Sober Strip Poker

Iruka had returned to work awkwardly after the drunken incident a couple of nights before. He had now vowed to himself, that he would never drink alcohol ever again and to be careful when around Kakashi, Genma, or Gekkou, since they were the reason that Iruka had ran butt-naked everywhere late at night and tried to snog Asuma.

Iruka shuddered at the thought and turned to face the class, in which Konohamaru and crew were amongst.

"Ohio students," Iruka said weakly, as he slumped down into the chair in behind his desk.

"Ohio Iruka Sensei," the students chimed.

"Okay students, today I want us to do some henge no jutsu…line up and transform into me please" Iruka mumbled, obviously still not over the shame and embarrassment of the other night.

The students had not quite perfected this technique yet and so many of them produced rather deformed or completely wrong Irukas. Iruka sighed in deep disappointment, when Konohamaru stepped up.

"Hey Sensei!" Konohamaru said loudly, "I can do a really great transformation of you!"

"Let's see it then" Iruka said gloomily.

Iruka's eyes almost popped out of his head, and the students erupted in insane and merciless laughter as Konohamaru transformed into the nude Iruka that he had found on the Internet.

"KONOHAMARU!" Iruka screamed, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!"

Konohamaru changed back to normal in a puff of smoke and joined the class in mocking their sensei.

Iruka didn't know what to do, he wanted to hit Konohamaru, throw a dozen kunais at him maybe. But Iruka just wasn't that sort of person, so instead he just left the classroom, left the academy and left the humiliation.

Iruka was walking towards the ramen place, hoping that a hot steaming bowl would make him feel better, when he saw that Kakashi was already there. He frowned, he had wanted to avoid contact with his wild friends, but Iruka really wanted that ramen.

Kakashi smiled as Iruka came to sit next to him in the ramen stall, "How you doin' Iruka-kun?" he asked cheerily.

The pretty girl behind the counter smiled and her eyes were glittery, focused on the handsome mask less Kakashi.

"Fine," Iruka lied, he felt anger burning deep inside him, Kakashi was not affected at all from the wild night and what's more he's got a hot girl staring at him like he's a God.

Kakashi surveyed the depressed Iruka for a moment, watching him slurp away furiously at his large bowl of ramen.

"Um, Iruka-kun…"Kakashi said softly, "Y' know, I know a really good remedy for stress…"

Iruka didn't respond, but carried on greedily engulfing his food, even Ayame the pretty ramen girl had been distracted by Iruka's pig-like eating.

Kakashi put his arm across and patted Iruka gently on the shoulder; Iruka stopped eating and glared at him, noodles dangling from his mouth.

"I would like you to come hang out again this evening, that okay?" Kakashi smiled unfazed by Iruka expression.

"I'm busy," Iruka mumbled and continued eating.

"Too busy for girls?"

Iruka stopped; he was choking on a piece of pork.

Kakashi smacked his friend on the back a couple of times and Ayame quickly handed the red-faced Iruka a glass of water.

Kakashi resumed his playful teasing of Iruka, "A girlfriend is what you need, 'cause y'know I've noticed that you must be kind of lonely, which is probably why you work so hard and hardly socialise…am I right?"

"Suppose," Iruka mumbled.

"So, tonight my mission is to help you find a really nice girlfriend and you'll be happy again!" Kakashi smiled, patting Iruka on the arm and then leaving for who knows where, with the little ramen girl gazing after his gorgeous figure.

Iruka left the ramen shop, thinking about what Kakashi had just said to him and returned to the academy to teach his oh so wonderful class. Iruka however, did not feel depressed like before, but instead felt rather uplifted and looked forward to tonight's girlfriend hunt.

Later that evening at around seven pm, a smiling Kakashi came and collected an excited Iruka from his apartment. Before Iruka had spent a good few hours wondering what to wear. Eventually he had decided that his girlfriend should like him no matter what he looked like, but he'd still taken the time to shower, clip his toenails and brush his teeth.

Kakashi felt sorry for his friend; after all he was practically the only one who was still single. Kakashi had hit it off with the cute ramen girl and had many other secret admirers to spare, Gekkou had that pretty ANBU woman and Genma had the nice Shizune.

Kakashi and Iruka entered a restaurant, Gekkou with Yugao still in ANBU uniform, Genma with his special toothpick and Shizune were already sitting down. They waved heartily as the nervous Iruka and cheery Kakashi made their way over to the table at the back.

"Um…hi," Iruka said forcing a smile, he'd not expected so many people to be there. "Kakashi, how am I gonna find a girlfriend with all these lot here?" Iruka whispered, as a pretty waitress came by to give everyone drinks.

"Don't worry Iruka-kun, I've got everything sorted." Kakashi said, removing his mask to show his smiling face so that he could sip his wine.

A few minutes later, everyone except Iruka was smiling and swapping interesting stories about their latest missions.

"The guy didn't know what to do," Genma laughed, "I'd unarmed him up with just this toothpick."

"Ooh yes, that's my Genma-kun!" Shizune smiled taking Genma's toothpick out of his mouth and then planting him with a long passionate kiss.

Iruka sipped his wine quietly and wished that everyone would hurry up and order their food, so he could eat and just go home. Iruka was wondering whether he could get away by faking feeling sick or something like that, when the Ayame the ramen girl entered the restaurant, followed by Anko.

Iruka spat his champagne out and accidentaly into the face of Kakashi, "Hey!" he said reaching for a cloth.

"Kakashi!" Iruka hissed quietly, so that no one else could hear, "You paired me up with her!"

Iruka had met Anko a few times before, she gave him the impression that she was a rather loud, bossy, cheeky type of woman…the type of woman that Iruka would not have chosen for a girlfriend.

"What's wrong with that?" Kakashi said smiling intensely at the frustrated iruka.

Ayame sat next to Kakashi, greeting him with a big hug and Anko sat next to Iruka who forced a smile.

"So…Iruka" she said warmly, "how have you been?"

"Um…fine…you?" Iruka felt more relaxed to this soft version of Anko.

"Well…I'm great…um…" Anko giggled, "…have you checked the internet recently?"

"No, why?" Iruka questioned curiously, sipping his wine again.

Anko cleared her throat, her hair was down today and was lusciously spread across her shoulders. Anko struggled not to blush and then announced, "There's an um…well a picture of you nude on there…"

Iruka sprayed his wine all over Kakashi's face again,

"Aren't you getting sick of doing that?" Kakashi mumbled as Ayame reached for a cloth and began patting his precious face with it.

Everyone on their table had turned to face Iruka, curious to see what had caused his second spray of wine on Kakashi.

"Nude!" Iruka squealed, "NUDE!"

"Hey, hey, don't worry 'bout it Iruka-kun" Genma smiled, "My naked ass is up there too."

"But, but…but…" Iruka stared at the table and couldn't find any words to say.

"Relax…" Anko said, lifting Iruka's worried face up to look at hers, "…your's was a very sexy butt that was posted there."

And then Anko pulled Iruka's cutely stunned face towards her and she kissed him until everyone sat at the table screamed "Whooo! Get in there Iruka!"

"Ahh…that's soo romantic," Ayame sighed and snuggled closer to the grinning Kakashi.

Iruka stared dazed at the cutely blushing Anko and then mumbled "Arigato", before blacking out and falling forwards onto the table.

Anko reached forwards and patted Iruka on the head, "Aww…how cute…" she whispered as the waiteress came round to collect their orders.

Each couple placed their orders and when it came to Iruka's turn, Anko smiled stroking Iruka's soft hair, "We'll have the lovebird special, thanks."

When Iruka regained conciousness, everyone was chatting amongst themselves and Anko was still stroking Iruka's hair,

"Huh?" he mumbled, not quite sure what had just happened.

Anko beamed at the still dazed Iruka and reached for a spoon, to scoop up their elegantly made 'lovebird special'.

The 'lovebird special' was presented in a large heart shaped plate and was pleasantly filled with dyed pink rice and spicy sauce layered over a grand selection of meat and vegetables.

"Wha?…How come there's only one pl-?" Iruka questioned stupidly, as anko quicky spoonfed Iruka the delicious food.

The meal went on successfully as Kakashi had planned and by the end of that evening, Anko was in the no longer shy, Iruka's lap. However Iruka was looking a little glum now that he realised everyone had eaten and were bringing out money to pay the bill. Kakashi grinned and flicked a rice at Iruka's head, "Hey Iruka-kun…don't worry the night isn't over yet."

The four couples walked arm in arm towards Kakashi's apartment, people walking past in the streets thought perhaps valentines day had come early.

Iruka was in high spirits, higher than he'd probably ever been before and the not so loud, bossy or cheeky Anko was cuddling against his body, yep…Iruka was feeling really happy.

Kakashi welcomed everyone into his home sweet home and let them fill up his living room. Kakashi and Ayame were closely sat together on his black leather sofa and Gekkou and Yugao did the same but on the sofa opposite. The apartment was small yet cosy, but still cramped, so Shizune ended up sitting on Genma who sat lazilyon the floor. And Iruka had perched himself on Kakashi's only cushion, a very cute red one with white hearts all over it and Anko by his side, her head leaning against his shoulder.

"Okay, okay…" Gekkou smiled, producing a familiar deck of gold rimmed cards, "Who's up for strip poker?"

These words whirred around in Iruka's mind for a moment and then he said rather loudly, "Oh no…not again Gekkou…I don't wanna end up running butt naked everywhere again"

Gekkou surpressed a laugh at Iruka's expression then replied, "Don't worry Iruka, there'll be no alcohol this time, so we won't be doin' anything stupid this time okay?"

Iruka relaxed a little at these words, but looked across at Kakashi for reasurance and Kakashi smiled cheerily at him, so Iruka mumbled, "Okay…"

Gekkou dealed the cards and the game began.

At first everyone was doing fine, but then Iruka, for some reason kept on losing. Off came the jacket, off came the sweatshirt and rather embarassed, Iruka pulled his pants off too.

"Damn it!" Iruka thought to himself, "Why is it always me?"

Kakashi grinned as if reading Iruka's mind, "Don't worry Iruka-kun, you've still got your forehead protector to take off, before your cute little undies."

Iruka blushed and decided to place the red cuhion on his lap, hiding his 'cute little undies'.

As the night went on, every one ended up almost naked, and as usual Gekkou was always the one that was winning. Yugao smiled at her boyfriend, who was still clothed in pants, "You're cheating aren't you Gekkou-kun?" she questionned curiously.

Everyone was down to their underwear all except Gekkou, so Yugao decided to even the odds by greatly distracting him in the next round. At first she was just stroking his hair, but then she decided to stroke his chest instead, and Gekkou losing concentration, lost his pants and his bandana in the next couple of rounds.

Iruka, felt very awkward again, he was losing so badly, he'd lost all of his clothes, including the bobble he used to tie up his hair. And was clutching the cushion tightly, desperate not to expose anything.

"Don't worry Iruka baby, your cute little ass is already on the Internet…so you don't have to be so shy…"

Anko was about to kiss Iruka for the seventh time that day when suddenly there was a knock at the door. Everyone froze and Kakashi calmly walked over to the door, in just his tightie whities. And who would be standing there but Naruto with his pesky digital camera, "Say Cheese!" he laughed and took as many pictures as he could, before the room full of people got up and chased after him. Naruto sped through the streets, still taking random pics of the almost nude people behind him.

Iruka had quickly thrown his pants on before following everyone in trying to catch Naruto. But then the laughing little blonde, used kage bunshin no jutsu and all his replications ran wild in all directions, into many different streets.

About ten minutes later they'd given up and gathered outside on a bridge over a peaceful flowing river.

"Damn that Naruto, he's disappeared!" Genma cursed, "but hey, at least I wasn't completely nude this time!"

"Oh shut it Genma," Gekkou said smiling, "You were loving it, posing and flexin' those tidgey muscles of yours".

Iruka stared into the river glumly, he had been nude, if it wasn't for the cushion…but racking his brains he was sure his cushion fell away when he stood up in shock as Naruto showed up brandishing his camera. "Damn it," Iruka thought, "It'd better not end up on the Internet again."