Pairing – Kakashi/Naruto

Warning – Yaoi. Not beta'd, Slight OOCs

Disclaimer – Naruto does not belong to me.

A/N – I would like to thanks all the people who had reviewed, followed, send me PMs and who had kept this as one of their favourite stories.

Well I am not exactly sure about the plot for the story of whether I should make this a short or a long fanfiction. As for now I will be making the chapters kind of short then perhaps build up the story slowly as the chapters progress.

Characters – Sakura, Hinata, Ino, Ten- Ten, Neji, Shino, Lee, Kiba, Shikamaru, Chouji, Naruto, Kakashi, Sai

Anyways, Happy Reading!

Chapter 1

"Naruto! About time you came back! We're the only team left to move out now. Sai got tired of waiting and left as well."

"Sorry Sakura. I lost track of time." Naruto smiled sheepishly as he walked towards the camp where Sakura was looking at him in annoyance. "The water was quite relaxing he-he."

Naruto heard someone choking and coughing really badly from behind him and turned. Kakashi was choking on one of the rice cakes that Hinata had given to every team earlier.

"Kakashi-Sensei? Is everything alright?" The blond walked towards his sensei who seemed to be inching farther away from him. "You look kind of red."

"Now that you've mentioned it Naruto, I think you're right. Sensei are you having a fever?" Sakura stood up quickly and placed her hand over Kakashi's forehead. "You feel kind of warm too."

"I'm fine." Kakashi replied shortly and felt his heart thumping harder as Naruto stood beside Sakura most probably waiting for his chance too to feel the Jounin's temperature as well. Which of course, would had been a really normal situation a couple of hours ago. Kakashi quickly pushed away Sakura's hand before Naruto would get to him and felt his temperature.

'With those hands.'

Kakashi coughed softly to the side trying to erase the mental picture which popped into his mind regarding a small episode by the waterfall and got up quickly, walking away from his confused students.

"I'm alright. I'm alright no worries." Kakashi softly smiled at his students before they noticed something was amiss. "Come on. It's time to leave now."

Sakura threw a worried glance towards Naruto who only shrugged in reply. The two young shinobis gave a short nod as a reply to Kakashi and soon followed their sensei as he head out towards the rendezvous point that they had decided earlier with the other teams.

The hot humid weather did no favour to his condition but instead only seemed to aggravate his current state of restlessness. He watched the blond running in front of him and silently tried to swallow the lump in his throat. It was somewhat short of a miracle that he had managed to easily evade the tense atmosphere earlier. Well, not that it was really full of tension to anyone else besides him. He had no doubt that his students had suspecting something was wrong with him and if that was not the case then they had at least thought he was insane.

Kakashi let out a small sigh at his predicament. No matter how hard he had tried to be normal around Naruto, he could not rid his mind of the images he had burned into his memory which were being played erotically like some Icha Icha Paradise slideshow.

Just a few minutes ago he had another close call with Naruto when the teen had showed him his stomach complaining about some sort of rash. Kakashi had dismissed the blond quickly in pretence that his sensitive skin would definitely contract the vicious skin disease from the blond (even though it was just simple heat rash). Luckily Naruto had believed him and had immediately gone to Sakura for some ointment before the 'vicious skin disease' would spread to anyone else.

Speaking of Naruto, his eyes drifted towards the blond running in front of him for the umpteen time that day. A new bead of sweat was now trickling down the blond's neck onto his black shirt. Naruto had taken off his jacket due to the hot climate and was now tying the jacket around his waist. His shirt clung tightly to his lithe tight body not leaving any space for imagination of how exactly his body would be like. It was no secret that Naruto had definitely inherited his good physique from his father although the teen's shoulders were definitely a bit broader. Not that he was complaining.

The one eye visible to the world slowly trailed down from the blond's shoulders towards his lower body. Kakashi silently tried to swallow another lump forming in his throat. He knew he was wrong in having such thoughts about his student. Hell, up until yesterday he thought he was straight from the amount of partners he had been with. However, his body seemed to have had a mind of its own when he saw the bond naked. His body had never felt so excited and frustrated at the same time throughout his long uneventful years and he was close to being thirty soon.

He was going to be thirty and Naruto was sixteen. The Gods must really be mocking him at the moment.

A small short burst of familiar chakra up ahead snapped the silver-haired Jounin out of his thoughts. Kakashi mentally cursed himself for not being more aware of his surroundings. Naruto quickly ran up ahead to meet Sai and the rest of the rookie nine.

With more people surrounding him and the blond, the Jounin could feel his tensed muscles relaxed a little. Not so much that his body would have the usual slouch but just enough so that he wouldn't look like someone with a stick up his behind like he did earlier. It was highly unlikely that his body would react in that weird manner when the other younger shinobis are present. Or so he hoped.

"Kakashi Sensei?" A lazy voice called out to him from his right. Shikamaru was looking at the Jounin in a scrutinizing manner.

"Yes Shikamaru-Kun?"

"Should we set up camp? It is already late evening or should we continue our journey to Konoha?"

Kakashi looked at the rest of the young shinobis around him. Most of them looked winded up from running the whole night yesterday and the day today only taking small short breaks for food and water. He could push them further in order to reach Konoha sooner but he rather have his rescue party looking more alive than half-dead for their reporting to the Hokage. Although he could always have a little fun doing his famous mind games with his cute young rescue party.

"Well, it'll be too late to return to Konoha. I think we should push onwards. The Hokage would like to see us as soon as possible." The Jounin stated almost too cheerfully and placed his hand on his chin in a contemplative manner.

"But Kakashi-Sensei!" Sakura sat on the ground and whined. A small number of protests followed immediately in echo to her whining.

"Alright." He chuckled. "We'll set up camp for the night and leave at dawn."

When Kakashi had ordered that they would set up camp for the night, the thought about the sleeping arrangements had not crossed his mind yet which was why exactly he was stuck with the exact cause of his anxiety for the past twenty-four hours.

"Dear Kami please help me now." The silver hair Jounin softly whined.