Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Anthology no Jutsu ❯ Confessions: Teacher's Aide ( Chapter 5 )

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The Confessions of Umino Iruka

Teacher's Aide

Popberry Bluetart

293 Words

Mizuki/Iruka

Iruka knew that it was too good to be true -Fuuma Mizuki was, after all, witty, kind, and perhaps a little too easy on the eyes. He had needed an assistant for gods know how long; he loved his students, each and every one of them, but sometimes even he needed a break from the tiny hellions. Perhaps that was why he took such a liking to Mizuki so quickly -unconsciously, the silver-haired man had taken on the role of his knight-in-shining-armor.

But the partnership, as blissful as it might have become, was not to last long.

It had all started when Mizuki's Good But Misplaced Intentions lead him to pushing Moegi-chan's sleeping pallet away from in-between Konohamaru's and Udon's -how could have Mizuki known that Moegi always slept between the two boys? Then, after permanently pissing the trio off, he made the mistake of hushing Hanabi in the middle of one of her `I-will-marry-Iruka-sensei-one-day' triads. Then after that, the silver-haired man had been perhaps a little too friendly with Tsunami-san, Inari's mother. It was in this unknowing fashion that the aide made himself the enemy of every single child in that room.

Mizuki… didn't last through the second week. Between Hanabi's unnerving, unwavering glares, Inari's sulking and sharp teeth, and Konohamaru's ingenious uses of glitter and super-glue, Iruka could only watch as his students slowly drove his last chance at sanity crazy. Yet even when Mizuki ran screaming from their classroom, Iruka couldn't bring himself to do anything other than laugh along. He loved the little monsters too much to scold them, and a small, traitorous part of him was glad to have things back to normal, even if it meant giving up on his sanity.

Normal, he decided, was overrated anyway.

Author's Notes: Konohamaru's ingenious use of super glue and glitter was so brilliant even I cannot begin to explain.