Feral Descent

Kakashi is slowly unraveling. Lost in his past and plagued by guilt, shattered by the recent loss of Konoha's Fourth Hokage and the man he'd only just begun to make sense of his feelings towards who he'd known since childhood, and drenched by the mind-numbing horror of a life in ANBU; he looks for any way to escape. When his deviations into Konoha's intricate nightlife take a darker turn, it sets him on a wild journey of coercion and deceit that he wasn't prepared for. With Root extending it's dark hand through the underbelly of the Village Hidden in the Leaves, Civil War is on the horizon, and everyone in the black ops walks the narrow precipice of loyalty between the two diverging factions.Amidst the chaos, blood, and subterfuge the Copy-Ninja encounters a brown-eyed chunin with a resolute stare and a scar to match his. "Iruka jerks to a halt. The rattle of the alley door rings in his ears. And all it takes is one glimpse; and he is caught by the feathered splay of silver hair crushed to the brickwork, the breathless flash of an incisor in a grimace that is the closest he's ever seen to Kakashi smile, and the helpless cant of pale, dewy hips-trapped by the kneading grip of the man behind him. "