Well, hello :)

Another story, another game. As I said/wrote before, I write to get better at English, so if you spot any mistake, or phrasis you wouldn't use, let me know, please. I would greatly appreaciate it..

Anyway, for the story:

place: Konoha and wilderness
Characters: Iruka, Genma, Izumo, Kotetsu; Tsunade, lots of ANBU
mood: scared, stubborn, social
time: little time after Tsunade coming to Konoha
context: after the prank of Gai (mentioned in - no need to read that, however :P )
annotation: being punished by Tsunade for his prank Iruka gets ready for a mission. A mistake on a part of bureaucracy leaves him fearing his own life. And the mission sounds like a good excuse to leave the village before the situation calms itself.. Such a shame he has to be accompanied by the number one curious and irritating jounin on his travel.


"Baaka!" a high voice shouts, slightly startling the two ANBU guards standing in front of the door to Hokage's chambers.

Guard Kumo looks left and raises an eyebrow – the gesture left invisible to the second guard due to the mask. Guard Uma grinns back in answer.

Looks like invisible things doesn't necessary have to be unnoticed.

Kumo raises an arm slightly tapping the porcelain mask curling gloved fingers of the other arm in a gesture resembling claws. Uma tittles head and repeat the gesture of the other ANBU.

"What the HELL did you think?" another shout makes them ungracefully jump to the air leaving them both wondering if someone has passed by them without them noticing.

Highly unlikely.

"A window.." Uma whispers revealing his gender as male – his voice rough from being silent for quite some time and soft so that Kumo will be the only one to hear.

Kumo nods.

"I doubt you were thinking at all." fake-calmly said sentence is next.

"Anno.. Hokage-sama.." the ANBU look at each other after hearing one male voice leaving the chamber.

"That's it. I am going in." Uma says looking determined. Kumo shrugs as if to say 'do whatever floats your boat' before taking the position right in front of the wooden door.


Strategy.

Two guards – if they don't have kekkei-genkai of fighting joined by the hip – will take the formation on both sides when guarding the door. Stronger one on the side the door is opening to – that means on the right, here.

If one guard, he shall stand right in front of, so that his dead body would still make it more difficult for the assaulter to reach his target.

In both situations – the guard is facing the corridor, of course. Standing towards the door would probably give him time of his live watching the wood-worms.

Strategy... is stupid. Thinks the Kumo masked guard. It won't change a thing which way Kumo is facing.


Uma is still standing there, his gloved hand touching the light wood, looking troubled.

Hurry up you fool, or else I will stuck the senbon of yours somewhere where sun doesn't shine.

"Don't 'Hokage-sama' me!" the lady cruelly imitates the voice in a high pitch. Uma snickers. "I want an explanation, and good one at that, or you all will be on D-missions until your pet-flower is a jounin!"

The Kumo guard kicks lightly the other ANBU getting an angry glare as an answer. However, Uma finally raise his hand feeling the handle and bursting top-speed into the chamber.

I don't really thing they are enemies, but.. the ANBU thinks to himself, halting right in front of the Hokage, facing her guests – three men, three chuunin.

They all have the same expression of amused surprise on their faces and Uma feels like face palming for even considering them a threat.

Umino Iruka, Hagane Kotetsu, Kamizuki Izumo. Uma scans them letting out a breath he didn't know he was holding.

"Uma... what the.." The Hokage slowly stands up leaning on her arms her face of a pure fury.

"Hokage-sama." Uma greets calmly, wondering how the scene turned being about him, and how much screwed it was.

ANBU should be invisible.

"Uma." Hokage repeats herself and the warrior gulps suddenly wishing for his captain to be the one who has entered. "What the hell are you doing here?"

Uma forcefully holds himself from shrugging – that would be going against the rules.

He sighs inwardly as he turns around to face his leader, the last thing catching his eyes being Iruka's openly amused expression.

He acts as if he knows who I am.. Or as if he knows what's going to happen now. Uma thinks to himself as he mentally prepares for the speech.

"Uma heard his Hokage-sama talking to someone and heard a voice not belonging to her, so he decided to check on his leader to see if everything is alright." he says, his voice forcedly unemotional. Oh, how he hates talking like a badly-programed robot.

That's the reason why he always waits to give his ANBU reports until after his shift ends. It's against the rules to talk as a human being.

After all, ANBU aren't human beings. Uma says to himself bitterly.

"Ugh.. I see." the lady Hokage says watching him with something akin to disgust. Uma sighs. She doesn't like ANBU. And she probably doesn't even know that they have to talk like that.

"Shall Uma leave his mighty leader alone?" he asks, his voice bored with a hint of sarcasm.

"Yeah, yeah, just leave." she waves her hand to dismiss him and Uma curtly bows before leaving.

"Shall we leave as well, to let our mighty leader have her beauty rest?" Kotetsu asks innocently while Iruka tries to overcome his laughing fit and Izumo stands there looking as if he doesn't even want to know them.

"HAGANE!" the lady shouts on him, sending Iruka into new fit of laughter.

"Yes, oh-mighty leader?" he asks innocently.

"Kamizuki – out. You are dismissed." Izumo blinks before looking worriedly at his two friends. Iruka grins at him secretly and Kotetsu sticks out his tongue. The shortest chuunin shrugs before leaving and closing the door behind him.

He waves on the two ANBU members and watches with amusement as both waves back.


"Nooow..." the lady stretches the word to add an evil edge to her voice.

Kotetsu titles his head as if to urge her to continue.

"Care to elaborate why did you feel the need to create such a chaos?" she asks sweetly leaning on her elbows.

"Well.." the academy teacher starts hesitantly, forcing all hints of his amusement to disappear. "Wasn't it.. educational?" he asks seriously in a tone slightly hinting he was insane.

The Hokage watches him for a moment before sighing. It was difficult to be angry when he sounds so serious. He sounds as if he means it.

"What was.. educational about it?" she asks carefully, her light blue eyes never leaving the long-haired chuunin.

"Shouldn't Hokage know how is it to be his subordinate?"

His. Not 'her' or anything. "I never wanted to know how is it to be Gai." she points out, her anger back.

The two culprits exchange amused looks before looking down in an expression of guilt.

Not like the Hokage believes them.

"We are terribly sorry, Tsunade-sama." Iruka says in a quiet voice without looking up. Tsunade feels her body shaking a bit at his voice. How come it still affects me so much, when one of my people refuses to call me Hokage?

"I hope you don't expect me to let you go unpunished, right." she says her eyes roaming around the room, stopping on the wall right next to Iruka's shoulder.

Both shrug, not giving an answer.

The newly-appointed Hokage sighs, borrowing a phrase of one of her subordinates, naming the situation 'troublesome'. "I know already that I can't split you and Kamizuki." she says towards Kotetsu earning herself other meaningless shrug.

Tsunade fights the urge to roll her eyes. Kamizuki with Hagane have already accepted the fact of having a new leader. However, when Umino is nearby, they are still giving her the cold shoulder.

"So you two will stay together and help me with the paperwork, as a punishment." she says evilly. That would be good. I won't have to do that, and I will have an opportunity to get out of them what is Umino's problem.

"I understand, Hokage-sama." he says earning himself a hurt look from Umino. He mouths 'sorry' back to him.

"As for Umino, I would like to talk to you alone. Hagane – you are dismissed."


As usual, hope you liked it. Will post second one tomorrow, so review (not going to post it for myself, after all :P )

Nice day,
me.