100 Themes fics

Title: Kick in the Head (sequel to foriegn)

Pairing/Characters: KakaIru/Kakashi & Iruka

Rating: PG

Warnings: Yaoi M/M relationship, WAFF, no sexual content, One-shot, COMPLETE

Summary: Memory is fluid, sometimes we forget and sometimes we remember

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Dedicated to Beasiesgal



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Memory is fluid, we forget one thing in favor of remembering another, age filing away these things of the past in favor of things more recent. Sometimes painful memories overlap the happy moments, the significance of their pain making it hard to remember happier times or turning them somehow sad. When we are forcibly reminded of something we had forgotten it is often like a kick in the head or perhaps the heart.



Kakashi was pondering all of this as he stared into pleading, liquid-brown eyes. His heart thudding loudly in his ears as a memory long forgotten came flooding to the surface.



"Please? I promise not to tell anyone..." Iruka begged, sticking his lower lip out in a very childish fashion.



"Anything for you," Kakashi said sweetly, leaning forward and kissing the chunin on the nose. "Although we both know you won't have to tell anyone for everyone to know you convinced me to dress up as Santa."



Iruka reached up and touched his nose, confusion written in the furrowed brow for a moment before he laughed at Kakashi's comment. "It's not like anyone over the age of ten will be there."



"So all the teachers are immature brats who resort to puppy eyes?" Kakashi asked, shaking his head.



"You could cast a genjutsu on them..." the chunin suggested helpfully.



Kakashi laughed again and tightened his hold on Iruka's waist. "Oh, yeah, that'd go over great at the next council meeting... the hokage cast a genjutsu on a bunch of teachers just so none of them would recognize him dressed up as Santa."



Iruka grinned and tugged Kakashi down for another kiss. "Just tell them you were... testing the preparedness and they all failed misreably."



"How about I tell them my boyfriend is a cheat and a brat who pulls out the puppy eyes whenever he wants me to do something," Kakashi asked, although he was fairly sure everyone on the council would guess as much.



"I don't either!" Iruka said defensively. "I'll have you know I save my puppy eyes for emergencies and I can't put up with another year of Guy as Santa. He looks even worse in red spandex than green and the fake fur leg warmers do not help."



Kakashi simply laughed and then caught his boyfriend's lips again, silently thanking both fate and Minato for the best Christmas gift ever.