Hello: Well, my first Star Wars story for you. I wasn't intending to upload this story first, but my Padmè and Anakin hasn't been typed up yet so here this story is. So, this story is meant to be about the 'happier' times in Anakin's and Obi-Wan's lives. Note Obi-Wan is my favorite character so he'll probably always come off best in most situations. Ho ho. Uhm, Anakin is about 12 and Obi-Wan is in the sexy Ep. II look, OK? Ok, off we go.
Disclaimer: As ever, all character, names, etc. belong to George Lucus. Any similarities between this story and real life/other stories are merely coincidental.
It was slightly worrying. Not terrifying. But worrying.
"Are you sure this is such a good idea Master?" Anakin asked, viewing the blades with a suspicious eye.
"Of course it is," Obi-Wan said, trying very hard to hide the mischievous glint in his eye. He may be a Jedi Knight, but he wasn't above teasing his padawan in any every given situation, "You just have to relax. If you continue to struggle I could very well cut your skin and not just this creature that seems to have attached itself to you."
Anakin gulped. "You wouldn't do that to me."
"No? I suppose I wouldn't or else I'd have the fearful power of Master Skywalker on me, wouldn't I?" Obi-Wan said, rather enjoying it being him teasing his padawan, and not the other way around for once.
"Master don't mock me, it's not fair," Anakin moaned. He gave a little scream, "It's moving! Master, it's moving! Please! Kill it, it's moving!"
Obi-Wan stopped teasing his padawan and decided to finally get serious on the matter at hand. A rather thin, ugly, slug-like creature was crawling its way up Anakin's arm. In a moment of genius he had decided to tease his padawan by saying he had to cut the creature off. This he had called 'plan A'. Obi-Wan looked at the creature again and saw it was obviously holding on rather tightly to Anakin's arm because it was now turning a rather worrying shade of white. Even so, he decided to carry out plan A.
"Master," Anakin prompted, voice quivering.
Obi-Wan took the scissors and managed to prise them underneath the creature. He turned the scissors on their side and cut down. The slug-like thing fell to the ground: dead. Unfortunately for Anakin, it wasn't the only thing that his Master had cut.
"My skin! You cut my skin!" he cried out incredulously. "How on Naboo could you cut my skin? You're a Jedi Knight, these things just don't happen!"
Obi-Wan couldn't quite believe it himself. As Anakin had said he was a Jedi Knight and Jedi Knights just didn't make mistakes like that. He looked at the small, but deep, cut in Anakin's arm and then into his eyes. They were full of misbelief. As were his own he assumed.
"Oh. That wasn't supposed to happen," was all he managed to stumble out of his mouth in reply to Anakin's question. "I, uh, think we should, uh, get that cleaned up. I wonder if I have any bacta patches or something around here."
"We aren't going to the medical ward?"
"No, I don't think it's serious enough for that. No. Definitely not. Nope. Not at all. Not at all," Obi-Wan continued, more to himself then Anakin.
Anakin pressed his finger to the cut and walked over to his master, "Oh I see. We wouldn't want to embarrass Master Kenobi in front of his superiors would we?"
"Anakin, how could you possibly think that of me? I just think your wound isn't so serious that we need to disturb the grave work the healers do," Obi-Wan said, trying desperately to redeem some respect.
Anakin smiled, "You're an idiot Master."
Obi-Wan stopped looking for a patch and looked at his grinning apprentice. He was about to flare up at him for being so disrespectful, but realised, in light of the current situation, that he was, in fact, an idiot. Albeit a clever idiot.
"It seems for once I shall have to agree with you," he said, adopting a sheepish grin, "Especially considering all I had to do to get that thing to let go of you was stroke it."
Anakin's grin dropped like a lead weight, "I beg your pardon?"
Obi-Wan decided the best way to get out of this was by laughing. He walked over to his padawan and ruffled the young boy's hair and smiled down at him, "I'm sorry Anakin."
Anakin, never one to walk away from a humorous situation smiled also. Obi-Wan couldn't see his eyes but he knew something bad was about to happen.
"Oh no Master," Anakin said the smile growing ever wider, "For you see it should be me who should be forgiven since you have just invoked the wrath of Master Anakin Skywalker!"
Obi-Wan's eyes widened in shock and he braced himself for what he knew what coming his way: the infamous Skywalker charge.
And so Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padawan learner Anakin Skywalker passed a leisurely Wednesday afternoon: beating each other up.