Okay, so it's definitely going to be yaoi, sorry het lovers. And this chapter gets a bit naughty at the end. Just a warning.

Chapter 9

Recap

Thin shoulders shrugged. "The way he tells it, catching Mizuki for the traitor he was, was part of the plan. Iruka's involvement and the subsequent advancement of Naruto officially in the ninja ranks was all an accident. Kind of funny how it works that way."

Both adults sat silently for a while, contemplating how living the life of an ANBU would affect a child. Finally, Tsunade stood up.

"Well, if we're done here, Ibiki-chan, it's my nap time." She announced, dropping the secrecy jutsus and walking out the door without waiting for an answer. The man laughed, and left as well.

And heavy secrets echoed in an empty office.

Naruto stared at the blond woman incredulously. "You- you did what? After all of mine and the old man's hard work, after all of my duplicity, you just go and have a reveal all with one of my teammates? Do you want me to die, baa-chan? Because that's what's going to happen. He's going to tell someone, whether it be an accident or on purpose, and that someone is going to tell someone, and that someone is going to tell someone, until the whole shinobi force of Konoha will know, and then none of them will trust me ever again, and then I'll die on a mission without the back up of my own team, and then they'll all celebrate, and then-"

"NARUTO!" The deceptively young looking woman called, breaking him out of his hysterics. "Good, now, two things, first… did you say all of that in one breath?"

"Tsunade-baa-chan!" Naruto groaned.

"Fine, fine. Anyway, after working so long and intimately with you, I think your team at least deserves to know. They should know you well enough that even though they think Naruto is the incarnate of Kyuubi, that, after knowing you, you're not really. I mean, you're an ANBU captain that fights tooth and nail for Konoha." Tsunade declared, before stating primly, "And stop calling me old."

She paused as a strange look came over the teenager's face. His eyes, which had been so expressive before immediately grew cold, and it was like a shutter had closed on his emotions. When he spoke again, t was more formal than he'd ever been.

"Hokage-sama, I have live in this village, protected this village, all of my life. Even to this day, my persona as Naruto Uzumaki is hated, despised, shunned. He is a chuunin, on his way to being a jounin. If he's not accepted even now, well, he may never be." The blond spoke of himself as if he was two different people. And, in a way, he was. Neither of which showed exactly who he was.

Tsunade blinked in shock for a moment, before it hit her, really hit her, that the boy was right. Konoha citizens and ninja hated him as much now as they had the day he had been sealed.

And from the way he had described it, she had just signed the teenager's death certificate.

"Well, fuck."

Naruto made his way back to his apartment, deep in thought, though conscious enough of his mask enough to be singing a cheery, made up song about the god-like qualities of ramen. He knew he was being watched. Really, he was almost always watched. An ANBU teammate, the civilians, deranged people wanting to kill him… which really fell under the civilian category, sadly enough.

It didn't take long until he felt someone beside him on both sides, and looked up to see Sai and Gaara glaring at each other from either side of him.

"Hi, guys!" He said cheerfully, wondering what was going on between the two males. Both looked at him at the same time, frowning.

"What's the matter, Naruto?" Gaara asked quietly.

Sai followed up with a "You usually don't sing nonsense songs about ramen unless you're really depressed."

Naruto kept smiling, leading his two closest friends to his apartment. "I'll tell you when we get to my house. It's nothing I can say in the open." He murmured. The others nodded seriously.

Unnoticed by them, Sasuke stopped shopping to watch them, frowning in irritation. Before he had left the village, he considered himself Naruto's best friend, and privy to all of the blonde's secrets, now, he felt pushed to the side and left out. It wasn't a comfortable place to be.

Ibiki watched the trio from a rooftop, wondering how much the other two knew about his captain. He followed close behind, swiftly jumping from rooftop to rooftop, finally landing in the tree outside the blonde's apartment as they walked into the building.

He saw the boys walk in, and Naruto told the other two to make themselves at home while he went to change.

They just spent that whole time glaring menacingly at each other, much to Ibiki's amusement.

Naruto came out clad only in a pair of sleeper pants decorated with green frogs, and from the way green and black eyes followed the scantily clad boy as he moved around the apartment, Ibiki could figure out what they were silently fighting over, though, true to form, Naruto stayed oblivious. The blond quickly made tea, and motioned for his friends to sit down on one of the sofas.

The small apartment was in surprisingly good shape, and very well decorated, though when Naruto wasn't home, it was under a genjutsu to look just as decrepit and ugly as the day he purchased it. Any damage done was only an illusion, the genjutsu set to understand what was going to happen, and make it look like it did.

The apparent rivals sat on either side of the blond, taking their teacups and smiling gently at their friend, almost in sync, causing Ibiki to grin.

"So, Naruto, what has you so depressed?" Gaara asked, placing a hand on his fellow vessel's shoulder. Naruto sighed and set down his tea.

"Well, today, apparently Tsunade-baa-chan found it prudent to reveal my identity to one of my teammates. If he tells anyone, word will spread quickly, and though none of the other ANBU would even think of trying to kill me after that, they certainly won't help me on missions. I'm strong, yeah, but I'm not perfect. I will die without any back up." Naruto told them, and the two teenagers growled simultaneously.

"If that happens, Naruto, then I want you to come to Suna with me, as an ambassador or something. Even with your identity known, my people won't really care; they deal with me, don't they?" Gaara commanded.

"You could always join ROOT. We're so deep in cover that the Hokage doesn't even know about us." Sai suggested.

Naruto nodded thoughtfully at Gaara's suggestion, but looked incredulously at Sai. "You want me to put myself under Danzo's thumb? Do you know what he'd have me do?" Sai sighed n defeat.

"I know. It was only a suggestion."

Naruto smiled and hugged his friends, happy that they even cared enough about him to want to help.

Outside the window, Ibiki frowned. Did Kitsune-taicho really distrust him that much? Then again, thinking back, the bow was shunned in public by him and the rest of their teammates, save for Kakashi, but even he preferred the Uchiha over Naruto… Well fuck, now he would definitely work twice as hard to keep the secret and earn his captain's unquestioning trust, like these two boys seemed to have done.

~~This is where things get naughty!~~

A lusty moan filled the room as Kakashi slid up the smaller, lithe body pressed against his. He tweaked pink nipples until they were erect and aching.

"Please…" The other person, obviously male if the thing poking into his thigh said anything, begged. Kakashi smirked.

He ran his tongue down the chest of the bed's other occupant, visiting the same nipples his hands had been abusing moments ago. The other person arched and cried out.

Finally burying himself into the tight heat of his lover, who had his face pressed into the mattress, though his blissful moans could still be heard. He thrust wildly into the tight heat surrounding his erection, whispering dirty things to the man underneath him.

"Do you like having my cock in your ass, taicho? You're so tight."

Finally both men reached completion, and Kakashi collapsed on the other body, which turned to face him.

And the ANBU found himself looking into the eyes of none other than his excitable student, Naruto Uzumaki.

~~Naughtiness Ends Here!~~

Kakashi sat up gasping, alone in bed and highly relieved. It was only a dream. A vivid dream, but a dream nonetheless.

The man was embarrassed to realize that the sheets and his boxers were wet, and made his way into the bathroom, highly confused.

My first time writing anything even remotely similar to smut. I didn't do too bad, right? Well, I guess I need to keep practicing. And reading more citrus. A really taxing assignment, I know. Any~who, that's the last of my needed updates for now, so now, at 5 o' clock in the morning, it's bedtime!