Small story about our favourite shinobis short time after the Kyuubi-attack.

The characters are: Team 4 - Morino Ibiki with Hayatte Gekkou and Umino Iruka
Team 2 - Inuzuka Hana with Hagane Kotetsu and Mizuki and Kamizuki Izumo
and Mitarashi Anko - all 'kids' as lately genin or early chuunin
Hatake Kakashi, Namiashi Raido, Shiranui Genma, Maito Gai - as early jounin
Uchiha Itachi as chuunin
Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto - as little kids

place: Konoha
time: three years after Kyuubi atack
mood: playfull
song: ((I was writing it while being on drrr high, so..)) Durarara OST basically
disclaimer: I don't own the character, BUT! I own the ideas, the fallen tree and their friendship and I plan to take advantage of it, and become the God of the New World.

I am sorry for mistakes, if you spot something what is hurting your eyes, please let me know and I will immediately correct it.

It was chilly Wednesday morning and Iruka Umino, tall brown-haired teen, was running late to his genin's team meeting. Next to him was jogging his best friend, and in that moment his only teammate, Hayate Gekkou. He was late, too, of course, but he didn't seem to mind. He was just happily munching on an apple he had stolen from Iruka and his light shoes didn't make a sound on the fresh grass.

Yes, Hayate was fast and silent, while Iruka was loud and strong and breathing heavily as he was trying to keep up with his smaller teammate.

"How come.." Iruka panted "...you are so.. fast.. the ..fist thing.. in the .. morning..?" he asked between breaths. They were nearing their meeting place now. The path they knew by hearts, so the fallen tree laying across the way wasn't much of a surprise. Hayate lightly jumped behind it without so much of an effort unlike Iruka, who had to quicken up to have enough energy in his legs to jump on top of it.

"I am not. You are just too slow." chuckled Hayate and threw the core on his friend. Iruka easily dodged, but almost slipped on a moss while doing so.

"Am .. not." Iruka pouted on the laughing teen and quickened up again, so they would be able to run the last few meters towards their sensei side-by-side.

They could already see the masculine frame of their sensei as he was standing there leaning against a tree.

"Alert. Object M is frowning." whispered Hayate while they slowed down to faster walk. Iruka evened his breathing before answering:

"Roger that. Switch the red lights on. This is bad."

"Yes sir, red lights switched on." Hayate nodded.

Iruka smirked next to him before whispering: "Ultimate mission for today: Make Object M Smile." he declared and Hayate failed in suppressing his chuckling.

"Aye aye, General – we haven't thought it out enough. That's mission impossible!"

Their sensei upon seeing them took few steps from his tree and hid the kunai he had been using to clean his nails to pass time.

"Brats." he grunted for greeting. "Late." he added and sternly frowned, looking at them sharply.

"We know and we are terribly sorry, Ibiki-sama." said Iruka for them both, while Hayate decided to stay silent and wait for the storm to pass. "We overslept."

Ibiki Morino, the strictest and scariest head of the Interrogation department in the whole history of Konoha, raised his eyebrow – something he learned can make even the most resistant criminal talk like old gossiping woman, but obviously didn't have any effect at all on his two genin-brats – and asked:

"Both?"

Iruka scratched back of his head in nervous and defenseless gesture and Hayate shrugged.

"I was sleeping by Iruka's.." he explained.

Ibiki nodded. "I see. Alright. Mission for brats." he said and handed them small sealed scroll with blue "D" on it. Iruka made disgusted face before taking it.

"Do mission, find me, report, go home, shower, eat and sleep, brat. You have circles under your eyes so large I could use them instead of shuriken." Ibiki ordered before petting lightly Iruka's head. Iruka made a move to snatch his hand away but Ibiki quickly dodged, expecting this move.

"Not fair!" Iruka declared and waved with his arms to make a point. "His circles are darker and larger and he doesn't need to!" he pointed to Hayate who was discreetly making faces on him.

Ibiki sighed. He knew that Iruka said it just to have something to argue about. "No arguing. Just do what I said, and I will not ask why you weren't sleeping enough." he grunted.

Because he was screaming and kicking from nightmares and then being awake to not dream again, and crying his soul out when he thought I wasn't awake, added Hayate to himself, but didn't say anything.

"Yes, sir!" Iruka shouted and mockingly saluted. "But the reason I didn't sleep was because Haya-chan snores!" he pointed accusing finger at his blinking friend.

"That's not true!" Hayate shouted taken aback and blushing, because Ibiki was giving him weird look and it was embarrassing. "I don't snore! And don't call me 'chan' am not girl!"

"But you are small and cute and shy and polite and fast like cherries with milk! And you do snore, you just don't know, because you don't hear yourself, since you are sleeping trough it." Iruka stuck his tongue out and crossed his eyes and Hayate harshly poked him under ribs.

"Shut up, fish-cake." Hayate frowned.

"That's pretty lame, Haya-chan. I should teach you better insults." Iruka laughed and got himself another painful stuck to his stomach.

"Stop it, brats. You have mission to do." Ibiki said mildly. He had already gotten used to they playful bickering by the time. He got them when Iruka was eleven and Hayate twelve and that was almost three years ago.

"Yes sir!" Iruka shouted again and they tried their best to form two-person's line in front of their sensei. In moments like this, they could have really used third teammate.

"Alright, now go!" Ibiki motioned for them to go towards the town and both of them turned around running along the way.

"What is in the scroll?" asked Hayate while jogging backwards.

"You read it." said his teammate and threw him the scroll. Hayate raised his eyebrow, something he unintentionally learned from their teacher.

"Why me? You got it, you should read it."

Iruka smiled at him evilly. "I can't read!" he sang with innocent expression. Hayate shrugged.

"I thought so." he said seriously holding back his laugh. He started unsealing the scroll and slowed down to wait for his teammate.

"It says: 'Your genin team is to clean the streets of 9th district and rub the graffiti out of the back wall of the Academy.' Pretty boring if you ask me.."

"I don't ask you. I know that." Iruka grinned and easily dodged another poke. "Let's do it fast, ne?" he shrugged.

"Like you say.. Like you say." Hayate agreed and they started walking towards the Academy, because if the scroll said they should start with the streets, of course they would do it all the other way around.

After all, they were Ibiki's brats.

I plan on making the chapters short, but more frequent. However I don't promise steady update, I will do my best, though.

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, give me feedback, I will cherish it until I get down from the high. Reviews make athor's day.