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The Day They Found Out

Chapter 2: Naruto Spreads the Word

"Is that possible?" Naruto asked Konohamaru again, as they sat together in the IchiRaku Ramen shop.

"I don't know – but I saw him!" Konohamaru's brown eyes were round.

"Iruka-sensei? I don't think Iruka-sensei would KISS anybody! He's not an open pervert like the Ero-sannin or a closet pervert like Ebisu-sensei…."

Konohamaru shook his head. "He was kissing an old ninja with a man's voice."
"Ehhhh…. Perhaps it was henge or something…" Naruto shrugged. "Who cares what Iruka-sensei is doing, really? I'm sure there's an explanation…"
"What's Iruka-sensei doing, Naruto?" asked Sakura.

Behind her, Sasuke stood, glaring at the pink-haired Genin and his blonde, noisy teammate respectively.

Konohamaru just stared.

"Eh… nii-chan… It's that mean girl…"

Sasuke glared off into the distance. "Feh."

"Well…"
Sakura waited.

Then Naruto sighed and told Konohamaru's story.

The next day, when Team 7 went around to the mission office, they stared extra hard at Iruka-sensei. But he seemed the same. His smile was still big, his eyes were still kind, he still blushed a lot and he still yelled at Naruto's stupidity. His ponytail was still perky and he still complained about the state of Kakashi's mission reports.

As they watched their old sensei berate their new sensei (very red in the face, the both of them), they wondered what kind of person would kiss such a strict man like Iruka-sensei.

"It's impossible," Sakura decided that night, walking home alone with her team (Kakashi had disappeared to 'write' the 'mission report').

"It's stupid to think on, I'm going home," Sasuke snorted.

"Hn…" Naruto said. "You've got no care, Sasuke, you bastard…. But then… who knows… what if Iruka's dating Tsunade-sama?"

Sasuke froze mid-step trying to visualize Iruka and Tsunade on a date.

"Or maybe he's going out with the village elder lady."

Sasuke shuddered.

"OR MAYBE he's going out with a guy!"
Sasuke turned around and sighed.

"Fine. We should go check it out at lunch time."

The next day was the first day in human history that Kakashi arrived first to Team 7's meeting spot. Nobody was there – so he decided to spend his waiting time with better pursuits…

Lunch time began – Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura – disguised as parcels in the hallway watched avidly through the crack in the door as they watched a shinobi slip out of Iruka's window.

The crack of the door was very small. All they saw was grey hair and a green vest. They went to the Ramen shop for further thought.

"A shinobi then," Sasuke said. "No problem."

"Yeah, that narrows the list down quite a bit."

"What list?" asked Ino.

"GYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
Team 7 screamed like girls as Shikamaru and his team suddenly materialized (seemingly out of nowhere).

that's what happens when one gets too involved in a discussion

"Sasuke-kun!" Ino sing-songed, slinging her arms around her love. "C'mon! Let me help you! Is it shopping?"
"No, idiot! It's something else entirely, pig!" Sakura screeched.

Her Inner Sakura bellowed. "Get your hands off him, BITCH!"

"Oh yeah, well, Sasuke-kun, I'm better at finding things than big forehead girl…"

Ino stuck out her tongue at Sakura.

"Pig! Get away! We don't need you!"
"Well, sounds like you got problems, big forehead girl!"
"Stop calling me that, pig!"

"Forehead girl!"
"Pig!"
"Forehead girl!"
They bickered, the boys sweat-dropped.

Shino's team came up – followed closely by Gai's Team.

"What's happening?" asked Kiba loudly, drowning out the two bickering Genin girls.

"Nothing." Sasuke glared off into the horizon.

Neji also posed tragically to think about birds and fate. Between the two silent poster-boy Genins with their angst battle and Shino's silent character, Hinata sweat-dropped.

"N-n-n-naruto-kun…" She whispered, tapping her forefingers together.

"Ehhhh?" Naruto asked staring at Shikamaru. "Did you hear something?"

Shikamaru just sighed and said it was too troublesome to explain.

Chouji merely munched on his food.

"What's the problem, Sakura-chan?" asked Lee, posing as a nice guy.

Ten-ten sweat-dropped.

"It's – nothing," Sakura said.

Naruto rolled his eyes.

"Can you guys keep a secret?" he asked.

All the Genins leaned in.