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An Entanglement of Odds
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Pairing: Kakashi x Iruka
(Hints of Lee x Sakura, Naruto x Sasuke, Hinata x Kiba, Ino x Shikamaru, Neji x Ten-ten)
Warning: Shounen ai
Summary: They were just two people who happened to be at the same place at the same time. They were simply two strangers who fell in love with each other, although neither would ever admit it. Then one day, fate tore them apart… IruKaka
Inspired by: a really sappy soap opera my parents watch and the plot bunny (it bit me really hard this time)
Please forgive my bad usages of Japanese terms; I don't speak the language so I have almost no idea how to use them.
Disclaimer: Naruto and anything related does not belong to me. Don't sue.
"talking" 'thinking'
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Prince Charming
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"Tell me where he is!" Kakashi's one eye flashed angrily. He threw the captured goon in front of him into the wall again….then once more for good measure, or was it because he was just so mad?
Smash. Smash. Smash.
The thug's head hung limply now, and Kakashi cursed out loud. He should've gotten the information out of the goon first, then put him in a coma. He tossed the other man on the floor, carelessly and continued on his search for Iruka.
He couldn't think straight. He had to find Iruka. Who knows what they could be doing to him right this moment, while he was busy running into dead-ends? The silver-haired man scowled. He was losing control, and if he didn't find Iruka fast…. gods knows what he's going to do.
"Kakashi-san! My eternal rival!" Gai's overly-loud voice came from behind him. "Have you found Umino-san yet?"
Kakashi jerked his head, no.
"Hmm, it seems that our friend is being kept well under guard! Do not look so down, Kakashi-san, let your everflowing youth shine out and we will find Umino-san! Do not worry!" Gai shouted, punching his fist into the air.
Kakashi tuned out the rest of Gai's speech, and wondered how he knew Iruka had been kidnapped. He just showed up out of nowhere, and had started to shout that they must find Umino-san. Things were happing too fast, and so Kakashi put this out of his mind. He had to concentrate on finding Iruka.
"I believe I overheard someone saying how they saw a pair of suspicious-looking people going into an abandoned building, near the edge of the festival. It's worth looking at, am I right, my eternal rival?"
Kakashi's head jerked up, 'Why didn't you say that earlier, Gai!?'
"Kakashi-san?" But the silver-haired man had already disappeared. "How very cool of you, to run off to rescue Umino-san even before I have finished talking!" Gai shouted after Kakashi's retreating form, and raced after him.
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Joseph threw open the door leading to the cellar stepped into the damp atmosphere. "Gore! Bring the prisoner out here, now!"
Gore stared at the other man, surprised from his position guarding the cell door. He was sitting on the only way into, and out of, the secret containment chamber.
Joseph stepped closer, and briskly slapped the fire-haired man across the face. "Don't make me repeat myself again! Bring him out, we have to leave."
Gore scrambled to his feet, and heaved open the heavy trapdoor. He jumped into the cold cell and hulled the wide-eyed brown-haired prisoner to his feet. He threw the other man through the door first, and then pulled himself up using his arms afterwards.
"Apparently, his silver-haired friend has come to save him," Iruka stared at the beautiful blonde man, whose voice was dripping in sarcasm. Could he mean, Kakashi-san?
"We have to leave, now. He's becoming a bother, so I'm going to have to get rid of him." Iruka felt frozen, 'get rid of him?'
Iruka watched still in terror as the he kicked the orange-haired man fiercely. "Get up, Gore. I said we had to go, now."
Gore struggled to his feet, seemingly injured by the other man's actions. The blonde man then left the room, but not before tossing a strange looking thing into the cell, and tightly closing the door. Iruka felt sick to his stomach as he heard the cock of a gun. Gore dragged him up the stairs, into an unfamiliar building, and down a hallway into another room. Iruka was too shocked to make a sound.
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The two sat in silence. Iruka stared at the big man called Gore, and his guard stared back. He ropes has been removed. Iruka rubbed at the spot where the rope had dug into his wrist, and avert his eyes to look at another spot in the room. It surprised him when Gore started to talk.
First, "the silver-haired guy, he cares about you a lot…"
No response.
"…I could tell. He would've had to fight through a lot of men to get to the point that Joseph would be worried about him succeeding in rescuing you."
Another silence as Iruka's eyes shot back to Gore's. A silent question hung between them.
"Joseph isn't as bad as you think." Gore's voice came in light and his coal coloured eyes, such a stunning sight combined with his fiery red hair, gazed at Iruka. "He's saved my life before…and I owe him."
Iruka stared warily at Gore as the other man answered his unasked question. He felt tired enough without having to try to understand Joseph's motives. "But he treats you like…" The brown-haired man trailed off, not knowing what exactly to say.
Gore smiled, and his eyes seemed to dance as he did so. "I'm sure you understand," he said quietly, "it's the same with you and your silver-haired friend. He acts indifferent and hides himself from you, but you still have feelings for him." Gore must have been talking about Joseph, the beautiful blonde, green-eyed man Iruka had seen before. But he understood perfectly. Iruka nodded slowly.
"I bet you love him."
"Wh-what?" Iruka stuttered, and tried to deny what Gore had said. The redhead simply laughed lightly. Iruka smiled. He would have never suspected Gore to have been this sensitive and intelligent. His smile faltered. It seems like he had judged too early, and it gave him a horrible feeling that he had labeled Gore's personality by what was apparent on the outside.
"I guess you can say the same for me. I love him…Joseph-sama" It was Gore's soft whisper that had caught Iruka's attention before what had happened next.
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Kakashi burst through the door of the celler. The smell of moss and dirt greeted him and his eyes searched the darkness for Iruka. 'Damn, they took him somewhere….I've got to find him.'
"Kakashi!" Gai's loud voice called down to him, "Have you found Umino-san yet?"
Kakashi ignored Gai's question and crouched down. He ran a finger along the ground. 'not used too often, I see.' There, near on corner of the room, was a dark shape. Kakashi moved in to investigate. He sensed his mistake too late however, because what he had mistaken for the shape of a person was actually a large cobra. 'Dammit no, that's a huge snake.' Kakashi thought as he edged away.
It hissed at him through the darkness, and he felt slanted eyes locking onto his. The cobra uncoiled lazily and slid toward him. It opened its mouth and Kakashi could see its fanged teeth. It lunged at him.
"Kakashi! Have you discovered anything?" Gai's overly loud voice shouted from above.
Kakashi glanced back for a second, and the snake's fanged closed on the air in front of his nose. His hand connected with the snake's body, and power surged through the air. The snake was blow backwards by his chakra, and it smashed into the wall with a deafening sound.
Kakashi heard Gai jump in the room and run towards him. For once, the other man was quiet….for a moment at least. Then Gai burst into a speech about the dangerousness of large snakes; especially poisonous ones, and how he was never going to save Umino-san and make him fell in love with him if he went and died of some snake poison.
Kakashi coughed (and choked) on the mention of him and Iruka. He felt a blush coming on. But he sighed, and decided that these confusing mattered would have to wait to be sorted out later.
The silver-haired man reached into a pocket on the leg of his baggy pants and took out a scroll. In a flash, he had taken out a kunai, slashed his thumb and had run his bleeding finger along the text on the scroll. In a matter of seconds, two dozen dogs appeared in puffs of smoke. A grumpy-looking brown dog appeared next to Kakashi. It huffed at him and said, "Still can't find Iruka-san I see. About time you asked for help."
Kakashi gave Pakkun a hard look and the small dog gave a sharp yelp. "Not in the mood to talk huh?"
"I need you to help me find Iruka-san."
Pakkun rolled his eyes, "what? So it's Iruka-san now instead of Umino-san?"
"Pakkun," Kakashi said with a warning note in his voice.
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Just then, the door flew open and Joseph with the hunger of a wild predator in his eyes, lunged in. He stared at Gore, and paused for a fraction of a second. Then he was running at Iruka with a sleek gun clutched in his hand.
"Go!" Gore roared as Joseph raised the gun, and pushed Iruka aside.
As he hit the wall, Iruka heard a gunshot ring out and a nauseous feeling washed over him. He heard a loud cry and knew instantly that Joseph had pulled the trigger on the gun. He felt a strong hand close around his arm and he was almost thrown towards the door.
"Go!" Gore cried again, but this time his voice was laced with pain. Iruka's survival instants kicked in and he ran, forgetting in his hurry to look back. His thoughts were set on one thing: find Kakashi-san.
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As the prisoner fled the room, Joseph whirled around to face Gore. His green eyes flashed with anger, and he glared menacingly at the redhead.
Gore didn't even blink, but instead gazed back with understanding eyes. He held his bleeding arm in his hand.
Joseph raised the gun and shot again; this time in frustration. Gore didn't try to move, and the bullet rushed towards him. It flew past his head, barely missing by a few centimeters and shot through the wall. The sound was still in the air as Joseph shot again, and again, and again. Not a single shot hit Gore.
"Why did you let him go?" Joseph whispered, the question sounding it was more for himself rather than the redhead.
"You know you can't keep doing this Joseph-sama. Let's stop and go somewhere else to start anew." Gore tried to reason with his master, but was silenced by a cold look.
"Don't tell me what to do, Gore." Joseph's voice was hard and distant. He threw the gun against the floor as he ran out of the room after the escaped prisoner. He glanced back and saw Gore watching him.
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I apologize about the pairing of my OCs. I don't usually write OCs in my stories, but since I don't quite know Orochimaru's character that well, I decided it was best to not include him in the story. After the climax has passed, however, I wont be using any more OCs, just to tell you.
I'm thinking about revising chapter 4, when the OCs come in. I'll add the revised chapters at the end, so if you want to read a story free of OCs, then just skip to the revised chapters 4,5,6…and then go onto 7. If you don't mind OCs, then just ignore this whole paragraph.
This chapter had been meant to be a lot longer, but I kept adding more ideas to the plot and so it had to be broken up into two parts. The ending does, however, make a nice little cliffhanger. (-evil smile-)
This story is going to be longer than I had originally planned. (heh, sorry) I had promised it would be at most six chapters long, but right now it is looking more like it will take 8 (or more o.0") chapters to finish. By the way, the plot is reaching the climax now, just to tell you.
As for Kakashi's fighting skills, they might seem a lot worse to some of you in my fanfic than in the actual anime series but there's a good reason for this. Because he does not live in a world where fighting is a must, I made it so he doesn't have superhuman speed or as sharp a mind in battle as his character has had in the anime. Don't get me wrong; he's still an excellent fighter, but just slightly worse in my story.
I hope you have enjoyed reading chapter five. I'll try to update and finish this story soon.
p.s. Sorry for not updating for so long.
Horologii