100 Themes fics

Title: Drive ver 2 

Pairing: KakaIru

Rating: PG 13

Warnings: Yaoi M/M relationship, Angst, WAFF, COMPLETE, part of a series, no sexual content

Summary: SEQUEL TO Solitude and Obsession. We all love so the quote that it's better to have loved and lost.. the question is if you should have told them.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto if I did KakaIru would be canon and we all know it. (Even though I love variety I see them as soulmates ^.^ )  

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He'd been waiting at the gate every evening since he'd learned Kakashi had been sent out again. Genma had made an offhand remark it when he'd been dropping off a report a couple days after Iruka had spoken to Kakashi in the mission room.



It hadn't surprised him but when he'd realized Kakashi had left that same night, hadn't gotten the mission from him, he realized the significance of the man's presence there that night. The realization that even after everything he was the last thing Kakashi had wanted was to see before his mission, struck him hard. The fear that his irritation would be the last thing the man remembered had him standing at the gate silently trying to make the jounin appear.



Then when he finally stumbled in, looking exhausted Iruka couldn't move. Kakashi tensed the moment he noticed him and it surprised him when the silver-haired man walked over and stood in front of him, seemingly expecting some kind of explanation.



Iruka stared at the ground, not able to bring himself to actually face Kakashi, ashamed of his own cowardice. "I didn't want to lose you..." His voice shook, the relief that the other was okay finally hitting him.



"You can't have this both ways, Iruka. You said you don't want more..." Kakashi paused, sighed, and then reached out and lifted Iruka's chin, forcing the chunin to look at him. "...well I don't want less."



The expression on Kakashi's face made it impossible for Iruka to look away. It wasn't because the man had lowered his mask, he'd done the same thing when he'd told Iruka how he felt, it'd been a shock then, now he'd expected it. But the sadness etched in the man's visible eye made the hopeful smile appear nearly broken, and Iruka swallowed unable to look away. "It might not work and then we wouldn't have anything." The words fell from his mouth without being called.



Kakashi breathed a visible sigh of relief. "Heh... seems neither one of us is very good at driving the other away so I think you're wrong there."



"Let's hope so..." Iruka said, offering the man a weak smile.



"No..." Kakashi whispered, stepping closer and pulling the chunin into his arms. "Let's hope we never have to find out."