Kakashi groaned, he transported himself and Iruka into his apartment. A few seconds later a ninja
arrived at his door with a bag of items and a baby crib, nodded at Kakashi and left. Kakashi's eye
twitched at the baby stuff he sat Iruka on the floor of his living room to cart the stuff in. He sat the
crib in his room, as he thought it wouldn't be wise leaving a baby on it's own then started mooching
though the bag the Hokage sent him. There were little post it notes on certain items like on a bag on
disposable nappies, "Kakashi if this is only temporary Iruka won't need more than this bag. If not
well you'll have to buy more." Kakashi's face greened at the thought of changing Iruka's nappy, only
realising at the moment all Iruka had on was an oversized shirt rapped around him. Kakashi dug
through the bag pulling out a a sleep suit and grabbing a nappy. "OK Iruka lets get this over ….
Iruka?" he looked at the spot only to find him missing. "Now were did he go?" Kakashi checked
around the living room, the kitchen and the hallway the sound of gurgling led him to the stairs
attempting to balance on the edge of the stairs was a naked Iruka. Kakashi paled "Iruka stop!" Iruka
tried to turn at the noise but wobbled forward Kakashi jumped sliding forward on his stomach,
catching Iruka but falling down the stairs himself. Kakashi was laying back against the floor, legs
up against the wall with Iruka suspended over him by his arms. "That hurt rug rat." Iruka gurgled
than began peeing on Kakashi's face. Kakashi bit back his growing temper and trudged back up the
stairs, sat Iruka in the living room with a nappy and sleep suit on now only this time with his nin
dogs guarding him. He had a shower feeling completely gross and humiliated that he was just used
as a toilet by a baby. Shampooing his hair three times, then got dried and dressed then resumed
rummaging through the bags there was a stair gate in the bag "Kakashi babies tend to be very good
at vanishing in a instant, hopefully this will prevent any accidents." Kakashi scrunched the note up
and threw it in a bin. He found other items in the bag, bottles, a bib, baby food, a little plastic plate
set, milk powder, blankets, clothes, a bottle steriliser, a dummy, a few toys, a potty, a papoose, and
the money. Kakashi remembered he was supposed to buy a mother care book, "I don't need it."
Pakkun walked into the kitchen, "Uh Kakashi the brat's trying to unlock the stair gate." "On the
other hand though."
Kakashi walked into a store wearing the papoose, Iruka securely in it in on his
back. He walked into a book store browsing through the book titles "Mother care 101, All you need
to know about babies, So you've got a kid and no clue what to?" Kakashi decided the last book
would be the best, he paid for it and left reading whilst walking. Asuma's voice brought him out of
his book, "Kakashi are you reading a baby book, with a kid on your back?" Another voice, this time
it was Kurenai "Leave me him be Asuma didn't you hear what Lord Hokage said!" Asuma sounded
embarrassed "Oh I forgot, sorry Kakashi." Kakashi looked at them, "What did you hear?" Kurenai
looked sad, "We heard from Lord Hokage that your girlfriend had died during child birth. We're so
sorry." Kakashi blinked "So to protect Iruka the Hokage's saying that the he's my child. Great."
Asuma scratched the back of his head, "So um, what's it's name?" Kakashi eye smiled "His name is
Iruka." Kurenai had a look that clearly said Why?, "I named him that because he's Iruka's nephew."
There faces had an 'O' look, and then Asuma thinking this was awkward conversation excused
himself and Kurenai. Kakashi shook his head and walked back to his apartment reading his book,
"Strange Iruka's being awfully quiet." He turned to look, there was nothing in the papoose Kakashi
freaked out "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" He sprinted back towards the bookshop
scanning for any sign of the infant. Kakashi looked around the aisles he had been browsing when
the sound of Iruka giggling caught his attention. Standing precariously on the top of the book stand
was a tottering Iruka trying to once again stand, he wobbled forward into Kakashi's arms. Kakashi
breathed in relief then he noticed the book stand was rocking and shielded Iruka as the books came
crashing down in them. Kakashi's top half wasn't buried under books he propped his head up with
his right arm and drummed the floor with his left hand, Iruka sat an inch in front of him clapping.
"Daddy!" Kakashi's heart melted for a second at the cuteness of it all, before reminding himself to
scorn him "Bad Iruka!" Iruka smiled "Daddy!" then started playing with Kakashi's gravity defying
hair. A store worker came across the half buried bored looking jounin with a baby climbing over
him, the store worker yelled 'clean up in aisle 3!'. After triple checking that Iruka was secure in his
papoose this time Kakashi managed to get back to his apartment without any further mishaps. He
sat Iruka on the living room floor, taking note from the book to shut the door to prevent his escape.
Kakashi settled down on the sofa, Iruka was easily one step away from Kakashi, but in Iruka's tiny
steps it was a good ten steps, If he could walk yet that is. Iruka had his toys next to him, but instead
he focused his attention on his 'father' who was engrossed on learning how to raise a baby. Iruka
pulled himself up only to wobble and fall harmlessly on his rump, after several attempts he got fed
up and frustrated and started to cry. Kakashi's eye widened and he flipped through the pages looking
for a helpful hint, Tip: If your baby starts crying for apparently no reason, and your not fussing
over them. Try and encourage them to crawl to you, or go and hug them. Yes I know this sounds like
a pet care manual, but it's simply put blunter this way. Kakashi sat the book down and eye-smiled at
Iruka "Hey little guy what's wrong?" Iruka stopped crying, "Daddy" he sniffed and stood up again
taking a very shaky step. Kakashi encouraged him, "Come on little guy, just a few more steps."
Iruka took another five titchy steps, he was in Kakashi's arm reach now. "That's it, little more."
Iruka took two more steps confidence growing when he started to fall forward, sensing the motion
Kakashi caught him. "There you go. That wasn't so bad was it." Iruka giggled merrily as Kakashi
started to tickle his tummy. Kakashi was actually quite content at the moment playing with Iruka, he
started chucking him a little bit into the before catching him. "Ah to hell with that book, I bet I
could look after Iruka just fine, after all it said babies only cry when they're hungry, tired, nappy
needs changing, frightened or hurt themselves. It's no big deal." Iruka stopped laughing giving
Kakashi the most pitiful look ever and started to cry again, "I bet you're hungry." Kakashi walked
into his kitchen holding Iruka on one arm, whilst mixing the milk up with his free hand. He checked
the temperature on his wrist, and once satisfied fed the hungry little parasite. "No problem. I
wonder what I was freaking out about, this will be easy. Sort of... right?"