Chapter Four: Bad Dreams and First Bathes
I do not own Naruto. This story is a KakaIru and SasuNaru fanfic. So don't if you don't like the pairings don't read. You have been warned.
"I don't need you to be so overprotective of me Kakashi! I'm an adult and such, and have been taking care of myself ever since my parents were killed."
"Maa...I was just looking out for you, 'Ruka-chan..."
"Well stop it!"
Silence
"Kakashi?"
"If that's the way you want it, fine, I'll leave."
"No! Wait Kakashi!"
"...Please...don't go...don't leave me..."
Iruka woke in a cold sweat, he hadn't had a dream like THAT in over...well a good long time, he wondered if it had to do something with the fact that Kakashi was sleeping in the same room as him. Chibified Kakashi, but Kakashi nonetheless. The school teacher rose up from the floor, his back oddly acheing, and began to carefully make his way to the kitchen so as to welcome the chibis to a warm breakfast in the morning. He set to work, his eyes slowly unglazing and becoming adjusted once more to the sunlight that poured into his house via windows. He began to ponder how the windows were open, but let his mind wander as he cracked the eggs over a frying pan. Slowly their yellow yolks sizzled and bubbled before being mashed by the bottom of Irukas' spatula. He made quick work of it and in no time was flipping the scrambled eggs.
He busily worked with the bacon next until a dark and sinister shadow cast upon the wall before him, catching his eye. He froze, terrified at the size of the thing, and then slowly and stiffly turned around to find...
Like a quick dart, a dark and rather small figure leapt up from the table top, where the sun had enhanced it's shadows size, and pounced on Iruka's head. "Now you die!" It hissed, bringing down a small stick and wacking the chunnin on the head. Iruka's face turned from surprise, to annoyance and grabbed the little bugger from atop his head to face it. There was yet another chibi, but a rather strange looking one as he had never met the ninja it was once before. Bandages wrapped around it's face and covered the lower half much like Kakashi's mask hid his own. It's beady, evil eyes widened in fear at Iruka's face and then tried to squirm away from the hold he had on him. "Haku! It's another demon, we must annihilate it...immediatly!"
"Yes Master Zabuza!" Almost as fast as the other had done before, a boy, well Iruka supposed by the voice it was a boy, leaped up and began to punch at Iruka. "Die foul beast!" Iruka sighed and grabbed this one as well.
"Kami! It's so ugly!" The one called Haku wriggled his arms wildely, now that he had caught them, Iruka could tell that the very naked chibis were both indeed male. A vein on the verge of popping appeared on his temples.
"Ugly?" He hissed angrily.
"It's unibrow just twitched, how disgusting!"
Zabuza shook his head. "Absurd..."
Iruka blinked in confusion. "Uni...I don't have a unibrow!" He disgustedly walked into the bathroom and stared into the mirror to find, to his horror, a black line that ran across his two eyebrows, connecting them. A large and rather fluffy mustache hung from his nostrils, and a small devil-like beard marked his chin. Round circles decorated his cheeks and around his eyes, making their already dark irises appear all the more abyssal. He growled angrily. "NARUTO!"
Iruka's booming voice indeed woke all the chibis. They stood and ran to the bathroom to see what the commotion was all about to see Iruka glaring at them, his mustache flaring up into his nose and unibrow furrowed so deep it nearly dissappeared beneath the folds of skin on his forehead. "What is the MEANING of this? Young man you better explain yourself!"
"I didn't do it!" Naruto squeaked, hiding behind Sasuke. "Seriously, you have got to believe me Iruka-sensei!"
Just then Kakashi fell back laughing, tears streaming down his face. "So beautiful Iruka-sensei!" He bellowed in his squeaky voice. "Bwa ha ha ha!"
Iruka's vein that had threatened to pop before exploded in the form of his voice then, making all the chibi's fall back, even the two in his hands. "KAKASHI-SENSEI! YOU SON OF A..."
"Now please is that any way to speak in front of the children?" Kakashi interupted calmly, smiling idly as he shook his finger at the steaming dolphin-sensei.
"You shouldn't be talking! YOU'RE setting a bad example as well!" Iruka bellowed out, setting the chibis Zabuza and Haku on the floor, and slowly began to approach the tiny Kakashi.
"How so?" said Kakashi, looking cheerfully up at the steaming sensei.
"By playing pranks on people." said Iruka.
"But it was just a little joke, I didn't mean to insult you in any way..."
"You know what! I've had enough of you and your cocky attitude," Iruka smirked wickedly,"I think it's about time you were punished for your actions Kakashi..."
"BWA HAHAHAH!" Kakashi fell back full of laughter, "Iruka-sensei, there's no way you can punish someone with such high standards as myself!"
"Oh, but Kakashi, you seem to forget one thing, you've been put under my care. That means if you are bad I get to punish you however I please." Iruka sat down in front of Kakashi with a thump and picked up the small Jounin. He set Kakashi over his knee, and raised his hand above Kakashi's rump .
"What are you doing! Help I'm getting molested..." squeaked Kakashi before he quickly added, "Though you can't really rape the willing, I guess."Iruka brought down his palm on the butt, spanking it lightly but to Kakashi and his little butt buns it felt more than just like little taps.
"Kakashi-sensei is getting spanked!" cried out the little chibi Naruto, as Sakura fell back laughing, rolling around on carpet. Sasuke stared in disblef at the sight before his eyes, while Haku and Zabuza stared at one another and then back at Kakashi's surprised face. Lee had somehow fallen asleep during Iruka and Kakashi's arguement and was sleeping, snuggled next to the bathroom door. Neiji found this quite annoying and was attempting wake up his bushy-eyebrowed teammate. When Iruka felt that Kakashi had enough he stopped spanking him and carried him into the bathroom. He set Kakashi on the counter and reached over for a wash cloth to clean his face of the black marks. After fifteen minutes of hard scrubbing, and plenty of soap, Iruka's face was removed of the black markings. As Iruka inhaled a large amount of air, he sniffed something foul in the air ,in fact, it seemed as if that smell was coming off of Kakashi. Frowning Iruka turned and began to fill up a basin that wasn't much bigger than the sink, with warm water.
"Kakashi-sensei, when was the last time you took a shower?" Iruka asked with a frown still plastered on his face.
"Ummm.. I think not since last week.." Kakashi replied after thinking some. Iruka sighed and set the basin on the floor.
"Lazy Jounin." He said as he opened a cuboard and pulled out a couple soft, fluffy towels. Iruka went out into the hallway to retrieve the other chibi; since Kakashi was getting a bath, the others should have one too.
"Where is the hidous demon that we must slay?" asked Zabuza as Iruka approached.
"That wasn't a demon it was Iruka-sensei! " said Sakura.
"No that was a demon, my eyes don't fool me!" Zabuza replied angrily. Iruka sighed and picked up the little angry chibi Zabuza, and Haku.
"I guess I'm going to have to watch over you two as well."
"What are you doing you insolant fool! Put me down!" Zabuza attempted to bite the chunins hands but Iruka tapped his head lightly stopping him. Zabuza grimaced holding his little head with his hands.
"Master Zabuza if we go along with this man maybe he'll lead us to the demon's lair," whispered Haku.
"You're right! And then when we slay the blasted thing we'll turn back to normal, good job Haku."
"What are you two mumbling about?" asked Iruka as he reached down to pick up Naruto and Sakura.
"Oh, nothing."
Naruto looked at Sasuke and Sakura and shrugged.
"Darling servant, the bathwater seems to be getting chilly, could you warm it up? Oh, and it smells like somethings burning in the kitchen." Cried out Kakashi from the bathroom. Iruka's eyes widened and he ran into the bathroom, set Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Zabuza and Haku into the basin. He turned and jumped over the sleeping Lee, and Neiji. Stumbling into the kitchen, Iruka reached the stove and turned it off. Black smog rose from the burnt eggs and bacon. Iruka coughed as the smog spread, causing his eyes to sting.
"What are you all you doing in my private bath. Get out!" squeaked Kakashi from atop the cuboard.
"Neener neener!" teased Sakura and Naruto, stiking out their tongues at their sensei.
Iruka walked into the bathroom once he cleaned up the mess in the kitchen, and laughed as he watched team seven tease their sensei. He turned around and picked up the sleeping Lee and Neiji, who were sleeping near the door. The dolphin-sensei then set them in the basin along with the others. The two immediantly awoke and cried out in surprise as they were sumerged in the water.
"It's cold!" Neiji and Lee squeaked at the same time. Iruka smiled, picked up the basin, and set next to the sink. He went into the kitchen, got a pitcher and returned.
"Bonzai!" screamed Kakashi as he jumped into the basin causing water to splash everywhere.
"You numb skull," cried out Zabuza, "I'll kill you!"
"Oh ho, but in this condition Zabuza I don't think you can." said Kakashi as he leaned against the basin wall.
"That's enough you two." said Lee.
"You stay out of this!" Zabuza snapped.
"Do you two need a time out?" asked Iruka as he filled up the pitcher with warm water.
"We're not children you know." said Zabuza.
"Yes, but you two are acting like children," stated Iruka, as he filled the basin with the warm water.
"Ahhhh." said the chibi's happily. Iruka reached under the sink and pulled out some bubble bath. He added the liquid into the water and swished it around.
"I feel like I'm in a hot spring," said Naruto contently.
"Bubbles," squeaked Sakura, as she reached for the pink bubbles that were floating a top the foamy water. Suddenly all the chibi's began to pounce and try to claim the most bubbles.
"Okay, that's enough splashing around for today, I already have a big enough mess to clean up." said Iruka as he squirted some shampoo into Kakashi's hair. Iruka set some soap bars in the water so the chibi's could wash their bodies. Iruka squirted shampoo into theirs hands, and helped them rinse out their hair.
"Servant, could you please wash my hair?' asked Kakashi as he sat on a soap bar.
"I think you're capable of doing that yourself Kakashi." said Iruka
"But my little hands are so sore and I can barely lift them!" said Kakashi as he pretended to slowly lift his arms and flinch in pain.
"Nice acting skills Kakashi."
"Why thank you," said Kakashi sweetly. After all the chibi's were cleaned Iruka took the towels and were drying them off. He set them on the couch and went into his storage room to get something that would cover them up. Iruka smiled when he found some handkerchiefs in an old cardboard box.
"This should do for now." He turned and began to wrap the chibis up in the handkercheifs.
"I feel like I'm wearing a dress," said Neiji, as he looked down at the blue handkercheif wrapped around his little body.
"It's so breezy," said Lee. The other chibis stared at him.
"What! It is."
"Yeah, we know that, but we didn't want to hear it." said Sasuke.
Iruka sighed and said "I guess I'm going to have to take you all out shopping tomorrow for clothes."
I'm sooo sorry for not updating for so long I've been drawing a lot. But I'm going to try and update at least every week or two. I'm sorry again for keeping all you guys waiting for so long... Anywayz I bet you are all wondering how Zabuza and Haku came back. Well...they were given a chance to prove that they could do some good.. They'll talk more about it in the later chapters. .