AN: This isn't the full version, as I don't desire getting banned from here. You can either just read this and fill in the rest on your own, or I'll try to leave a link that will take you to livejournal, where you can read the full, smutty version that is trying to shield your innocent eyes from.

Also, I keep forgetting to answer your question, my sweet shadow: Kakashi Gaiden is a short deviation in the Naruto Manga, occuring between the Sound Invasion/Sasuke running away arc and the time-skip, which is currently being mutilated with truely awful fillers in the anime. The Kakashi Gaiden follows the story of Young Kakashi with his genin team, and shows how he got his Sharingan eye, why he is perpetually late, and where he steals most of his lessons for Naruto and Comp. from. I hear rumors that it might come in Feb (we have many places saying the plot returns in February, although I don't nkow if that means Kakashi Gaiden or just time-skip). We'll have to see. Hope I have't spoiled anything for anyone...

Theme 5: Ribbon and Theme 7: Presents

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Kakashi melded chakra in his feet to help him run faster to Iruka's apartment. He didn't know what Iruka had planned, but whatever it was, Iruka's plans always went significantly better than his did.

The Copy Nin pushed the door open silently and peeked his head inside. It was already dark outside, and the only light he could see in the apartment was from the flickering candles Iruka placed in each window. When he snuck inside and shut the door quietly, he nearly tripped over a string that was attached to the door. When he held it up to catch the candle light, the string revealed itself to be crimson ribbon; in the dark, it had been nearly invisible. Kakashi followed the ribbon's trail with his eyes.

Now that his eye was a little more accustomed to the dark, Kakashi could see the faint outline of the ribbon, stretching across the living room and disappearing under the door of Iruka's bedroom. This mystery present was looking better by the minute…

The jounin followed the path the ribbon made, still keeping his steps silent. He slid the door open and took a deep breath before he ventured a glance inside. Despite his precaution, the sight inside took his breath away.

The room was lit with more flickering candles, enough to bath everything inside in an ethereal light. Splayed out on the bed in the middle of it all was Iruka. Kakashi stepped forward, entranced.

The chuunin's hair hung down from its usual ponytail, framing his face and accenting the dark pools of his eyes. Oh, his hair was wet, as if he'd just gotten out of the shower (had he even had time for a shower? Kakashi had only arrived a few minutes behind him), and as he watched, Kakashi saw a single drop of water trickle off of a chocolate colored lock and inch down his tan neck.

There was no turtleneck shirt or chuunin vest to obscure the droplet. Iruka was dressed only in a red silk robe, which slid precariously off of one shoulder and was tied low across his waist, leaving a triangle of exposed skin that led all the way down to the trail of hair below his belly button.

Kakashi's treacherous gaze drifted down, following that pathway of smooth skin, then course hairs. The path ended abruptly where the crimson robe closed, held in place by second red ribbon. This time it was the wide type, a full inch across, tied in a bow that Kakashi knew would slide undone with the barest tug. His gaze went lower. 'Oh, gods!' The silken robe ended high on Iruka's smooth thighs. Had the man been standing up, the robe would have covered his ass, and little else below it. There was nothing else but bare skin all the way down.

Kakashi looked back up at his lover. Iruka's dark eyes glowed in the candle-light, making Kakashi feel as though he was the one being devoured in a gaze. The chuunin lay stretched out before him, modesty preserved by only a thin layer of silk and a red ribbon. He let Kakashi drink him in without a sound.

Distracted before by the flashed of bare chest, Kakashi hadn't noticed Iruka's arms. He followed them now, pulled up above his head, bound to the headboard by a third ribbon bow. Kakashi's jaw dropped a little, and Iruka smirked at him.

"Aren't you going to open your present?" He asked. His voice was low and seductive, and sent a shiver up Kakashi's spine.

"Wh-what is my present?" Kakashi gasped. His throat felt bone dry.

Iruka responded with another one of those honeyed smirks that Kakashi had never seen before that day. His eyelids lowered, and from beneath the veil of eye lashes, Iruka beckoned Kakashi closer with a gaze. Kakashi leaned close enough for Iruka to whisper in his ear. "Anything you want." Iruka breathed into his ear. The sensei punctuated his words with a lick to the shell of the ear. The Copy Nin shuddered.

Gloved hands sought out not the thick ribbon at the chuunin's waist, but the thin one that kept his hands tied out of the way. Kakashi wanted those hands all over him. Iruka happily indulged him, although he raised an eyebrow at Kakashi's choice.

Iruka tugged Kakashi's mask off and began to litter the floor with items of clothing that he stripped away. Kakashi waited until he was clad only in his boxers (ninja throwing kunai at Santa Clauses, a print only available in Konoha) before he sought out the second knot of ribbon.

Just as he had expected, the bow gave way with a mere touch, and the silk it had held in place flowed down Iruka's sides like liquid, pooling at his hips and revealing gloriously naked skin beneath.

"Merry Christmas, Kakashi." Iruka whispered. Kakashi was too enthralled at the sight to respond.

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Sadness. I only have one theme left to write. We're gonna make a full circle, back to where we started with Iruka spreading the Christmas spirit to the children.