Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ I'll Cover You ❯ Light My Candle ( Chapter 6 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: tsukiraven 
Iruka and Kakashi are left to deal with the fate of the chuunin. They give team 7 the happiest send off that they can muster.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 02.27.2006 | Pages: 3 | Words: 1.9K | Visits: 481 | Status: Work In Progress
Iruka and Kakashi are left to deal with the fate of the chuunin. They give team 7 the happiest send off that they can muster.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 02.27.2006 | Pages: 3 | Words: 1.9K | Visits: 481 | Status: Work In Progress
a/n: Ha cha!! I'm back with more!
Sasuke: ....
tsukiraven: Why are you still here? I thought you left.
Naruto: No, Kakashi and Iruka-sensei just haven't gotten back yet.
Sasuke: ....
tsukiraven: --nervously-- Er... (she can't stand extended silences)
Sasuke: ....
Gaara: ....
Naruto: ....(thinks: Hey this is fun!)
tsukiraven: Ugh... MAKE IT STOP!! --fetal position--
Gaara: --tomb of sand thingy-- Well... that was almost too easy...
Sasuke: Indeed.... Almost.
Naruto: AHAHAHAA!!! She's trapped in Gaara's sand!!
tsukiraven: Kakashi and Iruka never gave me this kind of trouble!!! --sob--
Sasuke: Too bad. As for Miss Raven here, she owns neither Naruto or Rent. But, she wishes that you would all enjoy this piece of fiction and review it.
I'll Cover You: Chappie 6
I want to be there... because I love you Kakashi. We love you, we're a team. All three of us.
Love can get you killed Obito.
Kakashi didn't want to believe it. His precious Iruka was going to die. Three months. No... Naruto and Sasuke and Sakura wouldn't let it happen. He wouldn't let it happen. Never.
What point was there? What value did his life have if Iruka wasn't there? The man meant everything to Kakashi, there was nothing else. Nothing without his smile, his optimism, his eyes, his voice. Nothing. No, there was something... A hollow world not even worth inhabiting.
In his lap, Iruka was stunned. Kakashi leaned down to his lover's level and whispered comforts. He tried his hardest to actually believe them himself. He felt Iruka's heart beat slow, a sign that the smaller man had calmed some.
Tsunade stood up, a grim look on her face. 'Of course. A ninja of Konoha with an illness that she can't cure. She must be devastated that she can't help.' Kakashi thought sadly. "I'll leave you in Nurse Raven's capable care for now," Tsunade stated. "Doctor Koru, if you'll walk with me there are some things I'd like to ask you." Without further words, Tsunade and the doctor left the hospital room.
The three younger nins stood awkwardly by the doorway. Naruto fidgeted, Sakura cleared her throat, and Sasuke stared at the floor. Kakashi felt sorry for them. Iruka sat silently in his lap, eyes downcast.
"Umm..." Sakura began nervously. "Are you in any pain Iruka-sensei? Do you need something?"
Iruka smiled wanly. "No thank you Sakura, I'm okay." Kakashi squeezed Iruka tighter, just a bit.
Naruto sniffed. Sakura discreetly laced her arm through his. Sasuke glared, hurt, at the two of them. Then he looked away, so quick that if Kakashi was any less of a ninja he would have doubted what he saw before. But they were his students. He knew. But he didn't interfere. He would leave that to them.
He heard Iruka sniffle a bit and looked down at the chuunin. Iruka's eyes, so easy to read, were filled with glistening tears. 'Oh damn...'
"I think that I'll take Iruka home now," Kakashi hefted the smaller man into his arms and stood, surveying his students. "Come by before you leave tomorrow okay?" Without waiting for an answer, Kakashi darted out through the open window, Iruka in his arms.
Raven sighed. "Twice. That's twice that they slipped through my fingers."
Sakura looked up at the nurse. "But, you let them go didn't you?"
"Yeah... That's a different point." Blank looks. "Kakashi-san is trying to help Iruka-sensei in his own way." Raven smiled. "He'll probably do a better job at it than all of the medicine that I can give him."
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Iruka leaned against the jounin's chest as they hurtled from rooftop to rooftop. He didn't even try to resist. As long as he was in Kakashi's arms, it was all okay.
He snuggled deeper against the man, smiling slightly. Was he being silly? He didn't think so...
Iruka smiled as he walked throughout town, snow falling heavily from the heavens. Nodding cordially to a few people as he passed, he stepped inside a promising looking shop. A small girl with long black hair stood in front of the register, debating with the shop owner, a buxom blond woman. Iruka continued to smile as he happily went about his business. He had a gift to pick out for the love of his life. Kakashi Hatake.
It had been a month since he had started shopping, and he still couldn't figure out what to get the man. It was beginning to grate on his nerves, the holidays were coming up so fast.
"I'm telling you," he heard the girl insist. "It's fatal. My Mom said it was!" Iruka grinned mentally at her defiance. Children that age often believed whatever their parents told them. He wondered if she was an Academy student yet.
"Only if the antidote isn't found in time," the woman behind the counter argued back. "It can cause severe brain damage and irreversable muscle damage yes, but it won't be fatal if the antidote is taken in time."
"Nyeh, nyeh. Hey, why don't I ask him?" Iruka heard footsteps, and felt a small tug on his sleeve. He looked down into a pair of large green eyes. "Hey mister-sensei-sir? It Henshitsu poison fatal?"
Iruka gaped. He was looking at a child Raven. "I... uh..."
The woman rolled her eyes. "You see? That's what you get when you ask a chuunin." She strolled out from behind the counter, and looked Iruka square in the eye. "Hey, you're pale," Tsunade stated. "Are you okay?"
"Well," The childhood Raven spoke, in a much older, more mature voice. The voice Iruka knew her to have. "It looks like he could be suffering from Henshitsu poisoning. What do you think, Hokage-sama?"
"Hmmm..." Tsunade looked at him, analyzing his appearance. "Yes, he seems to have it. Well, Rae-chan, we'll finally have an end to our debate won't we?"
Raven let go of Iruka's sleeve and clapped twice. "Yay! I'll go get the doctor!" Raven ran over to the edge of the store and tapped lightly on an oak doorframe. "Mister doctor!" The door opened with a rich laugh. Out stepped a tall man, in his early twenties. Lavender hair hung to his chin and he beamed in a casually elegant way. Almost any other time he would have fallen for this man, but Iruka wouldn't be so careless and naive. Not again.
"Mi- Mizuki..." Iruka stammered, looking the "Doctor" in the eyes. Mizuki grinned.
"Why, Iruka-koi!" Iruka flinched. "I haven't seen you in so long! Come, give your lover a hug."
Iruka didn't move. Mizuki scowled, but the expression passed like a scuttling cloud. "Another time perhaps. I'm here to test you for Henshitsu." Mizuki pulled out a wicked sharp kunai knife. "Don't worry love, this won't hurt all that much."
Iruka awoke to the sounds of his own screaming. Darkness invaded his vision and he tried to wipe his eyes to remove whatever was covering them. When he found nothing, he began to scratch.
"Iruka! Iruka!! Stop it, you'll hurt yourself!" He felt a pair of strong hands over his, comfortably cool and soft. Iruka blinked until his vision came back. When it did (albiet blurry) he threw himself into Kakashi's arms. The stunned jounin caught him, holding him as close as possible until he calmed down.
Iruka cried. He cried because he was scared. He cried because he thought he was weak. He cried because he could. And he cried because he knew he was going to die.
Kakashi held him tight until he fell back into a mercifully dreamless slumber.
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
"Bye Iruka-sensei," Naruto said happily. "I'm gonna get all kinds of different ramen in Suna! Wait an' see! When I come back, I'll definetly become Hokage!" Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"Try not to forget the actual reason you're going, please." Kakashi stated sharply.
"Ano saa, ano saa. I won't forget Kakashi-no-baka-sensei!!" Kakashi gritted his teeth beneth the mask. "Take care of Iruka-sensei, or you'll have to answer to me!"
"I'd do it anyway, don't you worry. Goodbye Sasuke, Sakura. Take care of each other."
Sasuke nodded coolly. Sakura smiled. "Don't worry Kakashi-sensei! I'll keep an eye on them!" Kakashi chuckled lightly.
"Do you have everything?" Iruka asked, concerned. "Food, water, money--"
"It's alright Iruka-sensei," Sasuke supplied. "We have everything on the Hokage's list."
"Iruka-sensei," Sakura began mater of factly. "Make sure you go to the hospital for check-ups every other day. And take your medicine too!!"
"I will Sakura-chan. You three be careful now, don't take any unnecesary risks." Iruka smiled.
"Yeah, don't go with strangers." Kakashi said easily. With a side glance at Naruto, he added "Even if they offer you ramen."
Naruto scowled. "You really think that I'm that stupid?" As the trio of gennins walked off, the un-said word 'yes' hung in the air over their heads.
Iruka leaned against Kakashi's shoulder. "Come back in one piece," he whispered. Smiling lightly, he let the jounin lead him back into the house.
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
tsukiraven: Mmm!! Hmph mm mmm! MMGGHH!!!
Gaara: Maybe the sands are too tight...
Naruto: Ano saa, she looks funny!!! Eh, Gaara-chan?
Gaara: --rigid-- What... did you just call me...?
Naruto: What? Gaara-chan? It's cute. Would you prefer Gaa-chan? Gaara-kun? Gaara-chu? Gaara-Rin? Gaara-Cookie?
Gaara: Gaara-cookie?
tsukiraven: MMMMHHH!! UMMMM. Mmm-mmm!! --crying by now--
Sasuke: (after observing everything) Gaara...
Naruto: Yeah, Gaara-cookie! It's cute, I like it! Gaa-cookie's cuter though. Which one do you like?
Sasuke: Gaara....!
Naruto: I like them all, pick whichever one you want!
Gaara: --about to kill Naruto--
Sasuke: Gaara, that's not Naruto.
Gaara: ...?
Sasuke: --points to tsukiraven-- That's Naruto. --points to fake Naruto-- Raven used henge and substitution jutsu to get out of the sands.
Gaara: How...?
tsukiraven: This is my fic so what I say goes! And there's gonna be some changes around here...
a/n: Review please! Sorry for no responses; I am being brutally forced off of the computer even as we speak. Ja matte! Peace out!
Sasuke: ....
tsukiraven: Why are you still here? I thought you left.
Naruto: No, Kakashi and Iruka-sensei just haven't gotten back yet.
Sasuke: ....
tsukiraven: --nervously-- Er... (she can't stand extended silences)
Sasuke: ....
Gaara: ....
Naruto: ....(thinks: Hey this is fun!)
tsukiraven: Ugh... MAKE IT STOP!! --fetal position--
Gaara: --tomb of sand thingy-- Well... that was almost too easy...
Sasuke: Indeed.... Almost.
Naruto: AHAHAHAA!!! She's trapped in Gaara's sand!!
tsukiraven: Kakashi and Iruka never gave me this kind of trouble!!! --sob--
Sasuke: Too bad. As for Miss Raven here, she owns neither Naruto or Rent. But, she wishes that you would all enjoy this piece of fiction and review it.
I'll Cover You: Chappie 6
I want to be there... because I love you Kakashi. We love you, we're a team. All three of us.
Love can get you killed Obito.
Kakashi didn't want to believe it. His precious Iruka was going to die. Three months. No... Naruto and Sasuke and Sakura wouldn't let it happen. He wouldn't let it happen. Never.
What point was there? What value did his life have if Iruka wasn't there? The man meant everything to Kakashi, there was nothing else. Nothing without his smile, his optimism, his eyes, his voice. Nothing. No, there was something... A hollow world not even worth inhabiting.
In his lap, Iruka was stunned. Kakashi leaned down to his lover's level and whispered comforts. He tried his hardest to actually believe them himself. He felt Iruka's heart beat slow, a sign that the smaller man had calmed some.
Tsunade stood up, a grim look on her face. 'Of course. A ninja of Konoha with an illness that she can't cure. She must be devastated that she can't help.' Kakashi thought sadly. "I'll leave you in Nurse Raven's capable care for now," Tsunade stated. "Doctor Koru, if you'll walk with me there are some things I'd like to ask you." Without further words, Tsunade and the doctor left the hospital room.
The three younger nins stood awkwardly by the doorway. Naruto fidgeted, Sakura cleared her throat, and Sasuke stared at the floor. Kakashi felt sorry for them. Iruka sat silently in his lap, eyes downcast.
"Umm..." Sakura began nervously. "Are you in any pain Iruka-sensei? Do you need something?"
Iruka smiled wanly. "No thank you Sakura, I'm okay." Kakashi squeezed Iruka tighter, just a bit.
Naruto sniffed. Sakura discreetly laced her arm through his. Sasuke glared, hurt, at the two of them. Then he looked away, so quick that if Kakashi was any less of a ninja he would have doubted what he saw before. But they were his students. He knew. But he didn't interfere. He would leave that to them.
He heard Iruka sniffle a bit and looked down at the chuunin. Iruka's eyes, so easy to read, were filled with glistening tears. 'Oh damn...'
"I think that I'll take Iruka home now," Kakashi hefted the smaller man into his arms and stood, surveying his students. "Come by before you leave tomorrow okay?" Without waiting for an answer, Kakashi darted out through the open window, Iruka in his arms.
Raven sighed. "Twice. That's twice that they slipped through my fingers."
Sakura looked up at the nurse. "But, you let them go didn't you?"
"Yeah... That's a different point." Blank looks. "Kakashi-san is trying to help Iruka-sensei in his own way." Raven smiled. "He'll probably do a better job at it than all of the medicine that I can give him."
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Iruka leaned against the jounin's chest as they hurtled from rooftop to rooftop. He didn't even try to resist. As long as he was in Kakashi's arms, it was all okay.
He snuggled deeper against the man, smiling slightly. Was he being silly? He didn't think so...
Iruka smiled as he walked throughout town, snow falling heavily from the heavens. Nodding cordially to a few people as he passed, he stepped inside a promising looking shop. A small girl with long black hair stood in front of the register, debating with the shop owner, a buxom blond woman. Iruka continued to smile as he happily went about his business. He had a gift to pick out for the love of his life. Kakashi Hatake.
It had been a month since he had started shopping, and he still couldn't figure out what to get the man. It was beginning to grate on his nerves, the holidays were coming up so fast.
"I'm telling you," he heard the girl insist. "It's fatal. My Mom said it was!" Iruka grinned mentally at her defiance. Children that age often believed whatever their parents told them. He wondered if she was an Academy student yet.
"Only if the antidote isn't found in time," the woman behind the counter argued back. "It can cause severe brain damage and irreversable muscle damage yes, but it won't be fatal if the antidote is taken in time."
"Nyeh, nyeh. Hey, why don't I ask him?" Iruka heard footsteps, and felt a small tug on his sleeve. He looked down into a pair of large green eyes. "Hey mister-sensei-sir? It Henshitsu poison fatal?"
Iruka gaped. He was looking at a child Raven. "I... uh..."
The woman rolled her eyes. "You see? That's what you get when you ask a chuunin." She strolled out from behind the counter, and looked Iruka square in the eye. "Hey, you're pale," Tsunade stated. "Are you okay?"
"Well," The childhood Raven spoke, in a much older, more mature voice. The voice Iruka knew her to have. "It looks like he could be suffering from Henshitsu poisoning. What do you think, Hokage-sama?"
"Hmmm..." Tsunade looked at him, analyzing his appearance. "Yes, he seems to have it. Well, Rae-chan, we'll finally have an end to our debate won't we?"
Raven let go of Iruka's sleeve and clapped twice. "Yay! I'll go get the doctor!" Raven ran over to the edge of the store and tapped lightly on an oak doorframe. "Mister doctor!" The door opened with a rich laugh. Out stepped a tall man, in his early twenties. Lavender hair hung to his chin and he beamed in a casually elegant way. Almost any other time he would have fallen for this man, but Iruka wouldn't be so careless and naive. Not again.
"Mi- Mizuki..." Iruka stammered, looking the "Doctor" in the eyes. Mizuki grinned.
"Why, Iruka-koi!" Iruka flinched. "I haven't seen you in so long! Come, give your lover a hug."
Iruka didn't move. Mizuki scowled, but the expression passed like a scuttling cloud. "Another time perhaps. I'm here to test you for Henshitsu." Mizuki pulled out a wicked sharp kunai knife. "Don't worry love, this won't hurt all that much."
Iruka awoke to the sounds of his own screaming. Darkness invaded his vision and he tried to wipe his eyes to remove whatever was covering them. When he found nothing, he began to scratch.
"Iruka! Iruka!! Stop it, you'll hurt yourself!" He felt a pair of strong hands over his, comfortably cool and soft. Iruka blinked until his vision came back. When it did (albiet blurry) he threw himself into Kakashi's arms. The stunned jounin caught him, holding him as close as possible until he calmed down.
Iruka cried. He cried because he was scared. He cried because he thought he was weak. He cried because he could. And he cried because he knew he was going to die.
Kakashi held him tight until he fell back into a mercifully dreamless slumber.
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
"Bye Iruka-sensei," Naruto said happily. "I'm gonna get all kinds of different ramen in Suna! Wait an' see! When I come back, I'll definetly become Hokage!" Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"Try not to forget the actual reason you're going, please." Kakashi stated sharply.
"Ano saa, ano saa. I won't forget Kakashi-no-baka-sensei!!" Kakashi gritted his teeth beneth the mask. "Take care of Iruka-sensei, or you'll have to answer to me!"
"I'd do it anyway, don't you worry. Goodbye Sasuke, Sakura. Take care of each other."
Sasuke nodded coolly. Sakura smiled. "Don't worry Kakashi-sensei! I'll keep an eye on them!" Kakashi chuckled lightly.
"Do you have everything?" Iruka asked, concerned. "Food, water, money--"
"It's alright Iruka-sensei," Sasuke supplied. "We have everything on the Hokage's list."
"Iruka-sensei," Sakura began mater of factly. "Make sure you go to the hospital for check-ups every other day. And take your medicine too!!"
"I will Sakura-chan. You three be careful now, don't take any unnecesary risks." Iruka smiled.
"Yeah, don't go with strangers." Kakashi said easily. With a side glance at Naruto, he added "Even if they offer you ramen."
Naruto scowled. "You really think that I'm that stupid?" As the trio of gennins walked off, the un-said word 'yes' hung in the air over their heads.
Iruka leaned against Kakashi's shoulder. "Come back in one piece," he whispered. Smiling lightly, he let the jounin lead him back into the house.
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
tsukiraven: Mmm!! Hmph mm mmm! MMGGHH!!!
Gaara: Maybe the sands are too tight...
Naruto: Ano saa, she looks funny!!! Eh, Gaara-chan?
Gaara: --rigid-- What... did you just call me...?
Naruto: What? Gaara-chan? It's cute. Would you prefer Gaa-chan? Gaara-kun? Gaara-chu? Gaara-Rin? Gaara-Cookie?
Gaara: Gaara-cookie?
tsukiraven: MMMMHHH!! UMMMM. Mmm-mmm!! --crying by now--
Sasuke: (after observing everything) Gaara...
Naruto: Yeah, Gaara-cookie! It's cute, I like it! Gaa-cookie's cuter though. Which one do you like?
Sasuke: Gaara....!
Naruto: I like them all, pick whichever one you want!
Gaara: --about to kill Naruto--
Sasuke: Gaara, that's not Naruto.
Gaara: ...?
Sasuke: --points to tsukiraven-- That's Naruto. --points to fake Naruto-- Raven used henge and substitution jutsu to get out of the sands.
Gaara: How...?
tsukiraven: This is my fic so what I say goes! And there's gonna be some changes around here...
a/n: Review please! Sorry for no responses; I am being brutally forced off of the computer even as we speak. Ja matte! Peace out!