Rating - Gish or adorable :)

warning - sickingly sweet

Disclaimer - Although I own a dead plant, I do not own Naruto


Terminal Infection

Umino Kumi was pouring tea for her guest, "Tsunade-sensei, thank you for your help."

The older woman smiled, "Of course, Kumi-san. I can't stand when those old bastards try to screw over a kunoichi for some stupid technicality." She took a sip of her tea, "Honestly, I can't believe they tried to claim that you didn't have enough field experience to test for jônin level."

Kumi smiled, brushing a few stray dark brown locks back behind her ears. "They do have a point that I do not have ten A rank or higher missions."

Tsunade smirked, "Of course, but you have over four years in the field on S class missions and another three on A class."

"Well I guess they don't think of missions that last multiple years." She sighed, "Not that I can go on anything that long term any more."

Tsunade nodded, "I doubt your family would appreciate you being sent off for such long missions."

Kumi nodded, "However, if war breaks out there might not be a choice."

Tsunade sipped her tea, "True, but until then at least you can enjoy them. Where are they anyways?"

"Takuya is running a team of genin through some testing in preparation for the chuunin exams and Iruka was over at the Kamizuki residence for Izumo-kun's birthday. He should be home soon."

"Hard to believe that little one is already four." Tsunade looked out the window, "It seems like all of you were just graduating the academy not long ago. I must be getting old."

As Kumi was about to protest saying that she wasn't old, there was a knock on the door and the sound of muffled crying could be heard. Kumi quickly stood, "Please excuse me for a moment, Tsunade-sensei." She quickly opened the door to reveal one of the older Kamizuki children, a cousin of Izumo if she was recalling right, holding a crying Iruka. "Kamizuki-san, is he all right?"

Tsunade had gotten up as she heard the child crying, "Is he injured?"

The young man sighed, "I have no idea why he's crying. He isn't hurt." He held the child out like Iruka was some sort of dirty contagious thing. Granted, he was covered in tears and snot, but Kumi quickly gathered him up and started shushing the little four-year-old boy.

Finally, with both women gathered around him the little boy stopped crying enough to become partially coherent. Kumi used the sleeve of her uniform to clean some of the tears off his face. A little round face with baby fat still under the horizontal scar across his nose looked up at his mother, "I don't want to die!"

Kumi started to reassure him that he wasn't going to die and Tsunade calmly asked, "Iruka-kun, what makes you say that?"

His chocolate brown eyes quivering as he looked into the blue eyes of the sennin, "I have girl germs."

Both women froze for a second as jaws tightened, trying not to laugh. Finally, Kumi brushed her fingers through Iruka's brown hair, "How did you get girl germs?"

Iruka sniffed and lowered his voice to a quiet whisper, "Anko kissed me." The look on his face conveyed the seriousness of the grievous act.

Tsunade looked at the little boy, "It's OK, some day you might actually want her to kiss you."

Kumi gave her a look that basically said 'I can't believe you said that'. Iruka for his part gasped, "Ewwww! She's yucky! She plays with dolls and makes us drink tea and she is always telling us what to do and she is mean and yucky!" After a second's thought, he added, "AND she's a GIRL!"

Tsunade smiled, "Well I'm one of the best doctors in this village and I don't think you're going to die from girl germs."

Kumi nodded, "I agree, how about I make your favorite lunch?"

The catastrophe of the girl germs evidently forgotten, he ran off to the kitchen in preparation for lunch and Kumi stood up, "Tsunade-sensei. You're right. I shouldn't worry about if there is going to be a war, I should just enjoy them for now."

With a nod and a hug Tsunade left leaving Kumi to make lunch for the girl germ infected little boy.