Hey, I did not expect to update so soon. I want to thank everyone that reviewed and put alerts on this story. There was one question: Is Madara looking for the 1-9 tailed beasts for the Juubi or the Juubi itself. In this one he is looking for the Juubi itself.

There is some SasuNaru in this chapter and will probably be throughout the length of this story. Who I decide to pair characters with is my decision and though I do value the opinions of you readers, this is my decision so please just bear with it.

Well enjoy the first chapter:

The Broken Present

Iruka stood in front of the blackboard, writing out the tactical basics of shurikenjutsu, all the while keeping his ears in tune for… Ah, there it was. That week of quiet time had flown by as if it had never happened in the first place.

"Tanaka, I suggest you write down these notes and put away that straw filled with a gum ball," he said, without even needing to look over his shoulder.

"Ah, Iruka-sensei!" the boy whined. "You weren't supposed to pick up on what I was doing until the gum ball hit the back of your head!" He jumped out of his seat and fisted his hands, pointing angrily at his sensei. "Just wait, Iruka-sensei, I'll get you someday!"

"Even a monkey would have seen through your plan." The chuunin sensei sighed, facing his class. They were all snickering at Tanaka's latest failure to lure his sensei into an amateur prank. "You are too noisy, so sit back down." Iruka turned back to the blackboard, continuing with his teachings. He made a mental note to scold Naruto and Konohamaru about creating such a nuisance –an amateur prankster on top of it– over diner the next time he saw him.

The chuunin continued on until the lunch break, and even then he sat down at his desk to get a head start on the tests he had to grade before tomorrow. Taking a red marker in hand he started the tedious task of trying to find marks beneath dozens of different variations of the first rule of being a shinobi. He had barely made a dent in the tower of papers when the students started flooding back into the class.

Iruka simply continued from where he had left off with the lesson and gave them a page essay about the purpose of shinobi saying number twenty-five. He ignored the high pitched pleas and name callings.

"Well, if you put it that way," he paused, just to get their attention, "then I really have no choice but to give you a test for tomorrow instead… what a shame."

"I-iruka-sensei, w-we didn't mean! Really!" His plan had worked, now all the students were agreeing to the essay, anything to get out of a test. The students packed their back and ran out of the classroom, leaving the chuunin in peace.

The sensei gathered all remaining tests and put them in his satchel. He looked over his lesson plan for the remainder of the week. He altered it so that he could fit some weapons practice in before the weekend. It was nearly four-thirty when he was satisfied with it and finally left his classroom.

Iruka went straight to his apartment, not really feeling like putting on a cheery smile for people. He made a quick stop at the grocer to get some milk and fresh vegetables.

"Oi, Iruka-sensei!" His plan was not turning out to much success.

"Oh, hello, Shikamaru-kun," he greeted politely, putting that cheery smile on his face. "Is there something I can help you with?"

The young man walked up to his former sensei in no immediate hurry. "Nn. Hokage-sama is looking for you and she wishes to see you immediately."

"Why now all of a sudden?"

Shikamaru shrugged. "How would I know such a troublesome thing? She told me to wait until you finished your day at the Academy."

Iruka mentally sighed. He really was hoping to postpone the inevitable, but it could not be helped. The sensei said his thanks to the younger man and left to go see Tsunade. There was really no doubt about why she wanted to see him. It has been a good three months since he last had to see her over such a matter.

The chuunin set his path now to the Hokage Tower. Sure, he was instructed to get there immediately, but it was not as if he could just run over there with an armful of groceries. It took him a good ten minutes to reach the doors to Tsunade's office. Iruka gently put down his packet and knocked on the door. He heard a tired sigh and tempered 'come in'.

"Good Evening, Hokage-sama," he greeted, bowing before looking at the woman. Tsunade was practically buried in paperwork, something that the chuunin-sensei could sympathize with.

"Ah, Iruka-sensei," she greeted, looking at him from behind her mountain of work. "I was wondering if you got my message."

"Gomen nasai, Tsunade-sama, I had a long day at the Academy before I got the message from Shikamaru-kun."

Tsunade sighed, getting up from her chair and making her way to the chuunin. "Well, let's get going, I'm not getting any younger you know."

"Hai, Hokage-sama," Iruka followed her –reluctantly- to the Konoha Hospital. He looked around for any signs of Sakura, but the pink-haired medic was nowhere to be seen.

Tsunade worked her way through the maze of white corridors, finally stopping at a private examination room. She opened the door and went right in, opening the window to let a cool breeze draft through the sterile scented room. Unlike the other examination rooms, this one was only used by Tsunade to check up on the most critical cases. Jounin had to come to this room bi-annually for a full body examination. This room was one, Iruka knew well.

Nothing had changed. The white curtains were as crisp as they were the first time he had an examination with the Godaime. The examination table was even covered with the same exact shade of swallow white. The chuunin did not even have to be told what to do; he methodically stripped himself of his flak jacket and shirt, toeing off his sandals before he sat down on the bed.

Tsunade was on the far end of the room, shifting through medical files, taken, most of them belonged jounins, in fact the entire collection of cabinets were filled with jounin medical files alone, however, she had put Iruka's file in the same cabinet. He was a special case and Tsunade did not want to get the file through means of passing hands. She had kept the file with all the other off-limit files that belonged to jounins and ANBU members.

"Don't look at me with that face," she said, putting the file on the empty desk. "You know as well as I do, that you need nearly monthly appointments, but with all the hassle lately, I haven't been able to do a check-up in three whole months."

The chuunin could not help but sigh. "Hai Tsunade-sama."

Tsunade opened the file and flipped through the pages to the last details of the last check-up. Closing the file, she walked over to Iruka, who had already lain down on his back, staring blankly at the white tiled ceiling.

The old woman focused chakra in her hands and let them roam over the expanse of tanned flesh in front of her. "Have you been feeling different lately?"

"No." He just wanted to leave.

"Has everything been functioning properly?"

"Yes," he said monotonously. "As you can see I can still wriggle my fingers and toes."

Tsunade clicked her tongue on the roof of her mouth. "Don't fool around, you know what I meant."

Iruka knew what she meant but it should have been obvious. "Yes, everything it functioning as it should be."

The Godaime sighed. She knew he hated doing this, but it was a necessity. "Alright, then show me."

XxxxX

The sun was starting to set, and Konoha was slowly preparing to retire for the day. However, that was not what a certain blonde had in mind. He sprinted through the trees, barely being able to contain his excitement of returning home after a two week mission in the Stone Country. All Naruto wanted was to return home and embrace a heart-warming welcome from his lover. The gates were in sight now. A wide grin spread on his lips.

A small patch of silver was seen in the corner of his cerulean blue eyes. The blonde came to a complete holt, having an internal debate whether or not to investigate it. In the end, his curiosity got the better of him. He leapt over the wide branches to where he had seen that little patch of silver. Exhaling, he crept nearer to the tree, ready to draw a kunai if he needed to.

What he saw was the last thing he had expected to see.

"Kakashi?" Naruto called out, crouching near his former sensei. The jounin did not even twitch. "Eh, Kakashi!" The blonde practically shouted his name, but even then it drew no response from the older man.

"You over worked the Sharingan again, didn't you?" He asked rhetorically. "Well, looks like I'll just have to haul you over to Tsunade-baachan then."

The blonde lifted the silver-haired man over his shoulders. The jounin was a bit heavier than he had expected. Naruto sped through the forest to the gates and even then he did not stop. He went straight to the Hokage Tower. Naruto barged right into her office without knocking.

"Tsunade-baachan, I have a present for you!"

"I don't want anything from you," she said coolly. The Hokage had her nose buried in reports and some other paperwork.

Naruto grinned at that. "Sorry, this one doesn't have a return slip."

Tsunade looked up from her work. She was exhausted; she had spent her entire day at her desk and on top of that had to perform a full body exam on Iruka earlier. What she wanted was a big cup of sake. "What the hell do y-" Tsunade could not believe her eyes. Naruto stood there in the middle of her office with none other than Hatake Kakashi over his shoulder. The Godaime gave a long sigh. She should have expected this to happen; she was working the silver-haired brat a bit too hard lately. Back-to-back A and S rank missions meant he would have had to resort to the Sharingan from time to time.

"Take him to the hospital; I'll be there in a minute." Actually she would give anything to get out of her office. Tsunade just needed to tell Shizune, otherwise hell would freeze over when she found that the Godaime was not at her desk.

Naruto whined but did as he was told, carrying Kakashi to the hospital and went to the Hokage's exam room. The blonde put the older man on the examination table, then residing to one of the walls and waited for Tsunade to come.

"OH, you're still here, Naruto?" The Godaime said in a surprised tone. "Well, you can leave now. This brat just over did it this time. All he needs is plenty of rest."

"Hm." Naruto bid his farewell and hurried on home. The blonde opened the front door of his apartment and took off his sandals, letting his shoulders sag a fraction. He was finally home. Naruto finally understood how Kakashi had felt when he was –is– sent on missions like he was a machine. He had often joked about it to his former sensei, saying he was just getting too old for that kind of activity. Now that he was a jounin himself, he could sympathize.

Something smelt like heaven. Naruto followed his nose and found Sasuke in front of the stove cooking dinner. He could not be happier; coming home to his lover and a delicious meal, it simply did not get any better.

"Are you just gonna stand in the door way or are you going to come here so I can give you a kiss?" The brunette asked, looking over his shoulder.

Naruto smiled. He went over to taller man and wrapped his arms about his neck, turning him around. The blonde brushed his lips over the others, staying like that for a moment before he put his lips onto Sasuke's. They stayed in that position, simply enjoying being in each other's presence.

Sasuke soon wanted to deepen the kiss and snaked his tongue into Naruto's mouth, exploring every available surface of that warm cavern. The blonde stiffed his body closer to his lover's, just wanting to feel their bodies pressed against each other.

The Uchiha was the one to break their kiss, smiling at Naruto's slightly disappointed expression. Sasuke stroked the blonde's cheek affectionately. "Later love, first you need to eat. I didn't make all this just to have it go to waste."

Naruto's body agreed wholly with that statement, his stomach letting out a painful growl. Sasuke shooed the blonde out of the kitchen. Making him lay the table. The food was done not long after and the Uchiha set down the last bowl, looking at his eagerly waiting lover.

"This looks great, Sasuke!" Naruto grabbed his chopsticks a grin wide on his face. "Itadakimasu!" The blonde wolfed right into his meal, making sighs and moans of delight.

The brunette went at a slower pace, enjoying that his food was much appreciated and would not go to waste. Those moans, however, were too distracting for him to enjoy his meal.

"That was wonderful." Naruto commented, running his hand over his full belly.

The Uchiha nodded and stood up from his chair, stopping beside the blonde. "Go take a shower while I clean up here." The taller male kissed the other's cheek tenderly before taking the empty dishes in hand.

Naruto did as he was told, actually glad to have the opportunity to clean himself. The blonde ventured straight to the master bedroom and by the en suite bedroom. Which combined was bigger than his previous apartment. The bedroom had a king sized bed that proved to be more than big enough for the two jounin. The room was equipped with two walk-in closets. The blonde unzipped his flak jacket and tossed it onto the bed and trudged his way into the bathroom, which was equally as luxurious –by Naruto's standards– as the bedroom.

Naruto opened the flow of warm water and undressed, stepping into the spray of water. As relaxing as it was, the blonde spent surprisingly little time in the shower. The jounin dried his hair with a spare towel and walked out the bathroom with a towel around his waist.

Sasuke just dried his hands, satisfied that everything was clean. The brunette padded his way to the bedroom and thanked, Kami-sama for perfect timing. The Uchiha put his weight up against the door frame, crossing his arms over his broad chest.

Naruto was oblivious to his on-looker and let his towel pool down to his ankles. The blonde retrieved a pair of baby blue boxers with little frog faces printed on them. Naruto was in the process of stepping into his sleepwear when a large had caught his wrist and a sinewy arm wrapped about his middle.

"You won't be needing that tonight." Sasuke latched his mouth onto the nape of the blonde's neck, swiping his tongue eagerly over the sensitive, tanned skin.

Naruto moaned at the sweet sensations. The taller man's hand had started to wonder, ghosting over taunt abdominal muscles and the brunette laved at his neck was overly wonderful.

"What took you so long to get home?" The Uchiha had moved his kisses up the blonde's neck, kissing up and past his jaw, stopping to nib at that soft earlobe.

Naruto barely registered that his lover had spoken to him. He really needed talk to Sasuke about his awful habit of talking during foreplay. It did nothing to help the matter that the said man was tickling his fingers down to Naruto's growing arousal.

The blonde was panting, his lips slightly parted as Sasuke started to lightly stroke his member. "K-kakshi… was passed out near the gates." He paused to moan as the brunette started to pump him. "Ah… I-I took him to Tsunade-baachan and came here as soon he was in the hospital.

"Hm." The brunette busied himself with licking the shell of Naruto's ear. "You're such a good Samaritan. Let me … repay you for your kind deeds." Sasuke maneuvered them over to the bed and pushed the blonde down onto the mattress. The Uchiha stood up and pulled his skin-tight, black ANBU shirt over his head, his muscles flexing as he swiftly removed his clothing. Sasuke crawled over to the blonde and was a bit surprised when he had gotten no response from the jiikirubi as he tried to take off his pants.

The Uchiha moved over so that he was hovering over Naruto and his fears were confirmed. The blonde was sound asleep, snoring lightly. Sasuke sighed, rolling over to lie next to him and pulled the covers over the two of them.

XxxxX

Tsunade was in her study, plowing through totems of medical encyclopedias to find the best method to repair multiple muscle structure damage throughout Kakashi's body. In plain, the jounin's body was an utter disaster; hardly anything wasn't damaged to some degree. The tricky part was finding something that would not leave the silver-haired shinobi paralysed. She needed the answer and needed it now. Closing the book, she put it beside the many others that had not shown her such answers. Kakashi was suffering from chakra depletion and had used his body's energy and covered it into chakra, running on that alone for the past few days. He had literary burned his body inside.

That brat had nearly destroyed his own body for the sake of completing the mission. Given that shinobi were expected to sacrifice themselves, because the mission came first. But what he Copy Nin had done bordered on madness. He was one of Konoha's most valuable assets, and so Tsunade decided that she was going to have to teach him a lesson once he fit enough for it later.

She needed to distract herself. More precisely, she needed a drink. Tsunade opened the bottom drawer and took out a bottle of sake and a cup. The Godaime filled the cup to the brim with the clear liquid and raised the cup to her lips, drinking steadily.

Tsunade opened her eyes that she did not even know she had closed. The honey-coloured orbs travelled over her expansive shelves of books. She decided to take a little break. Tsunade was curious about Iruka's early life, the one he had lead after he had lost both his parents. She opened a different drawer and took and took out the said man's career file, however, it was a little more than the average one. The front portion was like any other, a complete track of completed missions, individual abilities and such. The chuunin's folder was thick and she had already read through fifteen pages. It seemed however that only those few pages were dedicated to his shinobi career.

The greater part of his file was mission reports on attempts to capture the Umino. Even ANBU members had failed to catch him. Tsunade soon knew of the infamous prankster that even put Naruto to shame, She found it hard to believe that it was the same gentle Academy teacher that was loved by everyone. From what she had read, back then he was almost loathed by everyone.

A few of the pages were written by Tsunade's former sensei himself, the Sandaime. He had often commented on Iruka's precise chakra control and sensing abilities. One page had caught her immediate attention. It was not what she had been expecting to find at all.

It was a highly detailed report on how he had destroyed, or more effectively, obliterated a playground single-handedly. No one knew how it had happened, save for the Iruka and three other children, but they were put into trauma counseling afterwards and were not available for interrogation. Iruka had become withdrawn from society for a time. The entire case went unsolved.

Tsunade was about to close the file when it seemed another page caught her eye. The chuunin's file seemed to be full of surprises and now she understood why his file was only accessible to the Hokage. The Godaime smiled. She had just found her answer and it came in the form of a certain chuunin-sensei. There was hope for the silver-haired brat after all.

XxxxX

Iruka was out and about before the sun had yet to rise. The chuunin ate his toast and got up to put all the graded tests in his satchel. He returned to the kitchen to drink the rest of his tea and put the cup in the sink to be washed at a later stage.

The brunette was out of his apartment and into the cool spring breeze. The streets were relatively empty, save for the few shopkeepers getting their shops ready for a new day and stray shinobi returning home from a mission. As usual, he was the first at the Academy. Iruka unlocked all doors and windows he had access to and retreated to the staff room to get a warm cup of tea. Teachers slowly started to trickle in and Iruka went to his classroom after he finished his tea. At about 7:30 all his students were seated and chatting happily amongst themselves.

"All Right everyone, quiet down." Iruka raised his voice to sound over the energetic chatter of his class. "Today we will be looking into – H-hokage-sama?"

Tsunade stood in the doorway with Shizune and Ton-Ton in tow. The children all looked in awe at the legendary female Sannin.

"Ohayo, Iruka-sensei," the Godaime greeted.

Iruka was about as stunned as his students at the unexpected visit, but quickly regained his composure. "Is there something I can help you with, Hokage-sama?"

"Yes, there is," she gave a small smile. "You are coming with me to the hospital. Don't worry; Shizune will take over your classes for today."

The brunette stood there for a moment. Okay, so Shizune was taking over his classes, but he let a bit worried over the matter. Throughout the entire Academy, he was given the worst troublemakers.

"Alright everyone, I want you all to show respect and listen to, Shizune-san." The chuunin turned to leave and could practically feel their little malicious smiles. Iruka reluctantly followed Tsunade down the hallway.

"Don't worry, she'll be fine," the Hokage reassured him.

"SIT DOWN!" Shizune's voice vibrated from his classroom. Instead of fear for the assistant, he now feared for his poor students.

Tsunade put a firm hand on the chuunin's shoulder. "Told you not to worry, and she's not violent, about the worst crime she can commit is taking away the sake."

"Tsunade-sama, there are only children, therefore too young to drink any sake." He glanced at her than turned his attention to the fine weather once they left the Academy. As expected, civilians cleared the way for their Hokage but gave polite smiles to the chuunin-sensei as well.

"Ahh… Tsunade-sama, why are we going to the hospital?"

"Well, I got a present late last night, but it's a bit broken," she said with a heavy sigh.

What? Present? Broken? Now, all Iruka wanted to do was run before it was too late, but he stayed by his Hokage's side.

Tsunade saw his worried expression and gave him a soft smile. She worked her way through the hospital and came to one of the few private recovery rooms. The Sannin went right in, but Iruka stayed at the door, not wanting to intrude on whoever was occupying the room.

"Come right in, Iruka," she said, waving her hand. "It's not as if this brat is going to run amuck about you being in the room anyway."

The brunette did as he was told and stepped inside, closing the door behind him. He turned his attention to the occupant in the bed. With that silver shock of hair there was no doubt about it. "Kakashi?"

"Yup. Naruto was coming in back from a mission when he saw him passed out near the gates and brought him to me." Tsunade busied herself with checking the jounin's vitals.

"But what does this all have to do with me?" he asked curiously. Iruka looked over the jounin. His mask was still in place, it must have been cut from his shirt so that the medics could dress him up in bandages.

"That idiot was running on nothing and was suffering from chakra depletion. The brat converted his bodily energy into chakra, and practically charred his muscles." She paused to look back at Iruka. "The only one that can heal him without leaving permanent damage is you, Iruka."

The statement hit him like a rock. The brunette gingering scratched the edge of his scar. "I see you read my file, Hokage-sama."

Tsunade nodded in acknowledgement. "I did and there are things I wish to discuss with you later. But, first we have to fix up this troublesome brat."

There is chapter one. I hope you all enjoyed it and I will try to update soon. Well, please tell me what you guys think. And again, thank you for the reviews and alerts. Oh, and I promise there will be more KakaIru in the next chapter.

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EDIT: I hope I fixed all the spelling mistakes, and I decided to change some things around.