Savin' Me

Yes I know it’s been a while, but I went to a convention two weeks ago and I had to get my other story done after that and I’ve been getting very distracted by other things lately. But the con was fun. I met Iruka’s English voice actor, Quinton Flynn, that was part of the reason I went to Sydney to attend the con. He was there with his friend Jeff Nimoy who played Wolfwood in Trigun and they were fun to listen too. The sang the Yaoi song and that was lots of fun. And no they aren’t gay, which I’m glad about. And Sean Schemmel was there too, and being a DBZ fan as well I was very happy. Especially doing the Kamehameha with him( and a bunch of other people.) I got to have two days off work, live in a hotel and fly, even if we had a bad landing back home in Melbourne. But I got this done finally and on my birthday too! I hope you like, no lemon, but… Not far to go now, and never fear, I have another story already partly written.

Savin’ Me continued….
By Fyrbyrd

By the time Kakashi had left the bathroom, Sasuke was gone and Iruka was sitting there waiting for him to eat with him. He decided to eat and they did so in silence. Iruka found it hard to look him in the eye, and he was nervous, he had no idea where to start. Once they were finished their meal, he gathered up the dishes and went to the sink. Kakashi got to his feet and found a pad and paper and wrote a quick note before Iruka returned.

Iruka turned the note to himself and sighed heavily. The note read, ‘Tell me about the brothel.’

He sat down just as heavily and rubbed at his eyes. “Okay. Six years ago you went on a mission you never returned from. Sasuke believes you had a run in with Itachi, he didn’t kill you, but you had no memory of who you were. You apparently wandered into the path of a Ninja hating farmer. He used you on his farm, tying you by the neck in his barn. He treated you worse than an animal, beating you when you didn’t do what he wanted. He’s dead…now. Someone saw you with him one day, someone who knew who you were and bought you from the farmer. That’s when you started your life as a…whore. A slave trader used you first, then he sold you to the owner of the brothel you spent nearly five years in. You were available to anyone that could afford you, to do anything they wanted with you, and once a year they had a special event where you were the star. You’ve been taken by Lords Kakashi. They did things to you in every possible way. I know because I was there for the last event.”

They sat in silence for some time as Kakashi took it in.

“Naruto found you… You were being beaten by the owner of the brothel because you misbehaved with a client. We thought you were dead, you’d been declared MIA. They had looked, but things were… Anyway like I said Naruto found you, he wanted to know why you were there. The only way to get close enough to you was to…hire you for the night.”

Kakashi nodded.

“He came back to the village and told me that he had found you and the circumstances of your…imprisonment. At first we thought they didn’t know who you were. That they’d just taken you in as an amnesiac. But we were wrong. Naruto went to the slave trader to see what he could find out there, which is how we got the farmer’s story. But the trader knew who you were from the start. You started your life as a whore with him when someone wanted to try you. He sold your ‘first time’ to the highest bidder.”

Kakashi still didn’t lift his head and nodded again.

“Anyway we didn’t tell anyone else what we had learned. While he went to the slave trader, I got a job at the brothel. I started out as a cleaner and wound up caring for you. You had a tracking device on you so we couldn’t just take you. While I was looking after you I sorta… fell in love with you.”

Kakashi lifted his head then and looked at Iruka.

“You were treated horribly at the brothel. All the owner wanted was the money you made for him. He had someone there who was supposed to look after you, but when I found your room…it was disgusting…filthy. When I came into the picture you were already dying, you’d began to give up. They were beating you more often and that bastard who was supposed to be looking after you hated you… You got him though, he is the reason you got away from there, just before we were about to rescue you, he took you to the dungeon and beat you so badly that you cracked, you were able to bring out your Chidori and you killed him, burned the whole place down. We had to wait for you to run out of chakra before we could get you home. Only when we did they put you in the psych ward, you were able to call up Chidori without hand signs and wanted to attack anyone that came near you. They put you in a straightjacket and locked you in a padded room, sealed your chakra from you. I tried to reach you as I had in the brothel, but when you tried to grope me, they thought you were going to attack me and I was not allowed back in with you. You didn’t want to eat, started dying again. I couldn’t stand that. I knew that I could help you. I knew that I could reach you somehow. I was not willing to let go of you. They said you’d have to remain locked up and I knew that would kill you. So with some help I got you out of the village… We’re kind of missing Nin right now, though most of our friends have helped us get here. As for the sex, well, you and I were sleeping in the same bed and you got horny and well, encouraged me and I wanted you and… I took you. You wanted me to, and well… We’ve been having sex since then.” Iruka was red by the time he finished, afraid to look at his lover.

But Kakashi reached his hand to Iruka’s chin and turned his head to face him, to show him that he was smiling. Iruka had answered his questions. He rubbed at his throat as if wishing he could talk.

“Oh Tsunade can fix that when we go home. You do want to go home, don’t you? Not many know what happened to you. Only friends that came to help at the brothel and those covering for us here know what happened to you. As far as the others are concerned, you are still MIA. Your name is not on the monument.”

Kakashi closed his eye at that. Six years since he had been there.

“I realize now that you have some of your memory back… I’m sorry. Now I sort of feel like I’ve taken advantage of you.”

Kakashi quickly scribbled something down and put it in front of Iruka.

He read, “If you take advantage of me like you did this morning, you can take advantage of me anytime.” He laughed and smiled, “I have to admit I was worried there. The thought of never being able to touch you again would kill me… Naruto organized most of this, for us… I know you didn’t care for me much in the past—“

Kakashi slapped his hand down on the table startling Iruka, he turned the pad back around and began writing.

‘You gave me back my life, and I already said I enjoyed this morning. We’re in this together now aren’t we? It’s been a long time since anyone loved me, or that I loved anyone. And it seems I have a lot of catching up to do.’

“I’ll be with you all the way if you want me to be.”

‘What did I just say?’ Iruka smiled, and Kakashi reached out to cup his cheek with his hand, then turned it backwards to caress his face.

At that moment Sasuke came back in, “Ah, I think you might want to get ready. You’re about to have visitors. I’m heading out; I’ll head back by another route and see you back at the village… It’ll all work out.” The poofed out before either of them could answer.

Kakashi put a hand to his bare face. He didn’t mind his lover and students seeing him, but he didn’t want anyone else to see him.

“I didn’t think to bring one. We’ll fashion something if you want.”

Kakashi nodded he wanted to cover his face. Iruka tore some cloth up and they were able to cover him, he still had his eye covered. Then side by side they went outside to await what was coming.

In moments they were faced by four ANBU and they were ready to fight them if need be.

Iruka stood slightly in front of Kakashi and held his arms up in a peaceful gesture, “Ah come on guys, don’t look so serious. I can assure you that everything is all right here, you won’t get a fight from us and Kakashi is not a danger to anyone.”

“Be that as it may, you are both named Missing Nin and you will be taken into custody,” said the leader of the group.

Iruka saw Kakashi tense and leaned back. “We’ll do anything you want. We are more than willing to come along quietly.”

“Move away from him then and it will be as you say,” he was ordered.

Iruka obeyed but he kept an eye on his lover wishing they had had more time. While he was distracted he felt his chakra cut off. He tensed himself; it was not a good feeling. He saw Kakashi stiffen and could see that it was taking a lot for him to stay still, to not want to fight them.

He allowed himself to be bound making sure he could turn to see what they were doing to Kakashi. He was standing so stiffly, but he was letting them bind him. Then two of the ANBU took a hold of him and they took off with him while the leader and the other did the same with Kakashi. Two other ANBU landed to search the cabin as the others returned to the village with their prisoners.

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Finally back in Konoha they were taken directly to cells and once he was locked in, Iruka began to worry about Kakashi. He could not see him now and they didn’t know that he had part of his memory back and no one was listening to him when he tried to call out.

Hours later he was sitting on the bunk when the door opened and Ibiki entered.

“Sorry I couldn’t get here sooner. You have to know that she is more than pissed at you at the moment. She thinks that you have been thinking with your dick for too long.”

“How is he? Is he all right? They didn’t sedate him again and lock him in the psych ward?”

Ibiki smiled, “No, he’s just been sitting there, stiff as a board, but just sitting there.”

“He’s got some of his memory back, not all of it, but enough to know who he is,” said Iruka.

“So you succeeded, good, we thought you would. I’ll let him know you are okay, she’ll send for you when she’s ready and you know that could take a while.”

Iruka nodded sadly and watched as Ibiki left.

Despite what he had told Iruka, Kakashi was being held in a high security cell. But Ibiki was able to get in to see him.

He waited until the door was shut behind him and cast a jutsu that would allow him to speak with Kakashi without anyone else hearing.

“Iruka says you have some of your memory back, nod once for yes, twice for no.”

Kakashi nodded once. Ibiki smiled. “Itachi?” Kakashi nodded once again. “That’s what we figured. Iruka tell you what happened to you?” Another single nod. “Tsunade’s pissed; you got a little dangerous there being able to call up chidori without hand signs. You didn’t kill anyone but you did hurt a few. And others saw what you did to that brothel you were locked in; it’s understandable that they fear your power. She’s pissed at Iruka for taking you and even more pissed that she has not been able to find out who has been helping him. Of course she suspects Naruto, but he’s been able to look squeaky clean all this time. And that further pisses her off. She keeps screaming that Iruka was only thinking with his dick, but we know he was thinking with his heart, you know that don’t you?”

Kakashi nodded, he knew that.

“She’s going to make him sweat, so you may as well get comfortable. Don’t worry though; nothing’s going to happen to you or Iruka. You’ll more than likely have to take tests to prove that you are no longer dangerous to the village. You’ve both got too many friends to let anything else happen. But I have to tell you, he risked everything for you, here and at that brothel. He alone saw what they did to you there. And he wasn’t about to let them leave you to die in the hospital, you would have. You were dying at the brothel; you would have died being locked up in the psych ward.” Ibiki turned back to the door. “Sit tight, and relax. We’ll talk again when you can talk,” he smiled as he signaled that he wanted to leave.

Kakashi leaned back in his cell deciding that taking the man’s advice was just the thing to do.

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Iruka was rocking on his bunk by the time someone came for him. He had worried himself over Kakashi, imagining the worst despite what Ibiki had told him. What if they locked Kakashi up again and he was sent to prison? Would that push his lover over the edge again? If they were separated would he ever get to see him again? What if something happened to him before he could explain everything, make them believe that Kakashi was no longer dangerous to the village…

He jumped to his feet and stood there as the guards came inside, looking like he was about to pee himself. But then he saw that his guards were none other than Genma and Raidou, he physically deflated.

“Man, you look like shit Iruka,” said Genma.

Iruka put his hands on his hips, “Oh thank you very much. How would you like to sit in here for a few hours worrying about your future?”

“Sorry Iruka,” said Genma. “The Hokage wants to see you now.”

“And Kakashi?”

“I don’t know but,” he saw Iruka tense, “he’s fine. Someone slipped him one of his books and last I heard he had his nose in it like old times.”

Iruka rolled his eyes and left the cell, Genma and Raidou following behind him. They led him to the Hokage’s office and he was ushered inside, the other two remaining outside.

Tsunade was writing or at least he thought she was. But he wasn’t about to say anything that might get him into any further trouble with her. So he kept his mouth shut and waited. “So explanation,” she said looking up at him.

He had jumped at her sudden speech. “Ah. Yeah. Well. When you wouldn’t listen to me I had to do something. So I took Kakashi and worked with him to get him memory back and I have to tell you that I was successful. He was taken down by Itachi before he wound up where he did. He doesn’t remember that part, I had to fill in those details for him, so he knows about the farmer and his time in the brothel, and just a little of what went on there. He knows he killed the owner and destroyed the place, and that he was able to bring out Chidori without hand signs and that we brought him home and put him in the hospital until I got him out of there.”

“Are you finished?” she said sarcastically.

“Yes, that’s the story. And I know you’re angry with me, but I was not about to leave him in the psych ward to rot. He never tried to hurt me, not once. He was acting on instinct after what they did to him in that brothel and I don’t blame him one bit. But I won’t let you lock him away, he is sane and I can prove it and if you fix his throat up he could tell you the same. If you want to punish me for trying to save his life, then fine, do so. I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t have any help, because I did. Our friends helped us because they care about us and they wanted to see Kakashi free, I will take any punishment for that too. No one else is to be blamed.”

“I thought you were finished,” she picked up a sake cup and gulped it down, “So you want me to punish you for it all? Hmm. Then I’d have to put up with Kakashi bitching about you being locked up. Or if not him it’d be Naruto.” She saw Iruka about to open his mouth again. “Oh no, enough. You’re free to go and once the medical corps are through with Kakashi you can take him home. I’ll do the operation in a few days. Just don’t wear him out.”

“Wear him out?”

She smiled, “What? You mean you didn’t take him as your lover?”

He turned a lovely shade of red.

“I’ll take that as a yes, so don’t wear him out. You can go.”

Iruka wanted to say something, but found himself at a loss. He decided to turn and leave. Genma and Raidou were still outside and they had huge smirks on their faces. “Where’s Kakashi?”

“Hospital, he should be through by now. He was with Naruto.”

“Naruto?” Iruka hurried off.

Entering the hospital he soon found Naruto telling stories to everyone in the waiting room. “Oh Iruka, there you are.” He came flying at his friend and hugging him.

“Hey Naruto, where’s—“

“Kakashi is just in there, he won’t be long. They’re checking his throat out. Did Granny ball you out, she did me.”

“No she didn’t. She knew you were helping us?”

Naruto laughed, “Hell I even think she was in on it somewhere along the line. She’s got us all back in her way, so don’t think you were the only one.”

At that moment the door to the room Kakashi was in opened and the man himself walked out. Iruka couldn’t help himself; he walked up to his lover and took him into his arms. “We’re home, Kashi.”

He felt his lover nodding over his shoulder while he held him tightly.

“Ah guys, I’ll see you later. I heard that Sasuke’s back in town and I’d kinda like to see him.”

Iruka and Kakashi parted and looked at Naruto as he waved and hurried off.

“Let’s go home,” said Iruka.

Kakashi raised an eyebrow in question.

“I had your stuff taken to my place and… I bought a bigger bed.”

Iruka could see Kakashi’s smile under the mask, he was dressed as a jounin with a hitai-ate over his eye. He waggled his eyebrow and poofed them away.

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