Choose your own Naruto Adventure- Go to P512
From Create Your Own Story
You still harbor some feelings for Baki...but you're sensible enough to realize that no matter how much you try to pursue the matter...there's not much of a chance of anything happening between the two of you...especially when he asks you to start referring to him as Ni-san (older brother or big brother whatever you want to say).
As much as you like being with him, you are mature enough to admit how inappropriate it would be for you to continue spending all that time with him. Instead you spend more time the sand siblings (well mostly Temari and Kankuro...Gaara is a busy Kage after all) and Baki seems glad about the change too. You remain on friendly terms with him, but your relationship is definitely not what it once was.
As time goes by, your knowledge on future events eventually runs dry and you tell Tsunade (you're still corresponding with her after all) as much, but never to despair. You had after all performed a great service to the village and are offered the opportunity to come back to Konoha. You explain to Gaara and the others that you are no longer an informant to Tsunade...and that you have decided to accept their offer and return to the Leaf Village...
You've made some good friends amongst the Sand nin but you want to get as far away from Baki as possible...and it's not like you'll never see them again...after all you know for a fact that Temari has been travelling to and from Konoha quite frequently. Thus you return to Konoha...
Upon your request you receive training sessions and with the encouragement of the various friends you had made amongst the Konoha ninja...you are finally able to call yourself a bonafide kunoichi (whether you had wanted to become one or not...). And by the time two years roll by, you have attained the rank of Chuunin as well as permission to teach at the academy.
You sigh in frustration at the end of another typical day, you had just gotten through a particularly nerve-crushing lesson (it seemed like all the annoying ones had found their way into your class...oh, but you are a patient teacher and you love your students). You hurry to pack up your things and leave, eager to get out and relax.
You go for a walk in the nearby park to unwind.
Two years...it had been two years since you left the Sand Village...and you can't help but miss it a little bit...
"Should you be out here on your own?"
You squint into the semi-darkness and make out your co-worker Iruka.
"What's that supposed to mean?" you cross your arms.
"Ah, I didn't mean it that way..." Iruka laughs nervously. "It's just that things tend to happen to young women...especially in the dark."
"...I wasn't aware of a curfew."
Iruka sighs, "So...tough day?"
It's your turn to sigh, "I don't know where they get all that energy from..."
Iruka chuckles, "It can get difficult at times but...it's always worth it in the end..."
You smile...you had become good friends with the mild-mannered teacher.
"Do yours play pranks on you too?" You ask.
"All the time...yours?"
"You bet..."
From there you discuss all the pranks your students have played on you...turns out Iruka falls for them just as easily as you do and you get to have a good laugh about it before wishing each other a good night and going your separate ways.
After that...you make it a habit to stop by the park every day...and so does Iruka...and you admit you like spending time with the man.
At some point Iruka invites you out for a drink...but you don't think much of it...after all you're just friends, right?
And as cliche as it is...one thing leads to another...and you find yourself at his place...probably because you passed out after just three drinks and Iruka's apartment is closer than yours...
You wake up to find yourself in a bed...that isn't yours...in a bedroom...that also isn't yours, with a headache that unfortunately is very much yours...and while you're still fully clothed...you seem to be missing your bra of all things...after you spend some time thinking about it you vaguely recall a dream about you trying to do a strip tease for Iruka...
Groaning you rise from the bed and poke your head out of the room...you find Iruka asleep on the couch.
You watch him sleep for a little while...then you clear your throat and shake his shoulder gently.
"Iruka?"
"Five more minutes..."
"Iruka..." You shake him a little more insistently.
He finally wakes up.
"K-Kimiko!" He sits up and scratches the back of his head nervously.
"Um...I'm not going to ask any questions about what happened last night but...could I use your shower?"
Iruka nods, "S-Sure, I'll just go get you a fresh towel." He runs off to do that...apparently he remembers what had happened a little more clearly than you do.
Iruka returns with a towel and a few other things for you and points you in the right direction...
The flustered man takes a seat on his couch and exhales deeply...last night had been...awkward...had he known you couldn't hold your drink very well...
His thoughts are interrupted by a chuckle from the corner of the room.
"Looks like you had a rough night..."
Iruka's head snaps up, "Kakashi?! How did you get into my apartment?!"
Kakashi gives Iruka a flat look, "I'm a ninja."
Iruka sighs, "What are you doing here?"
"These are pretty nice..." Kakashi holds up a lacy bra. "I found them in the hallway...so...Iruka you-"
"It's mine!" Iruka blurts out without thinking.
Kakashi stares at him. "I was going to say you had some female company last night..."
"That...would have made more sense..."
Just then you walk back into the room. You're wearing the same clothes you had last night, "Um, Iruka this is a bit embarrassing but...have you seen my bra around by any chance?"
Then you spot Kakashi holding the mentioned item up in his hands.
"Yours, eh?" Kakashi muses swinging said item around one lazy finger.
You approach Kakashi, flushing bright red and grab it from him, before running into Iruka's room to well put it on and get out of there.
"Bye, Iruka...I guess I'll see you at the academy..." You mumble hastily and rush out the door.
Silence...
"You know, Iruka...I could give you some pointers so they don't run off like that." Kakashi offers.
After that incident you and Iruka are too embarrassed to look each other in the eye for about two weeks...
It is the end of yet another long day...and you head for the park as per usual...and find a familiar someone waiting for you.
"Iruka..."
"Kimiko...we...can we talk?"
"Okay."
Awkward silence.
"I'm sorry I invited you out for a drink! I had no idea you got drunk so easily." Iruka exclaims.
"...It's okay...I mean...I don't blame you Iruka...it's just that it's really embarrassing...especially about the um...did I really try to do a strip tease for you?" You blush.
Iruka chuckles nervously, "You kinda did...I mean...you tried...you got your shirt and...bra off...but then you passed out again..."
"...Thanks for not taking advantage of me...you didn't take advantage of me...right?" You eye him suspiciously.
"No, no, no!" Iruka stammers vehemently. "Of course I didn't!"
More silence.
"Iruka?"
"Yes?"
"You think we should give...'dating'...a try?"
"Um...I mean...do you want to? Because...I don't mind..." Iruka rambles on and on.
So you give him a quick peck on the lips to shut him up.
"Okay."
You continue teaching at the academy whilst dating your co-worker and are happy to find that nobody objects to your relationship... One night, you sit Iruka down and tell him the truth about where you had come from...admittedly he does not believe you at first...until you get both Naruto and Tsunade to back up your claims.
It takes him three days to come to terms with it, but after that he just shrugs it off.
A little over a year have passed and you have recently moved in together.
You have a day off so you use the time to straighten the apartment out.
There's a sudden knock on the door and you dash over to answer it...only to find no one's around...however you do espy a parcel in front of the door.
As curious as you are, you decide to wait for Iruka to get back before opening it...after all...it could be for him.
A couple of hours roll by and finally you hear the door open...you had a hard time concentrating on anything but the strange package...so you virtually drag Iruka into the kitchen where the parcel is currently resting on the table.
"Kimiko, what's this about?" He asks in confusion.
"Someone dropped this off earlier today...and I want to know what it is!"
"...You waited for me?"
"Well, yes...it might be for you."
"...Then let's open it."
And you do...
Silence.
Iruka groans and you try to hide a smile.
You take the orange book from out of the box and read the note attached to it...
"Here's a home-warming present. You'll find all the inspiration you need in here, Kakashi..." You read out.
"I can' believe he gave us a copy of Icha Icha Paradise..." Iruka sighs.
"He highlighted some of the passages too..." You remark as you flip through it. "And he added some notes..."
"You're not going to actually read it are you?" Iruka exclaims in surprise.
You blush faintly, "Well...it's a gift...and it's obvious that he put some...thought into this...so we might as well see what we can do with it, right?"
"...What do the highlighted parts say?"
"Well..." You flip it to a random page and spot something scrawled in Kakashi's handwriting alongside a marked passage. "...'This is a lot more fun if the positions are reversed'..."
You read the passage and quickly pass it to Iruka...not quite able to read it out.
"...On the kitchen table..." Iruka reads and glances at you.
More silence.
"I'll make sure the doors are locked, you get the blinds and curtains."
Outside somewhere...
A masked ninja chuckles to himself, "My work here is done..."
Elsewhere
In a hospital room.
An older woman sits by a young woman's side.
Two nurses watch her.
"It's so sad..." One of them says. "Her daughter has been in a coma for more than three years now...
The woman turns to look at them, "I...don't feel as bad about it as some of you might think..."
The nurses hastily apologize.
"She's been smiling a lot lately." The woman continues smiling tenderly at the young woman in the bed. "So...at the very least...I am glad that wherever she is...she's found happiness..."
Ending Nr. 18
(A/N I am sorry if you really were looking forward to a Baki ending...I just don't see it working...and need I point out that Iruka is a lot closer in age? Kakashi is such an awesome character...and he weaseled his way into the ending just perfectly, don't you think?)
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