"Help the homeless. Take me home with you."

Iruka rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as he sat up. The incessant knocking that had woken him still hadn't stopped. He groaned, rolling out of his bed clumsily as he made his way to the door.

He cursed when he stubbed his foot against the coffee table and decided to glare at whomever it was that had woken him up. As a teacher who woke up early in the morning as it was, Iruka knew it was way to early for people to be knocking on his door in the first place.

"What the—" Iruka yanked the door open, quite ready to give the person a piece of his mind when he was abruptly cut off by a silver blur that pushed right passed him and into his home.

The teacher could only stare dumbfounded at the jounin now currently making himself at home on his couch.

"Kakashi-sensei…" Iruka groaned, rubbing his temple wearily and shutting the door with a resigned sigh, "Why are you here and just what do you think you're doing?"

"Apartment's flooded. I'm staying in your house, hope you don't mind." Kakashi grinned cheerfully, pulling out spare clothes from his pack as he made his way to Iruka's bathroom, "Mind if I use your shampoo? Thank you! Didn't bring any."

"Not a problem, wait what? Where do you think you're going!" Iruka's brain was obviously on the slow side as it raced to catch up with the silver headed man's words, "Kakashi-sensei!"

His roar of confusion fell upon deaf ears as the jounin had already locked himself in the bathroom and Iruka could hear the shower running. Moaning, he made his way to the kitchen and started making some tea.

Hey, if you can't beat them, join them.

Half an hour later, Kakashi and Iruka were settled awkwardly across from each other at the kitchen table. The jounin in nothing but a pair of grey sweats and the chuunin, blushing up a storm while squirming in his dark blue pajamas.

"So…."

"Yes."

Iruka blinked, he hadn't even asked a question. Of course, he had to remind his now more awake brain that there was no logic to jounins. They were just a whole other level of insanity and some place normal people just didn't go.

Nodding silently to each other, there seemed to be some sort of unspoken agreement that came across and the two rose. One retired to his bed to salvage any amount of sleep he could, while the other promptly lay on the couch to read more porn before getting some rest.

It would be many weeks later that Iruka realized that one, certain silver haired jounin had never returned to his own apartment and two, said jounin did not seem to have any intention of doing so.

It annoyed the chuunin to no end when he realized that he'd also never heard anything about a flooded apartment and that well…he didn't feel like bringing it up, because he'd gotten used to Kakashi being there in the apartment.

In fact, he couldn't quite imagine not seeing the extra toothbrush at his sink, he couldn't imagine his house devoid of that canine smell and he couldn't imagine his life without the teasing and annoying comments that often filled the house.

"You are evil!"

"What are you talking about Iruka-koi?"

"You tricked me!"

"Ehh….."

"Don't you 'ehh…' me! You lied and tricked and wormed and argh!"

"Maybe you should take a deep breath Ruka."

"Insufferable jounins!"