The Reason Why Mizuki...
...Can't Get Out of Jail.
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Mizuki didn't understand what made Iruka bring the demon child home. But he allowed it after getting all the answers why out, even if he still didn't like it. Blue eyes stared at him with mistrust and anger whenever he tried to do something nice to the child, like ruffle his hair or give her ramen.
He tried being nice - he really did. He didn't give her too horrible of grades when it came time for tests and homework, ignored him when he was being too rowdy... All in all he did what he could to be genuinely nice.
And yet, Iruka had stopped sleeping with him. At first, Mizuki never saw it as a problem as they did it less and less at night. Iruka would back down from a kiss, or he 'wasn't in the mood'. It happened more and more, until Mizuki's temper and need for Iruka pushed him to the breaking point.
He'd made sure Naruto's key to their apartment was too high to reach outside their door, and made sure she got late detention. Naruto never came over with late detention, as Naruto seemed to have a set curfew that she followed without delay.
He set up a romantic dinner with Iruka, who was distracted and thinking of lesson plans all through it. And when Mizuki gently steered Iruka into the room, taking his shirt off, Iruka smiled at him.
"Mizuki, not tonight."
Mizuki smiled at him patiently.
"Iruka, I need this. Ever since that kid's been coming over, you haven't really 'been in the mood'."
"I'm not sleeping with you," Iruka snapped, startling Mizuki, who glared at Iruka with sudden hostility before ripping Iruka's shirt off. "Mizuki! Stop!"
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Yugao usually steered Naruto home with a gentle tap that her chuunin instructors couldn't see when they were on guard. But this time Naruto batted her tap away and seemed quite distracted for some reason.
Then, as Naruto was walking home, Naruto stopped dead. The Kyuubi's chakra flared, and Naruto growled.
Yugao flinched, pausing for a moment - did something happen in school today?
The eight-year old turned in the direction of her sensei and poofed into her male self, mouth set, eyes a violet. He looked quite grim for a child, and he started to run. Fast. He was molding chakra as he went, using it to amplify his running.
Yugao followed him, concern in her face.
Naruto jumped up for the almost hidden key hanging by the door, getting it on one silent jump.
Then he unlocked the door.
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"Mizuki, please, stop!"
Mizuki shoved Iruka onto the bed and climbed on top of them. He grinned at Iruka darkly.
"This is the last time I take defiance from you, Iruka-kun."
Iruka's eyes shifted to the door, his eyes flicking back to it every few seconds.
"Nobody's coming, Iruka. I put little Naruto in detention, so sadly she'll be heading home. Nobody is coming here to save you."
Iruka smiled. "You forgot about him."
Mizuki frowned and turned slowly.
Demonic red eyes stared at him.
"Get the hell away from him," Uzumaki Naruto snarled, glaring at him. Mizuki slowly stood up, nude. Naruto kept staring into his eyes, and when he'd moved away from Iruka far enough, Naruto made his move.
Too fast for his eyes to track, Naruto stood before him, red eyes burning into his. Raising a single finger, Naruto burned something into his skin.
Mizuki yelled in surprise and fear, and Iruka gasped in shock. Naruto had burned a heart shape with a slash in it into his skin.
"So you remember what you've done," the demon child snarled at him. "Now get the hell out."
Mizuki scampered.
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Yugao sighed at Naruto staying in bed. She wasn't supposed to interfere, but she couldn't just watch the kid suffer.
She glanced around, spotting Inu sitting there in the tree, also watching Naruto.
Catching his eye, she moved over to him.
"I need to go do something. Think you can keep an eye on him?"
"You're not supposed to leave your post," Hatake said in a flat tone.
Yugao's left eyebrow twitched. "Everyone leaves this post. Usually to get her ramen. Now, wait."
She leaped off the branch. The Academy was at lunch, and if she was lucky...
She spotted the Academy instructor vacantly gazing out the window, and slipped in. He never moved.
She moved in front of him, waved her hand in front of his glassy eyes... Paused...
And slapped him.
The sensei jerked out of the funk he was in, staring at the cat-masked woman, who grabbed his ear.
"Do you hate Naruto?"
Iruka paused in his whining.
"No, why?"
"She's miserable and upset and thinks you hate her."
"You cheer her up."
"Not allowed to outside of training." Yugao paused. "Is this about what happened last night?"
Iruka froze. Yugao thought quickly.
"You know, I lost a sister in the Kyuubi attack." Yugao smiled in bitter remembrance. "The Kyuubi was angry, violent... And yet, my sister told me something before she went out to fight it. She said, 'There's always a reason someone does something, Yugao. Whether it be good or bad, all someone can do is accept the outcome'." Yugao closed her eyes. "And then she died; not by any unnatural causes, like the Kyuubi. She died of chakra exhaustion." A pause. "She's not the Kyuubi, and she's all torn up about what she did to your friend."
"Ex-boyfriend." Iruka sighed. "I have to finish class."
"Eh, I think your ex can handle the twerps. Let's go."
Yugao grabbed his hand, yanking him out the window as kids began to file in.
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The Sandaime gazed calmly at the Elders, but inside he was seething. There was no way he could fire Mizuki for misconduct, not when all the evidence was leveled against the Uzumaki. She hadn't been to see him in a while. Usually she'd skip history with Iruka and come beg some money off of him for Ramen.
"Very well, I won't fire Mizuki." An outward lightbulb sprang up. "But I can't get rid of the child, either." He hid his smirk behind his folded hands.
The elders pursed their lips. They didn't like Naruto, especially after the glitter prank last year.
The Sandaime decided to get up to visit Naruto.
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Iruka knocked on the door, a bag of Ichiraku's in his hand.
Five minutes after, the door opened. Naruto looked at him with bloodshot eyes rimmed with red, indicating that she'd been crying.
"I'm sorry."
Naruto stared at him, then opened the door widely.
At the sight of it, he wanted to hurl. Words were splashed over the wall.
Monster. Demon.
They were mostly wallpapered, but several areas were already peeling.
"Naruto, I am sorry."
Naruto glanced at him. She grunted before moving to her room.
Iruka sighed and followed her as she hid under the covers in her bed.
Iruka sighed again and pinched his nose.
"Just let me sleep," she said in a muffled voice.
"Naruto, I'm not mad. Get out from under your covers." He paused. "Or no ramen for a week. I was going to reward you for what you did to Mizuki... But I guess Ichiraku's isn't important."
Naruto sniffled. Iruka knelt down at her bedside, gently pulling back the covers.
She looked away from him.
"Seriously. I broke up with Mizuki this morning." He ruffled her hair. "Now, get up and shower. You reek."
Naruto smiled a tiny bit.
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The Sandaime smoked his pipe on a tree branch, smiling to himself. He turned and saw Kakashi staring at Iruka with curiosity.
"The teacher would make a good match for you." The Sandaime cackled in his head at the red hue Kakashi was sporting around his single visible eye.
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Mizuki hated waiting.
But he couldn't implicate himself in anything other than good things. For that reason, he volunteered to help Iruka; he still had some hope that Iruka would come to his senses and come back to him.
That shattered when he saw Iruka being kissed senseless by another man.
Mizuki clenched his fist.
He waited after school, and Iruka smiled at him.
"Hello, Mizuki." Iruka's voice was cool.
"Iruka, why won't you come back to -" Mizuki felt a chill go down his spine. He turned to see Naruto standing there with a pleasant smile on his face.
"Iruka-sensei, Baka is waiting for us," he said, his eyes never leaving Mizuki's.
Mizuki swallowed.
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And after he'd broken out of prison to do what Orochimaru had told him, he crushed his pathetic ex-girlfriend's heart, and he heard that Iruka, the new Hokage's aide, and Naruto were all following him, he knocked her out, then knocked the stupid kid out with a small drug.
Iruka's face was priceless when Mizuki revealed himself.
"Hey, Iruka-koi," Mizuki grinned. "How about we finish what we started?"
He took out a kunai.
Iruka, instead of looking panicked, instead took out a kunai himself.
"You know, I knew you couldn't resist."
Mizuki froze. "What?"
"You're an idiot, Mizuki."
The demon brat's genin squad appeared, looking angry. Sasuke made Mizuki swallow as he charged up a jutsu that Kakashi had taught him.
"Allow me," Naruto's pissed voice said.
Mizuki dropped the kunai.
"Go ahead, Naruto. Just don't kill him," Hatake Kakashi said in a conversational way.
"This'll permanently disfigure him, that's for sure," Naruto said, a nasty smile appearing on her face as the Yondaime's jutsu swirled in her hand.
She slammed it in his gut. "Rasengan!"
Mizuki regretted it all as he stared at the sky. Tsunade appeared, having gotten rid of his cohorts, and the demon brat finally asked the question he was dreading.
"So, where's he going?"
"He's going to Hozuki-jo, the prison where most treasonous people go. He won't last a day there."
"Good." Naruto turned away.
And that is why Mizuki was never getting out of jail.
(Sadly, he did last a lot longer than Tsunade anticipated, but that's a totally different story.)