh. Why should Kakashi get the piggy-back ride? He was the one that was smaller. "I'm serious, Kakashi, get off!" Iruka tried shaking the copy-nin off of his back, but his silver haired lover wouldn't budge. In fact he let out a little chuckle and licked Iruka's ear.

"Make me," he whispered into Iruka's ear in the sexiest voice he could muster. Iruka's knees shook with pleasure as Kakashi nuzzled his neck.

"No...Kakashi...you bastard..." Iruka fell to his knees, and his lover leaped off his back to help him off the ground. "We shouldn't be fooling around like this. We have important news to deliver to the Hokage."

"What are you talking about, little Iruka? We're already at her office." Kakashi ruffled his lover's hair as he took Iruka's hand and helped him stand up. Grabbing his waist, they walked in through the doors arm in arm.

…

"WHAT?" Tsunade's voice shook the room that the three ninjas were sitting in. "What do you mean, 'Orochimaru is dead?'"

"Well, is there really any other way to put it?" Kakashi's voice gave away the smile on his face as he scratched the back of his head awkwardly, but Iruka was a little more startled by the Hokage's reaction.

"How long have you known this? Kakashi, I only saw you an hour ago!"

"Tsu...Tsunade, we only found out from Naruto a few minutes ago."

"And you didn't tell me?"

"We...we did...Hokage-sama."

"Right," Tsunade, she looked down at her desk a little sheepishly at first, but then glanced up at the two lovers (Iruka was bouncing on Kakashi's knee) with fire in her brown eyes. "How does Naruto know that snake is dead?"

"He didn't really give us chance to ask questions..."

"What! We can't make any assumptions until we know for sure! Letting our guard down is probably just what that damn Orochimaru wants!"

"But..." Iruka stuttered.

"Enough! Don't come to me with such stupid rumors ever again!" She pointed to the door, motioning for them to leave her the hell alone.

"I told him." A hush fell over the room as Iruka, Kakashi, and Tsunade looked out her open window at Sasuke.

"What do you think you are doing here, Uchiha?"

"I told Naruto that Orochimaru is dead."

"But," the Hokage's brown eyes widened, "How would you know..."

"Kakashi, you better tell everyone to close their eyes."

"Wha..."

"Tell them!"

"Well, you heard him," said Kakashi, waving his hand at Iruka and Tsunade, but keeping his gaze on Sasuke in curiosity. He hesitantly reached up and uncovered his Sharinghan.

Sasuke jumped down from the window sill and walked towards Kakashi, staring him straight in the eyes.

Kakashi's expression went blank, and he fell to the floor in a dead faint.

…

"Kakashi? Kakashi!" Iruka shook his lovers shoulders to get him out of the trance.

"Huh..." the copy-nin mumbled as he woke up. Suddenly, Kakashi's eyes were wide with understanding. He knew now that Orochimaru was indeed no more.

"Hokage, Orochimaru is dead," he said in a definite tone.

"Great, just great. So I'm supposed to believe a demon child, a traitor, and some drugged-up loverboy?"

"Yup. Come on, little Iruka." Kakashi stood up, put his arm on his lover's shoulder and walked out the door. "Our work here is done."

…

Naruto was still lying in his bed. He didn't care that he had just thrown his two father-figures out the door. He didn't care that Sasuke was back. He didn't care that Sasuke had...

His lips brushed Naruto's and continued to slide over the blonde's face, until his mouth was tickling his ears

...been so close.

"Shut up!" screamed Naruto to himself. "You don't care! You don't care! YOU DON'T CARE!"

"Don't care what?" asked a voice that was way too girly to be his own.

Naruto jumped out of bed and realized he had been sleeping. The sun shone through his open window, making him blink with the sudden burst of light. Naruto looked next to him at his pink-haired teammate. "Sakura, what are you doing here?" he asked, a little annoyed.

"Don't act so stupid towards me this morning, Naruto. I am in no mood." She shook her finger at the blond. Naruto scowled at her. "I came to get you so we could train."

"I'm not in the mood to train today," mumbled Naruto in a mocking voice, dripping with apathy.

"Gimme a break." Sakura rolled her eyes and grabbed Naruto's arm, dragging him towards the door. "How are you ever going to become Hokage if all you do is sleep and eat ramen?"

"Wait, Sakura..."Naruto grabbed for the wall, the furniture, anything to keep him from going outside. "Can't I at least get dressed first?"

…

Sasuke watched them. Hidden by the leaves and branches, he was practically unnoticeable, unless you felt his eyes burning on the back of your head, like Naruto did. But the blond didn't say anything.

He was amazed at how Sakura had grown in the last three years. She was sparring with Naruto, and the Uchiha could tell the fox was not holding back at all. Sweat glistened off his stubborn forehead, wrinkled in concentration as he tried to break through Sakura's rock-solid defense.

He remembered, she was the best student Leaf had ever seen. She had the best chakra control Sasuke had encountered thus far. "I bet training with Tsunade didn't hurt, either," chuckled the Uchiha to himself as Sakura pounded the ground with her fist, sending an earth-quake sized crack towards Naruto to stop him from attacking.

Sasuke noticed that Kakashi was sitting at the base of the tree where he was perched, supposedly reading another smutty romance novel. But his eye wasn't moving...

"Sasuke, you might as well come down, I know you're up there."

Yes, I know I said a couple weeks and it's actually been almost a month, but at least I updated. I mean, I have some favorites who haven't updated in several months. So you should be grateful. heh. Anyway, I have given up on my one beta ever getting back to me. So I will be posting (I hope) three more chapters in the next few days. heh. Actually, the said unreliable beta is actually taking a big part in writing chapter ten, since fight-fics are his forte. He almost begged me to write it, I don't think he was pleased with chapter nine...

gasp a fight! two fights! I've said too much.