Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Doing Something Stupid ❯ Feral Civility ( Chapter 5 )

Title: Doing Something Stupid

Chapter: 5/?

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: A brief discussion between Rei, Kana, and Shigure. Kakashi's thoughts on them, and Kakashi finally meets Aya.

Warnings: Yaoi. Seme Iruka (that's rare). Original characters. Forward Iruka. 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 show you Aya and she's rather... stiff I think. Also I give you a deeper look into Iruka's life and finally show you some of Midori to make up for Aya. I'm not sure what else to say about this chapter but that I hope you like it. That and I seem to be having trouble with the flow of chapters, or so it seems to me. Anyway I want your opinions on my original characters. Also I _do_ know who the baby's father is, and I decided to be lazy and make him a member of the Naruto canon. Anyway that's all for now. Read and enjoy.

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Feral Civility

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Shigure leaned over Kana's shoulder to look at the computer screen and asked after reading the document again, "Are you sure this is right?"

"Hai, it's true, this is the confirmation. Iruka's really not going to like this." Kana said dryly.

"Gee, you think? Iruka's going to go fucking ballistic." Rei said from where he sat sprawled in the chair in front of Kana's desk. He swung his feet onto the desk and crossed them as he continued to play string games having already read the email himself. "That guy is the only thing Iruka hates more than his wife."

"Wife? Iruka-sensei's married?" Kurenai looked at the three ninja in shock. She had just been walking by minding her own business when Iruka's name caught his attention, making her wonder what three Jounin that she had never seen before would be talking about Iruka for, but she didn't expect this.

"Ohaiyo, can I help you?" Kana asked give the ninja a bright smile and blatantly ignoring the woman's question as well as Rei tilting his head back to look at the woman rather than turning to look like most people would.

Kurenai flushed, she hadn't realized she spoke out loud, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to overhear."

"To late to do anything about it now," Shigure said with a sigh before giving Kurenai a hard look. "Look, don't mention it to anyone okay. The whole thing is a convoluted mess and I highly doubt you need to know."

"I won't say anything." Kurenai reassured the three ninja. `Maybe I misunderstood. Maybe she's the other man's wife.'

"Arighto. Now did you want to speak to any of us or are you just passing by?" Rei asked from his precarious position.

"I was just passing by. I'm sorry to have interrupted your conversation." She apologized again with a bow.

"No worries. I'm Yorishi Kana, this is my husband Yorishi Shigure and friend Kijirou Rei." Kana introduced them brightly to the slightly dazed woman. "You're the teacher four team eight, correct."

"Hai, I am." Kurenai was confused by the hyper woman who was literally bouncing in her chair until the androgynous man put a hand on her shoulder before she bounced right out of her chair.

"You'll have to excuse me wife, she has energy usage problems." He gave her a polite bow. "If you will excuse us, we have some matters to discuss. It was nice to meet you Kurenai-sensei."

"Yeah, nice to see you. Be careful of that Hyuuga you have on your team. She sounds like a real troublemaker." Rei said with a lopsided grin before sitting up and putting his feet on the ground. "I say we discuss this later at your place. We won't have to worry about it for a few days anyway."

"Anou... Why is that?" Kana asked giving Rei an annoyed frown as a slightly dazed Kurenai walked off heavily confused by the entire bizarre encounter. Kana was well used to the reactions people got whenever three or more of their circle were in the same room as each other.

Having a group of people of such strong and diverse personalities near each other, especially if they had a lot of history, tends to lead those unused to them to go into a sort of shock. When you consider that all four of them are all very much to the extremes of their particular personality types, it was just made worse. Few could understand how such different people can get along, let alone be such close friends, but then again it's one of life's mysteries on how the male and female species can even understand each other enough to realize that they're physically compatible. So maybe it's just best to smile and back away from the entire subject.

"Iruka's off on a mission for the next few days so we have time to duck and cover. I have to go anyway, my shift starts in twenty minutes." Rei said as he stood up and stretched.

"Fine, go play doctor. Just remember to stop by for dinner, ne." Shigure ordered before kissing Kana briefly. "I might as well go too, see if they have any missions for me. See you at lunch if I'm free?"

"Yuppers! I'll be busy trying to figure out what's wrong with my jutsu. It should be working. Ah well, that's the hazards of coming up with your own jutsu. Ja matte ne." Kana waved exuberantly at the two men as they started to walk away poking fun at each other.

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Kakashi turned the page in the book Kana had loaned him the day before and had to agree, it was very enthralling. He could see why she said it was one of her favorites. Kakashi raised his eye to look over at his team when he heard a particularly loud shriek from Sakura. `Hmm, maybe I should take them out for dinner after this. It looks like they're having a hard time washing those dogs. Then maybe I can check and see if Iruka's back from his mission yet.'

Kakashi got a rather distant smile as he recalled the rather interesting last couple of weeks. He would say one thing for Iruka, for someone who most people thought of as boring his life was anything but.

Rei was an interesting contradiction, he was a surprisingly caring man, who took his duty as a medical-nin very seriously, and was actually a workaholic though you wouldn't know it to look at him. Kakashi had been surprised to discover that Rei who was a very curious, and even tempered person, was also extremely sadistic and borderline psychotic.

The threat he had given Kakashi if he ever hurt Iruka had been rather... detailed, as well as leaving Kakashi with a very healthy respect for anyone that made their living by putting people back together. They as Rei so kindly pointed out know exactly what to do to you to keep you alive while experiencing levels of pain that would normally kill you. Needless to say Kakashi was impressed and disturbed by the rather long and detailed description of what Rei could do to him if he so chose. Just what he said he could do with a basic healing jutsu was scarily thought out.

Shigure was something else, soft spoken, cynical, and abnormally interested in what made people tick mentally. Apparently his ambition was to one day become a psychologist for the higher-ranking shinobi in Konoha when he retired from the Anbu squad. Kakashi had been surprised that he was even on the squad considering he had a family he obviously cared a great deal for. In response to his query Shigure had just shrugged and said that it had always been his ambition to become an Anbu member, because next to the hunters they lived the truest shinobi lives, and to understand something fully you have to truly live it yourself.

Shigure was a very interesting man to talk to, not to mention charismatic in his own way, when he said something you listened subconsciously, because whatever he said will most likely be important. He and Kakashi had had many interesting conversations since they had met, and each time Kakashi learned something new about Iruka that often surprised him.

Like the fact that Iruka's abject paranoia, which Kakashi had recently seen just how much it controlled his life, had a reasonable source, apparently Iruka's parents had been from to surprisingly compatible minor advanced bloodlines and the way they mixed led to Iruka's more suspicious than most people, and circumstances led up to his paranoia.

Although Kakashi couldn't discover what the two bloodlines were no matter how hard he tried. Iruka finally just told him that they weren't much, just highly annoying at certain times. His explanation had earned snickers from the others at their weekly poker game that Iruka had brought him to.

Kana was not what he expected. He got exhausted just talking to her for an hour. The woman refused to be still for any reason. He was also surprised to learn she specialized in genjutsu, which as a type that not many use much seeing as how it's mostly illusions. Naruto was right though she knew some of the most vulgar jokes Kakashi had ever hear, and that was saying a lot.

She could be flighty at times and was also a perfectionist as demonstrated by her newest project trying to create a genjutsu that would hide the user as a part of the landscape, a sort of optical illusion, she had already gotten something remarkable, but according do her it was still to easy to detect, considering if you knew what you were looking for you would be able to see the ripples and fluxes as the person moved and the genjutsu didn't quite keep up.

The reason she was making it was bizarre as well, she was determined to prove that Genma was actually a pod person sent to infiltrate the human race and start breeding with the females to create a bizarre hybrid species that will eventually kill off its parent species. Needless to say she was drugged on painkillers when she came up with that theory after being badly injured on a mission, but she liked the idea and worked on it.

Midori was absolutely adorable; she had her father's delicate features and eye color, and her mothers coloring, which was apparently dark blonde. She was a beautiful and intelligent child. That also had absolutely no shyness as demonstrated by her climbing into Kakashi's lap: and declaring rather firmly that Iruka was her uncle, and since they were together so was he so she wanted a present from him next time she saw him.

All in all the entire group had made him feel welcomed into their tight circle and he had had a great time watching them interact. It was a unique experience being so quickly accepted by any group of ninja, let alone ones as close lipped as they were. The five of them (seven if you count Naruto and Kakashi) had done some rather interesting things; the weekly dinner was an experience in and of itself. Rei apparently loved to cook and used the dinner to show off and teach Midori and Naruto how to cook at the same time.

While the work in the kitchen was going on Kana told him some rather amusing stories about various missions she had been on while Shigure and Iruka played a game of Shogi. It had been a very relaxing evening of good food, companionship, and laughter. As he lay in Iruka's bed later that night he had been startled to realize that not once throughout the evening had the mysterious Aya been mentioned.

Kakashi admitted that it bothered him, he was incredibly curious about the woman that brought such passionate responses out of Iruka. He admitted to himself that he was jealous of her on several levels, she had to have had something that was incredible to have drawn Iruka in the first place, but she had helped bring about ruin to her own marriage.

It also didn't help matters that Iruka admitted that no matter how much he hated and loathed her existence in his life, he still loved her in a twisted way. Kakashi wasn't sure what to make of that confession. It was rare to find someone that he could come to care for a great deal, and to find that they were in a rather convoluted relationship with someone he had never met, yet were still willing to try being with him. Overall the situation was rather confusing.

"Excuse me." A soft, polite voice interrupted his musings of the more recent turn of events his life had taken. "I apologize for interrupting your reading, but I was hoping that you could help me."

Kakashi looked down at the woman below him. She was an enchanting figure in her pink and blue kimono, though he would admit that the umbrella pattern was interesting, it was nothing when you drew in the whole picture. The woman was in the last stages of her pregnancy, and it was obvious to his discerning eye that before her figure had enlarged, she had possessed a lush figure that was well maintained. Her long blue hair was pulled back in a traditional bun held in place by a turtle shell combs. Her smooth skin was had a soft tan showing she spent a great deal of time exposed to the elements in contrast to her traditional appearance. The sharp, flat look to her brown eyes betrayed that she had seen a great deal of violence in her life. All in all she was an intriguing mixture of contrasts.

"That depends. What do you need help with?" Kakashi eyed her suspiciously, the woman was obviously a ninja, though no one he recognized.

"You are Hatake Kakashi correct? I am Umino Aya; I was hoping I might speak to you for a brief time if it is no bother. There are some things I feel we should discuss." Aya bowed slightly to Kakashi after she finished her short speech. He would give her one thing, she actually managed to pull off polite and blunt at the same time. A rare feat in any circumstance, let alone in the first meeting between a man's lover and wife.

"I will admit I'm curious as to what you have to say, but as you can see I'm rather busy." Kakashi eyed the woman warily, something about her set him on edge, and it bothered him that he couldn't figure out what it was. Maybe it was just the stories he had heard about her and Iruka, though he couldn't help feeling that wasn't all there was to it.

"We can sit on that bench so that you may keep an eye on your students. I would really rather speak to you now before Iruka-kun returns." Aya gestured briefly to a bench that sat a few yards away beneath a plum tree.

Kakashi eyed her for several silent moments before nodding briefly in assent. After they had settled themselves onto the wooden bench he eyed the woman that sat beside him. Now that he was closer, he admitted to himself that he could see what Shigure had meant by Iruka being attracted to exotics. It wasn't just her hair color; it was something else, something beneath her cover of tradition and civilization. Something dark, primal; it made him think of the old legends of animals taking on human guise. She contained a stillness that only a wild creature could possess, like she could spend hours waiting at the mouth of her prey's den waiting for her chance to strike.

"I am glad you agreed to speak with me, Hatake-san. What I have to say, I feel you need to hear considering your relationship with my husband." Aya looked at him with calm eyes as she tilted her head slightly, "You are a very honorable man from what I learned, so I came to make a request of you. Don't hurt him. I know that I above all others have the least right to ask this of you, but you have to understand; what stands between him and I… it is complicated. You cannot hate someone with that much passion and not care for it on some level." She turned her head to watch Kakashi's group with distant eyes. "I also ask for the same kindness towards my child if you are still with Iruka-kun when he is born."

Kakashi shook his head in disbelief at her request, "You have a lot of gall, Umino-san. As I understand it you and Iruka haven't had anything resembling a relationship in over five years. What the two of you have is some masochistic nightmare that neither of you are willing to back out of. You have no right to make that request of me, I am well aware of what your and Iruka's relationship is and how it currently stands." Kakashi eyed her bulging belly with distaste. "You shun your own husbands company; who is one of the most honorable people I know, and refuse to give the one gift that he wanted above all other; a child of his own. Then after letting him move on with his life, you show up pregnant with by a sociopath and ask him to raise it for you, knowing full well that the father will come to claim it as soon as he finds out. I don't see why you should have any say in what I do. I don't know you and I already despise you." Kakashi eyed Aya with obvious disgust in his visible eye.

Aya watched him calmly, not even flinching at his harsh words towards her, "You are an unexpected Hatake-san, but maybe that's what makes you so special. Even when someone thinks they have you figured out you prove that you can still think circles around them. I think you will be a good match for Iruka-kun. Now if you will excuse me I have a doctors appointment I do not wish to be late for." Aya stood awkwardly as Kakashi watched her from where he sat ignoring the fact that he was making a heavily pregnant woman struggle.

After she had disappeared from sight he lapsed into thought again upon their encounter. He could see why her and Iruka never worked out. She had an air of moral ambiguity that went deeper than most ninja's he had met, but when combined with the signs of her having been heavily spoiled, she would have driven Iruka away very quickly with her whims. She struck him as the type that would ask for a puppy, and then as soon as it was no longer cute have it put down.

The whole encounter left him with heavy thoughts even after he had arrived home at his apartment that night carrying a Russian Blue [1] kitten that he would give to Midori when he saw her for dinner tomorrow.

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[1] Russian Blues are solid gray. My brother had had one named Hackysack that I had trained to lay on my shoulders.

Ending Notes: Not much to say except sorry it took so long to update. I hope you all like this chapter.

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