Punishment

It had been a long mission and like always a certain masked ninja wanted to be alone with his thoughts and his favorite book. It was always a pain to submit reports but after a particular person had been given the duty of mission desk it had become unbearable. Currently he was sitting on one of the seats in the mission desk room re-writing his mission report and occasionally glaring at the person who was coming between his plans for recreation. At first it had been a rare occasion to meet this person in mission room but recently it looked as though some body was conspiring against him, he would always end up in the mission room when he would be on duty. He would make him write his report again and again until it was perfect. So today was no exception, as Kakashi was lazy enough to not write it properly in his first attempt he was writing it all over again.

On the other hand, the same was true for Iruka; the young chunin somehow had to face the masked man after every mission he would accomplish. Iruka never had a faintest idea that the man he had admired was nothing but pain in the backside. If he had known that the man who was his role model was in fact a lazy pervert he would have never considered him one. This realization did not come to him without experience. As a matter of fact he had gone through many tortures that the kids in the academy had put him through but that was nothing in front of what this jounin had put him through. The said jounin would not submit report on time; if the reports did arrive they would be illegible. Iruka had scolded him for every report he would give hoping that Kakashi would grow tired of it and take his reports seriously, but that day is yet to arrive. So today was no exception, Kakashi had come to the mission room with a shabby report, got Iruka to his nerves end and had ended up with him shouting at the jonin and a very sulky Kakashi was now writing his report-again. The only difference was that Iruka was not alone today; his friends- Genma and Raidou were with him. After calming his nerves down he sat down and let out a long sigh.

He had a lot of workload and he could not loaf around like his friends who at that movement were whispering about how some jounins had become murderers. And as his luck was against him the topic changed from murders to juicy gossip about couples in the village. He always tried to avoid this topic; it started after Mizuki had turned out to be a traitor. They were in a relationship and this fact had automatically ended Iruka single and heart broken. Ever since then he had not trusted himself about judging people and had remained single and alone. Soon his thoughts were interrupted by whispering of his friends, who had all but forgotten about his presence next to them. "Why would he make him write that report again when you can clearly read what has been written? It's too fishy..." that was Genma, whispering to Raidou who answered by nodding his head and both the heads turn to see an angry Iruka glaring at them. Genma and Raidou have been trying to get Iruka into a relationship, but all the attempts had told them that Iruka was not interested; while this was true his friends also knew that Iruka had become very lonely after the Mizuki incident followed by Naruto leaving to train with Jiraya.

The room had fallen silent except for the sound of a pen scratching on the paper, the silence was broken Genma "h-hey Iruka we were wondering why you detain Kakashi only....... I mean even I write bad reports but you never do this to me......." "Only you are wondering that......I am out of this.....really Iruka" giving Iruka his best puppy dog eyes after seeing Iruka turn red from anger and embarrassment. It was true that Iruka never punished anyone else other than Kakashi to write the report again but apart from Kakashi, bad reports are seldom.

But when Iruka was lost in his thoughts, Kakashi was looking straight at the young man. Thinking of a possible reason that would explain the special treatment given to him exclusively, Kakashi looked carefully at the face which was flushed with embarrassment and anger and realized that though he had glared at that face, he never really noticed it until now. It really surprised him that he had never noticed such a cute face. Iruka's dark complexion contrasted with the red that was present on his cheek. His brown eyes told him that they were showing the emotions that came straight from heart. But it was that scar which gave his face its definition, without that scar his face would look like a blurred picture, at last Kakashi's eyes fell on his pink lips, they looked so inviting that he wanted to kiss them senseless.