Yes, I know people were upset by the evil Sasuke thing. I'm sorry, it was necessary for plot development! Oh yeah, and kawaii means cute for people who got confused! BTW, there will be cell phones and computers in this world. Now that I'm done apologizing for my mistakes, here's Sasuke for disclaimer!

Sasuke: Tina-chan does not own Naruto because she keeps making stupid mistakes. (glares at authoress)

Tina-chan: T.T

Naruto: It's okay! (hugs authoress)

Gaara and Sasuke: (glare)

Kurenai was walking around feeling victorious about the newly formed Konoha Yaoi Fangirls club when she spied Kakashi walking with Iruka. Knowing that Kakashi would notice if she spied on them, she decided to approach them directly. This was going to be fun…

"Hatake-san! Iruka-kun! What are you two doing together? I didn't know you were friends!"

Kakashi turned to stare at her with boredom and Iruka turned red.

"Anou, hello Kurenai-san. What are you doing here?"

"Oh, I was just walking back from the film shop. Are you two on a date?"

Iruka turned even redder and stared at the ground, stuttering. Kakashi wondered what the hell Kurenai was getting at, and decided to find out.

"Why yes, we are. Is there something wrong with that Kurenai-san?"

Kurenai smiled at them. Iruka was still staring at the ground so he couldn't see it, but to Kakashi the smile was somewhat… scary. In a weird… fangirlish sort of way?

"Oh really? Well don't let me interrupt anything! Good luck Hatake-san!"

Kurenai winked at Kakashi, making the jounin think, WTF was that about?

Once out of Kakashi's sight range Kurenai whipped out her cell phone and called Temari.

"Temari-chan, Kakashi and Iruka are on a date right now!"

Temari immediately text messaged the information to the rest of the KYF club and ran off to see if she could spy on the two men. Meanwhile, Neji was confused… Very confused.

"Hinata-sama, I don't understand. Why do you have those… pictures with you?"

Hinata stared at him with a very out of character look of 'what, are you stupid?' Neji was starting to get very scared indeed…

"It's cute."

As if that explained everything, Hinata looked down to admire her precious GAANARU photos. Neji felt as if the apocalypse was upon him.

"You think that's… cute?"

Before Hinata could reply her cell phone went off. She read the text message immediately and looked disappointed. Neji distinctly heard her mutter, "Too bad it's not Gaara-kun and Naruto-kun…" Then Hinata got an idea.

"Neji-niisan?"

"Hai, Hinata-sama?"

"Can I borrow your digital camera?"

"Umm, sure. Why?"

Hinata smiled sweetly at him.

"I just need it."

Neji could feel evil yaoi fangirlness lurking behind the smile and quickly decided to hand his camera over unless he wanted to see a very scary side of his cousin come out…

Kakashi was feeling slightly paranoid after his and Iruka's run in with Kurenai. Iruka was still embarrassed, but Kakashi liked how his blush accentuated his scar.

"Anou, Kakashi?"

"Hai Iruka?"

"…Do you ever get the feeling that you're being watched?"

"…"

Kakashi activated his sharingan eye and looked around. Unluckily for Kakashi, the Sasuke fangirls had invented fangirl disguises that could even fool the sharingan. Sakura, being a member of the Sasuke fangirl club, had access to sharingan-proof disguises and had passed them out to all of its members. So Kakashi didn't see anything overly suspicious when he looked around with his eye. Thanks to his ninja instincts however, he could sense that some people somewhere were watching him and Iruka. That wouldn't do…

"Iruka, would you like to spar?"

Iruka blinked at him. Spar with Kakashi? A high ranking jounin sharingan user?

"Hai! I would be honored!"

The two proceeded to the training grounds which were thankfully deserted. They decided on a taijutsu only match with kunai allowed. Definitely no jutsu's or sharingan were to be used. Iruka smiled. Despite his kind disposition he did like a good sparring match. He could be a jounin if he wanted too, but he preferred teaching so he remained a chuunin. He hoped he could give Kakashi a decent match.

Kakashi had expected an unexciting match since he was a jounin going against a chuunin. How wrong he turned out to be…

He threw a kunai at Iruka and the teacher dodged it easily. Kakashi felt him approach behind him and blocked the punch thrown at his head. Limbs flashed, shuriken flew, and Kakashi was surprised by Iruka's speed and grace. If he didn't know better he would have sworn that Iruka had jounin capabilities… Then he felt a well placed kick land on his ribs. It was a powerful kick but Kakashi fell well enough so that he didn't break any ribs. Not to say that he didn't take any damage; he fell on his back clutching his ribs which were throbbing painfully.

'This is definitely going to leave a bruise in the morning…'

Iruka leaned over him, looking slightly surprised that his kick had managed to bring the jounin to the ground. Kakashi gasped and rubbed his throbbing ribs. Who knew that the chuunin could kick so hard!

"…Iruka."

"Hai Kakashi sa- I mean, hai Kakashi?"

"Why the hell are you still a chuunin? In case you didn't know, that was jounin level fighting."

"… Well, I want to stay a chuunin so that I can teach the kids at the academy. I feel more fulfilled teaching the next generation of Konoha shinobi than going on missions. If the need ever arose I would fight as a jounin but for now I am perfectly happy in my position."

Kakashi mulled this information over. It made sense actually, not everyone wanted to deal with the murder, blood, and loss that usually accompanied missions, not to mention the guilt… Yes, Iruka was a smart person. Kakashi felt his ribs throbbing again and winced slightly. Iruka noticed and remembered that he had kicked him there rather hard during their match…

"Gomen nasai! Does it hurt much Kakashi?"

It hurt like a bitch but no way in hell was Kakashi going to admit it.

"I'm fine Iruka, this is nothing compared to what I get on missions."

Iruka looked skeptical. Before Kakashi fully comprehended what he was doing, Iruka landed a light punch on Kakashi's ribs. Kakashi grabbed his ribs and winced noticeably while gritting his teeth to prevent a curse word from flying out of his mouth.

"Let's go to my apartment and I'll look at it for you."

"I really don't think that's necessary but thank you."

Iruka fixed Kakashi with his fiercest teacher glare which caused shivers to crawl up Kakashi's back. Then Iruka spoke in his teacher voice that no one was insane enough to argue with.

"We. Are. Going. NOW."

Kakashi took one look at Iruka's very very scary stern teacher face, meeped, and followed the chuunin back to his apartment with no argument.

"No wonder Iruka's the only teacher in school who can get the kids to behave… scary."


Kakashi entered Iruka's apartment which was clean and organized, as expected. He sat on the couch while Iruka pulled out a first-aid kit.

"Iruka, I really don't think it's that bad-"

"I'm going to look at it anyway. You never know if a seemingly minor wound is worse than it seems so take off your shirt and let me look at it."

Kakashi complied, feeling strangely self conscious. He looked down and saw that he already had a black and blue bruise on his ribs. Iruka frowned and got out some ointment.

'Jeez, I didn't think that I kicked him that hard. If Kakashi was less skilled I could have broken his ribs or something…'

"Here Kakashi, this will ease the pain and help with the healing process."

Iruka put some of the ointment on his fingers and began to gently rub it into the bruised area. He noticed that Kakashi had a nice muscular chest. He could see the muscles rippling under flawless pale skin and wondered…

'Ah! No mind, don't go there, bad thoughts!"

Meanwhile Kakashi was having some problems controlling his thoughts as well.

'Mm, Iruka has gentle fingers… the ointment feels good. If he's so good on the sparring field I wonder what he would be like in… Whoa hold on Kakashi, you haven't even made out with him yet! One step at a time. Damn, why am I the only one shirtless?'

Iruka finished with the ointment and took out some bandages. He told Kakashi to put his arms up and started wrapping the fabric around his ribs over the ointment binding it tight enough so it wouldn't fall off put loose enough so it didn't hinder Kakashi's movement. Kakashi was rather enjoying all of this physical contact, it felt nice. Really nice. He was disappointed when Iruka finished and went to put the first-aid kit away.

'Maybe I should get injured more often.'


Gaara woke up next to Naruto once again. Naruto's eyes were still puffy from crying but he looked so cute when he was sleeping… Naruto woke up and smiled warmly at Gaara. He kind of liked knowing that Gaara looked after him in his sleep.

'It kinda makes me warm and fuzzy inside!'

Naruto was feeling much better after the Sasuke incident since Gaara was there, but he felt like he needed something else… something like…

"Let's eat ice cream Gaara!"

"…What's ice cream?"

Naruto looked at Gaara horrified. Gaara looked perplexed.

'Gaara's never had ice cream? I pity his poor tortured soul!'

"C'mon, I'll show you! I have some in the freezer that Iruka-sensei bought for me!"

Gaara allowed Naruto to drag him to the kitchen. Naruto looked in the freezer and took out two ice creams. One was Chunky Monkey (Ben and Jerry's), and one was cookie dough. Naruto got out two spoons and handed the cookie dough ice cream to Gaara.

"Ice cream is sweet, and you eat it with a spoon! This is cookie dough!"

Gaara looked at the ice cream dubiously, then ate a spoonful. He froze and started twitching.

"Anou sa, are you okay Gaara?"

"…Cookie dough?"

"Um yeah, that's the flavor."

Gaara immediately started pigging out on ice cream. Naruto stared at him and raised an eyebrow. Gaara liked cookie dough huh?

"Gaara, have you ever had regular cookies?"

Gaara momentarily looked up from his new found friend (aka cookie dough ice cream).

"…No."

"They're made from cookie dough! I bet you would like them!"

"…Made from the same stuff in the ice cream?"

"Yeah! Hey, let's go to your place and make cookies! I saw a bunch of ingredients in your kitchen, and I bet your siblings would want some too! Lets go!

So Gaara and Naruto went to the place that Gaara was staying with his siblings to make cookies! Let the baking begin…

Hinata de-activated her Byakugan and clutched her newfound friend (aka Neji's camera) to her chest in glee. Naruto-kun and Gaara-kun had looked so cute sleeping together like that!

TBC

Okay, I have a contest for my readers! I need at name for 'the place that Gaara was staying at with his siblings.' The best name gets put in the next chapter! Please email me or put it in your review! Sorry if this chapter seems boring, I'll try to do better next time!

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