Fox eat Dog

Ergh ignore me for being a dummy, I put Hatake Kakashi instead of Hatake Itachi in my review post... but i meant what i said, your words are making my fingers fly!

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"What's happening Kakashi? What brings you here?" The silver hair man looked up from his book to peer over the rim at Shizune, the Hokage's right hand "woman". Personally he had suspicions of her real label but was never motivated enough to speak his mind, or brave enough. Tsunadae nearly killed Jaraiya before and that is saying something. He made a indistinguishable noise and lowered his head again. Unsatisfied, a hand landed on the page he was reading as he was forced to look up and acknowledge the stern face before him. He was trying to evade bothersome people, this was all Naruto's fault.

"What is wrong? Why are you hanging outside the Hokage's window?" She spoke the question like she was asking for a status report, assuming the worse like all women did.

"I'm relaxing and enjoying the view. Now if you'll just pretend I'm not here..." He picked her hand up like it was a used tissue with just his thumb and index finger then dropped it just as soon as it was out of visual radius. He went back to his novel and blocked her presence out completely.

Kakashi was always a smart man who learned quickly, as many of his teachers professed long ago, yet on constant bases he would often say the exact thing to piss off a woman, a few men for that matter, and throw himself in a world full of shit. The jounin was somewhat of a retard where the female populace was concerned. In seconds he had to jump up and back flip to dodge the hand trying to snatch his book away then the heel to his chest there after. So much for sanctuary...

"The Hokage's tower is prohibited from those who have no business here, get out of here now before I remove you myself." The ninja made an observation that the short hair brunette's nose flared when she was angry, reminding him of her pig companion Ton-Ton. They say animals resemble their caretakers and he was in agreement this case.

He sighed deeply as he scratched the back of his neck and rolled his eyes upwards. It took him a long time to find a place for him to rest without disturbance, he really didn't want to leave. 'Maybe if I said something flattering about how she looks she'll let me slide...'

"Shizune? What are you doing out here? Kakashi? Is there something wrong?" A blond head poked out the window towards the ledge where the two currently occupied. The brunette was quick to reply.

"He was just leaving." She crossed her arms over her bust and the jounin was hopeful that if the young one couldn't be swayed maybe the other would listen to reason. Before he got to open his mouth the other responded first.

"Well if its not of importance you should go find Naruto, he was looking for you earlier. He even wanted to search my private bathroom, I had to put him in line." Kakashi groaned just as he winced thinking about the beating the boy must of gotten. He went even as far as to search here? Was no place sacred? Was he doomed to follow out with his promise? The dual looks he received for his reaction were questioning. It was no use, he had run.

"In that case I suppose I ought to be running along to find him then." He spoke with a smile and closed his eye just as he tucked his book into his pouch but Kakashi had no intention of actively seeking out the boy. Oh no he'd escape to Suna if he had too. 'No Naruto was close with Gaara and the red head might rat him out... Perhaps to Mist? They were a unfriendly bunch, particularly to Konoha ninja's but anything was better than staying here. I can't take it anymore.'

As he skillfully slipped by Shizune he thought to use the drain pipe as Naruto was still in the building when his vest collar was grabbed and two honey-brown eyes were studying him intently.

"He is outside my office resting in hallway won't you go wake him?" Kakashi's eyes widen as he realized she was siding with he enemy. 'What did she know? What did the brat tell her? Dammit I shouldn't have made that promise!' Kakashi was really tired and desperate for rest that day after the long mission and the boy just wouldn't lay off his back. He would have put on a dress and asked to be spanked if it meant he could sleep. Damn that blond brat for exploiting him at his weakest.

"Oh right then if you'll just..." In a instant he was unzipping his vest and taking off at full speed toward the drain pipe sliding down quickly ignoring that the metal was burning his skin skimming off the first layer. There was shouting as Tsunadae ordered his capture and he knew not long from now the ANBU would be following. It was completely unfair and unreasonable that the Hokage would abuse man power just to get her favorite child what he wanted.

As soon as his feet touch the ground he was surrounded, four masked ninjas were around him and prepared to maim him if needed. One would live with a hole in their leg... The older nin threw a smoke bomb and several shuriken as per a distraction to use a teleportation jutsu taking him out of the pinch hold and onto a nearby roof top as to avoid pedestrians on the street. Though it was hardly a half second later when four soldiers were hot on his tail and he knew he'd have to use his most cunning tricks to escape this one. Biting his finger he used a jutsu in mid run and was able to call forth his summon without slowing down in the slightest. Next to him his troop of dogs were fast to keep up, even his massive bulldog that looked too big to be able to get such a speed.

"On my signal split up and don't stop." The experienced team of canines didn't question, even Pakkun their most opinionated member, why they were running from their own. They continued on as the man followed up with more hand seals and they were all engulf in smoke.

Where once before there was one man and eight dogs there was nine Kakashi's all in perfect formation. At the mere utter of the word Go, spoken low so the men hot on their tails couldn't hear him, all of them ran off breaking apart so that in order to be followed the four man team would have to break up and use clones at that, lessening their chances at catching the rouge jounin.

He would not be caught, could not be caught, lest he be forced to do something that was just, well, justvulgar in his opinion.

Kakashi was certain the ninja in pursuit of him was a shadow clone, as it had no distinctive scent. He paused long enough to slam his fist into the apparition's face then it dissolved in a puff of smoke. It would alert its owner to his were abouts but he wouldn't be here long enough to be found. Stead fast on is feet he leaped into the trees and ran. He ran like there was someone after his life, like his enemy was far stronger than he could hope to defeat, like he had no way to survive if he didn't get thefuck out of this forest. He was exaggerating but not that far away from the truth. His nemesis was not like one you fended your life from, here he wasn't allowed to use fists and swords. Running from him only put of the inevitable but he couldn't stand continuous cycle of being forced into situations he had little control over. Just like now, out numbered against his own comrades. How did he get into these messes?

Naruto...

He stopped immediately sliding slightly kicking up dirt as before him was the blond punk in all his shimmering glory. The jounin thought it to be shiny as the sunlight was hitting his hair in such a way it made it gleam gold and was giving him such a bright aura. If it were any other situation it would be heart lifting he imagined to see such a brilliant visage. His heart sunk along with his stomach. What were his dogs doing here?

"Naruto why are my dogs with you?" His curiosity caused him to break his oath of never asking questions but the dread that overwhelmed him made him not want to believe what he feared to be right.

"I, uuuh had to find you somehow. The old hag went a little overboard sending her guard after you. I mean, they are suppose to be watching out for the village not chasing runaways." As the silver hair ninja stared at his brigade of loyal dogs that didn't meet his eye it was clear they led the boy to him. 'Traitors.'

"Why?" It was a stern command and the following shifts of paws gave him a sense of power knowing they were at unease. As they should be... he was their father for crying out loud!

"Well you see Kakashi..." Pakkun, his smallest yet bravest dog started. "He used means even you wouldn't resist."

"Oh?" It was mock curiosity and completely disbelieving. "And what would that be?"

"..." There was more movement and shameful bows of heads.

"Come on Kakashi-sensei don't be so mad at them. Besides you were trying to break your word to me earlier, thats not very honorable."

"Silence Naruto!" Blue eyes widened at the shout he heard as Kakashi raised his voice in rage. A hard eye moved from his face back to his pack. Though Naruto wasn't to stand for that kind of treatment even if he was getting use to his teacher's mood swings. They'd been on and off for a few weeks now, since the time in his backyard. It seemed when he went to visit Kakashi the man would be fine for a while then brush him off in a second for no reason the blond understood. He supposed that was just how the older man was and endured it for the most part. This time however he'd put the veteran nin in his place.

"Hatake! For god sakes you can't refuse porn anymore than they can turn down a piece of tail." You would never suspect a dog could blush but you'd never think they could talk either but they could actually do both. Eight pairs of eyes found the trees and dirt very interesting while the jounin looked as though there was something shocking on the young man's face by the way his eye lit up.

"You... you bribed them withbitches?"

"Sort of... It seems I made a new Sexy no Jutsu technique for dogs. Hee hee." The small laugh greatly reduced the older man's spirit so he believed nothing was of point anymore. There was no use in fighting. 'Fuck, why did that work on every fucking male alive?!'

"Honestly sensei its just ice cream, what's wrong with you?"

The jounin's heart deflated and he looked as though he was told Jaraiya quit writing to be a monk. He recovered quick enough with an angry pout, as the younger man saw it. Like a child who was being made to do something he didn't want to.

"Naruto, children eat ice cream or when teenagers go on dates, not deadly killing machines over the age of fifteen."

"You just don't know what you're missing! It's so sweet and tasty! You're lying about just for kids, Chouji's dad has a cone every time I see him."

"I wonder why..." Kakashi remarked dryly. Not that Naruto would realize.

"Come on you said you would go with me when the new shop opened." He tried coaxing Kakashi with a pleading, shiny eye look. The man was unfazed.

"I was half dead from exhaustion and I would have agreed to a plot to overthrow the Hokage if it meant I'd get some sleep."

"Then maybe you should work on your stamina." He received a deadly glare in response to his quip. "Really sensei, it's just ice cream we'll be finished in no time." There was a large beaming smile directed at the silver hair man. Kakashi looked to his dogs who seemed to cautiously urge him with big doe eyes before diverting his gaze back at the grinning fool in front of him.

"No." Kakashi crossed his arms sternly and Naruto's face fell.

"Then we'll do this the hard way..."

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Screaming kids were all around him as the baby in a stool behind him sloppily ate her ice cream to the point it was flying into Kakashi's hair. The blue eye demon-boy was eating a huge bowl of ice cream called the super-deluxe-mega-happy-extreme dip. He supposed the name was suppose to drawl some sort of appeal for the younger crowd but only a glutton or a Akimichi could finish it. It was nearly the size of the table and completely dwarfed the untouched banana split Naruto ordered for Kakashi. The ninja himself glared something fierce at the teen across from him, the boy's lips smothered in the creamy substance he scarfed on.

"I can't believe you did that." Wide sapphire innocent eyes met that of the hostile man and paused in his feast.

"I can't believe you heard that, everyone passes gas Kakashi-sensei, I'm sure even you..."

"Naruto!" A palm slammed fast on the table cutting off the other man and slightly frightening a few nearby kids. "How could you defile that magnificent work of art..."

"Jaraiya's books are like fifteen dollars a copy and I got that free, its hardly a masterpiece..."

"Too you! I don't go around pissing in your ramen do I?" A lady passing by with her child sent the ninja a glare as she quickly tried to cover up the little girl's ears next to her.

"But you don't pee on ramen, its food and would be sacrilege to waste it!" After his outburst he paused to scratch behind his ear, lowering his head an inch. "I guess I sort of see your point... It's not that I like using these pushy methods Kakashi-sensei but you still haven't been very keen to the idea of going out."

For a brief moment Kakashi's one visible eye widened before some realization hit him and he went back to a more normal non-expressive mask. "Naruto, we went out twice two weeks ago, three times the week before, last week there was two days I didn't work and saw you on both, this is the third time this week so far I've seen you and its only Wednesday. Did it ever occur to you I might like some alone time?"

For a moment the blond looked chastened and gripped his spoon tightly, though the jounin wasn't sure why the Naruto was using it, more of his ice cream was on his hands then on the spoon. The older man deeply sighed and decided to reason with him gently. He wasn't sure why with the the way the blue eye kid had been acting so clingy and annoying. The blond imp tore pages out of Icha Icha earlier to break him down into coming to the shop, but never the less Kakashi knew wouldn't get very far by screaming holy hell at the boy, that would just be like throwing C-4 into a fire burning down a chemical lab.

"Look I did say I would let you visit some time and what not, but this too much, don't you have friends around your own age Naruto? What about Sakura and Sasuke? You like that Lee kid right? Maybe you should think about finding a girlfriend, your well old enough now." For an instant the copy ninja felt uneasy about what he just said but didn't dwell on it long. Naruto looked down trodden and poke at his ice cream.

"I don't know I guess I was so a little excited that... that you were finally paying attention to me I wasn't thinking about anything else."

In all his thirty-one years of living he couldn't remember a more awkward moment than what he was experiencing right now. Sweat was dripping down from his neck being absorbed by his mask while Naruto only appeared slightly flushed but otherwise unaffected. What the hell was up with this boy?!

"It was like getting something you really wanted for a long time and not being sure on what to do with it, just to hold on tight and not loose it." Naruto couldn't see the tremble of Kakashi lips but that didn't mean it wasn't there.

"I guess I got carried away, I didn't mean to smother you I just, like you a whole lot Kakashi..."

"Naruto!" Stricken, blue eyes widen as his head slammed back in the seat looking frightened at the older man's harsh reprimming tone. Kakashi looked deadly serious and angry as the young ninja had only seen in him while covered in blood surrounded by bodies. A lone finger was raised and pointed at his person.

"You have a stain on your shirt..."

Naruto confused looked down at his black T-shirt to see some vanilla ice cream dripped down all over the cloth. He lifted his gaze again to see his former teacher staring out a window while toying with his spoon, spinning it between his fingers deftly, like he had no care about the world around him.

"Kakashi-sensei?" His meek prodding was met with silence and after a few moments he gave up to wipe some of the soaked in stain with his napkin. It's not like you could see the rest all that well against the black anyway, but the tissue left little white residue from the cheap paper. He didn't care about it himself, yet, he couldn't help but wonder what the other man really wanted to say a moment ago. The jounin had a penchant for misleading people away from his real thoughts so you'd never figure him out. Did what he say bother the man somehow? Picking up his spoon he began to dig into the quickly melting treat, though less hurriedly, contemplating the way he should be interpreting the reaction and coming up empty handed.

For Kakashi it was so strange that hardly three years ago this was the same boy getting weirded out that his teacher admitted liking him as a person, but Naruto's words mere seconds ago sounded like he was making...

The jounin turned his one eye to sneak a peek at the blue eye boy. Naruto was feasting once again on his sugar mountain, albeit slower, quiet and concentrating. Kakashi assumed the devil-brat was trying to understand him. It unsettled him as he wanted the little fool to continue with his routine. To be selfish in just stealing time from him then be on his merry little way. Now the quiet atmosphere seemed heavy and thick with tension. They were getting nowhere with this. Naruto should have left him alone and just refused too. Now the dog trainer was forced to deal with uncomfortable situations like this on a near daily bases and even though he should be angry it wasn't even close. Sure he got mad, especially at seeing Naruto tear out page after page of Make-out Paradise, but didn't reach. It wouldn't hold for very long and even if he tried, he couldn't. He refused to see it as a soft spot, a weak spot, but it really was. An evil disease nestled in his brain that could never be cured, only to be the death of him.

What a depressing thought.

“Kakashi? What are you doing in here of all places?”

Two heads turned in unison to meet eyes with the man familiar to the jounin, both of them with mixed emotions. Naruto was curious while a chorus of 'Oh fuck' was singing around Kakashi's head on a broken microphone permanently set on high. Of all the places and all the people to come into this shop why was it him?

Genma stood, six foot even, senbon placed between his lips and a pretty date on his arm, a fine looking girl staring at the two of them with hardly concealed excitement. What was Kakashi's life... God's sitcom?

“Hey you're that kid...” The tall brunette pointedly stared at Naruto, he had met the kid very few times. Even including the chuunin exams he could count on his one hand the interactions they had with each other. Glancing between Kakashi's poorly hidden 'I've been found out!' face and Naruto's big doe eyes of wonderment Genma came up with his own conclusion.

“Kakashi... are you... on a date?”

Kakashi slapped his head as Naruto looked surprised and puzzled gazing between the both of them.

The silver hair man was stressed, on top of everything Genma had to come in and make his day worse. The bastard even sounded surprisingly innocent even though the man knew very well Naruto was his student, at one time anyway. His date beside him couldn't look more convinced and excited. She was even straining visibly not to scream out.

“Genma...” Kakashi muttered lowly, voice laced with a dark warning that went unheeded.

"I like them young too, girls that is, but isn't this like cradle robbing?"

"Oh my! How long have you've been dating? Are... are you the seme? Or maybe..." The woman cut in too enthusiastic to contain herself and asked Kakashi the personal question as subtly as possible but her eyes drifted to Naruto as though she was hoping the younger man was the 'dominate' one in the relationship. Undoubtedly picking on their height and body difference. Was it really that noticeable even when they were sitting down? The jounin clenched his fist bending the cheap metal spoon. The annoying bastard Genma laughed at the exchanged while the blond across from him merely looked pensive. What was wrong with Naruto? Why wasn't he defending himself or at least telling Genma too back off? Didn't he have any sort of pride as a man?

Naruto stood up surprising the three of them with his intensely serious expression, all of it concentrating on the dark hair jounin. He stepped away from the booth to get to his full height uninhibited and a clear path should he need to get to the other man. The said man looked relaxed if not amused at the blond's actions.

"You're Genma then? I've heard some about you. Enough to know you're not welcome around here."

The brunette in question scoffed while the woman looked between the them with a slight fear and worry in her eyes.

"Touchy aren't we-"

"I don't know how you can think it's excusable to even show your face around Kakashi..." Naruto continued effectively cutting off the other with a tone that was cold enough to withstand fire. It worked well enough to keep the three other people present quiet as well as the attention of a few other prying ears that didn't want to miss such drama. "Especially what with you done to him and I won't ask. You will walk out that door and not look back. Look at you." Naruto said that with such disdain it had Kakashi feeling shameful. "Was it not enough to run around with all those people, those whores while you were with Kakashi but once he kicks you to the curb you come back showing up with a trophy girl on your arm as to flaunt yourself like he meant nothing?"

At this time Genma had spit his needle out and the woman beside him had dropped his arm to instead hold her hands to her mouth looking horrified at the two of them. The silver hair man sat back deadly quiet with no expression on his face. Still though, Naruto wasn't finished yet.

"Give it up old man, he doesn't need you, or want you anymore. He knows what a real man is like and I'm more of one than you could ever hope to be." The silence that followed was, well it was quiet. The sort of quiet you'd have at a funeral. Even most of the people in the shop had stopped talking as Genma sputtered and the woman beside him glared at him.

"Is that all this is? You... jerk!" The girl shoved him rushing out the store, meanwhile the younger jounin just glowered as Naruto's hard glare bled to a mischievous smirk. The blond didn't even get out of the way when Genma push past him with a bruising force to run after his date. Later the brunette would laugh about the experience, especially the comedic value of Kakashi being the obvious uke in a three-way gay love triangle but for the moment he was pissed. He had worked to get that woman to go out with him for weeks, unlike what some thought he wasn't a man-whore, one or two good women every few months worked for him and he was very picky. The brat ruined everything!

The blond imp laughed as the man scampered away and looked to his teacher who remained unvocal throughout the exchange. Almost eerie really. When the jounin stood up and began walking out the place the blond got worried because he still lacked expression. Even his stride was lazy and uncaring.

"Kakashi-sensei?"

His curious tone went unanswered and he had to leave their ice cream to follow the man out the door and for a moment he lost the jounin in the crowd. Without his vest on you wouldn't believe how easily the man blended in, how many people wore black shirts. Naruto had to spot Kakashi's unique hair to find him, already far down the street. When he caught up to him it was obvious the man was unsettled and valiantly trying to hide it. What gave him away wasn't his face or his aura, something made the hairs of Naruto's neck rise when he approached the jounin and he wisely stayed quiet until they reached a less occupied area. The blond should have probably left Kakashi alone but Naruto was not the type of person to leave any issues unresolved. He chased Sasuke for three years just to get their 'brotherly quarrel' some closure. So maybe there was a little more too it, like saving the bastard from himself and one long tongue pedophile, but Naruto also really wanted his brother back. At the same time...

He really wanted to know why Kakashi was leaving in the first place.

The man was an abnormality. It wasn't the first time he just up and left without telling Naruto. On their second outing the blond was helping an old lady pick up her fallen bags and when he stood up the ninja was gone. Needless to say he would often turn his gaze to the silver hair man just to see if he was still there. Most times he was, sometimes he wasn't. Leave it to Kakashi the most barbaric ninja (as Naruto just made up) in the village to leave without so much as a good bye. The blond wondered if the jounin was ever taught manners because he never really saw him be courteous to anyone. When he wasn't off handily rebelling his superiors or dismissing just about everyone with his late appearance; his abrupt disappearance; talking to them like they were foolish children, he was just generally ignoring people with his face in his book. The Hokage was no exception and Naruto wondered how he got away with it so easily. The only time the copy ninja received any sort of chastisement was when Kakashi screwed up and she taunted him on it, which was rare in itself. Though the blue eyes boy knew the jounin wanted to be followed this time, he didn't completely disappear to start with. What did the other man have to say?

When the older man stopped Naruto ran into him and bumped his nose on Kakashi's head, he didn't miss the rising tension in the other's body. Though he was just pressed against it a second ago, would explain why he didn't overlook it. The jounin snapped his book shut and tuck it into his pouch attach to his pants at the back. By mistake the fingers tickled the blonde's hip and Naruto laughed his breath disturbing bushy silver hair. In a part of a second one bored, Naruto did see a deeper layer of anger, dark eye was staring up at him causing the young man's smile to diminish. The blond wished, not for the first time, that the older man wasn't so emo.

"Kakashi-sensei come on we were having fun, it can't be that bad..." Even though he didn't know what was bothering the man at all.

"You were having fun Naruto or did you forget what brought me there." Blue eyes lit up as his lips parted to shape a circle Kakashi was sure he did forget, which was annoying. If not sort of funny.

"Kakashi-" The boy began to whine that the jounin quickly cut off.

"You're being incredibly selfish and thinking only of yourself, like a spoiled brat. I was tolerant before but you're over stepping boundaries. Did you even once think of the psychological damage you inflicted on those children?" Naruto blinked and frowned not sure what the man was speaking about.

"What?"

Kakashi released an annoyed huff of breath.

"Do you know how many kids saw you putting on that act? You made Genma look like my horrible gay ex-lover and called his girlfriend a whore. How do think you made her feel? Jokes are funny and all but don't involve innocent people, most certainly not kids." Naruto blankly stared at Kakashi and the silver hair man met that look with one of his own.

"You flashed me in front of alot of innocent people. Little girls too." Naruto, lost in confusion, replied. What was Kakashi trying to get at?

"There is a difference between learning human anatomy then about men loving men and calling women fowl names. Explaining the birds and the bees appose to same sex relationships and prostitution should be done at a proper age when their young minds can comprehend it. "

Naruto's eyebrows tilted inward as he tried to comprehend what the man was saying. It made sense but then it didn't, this wasn't something the jounin would worry about.

"I don't get it."

"Naruto, when you are five and your curious about where babies come from you ask a grown up and they explain it in a way that even a kid can understand. When you're a child you don't ask about why two men are kissing or what a whore is. You shouldn't know about those things at that age." It was then that Naruto felt slightly guilty. There was alot of children in there no older than academy students, he didn't think they were even academy students, civilian kids. 'Mommy what does whore mean?' 'Mommy why does that man have a boyfriend?'

Naruto never had anyone to ask those questions too, he learned through books. Reading those homosexual manga at nine completely petrified him for months, he kept thinking someone was going to rape him in the middle of the night saying 'relax and you'll like it' but you don't like it, you cry and cry until there is nothing left! He was completely horrified to learn women drew those things. Were they not suppose to be motherly? Was this a way at getting back at hundreds of thousands years of rape... by belittling men? Though he was convinced women were just perverts. Genma's girlfriend looked a little too happy to learn that he was in a supposedly gay relationship with Kakashi. Thinking over it more Naruto wondered if she was a whore, she was dating a man-slut like Genma.

"It's impossible to teach you anything morally just with that line of thinking. Stop doing it out loud as well, that is a dangerous habit when you're a ninja."

"Was I talking?" Naruto asked surprised, Kakashi looked exasperated, at least he thought so since they were still close together. He could also see the veins in the jounin's visible eye which was weird for him to be paying attention to.

At that the jounin turned around and was back to reading his book again as he walked down the street giving up the conversation entirely.

"Just leave me alone Naruto." With that the blond rushed after his teacher grabbing him by the arm holding him still as he blocked his path.

"You can't mean that just because I ripped up a dumb book, made you eat ice cream and called you my lover!" The muscles in Kakashi's arms tightened at that and he broke free of the grip.

"If you'll let me finish I was going to say I'm done hanging around you today, if you promise to stay away from now on I might come see you when there is nothing new to read." The silence that met the jounin's ears was unexpected but the look in Naruto's eyes was positively frightening.

"Don't-!"

"Sensei!" With the shrill battle cry Naruto wrapped his arms around the other man with a force that knocked them both to the ground, knocking the air from Kakashi's lungs stopping any protests. The boy was much heavier than he looked by far.

"Naruto get off me or I'll take back what I said and piss in your ramen." The jounin viciously hissed through clenched teeth. He should have dodged the move but he didn't think the idiot would actually hug him. He underestimated Naruto's stupidity. He really didn't like being smooshed like this. The sharingan user didn't wait for the blond to get up but kneed him in the side. It was like kicking steel and hurt himself in the process, then rolled out from the margin of space that came with the blond flinching up after the move.

"Do that again, I'll take pleasure in using violence." He stood to his full height and picked up his novel, dusting it off delicately then cradled it as he hurriedly walked away from Naruto still on the ground.

"Kakashi-sensei! You better keep your promise this time!" As the jounin scrambled away the blue eye teen took his time standing up again rubbing his side. Kakashi couldn't have been that mad since it'll probably just bruise, he could have cracked a rib after all. He laughed to himself about how soft a cushion the other man was without his vest on, probably close to what a woman would be like. Naruto even felt where he hid all his weapons at his waist, left arm and both thighs. It would be like Kakashi to be overly prepared.

He'd give the man two months to show up and if he didn't Naruto swore he'd come back with a really nasty plan to humiliate him. Dying his hair blonde was out of the question though, on the jounin you'd hardly notice. He'd have to ask Iruka to tell him more stories on their next get together.

In his excitement Naruto forgot about the messy business at the ice cream parlor and decided he'd go bother Sasuke. It had been a few weeks since he saw the Uchiha, or rather, the bastard had avoided seeing him since the night at Ichiraku stand. He'd have to tease the bastard about it.

With his chin a little higher Naruto sauntered off in search of inflicting his own brand of Uchiha-torture.

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I swear I'm dying to tell you all what the big secret but alas, I'll wait... but I'm not sure if I'll make it through the next chapter without telling you! Yet I'm sure it obvious, if you already know pretend you don't and make me happy. XD