Before we start the fan fiction let me say few things about the inspiration process behind this one. This is kind of important.

My first inspiration point was another author's short story. It seems that the author isn't well experienced yet so the part they wrote started to bug me because the idea behind it was good but it seems they didn't manage to make the story to really blossom. So, what happened was that I ended up swarmed with ideas how such story could become great. Now, to be fair I'll leave the link to this person's story. https://my.w.tt/Y7igKqVDMZ

Second inspiration point was the title that I somehow came up on the spot next to the plot idea. The name I choose for it seemed somehow familiar and that's how I remembered a song. Therefore, I realized that this song suits really well here so, I ended up mixing that in. I definitely recommend you to read this part while listening to the song in the background or at least listen to it afterwards or before the story. I defenatelly love The Neighbourhood songs, glad I got to see them live in a concert last year😍. That's why I had to use the song as inspiration~

And third point is pictures. Well, technically I was thinking of writing the story fully and then find some pictures to add along the way but I ended up needing a few idea for a sort of backstory and I ended up looking some pictures for that. Though, I found too many of them so I definitely ended up using too many for the story 😂. I found all the pictures on Pinterest so I have no idea to whom they really belong to but I can only say that I have no ownership to any of them.

Now, if you made it through all of my note then thank you for your patience and now you can move on to enjoy the story!

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Since Kakashi became the new Hokage for the leaf village, Iruka found himself somehow spending more time with him especially after Naruto's and Hinata's wedding. It seemed that both of them were helpful to each other because Iruka had interesting ideas to give Kakashi that could help with running the village even if the ideas were sometimes given by accident. While Kakashi always managed to calm Iruka down when he became too stressful about his new role as the director of the ninja academy and even give some useful tips. Though, most importantly it seemed that both of them truly did enjoy each others company filling up the loneliness hole that both of the males had to deal with throughout usual work days. Due to this some rumors had started to spread about Iruka's and Kakashi's relationship. Yet, Iruka himself denies that this is more then work related relationship.

One day, as Iruka was walking back home from work a group of shinobi surrounded him.

"Hey there. Iruka was it? We have few questions." One of the shinobi proclaimed with a smirk on his face.

"Yeah! Questions about you and Hokage." Another one grinded.

Iruka felt caught off guard but he quickly regained his composer. "Yes, my name is Iruka and I am not obligated to tell you guys anything regarding my personal life."

"Oh? Is that so? Since your not willing to talk then I guess we'll take this as a sing that you guys are actually dating." The third shinobi continued to tease the brown haired male.

"No. We are not dating! Stop butting in on my life!"

"Oh come on. We know you have a thing for Kakashi."

"Yeah, stop lying and confess already." Fifth shinobi continued to pressure Iruka.

"Please, leave me alone." Iruka was getting overwhelmed as he tried to get out of this situation.

"It would be better if you would came clean to everyone about this."

"Everyone already knows that something is probably going on between you two yet, you are still trying to pretend as if we are just making stuff up."

"Everyone deserves to know the truth!" All the shinobi exclaimed in synch.

"What's going on here?" Kakashi asked as he suddenly appeared without the others noticing him.

"Hokage is here! Let's scram!" And with that all the shinobi, that were pestering Iruka, ran off.

Only Iruka was left standing in the middle of the road. He was standind with his back turned to Kakashi and was visibly shaking. Also, there were tears forming in the corner of the brown haired males eyes.

"Are you okay, Iruka?" The white haired hokage asked with concern in his voice as he stretched out his hand to touch his male friends shoulder.

Before Kakashi could even put his arm on Iruka's shoulder, the brown haired chūnin slapped it away. "Don't touch me! Just leave me alone!" With that Iruka jolted off running leaving Kakashi to stand there speechless and with his hand still stretched out.

Iruka's pow

I ran as quickly as possible back to my house and slammed the door behind me before slagging down on the floor next moment and still tearing up.

"Why.. Why is this happening? Why me? Why can't these guys leave me alone? Why do they keep bugging me about my relationship with Kakashi? It's not like I'm the only person who sees Kakashi oftenly so, why do everyone assume stuff? And even if I liked him it's not like Kakashi would even want to be with me..." I shook my head quickly. "No, what am I even thinking right now. It's not like I'm gay either, yet, everyone seems to believe that I have a thing for him when I don't." Kakashi's happy face just pops in my head. As I think that, my chest starts to swell up with warmth and with a tint of pain. "Or do I really..?" I shake my head again. "But even if that was the case it wouldn't be possible to be together, after all he is the Hokage. This could cause grave problems with other Kage too if they end up hearing that Leaf village's Hokage is gay. If these stupid rumors continue then it might even come to this... I can't let this happen. Then, not just me or Kakashi will suffer but all of the village... For the leafs sake it seems I need to stop seeing Ka-" Before I could finish my thoughts, a loud knock on the door distracted me.

"Iruka, are you in there?" Kakashi's voice comes from behind the door.

I try to stay quiet and calm my tears to only sobbing softly and as quietly as possible.

"Iruka, I know you're in there. Open your door."

"Leave me alone, Kakashi." I respond not wanting to see him yet. Then I hear footsteps walking away from the door and everything becomes quiet again. Hearing that he left I let out a relieved sigh.

"Yo, are you okay?" A voice comes from my right side causing me to get startled and jump up a bit.

"Ka-kashi?! How- How did you get in?!"

"Through your window. It was open." He simply replied as if it wasn't a big deal.

There was a short pause of quietness between us when I finally spoke up again trying to sound cold yet most likely I failed at that. "Why did you come here? I told you to leave me alone."

"You got me worried. It seemed like something upset you."

"It's nothing. Forget about it." I turned my face away to the other side not wanting to look at him.

"Iruka, I care about you so, please tell me what is bothering you. I'll try to solve it." Kakashi had walked to the other side where I had turned my face just so he could look me in the eye while saying this.

"I'm really fine. Don't worry about anything." I again tried to avoid eye contact with him so, I looked down.

That's when Kakashi slammed his hands on the wall next to my face, trapping me. This action of his made me startled again so, I looked up to see what was this all about and my eyes were met with his. Kakashi then proceeded to speak. "I can't just not worry about you. You're precious to me. If these guys said something bad to you then let me take care of that. I'll protect you and make sure no one ever hurts you like that again."

"Why... Why do you care about me so much?"

"Because it's even better every day with you, I swear. Maybe it's a little unfair, but, Baby, I'm starstruck by you."

His words didn't seem to make much sense to me. "What? What do you mean by that, Kakashi?"

"What I mean is that I love you, Iruka."

His words just hit me like a wave making me speechless and freeze up. I couldn't believe that this was true. It seemed like my head was playing a trick on me after all the teasing I got or maybe it was he who was trying to play a prank on me. He probably heard what the guys said to me so he decided to tease me too. This has to be it. Therefore, I pushed hardly on his chest making him step backwards and giving me the space to escape from him. Then, I quickly dashed toward my room hoping to lock myself inside it, but I didn't make it since he grabbed my arm. I tried pulling my arm out of his but he had a hard grip on it so, my last option was to shout at him. "Let go! And leave me alone! This is not funny!"

"I Don't wanna be alone. You're too pretty for me. Baby, I know, it's true. But I really don't want to be alone and it's not a joke cause I truly do love you a lot. So, please don't brush me off like this and please, tell me what is bothering you so much?"

I again stay quiet for a bit while I try to collect my thoughts before speaking up. "Your love is scaring me. No one has ever cared for me as much as you do... Also, with you being hokage is this even okay? There seem to be enough rumors as it is about our relationship..."

"Rumors? You mean these that we are dating?"

"You knew about that?!"

"Well, I am the hokage. Of course I would know of what's going on in the village."

"Then.. Aren't you bothered by that?"

"Why would I? I just told you that I love you. Besides aren't these rumors in a way true? I thought that we were already closer then just friends after all that time we spent together."

"You did?.. But we didn't do anything that would make us close apart just helping each other with tasks and such."

"You say that, yet I remember it a bit differently. Do you not remember the time when I got sick when I had all this paper work to finish? Not only you took on helping with the papers but I clearly remember that you even went out of your way to get me medicine and make sure I'll get better as soon as possible."

"I.. I remember that but I never thought much of it. I was just helping you get better as the hokage because everyone depends on you."

"Fine, then how about those times when I stayed up all night working and I fell asleep on my desk and you put a blanket on me? Once I wasn't fully asleep yet so your action slightly awoken me and I can remember seeing you lean in to kiss my head."

"What?! I- I didn't do such thing! You probably dreamed that or weren't properly awake! Or I was too sleepy myself to realize what I'm doing, but I'm sure that didn't happen! I can only remember just simply putting the blanket on you and that's all!"

I panicked when he said that because the memories of me doing that come back to me. I had totally forgotten about it because at that time I was also too confused about why I did it. It seems I wasn't thinking when my body somehow had leaned to give him a kiss. After that I tried to forget about it and I was certain no one saw me do that but I guess I was wrong.

"Then, do you remember that time when you hurt yourself and I had to carry you?

Or when you fell asleep doing paper work and I put a blanket on you?

Or the time when you were so tired from doing your work that you didn't even make it home and fell asleep on the academy's floor and I had to carry you back home? I gotta say you looked so peaceful sleeping like that. I had to hold myself not to kis- *cough*. Never mind.

Also, what about that time when you were drunk yet you still went to shop and I had to help you get back home afterwards?

And that time when I stayed at your place in winter because we had to discuss some stuff but we ended up just spending a nice time together and I ended up falling asleep while leaning on you?

Or when it was raining and I offered to share my umbrella with you?

And the laughs we shared together?

Why do you think I would have bothered with all of that then?" Kakashi finally finished talking about all the memories with me.

"Um.. Because you're a nice person?" I answered feeling a bit nervous hearing him point out such stuff that I tried not to think anything much off before.

"Well, that's true, I guess, but the actual reason was because I liked you. I guess, I hoped you'd like me back, and I guess I thought that baby, I got good luck with you. That we can become closer or something more just friends... But I can see now that I was wrong... I didn't realize that you actually disliked me this much..." Kakashi finally let go of my hand and then turn his back on me proceeding to walk towards the door with his head lowered.

Hearing him say all of this I felt a stabbing pain in my chest and without thinking much I shouted. "Kakashi, wait!"

He stopped and turned around a bit and I leaped into his chest burying my face.

"Kakashi, I never said I disliked you. It's just... Like I said before.. Your love is scaring me. No one has ever cared for me as much as you do, but I think that maybe I actually do like you back too. I never realized it before because I always tried to deny it and say that our relationship is just like any other you have with other shinobi but it seems I was just blind not to realize that you truly cared and liked me... I'm so sorry. I was so stupid to even get upset about others teasing me about my relationship with you... I realize that I probably hurt you because of that... I am truly sorry." I ended up sobbing again against his chest.

Then, I felt Kakashi's arms wrap around me with his hokage's coat. {Ik that in the picture he doesn't have the hokage's robe but just pretend he has}

"It's okay, Iruka. I'm sorry too for everything you had to go through because of my selfishness." He spoke softly. In this moment his voice sounded so sweet and calming to me. Then, he slightly pushed me away from his chest and grabbed my face trying to wipe my tears away. "Please don't cry anymore."

I sniffled backtracking my tears so they wouldn't flow anymore. "Okay."

Then he suddenly brought me closer to him and started leaning towards my face.

"H-Hokage-sama!?" I exclaimed in a panic as my face gone red.

Before I could even blink we had already locked our lips kissing each other. My chest felt warm with happens, happiness like no other kind. It was a true joy that I was missing because of my stubbornness.

After some time we finally parted and he spoke. "Please, just call me Kakashi. Or you can call me yours." As he finished the sentence I could tell he was smirking even if he had his mask on.

I hawked trying to brush of the embarrassment that welled up inside of me. Then I spoke up. "Kakashi, but won't our relationship effect the village? I mean what if other kage found out about that and end up disapproving our relationship. Or even our villages shinobi? Won't this cause issues to the Leaf?"

Kakashi grabbed my hands with a determined look on his face.

"I won't let that happen and I'm definitely not giving up my love for you. I believe that if you'll be by my side then we can find a way to deal with anything that comes. But, it's on you now to decide if you are willing to be by my side."

I took in all of his words then making up my mind I firmly said. "Okay. I'll be by your side, Kakashi, and we'll deal with this together."

Hearing that, Kakashi's face turned happy and he hugged me tightly while I put my hand on his head and started to pat him.

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That's it for this story. I wish I could credit at least the person who made this wonderful gif but I can't find it to whom it belongs too. All I know that this gif was taken from Kakairu House in VK page.

P.s. I do not fully understand the Wattpad ranking system but I noticed that for about a week now this book has been Nr. 1 under Kakairu tag. That's really exciting to see so, I guess thank you all who have been enjoying my stories!~💖~