Author's Note: Remember, people who do not read stories on BOY'S LOVE, beware! After a long absence on the fanficcie scene, Story 8 is now up: Iruka visits Naruto in the hospital while Kakashi is supposed to watch over him. Supposed to, so why is he also visiting? More KakaxIru yumminess with some SasuxNaru angst? Read on and find out.

Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. Only this fanficcie is mine.

Story 8 CLOSET

Two bottles of milk and a dozen cups of instant ramen; OK. A bunch of colorful wild flowers for the patient's room, checked. My daily load of accomplishment reports from the assigned teams were already finished and the morning classes for wanna-be shinobis were over for the day.

After ensuring that all things are in order, Iruka-sensei can finally go and visit Naruto with a clear conscience. He would have stayed in the hospital to watch over Naruto if not for his classes and his office work, which Tsunade-sama had insisted that he take care of first. That, and her reminder that he is 'mothering the boy to death'.

What the hell does she mean with that 'mothering' thing? He doesn't fuss over Naruto all the time. It's true that he tried to feed Naruto his lunch, but that was because he saw that the boy was still exhausted by his ordeal from Itachi. And he have guided him to the toilet and back (since Naruto told him he's not a baby to be carried around) but that doesn't mean that he tries to mother him all the time.

He tried to hurry up as he remembered who was assigned by the Hokage to look after Naruto while he was recuperating in the hospital. He knows that Kakashi-sensei is an excellent jounin and is very reliable during battles but the thought of him taking care of a sick little boy doesn't quite convinced Iruka of it's effectiveness.

Yes, he have heard all about Kakashi-sensei from Naruto. Stories of making his team wait for hours just for his arrival, or prohibiting them to eat breakfast in order to train them so hard to earn their lunch. Plus, he had already seen that book that the jounin always read, even though he would get the blushes every time he recalled the contents of that perverted book.

All in all, thinking of Naruto under the care of such a man is likely to give Iruka the heart attack, so off he goes to rescue his (secret) favorite student. And just as he was about to knock on Naruto's room, Kakasi comes strolling towards him, carrying a basket full of fruits. It was blatantly obvious to Iruka that the man was not inside the room as he was supposed to.

"Wha-what the hell are you doing out here?"

"Isn't it obvious, Iruka-sensei? I'm here to visit the patient."

"But you are supposed to take care of Naruto today!"

"Was I? But I had an urgent mission earlier so I asked Sakura to guard outside this room," pointing to an empty chair just outside the boy's room.

"Tell me that you haven't left him all alone?" Iruka said, his voice going a notch higher.

"Relax. I'm sure that there is a reasonable explanation for this, Iruka-sensei," the white-haired jounin assured him.

Quite alarmed, Iruka rushed to open the door to Naruto's room and was quite surprised at what he saw. He no more emitted a tiny gasp when Kakashi closed the door and dragged him into a closet. No sooner than they hid themselves that they heard the door open.

"We should go in there and protect Naruto," he furiously whispered to Kakashi, who was still holding onto him.

"Keep quiet. We just wait in here and see what happens. Now don't you worry because we can easily come to Naruto's rescue, if need be. And we can hear what's going on inside the room by using this," the jounin said as he shoved an earphone in Iruka's ear.

This doesn't feel right, Iruka thought as they waited inside the closet. We haven't done anything wrong, and what is this listening inside the room supposed to be? We should just go and charge in there and save my Naruto!

Although, Kakashi-sensei's voice is wrecking havoc on my nerves. No, no. I should concentrate on what's happening in Naruto's room. Concentrate on Kakashi-sensei's hand... massaging my butt? What the hell is he doing? Damn! I can't concentrate!

"What do you think..." Iruka's angry whisper was cut-off when Kakashi-sensei's lips hushed him with a kiss.

Stop it! Listen... Naruto's room... Kakashi's roaming hand... Ahh, I give up.

Inside the room, a dark-haired boy continued to look on a sleeping Naruto. As he heard some voices coming closer from a few doors down, he decided that it was time to go. Soft lips caressedNaruto's lips while a headgear with a slashed leaf emblem was left on the sleeping boy's lap.

"Until we meet again, Naruto," Sasuke whispered as he quietly went out into the darkness of the night.

Rants and Raves: I've once read a Naruto doujinshi that has some transparent seeing goggles (which was worn by Kakashi-sensei, the perv), kinda like the one I have envisioned in my story number 5. It felt kinda freaky reading that one... that doujinka and I must have the same pervert thoughts, he he he.

After a long bout of thought-lessness and hibernation... I would like to thank the following who gave their reviews on the last chapter (yeah, circa 2004): Night-Owl123, Ookami Kage, Momochi Zabuza, Kutsu, IceHeart19 and Kyuubi-chan. I really appreciate all of you in taking the time to give out your reviews! Feel free to give out your comments, suggestions and violent (?) reactions to me. See you in the next story... errr, i hope!