Trouble

"You're not serious."

"I'm dead serious."

"No, you're not."

"If I wasn't I would be here, Kiba! Help me out please, you're my best man."

The werewolf sighed through his nose. Clearly his blond friend was in quite the predicament.

"You know, for a fox, you sure are dumb."

"You want to run that by me again?" Face red with anger and eyes promising a lot of pain to come, Naruto bristled.

"Calm down. It's not like this is a serious illness or anything. In fact, even the alpha had this at one point."

Eyes widening, the fox gasped in disbelief. "No way! Kakashi too? He's allergic to humans?"

Half wanting to smash his head into the nearest object, Kiba groaned. How could his fox friend be so goddamn seductive and remain so innocent about these things? Didn't they teach what emotions are at school?

"Look, I don't have the time. Why don't you find the alpha? I can give you their address."

Pouting a little in disappointment, Naruto nodded. "How do I use this again? The bastard hasn't taught me anything about using human devices."

Kiba rolled his eyes. "It's easy. You can go ask Neji to help you out later."

"Neji? Who's that?"

"He's Hinata's cousin. He owns this shop by the way."

Naruto paused. This Neji person sounded quite smart, to own a shop that Kibda worked in. "I'll ask him later. Now hurry up and give me the address."

Kiba input the address and Kakashi's contact details to Naruto's new frog phone and grinned. "All the best then. If you see the alpha's mate be polite. Don't say I didn't warn you."

Suspicious, Naruto eyed the werewolf until he left the shop. Turning to find the Neji person, Naruto wondered if Kakashi would be able to help him. Perhaps it was a weird spell or the lack of blessing from the elders that caused such a side effect.

Either way, Kakashi would be able to help me.

With that confidence in mind, Naruto smiled and approached a very beautiful looking man. He had long brown hair and the same eyes as Hinata. If Naruto didn't have his keen sense of smell he would have mistaken Neji for a female.

"Hi, I'm Naruto. Kiba told me to approach you for assistance?"

"Hi Naruto, I've heard about you from Kiba. You need some help with the new phone?"

Sheepishly Naruto nodded. He held out the green phone and smiled. "Sasuke got this for me but I have no idea how to use it. I need to see Kakashi later too but I don't know how to get there."

Neji studied the blond man for a while before chuckling. "Well, you're in luck. I have the same phone model as you and it's not very difficult. See here? You just need to tap on this icon to bring out your chats from other people. I see it is a brand new phone with hardly any contacts. Do you know how to transfer contacts from your old phone?"

Naruto blinked. "I don't think so, I'm actually new here."

Neji smiled understandingly. "Then you won't mind if we exchanged numbers?"

Glad to have made his first human friend, Naruto agreed. "That's great! Maybe we can hang out too."

Neji sighed. "I wish I could. I have a shop to manage. After my parents passed away and left me with this shop I've got no time for anything else. If it weren't for Hinata who offered to help out during her free time and Kiba who offered to work here in exchange for food and lodging, I wouldn't have been able to run this shop."

Naruto paused. "In that case why don't I help out around here too? I can't do much but I'm willing to learn!"

Neji shook his head. "I don't have the money to employ you Naruto. I'm sorry."

The fox only grinned wider. "That's fine. Sasuke has plenty of money so we're good. I don't really want to stay in his gloomy apartment the whole time too."

If the brunet noticed how Naruto mentioned two men were living together with one being a freeloader, he said nothing. "If you insist, Naruto. I could really use some help."

"When do I start?"

Neji glanced at the calendar on the counter. "How does Monday sound?"

The kit grinned. "Perfect. Well Neji, thanks for everything! I'll see you on Monday."

Neji waved at the blond who already ran across the street. That had been one weird encounter. Naruto was an enigma. Uchiha Sasuke wasn't an easy person to get close to and yet the blond who was new to town lived with the said man.

Things were definitely getting more interesting.

Xxx Destiny Aitsuji xxX

Naruto glanced at the building before him. This was strange. He thought he had the wrong address but asking around made Naruto sure it was the right one.

Kakashi lived at a daycare? What's going on?

Taking a deep breath, Naruto pressed the doorbell, waiting for a certain silver haired alpha werewolf to greet the door. Instead, a man with a scar across his nose opened the door. He greeted the blond with a wide smile reminding the blond of sunshine and flowers. The man had shoulder length hair pulled into a tight ponytail and his skin was tan like Naruto's.

"Hi there, Kiba-kun mentioned about you. You must be Naruto! Come in, come in."

Unable to deny the warm gesture and welcome, Naruto smiled as he toed his shoes off at the entrance. The interior was decorated with colourful art work on every surface of the walls. There were mini tables and chairs with a huge whiteboard at the far corner but no children in sight.

"Where are all the children?"

The man who smelled strangely of Kakashi smiled. "They've gone back for the day. We operate half day here."

It took a while before the kit put two and two together. That man he was speaking to was Kakashi's mate. Kiba had mentioned the alpha had a human mate. Naruto just didn't expect the human mate to be male.

"Naruto-kun?"

"I'm sorry. Just spaced out a little. Say, do you know when Kakashi will be back?"

The charming man frowned. "I'm sorry but he didn't say when. Would you like to stay until then? Meanwhile, would you like to have a cup of tea?"

Naruto smiled. "A cup of tea sounds nice. Thank you… um…"

"It's Iruka. Umino Iruka."

"Thank you, Iruka."

Thirty minutes passed quickly with the blond fox growing fonder of the human named Iruka.

"You're a teacher? That's amazing!"

Iruka blushed at the compliment. "It's nothing really. I'm just really glad the parents are understanding enough to allow their children to be taught by a gay teacher."

"What's your sexual preference got to do with your ability to teach children? Besides, Kakashi is an amazing alpha!"

Iruka stared at Naruto as if he said something weird. Before Naruto could continue, he felt pain exploding from the back of his head.

"Kakashi! Why did you do that?"

"The brat and I need to have a little talk, dolphin. Don't worry, I'm not going to kill him." With a charming smile hidden beneath the mask, Kakashi dragged the protesting blond youth outside leaving his very confused lover to think about what just happened.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"I could ask you the same, Naruto. How did you get here?"

"Kiba gave me your address. I had some problems and Kiba said you were the best person to help me out."

"I see you met Kiba. In any case, Iruka doesn't know what I am so you better watch it."

"Huh? Even though you've already marked and mated him?"

The silver haired werewolf remained silent for a while. "Naruto, you know that relationships between humans and supernatural creatures like us would only spell trouble. I'm fine because I'm an alpha and Iruka is a male. However, that doesn't mean it isn't frowned upon. I'm only glad I have a good pack who supports my decision, not that Iruka isn't worthy of that respect."

Naruto sighed. "Humans and demons, are we really that different? I mean all the foxes were mean to me even though we were the same kind. Sasuke is human but he's nice to me although we do occasionally quarrel."

"That Sasuke you mentioned is your human contractor?"

The blond thought for a while. "Well, due to the situation we are now pretending to be lovers… Which leads me to my problem. I seem to have this weird feeling in my chest recently and I don't know what is causing it."

"When has it started?" the werewolf held his suspicions but from what Kiba texted him earlier, it sounded like Naruto was in a lot of trouble.

"Sometimes there is this feeling in my stomach that makes funny movements and makes me fidgety. Other times it is as if someone was squeezing my lungs till I can't breathe and I feel like crying. And then occasionally when Sasuke smiles at me our pats me it feels like something warm spreading from my chest to the tips of my fingers and toes."

"Does all of those above symptoms happen only when you're with the Sasuke boy?"

Naruto frowned and thought back on all the times he felt unwell. "Yes. The first time it happened was when I was still a fox."

"A fox? What happened?"

The blond looked a little sheepish at that and Kakashi had a bad feeling. He knew that the golden fox was a sign of calamity for the fox clan because Kurama had sought him to aid his little brother when the other foxes bullied the young kit. Kakashi had been like a dad to Naruto and a friend to Kurama. The calamity wasn't specified but if it were true, Kakashi knew what it was about.

"I made a deal with the fox elders to let me come to the human world to earn my mark of maturity. They agreed to let me come on the condition I would never return to the demon world until I attain my mark. They didn't give me a mark of blessing because of it but it's fine. Sasuke picked me up that day in the storm and I've been living with him since then. He knows what I am."

"That's how you became his pretend lover?"

The golden fox grinned cheekily. "Yupp! It kills two frogs with one stone too! I get to stay for free at his place and trick as many girls as I can. Sasuke has so many fangirls for me to trick I think I'll gain my mark of maturity in no time at all. That day alone I managed to fool eighteen girls."

Kakashi sighed, feeling a headache coming. "Firstly, it is two birds with one stone. Secondly, I think I know what your problem is. Thirdly, congratulations on your progress, I hope you'll be able to get the mark soon."

"You think so too? Anyway, what's the problem then?"

Kakashi ruffled the spiky blond hair. "It's just you trying to get accustomed to being with a human. Nothing serious. It should go away soon enough."

Relived, Naruto grinned. "Let's go in. Iruka is waiting. How does dinner with us sound tonight? He cooks the best miso soup."

Naruto grinned. "Yes please!"

As the blond fox bounded inside, Kakashi gave himself a minute to his thoughts. If Naruto was truly in love with the Uchiha, there might be trouble for them. He should inform Kurama about the situation.