Alright! I've gotten a few oneshot ideas down and I'm ready to put them out! Random ages, some will be REALLY long, and some probably be pretty short. Bare with me! But I'm still a stickler for detail so they probably will be pretty long

I am PROBABLY going to use little of Obito in these one shots. Again, I don't HATE HIM. I LOVE his character. But I find little use other than the "jealous third party" and that seems unfair for him. So I shall make him appear as little as possible!

Kakashi may appear OOC too...sorry! I'll try to keep his character in tact (and not horribly butchered). Either way, do enjoy!

Age: 11

Toy Shop

When did she look so cute? In fact, WHY is she looking so cute to the young genin. In all their years knowing each other, Rin at best looked "pretty". And that was when her hair shined in the sun, or her eyes sparkled with she smiled, or when she did something with her mouth...

Ok, losing track.

The mission was certainly a doozy.

"And...I wear this because..." Rin said nervously, fiddling with a strange wand thingie she was just handed. She wore a frilly dress and poofed out around her with bows and lace at the ends. Her shinobi shoes were gone, replaced with sparkly stockings and slippers with bells attached. They jingled with every step she made, making her sound like a Christmas elf. To top it all off, there was an enormous bow tied in her hair, to which she kept trying to fix as it would lean to one side of her head. She held in one arm a toy panda doll that dangled uselessly though even he knew Rin stashed some kunai inside for safe keeping.

Either she looked REALLY stupid. Or REALLY cute. Kakashi was still trying to decide that. Somehow that strange gut wrenching feeling he should be used to by now is telling him he thinks of Rin cute right then and there.

Puberty is going to be hell for me.

"I'm sorry, Rin-chan." Minato said apologetically. Somehow Kakashi doubted the man was. The man was pure and noble to the point of saintly, but he wasn't perfet despite what people liked to believe. Oh no, his team saw many sides to him. The only real "flaw" he had was the obsessive love he had with all things red and following Kushina around town when she didn't expect him to.

Honestly, can't the guy just admit he was in love and get it over with?

Beside the silver-head, the third male of the party couldn't stop staring at the female even if you stuck a paper over his eyes. He would have burned a hole right through them with now intense his gaze was. Rin, poor Rin, was trying to ignore this factor.

"Our task is to help out the toy store. The people who normally do this small job all came down with the flu and they could use the help advertising their mascots."

"Right..." she said, fiddling with the lace at the end of her dress. "Who am I again?" she asked.

"Well, according to their made up story," Minato started, digging into his pocket to pull out the papers. "A magical princess has come from the skies to give toys to all good little boys and girls. Along side her are her companions, a large dog and her pet panda. Together, they fight the evil sorcerer who punishes children wrongfully."

"Sounds stupid." Kakashi spoke out loud. His sour mood was understandable. For he was part of the act. "In fact, this whole mission is stupid." he growled, folding his arms tightly against his chest.

Obito seemed to snap out of his daze long enough to grin evilly at the boy. "What's the matter, "Inu-chan"? Can't handle a costume?" he teased.

At the moment, Kakashi was stuck wearing a ridiculous body costume of a dog. It was stuffy, old, and smelled like mothballs.

Minato smiled apologetically down at the boy, who was no doubt glaring daggers at his head through the happy mask. "Well, you ARE shorter than Obito, Kakashi. It wouldn't have fit him." he reasoned.

Without anyone having to see his face, they could tell in his body language he was down right pissed off. He gladly showed as he pointed with his "paw" to his Sensei, his voice muffled behind the helmet-like mask. His normally dull voice was tight with anger, "I know that! But making me wear this idiotic costume like some brain-dead circus clown still doesn't make this any better."

"Oh, I will NEVER let you live this down, Kakashi." Obito continued, practically skipping around the boy. "Inu-chan! Save me! The evil sorcerer is getting my teddy bear!" he squealed helplessly, before bursting out into malicious laughter.

"Obito..." Rin sighed.

"Right! Sorry, Rin." Obito said quickly, putting a stop to his taunting. Not a second sooner too, as Kakashi seemed ready to blow a gasket under his mask.

The girl sighed, stepping over, feeling the bells connected to her dress jingle with every step. She grabbed the large paw to tug Kakashi along. "Come on, lets go before we're late." she said calmly. With little resistance, Kakashi obediently followed her.

"See ya later guys! And remember, act the part!" Minato called after them. Truthfully, he wasn't worried. Kakashi will do his job and Rin would be great with the kids. Together there shouldn't be much trouble.

He hoped...

Rin smiled down at the little boy, who stared wide eyed up at her. He had been for the past two minutes.

"You the same Star-chan?" he asked, one missing tooth making his words slur with a lisp.

"Well, yes and no." she said, bending over to his height. "Today I'm a different Star-chan. The one you normally see got really sick uh, fighting the evil sorcerer. Right now, she's getting better so I'm here to protect you from him."

The boy's eyes went wide with the tale she fabricated. "Wow! Will you get sick too?"

She giggled, straightened up and adding to effect to wave her wand. "Absolutely not! I am the wonderful "Star-chan"! I protect all good boys and girls! Have you been good?"

The boy nodded, along with other children who stopped by to listen to the tale.

"Then that's all I need to know. Go have fun inside kids!" she said, and the children ran off inside, all crying out in an almost maniac fashion.

"I protect all good boys and girls?" said a dull tone at her side. He gave an unimpressed snort under his mask. "Unbelieveable...babysitting kids like this."

Right then, a tug at his leg alerted yet ANOTHER brat was trying to get his attention. He turned down to the pint-sized nuisance to see him holding out his arms to him eagerly. "Can I have a hug Inu-chan?"

The dog did nothing, only stared at the kid long and hard. It got to a point his very displeased aura was radiating until the child finally got the message. He shuffled away from the young adolescent in disguise and practically ran back to his mother in a fit of terror. Even with the fluffy, cuddly outfit he was miserably forced to wear, Kakashi can still scare the living shit out of people.

"Kakashi, at least try to seem joyful." she hissed, seeing passing children waving at them. She waved back, making up for Kakashi's stiff posture outside the toy store. "At least wave. Do something to entertain them. Anything!"

"Like what?" he hissed back. "You want me to do jutsu's? Please say yes, I'm three seconds away from Substitution jutsu-ing my ass out of here!"

"Watch your language, Inu-chan!" she snapped, knowing he can see her through the holes of the eyes. From furious though, it switched to kindness to gave a passing child a smile. But she grabbed his arm in a vice grip to show she wasn't done. He winced, surprised how much it hurt. "Listen, I don't like it anymore than you do. But this is for the mission, Kakashi. Do you want to fail? At something as meager as playing "dog" for kids?"

His eye eyes snapped to her sharp ones. She's hitting a nerve and she knows it. Long ago he told the young genin of his father and at the time she was sympathetic and promised to be thoughtful to his past.

Apparently that promise wouldn't last long.

"You saying I can't do this?" he said, muscles growing tense under her grip.

"I'm saying you're willing to let your pride get the better of you. But, if you want to fail at this mission, be my guest." she said, turning away and releasing him, just as a group of kids came over, leaving him to stew over her words. A new aura replaced his unhappy one, his body straightening up with new determination firing up his core!

Oh. It. Is. ON!

"Hello my lost children!" Rin cheered, bells jingling around her form. The kids all cheered happily at the sight of her. It was a heartwarming sight to see such love and admiration in their wide eyes for their beloved protector from the heavens. "Have you come to play?"

"Yeah!" they all cheered. They all grew silent however, looking past Rin to her side. Blinking, the girl turned around.

The big dog was standing just behind her, surprising her slightly. He did nothing for a moment then stepped back, bowing to the kids. The kids gave mixed questioning looks at him, staring curiously as he straightened up to spread out his hands. Rin watched him as he bent his legs for a second, then suddenly jumped into the air backwards. Doing not one, but two flips in the air and then landing perfectly on his hands! "Inu-chan" then started to hop between hand to hand, a training exercise Rin had seen the young boy do from time to time.

The kids took a moment to be astonished before erupting into an applause. Rin among them as she clapped at how Inu-chan walked around on his hands with little difficulty.

"Inu-chan never did that before!" squealed a kid. "He's so cool!" another shouted.

Rin laughed as they swarmed to him once he was right side up again. Seeing how he stiffened at their pleas for him to give them hugs, she decided to spare him the awkwardness. "I'm sorry kids, Inu-chan is feeling a little shy today." she said, patting the dog on the chest. "Don't you boy?"

Seeing the golden opportunity, the boy gave a nod, jumping behind the girl to cover his eyes. The kids all giggled happily, watching him peek over Rin's shoulder. She was mildly impressed how quickly he jumped into character willingly.

"How was that?" he whispered in her ear.

"You really are the best shinobi in the village." she whispered back. She knew it would boast his ego ten-fold, but she can stand to do it once in a while.

"Damn straight." he chuckled, ducking behind a telephone pole to keep his "shy act" in action.

Then out of the blue came a cry from Rin's right, alerting both ninja's. She was all but ready to beat someone with her little wand (plastic or not) for enemies, while kakashi was about to leap into action with fluffy mitts. But thankfully they only saw a little girl sobbing and pointing to the sky while screaming, "My balloon!"

Rin looked up and indeed, saw a red balloon floating away. She hurried to the girl's side, bending over to comfort her. "It's ok, hunny. There are more balloons inside-" she started.

"AH! Inu-chan?!" screamed another kid behind her.

NOW what?!

Rin whirled around to see Kakashi leaping over the toy shop building, hopping over window legdges and rooftops until he made a final jump for the balloon. The girl below gasped as the boy above outstretched his paw for the fluttering string. Every child in the street stared upward at the dog, holding their breath.

When Kakashi had the string securely grasped in his paw, he fell back down to the ground to land on his hands and knees. As the children erupted into even louder cheers, he strolled coolly over to the little girl, kneeling before her to hand over the balloon.

"Oh, Inu-chan! Thank you!" the little girl cried out, running forward to give him a tight hug. He stiffened at the contact, but couldn't help but return one slowly. Rin was all smiles when he stood back up to brush invisible dirt off his suit.

She leaned over to him, whispering close to his ear. "Felt good to get a hug, huh?"

"Whatever." his gruff voice replied and she knew he was blushing under the mask.

When the kids came towards them, Kakashi felt something press against the side of the mask. Was that Rin pushing his mask in?

"AH! She kissed him!" a girl cried out happily.

At those words Kakashi was glad for the dog mask to hide how red he had gotten. He knew it was for the show. He KNEW it wasn't a real kiss and on a costume for pity's sake! But it didn't stop the blush spreading across his cheeks none the less.

"Of course! Inu-chan is a hero!" Rin said with a bright smile.

"WHA HA HA HA! A hero you say? I'd like to see that!" cried a voice into the lot. Heads whirled one way and another until a shadow cascaded over them all. Kakashi and Rin were a second away from pulling out their hidden weapons when they saw it was their sensei on the rooftop.

Wearing his underwear on the outside of all things.

Their sensei adored a cape, a mask, and hat. Despite the outfit, the two young ninja could clearly see the wild yellow hair that refused to be tamed peeking out around his mask. A costume no doubt from the toy-shop. He stood proudly over them all laughing like a maniac. If words could describe how unbelievably shocked Rin and Kakashi were, it would probably be along the lines of "What the HELL is he wearing that thing in public for?!"

"Star-chan! Finally the day has arrived for me to take my revenge!" he shouted with jubilant glee. Perhaps he was enjoying the act too much... "You shall taste my wrath, small children! I will punish you all!" he said, going off into maniacal laughter.

While the kids cried out in alarm, honestly taken by what they see, Rin and Kakashi were still trying to get over their shock. Rin was the first to recover, stepping forward to hold out her wand up at the man on the toy-shop roof. "Never will I let you punish the children evil sorcerer!"

"Oh? And who will stop me? I summon, Lizard Lord!" he cried out, spreading out his arms. In a puff of smoke, a "monster" appeared in front of Kakashi and Rin. They took a fighting stance against the person in a body suit that, oddly enough, was roughly their height...

"Raaawr!" the beast roared, stomping his feet. Its large googly eyes bounced around in random directions and it waved his arms around wildly.

"You shall never defeat my-" Minato started but was cut short when Kakashi sprinted forward to the beast.

He punched him in the gut, catching the "Lizard Lord" off guard. It gave a boyish "OW! WATCH IT!" for all to hear.

It would seem Kakashi knew exactly who was in that costume.

Then as the beast doubled over, Kakashi kneed it in the head to send it backwards, hoping to knock it off balance. The Lizard Lord at this point recovered from the first attack and started to fight back, ninja style. Meanwhile a crowd gathered around to stare at the battle ensuing. People actually starting to cheer for "Inu-chan" as the battle continued with almost aggressive progression.

Rin watched in fascination, her trained eye knowing Inu-chan was giving the bigger blows than the Lizard Lord. She fought to give in to her deadpanned expression at how the two in costume were going all out at each other. She felt no doubt to guess they forgot they were suppose to be "acting".

She glanced to to Minato, finally catching him mouthing at her "That's your cue!"

"Oh! Right!" she cried out. She jumped forward, wand out. "Stop right there you evil beast!"

Inu-chan stopped his fighting, leaping back beside Rin. The "Lizard Lord" looked to be on his last leg and struggled to stay standing. "I banish you from this world. Begone and never hurt children again!" she cried out. She held out her wand and Kakashi secretly slipped his hands out of the sleeves of the suit to perform a genjutsu. Swirling leaves flew around the people, distracting them while the second costumed person ran away to "disappear".

"AH! Foiled again! You win this round Star-chan! But next time, vengeance will be mine!" the sorcerer shouted, grabbing his cape and whirling around out of sight. Rin smiled at their sensei, pleased to see he was so into his role as the bad guy. It must have been for the kids.

Cheers rang off from the gathered crowd. They all clapped for their heroine and side kick. Rin bowed to them all, Kakashi joining her. After a moment he took her hand and held it up for all to cheer louder. Eventually, the crowd started to cry out "Star-chan! Star-chan!". She giggled, glancing to Kakashi evilly and took a step closer to him.

"AH! She kissed him again!"

And more cheers came forward as Kakashi pretended to faint to the floor.

Or at least...she thinks he did.

"Why didn't you tell us you'd be joining the show sensei?" Rin giggled. Team Minato walked tiredly back home later that evening, with the eldest male leading them with little strain as he hardly did a thing. Other than stand, twirl his cape, and laugh like a villain.

"Ah heh, well you know. Last minute decisions from the owners. Um, I can trust you all to keep this to yourselves?" the elder man said, looking between the young and tired faces. "What do you say...that we all agree to report we did simple passing out flyers instead of the show business?"

"Agreed." the three genin said unanimously.

The trio, plus one, did a total of FIVE shows like the one they did that morning. They would switch it up now and again. Rin fighting the sorcerer in the street while Kakashi and Obito took to the roofs or ending it with a friendly "truce" to give a good example to kids to be friends with everyone, even your enemies.

The owners were so pleased with the shows, they were tempting them to do more every other week.

Not surprisingly, they declined.

"Geez, Kakashi! Beat my lungs out too why don't ya?" Obito cried out, leaning heavily on Rin's shoulder.

"What? I was just doing my job as Star-chan's protector." Kakashi replied evenly, staring ahead. He fought a grin that threatened to spread across his face at how he was actually allowed to beat up Obito. For the sake of the show of course. Minato couldn't berate him for doing it very convincingly.

Think of it as revenge for this morning.

"I think you both were great out there." Rin said, ever the peacemaker. She smiled at Obito, running a healing hand across his forehead. "Think of this as...a training exercise."

Fighting the blush that was all but not covering his face he replied, "Uh, not to be rude Rin-chan, but it wasn't easy while wearing those costumes while fighting." But he was so happy to lean against his beloved Rin-chan, he almost didn't care how he felt his ribs screaming in pain. Almost. He hissed, clutching his chest.

"I understand." she said, nodding. She glanced over to Kakashi, frowning at how he was trying to keep from grinning like a Cheshire. She then started to grin. "Inu-chan was pretty good out there, wasn't he?" she said, knowing how to cheer up Obito. Kakashi coughed, glaring at them both as they chuckled. It didn't help that Minato joined in.

"Aw, but Star-chan looked so cute out there, didn't she Obito?" their sensei added in, deciding he wanted part of the fun of teasing. At the noises Rin made soon after (he guessed without turning around) she was bumbling over her words while blushing.

"Oh yeah she was..."Obito said dreamily, cheeks staining red.

Kakashi felt slight irritation at this. An obnoxious Obito was bad enough. Somehow one fawning and drooling over Rin was just as annoying. "And let's not forget Sensei's choice in color of underwear." Kakashi added loudly folding his arms. All students shared in the satisfaction to see the man visibly wince. It usually took a lot to rile the man up. They are willing to milk every last bit of this and savor it for blackmail. "Really, sensei. In PUBLIC no less. What would Kushina think?"

Minato whirled around, eyes wide with terror. "You wouldn't dare!"

"Ha! Look at his face! Sensei you afraid of losing Kushina?"

The man's face colored instantly, babbling out excuses and lies while the genin continued to laugh.

PHEW! Ok, I've always pictured Rin in cute costumes since I keep seeing her as Sakura from Card Captors. Anyone remember that anime? No? Ok, I'm an old hag. Give me a break for going back to the old glory days.

Either way, I probably made Minato REALLY OOC dressing up like a loon eh? But I honestly think he wouldn't mind (so long as Kushina doesn't know). He's way too cool to care.

Meanwhile Kakashi does have a heart and can be nice to kids when he wants to right? (Naruto and his team being bad examples)

Either way! Hope you enjoy!