Disclaimer: Naruto and all it's characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto-sensei, not me!
Warning: Yaoi! As if you didn't know!
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"Kakashi-san! Are you al...right?" They were halted by what they saw. Right through the open door of Kakashi's bedroom they could see Iruka sitting on Kakashi, a Kakashi that was just about naked. Iruka's hands rested right at the waistband of Kakashi's shorts. The two men stared at the intruder, shell shocked.
"Er?" Iruka chocked out.
"Urg...? I-Iruka-sensei...Ka–Kakashi-san? Wha...WHAT!" Gai stammered, flabbergasted. "But, but...Iruka-sensei? WHEN? When did this happen? I, I cannot compete! Iruka-sensei...Kakashi-san! I hope you find.." Gai sobbed, "I hope you find happiness, with..." another sob, "With each other!" Gai dashed out of the apartment, bawling, the tears shamelessly running down his face. He would never find love again! The people on the streets backed out of his way, out of respect for his pain of course.
"Oh shit." Kakashi sighed. Iruka leapt of his back, dark blush staining his face.
"I, I have to go home, and do work. I'll see you tomorrow, bye!" Iruka said, his voice squeaking at the end of the sentence.
"Ah, good-bye, Iruka-sensei." Kakashi waved at the retreating man, his eye curving up.
Iruka ran home, desperately trying not to run to fast and get odd stares but also trying to get home as soon as possible. He entered his house, closed the door and slid to the floor. 'What was that just now? Uwaah, how embarrassing! What a situation to be found in. And Gai, what Gai was saying! He was saying...we were together? Gyah, there goes my reputation! Hopefully Gai won't say anything? Maybe? Who am I kidding, he's probably blabbing it to the first person he sees!'
'And we weren't doing anything wrong! It was a friendly massage, between friends. Wait friends? Do I consider Kakashi my friend? Does he consider me his? Waaah! Stop thinking about that! You'll hurt your brain.' Iruka shook his head, 'What a predicament I've gotten myself into! Surely people won't believe Gai? If anyone tries to insinuate that I'm with Kakashi I'll just set them straight. Yes, they'll believe me over him! Why wouldn't they?'
Iruka sighed and got ready for bed, the work he'd run home for didn't have to be completed for a while so he allowed himself to procrastinate. He sank into bed, drifting off finally.
The next morning Iruka work up bright and early. He quickly got ready and ate breakfast. The chuunin braced himself and exited his home, surely he'd be looked at strangely? Hopefully Gai hadn't said anything yet. He walked down the street to the Academy nervous, but trying to hide that fact. So far all he received were friendly smiles. He almost sighed in relief. Finally he reached the Academy, he stood in front of his class, grinned his creepy teacher grin and declared a pop quiz.
After school he was sitting at the missions desk, bored. There were about three minutes left until he could leave. He sat there twiddling his thumbs and glancing at the clock every seven seconds. Suddenly there was a loud yell and the door opened. There stood Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura. Naruto bounded over to him.
"Hey, hey Iruka-sensei! Let's go out for ramen!" He grinned his big foxy grin and waved his arms around. "Come on!"
"Well, alright." He glanced up at the clock. Finally he could leave. He packed up his things and stood. "Let's go."
The four of them walked to Ichiraku, Naruto babbling on about something or other while Sakura corrected him every so often. Iruka smiled and nodded in the appropriate part and chuckled when Sakura reprimanded the blonde. Sasuke was, as always, silent. They took their seats and ordered their ramen. Naruto went onto another story and Iruka pretended to pay attention, his thoughts going off in a totally different direction. 'Will Gai tell? Will people think? What would people think? Would I be taken from my position because of some silly rumor? Would he be taken from his position because the parents weren't comfortable with it? All for some silly rumor?'
'Me, with Kakashi, what a laugh.' He was jolted out of his thoughts by a jab in the side.
"Hey, Iruka-sensei! What's with that face?" Naruto barked, his face was screwed up in confusion.
"Are you ok, Iruka-sensei? You look worried." Sakura asked.
"Uh? Nothing, I've just got a lot on my mind right now!" He held up his hands in surrender, a nervous chuckle escaping his lips. Their faces didn't look convinced.
"Did Kakashi-sensei do something?" Naruto asked suddenly. Iruka gaped at him.
"Wha? Why, why would you say that?" Iruka stuttered. 'He knows! He knows! What am I going to do?'
"You're spending so much time with him, so maybe he said something to upset you?" Sakura nodded at her words. That made sense, Iruka looked a little relieved.
"Oh, no nothing like that! It wasn't him." Iruka plastered a fake smiled to his face.
"What is it then?" Sasuke asked, frustrated to get to the point.
"N-nothing, it's work related," He glanced at the clock in the ramen place. "I should be going, I have...er work."
"But your ramen!" Naruto called out.
"You can have it Naruto, bye!" Iruka called, walking quickly to Kakashi's apartment. ' I have to think of something! What do I tell them? What do they think already?'
Iruka was brought back to reality when he realized he was standing in front of Kakashi's door. He coughed and panted a little, calming himself down before knocking. Kakashi opened it.
"Yo, Iruka-sensei. Uh? What's wrong?" Kakashi's eye had widened at the sight before him.
"Huh? Wrong? Nothing is wrong."Iruka had a puzzled look on his face.
"Oh, you had a funny expression, come in." Iruka nodded and entered the jounin's apartment. "Sorry about yesterday. Lee came by earlier, to get the story straight. I explained to him what happened."
"Oh, that's a relief." Iruka sank down onto the couch with a sigh. A smile gracing his lips. Kakashi sat beside him, a little closer than necessary. Iruka didn't notice.
"Was that why you had that expression?"Kakashi asked, Iruka glanced up at him surprised.
"Uh, yeah." He scratched the bridge of his nose. The silver haired man sighed and leaned back into his couch. "S-should I make something, to eat?" Iruka asked nervously.
"Sure." Kakashi's eye curved up in a bright smile. There was no other time when he was as happy as he was in Iruka's presence. Later after they had finished their food and Iruka had washed the dishes, with many protests from Kakashi. They once again sat on the couch, glancing at each other without letting the other know they were doing so.
"Wanna watch a movie?" Kakashi asked finally, growing far to anxious in the awkward silence. Iruka nodded gratefully.
"Er, what kind of movie?" Iruka stared at Kakashi worriedly. Kakashi rolled his eye.
"How about you choose one, I have a small collection in the drawer next to the television." Iruka blushed and nodded, he crouched in front of the drawer. Opening it he glanced at the titles apprehensively, surprisingly there were some that he'd been wanting to see. Kakashi sighed in bliss on the couch. His gaze fixated on Iruka's ass, he couldn't help himself. It was there!
"Gyah, I can't choose. I've been wanting to see both of these, but I don't know what to choose!" Iruka moaned over his plight. Kakashi snapped his eye to the chuunin's face just as he was looking back at the older man. He stared confusedly at Iruka for a moment and then smiled.
"Why don't we watch both?" He suggested. Iruka looked torn.
"But I don't want to intrude..." He glanced nervously at Kakashi, who still had that smile on his face.
"Nonsense. If it makes you feel better we could watch one today and the other tomorrow?" Kakashi's eye opened, questioning him. Iruka stared, lost in the silver haired man's gaze for a moment. He nodded slowly.
"Alright." He set one down, not paying attention to which one and placed the other in the VCR. It was an action/adventure/suspense movie. Kakashi grinned, it was one of his personal favourites. Kakashi brought out a bag of chips, turned off the lights and sat back down on the couch. Iruka picked up the remote and sat on the couch next to the silver haired man. It was a love seat, so they didn't have much room between them.
The movie began and Iruka was immersed in the story line. Kakashi had seen it before about seven times so he was barely paying attention. He watched Iruka instead, the dark haired man's eyes fixed on the screen and hand darting out for a chip every so often. A loud noise from the screen startled the younger man, making him jump. Kakashi casually rested his arm over the back of the couch, right behind Iruka. He smiled to himself when Iruka didn't notice.
Iruka jumped again, he was slowly moving closer to Kakashi. The older man held his breath, willing himself to hold onto his self control. Molesting Iruka wasn't polite. Kakashi ripped his gaze from Iruka to the television screen in an effort to keep himself under control. Soon Iruka was pressed against his side, not noticing that he was. Kakashi breathed slowly and deliberately, trying to keep calm.
All to soon the movie finished. Iruka grinned and leaned back, only to bump up against Kakashi's arm. He started, shock at how close they were evident on his face. He jerked his head to look at Kakashi.
"Small couch." Kakashi said teasingly. Iruka blushed madly.
"Uh, yeah." He stared at the other man, at a loss. 'What was he doing again?' He didn't have time to complete his thought because Kakashi had leaned toward him. They were so close. Iruka's eyes widened. "I, I should go."
"Mmmm." Kakashi didn't seem to hear him, the older man leaned in even further. Soon they were a mere inch apart.
"I, I...I gotta go!" Iruka croaked, scampering backwards and falling off the couch. "Ouch." He rose and dashed for the door.
"See you tomorrow." Kakashi called after the retreating man. Iruka just barely heard him as he was running out the door.
Kakashi sank into the couch. He sighed and smiled. 'I was so close. So close. Should I take it as a good sign he freaked out? He was obviously shaken, maybe that means that he's feeling something? Those two hours we spent sitting side by side, the second half of it spent with out sides touching. It was electrifying.' He sat there for another ten minutes thinking before standing and putting away the chips. He turned the lights on and rewound the tape. He put the tape away and set the other one, the one Iruka had wanted to watch next, on top of the television.
He stretched his muscles. They were feeling much better and he knew by tomorrow he could be doing all his regular exercises again. 'Tomorrow Iruka would come over, but if I tell him I'm better he'll stop coming.' Kakashi groaned. He'll just have to pretend he wasn't better yet, and Iruka will continue to come over.
Another early update! Yay, well I did say it would be early didn't I? ANYway...this was another one of those chapters that bugged the shit out of me. I couldn't get the wheels turning until Tishi said something brilliant and I couldn't stop! XD
OMG Gai's freak out! Good job to those that guessed Gai! That was totally obvious. XD Oh yeah, Gai isn't done yet. He'll be back to torment Kakashi with his youthful love! Ah, poor Kakashi...and OMG was that a near kiss! Ahaha, couldn't resist! I hope you liked this chapter! Thank you to all my reviewers, you rock so much ass!
Also, if anyone has any ideas they'd like to contribute to the cause I'll gladly consider them! Until next time! Much love, Muah!