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All For the Sake of Pleasure	By : Kanemoshi Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Kakashi/Iruka Views: 8220 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 6
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Chapter Thirty Eight
"You know we have to tell them." Iruka cringed at the sound of his own voice. Even to his own ears, his words sounded like some kind of ultimatum. And judging from the blood rapidly draining from his fiancé's face, Kakashi felt doomed by those words as well.
"No we don't," Kakashi responded all too quickly as he turned his gaze back to the mess Saki was making with finger paint. The toddler, oblivious to the worries of his fathers, just giggled as he smeared another bright orange streak across the kitchen table, completely missing the large sheet of paper he was supposed to be painting on.
"It's been over four months. We agreed we would tell them after three…" Iruka gently reminded his stubborn lover, forgetting for a moment that Kakashi was a master of selective hearing. Kakashi simply continued watching Saki paint what he called a 'fwowy.' The 'flower' looked like Naruto and his favorite jacket had blown up across the table, leaving neon orange and yellow splotches to slowly drip onto the floor below.
An evil glint came to the brunet's eye as he thought of a way to get his fiancé to take some responsibility. "If you don't tell them, I will." At those words, Kakashi's head snapped up and the jounin stared at Iruka with a pleading look. Just to get his point across, Iruka continued. "I will tell Gai everything." The mood swings, the strange cravings, Kakashi's new obsessions – Iruka now had a lifetime-worth of blackmail material. Not that he would ever use it to harm his fiancé, but Kakashi didn't know that.
"…you are evil…" Kakashi grumbled, but Iruka could hear the resignation in his lover's voice. Swooping down next to the seated jounin, Iruka gently kissed Kakashi's cheek before he realized he had fallen for Iruka's bluff.
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Iruka let out a snicker as he glanced over at his lover. Even with three-quarters of his face covered up by his customary mask and hitai ate, Kakashi's one visible eye was more than enough to reveal the jounin's emotions. A year or so ago, Iruka would have thought the man was incapable of showing emotion, but a year had taught Iruka how to read every slight movement of his lover's body. It was amazing that that mask could cover up the blush that must be burning his lover's cheeks. Iruka had come to discover in the past few months that his fiancé got embarrassed by the smallest things. Then again, his reddened cheeks might have little to do with his hormones and more to do with the group of elite shinobi surrounding them.
"So what did you guys call all of us over for?" Anko asked curiously as she glanced up from spinning a kunai around her finger to look at Iruka and Kakashi. Unable to help it, Iruka felt his own cheeks warm up at the leer the kunoichi directed at him.
Kakashi and Iruka had agreed to take things slowly. There was no guarantee that the twins were unaffected by Kakashi's injury. They might have been injured by the katana; they could have suffered damage when Kakashi lost so much blood and his chakra levels dropped so low. The frantic hours of stitching Kakashi back up and placing seal upon seal on his abdomen could have done irrevocable damage to the twins. Then there was the risk that the jounin's body couldn't handle two fetuses. There was no promise that they would survive with so much stacked against them.
Tsunade confirmed their fears once she had gotten over the shock of sensing those two little chakra signatures. She explained the risks, ones Iruka and Kakashi already thought of. But the medical genius also said that the first trimester was the most important. Those first few months would tell if the twins suffered any damage from the attack on Kakashi. Three months would be long enough for Tsunade to do her tests and make sure Kakashi's body could handle the stress of two fetuses. Three months would be enough time for the medical genius to see if the twins were growing and developing normally. Tsunade had said that if they lived through the first trimester, there was a good chance the twins would survive.
After that teary first meeting with Tsunade, Iruka and Kakashi had agreed on one thing. Only Naruto, Sasuke and Saki would know about the twins, at least for the first trimester. They did not want to start telling all of their friends when there was still a high risk of losing the twins. So they had remained silent. They had lied to their friends when asked why they visited Tsunade at least twice a week. Thankfully, Kakashi's still-healing abdomen gave them the perfect excuse for their medical visits and why the jounin had yet to return to active duty. But despite being some of the most courageous people in the world, shinobi were cowards when it came to their personal lives. And so, the past four months had gone by without either Iruka or Kakashi breathing a word to anyone other than Naruto and Sasuke, ignoring their own promise to tell their friends after the first trimester.
"They have called us, their most enthusiastic friends, to proclaim their most youthful love!"
"You guys decided on a date for the wedding?" Kurenai squealed at Gai's statement, clapping her hands together. There was no doubt in Iruka's mind that there were images of wedding decorations racing through her mind. She had already decided she would plan the entire affair, ignoring Iruka's few requests for a small ceremony. Last Iruka had heard, the guest list for his wedding was already over three hundred. All Kurenai had been waiting on was a date so that she could begin sending out the invitations.
"Ehh…not exactly…" Iruka scratched the back of his head nervously. He had been so excited to tell their friends about the twins that he hadn't thought of a good way to break the news. And, from the blush that was beginning to creep over the edge of Kakashi's mask, the jounin was not going to be the brave one to tell everyone about the twins. Then again, Iruka had the feeling Kakashi would have been perfectly content to never reveal his condition to his closest friends. He would just appear one day with a set of twins that looked suspiciously like him and never offer any explanation other than he had gotten stopped on the road of life.
Iruka momentarily wished Naruto and Sasuke were here. He could easily con his blonde brother into breaking the news in some loud manner, but Sasuke refused to come to this little meeting, complaining he was fat. And wherever Sasuke went, Naruto was sure to follow. With a shake of his head, Iruka could only wonder when Sasuke was going to start telling people about his own condition. It was not like it was hard to miss his rounded belly – no matter how hard the jounin tried to stuff himself into his uniform. Iruka could only imagine what the ANBU squad was saying about their captain after Sasuke left their secretive meetings. Then again, Iruka knew he should be happy that the raven-haired jounin had started showing his face in public again, no matter how infrequent those ventures were.
"Not exactly? Then why are we here?" Anko asked as she threw her feet up onto the coffee table. A past lifetime, Iruka would have screeched at her for her poor manners and that she was destroying the furniture. Now, Iruka could almost care less. It may have something to do with Saki having thrown a little temper tantrum this morning and smearing the horrific biohazard that was the contents of his diaper all over that same glass tabletop. As though he knew what his father was thinking about, Saki giggled from his current position on Gai's lap as he played with the man's enormous eyebrows.
"Um…well…we…we're…expecting…" Iruka stammered, not knowing how else to explain that he knocked his fiancé up and they were now going to be having a set of twins that, if their big brother was any indicator, would more than likely destroy the village before they turned five.
"Expecting what?" Izumo had to ask as he cocked his head to the side. Glancing over to his lover and seeing the same confusion in Kotetsu's eyes, the jounin shrugged his shoulders. Iruka almost groaned as he wondered how these shinobi – the people who were supposed to read underneath the underneath – could not have noticed that there was only one person in this room not drinking sake or beer. There was only one of them who had remained completely silent throughout the entire evening, afraid if he opened his mouth, he would have heaved all over Gai and the Green Beast's overpowering cologne.
"Twins," Kakashi croaked quietly. Iruka winced at the rawness of his fiancé's voice; morning sickness had not been kind to the jounin in the past month – and Gai's cologne and the smell of sake were not helping his heightened senses. Damn it, Kakashi hadn't even realized Gai wore cologne and he had known the crazed man for years!
"You're expecting…twins?" Kotetsu's question hung in the air as those few words filtered through the minds of the assembled shinobi. For shinobi, it took a pitifully long period of time. Finally, it began clicking. Anko was the first to let out a shriek of joy, and then the congratulations began bombarding the couple from every angle.
"Congrats!"
"Do you know if they are boys or girls?
"When did you find out?"
"When is the due date?
"My Most Youthful Rival! You have proved your manliness by impregnating Iruka once again! Iruka-sensei, you shine with the radiance of youth and new life! Yosh!"
Iruka desperately wanted to bury his head and somehow hide from Gai. He had the feeling the tall man was moments away from praising Kakashi's sperm. The Green Beast of Konoha could, single-handedly, bring down an entire army of missing nin by embarrassing them. Even with his cheeks burning in mortification, Iruka thought about the jounin's words. Again. Again…again meant Gai knew about Saki's true parentage and not the story of Keiko that everyone was supposed to believe. Did Kakashi tell him the truth? A quick glance to his fiancé, and seeing the same wide-eyed shock, it was obvious Kakashi had not been the one to tell Gai that Keiko was a farce.
"Oh, don't act so surprised, Iruka. We all figured it out a while ago. I mean, a cousin no one's heard of who is exactly like you?" Anko commented, chuckling. "You aren't much of an actor – though that jutsu of yours did have me confused for a few weeks."
"All us teachers at the academy knew it was you – we thought it was some weird training Tsunade was having you do and didn't want to ruin it by outing you," Izumo added with a shake of his head. "Then when we realized you were pregnant, you had everyone gossiping, wondering if we were wrong and Keiko really wasn't you."
"But after Saki was born, we knew it had to have been you. You knew exactly what had been going on in the village while you were on your 'mission.' It was too convenient that Keiko, having no complications with her pregnancy, died while Tsunade-sama was taking care of her."
"And we may have done a little reconnaissance…"
"What Anko means is she and Gai broke into the Hokage's office and found your medical file," Kurenai explained before calmly taking a sip of her sake. Everyone else nodded their heads in agreement; from their expressions, it was obvious that supposedly secret, confidential file had made its way around the village. It would be a wonder if there was any Konoha shinobi who didn't know that Saki was truly Iruka's child. If he wasn't so shocked, Iruka might have gone in search of Tsunade to yell at her about her lack of security when it came to important documents.
Instead, blown away by their admissions, Iruka could only nod his head dumbly. Only in the world of shinobi would it be make sense that your friends wouldn't be fooled by the perfect illusion and, to confirm their suspicions, commit an act that could be considered treason.
But if they found his file…they could have found Kakashi's.
A cold knot forming in his stomach, Iruka quickly looked to his lover. But he saw none of the fear he was expecting. Kakashi was terrified of people learning about his failed mission. He worried that they would treat him differently. He stressed over what they would think of him. Yet there was no emotion in Kakashi's visible eye other than a calmness that Iruka would have never anticipated, knowing just how secretive Kakashi was when it came to that one mission.
"Where is it?" Kakashi asked quietly, his question obviously directed at Gai. Iruka nearly hit himself for his stupidity. He had forgotten – Gai had gone with Anko to break into the Hokage's office. And no matter how curious Anko was about her secretive, masked comrade's file, the gentle giant would have never let her learn such information about Kakashi. Iruka could only wonder if Gai had tagged along to discover the truth of Iruka and Saki's relationship or if he had gone to protect his best friend's past from discovery.
"Who knows? The winds are capricious and ash is light," Gai replied cryptically. Iruka had spent enough time around the Green Beast to understand that he burned the files of Kakashi's failed mission and scattered the ashes that remained.
"Thank you."
Iruka could hear the deep gratitude in his fiancé's voice. If they were alone with Gai, Iruka may have hugged the man for what he had done for Kakashi. Gai erased that mission from Kakashi's life. Oh, the scars and the memories would remain, but Kakashi would never have to fear discovery. He would never have to worry that people would look at him with pity for the harsh past he had. In many ways, Gai gave Kakashi a fresh start – a new beginning in which to build a life and family without the constant reminder of his past.
Not wanting to call attention to Gai and Kakashi's quiet conversation, Iruka simply mouthed 'thank you' to the spandex-clad jounin before bringing his cup of sake up to his lips. Iruka did not even get the chance to taste the sweet alcohol before he found the porcelain plucked from his fingers.
"Oi! You can't be drinking! You know that, Iruka!" Ignoring Anko's wise words, Iruka still tried to grab for his sake cup. It took him a moment to realize why the kunoichi was refusing to let him drink. Even as Anko knelt down to coo to his flat abdomen, Iruka felt his eye begin to twitch. Why was it people lost their minds and forgot about things like personal space whenever they thought someone was pregnant!
About to yell at the kunoichi for touching his stomach, Iruka took a deep breath, but released it when he felt a gentle touch on his arm. Glancing over to Kakashi, the brunet could see a twinkle of mischief in his fiancé's eye. The chuunin had no idea what his lover had planned, but he had the feeling it was going to be Kakashi's own way of telling his friends about the twins.
"Maa…you know they can't hear you," Kakashi drawled, his raspy tone nearly gone, replaced by his customary nonchalance. But no one in the room was fooled by his seemingly uncaring attitude. These were the people who had known Kakashi for years, if not decades. Though they could not read every emotion in his natural eye, they could see the changes Iruka had brought about in him. They could see that their friend's once true indifference had completely disappeared. No matter how emotionless Kakashi would appear to strangers, to his friends, right now he was positively giddy.
"I know that. And you, you're supposed to be taking care of Iruka, not watching him drink sake while he's pregnant!" Anko retorted as she glowered at Kakashi, as though blaming the jounin for Iruka drinking alcohol. "You could harm the babies!"
"They're fine," Kakashi replied with certainty. Iruka took a quick glance around the room and saw that a few pairs of eyes were beginning to widen as their gazes bounced between Kakashi's glass of water and Iruka's sake cup. Finally, Konoha's finest were starting to read underneath the underneath. Anko, however, had her back to the coffee table and the rest of their friends, so she missed the change in their expressions.
"And you probably still let Iruka drink coffee, I bet," Anko responded, still glaring at the Copy Ninja, unaware of the number of dropping jaws behind her. Iruka could only snicker as he wondered how long it would take his childhood friend to realize that she was being overly protective for no reason.
"Have you seen Iruka without his coffee?" Kakashi asked in a stage whisper that was filled with horror. Even though he knew his lover was just playing with Anko, the brunet still glared at Kakashi for that comment. Just because he was not fully functional without his caffeine did not mean Kakashi could use his addiction as part of his joke. Then again, he could admit he was a little cranky before his first cup of coffee.
Suddenly, Iruka felt a change in the room's atmosphere. His shinobi senses on full alert, it took the brunet mere seconds to understand why there was a sunset backdrop on the other side of the room. Seeing Gai performing some kind of teary dance was more than enough of an explanation. Apparently, the Green Beast of Konoha had just figured out Kakashi's delicate condition.
"My most youthful rival! You shine with the light of new life! The glow of motherhood-"
"Maa…father. Father, you idiot," Kakashi grumbled over his best friend's exuberant proclamation, but Gai did not pause to even take a breath as he continued to cry his manly tears and pose for everyone assembled.
"It suits you, my eternal rival! Your pale skin glistens with the pleasure and joy only a mother can feel! "
"Can I kill him?" Kakashi whispered into Iruka's ear. The brunet could only chuckle as he shook his head negatively. Gai's energy would settle in a few minutes…hopefully. It wasn't every day the Green Beast could celebrate his best friend's pregnancy. Iruka quickly began to reconsider his response to Kakashi's question when Gai's eyes focused on him and the tall jounin took a deep breath to prepare for a whole new rant.
"And you, Iruka-sensei! You spirit blazes with the pride of a father! You have shown us the power of true, enduring love! Filled with the youthful desire to reproduce, your virile sperm-"
"You can kill him now," Iruka quickly hissed to his fiancé before Gai could continue discussing their sex life, the twins' conception, or anything else that were not topics for polite company. Then again, with Gai around, nothing was sacred.
"Maa…you're going to scar my unborn children," Kakashi commented, silencing Gai mid-sentence before the elite jounin could begin describing just how Iruka's sperm swam with the burning energy of youth. Iruka had no idea it was possible for Gai to look contrite, but the tall man's cheeks all but burned with embarrassment as he stood up from a strange pose that was supposed to resemble swimming.
"Of course, my rival! How could I forget that your offspring must be taught the wonders of their youth! I shall train them to understand such manly joy!"
Iruka could only drop his head into his hands. Gai was already making plans to train their unborn children. Any thoughts to tell the tall jounin that he had at least ten years before the twins were going to be close to becoming genin fell to the wayside as Iruka watched Gai move towards Kakashi. It was like Iruka was watching an accident happening in slow motion, unable to do anything to stop the tall jounin from pulling his best friend off the couch and crushing a squirming Kakashi against his chest. Helplessly, Iruka lifted a hand as though it would keep Gai from embracing the Copy Ninja.
It did not even take a full second for a strange green shade to creep over the edge of Kakashi's mask. Iruka did not even have the chance to wince before his fiancé disappeared from Gai's hug in a cloud of smoke. As the smoke of the transportation jutsu cleared, a retching sound echoed through the otherwise silent mansion.
"My rival! I have overwhelmed you with my youthful spirit! I shall come to your aid!" Iruka did not have enough time to warn the Green Beast before Gai raced off in Kakashi's direction.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME, YOU ASS!"
Rubbing his forehead, Iruka moved to stand. Kakashi asked that Iruka not run to take care of him when he got sick – the jounin got embarrassed by his queasy stomach and Iruka's presence only made it worse – but Iruka had the feeling Kakashi would not argue if the brunet went to drag Gai away from his attempts to aid his best friend.
"Wait…Kakashi is pregnant?" Iruka turned to look at Anko when he heard her question. Disbelief was etched in the kunoichi's features as she stared into space, the gears slowly turning in her head as she digested this new bit of information. "But…I thought…and you…how?" Somehow, Iruka was able to follow his friend's fragmented stammering.
"He copied my jutsu…we didn't know at the time…" Iruka blushed furiously as he admitted how his fiancé was able to conceive. He had the feeling their friends had already linked his sexy no jutsu to his ability to conceive Saki.
Without warning, a chortle emitted from Ibiki and it quickly turned into a loud fit of snorting laughter. Having only heard the giant of a man chuckle on the rare occasion, the brunet could only stare in amazement as Ibiki gasped for air, his entire large frame shaking as he tried to hide his amusement. Everyone else adopted similar expressions of awe as Ibiki dissolved into a new bout of laughter.
"Copied…that explains it!" The interrogation expert was able to choke out as he pounded one of his giant fists against the arm of his chair. Iruka glanced to Anko, hoping she could explain her boyfriend's odd behavior, but the kunoichi could only shrug her shoulders. After a few more minutes of Ibiki's laughter, the jounin calmed down enough to speak.
"His entire team…they came to me…they wanted me to interrogate him – they were sure…sure he was an imposter," Ibiki said with a snort, shaking his head. It took Iruka a moment to understand the jounin's words. There were only two men in the village capable of perfectly copying a jutsu – and only one of them had a team at the moment. Iruka began to chuckle when he realized that the entire ANBU squad must have gone to Ibiki, begging him to find out who had replaced their cool, collected captain with a cranky, hormonal (and rounder) version of him.
"Who's an imposter?" Iruka turned at the sound of his lover's voice. Kakashi leaned against the doorframe, looking as though he had not just spent the past few minutes in the bathroom emptying his stomach. The only proof of his recent sickness was a slight paleness to his cheeks and the fact Gai was standing several feet behind Kakashi, obviously doing his best to stay out of smelling distance from his pregnant friend's overly sensitive nose.
Iruka was about to speak, but heard a chorus of gasps come from their company. Turning to look at what had gotten into their friends this time, the brunet saw something that would haunt him to the grave. The hearts that were filling the room – and the looks of blatant lust – were downright frightening. What was worse was that every pair of eyes was glued to Kakashi. Iruka realized the cause of everyone's expression when he glanced back to his fiancé. So used to seeing Kakashi without his mask or hitai ate, Iruka had not thought twice when he had seen the paleness to his lover's cheeks. He had not even registered the small smile on his partner's lips beyond seeing that Kakashi was feeling better.
Somehow, Iruka had forgotten that Kakashi's face was a mystery to everyone other than those closest to the jounin.
"So pretty…"
Iruka spun back around to glare at Izumo, just daring the man to hit on his pregnant fiancé as a fierce wave of possessiveness hit the chuunin. His friend ignored Iruka's glowering and continued to stare at Kakashi with longing. Even as Kakashi moved across the room, plopping down next to Iruka, nearly every pair of eyes followed him.
"That mask itches," Kakashi offered up as though it would explain his sudden decision to reveal his face. Then again, unless he was on missions, he kept his face bare, so the feel of the material must have been bothering him all night. Taking one of his fiancé's hands in his own and squeezing gently, Iruka smiled at Kakashi. He knew his lover well enough to know that Kakashi was still not ready to go out in public with his face exposed, but the jounin was comfortable enough with the people around them to finally showing his true self.
"You owe me twenty thousand yen," Kurenai stated as she elbowed Ibiki. The giant growled, but quickly pulled out his wallet and forked over the bills. Iruka could only raise an eyebrow, but he had the feeling the two had a bet going on as to what Kakashi was concealing under his mask. Apparently Kurenai had betted Kakashi was hiding his good looks. Iruka could only imagine what Ibiki thought Kakashi covered up with his mask.
"So when are you due?" Anko, the first to recover from seeing Kakashi's face, asked as she slowly began moving towards Kakashi. Iruka had to bite back a laugh when he saw his fiancé's glare, which screamed 'touch my stomach and I will kill you' to the kunoichi whose hands were already starting to inch towards his abdomen.
"In four and a half months," Iruka replied as he gently squeezed Kakashi's hand. September – it seemed like an eternity, but Iruka knew that time would fly as they got everything ready for the twins. Then there was all the planning and renovation they were going to have to do to get ready for Naruto and Sasuke's son or daughter. The next few months were going to be busy.
"Four and a half…so wait…was it before or after you guys got engaged?" Kotetsu asked with a perverse grin. Iruka could only glower at the lecherous jounin. Only their friends would immediately wonder when they conceived the twins. Perverts, all of them!
"None of your business," Iruka grumbled, his cheeks beginning to burn.
"Before," Anko stated with a sagely nod of her head. Iruka shifted his glare to the kunoichi, but any chance at frightening the woman with his best 'angry teacher' glower disappeared when Kurenai clapped her hands together and let out a happy laugh.
"That settles it!" she exclaimed. Before anyone got a chance to ask her what that settled, she continued, "I will have to get those invitations ordered soon if we want to have the wedding by the end of May…"
"M-M-May? Why May?"
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Iruka moved silently, slipping into his bedroom with a kind of stealth a lifetime of being a shinobi had never taught him. Instead, it was the noiseless movements a parent quickly adopted if they ever wanted to get any sleep. It did not matter that Saki now slept like the dead – old habits and all that.
Expecting to find his fiancé already asleep, Iruka was mildly surprised to find the lights on and Kakashi not in the bed at all. Instead, his lover was standing in front of their full-length mirror. Clad in only a pair of low-riding sweat pants, Kakashi was a sight to be seen. Four months of pregnancy had little impact on his body, and what a body it was! Every muscle in his lover's back and shoulders looked like it was chiseled out of alabaster. A single dark tattoo, an ANBU mark on one of his well-defined arms, stood out against that pale skin. In this low lighting, Iruka could only see a hint of the pearly scars that he knew covered Kakashi's back.
Inconspicuously wiping his mouth to hide the fact he had been drooling, Iruka took a few steps towards his fiancé. As he approached the powerful jounin, he caught a glimpse of his lover's expression. Instantly, Iruka had his arms around Kakashi's middle, pulling his fiancé against his chest.
"What's wrong?" Iruka asked quietly as he rested his head on Kakashi's shoulder, pressing a gentle kiss against the jounin's scarred neck. He felt a shiver ripple down Kakashi's back and a small part of the brunet felt a wave of satisfaction. Pregnancy already made his fiancé's body more sensitive to his touch. The rest of the brunet, however, focused on the soft, almost inaudible, gasps for air that matched the tears silently falling down his lover's bare cheeks.
"I-I don't know…"
Iruka gently tightened his arms around his fiancé's middle, his fingers brushing against the dark scar that still marred the jounin's otherwise pale abdomen. He could all too easily remember the emotional turmoil from two years ago, of nights spent alone, stubbornly refusing to let tears fall for a man he had thought to be heartless.
"I cried at least two or three times a day with Saki – sometimes for something as stupid as Naruto forgetting to turn off the lights before he went to bed the night before," Iruka admitted softly as he ran a thumb along his lover's stomach. It was such a gradual change, but if Iruka thought back on their relationship, Iruka could distinctly remember far more defined muscles a few months ago. Not that he was complaining! The curve to Kakashi's abdomen was downright sexy. Though his thoughts were nowhere near as perverse as Kakashi's, Iruka could not help but wonder what he and his fiancé were going to do when Kakashi was too big to screw his brains out. The teacher's cheeks flushed when he thought of an alternative.
"I know…"
For a moment, Iruka could have sworn he had been hearing things, but he could see the pink splotches on his lover's cheeks. Iruka did not have to think long on Kakashi's whispered admission. In the world of shinobi, stalking was the highest form of flattery. The brunet could not help but chuckle, now knowing that he wasn't going crazy every time he thought he had sensed someone watching him – or, at least, watching Keiko.
"I knew someone was following me!" Iruka proclaimed with a snort. "Naruto and Sasuke just thought it was some kind of hormonal paranoia." With a shake of his head, the brunet sighed. How different would their relationship have been if Kakashi had just explained himself, if he had appeared before Iruka, kissing the woman he thought her to be with the kind of passion and love Iruka now knew him capable of? Smiling, Iruka knew not much would have changed. They would have been lovers longer, yes, but that wouldn't change his love for Kakashi. Kakashi's relationship with Saki suffered little from those first few months when Kakashi was little more than a glorified babysitter. No, even if they could change the past, they would still be exactly where they were now.
"I…I just wanted to make sure you were okay…I swore to never interfere…"
"Never?" Iruka repeated questioningly. Before he got the chance to give his lover a knowing glance through the mirror, he felt a flicker of Kakashi's chakra followed by a warm, tingling sensation across his abdomen. He did not have to lift his shirt to know that there were darkened marks now clearly visible on his skin. On a few occasions, he had felt this sudden increase in energy. It was as though his chakra pathways were overflowing. It was an addictive sensation, heating his body in ways that only Kakashi's touch could compare to.
"Well…maybe once…" Kakashi admitted, a smirk tugging at the corner of his lips. Iruka studied his lover's face in the mirror, glad to see there were no more tears leaking from those mismatched eyes. Even though he knew his fiancé's sorrow was entirely hormone-driven, it did nothing to stop the feeling of guilt, as though those tears were somehow his fault.
"Could you reverse it?" Iruka asked, having to bite back a moan as another surge of chakra ran through him, making every nerve end tingle and beg for more. Sometimes he wondered if Kakashi knew just how downright arousing the sensation was. It would explain why the jounin would activate the seal while he was teasing Iruka into a frenzied state. Jounin, Iruka had come to learn, had a different definition of foreplay than the rest of the world.
"Probably…why?"
Iruka could barely recall what he had even asked. It took a minute for the chuunin to ignore his growing arousal long enough to remember his question. It was one he had thought of with increasing frequency ever since learning about Kakashi's condition. Kakashi had done it to protect him – a way of making sure that he was doing his best to take care of 'Keiko' – and Iruka could now perfectly understand that mentality. He may not be as powerful as Kakashi, but his fiancé was going to need all the help he could get.
"No."
Iruka could not help but jump back in surprise at the hard tone in his fiancés voice. It was a sound he barely even recognized as Kakashi's. He had been expecting some kind of protest, but not complete refusal.
"Why not? You put a seal on me…and another on Saki – you can't possibly think you can keep that up for the next five months. I want to help," Iruka pointed out rationally, but he saw the stubbornness in his lover's hardened gaze. There was no talking sense to Kakashi when he was like this. Frustrated, and more than a little wounded that his lover wouldn't even discuss this with him, Iruka stepped back, loosening his arms from around his fiancé's middle.
As though Kakashi could sense his hurt, his hardened features melted completely, leaving behind such vulnerability that Iruka's heart ached. "I won't put you in that kind of pain," the jounin whispered softly as he bowed his head.
"Pain?" Iruka cocked his head to the side. He wasn't sure if it was just Kakashi's genius was rubbing off on him or he was so used to his lover's odd ways by now, but he needed no further explanation as he thought about it. "When the seal's activated…you feel what I feel…" And there was one very memorable time that Iruka's seal was activated when he was in pain.
"I thought I was dying," Kakashi grumbled, refusing to say just how much agony he had been in. He would never admit it because he knew that whatever he had felt, it was only a fraction of what Iruka had gone through. He had no right to complain. As those thoughts filtered through the jounin's mind again, all the blood began to drain from his face.
A fraction…
"You will be in the hospital, on so many drugs you won't feel anything from the neck down," Iruka quickly pointed out, following his lover's thoughts and facial expressions with ease. Shinobi were renowned for the level of pain and torture they could survive, but that didn't mean they had to like it. In fact, Iruka would be worried if a shinobi did not fear pain and suffering. Even Kakashi, though he liked a little torture in the bedroom, would not enjoy pain that he had no control over and would have no way to stop it if it became too much for him to handle.
"You're damn right I will be…" the jounin mumbled. Kakashi might hate taking anything that made him numb and his mind a little fuzzy, but there was no way in hell he was going through that again voluntarily. Tsunade better give him something that would knock out an elephant.
Iruka chuckled at his lover's comment. Hadn't he said the exact same thing with Saki? And yet, he didn't deliver a hospital and he had had lost any chance of using drugs because of his stubbornness. He wouldn't let his fiancé make the same mistake. If he had to drag Kakashi kicking and screaming to the hospital, he would – then again, from Kakashi's statement, Iruka had the feeling he would have little argument after that first contraction hit.
Iruka smiled, wrapping his arms back around his lover's midsection. Wordlessly, Kakashi's fingers wrapped around his hand and directed Iruka's touch to his side. It took only a moment to pick up the slight fluttering of his abdomen. Iruka could only chuckle as he felt the gentle rumbling. The first time Kakashi had felt the twins moving, he had been on the verge of tears, popping into the academy without warning so that Iruka could feel it as well. Now, the two moved at least once a day, obviously already beginning a sibling rivalry if their kicking was any indicator.
"Should we tell anyone the sex?" Iruka asked curiously. That had been one of the many interesting bits of information Tsunade and her tests could tell them at their last visit. Despite his own reluctance to be the Hokage's guinea pig, Iruka had to admit that her tests and machines had their benefits.
"Maa…let them wonder," Kakashi replied with a smirk. "As for sex…"
Iruka didn't even have the chance to register that lecherous rumble to his lover's voice before he found himself on the bed with one very horny jounin straddling him. "H-Hornball!" Iruka sputtered as a warm hand snaked underneath his shirt. Before he could blink, his shirt was gone, accompanied by the sound of ripping material.
"Mmm…are you complaining?"
"Never."
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