Dusk Till Dawn

27

Naruto shifted his feet slightly, causing the chair he was seated upon to move from left to right ever so slightly. His head was tilted at a ninety degree angle to his body so that it looked up at the ceiling rather than the other occupant of the room as an embarrassed cough broke through the room.

"It's okay to feel these things Naruto."

The blush that had been threatening to take a hold of Naruto's features suddenly sprang to life after fifteen minutes of delaying it. When Tsunade had left the room grinning like a Cheshire cat, Naruto's internal alarm bells had begun to ring. So when Iruka had stepped through the door with a large flip pad in one hand and a marker pen in the other, Naruto had promptly looked up at the ceiling.

Of course, Iruka had forced him to look at the diagrams, pictures, flow charts and other various forms of visual media and Naruto could say that he had been put off visiting any villager in the event of childbirth.

And then Iruka had discussed the same-sex part of relationships. He had started with the fatal words, 'when a man loves another man...' and Naruto had winced at the cheerful picture of two men smiling rather gruesomely at the camera. They weren't in a real relationship; they were just models.

"Now, Naruto, I need you to be aware of something called STI's. What are they?"

Naruto pulled his gaze from the ceiling to look at Iruka's flip chart. The acronym pronounced STI to stand for Sexually Transmitted Infection and Iruka nodded in satisfaction, flipping the page with more venom than necessary.

Naruto stared in confusion to the person who was titled Chlamydia. Was it their name or one of these infections? Naruto decided to ask Iruka; Iruka apparently knew everything nowadays.

"Um... is that their name? It's rather pretty but for a guy..."

Iruka turned with wide eyes and shook his head.

"Chlamydia is dangerous Naruto! Stay away from it?"

Naruto frowned again; was this Chlamydia some form of missing Nin?

"But-"

"Now, as I was saying," Iruka held up a hand to silence Naruto and the Hokage sat back in his chair, much like a young child would. "Chlamydia is very dangerous and is passed from person to person via sexual intercourse. It often has no symptoms and can leave a woman unable to bear children."

Iruka looked expectantly at Naruto and then around at his desk.

"Why aren't you taking notes?"

Naruto looked at Iruka in amazement,

"Because you barged in here and I have no idea what's going on! I could be doing paperwork now but noooo, you decided to come in here and confuse me with Chlamydia-sama."

Iruka sighed heavily.

"For the last time Naruto, Chlamydia is an STI, not a person, so please do not attach a suffix to it. Besides, I am here to educate you on these matters because it had come to the attention of a few people that their Hokage has been sleeping with an unknown man."

Naruto's mouth hung open and he groaned.

"Iruka-sensei!"

Iruka held his hand up and shook his head.

"You are a grown adult now but you still do not understand the basics of 'safe sex', Naruto. If you caught something and became ill then how would the villagers feel? Or even if you caught something like crabs and passed it on."

Naruto winced at the thought of the pincers digging into... well he assumed his lower regions with what the STI's appeared to be. He ignored Iruka's slight dig, knowing that the man didn't mean to suggest he slept around and returned his gaze to the ceiling.