Disclaimer: No I don't own Naruto. I do however own this cute little ninja action figure that I call Kakashi….but that's about it.
This is the second and last chapter I will be posting. It isn't worth it to continue here. So, without further ado I give you this next chapter, Chapter 2, no name because it's pointless. I will continue this fic, make no mistake. Just not here. Thanks for reading!
P.S: I may be persuaded to finish here, but I said I would not only because the content will be going up in rating too mature for this site, (I don't want to post fics like the other 4 I have here) however I can post up to the highest rating this site will go. Otherwise I'm just wasting my time updating here. IF people review enough, I might break a few rules, but I can also redirect you to the finished version, which may or may not be on or For those who HAVE reviewed so far, thanks a lot, you guys will be the first to read the finished version, which I am currently working on. Oh yeah, and about the pairing, it will more than likely be a Kaka/Naru.
OMG, Kakashi-sensei is hot!
"So they're more mature than I thought. Yet at the same time, they're still somewhat brainless. For them not to notice how long I've been here…." Kakashi jumped down to a lower limb in the tree, peering down on his team of Chuunin who were no longer quite so adorable as they were mature. They were certainly not the cute little Genin he used to teach anymore. Now they were all grown up, having conversations about his sexuality and all, among other things.
Rather than search for him in a close radius of their camp, they idly sat around and talked about where he could have been and what he could have been doing. Sasuke all too insistently dismissed the possibility that Kakashi might have been in trouble. Having faith in his abilities as a shinobi was a given, but not considering anything else was a big mistake they would all be learning from very soon.
His right eye narrowed a bit as he thought about the best way to make his presence known without putting himself in danger. They were deadly little brats after all. He crouched deep in the tree, deciding that he would stay a bit longer before he intruded on their conversation. It was very interesting to say the least, if not surprising. It was certainly the last thing he thought they would find time to talk about. They must have been quite bored to talk about him and his sexual prospects. Apparently, the woods brought out the best, worst, ugly, or unexpectedly audacious in a person.
He had been watching for a long while now, but his intention was not to stay hidden in the trees for so long. Who could blame him? He could practically feel the anticipation of embarrassing them buzzing in his veins.
Earlier, when he had been returning to the campsite, he had originally intended to test the team's perceptivity and see how long it would take them for to notice that they didn't have to stay, even if he had told them so. He was no longer their sensei, they could have gone home at any given time. Unfortunately, they were still too unguarded, not threatened enough by unknown presence. They were all talented shinobi, but he himself was an expert at hiding his presence, even from the best ninja's in Konoha. He had expected at least Naruto to get fed up and storm off like he usual did, but he didn't expect him to whine like a child and continue to wait.
Then Sakura…Sakura had suggested an innocent reason as to why he was 'late'. From there it went from Sasuke's surprising show of interest, to Naruto's candid idea of what he was doing, and ended up on the topic of his sex life.
The three of them had turned his absence into gossip. So he silently stayed in his position, wanting to see how far they would go with that idea. He was about to drop down and confront the group on their inexcusable laziness when Naruto bluntly stated that Kakashi may have been jerking off in the woods.
That was where the conversation took the interesting turn that it did.
Naruto always was the more explicitly outspoken of the three, and it was no surprise that he would imply something so out there. Kakashi supposed what really threw him was Sasuke agreeing with the blonde. That was weird in itself, no matter the topic.
The tall man listened to them for close to an hour, shaking his head at some of the things that were said. The three of them were quite uninhibited around each other, which wasn't necessarily a bad thing, except that it obviously created some conflict. Sakura had been double-teamed almost mercilessly, just about being shunned from the conversation. Her ideals were too different from theirs for them to take her seriously, and so they shunned her for her disagreeing disposition, calling her things like dense and accusing her of being a lesbian.
But Kakashi had smiled inwardly at the one. At one point in time, he had even considered that a possibility himself. Sakura was either going on about the Uchiha or nothing at all. Surely one couldn't be so dedicated to such a person.
Even Ino, her rival in the competition for the dark boy's attention, had turned her affections elsewhere, to Chouji Akimichi no less. After all the time she spent teasing her teammate for being a fatass who did nothing but stuff his face, she managed to end up dating him and being quiet happy with it. Sakura on the other hand, had clung to her childhood crush, and Kakashi had figured it was to hide a bigger truth. Her vehemence to the suggestion didn't make him think otherwise, but he could never read his students very well these days.
Who could have thought that his seemingly innocent blonde hair blue eyed teammate had such a perverted little mind? And Sasuke…granted he knew that Sasuke could have be anything or nothing, depending on how a person looked at him, but he never figured the young man to take any sort of interest in him. He would have believed that Sakura was more inclined to make those sorts of judgments about him, but he was obviously wrong about that too.
Four hours in a tree was nothing compared to having to wait out an ambush, so he had already relaxed against a branch and put away his book.
His dull steel-colored eye stared down at the trio. He would listen a bit longer before he made his move. He would show those brats what happened when they were too curious. After all, curiosity could bring about any litany of results and consequences.
Embarrassment was among the worse.
((Back to the three clueless unsuspecting shinobi))
Naruto yawned loudly. He was tired and he sure as hell wasn't going to stay up for the lazy idiot any longer. They were all tired. Sasuke had shown his fatigue with a well placed, but nasty insult at Sakura before actually giving her some semblance of apology and getting up and stalking to their fallen tent. He gave the broken pile a disapproving look before shifting his dark eyes to the slumping blonde near the fire.
"Naruto, since your royal idiot-ness knocked the tent over, you can pick it up and fix it." He crossed his arms, waiting for Naruto to explode with reasons for why he shouldn't be the one fixing the tent. Naruto never did anything he didn't want to do without first giving reasons for why he didn't want to do them.
God, Sasuke thought, he was so tired he would have fixed the tent himself, but then that wouldn't have been any fun at all.
Naruto did not disappoint. "What do you mean I have to fix it?! Sakura was the one who couldn't control her freakish strength and knocked me into it!" He howled desperately.
Sakura's eyes narrowed tiredly, but dangerously. If she had the strength….
"I'm too tired! I don't know about you guys, but I'd be fine just sleeping on the ground out here. It's warm and cozy!"
"That's because you're an animal you idiot. Unlike you, the rest of us are human enough to want some comfort. Now you can either fix the tent, or fix the tent. Either way, it's getting fixed." Sasuke muttered confidently. Some damn body was going to fix that tent, and it wasn't going to be him.
Naruto crossed his arms and stuck his nose in the air haughtily.
"Fine. But Sakura looks cold. You wouldn't want Sakura to be chilly out here tonight, would you, Naruto?" He asked slyly. Naruto always had a weak spot of the kunoichi and if anything, he would be fixing the tent because then it would mean that he had done something nice for her.
Naruto glanced dully at the pink-haired teenager. "Am I supposed to care if she's cold? She knocked the tent over, if she wants comfort, she can start by fixi---
WHAP!
"Gahhhh!!! Sakura what the heck was that for?!" Naruto whined, holding his already toothless mouth in pain.
Sakura stomped off to the fallen tent and began snatching things up angrily and slapping them together. That idiot Naruto, who did that little shit think he was?! She picked up a stake and drove it into the ground, envisioning the soft dirt to be the boy's testicles. How dare he! She was dog tired, hungry and livid, and the last thing she needed was to be rebuilding a tent!
Well, if she was going to be fixing it, she would be the only one sleeping in it. Sasuke could rot in a tree for all she cared, and that bum Naruto could burn in the fire and she still wouldn't have shared with them. Sasuke was a man, why couldn't he just fix it, why did she have to? Was it because the two of them were all buddy-buddy now? Just because they had an agreeing conversation, and a perverted one at that, about Kakashi, didn't mean she had to be the one on her knees trying to force two stubborn pieces of wood together.
"Argh!" She growled, snapping the two pieces of woods in half. Throwing them to the ground in a rage, she cursed under her breath and pounded the dirt, more pissed that she couldn't fix the tent than that she had to fix it.
Sasuke rolled his eyes. She would make some man a very emotionally disturbed husband someday.
Naruto rolled over onto his side, breathing calmly and smiling to himself that he always wore long sleeved clothing, or else he would have been freezing like---
--Sakura shivered visibly and wished she had brought along an outfit that went past her knees, or at least something that covered her arms. Too busy trying to be cute, she left the house with a bag full of skirts and tank and spaghetti strap tops, hoping to get Sasuke's attention on her 'womanly figure'. It was obvious how bad that failed, but she never was the pants kind of girl. Now she wished she was, even for this night at least.
"Goodnight guys, I'm going to sleep. If Kakashi-sensei comes tell him to go fuck himself, 'cuz I'm not waking up."
"We'll just leave you." Sakura assured him.
"So what, I've spent days in the forest alone, what's another night?" The blonde shrugged and spread out on the ground on his back, yawning again and closing his eyes. There was no doubt in his mind that his teammates would leave him, it had al---
Naruto shot up all of a sudden. "Hey wait a minute guys!" He yelled.
Sasuke cringed. "We're right here dobe, you don't have to yell."
"No seriously," Naruto continued as if he hadn't heard. "If you guys would leave me, why can't we leave him?"
All went silent.
Sakura sat up and looked at him with wide eyes. Sasuke raised his brow, but crossed his arms.
"Hey, Naruto you're right! What's stopping us from leaving him anyway? I mean, he knows how to get home and he can take care of himself. After all, right now we're not with him, so it's no different if we went somewhere else! Maybe he did go back to the village!"
"It took you that long to figure it out?" Sasuke asked, as if he had known all along. Of course, what would it look like if he let Naruto get any glory?
Naruto hopped up and gave his teammates one last look. "I've got plenty of ramen at my house I'm going home you can take care of yourselves bye!" He rushed out, and before the other two could get out another word, he had already hit the trees with a speed that rivaled Gai-sensei's.
Sakura looked to Sasuke, a blush taking over her features. Twiddling her fingers like a nervous Hinata Hyuuga, she gave him her best cute girl look, eyes shimmering and all.
"Um…Sasuke, it's late and I'd re---
"Forget it." He harshly declined, sticking his hands in his pockets and walking off into the trees as fast as he could to get away from her.
Sakura stood where she was, her eyes dilated in surprised. Geez, he could have at least had the decency to wait for her.
She growled and stomped out the fire hastily before turning her head to all directions of the woods. What if something was out there?
'No! Calm down Sakura, whatever's out there is nothing you can't handle. You've been trained by the Hokage herself! Nothing can scare me. No—'
Snap"EEEEEEEHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" She cried out, instantly going for her pouch and littering the area she thought he sound came from with shuriken. The poor fuzzy cute wolf cub was struck to its death with the sharp weapons, but Sakura gasped in relief. That would show stupid forest animals to sneak up on an unsuspecting girl in the night.
'I gotta get out of here'She took one more look around and grabbed her pack, running off into the trees.
((2 days later))
Ever since that day in the woods, the three of them had not seen each other, as there were no missions for the rest of the month after they had received their stipends. Eight whole days without any missions was being spent in different ways for each of them. Naruto actually treated Iruka out for ramen for once, Sasuke was putting it away for his family funds, a man's gotta provide for his family, and Sakura was buying herself some long sleeved outfits just in case.
Neither of them had seen Kakashi either.
Iruka had assured the blonde boy he looked to as a son that the copy nin had turned in a mission report that morning they returned and looked fine, but Naruto demanded to know where his sensei had been all night. Iruka calmly stated that it was against shinobi policies to share disclosed information about ninjas in the village so the boy was out of luck.
Naruto scowled into his bowl of ramen. Alone in the Ichiraku noodle bar he sat, immersed in deep thinking. Iruka had some important thing to do with the Hokage and Sakura nor Sasuke were anywhere to be seen; that left him all alone to think about what he was going to do for the next seven days. He couldn't think of a single thing that would occupy his time. All of his friends had other plans or simply didn't want him around. In his bored stupor, he had even asked Hinata to go out for ramen with him, but she started stuttering and when he didn't see an end to that, he left.
Now he was here, and after he finished eating, it would be back to the land of bored.
"One bowl of beef ramen please. Hold the boiled egg." A voice said from beside him.
Naruto wouldn't have even glanced if the voice wasn't familiar. He turned. And went red.
"YOU!" He shouted, pointing directly at the man sitting next to him. Teuchi gave him a weird look but went back to beating the noodle dough.
The man in question gave him a bored look. "Oh, hello Naruto." Kakashi greeted calmly, smiling at him like nothing was wrong.
"Where the fuck have you been?!" The blonde hollered.
Ayame's head snapped his way to give him a deadly glare. The pregnant woman shook her head slowly at him, obviously disapproving of his language.
Out of respect he lowered his voice to a hiss, "You left us in the woods for all that damn time and then you don't even tell anyone?! You son of a bitch!"
Naruto had smoke coming out of his ears, his hands shaking with barely contained hostility. Kakashi merely cocked his head to the side and turned away from him, folding his hands on the table.
"I was busy. Is that a crime?"
"It should be!" The teen bit out. He wanted to hit the idiot, but he knew it would only serve to fuel his anger when said idiot dodged him.
'How can that bastard be so calm?!'"Here you go kid, extra beef. Keep the curses out of the bar will you? You might give people a bad impression of this place and if you do that, I'll have to ban you." Teuchi handed him his two bowls of noodles, grinning at him with that nice old man grin he always gave the boy.
"Thanks old man."
Naruto turned to the Jounin ready to give the man another piece of his mind, but stopped seeing that the asshole was already occupied.
"Argh! You and that stupid book! I hope you drop it in a fire you lazy bum!"
Kakashi didn't seem to hear him.
Naruto sucked his teeth and started on his noodles. If Kakashi wanted to ignore him, then he didn't care. Slurping his noodles noisily, several minutes passed before Teuchi served Kakashi his bowl.
Naruto couldn't help but jerk his head up to look.
Kakashi hummed happily as he broke apart his chopstick and Naruto slouched on his stool, wanting to look as inconspicuous as possible so that Kakashi didn't see him staring. His heart thumped erratically in anticipation as he took a quick glance around to see if anybody was coming. Seeing that nobody was around, he squinted curiously at his sensei.
This would be the first opportunity he had in four and a half years to get a look at what was under Kakashi's mask, and this time, there would be nothing to stop him.
Kakashi slowly, oh so slowly, brought his chopsticks to the bowl, twirling them around a bunch of noodles before bringing them back up to his face. A hand went up to lower his mask, exactly like before, and Naruto leaned forward on his stool, his breath short and his heart slamming in his chest.
Suddenly Kakashi turned to him. "You do know that I'm not going to eat with you watching me, right?" He asked.
Naruto's eyes went white and round with surprise and anger. But he didn't say a word, only went back to eating his next bowl. So much for that.
"That depends on what you're willing to do to see my face." The suggestion came out of nowhere, making Naruto bite down on his chopsticks harder than he intended.
"W-what?" He squeaked eloquently.
"Nothing." Dropping his chopsticks into the bowl, he got up and waved at Naruto, a smile in his eyes and he nodded to Teuchi. Naruto blinked, watching him until he walked out of the bar before realization dawned on him.
He jumped off the stool and ran outside. "You freeloading bastard!" He screamed into the empty streets of Konoha. Kakashi was already long gone, leaving him to pick up his tab at the bar.
Ayame stood behind him with her hand out. "You'll have to pay for him then Naruto."
"But I didn't invite him here!" Naruto slapped his money in her hand and moved out into the street, glaring down the empty path with an unreadable look in his eye.
What would he do to see what was under that mask?
TBC….
I don't think I will continue. Sorry guys, but maybe I'll post this fic and the finished version somewhere else, but not here. However, if I do change my mind and decide to go farther with this, I will post up to the time when I will stop. It's useless, almost stupid to continue here. I don't normally write on this site, so I don't have the majority of my fics posted here. Unfortunately, I feel that this story would be better off somewhere else. I normally have a hard time continuing for various reasons, the number one reason being laziness. Well, I'll see whether or not it's worth it to continue. Otherwise I will delete the fic from here so that nobody expects me to update and I won't be getting anyone's hopes up.
Ja'ne.