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It had become a game of sorts.

A twisted sick game that made many pause and feel sick to their stomachs.

Why anyone would do such a thing was inconceivable, to bait one, either one was dangerous but for them to bait each other was horrendous.

Even the Hokage had taken a step back upon hearing it, eyes narrowing, lips twisting before exchanging a long, long glance with Shizune and announcing to all within hearing distance.

"Getting between one is dangerous, getting between those particular two is suicidal." Snorting a goodluck to the idiots that wanted it stopped the blonde had strode out of the hospital trying to figure how in the hell it had started and was still going on.

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"You tore the stitches."

"Hmmm."

"Simple instruction, even an idiot can follow them." The pink haired medic tossed the observation over her shoulder as she walked to the corridor and called out for a nurse.

"Re-stitch Morino-san's back please, baka decided to show less sense that a two year old." Sakura walked off not caring that half the ward had heard her or that a furious Morino Ibiki watched her with narrowing eyes, leaving the nurse to gulp nervously and faint as the ANBU Commander stood.

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Looking over the destruction Ibiki raised an eyebrow. "No wonder you failed the Chunnin exams."

Pink hair flew as Sakura whipped her body around to face Ibiki as he took in her performance for the ANBU medic position that Tsunade ordered her to apply for.

"You've all the speed and finesse of a drunk rhinoceros thundering around."

The resulting annihilation of the training ground took nearly nine months to fix.

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Sweat beaded down his forehead, down his temples and to the tip of his nose, his bandanna was itching and all his concentration and effort was on trying to move, even his little finger would do. A soft click and his eyes rose to the sight of Haruno entering his office, emerald eyes looking pretty satisfied as she took in his appearance.

Instantly he got it – poison. How she had managed it he hadn't a clue and that rankled more than he liked to admit.

"That's for calling me fat."

With that biting statement she opened the door and turning off the lights closed the door behind her, leaving Ibiki there for the next twelve hours undisturbed until the drug wore off.

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"Excuse me Ma'am, here's the bill."

Tilting her head in confusion Sakura reached out for the bill. "I haven't even finished yet."

"The gentleman said it was your turn."

Eyes narrowed Sakura took in the zero's that came with feeding two ANBU squads from the popular take-away.

Her roar of anger emptied the restaurant quickly, when the manager refused to listen to her and demanded she pay on the spot. No one, not even Tsunade wanted a ban from that restaurant.

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Grabbing his duster Ibiki flung it on and leaving ANBU Headquarters ignored the whispers that followed in his wake. He missed the speechless look on Anko's face that morphed from horror to amusement and then to laughter, he also missed how many ran out the back intent on following him.

The whispers continued as Ibiki walked the streets, so numerous he could no longer ignore them, especially when accompanied with pointing and hushed giggles.

It was when children started to laugh that the nerve in his temple started to twitch and his eye followed.

He was the ANBU Commander, a being of control. But when that moppy haired acne ridden idiot roared with laughter that was it. Like a tornado he twirled and slammed the idiot against the wall, raising him off the ground to eye level and hissed.

"What the fuck are you laughing at?"

Choking sounds answered. Shaking and banging the idiots head off the wall Ibiki leaned in spitting in the man's face. If it was one thing he could not stand it was people laughing at him.

"Explain."

Ibiki stilled, he had slammed the idiot against a wall – perfectly between two window displays and by them he could see the reflection of his back in another window.

His back, complete with the yellow and black smiley face, with a peace sign painted on his prize leather duster.

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Towelling her hair dry Sakura yawned after the twenty hour shift at the hospital, really not looking forward to training with her team with only four hours sleep. Dropping the towel she picked up the hair brush and started working through the knots, finally hair brushed she dropped the brush stopping when she spied blue. In a flash she picked it up and plucked the blue strand from the bristles she gulped as a knot of dread filled her stomach.

Turning she slowly stepped towards her mirror, eyes rising fraction by fraction until she saw her perfectly brushed blue hair.

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Eyeing the two before her Tsunade took in the strange sight of Morino Ibiki without his leather coat, somehow without it he looked bigger, shoulder wider and arms thicker, then there was her apprentice, her hair a myriad of colour, pink roots, blue tips and a pale lavender midway. Continuous washing hadn't helped too much.

"Either kill each other or come to a truce, but you will do it away from here." Tsunade ordered throwing the mission scroll at Ibiki and promptly dismissing the two stricken Shinobi who reaslised they would have to spend time together.

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Dia Duit,

This will be short another chapter, someone reviewing Tell Them said they wanted another IbikixSakura and this started to bunny hop through my brain.

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