A ninja must see underneath the underneath

Chapter 18 - The pitfalls of love

"Naruto?" Kakashi said to draw the young man's attention away from his shoulder.

"Yes, Kashi?" Naruto replied a little drowsy.

"I really think we need to wash up you know..."

"You look sexy when you're a bit ruffled up," Naruto added with a smirk.

"That might be, but it doesn't really feel all that sexy. More like...gross and dusty."

"I hear ya. Let's go." The young man said as he jumped off Kakashi's lap.

A few minutes later both shinobi were sauntering off towards the river. Their towels hanging lazily across their shoulders. As they arrived, Naruto immediately pulled off his pants and boxers. They recklessly flew through the air with his towel and nearly landed on Kakashi's crooked silver hair.

Kakashi cringed inwardly at such sloppiness as he slowly took off his mask, pants, and boxers as well. He carefully folded them and put them on a rock together with his towel and a precautionary kunai. He slowly entered the cooling water.

His attention was drawn to Naruto, who was now standing on an overhanging boulder.

"Kakashi-senseeeeiii, watch this!" He screamed frantically waving his arms.

Before he could even utter a word, he saw the young man taking a big leap, doing a not so very graceful pirouette and falling ass-first into the water causing a splash that soaked Kakashi from head to toe. A shiver ran through his entire body as the cold water hit him like a mallet.

"Narutoooooo, watch this!" He yelled mockingly mimicking the blond.

Naruto looked up as he saw Kakashi pushing his hand onto the water surface. His eye grew wide when he realized a little too late what his pissed-off lover was up to. Soon enough, he felt electricity skewering across his body as he gave a painful yelp.

"Ouch! Kashi! That's uncalled for! The blond yelled with a heated look on his face.

"Depends on how you look at it brat!" Kakashi said crossly as he turned away from the blond.

"You just be careful for sharks!" Naruto yelled back threateningly.

"There are no sharks in rivers Naruto," Kakashi said as he rolled his eye and looked back over his shoulder, only to see that Naruto had disappeared.

"Now where did he ran off to?" Kakashi pondered. As he couldn't see nor sense Naruto anymore, he shrugged his shoulders, effectively causing a painful scowl on his face. He sighed as he started washing away the dirt from his skin.

His eye shot up as he saw a fin slicing through the water a few meters away. Well... more like a hand pretending to be a fin, but it was mimicking the movements of a shark quite well. Kakashi started smiling at the young man's playfulness. "I guess I sometimes forget how young he is..." Kakashi mused. "Forgetting his age makes having a relationship with him a whole lot easier though... Makes me feel less of a pervert." He reminded himself.

He looked around again, but the fin was gone. "Damn, he has gotten so well at hiding his chakra... I can't even sense him...but I know he's close by..." Kakashi said as he turned around, taking in his environment. He made a little jump as the fin suddenly appeared only one meter away from him. "Dammit Kakashi, are you seriously going to get jumpy because a teen is pretending to be a shark!" He cursed at himself. Though he had to admit, the whole situation was a bit eerie. "Naruto missed a professional acting career." He thought within himself, as he smirked a little.

His smile faltered in an instant as he felt 'the shark' grabbing hold of his waist and pulling him under the water. As he felt Naruto biting down on his abdomen, he tried to grab the young man's arms. He pulled himself loose and managed to catch 'the shark' around his torso. He pushed himself off from the bottom of the river so that they could surface again. Kakashi had Naruto constricted against his chest as they both breathed in the air. The young man started wobbling against his restraints. "Ohh, no. You're not going anywhere brat. I'm having shark-fin soup tonight!" He said with played anger.