Chapter 5
Hey everyone! Finally updating. Sorry about the wait but something funny happened and I couldn't log in. Every time I tried to it said: "to view this page you must be logged in." it wouldn't even let me go to the log in page! Weird.
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Iruka hovered outside the store. He'd always wondered why and how such a store had opened in Konoha. The shop specialized in 'sexual fantasies' and was famous for it's clothes that could make anybody look like the opposite sex if paired with the make-up parlour on top of the store. They made for a dynamic duo for cross dressing.
If people found out he'd been to a store like this, his job as a teacher could be under threat. He didn't know how parents felt about a drag queen teaching their children. It shouldn't make any difference but you get some weird people. With enough complaints to the school there may not be much choice. It's silly but that's the way it is. Not that he was a drag queen but he was going to go in there and buy a dress. He couldn't understand why Naruto didn't just do it himself.
"I can't! If Sasuke found out he'd ask questions and he has ways of 'persuading' me to tell him things!" had been the excuse. Iruka didn't want to think about Sasuke's 'persuasion' tactics. He wondered if what Naruto said was true. He had been rather specific about the dress he wanted and had seemed fairly confident the store would have it. Maybe he'd read some junk mail? Taking a deep breath, he stepped into the store. The heady scent of spices hit his nostrils at the same time the mass of rainbow colours hit his eyes. After he adjusted, he took a look round. There were clothes of all sorts: ball gowns, ancient dress, futuristic type, animal, maid, public service outfits, SM type, casual and formal outfits. Every type of fetish known to mankind was in that store. Each 'type' was placed in a circular rack or shelves of the wall with a sign above it. A young man was holding a police uniform and looking at a skimpy bunny outfit under the sign 'Animal'. He saw one outfit that was made completely out of chains…..and there wasn't a lot of chain. He looked around. The dress Naruto wanted was a sort of cocktail dress. He saw a sign saying 'Nightwear'.
'That may be it.' He thought. As he made his way over he noticed a lot of silk. And lace. 'Perhaps not.' He looked around again. A woman with a stripe down each cheek was looking at a dog costume. A dog that had fishnet instead of fur. He shuddered. He knew that the Inuzuka's were close to dogs but this? He shook the image out of his head. Then he saw a sign that said 'Evening wear'.
'Hopefully this is it.' He ventured over. 'AHA!' The racks were lined with beautiful sleek dresses with rather broad shoulders next to slim fitting tuxes. He searched through the racks until he found it. The dress Naruto had described. Exactly like the dress he described.
'How convenient.' He thought bitterly. He took the dress off the rack and walked over to the counter waiting to be served. The woman said "Next" and he stepped forward. She was very pretty with white eyes and long black hair. She was wearing pink lip gloss and a light dusting of dark blue eye shadow. She was wearing a loose grey shirt over a long black skirt. He noticed she had a name tag. 'Neji' it said. Iruka did a double take. 'Neji' it still said.
"Neji?" he asked. The woman looked up from scanning the dress. She saw Iruka and blushed slightly.
"Iruka-sensei?" she said. He realised that her voice was a little deep. Or his voice. "Oh, I didn't notice it was you, sorry."
"That's ok. You look….." how to put it? "….well." She, um, he, er, they, um oh dear. Neji smiled.
"Thank you. So do you." Neji folded the dress and placed it in a bag. Iruka handed over the money and took the dress. "Have fun." whispered Neji when he picked it up. Iruka blushed. Not knowing what to say, he simply nodded. He was heading out the shop when a familiar shock of beautiful white hair caught his eye.
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Kakashi was looking at a cat maid costume and just thinking what Iruka would look like on Iruka when a perfect voice behind him called out, "Hello Hatake-san."
He spun around, maid outfit still in hand, and saw the object of his fantasies. Said object raised an eyebrow at the costume in his hands.
"I didn't know you were into that kind of thing, Hatake-san." Kakashi went bright red. Not only did Iruka already think he was a sex crazed pervert but now he thought he was a sex crazed pervert with a fetish! He wished the building would collapse on him. Iruka continued to speak. "I thought you would be more into the dog costume over there, due to the affinity you have for them." Kakashi could have died. The school teacher shrugged. "Well each to his own." He said as he turned to leave.
"Wait!" Kakashi called, finally recovering use of his vocal cords. "This is, it's….not what it looks like." He gabbled.
"Oh?" Kakashi gulped. How could he explain this?
"I, er, it's...for a student." Iruka's face didn't know which expression to pull first: shock or disgust. So it pulled both.
'Oh crap.' thought Kakashi. 'That worked well.'
"No, no, no, no!" he said, shaking his hands and trying to explain. "It's not like that. Ew, kids are too small." The weird expression on Iruka's face intensified. "I mean, um, I'm not a paedophile. I never had and never will have any paedophilic inclinations. I like men. Grown up men." Iruka's face relaxed but went into shock when the last two sentences were said. It also went bright red. 'Uh oh' thought Kakashi. 'What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?' Kakashi looked all around for help. There was none.
"Hatake-san," Kakashi looked down at the whispered words. Iruka had his head downcast. "Can I buy you a coffee?" Well, he hadn't been expecting that.
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Naruto hummed a happy tune while he skipped home. Yes, skipped. He'd become more inclined to skip in the recent years. 'I really am gay.' He thought, embarrassed he was giving into a common stereotype. He stopped to check out some shoes. 'No wonder I'm uke.' He thought, ashamed for giving into another common stereotype. He continued to hum and skip along until someone grabbed him out of the orange.
"AAAHHHHHHhhhh!" he cried, nearly falling over. The grabber then repeated there offence and steadied him. He whipped around yelling, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?! You don't go grabbing peo…" he stopped when he realised who the perpetrator was. "Sasuke?" the Uchiha smirked.
"Hi, dobe. Yes I do go round grabbing people especially when they are skipping and humming along embarrassing themselves." Naruto blinked at him.
"I wasn't embarrassed." Sasuke sighed and shook his head. There was no helping some people.
"Anyway," he said. "I was wondering if you wanted to train."
"Eh?"
"Don't look so surprised. We haven't been on a mission lately and I have had the same amount of exercise and I feel fat and…" he paused. 'Oh crap.' The teen opposite him was giving him a foxy grin.
"You feel fat, huh?"
"Shut up."
"Yeah, I see what you mean. You've gotten a little wobbly in the ass department recently."
"Shut. Up."
"And your stomach definitely feels pudgy"
"Shut. Up."
"Hey Sasuke, have you called Jenny yet?"
Sasuke snapped. He lunged at Naruto, tackling him to the ground. He started strangling his lover and growling. Naruto was laughing which made Sasuke even madder. He punched the blonde in the arm. (A place where he was least likely to damage or hurt Naruto. He does care about him, you know.)
"Alright, alright, I'm sorry." Hmmphing, Sasuke got off the orange clad boy. Naruto dusted himself off. Naruto grinned at him. He knew how sensitive Sasuke was about his looks. Everyone always said how handsome he was and it had made him very self conscious. Naruto reached out and placed a hand on the dark haired boy's shoulder. He fluttered his eyes sexily. (At least, he thought it was sexily.)
"You know I think you're gorgeous. You are not the least bit fat, Sasuke-kun. I think you are perfect." He whispered sweetly. Sasuke bitch slapped him. "Ow! What the hell was that for?"
"For doing that stupid eye flutter thing! And calling me Sasuke-kun! You know I hate that." Despite how he acted, Naruto's words had meant a lot to Sasuke. The blonde always knew what to say.
"Alright, how 'bout I call you Sasuke-chan? Or maybe just Sasu-chan? Come give Naru-chan a kiss Sasu-chan." Ok, maybe not always. Another bitch slap later they were heading to the forest to train.
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Iruka was crying.
"That can't be true." He said. Kakashi nodded.
"I'm not lying. I was meant to be called Kama*1 because of the traditional weapon used by the Hatakes but mum saw my hair and decided to call me Kakashi*2 ." Iruka doubled over in laughter. It wouldn't be that funny but he had been laughing for so long now that everything seemed funny. He'd just previously had a fit over a jar of sugar.
They'd gone to the café and Iruka had explained how, for a long time, he had wanted to talk to a fellow Ninja who 'batted for the other team' so to speak. Kakashi explained that he didn't so much bat, as in go out there and find someone, so much as fielded, as in waiting for the right catch to come to him. Iruka had asked if that was what the maid outfit had been for and Kakashi had managed to explain his position. He'd told Iruka about Sasuke's plan and why he needed a dress. Iruka had laughed and then explained what he had been doing in the shop. He told Kakashi about Naruto's plan and why he needed a dress. Then they'd both laughed. Then one thing led to another and now they were laughing together like old friends. Iruka now called Kakashi 'Kakashi-san' and Kakashi now called Iruka 'Iruka-kun'. They had discovered that both of their favourite desserts were crème brulee. They had discussed team 7 and how they'd grown. They had swapped embarrassing stories and even had a very meaningful conversation about the origins of the word 'thigh'. And now they were discussing name sakes. It was Iruka's turn. He managed to sit up and take a deep breath.
"My mum always said that she called me Iruka*3 because my birth was so easy and gentle it reminded her of a peaceful sea. She always tried to make things poetic." The last line was said sadly. It was obvious Iruka still found it hard talking about his parents. His face shadowed for a moment. Then he brightened up. "But Dad said that even though the birth was easy, I was just called Iruka after the nurse that attended Mum. When he said that mum would punch him on the arm gently and say 'you couldn't be romantic if you tried!' Even though she pretended to be mad, she always smiled lovingly when she said that." He laughed softly. Kakashi reached out and placed a hand on Iruka's. The younger man jerked his head up in surprise but didn't move his hand. He smiled happily at Kakashi.
"Kakashi-san?"
"Mmm?"
"Did you ever get that dress?" Kakashi's face was readable even through the mask. 'Oops' it said. Iruka giggled. He stood up, still holding Kakashi's hand, and stepped round the table so he was on the same side as the Jounin.
"Shall we go get it then?" Kakashi smiled and nodded.
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"You know, one day Sasuke, I want to be dirty, sweaty and out of breath for a reason besides training or fighting." The statement had the desired affect. The test subject went red and started babbling about appropriateness and why was his head always stuck in the mud. Naruto smiled. He slinked over to the gabbling teen and slipped his arms around his waist, resting his own head against the back of Sasuke's shoulder. The dark haired boy squirmed.
"Naruto, what if someone is around?"
"Do you sense anyone?"
"Well um no but.."
"Well, that's fine then." he nuzzled Sasuke's back. The teen started to protest but was cut off when arms swung him around and lips pressed against his. He sighed into the kiss. Kissing Naruto was heaven. When they pulled apart Naruto forced Sasuke to rest his head against his chest. He grumbled but secretly liked it.
"Hey Sasuke?"
"What?"
"Polite, as always." Sasuke grunted. "Are you going to the V Show?"
Ah, yes. Konoha's V Show. It had become quite famous and very popular. People from all the different countries came to watch and/or participate. It was a show held every Valentines Day, hence the name 'V Show', from 11am to 5pm. It was crammed full of people trying to show how much they cared for a special someone through talents, music, artwork or the most popular, song. Most people were pretty average when they got up but it was worth going to see the really awful and the really amazing. Naruto did something every year and always won the 'Idiot Award". In fact, he was the only person ever to win the award and always would be because the full name of the award was 'Naruto's an Idiot Award'. The NIA had been invented by the Sandaime to give Naruto a bit of a boost after five years of going on stage and making a fool of himself. It was "something close to parental praise", the Sandaime had said. Naruto was also known as 'V Show Champion' because he had participated in the most V Shows and every single category at least once. He was incredibly proud of that.
Sasuke nodded.
"You'll be doing something, right?"
"Yup! But this time it's going to be a little different." Sasuke looked up but didn't ask. Naruto was famed for never telling what it was he was going to do. Some of the teams when they were all still genins had made a competition to find out what it was he was going to do. Even genjutsu and the promise of a year supply of free ramen hadn't made him tell. Naruto could be extremely tight lipped when he wanted to be.
"Naruto?"
"Mmm?"
"Let's go to Ichiraku. My treat."
"Eh? YAAAHOOOOO! RAMEN! RAMEN! RAMEN! RAMEN!" Sasuke smiled. He was glad that he had a boyfriend who was so easy to please.
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Kakashi inspected the dress.
"Perfect Iruka, well done!" the other man smiled. Kakashi took the dress and went to the counter to buy it. He didn't see Iruka slip to another counter. If he had, he would've recognised a certain outfit the chuunin was buying.
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Well that was chapter 5. Hope you liked it! Wow it sure was long! My longest so far I think. Woah.
For those of you who didn't get Naruto's line of "Have you called Jenny yet?" it is taken from the ads for Jenny Craig, a dieting program. They always say 'have you called Jenny yet?'. I apologise if I spelt blonde two different ways. If it says 'blond' at anytime, I am very sorry. It's late and I couldn't be bothered proof reading.
*1. Kama means scythe
*2. Kakashi means scarecrow
*3. Iruka means dolphin
I made it up about the Hatake traditional weapon and the crème brulee. I don't like crème brulee but they strike me as the type of people who would.