Iruka was quite tired out from the night before. He'd spent it dining and basically chilling out with his friends and his…new girlfriend. Iruka blushed happily at any mention of her, or even himself thinking of her. And since he was nearly always thinking of her, every second, of every minute, of every hour…Iruka today basically walked around like a cute little blushing idiot.
Iruka still found the prospect of actually having a girlfriend a bit weird…but in a good way, the feeling he got when he actually told someone, "Yep, Anko and Me are an item…" It just sent pleasant shivers up and down his spine. Anko had given him the most amazingly long and sweet kiss yesterday night and Iruka was still feeling it.
"Ohio! Iruka-kun!" Kakashi said cheerily patting Iruka on the back as he made his journey across the bridge again.
"Whoa! Kakashi!" Iruka said, nearly dropping his box of student's homework again.
"So how is the little lovebird this morning?"
Iruka blushed from cute pink to bright red, "Uh…I'm fine…arigato…for um…you know…"
Kakashi smiled with the upside-down 'U' shaped eye and chuckled, "What are friends for, eh?"
Iruka shifted the box in his hands and then decided to drop it onto the floor instead and he gave the surprised Kakashi, an appreciative bear hug, "Oh! Kakashi I love you! Arigato! Arigato!"
"Whoa! Iruka-kun…don't you think you should be saying that to her?"
Iruka turned round and his eyes lit up in the most adorable way ever, like an excited puppy dog.
"Anko-sama…" Iruka whispered, "ANKO-SAMA!"
The couple ran up to each other excitedly and came together in a warm hug.
"Hmm…Iruka-baby…you're so warm…"
Kakashi watched as the lovebirds stared affectionately into each other's eyes and whispered, "I love you…" before Anko kissed Iruka and made him melt like chocolate on a hot day.
Kakashi grinned before taking out his latest edition of 'Icha Icha Paradise' and disappearing via the rooftops.
Kakashi was just a magical man; he always seemed to find a way to make everyone happy.
Anko said, "I love you…" About fifty more times before kissing Iruka gently on the cheek and also disappearing.
"Hmm…" Iruka mumbled softly to himself, "…I wuv you Anko-samaaaa…"
By the time Iruka got to class he was already ten minutes late and a cheeky Konohamaru shouted, "Sensei! Sensei! You were nude on the internet again!"
Normally Iruka would have got pissed off easily at a statement like this, but today he couldn't care less if Konohamaru came up to him and kicked him in the face.
Halfway through his lesson, at which Iruka was getting his students to write a bit about all the different villages, a kunai whizzed through the window and stuck itself to the chalkboard.
"Aiiii! We're under attack!" Konohamaru screamed, diving under his desk, at which his two friends Moegi and Udon also followed.
Iruka was just as shocked at first, as the kunai had disrupted one of his romantic Anko daydreams.
"What the…!" Iruka dodged as another three kunai whizzed past him and embedded themselves into the chalkboard.
Iruka looked up cautiously from behind his desk, the attacks had stopped, and all the students were already under their desks, some crying and some whispering worriedly.
Iruka stood up slowly and realised that each kunai had a pink piece of paper attached to it. He looked at the first note, 'Iruka-baby!' It said. The next ones were 'I Love You!', 'See You Later' and 'Sweet Kisses 4U!'.
He held read over the love notes a few more times, then he inhaled their wondrous Anko perfume smell and held the notes close to his heart.
"Sensei?" Konohamaru yelled from under his desk, "Are we all gonna die!"
Many of the students looked bravely over the tops of their desks, but Iruka wasn't listening, he was just too busy staring out the window and into the sky. Damn Iruka…you're madly in love!
After the classes were over for the day, the majority of students couldn't wait to get home, they'd spent all morning, dealing with a strangely dazed and annoyingly ignorant Iruka. Some girls giggled at the way Iruka had a permanent blush attached to his expression, but Iruka didn't even notice.
As soon as Iruka left the academy Anko rushed excitedly up to him screaming, "Iruka-baby! I've got some great news!"
Iruka caught the giddy woman in his arms and let his box of work carelessly tip onto the floor.
"Oh Iruka-baby! Konoha is going to make a calendar!"
"…" Iruka wondered why Anko was so excited.
"It's been set up by Tsunade and Kakashi to raise money for the academy and I think…"
At this point Anko was overcome with a fit of cute hysteria and she had to nuzzle her face into Iruka's warm chest in an attempt to stop.
"What? Anko-sama?" Iruka asked softly, looking into the deep eyes of Anko.
"…I think…it's a NUDE calendar!"
Anko cuddled Iruka tightly and then mumbled about how there was going to be a vote for the men who are going to be in the calendar.
Iruka raised an eyebrow, a funny expression on his face, "N-Nude?"
"Oh! I'm going to vote for you over and over! You just have to be in the calendar, Iruka-baby!"
Iruka had been a quite uncomfortable that two nude pictures of him had found their way onto the Internet. But if he was nude on a calendar, he wouldn't just be nude on the Internet; he'd also be nude hanging up in people's homes.
Iruka blushed deep crimson, "Anko-sama…I-I don't think it's a good idea…"
"Of course it is! It's for charity! And I get to hang a nude picture of you on my wall! It's wonderful! Oh Iruka-baby!"
Iruka was about to protest again, but Anko was too quick for him and she covered his mouth with her lips.
"Mmm…mmm…" Iruka turned to melted chocolate again and Anko winked naughtily before saying goodbye and disappearing again.
"Aww…man…" Iruka mumbled sadly to himself, "…a nude calendar…that's miles worse than strip poker…"
Iruka spent a few hours trying to mark homework in his quaint little apartment, but he just couldn't concentrate. He was about to give up for the night and just watch TV instead, when there was a knock on his door.
"Iruka-kun…" A happy voice said from the other side of the door.
Iruka opened the door and welcomed Kakashi in. They both sat in the living room, in the dusty blue armchairs and Kakashi's face had frozen with that cute upside down 'U' shaped eye expression.
"So…" Kakashi started, "…you heard about the calendar?"
Iruka frowned at these words and mumbled, "Yeah, but I really don't wanna be in it!"
Kakashi took off his mask and Iruka could see how extremely excited Kakashi was, "…but Iruka-kun! It'll be so cool! It's like being a model or something! You have to be in it!"
Iruka observed Kakashi intently before sighing and mumbling, "…I don't wanna be nude…I look weird when I'm nude…"
"What! Iruka-kun! Gai's WAY weirder than you and he still wants to be in it!"
Iruka stared at his feet for a moment, "…but…I don't wanna show my…um…bits…"
Kakashi broke out in quiet laughter, "Iruuuuka! You don't have to worry 'bout that! You're bits will be covered up in the photo shoot!"
Iruka blushed, feeling very idiotic, "Oh…that's okay then…I guess..."
"Okay then!" Kakashi said bouncing out of the armchair, "I'll go add your name to the voting list then!"
And before Iruka could protest or say no, Kakashi hopped out the window and vanished.
The next day as Iruka was on his way to the academy, he noticed that a huge board was placed outside the Hokage's place. A lot of male ninja's names were on it, including Iruka's and it was presented like a table, with a number against each name.
"Aww…man…" Iruka mumbled as he went to take a closer look.
It was the voting scores for the men's nude calendar and along the bottom it said, 'Men's Nude Calendar Voting Scores, will be updated daily. Votes can be submitted on a piece of paper, addressed to the Hokage Tsunade, voting ends on Friday'.
Today was Friday, so that meant people had exactly a week to cast their votes. Iruka looked at how many voted he had so far, "Hmm…four…that's not so bad…" His eyes wandered over to Kakashi's name, "…fifty-two!…No way!"
"Impressive isn't it?" A voice said from Iruka's astonished side.
Iruka turned sadly towards the speaker who was a very annoyed looking Gai sensei.
"Kakashi…my rival…is winning me by fifty-one votes! Damn it!"
Iruka looked sympathetically at the watery-eyed Gai, "…Don't worry…there's still a week to go…"
Gai sensei struck his sparkly-toothed 'nice guy' pose and then vanished. Iruka sighed heavily and made his way over to the academy. All his students were excitedly talking about the nude calendar competition, and Iruka couldn't really shut them up for long enough to teach them anything today.
As Iruka dismissed the class for the day, Konohamaru and crew walked cheerily up to Iruka's desk and shouted happily, "Iruka sensei! My Mum says she'll vote for you!"
"Mine 'sniffle' too…" Udon mumbled.
"Yep! And mine!" Moegi giggled.
Iruka awkwardly thanked them and left the academy, meeting a very joyous Anko on the way.
"Ooh! Iruka-baby! I've sent fifty votes to Tsunade! You'll be in the calendar for sure!"
Iruka blushed immensely, "Um…arigato…but you really don't have to…"
Anko squeezed Iruka in a very tight hug, (Iruka was turning a pretty shade of blue), "Oh Iruka-baby! Of course I have to! Or else I'm not worthy of taking the title of girlfriend!"
Iruka smiled and mumbled "arigato" again, before asking Anko sheepishly, "…Do you want to go out tonight?"
Anko squealed and jumped up and down, making her cleavage jiggle hypnotically in front of Iruka's tomato-red face.
"I'd love to! How about we go over to your place! I'll get everyone round again to play strip poker…and when you lose…" Anko had the most devilish grin on her face, "…when you lose, you can practise some poses for the calendar!"
Iruka stopped staring at Anko's jiggly bits and settled his gaze on her face instead, he'd wanted to have a date…alone…without his noisy friends and their strip poker, but if Anko wanted that, then Iruka would let her have it her way.
"Yeah, okay Anko-sama." Iruka said quietly, as Anko reached up to kiss him.
Later that night at around 7pm, Anko, Kakashi and Ayame, Genma and Shizune, and Gekkou and Yugao filled Iruka's very small living room. Gekkou brought out his usual gold-rimmed deck of cards and the game begun.
7.30…Iruka had lost his entire top half of clothes Kakashi had lost his jacket, Genma lost his bandana and Shizune her blouse.
8pm…Iruka only had his boxer shorts and head protector left, Kakashi had only his boxer shorts left, Genma had only his bottom half, Ayame and Anko were just their undergarments, Yugao however was only in her knickers and was using the giddy Gekkou to hide herself from the others.
8.30pm…everyone has been stripped down to their birthday suits except Gekkou, who still has his bottom half completely clothed. Yugao, thought this was unfair, so she dived on Gekkou, and decide to playfully take his clothes by force.
Iruka was hugging a cushion as usual, he just had to…especially since a very hot nude Anko was sitting next to him. He was feeling relatively warm and sweaty…even though the temperature of the room was quite cool…hmm I wonder why?
"Hmm…don't you just love strip poker?" Anko whispered softly into Iruka's ear. Iruka clutched the cushion even tighter and Anko playfully bit his ear.
"Mmm…yeah… love it…" Iruka mumbled dreamily as his cheeks rapidly flushed.
The girls put their clothes back on and sat giddily together, ready to playfully judge as the guy's practised poses. Genma put one had on his hip and he flexed an arm, with a mischievous grin on his face.
"Ooh! Ten points!" Shizune screamed immediately.
"Hmm…I give seven…" Anko said, trying to keep a straight face.
"Yep me too…" giggled Ayame.
"Hey! C'mon ladies!" Genma whined, putting on his cutest face ever.
"Fine…how 'bout…eight points then?" Yugao said as a slightly disappointed Genma went and put his clothes back on.
Gekkou stood up, "Eh…hem…'cough'…how's this?"
The women watched quietly as Gekkou took out his deck of cards, flicked them from hand to hand and spread them into a neat fan shape, before holding them over his groin.
"Ooh…Very cute pose!" Yugao shouted, blowing kisses to him, Ten! Ten! Ten!"
"At least it's cooler than Genma's…Eight!" Anko laughed.
"Seven" Ayame mumbled, excited for Kakashi's turn.
"Hmm…Eight…" said Shizune, watching Genma twitching his toothpick pretending not to care.
"Okay…My turn…" Kakashi said cheerily, standing up.
"Wow!" Ayame screamed, her eyes turning into heart shapes.
Kakashi walked over to the stunned Ayame and kissed her long and hard.
"Ten!" all the girls screamed.
"Aww…why?" Genma protested.
"'Cause you didn't come over and kiss me!" Shizune mocked him playfully.
"Fine I'll do it now!" Genma said practically leaping onto the giggling Shizune.
As Shizune and Genma stared naughtily into each other's eyes, Iruka gave a sigh of relief, maybe they'd just forget about his turn. Iruka was about to start putting on his clothes again when Kakashi tapped him on the shoulder, "Iruka-kun…it's your turn…"
'Damn it!' Iruka thought to himself.
Iruka stood up nervously in front of everyone, the cushion still tightly gripped tightly, covering his lower region.
"C'mon Iruka! Show us what you got!" Anko yelled heartily.
Iruka placed a shaky hand behind his head, but kept the other hand firmly on the cushion.
"Aww…very cute!" The girls giggled excitedly, "He's striking the 'shy guy' pose!"
"Ten!" They all said happily as Iruka quickly went to put his clothes back on.
It was way past ten and since everyone had to be up early for work the next day, they decided it was time to leave.
"Bye Iruka-kun!" Genma, Shizune, Gekkou and Yugao said merrily upon exiting.
Kakashi winked and left arm in arm with Ayame.
Anko how ever, was still sat in an armchair.
"Um…Anko-sama…aren't you going?" Iruka asked quietly, his arm leaning against the door.
"Ooh…Iruka-baby…" Anko whispered from deep within her throat, "I feel like celebrating…"
"Celebrating what?" Iruka asked softly, closing the door and perching on the arm of the armchair.
"Celebrating us!" Anko suddenly squealed pulling Iruka down for a passionate kiss.
"Mmm…mmm…"Iruka mumbled, as her hot lips touched his.
Under Anko's instructions, Iruka fetched a bottle of wine from the kitchen, it was quite old and Iruka had been saving it for a special occasion, which never actually came, except till maybe now. Iruka poured Anko and himself a very large very full glass of the beautiful red liquid and they drank it giddily. They 'celebrated' until the whole wine bottle was empty.
"Iruka-baby!" Anko squealed, "I want to go look at the stars!"
"Of course Anko-sama!" Iruka replied feeling slightly drunk, damn that wine was strong!
Iruka and Anko left the apartment, arm in arm and ended up on the bridge. The sky was clear and dotted with beautiful glittering stars and the couple stood transfixed for a moment watching them.
"Anko-sama…I love you…" Iruka mumbled, holding Anko tightly.
"Iruka-baby…I love you too…" Anko said breathlessly, then she added cheekily, "Wanna go skinny dipping?"
"Hmm…yah…that's sounds fun…"
And so the two stripped off on the bridge and leapt into the gentle river holding each other's hands.
They floated about and kissed, they swam about and kissed, romance was just oozing out of their pores that night.
The next morning, Anko was lying in Iruka's very comfy bed and Iruka was sprawled cutely across the floor, drooling slightly. Anko awoke first, carefully putting a pillow under his head and the covers over his naked body. Anko stared at Iruka for a moment recording this sweet image into her mind, and then she kissed Iruka gently on the lips and left for work. Iruka snuggled up at Anko's touch and carried on dreaming, a blissful grin on his face.
