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Ok listen up people! This story contains YOAI meaning BOYXBOY, it also means that if you are a homophobe, please keep your comments to yourself. Don't complain. I did warn you (in the earlier chapters as well). For the rest of you who love and live for the KakaxIru paring (I do!) please enjoy! (A/N: I decided to rewrite this chapter since I felt that I messed up with the last one. I think that I made the ending happier than last time.)

" He's WHAT ?!" Iruka yelled at Shizune.

"Iruka, this is a hospital, don't yell!" Sakura said as she walked through the door that led into the room where Kakashi was staying.

"All I'm saying is that he was hit and whoever hit him, put poison on their weapons. At the moment we don't know what the poison is, but we do know that he might die in the next 24 hrs." Shizune said. Now she was starting to get even more nervous than she was before. The angry chunnin was developing a throbbing vain on his forehead, which was getting bigger by the second.

"Actually, make that in about 15 minutes" a grim voice announced. They whirled around and saw a certain blond hokage stepping outside the door way.

"The poison apparently works the fastest when the person has given up the will to live." Tsunade said grimly. "Iruka, he may not last.. go see him."

Iruka stood there shocked, not wanting to believe the words that she told him. Then he nodded his head and went in.

"Kakashi?" He poked his head in the door and saw the scarecrow lying on the bed looking very lifeless. His eyes were glazed over in a sickly way.

Kakashi turned and gazed, not believing his eyes. He

"Ruka? Why are you here?"

"Idiot, I care for you." Iruka said softly. Kakashi bowed his head down and whispered "You get your wish"

"Kashi, look I… I was being… irrational, I completely did not mean any of it!" Iruka said in a burst of energy. Kakashi turned and gazed at him.

"You sounded like you meant it." He said quietly .

"Look Kakashi, I love you. I fucking LOVE you! I would not want you dead, ever!" Iruka said trying desperately to make his scarecrow understand. He ran over to Kakashi's bedside and started to sob.

He hugged Kakashi's neck. "Please, believe me when I say that I love you!"

"Ruka-koi, I do believe you and I still love you too." At those words Iruka looked up at his lover, he was about to speak when Kakashi continued. " Now I can die in peace". With these last words Kakashi closed his eyes. The monitor went from beeping steadily to a continuous whine. Iruka stood still, shocked for a moment then..

"No No, oh no, not my Kashi! Not my Kashi!" He started to have a slight seizure and he began to claw frantically at Kakashi's chest. Tsunade burst into the room with two medics and Sakura. Iruka felt something sting at his neck and the world went black.

He woke up and saw that he was lying in a hospital bed. He saw Kakashi standing over him.

"Ruka-Koi are you ok?"

Iruka looked puzzled as to why Kakashi was there. Tsunade came into the room and explained

" We gave you a tranquilizer in order to move you.. though I must say that we didn't expect you to fall to the floor when we gave it to you. It was a very mild one." Kakakshi snickered at this but stopped immediately when Iruka shot him a glare.

" Ahh.. gomen, 'Ruka-koi. Oh look, I brought sake!" Kakashi said proudly as he pulled a bottle of sake from his uniform.

" Yeah, but he drank like 6 bottles of the 12 he bought during the mission" a voice came from the doorway. Anko ducked under the doorway walked over to where they were." (A/N: yeah I know, if you're in ANBU you don't share mission details, but let's pretend that Iruka is allowed to know).

" Oi! Peanut gallery, Shut it! Iruka-koi she's lying, don't listen to her." Kakashi said giving Iruka his most innocent face. Which of course Iruka could see through in the time it takes a starving Naruto to eat ramen.

" KAKASHI YOU WERE DRINKING DURING A MISSION?!" Iruka looked at Kakashi in a mixture of disbelief and frustration.

"Maa.. I only had a slight hangover"

" Slight, my ass. Oh yeah, the hangover could not possibly bethe reason you were in the hospital" Iruka retorted.

" Oi, Iruka at least he brought sake." Tsunade added as she swiped the sake from Kakashi.

" Hey that's my sake" Kakashi whined.

"No its mine, you bought it for me remember?" Iruka, remined Kakashi poking his forehead.

"People who are in the hospital shouldn't drink."

"Who was the one who got me into the hospital?"

" Technically it was the medics"

"Kakashi..."

" Hey guys, if you can't agree, then it's my sake." Tsunade said. Kakashi and Iruka looked at each other then..

"IT'S OUR SAKE!"

Tsunade grinned and handed the bottle over.

"Fine, Iruka I indirectly put you in the hospital. Happy?" Kakashi finally relented. Iruka wasn't fully happy with this semi-acknowledgement of defeat, but he knew that he himself was part of the blame.

"Kakashi?"

"yes ruka?"

" I,..well when you left, I remembered what I did to you, and I was wondering-well do you still liked me enough to marry me?.." Iruka looked down and fidgeted with his fingers.

"nope" Kakashi said. Iruka looked up shell-shocked. He started to stutter words along the lines of I understand, when Kakashi interrupted.

"Ruka, I don't just like you- I love you. Like you enough for me to marry you?? What kind of question is that? If I only just liked you- I wouldn't have asked to marry you. Because for me, just liking someone and going through marriage with that person.. Well let's just say I wouldn't be able to keep up with that relationship." Kakashi leaned over and kissed Iruka. "Aishiteru, Umino Iruka." He whispered into Iruka's ear, gently nibbling at the lobe.

Iruka, broke into a smile of relief. Tsunade, stole the sake, downed it, then returned it to the original place before either of the two realized it was gone. Anko choose this moment to pop the question.

"Hey Kakashi, when you are finished with the game of-" She put up air quotes. " molest the chunnin," "I would like to know when & where this wedding's going to be."

Kakashi stopped, gave anko a 2 second death glare, grunted and went back to his game of "molest the chunnin". Iruka wrestle himself out of his lovers grasp, and gave Anko her answer.

"Well..we haven't really been planning so- nyeeek!, Kakashi!" *whack*

"owww"

"anyhoo, like I was saying, we have no plans, we are very much open to ideas if you have any."

And so thus begins the long stressful wedding plans but that is a chapter for another time.

Ok so yes I have been slacking.. gomen asai 100x times. *bows*. so was it good, bad, horrible, so horrible it makes you wanna gouge out your eyes? Anyhoo.. please leave a review.. I would very much appreciate one .