Notes: Okay, I finally finished this. :P I got quite a few requests to write a follow up to 'Of why a Jedi should always look up', and so this was spawned. I must say this was partially inspired by the first SW fanfic I read, 'Padawan Problems', which you can find in my favorite stories list.

I have two more chapters already done after this one, so updates should be pretty quick for a short time!

Of Jedi and Distractions
by: Amrita Glittersong

"No, Anakin."

"Oh, come on. Master Windu said we should."

"No. I don't care what Master Windu said."

"That's a first." Anakin commented, looking over at his master who was glaring sternly, arms crossed over his chest. "Never thought I'd hear you say that."

"Very funny, Anakin." Obi-Wan responded, tapping his fingers against his arm idly. "The answer stands. I'm not going to sneak up on and surprise Master Yoda."

"You're just afraid you won't be able to hide from him successfully, and he'll whack you with his stick." Anakin complained. He gave Obi-Wan a serious look. "Really. You've fought two Sith and killed one of them. You've survived Geonosis, Jango Fett, a nest of gundarks, my flying, and Master Qui-Gon's cooking. All that, and you're afraid of a stick?"

"Master Yoda and his cane are far more terrible than any of those things." Obi-Wan protested. Then he considered it a moment. "Well, perhaps not more so than your flying or Qui-Gon's cooking."

"What about Padme's wigs?"

"...Alright, those also. And Senator Organa's scarf. But only those. Everything else is less frightening."

"Sometimes I wonder about you." Anakin remarked, rolling his eyes. He frowned thoughtfully. "And Senator Organa, for that matter. Is it a scarf? Really?"

Obi-Wan scrunched his nose slightly in disgust. "I assume it's a scarf. If not, I shudder to think what it actually is."

"...Yeah, me too. Okay, so I think Master Yoda is in the Archives right now. It's a great place for sneaking around, so we're in luck."

"What? Anakin, my answer hasn't changed." Obi-Wan said, sounding vaguely affronted.

"Sure it has." Anakin responded, unfazed. "Look at this as a challenge, master! I know you don't like being bored."

"I'm not bored." Obi-Wan protested, crossing his arms. "I have plenty of things I could be doing."

"And one of them is sneaking up on Master Yoda. Come on." Anakin said triumphantly, grabbing Obi-Wan by the wrist and dragging the Knight down the hall.

"How do I let you convince me to do such things?" Obi-Wan lamented as he followed his Padawan towards the Archives.

"Well, you see master, you're a pushover." Anakin explained, as if it was obvious.

"...I am not." Obi-Wan responded sullenly, still following Anakin. "And I am insulted you would say such a thing."

"Yeah, and what are you going to do about it? Nothing. Because you're a pushover."

"There are times when I really don't like you, Anakin." Obi-Wan told him with a sigh.

"Which is most of the time, right?"

"Yes."

"Well, great to know where I stand." Anakin said, not really paying attention as he'd reached the Archives and was now peering around the archway frame, trying not to be noticed as he looked around for Yoda and some good hiding places.

Obi-Wan stood behind him, tapping his foot and looking like he'd really rather be anywhere else. "You're going first."

"Huh?" Anakin asked, looking back over his shoulder at Obi-Wan.

"You're going first." The Knight repeated, making a shooing motion with one hand, not bothering to uncross his arms. "That way, you will incur Master Yoda's wrath all on your own."

"Jedi don't have wraths." Anakin said, frowning a bit.

"No, Jedi are not supposed to have wraths." Obi-Wan responded patiently, then gave Anakin a pointed look. "You of all people should know that."

"Yeah, because I live with you." Anakin agreed, turning back forward to continue looking around.

"Anakin, remember how I mentioned those times when I really don't like you? We're having another."

"You talk too much." Anakin said, looking back again.

Obi-Wan his eyebrows. "I talk too much? You are not one to make that sort of declaration, Anakin."

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean? I don't talk too much."

"Hardly a moment passes when you're not talking about something. Dueling practice, food, podracing, holovids, food, Padme." Obi-Wan gave him another pointed look.

"Oh, you did not just go there." Anakin said, bobbing his head in the appropriate gesture. "Look, master, I've got a shiny new metal hand and you're really tempting me to try it out."

"Tch." Obi-Wan scoffed, unimpressed and raising an eyebrow challengingly. "Unless it came with a guidance system, it won't help you."

Anakin blinked once. "Hey, are you saying I can't find my way around?"

Obi-Wan sighed. "No, I'm saying that you couldn't hit something the size of a bantha, and Force forbid if it were moving when you tried."

"That's it. You're going down." Anakin declared, diving on his master. They proceeded to devolve into a very pathetic fight as, not actually wanting to actually injure each other, they weren't really hitting very hard and in fact looked more like they were in a catfight then anything else. A few Padawans walking down the hall just sighed and avoided them.

They were interrupted from their hair-pulling and name-calling when both were whacked on the head. Turning their attention at once towards what had 'attacked' them and forgetting their own fight momentarily, they both came to about eye level with a certain Jedi Grand Master.

Yoda blinked slowly at the two, who blinked right back in synchronization. All three stared for a moment, before Anakin and Obi-Wan let go of each other and sprang back up as if nothing had ever happened.

"Good thing it is, that me you were fighting in front of this time. Test the limit of Mace's patience, this would." Yoda commented, looking way up at the two, though he sounded a bit amused.

"We already tested Master Windu's patience for the day. Actually, this was his idea." Anakin explained, brushing off his tabbards and looking unfazed. He considered that a moment. "Well, sort of. Not the fighting part."

Obi-Wan gave Anakin a look, which Anakin didn't catch and therefore just kept on talking. "You see, we sort of sprang out of a tree at him, and so he sent us to go try sneaking up on you."

Yoda made what was the closest to an incredulous expression as either of the other two Jedi had ever seen. "And ended up fighting instead, you did?"

Anakin considered that a moment. "...Yeah." He confirmed, nodding once. "That about sums it up."

Yoda regarded the two for a moment, then just shook his head. "The strangest Master/Padawan team ever, you two are. And seen many of them, I have."

"Thanks, I guess." Anakin said after a moment.

Yoda just shook his head again. "A visit to Mace, I must pay now. Out of fights, try to stay, hmm?"

"Yes master." They both chorused, and Yoda hobbled off towards the Room of a Thousand Fountains, shaking his head the whole way.

"Okay, well, that didn't go great." Anakin commented, prompting a raised eyebrow from Obi-Wan.

"And what was your first indication? I told you this was a bad idea." Obi-Wan responded, crossing his arms again.

"Let's just forget this happened." Anakin proposed. "It's time for dinner anyway."

"...And what do those have to do with each other?" Obi-Wan asked after a moment of just looking at his Padawan like he was an idiot.

"Nothing?" Anakin ventured, shrugging. "Just come on. We'll go to Dex's or something. He got some new holo monitors and there's a big podrace on tonight."

Obi-Wan looked like he was going to say something, but then just gave up and shook his head. "Alright, fine. But I've had enough of your antics today, so it's under one condition."

"Okay, what?" Anakin asked, already starting to bound down the hallway in the direction of the Temple's hangar bay.

"I'm piloting."