"WHAT DID YOU SAY??????"

On a bad day, Sarutobi might be rude to you if you talked to him while he was annoyed. On a normal day, he was a soft-spoken and smiling hokage. If it was a really good day, everyone else was also infected with his infectious good humor. Apparently, today was a REAAAAAAAAAAAAAALY bad day…

"HOW COULD YOU HAVE LET THIS HAPPEN??? WHAT AM I GOING TO DO NOW??? YOU FOOL! YOU STUPID IGNORANT FOOL!"

Yup, reaffirmed the birds as the screaming voice of the third blew down all the birds nest's in the vicinity, today was obviously an extremely, EXTREMELY bad day.

But what, you ask, is it that the third hokage is being so very worked up about?

Well, let's look at what happened a few moments earlier…

The third was sitting and smoking his pipe. Today had been looking like a good day. The chunin exams were going to be held in konoha, he had finished his huge mountain of paperwork and there were no missions that needed his attention. And if that wasn't enough to make him happy, there was the fact that they had caught one of Orochimaru's followers and were currently interrogating him. Morrko Ibiki himself was interrogating the man. Of course, that was where things had all gone wrong.

An hour after the man was taken for interrogation, Sarutobi had finished all his work and was relaxing, simply choosing to smoke his pipe and stare at the passing clouds (yes he shares the same pastime with Shikamaru). However, five minutes into his pastime, he was rudely pulled out of his laze by a jonin banging his door open, running into his desk, and screaming rudely into his ear that there was an emergency. The poor unsuspecting fellow had gone on to scream in the third's ear about how the prisoner had escaped with maps of the death forest, all its traps and creatures, and morrino ibiki himself.

That was, the birds agreed, the reason why the normally nice hokage's mood had done a complete 180 and said man was now screaming while spinning the poor jonin around in circles.

Someone really should have warned the hokage other than him, he thought. Next time, Asuma would have to deliver his own messages instead of making him do it, thought Kakashi as he flew through the window of the thirds office to land along with the fallen trees. Yes, it looked like there was going to be a lot of chaos from now on…