Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Doing Something Stupid ❯ Sulking ( Chapter 1 )

Title: Doing Something Stupid

Chapter: 1/?

Author: Danyella Skyler Silverfire

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Rating: R

Genre(s): Romance

Pairing(s): Iruka/Kakashi

Summary: Iruka does something incredibly stupid (as he sees it) to Kakashi and has to deal with the fallout.

Chapter Summery: Iruka's sulking and hiding from the world. Luckily he has a good friend to drag what's wrong out of him.

Warnings: Yaoi. Seme Iruka (that's rare). Original character. That's all for now I think

Disclaimer: I don't own them though I wish I did. So Naruto is not mine.

Author's Note: Rei is an OC and I highly doubt he'll be paired with anyone unless someone actually asks. (won't that be something) But I thought that Iruka needed a good friend who knows him better than anyone and still is willing to live with him so I came up with Rei who's rather… unusual. There will be more friends of Iruka that'll show up but only Rei so far. Also if I get enough requests or I feel so motivated I'll write a prequel on just how Iruka and Rei met.

Chapter Word Count MSWord: 1,864

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"I'm home. You here, Iruka?" a cheerful man's voice called from the front hall as the door slammed shut, interrupting Iruka's rather involved sulk that he had been rather enthralled in for the last four hours.

"No," Iruka called before wincing as he realized what he did. `Great, just great. He won't leave me alone until I tell him what happened. I don't want to remember, let alone talk about it, especially not with my best friend and roommate.' Iruka did the only thing he could at that point: he pulled his blanket over his head and prayed that unlike all the other times Iruka had found himself hiding under his covers from the world Rei wouldn't drag him back out into the harsh outside world.

The door to Iruka's room slid open softly crushing any hope that Iruka had held, "Iruka? What are you doing in bed? Are you sick?"

"I wish." Iruka winced again as he turned his back to his friend hoping that not facing in his direction `Shit! I said that out loud. Now he really won't leave me alone. Why me?' "Go away, Rei. I'm really tired." Iruka reflected wryly on how true that was.

"What do you mean you wish? You hate being sick. According to you it's one of the worst things about being alive." Rei sounded suspicious now as he stood over his huddling friend. He really hated it when Iruka did this. He was thankful though that it took a lot for it to happen. If Iruka had been made of anything weaker he would probably never leave the confines of his bed. "Did something happen today?"

Iruka erred to the side of caution and nodded as he wrapped his blanket tighter around him. `Go away, go away, go away. Please go away.'

"Something bad?" Rei was well used to having to play `ten-thousand questions' to get information out of Iruka. For someone that people thought was so open, he was actually paranoid about any privacy that he got. Though with friend like Rei and the others it was probably explainable. They all loved gathering information. Probably why they where all such good shinobi.

Iruka nodded again all the while praying that Rei would drop the matter. Not likely, but he could still pray.

"You hurt?" Rei asked jumping to conclusions as he pulled the blanket down from over Iruka's head genuinely concerned.

"No. Not really." `Shit! What is it about Rei that makes me so honest? It's really annoying, I mean I can lie to everyone else but not him for some reason.' Iruka groaned and tried to pull the blanket back over his head with little success seeing as how Rei was still holding it.

"What do you mean, `not really?" You're hurt or you're not. Which is it? For that matter what happened to you since this morning?"

"I don't want to talk about it. Just drop it, okay?" Iruka pleaded.

"What kind of friend would I be if I just dropped it when it obviously bothers you so much? Now tell me, so I don't have to drag it out of you." Rei congealed as he sat on the bed next to Iruka.

Iruka was quiet for several minutes deep in thought before sighing and turning to face Rei. "I did something incredibly stupid and suicidal this afternoon." Iruka paused unsure of how to phrase the next part in a way that wouldn't make Rei explode.

"Like what? Declared your love for the Hokage to her or something?"

"If only it was something so simple. No, the repercussions of something like that I think I can handle. What happened was much more… unsettling."

"Well now I have to know what happened."

"Well, I ran into Kakashi-sensei on my way home from the store. We started talking and he helped me carry home the groceries so he could tell me about Naruto and the others progress. Things were okay at first but after a while…" Iruka paused again unsure of how to continue.

"What? You started arguing?" Rei asked curious as to what made Iruka so hesitant.

"No actually we were getting along fine. It wasn't the conversation itself that's important anyway. It's what I did that ended it."

"What did you do? Invite him to our weekly poker game?" Rei asked surprised. It was only thing he could think of that would have Iruka acting like this. Iruka had always been fanatically private and they tended to reminisce a lot at their weekly game.

"No." Iruka slanted Rei an odd look. Seriously, the leaps his mind makes would confuse anyone.

"What did you do then? Attack him for no reason?" Rei asked trying to inject some humor into the situation.

"Yes! No! Sort of." Iruka flopped over onto his stomach and buried his head under one of the pillows only to have it snatched off almost immediately.

"Well which was it? You couldn't have done all three." Rei frowned down at Iruka's head idly noticing that the brown hair was loose and more tangled than it would normally be after one of Iruka's sulks.

"Wanna bet? He had made some joke as I was walking him to the door. We were laughing when it happened. I pulled down his mask and kissed him for all I was worth." Iruka finally blurted out.

"You... kissed him? Why are you reacting so bad? Just find him and apologize. I'm sure he'll understand." Rei was confused by the way Iruka was reacting. He wasn't exactly that easily embarrassed. He should know considering how the two of them met in the first place. And even so, kissing another man wasn't even close to what Iruka found embarrassing.

"I would if that were all that I did." Iruka said bitterly.

"What else happened then that's got you in such a snit?" Rei asked impatiently.

"I kinda... had sex with him... in the hallway... then kicked him out." Iruka cringed waiting for Rei's reaction.

Rei started down at Iruka in shock. "Well, that was certainly stupid. I didn't even know that you were even attracted to him." Rei said finally settling on the least disturbing thing he could.

"Neither did I. Or maybe it was his laugh, but apparently I am. Was. I'm dead now."

"Wait, wait. You had sex with him? In our hallway?" Rei was trying to get it to finally sink in. "And he let you jump him like that? I thought Kakashi was Jounin. A very good one at that."

"He is. I think I put him off balance when I put my tongue down his throat though. Then I kinda didn't let him have time to think. I know that as soon as he's had time to think he'll use it to embarrass me. That is if he decides not to kill me."

"Well we both know that you're not easily embarrassed, so let's hope it's that." Rei pointed out as he turned his head to look out into the hallway as his mind worked furiously.

"I won't be that lucky." Iruka muttered fatalistically.

"Well there's not much we can do now what with you hiding from the world in your bed. So I'll go make dinner and you can get some when you feel like it." Rei said cheerfully as he got up.

"Rei?" Iruka called turning to watch as Rei was sliding the door closed, causing him to pause.

"Yeah?"

"Why are you taking this so well? You usually tend to be..."

"Explosive?" Rei asked chuckling. "Actually I'm rather relieved that it happened in a way. You've been along to long. People like you are starved for attention. You don't do well alone. You need someone to focus on, to care for." Rei said in a soft voice.

"Rei, I have that already. You and the others." Iruka replied seriously.

"We're your friends, not quite what you need but close." Rei looked down the hall thoughtfully. "What you need more than anything is a mate. Someone to bring out your best. And thought I try to bring it out, I don't quite succeed. We're too much like brothers I think. Not to mention that we've never seen each other in remotely that fashion. I've seen you when you had someone that could be that for you Iruka. I would give nearly anything to see it again."

"Thanks Rei. You are a good friend. I don't think I tell you that often enough." Iruka said softly as he thought over what he had just been told.

"Hey, don't worry about it." So saying Rei closed the door all the way leaving Iruka to his thoughts.

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Ending Note: In this you will notice that Rei and Iruka did not make much if any eye contact. There is a reason for that. See I spend and obscene amount of time at the library, and I have this habit of pacing when I'm plotting out story ideas. And as I was looking at the shelves one day planning things I noticed a book on pretty much how to act when your traveling or doing business with other countries. And one of the things it mentioned is this (which is the point of this ramble): in Japan it's considered rude to meet someone's eyes while talking to them. While in America it's considered trustworthy, in Japan it's considered extremely rude. So they will look just about everywhere at your face, though it is okay to take small glances to check the others expression. That habit of there's also led to an interesting saying, `When doing business with the Japanese to always polish your shoes because you can bet that they will be staring at your feet.' So I was not having Iruka avoid looking at Rei, although he was to some degree, he was actually being polite as well. Anyway for those of you that actually read this you just learned an interesting thing about the Japanese that will hopefully help a couple of people in their writing.