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I do not own Naruto.
Summary
It all began with a harmless joke on an unsuspecting chunin. Nothing bad was supposed to happen, really, and Kakashi was supposed to go scot-free. Instead, he got saddled with the finished problem: One super-cute Iruka chibi.
Author's Notes
Harken, what is this? DC posting before people send her death threats? What is the world coming to? I know! Voldermort is coming and is going to kill us all, because he's controling Draco, and everyone knows we can't resist his chrams! The hair! The manicured nails! sigh I think I'm in love, curse you Harry Potter.
I finished the book the day after it came out. I got it on the 16th at nine and finished it while juggling AP class requirments. I still have to read five books and find scientific essays for AP Bio. I should think more, it's my senior year. I shouldn't be working hard...Oh well, I hope you guys enjoy this.
...And, yes, there is SasuNaru in this chapter...
"You guys are going to love Kakashi's house!" Iruka said, leaning over to speak to Naruto on the other side of Sasuke. He shoved his hands into the tight pants, whistling under his breath when Sasuke glared at him. "I don't know if he'll be able to get in, though. Blondie's a little on the young side."
Naruto puffed out his cheeks, "I can get in easily. I'll go through the back door." He smiled, proud that he thought of this plan all by himself. "Besides, Iruka-sensei, I'm supposed to be taking care of Kakashi-sensei's house since he's…" He drifted off as the house came into view, along with the various ninja that went along with it.
"I. AM. SCREWED!" Naruto yelled, rushing up to the house while waving his arms franticly. "When you said party, did you know that it was going to be this big?" He questioned hysterically, turning to his past teacher and grabbing his shirt. "Kakashi-sensei's gonna kill me!"
And at that moment, Naruto turned into a blob of sadness and desperation. He had to get rid of the party quickly; Kakashi would be coming back from his mission in only an hour, maybe less, and the blonde had no idea what do. He looked over at Sasuke, still in his older looking body, and pounced, latching onto a side.
"You have to help me, Sasuke!" He whined, body on the ground but his arms somehow still around the other's neck. "Help, help, help!" Naruto screamed, squeaking when more people went through the door.
Sasuke's face changed a weird color when Naruto continued to whine, rubbing his body against the others. "It would be best if we went inside." He said blandly, pushing Naruto off and stomping over to the building, stepping into the house where the noise was blaring.
"What's wrong with Sasuke?" Naruto muttered, pulling himself off the ground to see Iruka only a few feet away.
The teacher hadn't moved since Naruto had begun to speak, focusing on the interaction of the two. He smiled and moved closer to the blonde, clapping a hand onto his shoulder and leading him to the back. "Nothing is wrong with him, he's just…confused.
"Besides, you have to sneak into this party." Iruka said, steering the boy into the backyard. "I don't think Anko would appreciate you crashing her party. So try to do it quietly." He said helpfully, moving past Naruto into the bright room, leaving him behind in the patio.
Just as the genin was about to follow, puffing out his cheeks, he stopped when he saw movement out of his peripheral vision. He turned slowly, trying not to draw attention to himself, and found out what it was that had startled him: Kurenai.
Naruto cursed under his breath, she knew he wasn't supposed to be at this party, and hid behind a tree. He scuttled to a closer tree, aware that he had to go across her path to get inside the house. The blonde cursed again and settled in for a long wait.
Kurenai sighed again as she threaded her hand through Asuma's ruff of hair, leaning back to rest on the seat and stare up at the sky. This was something she did not want to get involved with. She should have just let Hiashi stay with Asuma, let him puke on her, and then make sure he got home okay afterwards.
'Why did I have to get involved?' She thought to herself, waiting for the other woman to come back with someone to confirm what she already knew. "You're so troublesome." Kurenai said quietly, smiling faintly, "I swear, one day, you are going to get it from me."
She pulled her gaze from the heavens and stared at the bush that was moving across the lawn, knowing only one ninja who would try to pull such a dumb stunt, and rolled her eyes while running a hand down her face. "Naruto, get out from behind that bush and explain why you're here."
An eep came from the bush and a splash of blonde popped over the top. The blue eyed boy crept from his hiding spot and over to the older teacher, wisely keeping his head down. "I came because Sasuke and Iruka-sensei told me to. It's all their fault." He exclaimed, pumping a fist into the air before noticing that she wasn't listening closely.
"I said: Iruka-sensei is here, in an older body." Naruto said slower, so she knew exactly what it was that he had yelled before, not knowing why she wasn't moving to try and search out the chunin teacher.
Kurenai hummed happily, nodding at Naruto's words. "That's nice, but that isn't a proper response." She said unaware that her statement didn't match up to the blonde's excuse.
Naruto blinked at the woman in front of him, wondering what was wrong with her, and then blinked again when he noticed the body in her lap. He grinned devilishly and moved closer, making sure that it was the person he thought it was before he spoke, and then sauntered over slowly.
"What's wrong with Asuma-san?" He said with a smile, crossing his arms behind his back and rolling onto his heels then back to the balls of his foot.
Kurenai's head snapped to look at the boy, her eyes narrowing to an intense ferocity. She growled and clenched her teeth, dropping her hands and letting Asuma's head drop back into her lap with a thump. He groaned softly and his eyelids fluttered as his eyes moved underneath them.
"He's sick." She ground out, her jaw locked into position. "His girlfriend made him give up smoking, and he came back from a mission this morning. That is why he is sick." The woman didn't know why she felt like explaining herself to the genin.
"Why'd you make Asuma-san give up smoking?"
Kurenai's eye developed a twitch. "I am not Asuma's girlfriend. His girlfriend," The word was slowly turning into a curse word "is Hiashi. They've been going out for a while." She watched the boy smile wider, his eyes narrowing in amusement.
Naruto stepped back quickly, almost in the house, and sent his parting words. "Then why are you with him and she isn't?"
The kitsune vessel allowed his eyes to adjust to the sudden light in the apartment before moving deeper within, looking over his shoulder for one last glance of the stunned ninja woman outside. 'Kurenai-san likes Asuma!' He thought excitedly to himself as he moved past drunken teachers, who were singing, towards the center of the house. 'Wait until Sakura hears this!'
He stopped and cocked his head to the side, wondering why he should share this information with his teammate, when he heard shouting. His interest piqued, Naruto walked over to the part of the house that was pulsating with the words, "Chug, chug, chug, chug!" He loved watching people make fools of themselves.
"You are so hot, you don't have to do this! You're also cooler than her, you don't have to prove it!" A girl's voice, heard amid adult murmuring, caught his attention and her turned. Only Sakura could have a voice that loud to drown everyone else out. Surprisingly, her voice was coming from the chugging area.
Naruto moved a little quicker, having a faint idea of who was the center of attention, and was rewarded with quite a spectacle.
Sasuke had Sakura hanging off his arm, urging him not to do what he was doing, while a sobbing woman was sitting across from him. Anko was standing behind the woman, along with a disheveled looking male chunin who was trying to talk sense into the redhead, "Come on, Hiashi. You don't need to take him on. Let's get you something else to drink."
The crying Hiashi, spurned by her love for Asuma, jerked her body away from Hayao, almost fell off her chair, and drained a glass; all while glaring at Sasuke. "This kid thinks he's hot stuff." She slurred, slamming her glass on the table in front of her. The edict teacher stared at her hand in confusion when the glass shattered from the pressure she put on it.
"Now, Hiashi." Anko said, rubbing the woman's shoulders while nudging Hayao out of the way, "You shouldn't be taking this path. Just go back outside and tell Kurenai she was right, and both of you take Asuma home." She said, winking at the people next to her, riling up the woman even more so at the mention of the rival in her love. This was fun.
Sasuke shook his head, moving his arm from Sakura's grasp and leaned heavily on the table, obviously, he'd had some drinks himself in the small amount of time he had been in the apartment. "I am sooooo much better than you." He said with his lips pouting as he rubbed at underneath his nose sardonically. "I'm going to take you down town."
"This is not going to end well…" Naruto whispered as he crept closer to the battleground, quite aware of what was going to happen in the next few minutes. It was going to be a fight between two novices in the drinking world, and they were going to be soaking up everything put in front of them like a sponge.
Anko, in her element, began to move people farther from the combatants, creating a circle of spectators surrounding them. "Alright, alright." She shouted, hitting away a few roving hands that groped her figure, "This is what we've been waiting for all night. Two people fighting for their honor and virtue!"
She ignored the boo's and hisses at that part in her speech, hushing them by making motions with her hands. "Names aren't important, but origins are. One, a newcomer to the parties, trying to make his way into our hearts through this wondrous fight. The other, shunned by her lover and fighting to try and hide her sensitive side. In the end, only one will leave standing!"
With a quick pose, and a quick cheer for the battle to begin, Anko started to put glasses of various liquors in front of the two ninja. "The rules are, drain the glass and put it down upside down. You have to finish it for it to count as a point. The ninja with the most points wins."
Before Anko had even finished the phrase, Sasuke had lifted his first glass to his lips and drained it in a few gulps. He placed it in the manner Anko noted and waited for Hiashi to finish her own. When she put hers down, a little sooner than his, Sasuke arched his eyebrow and tapped his finger on the table to signal for his second beverage.
Naruto moved closer in the circle after five drinks had disappeared, calculating how long this could possibly go on for. Both ninjas didn't have experience with alcohol, he could tell that by simply looking at the flushed faces on both of them, and they were swinging back those drinks as if they were water.
'It's going to end right about…now.' He thought, nodding to himself when the woman's head slammed itself onto the table in defeat, Sasuke letting out a very un-Uchiha like whoop before he, too, fell face first onto the table. 'Now, to sneak in with no one noticing.'
Anko and the rest of the partygoers watched in mild confusion as a naked blonde woman, heavily endowed, walked out from the crowd and swung the dark-haired male over her shoulder, then walked out the front door. The jounin in charge shrugged, grabbed one of the glasses still full on the table, and started to chug it down.
Naruto sighed as he walked outside, dropping his illusion and Sasuke in one movement, and watched the lump of flesh groan at the contact with the hard ground. "It's your own fault dumb ass." Naruto supplied, looking at his fingernails in a strict examination of them, "You had to show you were so cool, so you challenged someone to a drinking contest."
When he glanced up, he saw Sasuke back at his normal age, apparently being intoxicated influenced your jutsu skills, but with his head resting on the lawn, as if it was too heavy to pick up. "Eh, Sasuke." Naruto said, poking his teammate in the side, earning a moan for all his trouble. "Wake up, baka."
Naruto tried to hold back the feeling of fear that was slowly creeping up the back of his throat when the other boy didn't respond, his head still on the ground. "Sasuke? Wake up, please?" He couldn't hide the twinge of concern in his voice; he lay down on the ground so that he was even with the prone body. "I won't call you baka anymore, if that's bothering you."
A mumble of agreement was heard as Sasuke tilted his head up and stared at his teammate with his black eyes. He seemed astonished to see Naruto in front of him, blinking owlishly with confusion lurking in his depths. With a groan he buried his head back into the pillow formed by his arms.
"What's wrong with you?" Naruto asked, moving towards Sasuke like a worm on his belly, "You've been mopey all day, ever since we found Iruka-sensei." He pouted and blew out his cheeks, his tongue sticking out with the actions. "Meh, Sasuke, go back to being a hard ass."
The Uchiha opened his eyes again and rolled onto his back to glare at Naruto, "I never knew I was a hard ass before." He sighed, sprawled out and then looking up at the stars.
"Are you feeling okay?" Naruto asked, still lying on his front in the grass. "Sasuke, you might be sick, or something…." He moved forward on his elbows and knees, "Hey, I know! You just drank a lot of stuff, so of course you're feeling weird." Naruto sighed and laid his head next to Sasuke's, cheek on the ground while he looked at the other boy's ear, which was only a few inches away from his nose. "That has to be it."
A few moments of silence passed, making Naruto uncomfortable, and just as he was about to say something, anything, to break the quiet, Sasuke blew a little gust of breath from his lips. "I think I like you." He said quietly, almost unheard from the cheering coming from the house behind them.
Naruto, instead of making a rude comment like he usually did, simply moved his head in position to look up at the sky also. "Well…" He knew Sasuke didn't mean as a teammate, but as something more. He had to try and dodge it to get some time to think this over. "Lots of people like me." Naruto said, mentally hitting himself on the forehead inside his head.
That was a stupid response. This was not going to end well, unless he revealed what he really wanted to say. The inner Naruto screamed "NO!" running up the walls and banging into the object known as his brain, he couldn't say what he'd always wanted to whenever he saw the other boy.
Sasuke must be mistaken. He couldn't like someone like Naruto.
The dark haired boy sighed, rolling over to face away from Naruto. "That's what I thought…" He said in his normal tone, mask already firmly back in place. With a muted grunt, he rolled forward and sat up straight. As he made to leave, a hand landed on his shoulder.
Naruto's blue eyes seemed to glow in the darkness of the night, regarding Sasuke with a guarded look. He let actions speak for him, pulling himself up and letting his lips softly touch against the other's, lingering as he pulled away. "You didn't let me finish." Naruto said; pouting and drawing Sasuke back onto the ground with him.
Back from his mission, and dead tired, the jounin sensei stared at his house with a confused air surrounding him. 'What the hell? Why is there a ton of people on my property?' He was about to charge into his house and demand to know when he remembered that deal he made with Anko, ' Oh yeah, that stupid rule…'
That stupid rule had been made when he was still an ANBU and she a chunin; he didn't care if she used his house when he was gone. But now he was back to doing important, dangerous missions only once in a while, and the last mission he had been on that lasted over a year was over three years ago. Except, now this jounin wanted to sleep, not party, away his last mission.
Kakashi sighed as he walked towards his house, ignoring his team that somehow snuck into the party that was being held for adults. He also ignored two of the teammates who were making out directly in front of him on the ground outside. It was only after he walked closer that he noticed that the two making out were the two males of his team.
He blinked stupidly at the pair, not conceiving what he was seeing, before sighing and stepping over the two. He was getting to old to return from missions to this crap. Kakashi yawned as he walked deeper into the party, covering his mouth out of habit.
As he walked into the opening hall, kicking off his sandals, a drunken Anko, her body sprawling over his own, attacked him. "Kashi, whater you doing here?" She said while giggling, wiping at her nose with the back of her hand. "You weren't supposed to be here until tomorrow morning!" Anko laughed again, grabbing a drink to shove it into the ninja's face.
"Want a drink? I made plenty!" Anko moved away and swirled in a circle, continuing to laugh, ignoring the deadpan look from Kakashi.
He sighed and took the drink, swinging it down in a quick motion, and looked at Anko again, feeling his eyelid drooping. "It's time for the party to end, Anko." He said, rubbing his temple, "You have to end the party and tell everyone to go home."
The woman whimpered and shoved another drink at the jounin, which he drank down again, and slowly moved into a piggyback position on top of him while he was still standing. "But Kashi, this is so much fun!" She whined, breathing into the nape of his neck afterwards.
Kakashi ignored her whining, used to this from her when she was drunk, and moved to the kitchen with her still perched on his back. He grabbed a few beers, still in the can, and quickly opened and downed them all. When he started to feel a little lightheaded, he took the cool metal off his bottom lip and placed the canister on the counter.
With a halting step, he had forgotten that Anko was on his back, but she was now asleep, Kakashi made a few seals in the middle of the kitchen. He thought of everyone who normally came to these types of parties and pictured their faces in his mind. With the seal of the tiger, he simply used a teleportation jutsu to make them all be moved to the top of the hokage monument.
'I hope those asleep wake up soon…' He thought as he rolled his shoulders, relieved of the burden of Anko's deadweight, 'I think I saw a hard rainstorm front moving in.' Kakashi yawned as he moved past the open doorway.
His blurry eyes spotted movement in front of him, and he squinted at the figure. He sighed and rubbed at his forehead, wincing when a flake of blood drifted from his hair. Kakashi ignored the person to his left, hoping they would go home since everyone else was gone, and moved towards his room.
Iruka watched as Kakashi sent him a blurry look before walking off, surprised at everyone suddenly disappearing from the party. 'He looks tired…' He thought to himself as he followed the fellow ninja, wanting to know what was wrong. The Kakashi he knew was never like that, joining in with the festivities until early in the morning.
He took caution when following, Kakashi was a jounin, and successfully made it into the other man's room. Iruka, in fact, had arrived in enough time to see Kakashi pull his shirt off and flop into bed face first, pants riding dangerously low on his white hips. Iruka moved closer, waiting for any movement from the ninja, and sat on the bed.
"Kakashi? Are you okay?"
'Who the hell is that?' The jounin's mind thought, relentlessly turning the cogs in his head to try and understand who could still be in his house. He had gotten rid of all the regulars, a checkmark in his mind next to every picture of the schoolteachers. The kids were outside, another checkmark, making out with each other. Like in his time.
Suddenly, his mind hit a familiar snag. It was someone who he had talked to before, someone who didn't go to the parties that were thrown in his absence. Kakashi reluctantly pulled his conscience from a dreamless sleep, and the soft pillow he was on, and looked over his shoulder at the person in the doorway. "Iruka?" He said, yawning even as the name fought it way from his lips.
The pony tailed man nodded and moved closer, sitting on the bed and leaning over to look at the ninja he had known for a little while when he was in the academy. "You don't look so good? Hard mission?"
"Real…Easy…" Kakashi said, rubbing his face into his pillow and opening his non-sharingan eye to stare at the other man in silence. He did look like that little kid from before; it was a frightening effect on the older man. "But…"
"What?" Iruka asked, leaning forward, "Did you get hurt?" He poked Kakashi in the side, frowning when the ninja didn't respond. "If you're hurt, you shouldn't be home. You should be with a med-nin." Iruka huffed, sighing when Kakashi didn't answer.
"And now you fall asleep on me. That's real polite!" Iruka ranted, about to stand up and storm back to his house when an arm moved and knocked him down onto the bed he was sitting on, landing across his chest and pinning him down against the mattress. "Kakas-" His lecture stopped in his throat when he looked over at the slumbering man.
The pale face had gone slack in sleep and Kakashi was facing Iruka, who was looking at him from only an inch or two away from his face. A soft snore came from the parted lips when Iruka moved slightly to pull the rest of his body onto the bed, Kakashi frowning and whimpering in his sleep. He paused in his movement, waiting for the light rhythm to resume, and sighed in relief the second it did.
Oh, Kakashi was going to get it when he woke up. Nobody used Iruka as a pillow and got away with it. He was a teacher for God's sake!"
End of Chaper Notes
There's that chapter done. I think this fanfiction is going to end in three chapters. The number twenty is even, and a multiple of ten. Perfect number for an ending. So that means you guys won't have to deal with me for a while until I get bitten by the insperation bug. Hahaha, you guys are going to hate me at the end. I already have it planned out in my mind.
Also, it's day six right now. The last day! Oh noes!
Will Kakashi reveal his affection for Iruka? Will Iruka understand these advances, constantly changing ages and bodies can't be healthy for everyone? Naruto and Sasuke are together, does this mean Sakura will love Super-Kawaii-Lee-chan? Find out in the coming chapters of Plastic Ponies!