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Of murderous chopsticks and half-empty glasses Part 2:

"COME IN!" Tsunades voice ordered very loud.

"The rest is on you, kid. I don't want to deal with the old woman, when she's in a violent mood, like that." Pakun said, before he disappeared, leaving Kakashi on his own. The jounin opened the door carefully and went in slowly.

"You wanted to talk to me, Hokage-sama." He said and stepped in front of the seething Hokage. She glared at him before she took the sake bottle next to her and raised it to her lips.

"I have a mission for you." She said simply. "A S-rank mission, at first. But I think I'll put the rating down after a while."

"Put the rating down, after a while? How long do you think will this mission take?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow. Usually, only at veeery long missions the rating changes and he didn't know if he's in the state for one of them.

"I seriously don't know. Perhaps only a week. Perhaps one or two years. Depends on the decision of the council." The blond answered. Tsunade really didn't know what the council will say when she tells them that the infamous Uchiha brat is back in town. They probably won't greet him with open arms and there will be many problems, until a judgment will be given. Dear God, the kid causes more work than he's worth. Tsunade sighed inwardly.

"And what would I have to do exactly?" Kakashi asked. He got it that the Hokage wasn't going to tell him more about the mission on her own.

"If you accept this mission, you would be the guard of..." Tsunade began. Was it right, to tell him, that his former student was back, so bluntly? She took another sip of her bottle, hoping the alcohol will tell her the answer.

"The guard of whom, Tsunade-sama?" Kakashi pushed further. What was her problem? She seemed to be uncomfortable, struggling to find the correct words. "Come on, can't be that bad. I'm pretty sure we both ran through worse. And...."

"You would be the guard of Uchiha Sasuke!" The Hokage blurted out.

"..."

Perhaps I should have said it in a different way. Well, thanks, alcohol! The Hokage thought, grabbed the bottle, shut it and put it into a drawer of her desk, her eyes not leaving the visibly shocked jounin.

It took Kakashi a few minutes to handle the new information. His brain was working hardly, but in the end only a rather stupid statement came out.

"...So, he's back." Kakashi managed to speak with a surprisingly calm and steady voice.

"Yes, the Anbu brought him back yesterday. They had found him in a forest near the border of Konoha and to our all surprise he went voluntarily with them." Tsunade answered. She doubted that the jounin in front of her was as calm inside as he was on the outside. After all did he just find out that his former student who had left his team for power was back. The student who had preferred Oroshimaru as sensei, the student who had been so focused on revenge that he nearly had killed his best friend.

"What's going to happen now?" He asked, while doing his best, not to break down in tears or laugher or screams or anything else. He seriously didn't know what he felt at the moment. He felt every emotion you could feel at the same time, because his long lost student was in Konoha. Ok, not lost, rather absconded. But he apparently had chosen to correct his faults and come back to were he belongs.

"Like I said, we wait until the council makes a decision. And until then, he will stay at your house. Of course only if you accept the mission." Tsunade said.

"What about Naruto and Sakura?"

"We'll tell them, but not know. It would be too much for both."

"..."

"If you want, I can also allot Yamato-san to help you. And a team of Anbu will be around your house all the time anyway." The blond continued after Kakashi didn't answer, trying her best to make it for him as easy as possible, because she was sure that neither another jounin nor one of the Anbu would take the Uchiha voluntarily.

"I'll take this mission and I would be happy about every help I can get." Kakashi said finally and after a long metal fight with himself, his hands fidgeting with the hem of his green vest. "Eh, one last question. When...?" He began, but he couldn't finish the sentence, due to the current growing mess in his brain, about the fact that he had just agreed to live with his ex-student.

"..do you get to see him? Ibiki-san must be already on his way to us with him. He had put strong chakra seals around Sasuke's wrists to make sure that he can't do anythi..." She was interrupted by a single, loud knock at the door.

Tsunade sent a last glance to Kakashi who simply nodded, before she spoke. "Come in."

The door opened obedient and Kakashi tensed, as the large man with the scars on his face stepped in, but relaxed a little bit again, as the man closed the door behind him almost instantaneous.

"Didn't you forget something?" Tsunade asked, raising an eyebrow about.. well, the lack of Uchiha.

Ibiki didn't answer and just looked silently at Kakashi and then back to the woman in the back of the room.

"It's ok. He knows that the brat is here. The Uchiha will stay with him for a while." The hokage said, answering Ibiki's unposed question.

"He'll stay with him? I thought, you'll put him into prison after the interrogation. He's still a traitor." Ibiki said accusingly.

"Sure, he is. But when you think about it, he had helped very much in a twisted way. He's responsible for the dead of five Akatsuki after all." The blond stated and three visible eyes widened in shock.

"You must be kidding. I know that he had killed Oroshimaru and Itachi Uchiha, but three other Akatsuki is impossible. Even for an Uchiha." Ibiki protested.

"I said he's responsible for it, not that he was the one, who killed them. After our knowledge, he killed Oroshimaru and Uchiha Itachi, like you said, a guy named Deidara killed himself in a fight with Sasuke and two other members, Hoshigaki Kisame and Zetsu, were probably killed by the ninja who had teamed up with the brat." Tsunade corrected him, before she bit down on her lip harshly, recognising that she had revealed too much information. Yeah, yeah, sake had always loosened my tongue. She sighed mentally, while her hand wandered subconscious to that certain drawer of her desk.

Ibiki already opened his mouth to make his comment, but Kakashi was faster.

"You mean he got his revenge?" He asked, again only repeating the facts in a stupid manner.

"Do you really think that he came back because he missed his team so much? Revenge was everything to him. He would have never come back without taking it." Tsunade spat a little baffled, anger starting to boil up in her chest. Was Kakashi truly expecting that Sasuke would come back because he felt guilty or something? Probably he was just bored. She thought sarcastically, not knowing that she was partly right with her musing.

Kakashi's hands clenched to fists and his eye(s) narrowed for a mere second before he pushed his passive mask back in place. He admitted that the youngest and now last Uchiha was obsessed with his revenge, but she had no right to speak about him like that! He was the one who had been left behind. He was the one who held the speech to Sasuke, to shake him awake from his depression, and he was the one who was ignored and disobeyed. So he was the one, who should be angry with him.

"Anyway. Ibiki, what did the kid told you?" Tsunade asked Ibiki, pretending that she hadn't noticed Kakashi's short lost of control.

"He told us, about different locations, Oroshimaru had used as hide-outs. He also told us about the fight with Itachi, but he didn't mention a team. Furthermore he refuses to tell us what he had learned from Oroshimaru and why he's actually here again. He had even resisted the drugs I gave him, to get him to speak. So, all in all we don't know what he's capable of and what he has in mind." Ibiki reported the less satisfying facts. He too had noticed Kakashi little slip, but he also decided not to dwell on this in his eyes immature behaviour.

"And what do you think about him? I mean his personality. Is he as evil and tricky as Oroshimaru?" Tsunade asked the interrogation expert further, while keeping her eyes fixed on Kakashi, who didn't move and was currently looking out of the windows behind her, probably not listening at all.

"Well, to make it short, he's a little bit jumpy. His mood changes rather quickly, sometimes he's the cold, arrogant Uchiha and then he's suddenly just weird. He's like a pregnant woman. Perhaps we should let Kurenai-san take care of him." Ibiki smiled a very small smile (a veeeery small smile), about his own little joke, but the Hokage and the jounin next to him, who had finally stopped staring holes into space, just glared at him, not amused at all. He bet that they would have laughed, if he told them about the embarrassing chopstick incident, but he left this part out, because nothing serious had happened and only his reputation would have suffered.

Tsunade sighed, feeling a headache coming around the corner. "Okay, then. Get the brat in here." She ordered, again thinking about the sake, praying not to be forced to empty the bottle, after Sasuke will be gone.

Kakashi watched as Ibiki slipped out of the office, leaving the door slightly ajar. They heard voices outside, probably Ibiki talking to an Anbu member. The copy nin took a deep breath, trying desperately to calm his racing heart, before he stopped breathing entirely, as a shadow appeared in the gap, between door and frame.

Ibiki pushed the door open again and went to the right part of the room, leaving enough place for two Anbu, one with a squirrel mask and one with a bird mask, who had the now seething Uchiha between them, both holding an elbow of him.

Sasuke wasn't happy. He wasn't happy at all. First he had been interrogated for hours by mister even-if-you-are-telling-the-truth-I-will-drug-you-anyway Morino Ibiki (yeah, he finally knew his name. A medic nin had told him!), then they had put those ugly seals around his wrists and now they had dragged him here, to do god knows what! So there was no wonder that he was too pissed off, to notice Kakashi. Instead his eyes fell on Tsunade, sitting on her desk, glaring at the floor, plainly ignoring him, and apparently oblivious of the fact that he was glaring at her with intensity, as if he wants to blow her had up, by simply watching. Unfortunately for him it didn't work.

Kakashi watched his former student a little bit shocked, but amused at the same time. His aura was menacing and his coal black eyes, which had already red swirls in them, were boring into the hokage's head. If looks could kill. Popped it into Kakashi's mind. But then, Uchiha were always known for their killing glares. He contemplated what he should do now. Tsunade was ignoring Sasuke, Ibiki glared at him, the two Anbu tightened their grip on his arms and the kid hadn't noticed the masked jounin at all. In the end he just decided to keep looking at him. He wore a black t-shirt with his usual high collar and black pants. The colours of his clothes made him even paler, letting him look dead and the shadows under his eyes didn't help much. He was tall, not as tall as Kakashi, but definitely taller than Naruto. The jounin saw immediately that his body still had feminine curves here and there. At the moment he could only see his profile, which held a maleficent look, but he could say that he was more beautiful than back in his genin days. His face had lost its curves and a few strains of his shiny, raven hair hung in front of his eyes. This would have given him a childish look in a moment of lack of anger visible on his face. On his wrists were pattern and Kakashi knew that this were the chakra seals, Tsunade had talked about. They looked like they had been painted with black ink, but actually they were burned in his flesh and will leave scars, even when the seals will have been taken off.

The Hokage watched the green floor in front of her desk, brooding about how she should tell the Uchiha that he's going to live with his former sensei, he hadn't even noticed, without making him destroying her office afterwards. She came quickly to the conclusion that the kid will probably destroy it, no matter how she tells him, so she could just torture him with her silence for a little while, but that only worked for a minute. After a minute she just couldn't stand his stare anymore. It was like you're nude in front of your therapist and telling him your biggest secrets. This eyes look through you and deep in your soul, giving you the feeling that they know everything about you and you just want to run and to hide from them.

"Ahh, Uchiha-san. I hope Ibiki didn't treat you too bad..." Tsunade said and looked him directly in the eyes, hiding expertly that she felt more then just uncomfortable under his gaze.

"Stop this shit and tell me what the fuck you want." Sasuke growled dangerously, sounding much like a dog.

"Language, Sasuke-kun." Kakashi said with his alluring voice he had always used when he had spoken to him. He had often told Sasuke not to curse and to be respectful, but it seemed like Oroshimaru had ruined his whole education. Of course his voice caught all of Sasuke's attention and his aura became immediately calmer, but was still a little bit scary, a reaction Kakashi had expected.

Sasuke twitched as he heard the oh so familiar voice. Okay, don't panic. You knew this had to come sooner or later. We would have preferred if it would have been later, but you can't have everything. We just have to follow the plan: don't look into his eye and show no emotions. Don't look into his eye and show no emotions. Don't look into his eye and show no emotions. He repeated it in his had over and over again, like a mantra. He straightened himself, pushed all blooming emotions beside and the blankness was placed on his face like a mask.

"What is he doing here?" He spoke and his voice wasn't cold or soft, it was emotionless, like he had never managed before and he would have been proud of himself, if his mind wouldn't have been working through all punishments that would involve the masked jounin at the moment.

Everyone in the room was impressed about change from anger to, well ... nothing.

So that's what Ibiki meant with 'jumpy' and 'pregnant woman'. Tsunade thought, while putting the right words in her head together to answer his question.

When he was younger he never managed to calm down in such a short time. At least not completely. Kakashi thought, regretting slightly, that he had talked, because he preferred a fuming Sasuke to the calm and collected Sasuke, the kid always had wanted to be when he was younger, but never could. It had been easy for the jounin to read the genin back in time, but now he couldn't even say if Sasuke was lucky to see him or not.

"He'll be your guardian for the next week, and you're going to live with him. You'll behave and follow Kakashi's orders, understand that?" Tsunade said with a firm voice that didn't accept any protest.

Sasuke whined mentally, at the news. He couldn't even look at Kakashi, how is he supposed to live with him. The world around him began spinning and he felt his knees becoming weak. He saw black spot's everywhere and the last thing he thought before he fainted was that the drugs were to blame for it.

The Anbu felt the body between them becoming heavier. They tightened their grip on him, preventing him to fall face first on the ground, as his legs gave in.

"Okay, he didn't take it that well." Tsunade mumbled as she got up from her chair to check the Uchiha's health. The Anbu laid him down on the floor and Tsunade felt with her index and middle finger his pulse. "It's probably just the mix of not enough sleep, emotional stress and the drugs Ibiki gave him. Nothing serious. Just let him sleep the next hours, Kakashi, and he will be fit again." Tsunade stated and looked at Kakashi who seemed to be a little bit shocked.

He definitely hadn't seen this coming. He thought Sasuke would protest or yell or something, not that he would pass out. He walked over to the unconscious Uchiha and picked him up bridal style.

"I think I should bring him to my house now." He said lazily and jumped out of the window, Ibiki had opened for him.

"And don't let anyone see him, Kakashi!" The blond yelled after him. She sighed and went back to her desk, slumping into her chair. "You can go, too." She said to the remaining shinobi in her office. After Ibiki had closed the door behind, she opened the drawer finally, pulling out the bottle sake and a glass. She poured the liquid bountiful into the glass and raised it to her glossy lips, taking a big sip. When she sat it back down on the table top, she regarded the now only half-full glass.

"Tse! It isn't half-full. It's half-empty. It's always half-empty." She murmured, showing her pessimism in all its glory.

Well. That was it. Hope it wasn't the bad ^^

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