Disclaimer: If I would own Naruto...*nya...Tenzoouuu...* sry ~ got distracted ~ eh plot is mine characters aren't. xD
Careful: Yaoi ~ don't like it ~ pls don't read it

The nights of the anbu were long ones but they rarely contain enough hours of sleep, at least not enough for a normal shinobi to fully recover their chakra. But anbu weren't normal and it would certainly be a deadly mistake to underestimate the Konoha's special-force.

An already undressed Tenzou, except for a casual white shirt and black leggings, was lying restless on his bed. The last mission was still present in his bones and muscles and the thought alone ensured that he couldn't even relax in his own private room.

A few Kirinins had actually been so arrogant and made the mentioned mistake. They attacked the anbu, which of course were tired but far from being unable to fight, while they we're setting up a camp. Surely they managed to fight them off but they immediately returned to Konoha, the village hidden behind the leaves.

None of them wanted to get into another fight that desperately. After they informed the Sandaime the team split up and more or less escaped, either to their own apartments or into the first bar in sight. Tenzou absolutely chose the first option.

"My team," he whispered, his arms folded behind his head and his eyes fixed on the wooden ceiling of the anbu dormitory. Although the brownhaired could afford his own apartment the council of elders didn't allow him to have one. For the sake of the villagers he wasn't even allowed to take part in the civilian life at all.

Tenzou wasn't sure if they wanted to prevent that one of Orochimaru's experiments was moving freely around the leaf or if it hurt them that badly that he was able to use the ability of the great Shodai Hokage. Whatever. He accepted the decision, as always, „like I'd have any other choice?"

Since he was entrusted to the anbu's care at the age of 4 his everyday life consisted of training and missions. For him, there was no other way to live, at least non he could think of. He never learned how to engage children of the same age, he never worked with any genin or chuunin. He didn't celebrate christmas, nor his birthday, nor any other feast day there was, whom should he have invited moreover?

Apart from not having any friends, nor family, no one was allowed to find out about his true identity. No one knew he existed except the anbu's but they couldn't care less. They weren't like step-parents, Tenzou was their mission and that's how they treated him. Even his ninja ranks from genin to jounin were given to him secretly. There was no official contest he had to attend.

He knew that the Sandaime didn't agree with the elders about his treatment but he was outnumbered. Thanks to the Hokage Tenzou at least knows his own name and is his date of birth. The 10 of August. The elders wanted to take even this tiny bit of information away from him by giving him a codename and determining his age by the start of the year.

To make him less human, less a person who should have been granted the same rights as any of them. To them he was only a failed guinea pig and according to the elders he should have shared their opinion or even better he should have been lying on a dissecting table by now.

At ten years of age he joined the third anbu division and was slightly frightened. The sudden change from complete loneliness to the open and friendly greeting of his new anbu members shocked him. He couldn't help himself. But his captain didn't seem to care much, it even amused him, he was kinda happy to finally welcome a more quiet squad-member into his team.

And now he was, at least for the time being, the captain himself. Tenzou let out a depressing sound and turned on his side, his head resting on his left arm and his fingers playing with the soft surface of the mattress. Either he worried about his empty past or the upcoming feeling of jealousy. His squad-leader was currently on a special-task with another Jonin. And even though he really appreciated his captain's trust it didn't milden the envy feeling about Kakashi's other partner.

After all they had worked for six years together, his Senpai and Tenzou liked each other right from the start. Both of them had a very calm, if you knew how - easy to handle personality and years passing they've managed to understand each other without words.

The silverhaired acting as his captain knew about Tenzou's past but he never judged him like most of the others did, instead he even helped him to get along with his unwanted abilities.

One night, when Tenzou had woken up hag-ridden, like so many days before in his life, his body was still shaking and he was close to tears. Kakashi-Senpai silently set next to him, softly caressing his brown hair and hugging him as Tenzou started to let out all the fear, all the sadness he kept inside. He held him in his embrace till the last tear had dried.

Then he smiled towards his little Kohai, pointing to his left eye he whispered calmly,

"See, I'm greatly feared as Kopī Ninja no Kakashi, who copied over 1000 Jutsus. But as you know for sure, I'm using the Kekkei Genkai of the Uchhia clan. Like you're Mokuton, my Sharingan isn't mine after all. But I don't look at it that way, it's more like a precious gift to me and it doesn't matter how you obtained these abilities as long as you use them wisely."

Ever since that day he respected Kakashi-Senpai more than anyone else, he admired his attitude, his power and the more he did the more he wanted to be like him. Kakashi noticed the change in Tenzou's behaviour and supported him as much as he could.

In his presence Tenzou was able to shut down, feel at ease, his past faded and made room for the present and certainly for his future to come. Kakashi-Senpai trained him while his Kohai helped him with the paperwork. God how lazy and messy his Senpai was with the mission reports even now he's still glad if anyone else offers him a hand. And Tenzou was more than happy to be the one.

They've grown to an inseparable team. They enjoyed each others company, even though they were just quietly sitting on Kakashi's favourite tree branch while Tenzou was either falling asleep or watching the villagers go by whereas Kakashi was reading his questionable novels and made sure that his sleeping Kohai wouldn't fall off to the ground. "Doubt you can call that a "novel"," Tenzou grinned widely. He was the only one whose attendance didn't disturb Kakashi during his book sessions and sometimes he was even allowed to take a look inside.

It was the same on their missions. They went very well together and even their, thoroughly capable comrades, yielded precedence if there was a difficult situation in need of being handled. They fought back to back and combined their unique techniques like they've never done anyhing else before, leaving the enemy behind clueless, without any time to react.

It was like they were made for each other, to support and protect the partner. Even with their own lifes at stake. Tenzou knew his Senpai felt the same way for him. Like he did for all his anbu comrades. Kakashi-Senpai was indeed a great captain.

But that was exactly the reason why Tenzou was still lying, despite the awful debilitating mission, in his bed struggling for sleep. He got angry, wondering why his Senpai didn't choose him for this task. Raido-san would have been a great choice for the position of the temporary anbu captain as well.

A short glimpse to the clock made him sighed again. 3:34 am. Tomorrow was his day off but he didn't intend to sleep the whole day. He turned around a few more times till he found a halfway comfortable position and forced himself to close his eyes.

Ohayou,

I wanna tease ya a little :D in 10 days there are more chapters to come .. promisexD... *gomen* I'll wish you a all wonderful week !

P.S . The pic is awesome isn't it ? Story was totally inspired by it ! xJKxD