I know theres a lot of OC gal in this ficlet, but it's all for the better. Because it represents we, the rabid yaoi fangirls, who flock at IrukaxKakashi smut, right? Right.

Chapter 4: More, more, more!

Ronna stared at the paged hungrily, a dazed smile on her face as she read through the first parts of the book. It was as if she had found a whole new world that knew her well and welcomed her in. If this book was printed and bound, that meant other people read these, therefore it was not a mortal sin for her to do so either!

"Ronna-chan! Come on! Where did you put my cookies!" a distinctly high pitched whining voice screeched through the door.

She winced at her brother's rude attack to the ears. "I don't know! Go away!" she yelled back through the door, just for measures chucking the metal figurine that sat on her night stand at him just as the door opened. The throwing skills Iruka had taught her had come in handy an innumerable amount of times. She smirked at his surprised screech, victorious in her aiming skills.

He yelled angrily, but figured he had a better chance of finding his cookies if he whined to their parents instead. Ronna rolled her eyes before focusing on the book again. Back to the world of inane wonderful impossible sex!

o0O0o

Kakashi could feel death looming over his head. It was as black cloud that had begun to pour down acid rain since that horrifying moment of realization: Icha Icha Paridise volume number eleven was lost. It was missing from his inside vest pocket where he always kept the latest volume. He knew it had last been there, because it only traveled two places. One was the vest pocket, and the second being the night stand for when he could not sleep. Although reading Icha Icha Paradise was not the best way to get to sleep, it was generally an easy way to get Iruka to notice that he could not sleep. A clever ploy for attention on a whole.

After searching on, around, in, and behind the bed stand, bed, and dresser, he was unsuccessful. Therefore, it had been lost from his vest pocket.

Running over that thought again brought him to his knees. Iruka would kill him. It would not just be a lover's quarrel, it would be instant death invoked by pure embarrassment. Iruka would never show his face in public again. He'd dump Kakashi and go to another village to teach, the white haired jounin was sure of it.

Not because of the content the book held, would Iruka kill him. No, no, no. Iruka would kill him because there was something else in the book. Something worse than written pornography.

o0O0o

"Ronna-chan! Are you going to cook dinner now or never, we're hungy!"

Ronna looked up to the door and growled in the back of her throat, slamming the book shut and stuffing it beneath her mattress. After fighting with her conscious on whether the book would be safe there, she left the room and went to the kitchen. "Yes, yes, I know, I know. You'll die if you don't have food this instant." she muttered, dark eyes scanning the small family.

"What do you want?"

"Something fast, we want to go see the new movie that came out at the corner theater!" Her brother quipped, the newspaper dancing around in her face.

"Out?" A sideways glance at her bedroom door was the only sign of disapproval. "Fine... whatever." she muttered, going to the fridge and throwing the door open. I can finish it tomorrow before I leave for school.

o0O0o

Iruka came home to an empty house, sighing in relief at being home, but heart dropping when he was only greeted with a note.

'Retracing my footsteps, be home for dinner. Love you, - Kakashi'

The chuunin teacher couldn't help a dry huff. "If one of my students found that book... you are in deep, deep trouble." he muttered before crinkling the note and tossing it in the burn pile. He went to the stove to find tea ready for him, then sat down to rest on the couch for a while. Chasing kids all day long may have been fun for them, but he was tired of playing hide and seek whenever they went outside. Tomorrow he would sternly warn them if they continued such behavior whenever they went outside, he would not let them out any more. That sounded fair enough. He mulled over the day a bit, mind suddenly snapping open.

"Duh, Kakashi!" he rolled his eyes and stood up. I bet you lost it in Gai's challenge yesterday. He smirked, pulling his shinobi vest back on and slipping feet back into weathered boots.

After all, multiple summer- salts down an unstable hill can disorient anyone, especially going that fast. No wonder he'd lost the stupid book.

o0O0o

Kakashi was already on his hands and knees, covered in dirt and looking generally pathetic. Kakashi looked sideways to another Kakashi, then to his right where yet a third and forth were hunched over digging through dirt sand and rocks. Every once in a while, one of the dopplegangers(1) would grunt as he was engulfed in a small land slide, covering over an area they had already searched. The rest would groan in sorrow, then continue working mournfully.

"Hmm... May I ask what you're looking for?" Genma squatted down beside the real Kakashi, busily shoveling dirt down the side of the hill.

He shot a weary glance over to the senbon chewing ninja, then stopped his work for the moment. His forlorn eye stared forward, then dropped to his dirty and cut hands. "Icha Icha Paradise." he grunted. "I lost it in a challenge Gai made yesterday." he blinked slowly, then added with a touch of venom, "The bastard."

Genma snorted, standing up and putting his hands on his hips, still puffing from his run. "Wow, Kakashi-san. I'm surprised at you. I don't think I've ever seen you work this hard for something." he gave the jounin a light tap on the shoulder. "Good luck."

Kakashi glared at him with what anger he could muster in such a state of mourning, then leaned forward to continue digging. Genma only chuckled and dashed up the hill. When he reached the top, he gave a peculiar look to the ground, reaching down and dusting about the rocks, "Hey, Kakashi-san, I found it!"

Kakashi's heart escalated in joy, the extra Kakashis popping into oblivion as his concentration enshrouded Genma. "Really?"

"Nope, just jerkin' ya around." he grinned broadly at the withering jounin. "Sorry, couldn't help myself. See ya!"

The rain cloud of death floated back over Kakashi's head, his shoulders slouching even further than normal. He fell to his knees in the dirt again, partially up the incline, and began digging even slower. Hope was dwindling fast, along with any intact skin he had left on his bruised hands.

o0O0o

Iruka sighed a bit, finding that his idea had not been original. Kakashi had apparently concluded to the same assumption, seeing as he was sitting despondently on a large mound of upturned dirt while dogs of all sizes dug like mad all over the hill.

The teacher walked up casually, surveying the holey mountain with nonchalant regard. "No luck?"

Kakashi leaned sideways, staring at one of the smaller dogs who had haphazardly stumbled into a hole much larger than itself. "What's it look like?"

Iruka ignored the sarcasm and watched the same dog jumping and yipping angrily at a large bull dog who had previously made the hole, yet refrained from filling it in. The small dog suddenly became Kakashi as an Anbu and stepped out of the hole before walking away and poofing back into the small dog it had just been.

"I guess it's lucky that you had Shinobi dogs to help, ne?" Iruka offered, sitting down in the dirt beside Kakashi.

Kakashi only gazed blandly ahead at his workers. "Mn. Less complaining than dopplegangers." He didn't want to look at Iruka, he didn't even want to look at Iruka's smiling comforting face. If he knew what was in the back of that book, he would not be smiling like that.

Iruka finally grimaced. "You know, my kids ran this today. Some of them always take this route."

Kakashi didn't say anything, his stomach was beginning to twist now. His thoughts had been astutely avoiding that path. "Mm-hm."

"It's possible... that one of them picked it up. If so, I doubt you'll ever get it back. They'd be too embarrassed to admit having a dirty book." he mused outloud, leaning back palms out to stare at the sky while considering. "You're dead if I ever find out they got ahold of that thing. I told you, you should stop reading those around students before you lose it and they find it." he growled. "I can't believe Naruto never stole one from you." he winced as a small dirt slide tackled his feet. Kakashi moved, the slide having been more centered on him, to sit on top of the new dirt.

"No one could steal one from me. Stupid Gai, making me lose my book." he grunted, standing up to go kick around in a few unturned spots.

"Not his fault you don't have that thing in a buttoning pocket." Iruka grunted, watching idly. "Are you going to tell me what is in that book besides porn?" his eyes grew colder and more demanding.

Kakashi shivered, that look didn't even scratch the nose bleed he would get if he were to admit. "Mm... I think I'm going to go look on the other side for a while." he decided, hopping agilely up to the top of the hill and disappearing down the other side.

Iruka growled, knowing for sure that the ex-anbu was hiding something bad. "You're in for it." he muttered, getting up and brushing himself off.

Kakashi was gone when he reached the other side of the hill though.

(Aia dodges kunai and shuriken thrown by unsatisfied readers) Eeeeiiiiiiiii!