title: the heist

pairings: Team7 centric

summary: Kakashi emitted a heavy sigh. This was entirely hopeless. "Did you happen to steal my latest edition of Icha Icha Paradise?"

rating: K+

disclaimer: I do not own the masterpiece known as Naruto... Like, duh.

note: This was before Sasuke went overload revenge and ditched Konoha for the Snake pedophille. When Team 7 were twelve and cute and uhm innocent.

quote: "Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." —Mark Twain


"So," Kakashi drawled with a hint of irritation. "Which one of you dearies stole it?" Sakura tilt her pastel head to the right in mock innocence.

"Stole what Kakashi-sensei?" She asked, lips pursed and emerald orbs eyeing his covered mouth (tells of a lie). Kakashi's lone eye narrowed.

"I think you know what I'm talking about." His charcoal orb then flickered towards the other two members of Team 7. "Well," he continued.

"I don't know what you're blabing about Kakashi-sensei." Naruto declared waving his hands in front of his face, " maybe you should ask Sasuke-teme over here." He went on jerking his left thumb towards the brooding figure beside him.

"Sasuke," he tried. Sasuke's stoic image fixed on him.

"Hn,"

Kakashi emitted a heavy sigh. This was completely hopeless. "Did you happen to steal my latest edition of Icha Icha Paradise?" The Uchiha prodigy's face scrunched up in disgust.

"Hn, no."

"Well if no one will admit their guilt then all of you will be in for a servere punish—"

"Naruto did it," Sakura squeaked midway through his speech.

Naruto's eyed Sakura's face with a completely baffeld expression. "H-how could you Sakura-chan?" Sakura spared a guilty look in his direction. 'I'm sorry' she repeatedly kept mouthing back to him.

Kakashi Hatake observed the three team members before him. Usually he would take Sakura's word for it but— he glanced between Sasuke and Sakura. Somehow he felt all of the trio are in on the heist. "Did you act alone, Naruto?" Naruto nervously rubbed the back of his neck.

"It was all me." He finally established, unruly blond head facing the few patches of pale-green grass.

"I helped out too." Sakura meekly whispered.

Ah, now this is teamwork. "What about Sasuke?" Kakashi asked.

Sakura spared a glance in said person's direction, "he wasn't part of it." The Uchiha scowled at this statement, looking between his two sulking teammates he decided to admit his own guilt too.

"Hn, I assisted in stealing the porn." He confirmed, aristocratic features still etched in a scowl. "What's our punishment?"

Naruto focused his determind cerclean orbs back on Kakashi. "Yeah old man, what are you gonna' make us do?" He scoffed, "whatever you put on us I know I'll beat the bastard over here." He declared jerking his thumb toward Sasuke.

"Tch, we'll see dead-last." The Uchiha retorted. Before the two rivals can go off a bickering spree and end up hurting themselves as well as others Sakura decided to intervene.

"So what are you going to make us do?" She asked, raising a perfectly plucked eyebrow.

The copy-nin chuckled beneath his navy blue mask. "Well, since you were all so curious about my erotika novel—"

"Porn,"' Naruto hissed in Sakura's ear.

"—then I'm sure you wouldn't mind me telling you about the orgin of intercourse," he smirked amused by the expressions pasted onto their faces, "before I read you the complete series of Icha Icha Paradise.


fin.