Chapter 5: secrets pt. 1
Kakashi shot up soaked in sweat. Why is this happening again? He thought to himself. We need to get back to the Leaf, immediately, before the Snake makes his move. He'll destroy the whole village if he doesn't get what he wants. He's the type of person who would a person each day he doesn't get what he wants, or just full out burn the village down.
There was a knock at the door, Kakashi shot up heading for the door. "Who is it?" he called out.
"It's me!" A familiar voice replied.
Kakashi opened the door to find a very scruffy looking Iruka.
"I heard a scream, and it sounded like it came from in here, is everything alright?" Iruka asked groggily.
"Yeah I'm fine, it was just a nightmare, it startled me awake is all." Kakashi replied with a nod. "But we need to leave, immediately."
"It's the middle of the night. Shouldn't we at least wait until morning?" Iruka suggested. "Especially since Orochimaru is at large."
"No, we need to leave now because Orochimaru is lingering out there and by saying he'd be seeing me soon, he's planning some sort of attack on the Leaf, and therefore, we need to be there to protect the Leaf. We need to get there as soon as we possibly can." Kakashi looked down, a bad feeling growing in the pit of his stomach.
Iruka nodded. "Alright then, let's go."
The two men packed their bags and began their journey back to the Hidden Leaf. Finally stopping to take a short break, Kakashi looking a little more the pre-occupied.
"You wanna talk about it?" Iruka looked at Kakashi with concern.
The copy-nin sighed. "Orochimaru and I used to date, a long time ago." He exhaled slowly.
"Wait, y-you, what?" Iruka's eyes went wide.
"Yeah, it's true. I'm a flamer!" he stopped a sadness growing in his eyes. "Anyways, we dated for quite a long time actually, and we were happy, until I caught him cheating, even after that, we talked it out and I forgave him, then he got mean and started physically and sometimes mentally hurting me. Then about six months later he saw me talking to one of his students; Itachi and got jealous thinking that I was cheating on him trying to get pay back for what he'd done, I tried to explain to him that I wasn't cheating that I was merely talking to him. But he didn't listen." Kakashi explained as he pulled his mask down uncovering his face. "we got into a huge fight that night and he got angry and out of jealousy he dragged a kunai down the side of my face, and to my collar bone." He continued pulling down the neckline of his shirt exposing the scar on his neck. "To make me ugly so that no one would want me, hoping to keep me all to himself, forever. Thought I did eventually escape his clutches when he decided to skip town." Kakashi's expression went cold, vacant almost. "And now, he has Sasuke! And I have a strange feeling that his threat wasn't towards the Leaf; that it was directed at me. Hence why he said he'd be seeing me soon… I've had some time to think about it… you and I both know that he won't stop until he gets what he wants, he'll destroy the whole village if he has to, once he's done torturing every citizen. He'd literally stop at nothing; I've seen how he gets when he wants to punish me. And I think him targeting Sasuke was also part of his punishment. Which in case you're wondering what he'd want to punish me for, it would be for refusing to join him in his plans to dominate the world, killing thousands in the process. He's insane and he's ruthless." Kakashi sighed.
Iruka stared at the taller man, reaching his hand out touching Kakashi's cheek, gently trailing his finger along the scar. "I don't think you're ugly. Actually I think you have a nice face. The scar kind of makes you look tuff." Iruka nudged Kakashi's elbow laughing. "But I get it, I do, your story may be very different, yet all the same, our scars are a pain in the ass to explain. I've been doing it for years, so I guess…"
"How did you get your scar?" Kakashi interrupted.
"Oh, I never told you?" Iruka laughed rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. "It happened back when I was a child, during the attack of the nine-tails, seventeen years ago. I'd run out onto the battle field to help my parents. My father however, obviously didn't approve of my decision, telling me how it was the parent's duty to protect the village and their children, and not the children's job, and then he asked an Anbu Black ops guy to escort me home, then the man who was supposed to be escorting me home safely, turned on me, and attacked me with a kunai. It was the fourth Hokage, Naruto's father that had saved my life. That's basically all I remember. I woke up a few days later with a scar on my face, and to find out that my parents had been killed during the battle, but noticing the scar lead me to believe that the man who attacked, who was an Akatsuki posing as a member of the Anbu black ops, was the man who put it there." Iruka shrugged. "But like I said it was a long time ago, and I'm surprised you didn't hear the stories and rumors after it had happened I mean people were talking about how I was stupid kid for running out into the middle of a dangerous battle field where even some of the top Shinobi were killed, my parents and the fourth Hokage included."
"I see." Kakashi looked at him sympathetically. "I guess we all have ghosts in our past huh?"
"Ha-ha, yeah." Iruka replied. "I mean, sometimes it still hurts to…"
"Ah! Well, well, well, isn't this a lovely, heart-warming conversation!" a disembodied voice chimed in.
The two ninja shot up, looking around frantically, searching for the person the voice belonged to. Iruka closed his eyes. "Shh… There!" he pointed towards a nearby tree as Orochimaru stepped out from behind it, Kabuto following closely behind him. Iruka felt a chill as Sasuke snuck up behind him grabbing and putting a kunai to his throat.
"Kakashi darling, if you come with us quietly, we'll let your companion live, but if you refuse…" The Snake looked over to Sasuke nodding. Sasuke pressed the kunai harder against the brunet's throat, just hard enough to draw a little bit of blood.
"Kakashi! No! We can fight them!" Iruka yelled.
"No we can't." Kakashi clenched his fists.
"Yes we ca…" Iruka felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck as everything went dark and he fell to the ground.
"Now then, shall we be off Kakashi darling?" Orochimaru sang.
Kakashi's body went limp. "I'm not going willingly, if you want me to go with you, you're going to have to drag me there."
"Very well then." Kabuto said, jabbing a needle full of a reddish liquid, emptying the contents into Kakashi's arm.
Kakashi fell to the ground, his body numb and unable move, he couldn't even open his eyes. It was almost as if he was unconscious, yet he could still hear them talking and feel them roughly dragging him behind.