Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Doing Something Stupid ❯ Damn Interfering Friends ( Chapter 3 )

Title: Doing Something Stupid

Chapter: 3/?

Author: Danyella Skyler Silverfire

Website: None

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. Now with plot.

Chapter Summery: Iruka visits Kana at work to ask a favor. When he returns home he finds that Rei has hired Team #7, and he asks Kakashi a question.

Warnings: Yaoi. Seme Iruka (that's rare). Original characters. And a plot has developed! 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: I finally actually introduce Kana. I really can't say much about her. How I describe her pretty much covers it. Rei makes another appearance so that there is more of a feel of his personality. And there is finally some actual Kakashi/Iruka interaction, as well as flirting.

Chapter Word Count MSWord: 3,407

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Damn Interfering Friends

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Iruka sighed tiredly as he exited the Hokage's office holding a small pile of folders. What was it about Aya that made things so complex for him? First the thing with Kakashi happened then he had to deal with Rei's constant questions that got worse when he went down to dinner. Now Aya who had sworn not to come back unless it was to die was here about to make good on her promise, and in this manner too. Then Shigure had blabbed to Naruto and his teammates about his whole mistake of a marriage to Kakashi and Team 7. The last two days had been hell, and it looked like it was getting worse.

Sighing again he entered the office that the Jounin had for when they actually had to do desk work. Looking around he quickly found a head of unnaturally bright red hair done in small tight braids that reached the woman's shoulders that was partially covered with her Head Band*. Iruka made his way across the office and dropped into the chair across from her desk with a small grunt.

"Just a moment, I need to finish typing this." The woman said in a bright voice.

Iruka felt some of his tension drain away as he watched his energetic friend across the desk. He had to admit she was a pretty woman, though she would never be beautiful by anyone's stretch of the imagination she still drew the eye. `Although,' Iruka thought wryly, `that might have something to do with her love of bright colors that extends to dying her hair unnatural shades. The red suits her much more than last months orange though.' Even sitting at her desk typing up a report she gave off the feeling of barely restrained activity about to erupt at any moment.

"Now what can I… Iruka! What are you doing here? I thought you were going to be busy taking care of things with Aya." The smile on the woman's face grew more genuine as soon as she laid eyes on Iruka, showing she had a pair of dimples.

"I am. How's Shigure?" Iruka asked, changing the subject as he picked up a picture frame off her desk. Looking at it he saw that it was of them at the last sakura viewing festival. Shigure was holding Midori in his and laughing as they shared an Eskimo kiss, Iruka was gesticulating as he talked to a grinning Kana. Rei wasn't in the picture seeing as how he had been taking it at the time but it was still a good picture. Iruka smiled softly at the memory of that day they had all had fun dressing up and going to the festival.

"He's fine. He'll have a nasty bruise on his jaw from where you hit him for the next little while, but I do agree with him Iruka. You really need to let more people in, so why not start with that group? You do like and trust them at least partially." Kana asked eyeing her friend of fourteen years. He was so much different from the boy she first met in ways, but exactly the same in others.

"Kana, I do trust them. I do, it's just that I have a hard time trusting people, allowing them into my private world is very difficult." Iruka sighed setting the picture back on her desk.

"Iruka I've been friends with you ever since you fished me out of the river, you know that. But it's not healthy to isolate yourself like this. You don't let anyone in. The only reason you let us is because we knew you before you even fully erected your walls that keep the world from truly touching you. Iruka, one day those walls are going to be forced to crumble and it will probably drive you crazy." Kana said in a soft serious voice.

Iruka smiled wryly, "You've been listening to Shigure's psychobabble again haven't you?"

"He talks in his sleep sometimes, but I do agree that he did go a bit far in telling them that about you. Now what are you going to do about it? Let them just go with what they have? Or draw them into the abyss?" Kana asked finishing off with a mischievous grin.

Iruka started chuckling, "Kana you are defiantly one of a kind."

"Well that's probably a good thing for the world, ne. Now old friend, what are you doing shadowing my door?" Kana asked as she leaned back in her seat fiddling idly with a kunai.

"I need you to begin to process the paperwork that will have Aya made a citizen of Konoha." Iruka answered.

"I thought she was, seeing as how you two are married and all." Kana said with a frown.

"Actually no, she was never a citizen of Konoha. She was allowed to live and work here because of our marriage, but she never gave up her citizenship in Hidden Mist. It was one of the original things that caused our break." Iruka informed Kana wryly.

"Okay... Well I need the Hokage's approval so..." Kana trailed off as Iruka dropped a paper on her desk. After scanning it quickly she shook her head. "Iruka I really worry about this tendency that you and Aya have of dragging the hidden depths out of each other. This is scarily thought out."

"Blame Aya, she told me what she wanted done; I'm just doing it her way because it's faster than fighting with her." Iruka said with a snort of disgust.

"Okay let's get started on this. This will take a while but I think I can get it done in about a week maybe if they don't fight it on the other end." Kana said accepting the file that Iruka handed her.

"Thank you, Kana. I really appreciate your doing this." Iruka said sincerely.

"I intend to collect as well, right now in fact." Kana looked at Iruka with an evil gleam in her eye meaning she was up to something he wasn't going to like.

"What do you want me to do?" Iruka asked warily pushing him as far back in his chair as he could, trying unsuccessfully to get away from Kana.

"Take that guy, what's his name, out on a date. You know the one that had you sulking in your bed two day's ago." Kana said with a pleased grin, "A good one two."

"What? Kana, I barely know him first of all. Secondly I can't, I have to deal with Aya." Iruka protested surprised by his friend's request.

"Iruka you already know him well enough all things considered, and you shouldn't let Aya's presence stop you from pursuing a relationship with someone you could be happy with. Take him on a date, have a good time, forget about even having a wife that you despise for at least one evening, ne." Kana ordered him impatiently.

"The three of you are all working against me aren't you?" Iruka asked surrendering.

"Of course, but it's for the best, you'll see. Now shoo, I have paperwork to do." Kana said making a shooing motion.

"Thanks again for doing this Kana." Iruka said as he came around the desk and gave her a peck on the cheek. "You are very good friend. I'll see you later okay?"

"Sure, sure." Kana muttered already immersed in her work. "Go ask you're lover out and leave me to work."

"Later." Iruka said turning away with a shake of his head before pausing and turning his head to look in her direction, "Ne, Kana?"

"Huh?"

"The three of you really should stop controlling my life; I am an adult after all." Iruka commented wryly before turning his head back and continued on his way.

"Oh, Iruka? What's he look like?" Kana yelled after him curious.

"I have no idea. Pale?" Iruka called back over his shoulder.

"Only you, Iruka." Kana said shaking her head at her friend.

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Iruka muttered distractedly looking through a file as he walked down the street, "I really need to get new friends, hopefully less inquisitive ones. Why the fuck did I agree with this?" Iruka continued down the hall ignoring the people he passed. "What the hell?" Iruka stopped abruptly and read over the paper again. "I really hate you Aya that is just low giving me your will."

"Oy, Iruka-sensei." A voice called from the side.

Iruka looked over surprised before smiling, "Good morning, Naruto. What are you doing here?" Iruka asked confused by Naruto's presence in front of his house.

"Oh, I hired them to clean the house and help rearrange some things. I'm thinking of moving into the spare room, what do you think?" Rei asked poking his head out the open door.

"You just want the hallway sterilized and to interfere with my life at the same time." Iruka said flatly.

"Ne, Iruka, how could accuse, me, your best friend, of something like that?" Rei asked with a hurt expression.

"Because I've known you since we were ten. Look, I'll be in my room working. I've got to read through all these files." Iruka said as he tried to enter the house around Rei.

"Kana called." Rei informed Iruka with an evil smirk.

Iruka paused and slumped, "I hate you guys."

"Ah, you know you love us more than you resent us controlling you life." Rei said cheerfully giving Iruka a hug.

"You live here Iruka-sensei?" Sakura asked surprised by the byplay between the two men.

"Yes I do. You might as well come in. Rei let go." Iruka said glaring at his taller friend.

"Ne, you're really grumpy when Aya's around, you know." Rei said as he released Iruka pouting.

"That would have to do with the fact that I happen to be sharing the same area as the object of my loathing." Iruka muttered as he entered the kitchen followed by the others.

"So Rei-kun, how did you and Iruka-sensei meet?" Kakashi asked cheerfully from where he sat at the kitchen table reading, though he put away his book when the others came in.

"Oh, it's not much of a story. I untied him. He was duct taped to the front door of the school singing a song about salting the earth." Rei answered cheerfully as he brought out the cleaning supplies and handed them to the shocked gennin. "Get started you three. I want this place spotless before we start with moving anything."

"Really?" Kakashi asked surprised.

"What is it with Jounin and insanity?" Iruka asked rhetorically as he started going through the cabinets searching for something. "I only did that because I lost a bet. Thanks again for getting me down though. It was uncomfortable."

"What are you doing Iruka? If you're hungry we can order something." Rei asked confused.

"Not that. Looking for something I hid here a while ago. Ha! Found it." Iruka exclaimed pulling out a plain white box from behind some pots.

"What's that?" Kakashi asked confused.

"Not much." Iruka said distractedly putting the box on the table before returning to the cupboards to continue looking through them. "Just pictures."

The three of them paused when they heard a loud crash come from the back hallway. Rei sighed and left the other two alone to go investigate.

Kakashi grinned as he pulled the box in front of him and opening it. As Iruka said the box was filled with pictures. Grinning he started to look through them only to be interrupted by Iruka.

"Kakashi-sensei?" Iruka asked softly, "What are your plans for tonight?"

Kakashi froze at the unexpected question, "Nothing, really. Why?"

"How do you feel about dinner tonight? I know a nice place we can go." Iruka said before grunting and jerking out another box.

"Why, Iruka-sensei! Are you asking me on a date?" Kakashi asked trying to make a joke of the question as he went back to going through the pictures.

"Let's see: me, you, a nice restaurant that require dressing up, maybe something afterwards. Yes I think I am asking you on a date." Iruka said giving Kakashi a small smug grin.

Kakashi looked up at Iruka in surprise by his response. This was... unexpected to say the least. Kakashi frowned as a thought occurred to him, "You aren't being forced into asking are you?"

"Yes, my friend Kana. I do want to go to dinner with you, I just normally wouldn't ask. I'm not used to dating seeing as how I've been out of the loop for the last decade. I do find you attractive though, obviously you know that, and I do want to get to know you better. So don't think I'm doing this just because I said I'd ask." Iruka said as he opened the second box to reveal that it contained jewelry.

"Well at least you're honest about your reason for asking." Kakashi said surprised by Iruka's small speech.

"I respect you to much to pretend that it was otherwise." Iruka replied wryly as he poked through the box. "I forgot that I had all this crap. Where is it?"

Kakashi thought over Iruka's offer as he looked at the pictures before stopping on one. It showed a teenaged Iruka shirtless and with his back to the camera showing off a tattoo of a tiger covering almost his entire back. "You have a tattoo?" Kakashi asked surprised that Iruka would do anything so out of character. `But then again I don't know Iruka at all do I. Only what he chooses to show all but a select few.'

Iruka looked over at Kakashi surprised by his question before he noticed the picture in his hand. "Oh, yeah. I got in a bet with Shigure at a party when I was sixteen, so he said I wouldn't have the courage to get a tattoo." Iruka smirked at the memory. "Everyone started arguing over what kind of tattoo I should get. In the middle of it I let, went to the tattoo parlor, and set up the appointments, before heading back and telling them what I did."

Kakashi laughed, "You got a tattoo because of a bet?"

Iruka grinned at Kakashi, "I did do quite a few stupid things when I was young, and able to heal from it you know. That's just one of the few that has actual physical evidence on my person."

"I'm surprised I didn't notice it." Kakashi said wryly.

"Don't be. I didn't notice what you looked like without your mask, so I'd say we're even." Iruka said turning back to the jewelry. "Although, I'd like the opportunity to try to see it again, if you're willing to go to dinner tight."

"I can take off my mask if you want." Kakashi said reaching for his mask.

"Don't, I'd rather have dinner with you tonight. You can go without your mask. The place I'm thinking of, I doubt anyone would recognize you, and even if someone there did know you, they probably won't be about to see you. So what do you say?" Iruka asked as he inspected a copper bracelet with square cut jade on it.

"It sound's nice. What time?" Kakashi asked putting the picture in his pouch next to `Come Come Paradise.'

"How about six?" Iruka asked looking over at Kakashi as he threw the bracelet back in the box.

"You paying?" Kakashi asked teasing.

"Of course, I asked you after all. I'll see you later then, Kakashi-san." Iruka gave Kakashi a last smile before he grabbed the two boxes and pile of folders, leaving Kakashi at the table deep in thought.

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*Think Mizuki's. I actually liked his look even if he was a total bastard.

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NarutoYaoi ML Replies:

Jei: I'm glad you liked the last chapter, and as to the Kakashi/Iruka action well, they were being shy and wouldn't go near each other for that chapter. I tried to put some in, but it didn't work. And as to Aya, well let's just say with what I have planed involving her, you're really going to hate her. Please review again.

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Carcinya: Yup, you got two replies. I'm glad you liked the last chapter. I'm glad you find my OC's interesting, and you haven't even seen how they act around each other yet. I'll see what I can do about the exams; I have an idea on why Iruka's a Chuunin, but won't go into it yet. Please review again.

Nonie Chan: Thanks for the cookie. (Loves cookies). I'm glad you liked the chapter. I'm also glad you liked Iruka's friends. I like them too. As to Aya complicating the plot, well I like complex plots. As to seeing Kakashi's reaction, I forgot to put it in, but I'll most likely revise this at some point and put it in, or take your advise and put it in another chapter. Well if you check the years and add it up they've been separated almost two years. And as to the sex, well, they are still rather passionate towards each other, they just hate each other. You don't have to like the person to have sex with them. I'm glad you liked my approach though, and I'm glad you find it refreshing. I agree with you though, that type of Iruka is amusing to read about. I liked your long review, so keep up the long one's please. They're fun to read. Please review again.

Kurotoshi: I'm glad you liked it so much. I'm glad you think it's original. Maybe I get the weird plotbunnies? I'm glad you like Iruka's friends, and it's kinda cool that they remind you of your own. I never really had friends like them, but I still think it's cool that someone actually exists who's similar, if slightly disturbed. And as to your point on Iruka, your right, that's what I was planning. Please review again.

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cdkobasiuk: Interesting idea. I'm glad you liked it. And as to Shigure spilling the beans; well, he's forcing Iruka's hand. As well as interfering in Iruka's life. Please review again.

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Isolde1: I'm glad you found your other reply. I'm glad you liked the chapter. Please review again.

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Polka dot: Yes it is odd, but I enjoy writing it. And I know that it doesn't sound like Iruka (I'm assuming your talking about the marriage), but you have to remember that Aya and Iruka stuck it out for almost seven years. That builds up a lot of resentment and anger. In the end the only thing that kept them together was their pride. But they finally separated before they killed each other. Anyway I thought that you deserved an explanation since you reviewed. Tell me if I was wrong about what you were talking about. Please review again.

sidhe_ranma: I'm glad you liked the story so far, as well as my OC, and yes they are likable, if eccentric. And as to your question about Iruka' marriage, well let's just say the only ones that knew, were those that had to know. So yes it was a surprise. As to your question in this fic he is actually a Chuunin though he should be Jounin, I'll get into it in the next chapter. I've read that too, and it is interesting to know and think about. Please review again.