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Chapter 3 - Stroke Units and Fighting:
Iruka was shocked. All that time he had been living alongside Kakashi, but he had never thought that there was someone out there who could share his suffering. "I..I .."Iruka flushed and Kakashi smiled his awesome Kakashi smile :"I know what you're feeling right now- you're kinda shocked, right? It feels just like a long time ago, when a good friend of mine told me he was gay and I knew I loved him". "What was his name?", -"Obito", a sad smile appeared on the Jounins face. "He is dead", "Oh. I'm sorry", he looked down. "It must have been really hard for you." Kakashi smiled "Maah, it's fine ." Iruka wondered what that Obito had been like, when Kakashi suddenly started to talk again: "Well, since my dogs still didn't bother to come along, I guess we'll have to wait until tomorrow or at least until the rain stops. Daaamn my bag got stiff", he sat up and yawned, which Iruka found adorable. Actually he didn't want to, but his fingers began to act for themselves. They first slightly and softly, than stronger began to crawl Kakashis back.
Kakashi stiffened for a moment, when he felt soft fingers crawling across his bag, but soon relaxed. Iruka was so understanding and thoughtful and nice. Just like Obito. Someone to enlighten the darkness in his heart, forced from all the suffering he had to endure over his years as a Shinobi. Someone to make him laugh again. Kakashi closed his eyes and fell asleep soon.
The next morning Kakashi woke up his arm cuddled around something warm that smelled incredibly good. Though the thing he was cuddling tried to move Kakashi wouldn't leave it slip through his arms. He wanted to press his body against it forever and ever and ever."Kakashi let go of me. I need to pee, right now!" Kakashi was awake immediately recognizing that his arm was pressing Iruka against him. The chuunin could hardly breath. Kakashi eased his grip and Iruka took a deep breath. "Wooh Kakashi I almost ran out of air this night. Would you mind telling me first the next time you're going to try breaking my fins?" Iruka said with a nervous chuckle. Kakashi sat up. "Hey, I'm sorry." "No problem, it was actually really nice. I usually get cold at night, but nor this time". He blushed very deeply and looked down again. Iruka looked so cute, when he was blushing and he didn't seem to even know that. "Did someone ever tell you, that you look quite cute, when you blush?" Iruka looked upon him and his blush went even deeper. He seemed to look for words. "Hehe, thank you, Kakashi." Oh shit. He hadn't really just told him that he looked cute when he ….oh shit. What should Iruka think of him. He would see Kakashi as nothing more than the perverted Ninja everyone saw in him. Wait, why would he mind Iruka seeing him like that? He didn't mind everyone else in the village, even the Hokage. Why Iruka? Because he's different, because he's important to you, said a voice in Kakashis haid. No! That wasn't it. Even if Kakashi liked Iruka, even if he liked him a lot, he couldn't get his feelings in the way of the mission. If it were Iruka of the mission, which one would he choose? Kakashi knew that the mission was the one he had to choose, but something inside of him just wouldn't accept that.
Why is he looking so desperate, Iruka thought. Was it something he did? But just then a loud shout was to hear from the outside. "He, Kakashi, you in there?" A small brown dog was standing in the tent. HE CAN SPEAK, Iruka thought. Pakkun took a look at him, "Never seen a Nindog, have ya?" "Eeer, well yes, but they couldn't speak", Iruka muttered. Pakkun told them, that the enemies had covered their tracks very well, but that Cookie had finally sniffed one out a mile away from where they were camping. Soon they had packed in their camping stuff and began to follow Pakkun to the place where the enemies had been spotted. When the first Kunai missed his face only a few inches Iruka began to notice that he hadn't really fought anyone the last few month. He had been training kids at the academy. He dodged another Kunai and tried to hit an enemie with his. It worked. Well, training is all, he thought and looked at Kakashi, who was fighting six Ninjas at the same time. All six crashed to the ground, dead, and Kakashi threw himself immediately on another Ninja who tried to stab Iruka from behind. They were fighting back to back, dodged and attacked until all enemies were dead. Iruka looked down on himself, he had a scretch over his hand and a bit blood was seen, but nothing serious really. He could still grab a Kunai with it. Wait a second, he thought. Shouldn't we also gather information from them? Kakashi was still standing with his back to him in a fighting position. There has to be someone left, Iruka thought. Kakashi wouldn't be so dumb to kill the enemies without asking one of them questions. He would never fail a mission. Not Kakashi.
Just as Iruka thought that, a woman came from behind a tree. She looked nice, long black hair – a bit like Kurenais- and a face, that would have been pretty, if she didn't look so angry. "Kakashi- the famous Copy -Nin", she growled derisively. "And a rather unfamous Nin with him." She tourned to Iruka ,"The old bitch must've teamed him up with you, because she thinks you wouldn't make it on your own? And by the way, did he already manage to seduce you, or did he rape you? " Iruka was shocked. What the hell was this woman talking about? What was her problem? And did she mean Tsunade with "The old Bitch" ? Kakashi turned around to her and spoke ," Niku, you still haven't forgiven me, right?" "How could I forgive you for what you and the village have done to me?" Iruka looked from Kakashi to the woman and back. What was the story behind this whole thing? "He didn't tell you anything, did he?", the woman suddenly burst out into a horrifying laughter. "Do you actually know who Kakashi Hatake is?" Yeah, did he know that? Did anyone know that? Who was this man he had shared a tent with and who was yet so mysterious and handsome at the same time. Iruka didn't know who to trust anymore. The woman went on with her monologue. "It's finally time for my revenge. Haha Kakashi I can see that you care for him. As well as you cared for me once. How would you react if I killed him right now? Would you let it happen and let me stay alive in order to get information from me and finish the mission or would you kill me for it? I'm really looking forward to your decision." There was the evil laughter again, that didn't sound anything like a laughter, more like crying. Iruka was confused. He began to shiver with fear. Yes, he was afraid of dying, of not being able to share Ramen with Naruto again, or to teach his loud, trick-playing students…or to crawl Kakashis back. He suddenly noticed that he wasn't able to move anymore and something hit his chest, no it was IN his chest. This woman had hit him with a Kunai. I'm going to die, he thought. I would have loved to see Naruto grow up or Konohamaru…I would have, I would have…but there was nothing he could do about the pain that suddenly spread all over his body. He saw Kakashi, who had been standing next to him move, too fast for his weak eyes. Kakashi, he thought. What a great couple they could have made… Iruka sank into darkness and pain.
"Iruka", Kakashi shouted, when he saw that the Chuunin wasn't able to move anymore for he was possessed by a Possession-Juuzu. And for the first time in his life he didn't know what to do. There was Iruka or the mission. Yes, he had seen comerades die in battle, but he had never been prepared for this. He also saw the Kunai that rushed towards Irukas body and the shock on the younger mans face, when he knew he was going to die. He couldn't help him. It was Iruka or the mission. And he took the mission, while Niku was still holding the Possession-Juuzu he rushed over to her and smashed her into the grass. The woman moaned, blood running in a thin line out of her mouth. Kakashi just grabbed a Kunai and stabbed it into her chest. Niku coughed a few times, then she burst out into this laughter again, this laughter that Kakashi had heard from her mouth the first time she tried to kill him in their kitchen…then…."Why", shouted Kakashi at her, "Why did you kill Iruka?", "I said it earlier ..I just wanted to kill someone precious to you.", "He ins't precious to me!", Kakashi cryed at the dying woman. "He's an ordinary leaf Shinobi", ….was… , he thought. The woman gave him a grin. There was blood on her teath, a lot of it. " Oh please", she stertered, "you godda see yourself when you look at him , Kakashi. It's so obvious. "You have feelings for him, like you did once have for me before you betrayed me!", she spit out the last words. "But I have had my revenge, even at the cost of my own life. All I wanted to do was to make you unhappy, just like you made me unhappy", she coughed even heavier. Suddenly her whole body began to shake, then it was over. Only one thought had space in Kakashis head. IRUKA. If it only wasn't too late for him. In a second he was at the Chuunins body, Iruka was still breathing a relief. Kakashi immediately started to begin with his medical Juutsu . Irukas breathing began to become heavier. NO, he thought. Don't die , Iruka. Why not, why didn't he want him to die? Because he's precious to me. And I'd do anything to save him. Kakashi noticed that he began to run out of Chakra. Oh shit! This can't be happening – it can't. He knew he was going to collapse if he did on with his Juutsu, but he had to heal Iruka. He didn't save him from the knife, now he had to live with the thought of having nearly killed Iruka, by putting the mission over Irukas life. When Kakashi was about to faint he suddenly heard a noise behind a bush. Someone was standing there, watching him, coming over to him…darkness began to rise before Kakashis eyes. His last thought before he collapsed was , Iruka. I've killed you.