Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Paradise Lost ❯ Paradise Lost ( Chapter 1 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Title: Paradise Lost

Author: ftmboi

Rating: Probably PG-13 for right now

Warnings: If you like doe-eyed, helpless, naively innocent, ever-bowing Iruka, then this is not the fic for you. If you like SexualPredator!Kakashi, this is not the fic for you. Also, this is slash… Y-A-O-I… If you don’t like boys boffing each other, don’t read, m’kay?

Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto. Really wish that I did. But then, don’t we all?

Premise: Iruka is not as innocent as he is stereotypically portrayed in most KakaIru fanfics. He was pretty mischievous as a kid, remember? Well, even though he is a very proper school teacher, I have a feeling that the mischievous side of him grew up to be a little perverted. He is comfortable with his own sexuality, and attracted to beauty of any kind, as well as eccentricity and intelligence. However, he is very discreet about his sexual activities, so the fact that he is so experienced is not known to many people. Kakashi is extremely perverted, of course, but since he grew up so quickly he is not very comfortable with intimacy, and is rather inexperienced in the bedroom. Because he has a tough time initiating relationships, he relieves his frustrations through reading his favorite semi-pornographic books…

A/N: This fic will bear no resemblance to John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” in any way. It is simply a play on words. C’mon, you can figure it out, right? Also, I labeled this an AU fic because I’ve only seen up to the middle of the chuunin exams, so I don’t know what happens after that. Assume that, for the purposes of this story, Naruto and Sasuke both passed the exam, but they are still under Kakashi’s tutelage. They won’t really play a pivotal role in this fic, so it shouldn’t be that much of a problem.

Chapter 1: “Paradise Lost”

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Umino Iruka sighed and stretched a little at his desk, glad finally to be done for the day. He would much rather have been herding a bunch of shinobi-in-training around all day, but since the kids were on a break he was stuck doing glorified secretarial work. Not that he didn’t absolutely LOVE filing mission reports… Iruka shook his head and rubbed at the bridge of his nose a bit before starting to clean up his work area. He straightened the blank forms up, placed all the pens and miscellaneous office supplies back into the drawer, and was about to grab the files he’d finished when he noticed it. Stuck in the middle of the stack was a small, bright orange book. Curiously, he pulled it out and read the cover. “Icha Icha Paradise,” he said aloud, a quizzical expression crossing his features. He’d seen this title before…

“That’s right,” Iruka thought to himself, “Kakashi-san is always reading this.” He didn’t know much about the man, other than him being the Jounin mentor for Team 7. Since he’d never seen anyone else read this before, Iruka concluded that it was probably Kakashi’s book, and he’d most likely left it there by accident when he’d filed his mission report earlier that day. He’d have to find the mysterious shinobi and return the lost item. He didn’t exactly like the man, since they’d had that altercation over the chuunin exam, but he wasn’t the type of person to keep another’s possession over some childish grudge.

After asking the few people he could find around headquarters at this time of night, he came to the realization that he’d have better luck trying to return it the following day. Resolving to worry no more about the matter, he tucked the book securely into his pouch and headed home.

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Hatake Kakashi was FREAKING… OUT… He wasn’t normally the kind of person that would loose his cool, but seriously… He’d looked EVERYWHERE for his newest copy of “Icha Icha Paradise” and he’d come up completely empty-handed. And he’d just bought it this morning! He hadn’t even finished the second chapter! He didn’t even notice that it was missing until he’d gone to take care of an all-out brawl between Naruto and Sasuke…

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Kakashi held a kicking and yelling Naruto and a rather disgruntled looking Sasuke by their collars 2 feet off the ground on either side of him. “Dammit, Kakashi-sensei! Lemme go,” Naruto demanded, flailing is arms and legs towards the tall Jounin but never connecting. Sasuke opted for pouting and crossing his arms, trying to look bored with the situation.

“I’ll let you go when you tell me just what’s going on here,” Kakashi explained calmly.

The little blond just fumed and pointed at Sasuke. “That jerk tried to molest me!” Naruto turned beet red as he stared angrily at the other boy.

Kakashi showed only a moment of surprise, then chuckled, his one visible eye becoming an upended crescent. He looked at Sasuke expectantly. “Care to explain?”

Sasuke could look downright evil sometimes. “He was being annoying, following me around everywhere, and he wouldn’t shut up. I thought it might be harder for him to walk after me if his pants were around his ankles.”

Naruto sputtered and turned an even more vivid shade of red. “Why you…” Kakashi let Sasuke down and grabbed Naruto by both arms, attempting to immobilize the boy. “I’m gonna kick your ass, Uchiha!!! Sensei, let me go or I’ll…”

Kakashi cut him off, “You’ll do what,” he asked amusedly. He decided to let Naruto go and find out exactly what he thought he could do.

Naruto gave a feral grin and clenched his fists. “I’ll do this!” He charged head-on at his teacher, just like always. Kakashi knew this routine by heart, so he decided it was time to catch up on some reading. He reached into his pouch for his newest “Icha Icha Paradise” and suddenly realized that it was missing. His moment of utter shock allowed Naruto an opening, and he took it.

Kakashi was rudely interrupted from searching his pouch by a fist connecting squarely with his jaw. “Naruto may be small,” he thought to himself, “but he’s got one heck of a right hook…” As he brought his head around to look at the now celebrating boy, he fixed him with the patented “one-eyed-stare-of-death” that had worked on many enemies in the past. Naruto saw, and immediately ceased his jumping and cheering, cowering at his sensei’s feet.

“S-sensei… I, uh…” Naruto was shaken a little by Kakashi’s intensity.

Kakashi felt at his pack one more time, then buttoned it closed, a move that did not go unnoticed by Sasuke who was by now standing to the side, hoping he would not also be a victim of their silver-haired sensei’s wrath. The jounin moved his hands to the front of him. “Is he making a seal,” thought Sasuke as he got ready to leap to safer ground.

Kakashi knelt by the shaking boy in front of him. “I have to go right now… But if I hear that either of you,” he turned and fixed his gaze on Sasuke for a moment, then turned back to Naruto, “have started anything else…” He brought his hands up to the boy’s face, middle and index fingers out, rings and pinkies entwined.

Sasuke looked closely at the hand signal. Then he remembered their first test as genin, and what Kakashi had done to Naruto that day…

Kakashi’s eyebrow lowered menacingly. “I promise you a MILLION. YEARS. OF DEATH.”

Naruto and Sasuke’s eyes widened and they gulped and grabbed their backsides protectively in unison. Kakashi then smiled for a moment, and in a puff of smoke he was gone.

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On any other day he’d still be laughing to himself over giving the boys the scare of their lives. But today… He HAD to find that book. He just knew he wouldn’t be able to sleep unless he finished reading it. He scraped at the bark of the tree he was sitting in with a kunai, trying to get a grasp on the situation. “Okay, Kakashi. Calm down and retrace your steps. Where was the last place you had it,” he asked himself. He thought for a moment, and suddenly it hit him!

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Kakashi chuckled softly to himself over the antics of his favorite characters, happy to finally have a few spare minutes to read his new issue of “Icha Icha Paradise” while waiting in line to file his mission report. When he made it to the front, he pulled his attention away from the pages to hand in his neatly organized paperwork to the chuunin at the desk, Iruka.. Wasn’t he the kids’ teacher at the ninja academy? He remembered the man had been quite terse with him when he’d recommended his team for the chuunin exam. Kakashi liked a man who could stand up for his beliefs, but in that particular instance he’d had to put Iruka in his place. At any rate, he was about to start up a casual conversation with the man when a couple of older genin ran in, looking quite distraught.

“Kakashi-senpai! Please hurry! Two of your charges are causing quite a disturbance in town. We would have stopped them, you see, but,” the young man trailed off, not wanting to admit that he had no chance of stopping either of the 13-year-olds.

Kakashi set down his book to sign his report quickly, then sighed and ran out after the genin, hoping the boys hadn’t caused too much property damage.

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The sharingan user sighed, slumping against the trunk of his tree a little. He could only hope that someone had noticed it and taken it into their care. It was getting rather late, so he knew that logically he should wait until tomorrow to attempt a rescue mission. And Hatake Kakashi was usually a logical man. Usually…

“Damn it,” he muttered, springing from the high branch and landing effortlessly in a crouch. He sprinted towards headquarters. That Iruka guy was a workaholic. He might still be there, happily collating and stapling reports, or whatever it was that workaholics did for fun. It was worth a shot, anyway. Kakashi allowed himself a small smile beneath his mask. He may yet get a good night’s sleep…


A/N: Okay, so there’s the first chapter ^_^ Hope you liked it! This is my first go at a Naruto fic, so be forgiving if I’ve messed anything up. Reviews are always welcome! Second chapter should be up later this week, most likely some time Sunday.