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This is the beta-ed version, thanks to Lazy-Hime.
Nightmare Central
2
As luck would have it Naruto's attack had brought the focus of the eleven other kids back on Kakashi, who gritted his teeth at the development.
Twelve three and four years old children, three hours and one Jounin
"'Kashi-kun, 'Kashi-kun." Naruto tugged at his father's student's trousers.
"Yes, Naru-chan?"
"How you like my shirt? It's pretty, ne?" the blond toddler proudly took a step back to give the Jounin a chance to properly admire the blindingly orange shirt.
Squinting his one eye shut, Kakashi forced his voice to sound cheerful and replied: "Yes, Naru-chan, you have a very pretty shirt."
It was then that another toddler approached them. His midnight black hair stood wildly up in the back, his skin was as pale as Naruto's was tan and his dark obsidian eyes spit fire and death at the silver haired Jounin.
No toddler should be able to glare like that.
One small hand gripped Naruto's shirt and dragged him back to the solitary corner they had occupied before Naruto's tackle.
"Sasuke, what are you doing? Let's play with 'Kashi-kun, father said he really wanted to play with us," Naruto objected his dark haired friend's actions.
Sasuke as in Uchiha Sasuke? Itachi's little brother? I'm lucky toddlers can't use chakra yet or his Sharingan would have activated by now.
Some of Kakashi's relief at being Naruto-free must have shown in his demeanour, because calculating black eyes suddenly lit with an unholy gleam and a very un-toddler-like smirk graced his face.
The Jounin watched disbelievingly as he little Uchiha turned to his captive and said, "You're right, Naruto. We should play with him."
That's not a normal child. The Uchiha have somehow found a way to spawn demons, first Itachi and now that evil little critter.
Naruto hugged his companion in delight, who smiled happily at the affection he received. Over the blond toddler's shoulder he gave Kakashi a look that practically spelled, "See? He may have clutched your leg but he jumped into my arms."
Attracted by Naruto's antics and joyful laughter, the other toddlers turned their attention to the two hugging friends.
One brown haired, parka wearing boy with two red stripes on his face walked over to them and asked the one question that sealed Kakashi's fate, "What are you yelling about?"
Surprising every single toddler in the room it was the Uchiha who usually only spoke to and played with Naruto that answered Kiba, "Kakashi-san promised to play with us hide and seek in the garden."
The silver haired Jounin was so stunned by Sasuke's outright lie that he couldn't even protest it. Cries of "Playtime!", "Garden!", "Hide and seek!" and "Troublesome." rang in his ears. What mere moments before had been a room with peacefully playing children erupted into utter chaos.
And in the middle of it all stood one small, black haired toddler that smirked challengingly at Kakashi.
There had been no way out of playing hide and seek for Kakashi. The children wouldn't settle down for anything else.
On the other hand, he seriously doubted they would play longer than five minutes. The day care-centre's garden was relatively small and surrounded by sturdy, high white walls. There were a finite number of places where the toddlers could hide and Kakashi was an accomplished ninja who could sense chakra.
How difficult could it be?
One hour later he was ready to tear his hair out in frustration. He had found the apathetic, chronically lazy toddler that found everything "troublesome" and the chubby boy that hid with him in the first five minutes of the game.
Giggling had led him to the hiding place a girl who wore her brown hair in two buns, a Hyuuga, if the eyes were any indication, and another boy with really thick eyebrows. The girl had been playing with the Hyuuga boy's hair, braiding it.
A pink haired little girl and her blonde friend gave themselves away by their loud conversation about how "pretty Sasuke-kun" was. Kakashi shook his head at them. If the damn Uchiha brat's possessiveness regarding Naruto was any indication, Sasuke would never as much as glance at the girls.
He had been searching frantically for twenty minutes, had been cheating with his chakra sense for forty and was still five toddlers short.
Don't panic, they have to be somewhere in the garden, you just haven't found them yet. Breathe, Kakashi, breathe. Don't think about what Arashi-sensei or that brother-obsessed Itachi will do to you if you manage to lose their brats.
Surprisingly the other children watched patiently as he searched for their missing companions. Kakashi had always known that children were sadistic twisted little creatures.
TBC
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