Day 12 - Bah Humbug

Iruka looked at Kakashi through the lens of the new Polaroid camera he had received in the school-wide secret Santa. Kakashi was too busy sprawled across the bed reading to notice. He snapped one picture before Kakashi looked up and threw the book at him.

"Why are you so camera shy?"

"Because my good side isn't showing," he said without even moving to glance at the pictures.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Iruka snapped another just because Kakashi was pouting. "You're gorgeous, no matter what you're doing or what angle. It's impossible to take a bad picture of you."

"Stop." Kakashi threw his hands up over his face and peered at Iruka through his fingers.

Iruka snapped a third picture. "How can you act surprised when people flatter you?"

"I don t like it!" Kakashi's voice was muffled as he buried himself in the blankets.

Iruka fanned the pictures through the air then held them out to watch them develop. "Oh, wow. You're blushing."

Before Iruka could gasp Kakashi was on top of him. Iruka knew didn't stand a chance keeping the photos away from Kakashi but that didn't mean he wasn't going to put up a decent fight. He got in a kick and managed the first part of a kiss. But, when Kakashi started forming seals he let go and backed to the wall.

"Katon!"

Iruka threw himself to the floor. "Not in the house!"

"Goukakyuu no Jutsu." Kakashi finished all in one breath.

He pinched the photos between his fingers and torched them. It was a small fireball. But, it was still a fireball. When they were sufficiently toasted he crumpled them in one hand and let the curling shards of brunt plastic fall to the ground next to Iruka's face. The smell of it was overpowering.

"Oh, well... fuck. You re cleaning that up, I hope you know."

He rolled over on his back to watch Kakashi stare down at him. Iruka tried to pretend that being at Kakashi's feet as he radiated anger didn t make him the embodiment of all his righteously displeased commanding officer fantasies.

"Take another," Kakashi warned in a voice that sent a thrill to the pit of Iruka's belly, "and it'll be the camera next."

"Woah!" Iruka laughed. "Merry Christmas to you, too."

"Bah humbug!" Kakashi responded.

He up his cowl and refused to take it down, even after Iruka spent the next hour successfully convincing him to take every other article of clothing he was wearing off.