Chapter 24:
Naruto rose with the dawn, quickly sliding his way out of the tent before Kakashi woke up. He grabbed a clean washcloth, dampening it in the river and collected a medkit to bring back to the tent. Kakashi was still asleep when he returned, a pained expression on his sleeping face. Naruto knew it was a bad idea to startle Kakashi awake, so instead, he laid back down and waited for Kakashi to wake up. It was less than an hour later when he felt his older lover stirring. "Good morning, Kashi" he hummed into his throat. "Mmmm, good morning my sweet little fox." Naruto sat up and kissed Kakashi on the mouth, "I grabbed a medkit and a wash cloth before you woke up. I guess it's my turn to play nurse." Kakashi gave him a weak smile, "You don't have to do that, love, I can do it myself." Naruto only shook his head, "I want to." Kakashi smiled back at him and remained laying down, uncovering his arm and shoulder for Naruto's inspection. Kakashi watched as his blonde love went about removing first the bandage on his shoulder, his tongue stuck slightly out of his mouth in concentration. Since Kakashi had cauterized the shoulder wound there wasn't much to attend to there, Naruto quickly rubbed some sauve into it and rebandaged it. Naruto then cut free the bandage wrapped from Kakashi's elbow down to his hand. Kakashi was finally struck with the realization that his palms were burnt and that he hadn't told Naruto about them. Shit. There wasn't much he could do about it now, so he stayed silent and continued watching Naruto work. Naruto peeled back the bandage on his forearm, wincing at the many lacerations under neither. "The problem with my Chidori attack is that it is close contact and I use my arm essentially as a blade…" Kakashi trailed off, watching Naruto carefully wipe the damp washcloth over the weeping wounds. He dotted each wound with ointment and rebandaged it. Naruto's brow furrowed when he realized both of Kakashi's palms were wrapped as well. Naruto looked up at Kakashi in question, but Kakashi quickly looked away, not willing to face his anger quite yet. Naruto cut back the bandages on both hands and flinched. "What… what the hell happened to your hands, Kakashi?" Kakashi looked back at his love cautiously. "Now… I don't want you to be mad. It happened yesterday during the fight, probably around the time when you said Kurama shut you out. Your body was entirely covered in a red aura, which I assume was Kurama protecting you. It scared me a bit and I reached out to you, the red cloak burned my hands." Naruto's eyes flared with rage, "No, no.. Naruto don't be mad, Kurama was only trying to protect you, he didn't do it to hurt me. Please… don't be mad. It's not his fault." Kakashi watched as the blondes eyes glazed over, he was getting more used to the sight. A few moments passed before Naruto blinked back into focus, sighing heavily. "So that's what he was apologizing for yesterday… why didn't you tell me?" Kakashi hesitated before answering, "I was already worried about you and didn't want you to have to deal with anything more…" Naruto shook his head, "You have already made me promise not to hide anything from you, I am requesting the same." Kakashi hung his head in shame, "I'm sorry, of course. I promise I won't."
Naruto made careful work of cleaning and rebandaging Kakashi's hands, bringing them up to his mouth and kissing the backs of them. Kakashi sat up and pulled Naruto into a hug, "Thank you. Hungry?" Naruto nodded, a soft look on his face, "Starving actually." They made short work of lighting a fire and preparing their breakfast, falling into the familiar and comfortable routine. While they ate, Kakashi asked, "You said you want me to teach you how to fight, yes?" Naruto nodded, mouth full of food. "Your taijutsu is already pretty good from what I could judge yesterday, I imagine after a few good spar sessions and some technique correction you will excel at it." The blonde looked away from him bashfully, clearly not used to hearing praise, he made a mental note to praise him more often. "I should probably rest my shoulder for a few days before we engage in any sparring, in the meantime though I would like to get a feel for your chakra control. How does that sound?" "Can we start today?" Naruto replied eagerly. Kakashi chuckled back, "Sure, we can start right after we're done eating." Naruto started shoveling his food back in a hurry making Kakashi laugh out loud. "We have tons of time, don't make yourself sick."
They finished their breakfast and cleaned up, Naruto practically vibrating with excitement. Kakashi smiled at the blonde, "Okay, so… I imagine you have fairly good chakra control since you were able to scale the wall to escape Konoha…" Naruto blushed, looking a bit guilty. "Show me, climb that section on the gully wall." Kakashi pointed in the direction of an almost vertical rock face. Naruto walked over to the wall, closed his eyes to concentrate, focusing his chakra to his feet. He walked sure footedly up the incline, pausing for a moment before dropping back down to the ground. "Good, very good actually. Now, can you walk on water?" He watched the blonde's eyes go wide, "You can do that?" Kakashi laughed and made his way to the river to demonstrate. "It is the same general idea as what you just did with climbing the wall. The only difference is that the surface you are on is fluid so you have to keep constantly adjusting the amount of chakra you release." Kakashi was now standing over a deep section of the river, "See? Come, I'll teach you." Naruto made his way to the river's edge, awaiting further directions. "So, just like when climbing the wall, focus chakra to your feet. When you think you're ready, step on top of the water." Naruto did as directed and was surprised to find himself standing on top of the water. "Good, now, it gets a little more difficult as you move around, like I said you have to be constantly changing the amount of chakra you release. Walk out toward me, slowly, try to get a feel for what I mean." Naruto took a few tentative steps forward, the water's depth slowly changing beneath his feet. He could feel the change in depth at the bottoms of his feet, increasing chakra to try and match. He made it a few more steps before he lost focus and slipped into the water, immediately drenched. "I think I get it, I could feel what you meant, it just takes a lot of concentration." Kakashi nodded at him and replied, "It will get easier the more you do it. It will eventually come naturally to you, like breathing. Try again." After a few more attempts Naruto managed to walk his way out to where Kakashi was standing on the water. Naruto was beaming brightly, proud of himself. Kakashi surprised him, licking at his mouth. Naruto gasped, losing focus and sunk into the river. Kakashi was laughing heartily, "Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Try it a couple more times. You are getting the hang of it really quickly Naruto, I'm impressed." Naruto grumbled, playfully splashing water at Kakashi. Another couple tries and Naruto had pretty much mastered water walking. "Why didn't you teach me this before teaching me how to swim, Kashi? It would have made the whole floating thing a lot easier." Kakashi laughed, "Well, you see, your chakra supply isn't unlimited and you really shouldn't use chakra needlessly. Plus, you needed to learn how to swim and I got to get handsy with you." Naruto blushed, "Dirty old man." Kakashi pulled him in for a quick kiss, "Alright, how about we move onto ninjutsu?"
Feet firmly planted back on solid ground, Kakashi asked, "Are there any ninjutsus that you already know how to do Naruto?" The blonde was thoughtful for a moment, "Hmm… not really, nothing useful anyways." Kakashi looked at him inquisitively, "What do you know?" "Well, the only one I am pretty good at is shadow clone jutsu." Kakashi's eyes went wide, "Really…how many clones can you make?" Naruto replied, "I'm not sure, I've never really tried to make any more than ten at a time, I'm sure I could make way more than that though." Kakashi was stunned, "Really?... Alright, I want you to make as many as you can. Don't over do it though, I don't want you to deplete your chakra, you've already probably used up quite a lot of your reserves with the water practice earlier." Naruto nodded and closed his eyes to focus, he made quick hand signs, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu". Kakashi watched as well over one hundred clones of Naruto popped up all around the gully. "Well, holy shit… how do you feel, Naruto?" "I feel fine, I probably could have made double this much but there wasn't enough room." Kakashi laughed loudly, "Well, I guess this makes sense considering you're an Uzumaki." Naruto looked at him confused, so Kakashi continued, "The Uzumaki clan are known for their large chakra reserves and incredibly strong life forces. That's why your mother was chosen to be the jinchuuriki for the nine-tails. I don't think you quite grasp how incredible it is that you are able to produce this many clones, Naruto. Clones are made by dividing up your chakra and splitting it evenly between them. I can only produce about 20 clones at a time. And this jutsu is very useful contrary to what you may believe. Your ability to produce clones in general is useful. This jutsu is usually used for reconoscence missions, since you can use a clone in place of yourself to spy and gather information with no danger to yourself. Your clones could also be used to even numbers in an uneven fighting situation or as a distraction to aid in your escape from danger." Naruto was shocked, "I… I had no idea… so I have a large chakra reserve. I guess I never really thought of the potential other uses for the clones. I learned this jutsu when I was really young. It's embarrassing when I think back on it now but I would make clones so I would have someone to keep me company." The ever present guilt in Kakashi's gut twisted painfully. He gave his blonde love a quick hug, "I am curious at your overall potential when it comes to your chakra reserves, we will have to test you further when you are at full capacity. Now, do you happen to know what nature element your chakra is?" Naruto nodded, "They had us do the paper thing when we were at the academy. I am a wind nature." Kakashi was once again stunned, "Wind… really? Wow, how interesting. Wind nature is the rarest of all the natures." Naruto nodded once again, "When my professor found out I had wind nature they kind of shrugged me off, telling me there were very few wind users and that there was no one who would be able to teach me anything to do with my nature." A hint of anger washed over Kakashi, there was a very good wind natured Shinobi in the Leaf village, Asuma Sarutobi, the Third and present Hokage's son. Asuma was a good man and Kakashi was sure that he would have given Naruto guidance if he had been aware that Naruto had wind nature. Naruto's teacher, like most of the rest of the village, only acted out of misplaced hatred, refusing to help the young man develop. Trying to shake off the anger Kakashi replied, "Well, luckily for you I can use wind nature, I can use all nature elements actually, so I am more than capable of helping you." Naruto was staring at him, mouth agape, "You can use all the natures? That's incredible!" Kakashi just shrugged at him, "Another benefit of this Sharingan. Now do you know what the benefits of wind nature are and what elements it is strong and weak against?" Naruto shook his head. "Well, wind nature is, as I said, the rarest of the natures. It is great for defense, as you can push back your enemies and projectiles. You can channel your wind chakra into a blade and make it stronger, sharper and give it extra reach. If you master your wind element you can cut through practically everything. Wind nature is strong against lightning nature and weak against fire nature. My natural elemental affinities, before the Sharingan, are lightning and earth. So you would be able to counter my lightning style with ease." Naruto was nodding vigorously, taking in all the information Kakashi was providing him. It was starting to get late into the day so Kakashi decided they should probably wrap it up for the day. "Alright, tomorrow we will start helping you figure out how to use your nature element. Let's head back to camp and have dinner."
They ate contently, Naruto asking him tons of questions when it came to his elemental natures, Kakashi happy to answer every one of them. Kakashi cleaned up their dishes then asked Naruto a touch sheepishly, "You think you can help me with something? You see, I kind of need a bath but…" Kakashi raised his hands, "I shouldn't really get my hands wet." Naruto tried to hide his smirk, nodding, "Of course, go strip down, I'll grab the soap and meet you in the river." When Naruto met Kakashi at the river, the silver haired Shinobi had lowered himself into the water, his back pressed up against a rock, with his arms flung up on top of his head to keep them out of the water. Even with his eyes closed, Kakashi apparently heard Naruto approaching, "You go ahead and wash yourself first, I am more than happy to soak here for a minute." Naruto did as he was told, quickly soaping himself. He removed his boxers and tossed them nearby with a playful smirk on his face. "All done, your turn, I'll do your back first, turn around." Kakashi opened his eyes and gave the blonde a warm smile, "Thank you Naruto, I appreciate you doing this for me." Naruto carefully soaped Kakashi's back, cringing at all his painful looking scars. Kakashi must have sensed his hesitation, "It's okay love, they are old wounds, they don't hurt." Naruto finished soaping his back and started moving his hands down, under his boxers to his butt, giving it a thorough wash and a playful squeeze. "Okay, backs all done, you can turn back around." Kakashi spun back around to face Naruto, arms still draped over his head. Naruto started diligently washing his chest, mindful of the bandaged wound. He moved his hands lower to Kakashi's abdomen, fingers gliding over his stretched taut muscles. Feeling a bit cheeky, Naruto slid Kakashi boxers off, earning a raised brow from the older man. "Hard to wash around…" Naruto blushed lightly. Naruto bit gently into his lip and resumed washing Kakashi, his hands traveling lower over his abdomen, finally reaching his groin. He gently fondled and soaped Kakashi's balls for longer than probably necessary, slowly bringing his hand up to soap his shaft. Naruto felt the length twitch hard in his hand, he carefully eyed Kakashi's face, the older man had his eyes closed with a small smile on his face. Naruto removed his hand from Kakashi's groin, pulling at each thigh one at a time and washing down his legs to his feet. Job done, Naruto tossed the soap to the beach before gently pushing Kakashi back against the rock he was previously leaning on. His gray eye was now open, watching Naruto's every move. "Is… is it okay if I…" Naruto moved in closer to Kakashi, grabbing gently at his length. Kakashi's eye closed, humming and nodding his head in approval. Naruto slowly started pumping the hardening length, watching Kakashi's eyelashes softly flutter. He brought his mouth down to Kakashi's chest, stuck out his tongue and licked gently at his nipple. He captured it between his teeth and gave it a slight tug, peeking up at Kakashi. The Shinobi now had both his eyes open, lip sucked into his mouth. Naruto smirked and gave Kakashi nipple another lick before moving back up to lick hungrily at his lips. Kakashi dropped his hands behind Naruto's head, crushing their mouths together. Kakashi ground his hips forward, rubbing their lengths together hard. Naruto moaned loudly into his mouth, pulling back slightly to catch Kakashi's lip in his teeth. Kakashi growled at him, thrusting his hip forward again. Naruto whined, clutching Kakashi's hair in his hand and giving it a light pull. Kakashi had apparently had enough as they were quickly teleported into their tent. "Oh, Kakashi… we're getting the bedding all wet." "It will dry." Kakashi grunted out, eyes blazing with arousal. They had arrived in the tent with Kakashi flat on his back and Naruto wedged between his legs on top of him. Naruto pushed up onto his knees and gave Kakashi an evil smirk, lowering his head down and sucking Kakashi's length into his mouth. "Oh, fuck, Naruto." Kakashi's head fell back, hands finding their way to the back of the blonde's head. Naruto was sucking and bobbing up and down, trying to mimic what he had felt Kakashi do to him before. He snuck a peak up at Kakashi, the Shinobi was peering back down at him with both eyes. Kakashi gripped his hair firmly. "Stop." Naruto stopped immediately, pulling his mouth from Kakashi, "I'm sorry, did I do something wrong… tell me how to…" Kakashi shook his head and continued, "I want you to sit on my chest, facing away from me." Naruto's face flushed slightly, but he did as he was told. Now sitting carefully on top of Kakashi's chest, he looked back at him over his shoulder, awaiting more directions. Kakashi smirked at him and wriggled his hips, "Suck". Naruto's cheeks burned crimson as he realized he would have to be bent over with his ass in Kakashi's face to do as directed. Kakashi wriggled his hips once more, raising an eyebrow at Naruto. Naruto faced forward and slowly bent forward to bring Kakashi's length to his mouth. He could hear Kakashi groaning behind him.
Kakashi almost tipped over the edge as his blonde lover bent forward in front of him. He groaned loudly at the sight, bringing his hands up grabbing harshly at Naruto's thighs. Naruto had his length back in his mouth, sucking deeply. Kakashi's hands trailed up to grope the plump tanned orbs in front of his face, giving them both a harsh squeeze. Naruto moaned lightly with his length in his mouth, the vibration making Kakashi's dick pulse, eliciting another moan from the younger man. Kakashi spread the plump cheeks apart, gazing at the soft pink pucker of Naruto's entrance. He could feel Naruto stiffen slightly, probably feeling a bit exposed. Kakashi brushed his thumb along the entrance, causing Naruto to shiver and groan lightly. Kakashi smirked and lifted his head up, sticking out his tongue, licking hard across Naruto's entrance. Naruto's back arched wildly, mouth ripped from Kakashi's length with a gasp. Kakashi tongued him again, softer this time, flicking his tongue back and forth quickly. Naruto's body was quivering at the contact. Kakashis wriggled his hips, Naruto immediately latching back onto him. Kakashi groaned as his lover's hot mouth found its way back around his length. Kakashi dragged one last long lick across Naruto's entrance, blowing softly at the slick of saliva he left behind. Kakashi quickly took his index and middle fingers into his mouth, wetting them heavily with his saliva. Naruto was working magic with his tongue, making it difficult for Kakashi to focus. With one hand still firmly planted on Naruto's ass cheek, spreading him open, Kakashi brushed his saliva-covered fingers across the pink pucker. Naruto sucked Kakashis further into his mouth with a guttural moan at the contact. Kakashi plunged his fingers deep into Naruto, dick throbbing at the feeling of the tightness and heat. Naruto removed his mouth from Kakashi, biting firmly on his thigh with a loud moan. Kakashi quickly began thrusting in and out, scissoring his fingers and groaning at the lewd sight in front of him. Naruto was panting loudly, body vibrating with pleasure. Kakashi wriggled his hips again to snap Naruto out of his daze. The blonde latched onto him harshly, feasting on him. Gone were the gentle sucks and tentative licks. Naruto had let his burning arousal take over, he was dragging his teeth along Kakashi's length, humming and sucking hard. "Kami, Naruto, I'm so close. So good…. Fuck… yes… just like that my little fox." Kakashi couldn't help but start thrusting himself into Naruto's mouth, the blonde swallowing him back with ease, throat wide and willing. Kakashi could feel himself slipping over the edge, he kept thrusting his fingers into Naruto as he came heavily into his mouth. When he finally felt Naruto release him and swallow, he curled his fingers and assaulted the bundle of nerves inside the blonde with every inward thrust. Naruto was gripping onto Kakashi's thighs desperately, pushing himself back into the thrusting fingers. His vision blurred, white sparkes flashing before his eyes as he tipped over the edge screaming Kakashi's name.
Naruto felt all the strength leave his body, he slumped forward and passed out.
Kakashi was panting heavily as he withdrew his fingers from Naruto. He carefully rolled the blonde off of him, turning himself around so he was laying alongside him, face to face. Naruto's eyes were closed, breathing heavily in sleep. Kakashi pulled their blankets up over them, hugging Naruto close to him and breathing in his scent. Naruto was quick to wake up, smiling weaky at Kakashi. "Well… that was… something." Naruto whispered. Kakashi laughed and hugged Naruto tighter, "Hey, you started it." Naruto blushed and buried his head into Kakashi's chest. "We should at least go hang up the bedroll to dry before we go to bed." Kakashi murmured into Naruto's hair. Naruto shook his head, already starting to fall asleep again, "It's not that wet, you will just have to cuddle me all night to keep me warm." Kakashi smiled, once again breathing in the scent of Naruto, "Deal." It wasn't long before they were both asleep.