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Truth	By : emethyst Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Kakashi/Iruka Views: 4096 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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kakashi woke first, like always. his anbu training instilling in him to wake as soon as possible in order to be prepared for anything. looking down he watched iruka sleep. he hadnt meant for last night to go so far, but he didnt regret it at all either. stroking the man's back with his fingers he chuckled when iruka squirmed against him trying to get away from the tickling sensation. stopping his fingers from torturing the chunin he sighed. today was their last day of training. tomorrow they would get up bright and early and escort iruka into the forest where he would spend three days running, fighting and hiding. looking down when iruka squirmed against him again, he watched as the teachers eyes came open, the man rousing from sleep.

"morning"

"good morning"

iruka kept his position with his head on kakashi's chest, just listening to the man's steady heartbeat. it was about to lull him back to sleep when kakashi ran his fingers through his hair and told him they had to get ready to go. nodding his head he got himself up and slid out of bed. the two dressed, ate and headed off.

**********
arriving at the training field they greeted everyone before talking about the exam that was scheduled for the next day.

"you nervous?"

genma asked.

"a little, mostly just because i dont know what to expect."

the others nodded, it was normal to be apprehensive when you didnt know what you would be going up against.

"were going to push you hard today, but not ware you out, your going to need your strength for the next couple days."

iruka nodded. he had wondered what they would do today. genma handed him a tag. looking down he saw it was a chakra blocking tag, confused he looked back up to the man.

"put it on"

sighing, iruka attached the tag to his leg and immidietly felt the difference, he was cut off from all of his chakra.

"good, i'll take it off when were done"

nodding his head he asked what they were going to do if iruka couldnt use his chakra. genma smiled.

"your going to go try and hide and im going to find you"

iruka frowned, he knew he wouldnt be able to hide very good without his chakra to help him.

"dont worry im not going to be using any weapons or jutsu against you, im just going to be chaseing you. i want to see how long you can last without your chakra to back you up"

nodding his head he waited for genma to tell him to go before darting off as fast as his now chakraless body could handle.

the group watched as iruka darted off into the woods. but were surprised when genma sat down next to raidou.

"umm genma arent you supposed to be you know hunting him"

the anbu shrugged as he fished out his favorite senbon.

"its not like hes going to get very far, besides i doubt he can find a suitible hiding place in the forest."

kurenai frowned at her teammate before asking why he was having iruka do it at all then.

"it'll be good to know how far he can get without chakra, by the end of the exam he's not going to have very much and he'll have to use it carefully, this way he gets a feeling for how slow he's really going to be by the end of it."

her frowned lessoned before she stated.

"just dont leave him out there too long"

he waved her off before asking kakashi if he had gotten lucky with iruka yet. kurenai turned bright red at genma's bluntness, asuma just chortled around his cigarette and raidou started shaking his head at the man he loved.

"if i did, i wouldnt be telling you"

raidou laughed at genmas face.

"who would you tell"

they groaned, genma could be relentless sometimes.

"go hunt iruka"

he said them in very clear terms, if genma didnt go he was going to face kakashi's wrath. waving off his irate teammate he stood and jogged into the woods. once the mouthy nin was gone kakashi teased raidou.

"so did you have to kiss it make it better?"

raidou smirked at kakashi without revealing anything. it was twenty minutes later that genma came dragging iruka by his chunin vest. iruka was laughing.

"what'd he do now?"

kakashi asked as the chunin was thrown his way. catching iruka against his chest he could see the tag still in place, so iruka hadnt cheated.

"he managed to climb a tree, how i dont know and decided it would be fun to jump on my back"

the others laughed at the chunin it was kurenai who asked how he had gotten into the tree without chakra.

"oh thats easy, i used to climb tree's as a kid before i even knew what chakra was."

shaking their heads it was iruka who asked what was next. asuma stood up and motioned him to follow. iruka stood, but held back before pointing at his leg. like some tag's it couldnt be removed by the person it was put on, it had to be removed by someone else. kakashi reached around his leg and ripped the paper off. instantly his chakra flowed through his pathways again. sighing he thanked kakashi before following after asuma.

"should have left it on"

genma muttered. kakashi shook his head, it wouldnt do iruka any good to try against asuma's chakra blades without his own to help defend him. the group only half paid attention to the match between the chunin and anbu. instead choosing to start their plan for the next day.

"so is he allowed to see us?"

"i dont think so, were of course not allowed to speak to him, i figured we'd just go in our full anbu gear that way he can sepperate us from the examiners if we do get in the way."

they nodded, the last thing they wanted was to be a distraction to the man while he was literally fighting for survival.

"its going to be a long three days"

kakashi agreed with genma, they had all grown rather attached to the teacher, the last thing they wanted was to see the man fail or worse get hurt during the exam. but there was nothing they could do. if they interfered iruka would fail.

"you should give him a safe word"

the glare he recieved would freeze hell over, laughing raidou continued.

"not like that kakashi, a safe word to let us know if he's done, if he's had enough and wants to quit that way we know when we can intervene if needed"

that was actually a good idea. nodding to raidou it was genma who piped in.

"it should be something he wouldnt normally say that way he doesnt say it by accident"

"yeah, the last thing we want his safe word to be is bite me"

the others laughed, iruka did have a tendency to say that to people when cornered. they could hear argueing and turned around in time to see asuma hit iruka upside the head. they winced, they knew how hard he could hit. iruka didnt seem to fazed by it because whatever they were arguing about iruka wasnt letting up.

"what do you think thats about?"

kakashi shrugged, iruka had a temper, but he wasnt one to just throw it around either. finally the two seemed to resolve their issue and started back towards them. once they were within earshot kurenai called out to them.

"problem?"

asuma glanced at iruka who had his arms crossed over his chest, shaking his head he muttered.

"were good"

the group didnt believe him, but let it go anyways. iruka didnt bother to sit down, instead he waited as raidou got up to start heading back into the field. once they were gone kakashi asked.

"so what was that about?"

"he was asking a very stupid question"

raising an eyebrow asuma sighed while lighting another cigarette.

"he wanted to know if he took a direct hit from blades like mine, onces charged with chakra if it would kill him outright or if he could get away with a wound like that"

the group paled,that was not a normal question.

"what'd you say?"

"what do you think i said, i hit him upside the head and said he'd be the first to try it and propably the last."

kakashi nodded, sometimes he wondered where iruka's head was at. kurenai wrapped her slender arms around asuma's larger one smiling up at him.

"im sure he meant well, he's propably just curious"

asuma shook his head letting out a puff of smoke.

"no there was more too it than that, he wanted to know what would happen"

sighing kurenai turned around to look at kakashi who was focused on the fight between raidou and iruka. they all jumped a little when they saw iruka celebrating, raidou was rubbing his chin with a wry smile on his face.

"hey he made a hit"

genma spoke astonished.

"appears so"

it wasnt too much longer before iruka and raidou returned. iruka sitting in kakashi's lap much to the amusement of the other anbu. kakashi gave them a glare over the chunin's head and they stopped making faces.once they were all settled kurenai asked if iruka was ready. nodding his head he let her transfer him into the illusion world she created.

************

he was in the cabin again, he could tell by the smell of the place even before opening his eyes. once he did manage to open his eyes he felt the onslaught of pain. he could taste blood in his mouth however. looking around he tried to find where his sensei had gone. he wasnt in the cabin. sighing iruka took a moment to collect his thoughts. this was all an illusion, it wasnt real. it had already happened and his sensei couldnt hurt him again-well unless he came back to konoha for him. shuddering his head jerked up as the door to the place came swinging open. his sensei came through the door in confident steps. once he was infront of iruka he spoke.

"have you changed your mind yet iruka?"

he felt himself shake his head, even though he had no control over it. his sensei glowered at him.

"im very dissapointed to hear that"

he watched as orochimaru brought the overturned barrel closer to show what was on it. a needle with blood red liquid.

"do you want to know what this is iruka?"

the boy froze, he'd never seen anything like it at the hospital. his sensei continued even without getting a response from him.

"this is my own personal creation, something i cooked up in my lab. you see as im sure you know by now, there are several points in the body where chakra aligns with vital organs, if one of those is severed, it means death. thats why most anbu and hunter nins go for those particular points in the body when aiming for a kill. now im sure you realize that with a little help from this lovely concoction death wont be a problem, not immidietly anyways. this means i have free rain over your body with no consiquences. i'll have plenty of time to just put you back together before it wares off and no one will be the wiser. so are you going to do what i asked of your iruka or are you going to get to feel what its like to die?"

the boy shook, not even the pain from his injuries could make him stop shaking. looking from the needle to his sensei he started to cry.

"please sensei"

"now iruka, you know im not the one doing this to you, you are. you have complete control over this entire situation. all you have to do is say yes"

the boy sobbed, his head falling to his chest.

"im sorry sensei"

the snake sanin tskd at the boy before grasping the boy's hair roughly to make his head move to the side, giving him great access to the boys neck. the needle was carelessly plunged into the soft tissue making the boy cry out at the unessasary torture. the blood red liquid was depressed by the plunger into the boys blood stream. iruka shook as he felt a weird numbness spread throughout his body, he could still accutley feel everything, every jolt of pain, but his chakra itself seemed to slow to a crawl. just enough to keep him alive, but slow enough to not let his injuries kill him. looking up to his sensei he pleaded with his eyes, it went unanswered.

he never saw the kunai until it was plunged ruthlessly into his gut. coughing the boy looked down, his eyes widening. it was just sticking out of him. just like with jito. he felt the blood race up his throat to be expelled by his coughing, the coppery taste overiding everything. looking to his sensei he saw the smile on the man's face.

"that iruka is your liver, its the only organ that can actually heal itself if cut in two pieces. it also has major arteries going to and from it, which can result in major blood loss if injured."

the boy choked on the blood in his throat trying to expell the tangy liquid. his body jerked again, this time iruka screamed, louder and longer than he ever had before. when the cry finally died on his lips, his head hung limp against his body. the kunai was on the other side of his body.

"that is your spleen, it houses a large amount of your bodies blood supply at any given time, you can live without it, but most people prefer to keep all their organs. naturally blood loss from this organ is extreme and many can die within minutes of its being punctured."

gasping for breath, he watched as blood fell from his mouth, his saliva not even putting a dent in the amount of bright red expelled from his lips.

iruka winced as he felt everything he had felt that day. the pain, oh gods how the pain had reached a new level, higher than anything he'd ever felt before. he'd prayed for death that day, that the concoction his sensei gave him wouldnt work. but it had, in a matter of hours his sensei reversed everything he did to him that day leaving him in a heap on the floor trembling as the residual pain from his injuries racked his body. pulling away from the memory, iruka fought kurenai's hold of his mind, he knew she wanted to finish the memory and he wasnt about to allow that. he was done seeing these things. fighting against her, he pushed and pushed until he felt her resolve slip and finally he was free.

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the group watched as iruka's body jerked violently against kakashi once and then again. the man's breathing had picked up and kakashi could feel the mans chest beating hard with his fingers wrapped around the chunin's wrist. looking to kurenai they could tell she was troubled. whatever they were seeing, it was dark.

a sudden violent jerk and iruka was gasping and falling against kakashi's chest, using it as a lifeline to the real world. his hands came up to grasp his chest, kakashi wrapped his arm around and entangled their fingers as the man felt his own pulse through his jacket. kurenai leaned against asuma, she didnt look very happy. once iruka had started to calm down she asked.

"thats very dangerous"

iruka nodded his head against kakashi, not bothering to look at kurenai, he knew why she was mad. orochimaur having something like that,the ability to make people live through fatal wounds only to torture them over and over again. catching his breath he sputtered.

"there's no more"

"he could make more"

iruka shook his head, lowering his face to look at her finally.

"when he ran, all his notes were collected by the third. he had to leave them behind to escape."

she still didnt seem happy, taking a deep breath iruka revealed.

"a month before he left, i had a breakdown. pretty bad one. i broke into his lab and i destroyed everything. he was just starting to recoup what i'd destroyed when the third found out about him. there's nothing left."

kurenai's eyes softened, she knew she'd regret knowing this but she had to ask.

"what did he do when he discovered you broke everything?"

iruka didnt bother to hide the shudder that racked his body, instead he turned his head to lay against kakashis neck. avoiding the question all together. the group was quiet, they could put somethings together, they knew orochimaru was good at making things, they'd seen some of his experiments, but they had no clue what the two of them were talking about. asuma rubbed kurenai's shoulder before questioning.

"what did orochimaru have?"

"he developed a serum, it prevented people from succumbing to their wounds. giving more time for a person to reach medical help."

"that doesnt sound so bad?"

genma stated, kurenai shook her head before continueing.

"he used it for torture, he could inflict fatal wounds on people and they wouldnt die for hours, he could heal them and then just start the whole process over again."

genma as well as the other members of her team's eyes were wide, something with that kind of power to be used as torture, you could do unlimitless things to a person body before healing them and doing it again, over and over again. kakashi was rubbing iruka's back, holding the chunin to him. he didnt need to hear it from kurenai to know that it had been used against iruka. he didnt want to upset iruka, but he also wanted to understand what he'd been put through.

"what did he do?"

kurenai looked at him before looking down at the chunin in his arms. at first she wasnt going to tell him, but tought better of it. if she didnt say it, iruka would be forced too later.

"he was trying to convince iruka to kill the third, when he refused, he gave iruka that stuff and-he just stabbed him, no warning nothing, just drove a kunai right into iruka's liver"

the group couldnt believe what they were hearing. a wound like that would spell death if not treated as soon as possible and even then, there was a greater chance of death.

"when iruka still refused, he did the same thing with his spleen-iruka fought me off before i could see anything more"

kakashi nodded, holding iruka to him he was about to tell them that they would see them tomorrow when iruka mummbled something against his neck. leaning down iruka whispered again this time in his ear. eye widening, he tilted his head before asking.

"you sure?"

iruka nodded, sighing he looked to his team and said.

"iruka would like you guys to go out to dinner with us later tonight."

"of course"

raidou smiled, his arms around genma in a comforting manner. it was genma who piped up.

"where does he want to go?"

iruka mummbled something into kakashi's ear and the man snorted. before chiding the man.

"thats not a good idea"

"whats he want?"

"someplace with strong sake"

the others smiled gently, they could understand the chunin's want to wash away the memories in a druken stupor, but the night before his three day exam was not the way to do it.

"mah we can get wasted after you pass"

genma shouted. kakashi chuckled at his exuberant teammate. he hoped that the couple hours before dinner time would be enough time for him to help lesson the pain from the memories. looking to iruka he asked.

" you like that tempura place on court street right?"

iruka nodded. nodding his head he told the group they'd meet there at 7. without waiting to hear back from them, he made the proper handsigns and him and iruka dissapeared in a puff of smoke.

***********

he easily carried iruka to the bedroom where he helped the man get comfortable before crawling in beside him. he didnt speak, he just wanted to allow the man some time to clear his head.

they stayed in absolute silence for hours, both completely awake, but not talking. kakashi wasnt even trying to read his book. he just held iruka and waited. his patience won out when iruka spoke for the first time in three hours.

"you better have some sake on you when im done with that friggin test"

kakashi laughed.

"i'll make sure to pack some in my vest"

iruka snorted at him before mentioning that it wouldnt be very comfortable.

"mah, i've had all sorts of things stashed between me and my armor before, sake wouldnt be too hard."

iruka tilted his head back and they looked into each others eyes.

"Im sorry"

"for what?"

"for not telling you"

kakashi shook his head.

"you dont have to tell me everything, i dont expect you to talk about your past like its the weather. just like im sure you dont expect it of me"

iruka nodded, allowing his hand to come up and unzip the man's flak jacket to allow him to put his hand over kakashi's heart. he could feel the steady rythm beneath his fingertips. kakashi understood almost immidietly what iruka was doing, he was reasuring himself that it was real, that he was alive. glancing to the clock he suggested that they get ready. iruka nodded climbing out of bed to take a shower to rinse the sweat of training off before getting into a clean set of clothes. kakashi did the same, though he wasnt sweaty, he took the time to enjoy a shower before changing and following iruka out the door.

they made good time and were prompty there at 7, it wasnt more than a couple minutes later that kurenai and asuma walked into view and raidou and genma jumped down from a neighboring rooftop. they were all glad to see iruka smiling again and quickly got seated and ordered. it was kakashi who told his team about iruka's threat of wanting sake right after the test. they all got a good laugh.

"he says he'd just stick in between the armor, but that has to hurt"

the others smiled before telling him all the times they've had to stuff scrolls or other important items there just for safe keeping.

"dont you get odd bruises then?"

"oh yeah, i once had a bruise the shape of this stupid relic i was stealing, lasted for two weeks."

iruka laughed at genma, before saying he once got a bruise from his teammate attacking him in a hug.

"a hug?"

" we fell down two flights of stairs"

"ouch"

iruka nodded he was glad that he could share some of his good memories with them after they had heard so many bad ones. it was raidou who asked.

"so when you pass whats rank mission are you going to try for first"

iruka laughed before shrugging his shoulders.

"its been a while since i've been out of the village, i might get lost"

they laughed and continued telling stories throughout dinner, relishing in each others company. finally at almost half past nine, the group bid goodnight to each other and told iruka to get a good nights sleep. returning to the apartment, iruka waited until the door was close before assaulting kakashi with a fierce kiss. the nin didnt argue, just wrapped his arms around iruka and enjoyed himself. eventually they parted and kakashi had to ask.

"and what did i do to deserve that?"

smiling iruka laid his head against the man's chest.

"i think im finally catching onto what naruto always says about you"

"oh"

now he was intriqued, he knew quite a few things his previous students had said about him, but iruka made it sound like something good.

"your freakishly awesome"

laughing he tightened his hold on the man.

"really now? thats a new one"

iruka leaned back in the hold and nodded.

"oh yes he's quite certain about it too"

"well then im glad i've proven myself to fit the title"

"i know its early, but i should propably get to bed."

kakashi nodded and much to the surprise of the chunin followed him into the bedroom. turning around iruka told him he didnt have to turn in early.

"its going to be a long three days for both of us ne"

iruka smiled, stripping off their clothes they snuggled in the bed together.

"im glad your going to be there"

"me too"

it wasnt long before the pair fell asleep, but iruka woke up during the night, nightmares plagueing his sleep. he knew better than to move. he'd just wake up kakashi who appeared to be sleeping well. so instead he stayed perfectly still and watched the light patterns on the wall change as the moon came over the hills and went down only to be replaced by the sun. he knew it was almost time for them to get up and wanted to steel a couple more minutes with just him and kakashi. tilting his head back, he watched the other ninja sleep for a moment or two before carefully leaning up to kiss the masked man. iruka blinked. a second ago he had been the one on top of kakashi, now the man was on top of him. he waited for kakashi to get his bearings before he even tried to pull his restrained wrists free. once kakashi realized who he was pinning down he groaned and collapsed on top of iruka. the chunin just laughed.

"its ok, i knew you'd propably react like that"

"you shouldnt do that, i could have hurt you"

iruka shook his head taking the time to nuzzle his face into the mans neck.

"you wont hurt me"

kakashi smiled, he was glad to know that iruka trusted him. turning his head to face the chunin he asked what the man had been trying to do.

"well i was trying to wake you up, which i succeeded, just not in the way i intended."

"oh?"

"i was trying to kiss you"

kakashi smirked and brought their lips together. pulling away a moment later he asked.

"is that better?"

"much"

lifting himself up a bit kakashi looked at the clock, they had a couple more minutes before they needed to get out of bed to prepare. snuggling back down on top of the chunin he kissed the mans neck.

"promise you'll be careful"

"i'll do my best"

kakashi nodded, thats all he could ask of the man.

"kakashi, could you do something for me?"

"name it"

smiling iruka spoke evenly as he said.

"after this is all done, whether i pass or not, will you let me see your face"

kakashi chuckled against the mans neck. such a simple request.

"i think i can manage that"

iruka smiled, he had wondered if kakashi would say no, he knew the man hid his face for one reason or another and didnt want to force the subject, but it would be nice to know what the person who had kissed him so pationatly looked like.

"will you do something for me?"

"sure"

"set a lot of traps until you know who your facing against"

iruka snickered, he was glad that kakashi was trying to give him tips at the last minute. but it was good advice.

"i promise to rig many evil logs in their way"

kakashi snorted against his neck before saying thank you.lifting himself up off of the chunin below him he rolled off the bed to get ready. they both took showers, knowing it would be days until they got too again. kakashi fixed breakfast and told iruka to eat as much as he could stomache, the man just shook his head.

"i dont want to be running on a full stomache"

"maybe not, but you also dont want to be running on an empty one either"

nodding his head he conceded to that point. he ate a fair amount and drank his tea before the duo locked up the apartment and headed to where they would be lead into the forest of death.
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