A/N: Sorry about the short chapters, but I'm getting ready to start college and don't have a lot of time to write. And because these aren't really supposed to be that long. So yeah. And now, we move on to bringing Kakashi closer to a nervous breakdown!

Kakashi's eye was twitching, and he could lay the blame on nothing happening. Normally, his team was getting into some insanity or other, but so far today they had done everything he said, the moment he said it. And it was driving him crazy...

"Kakashi-sama, you seem to be rather tense. Is something the matter?" Kakashi whirled around, eye twitch upgrading into eye spasms, and glared at the three gennin standing behind him, wearing soft blue and white kimonos, hair put into single buns on the back of their heads with a pair of senbon needles holding them in place, and jaw-length bangs framing their beatificly smiling faces.

"What are you up to? You're never this good! It's always crazy this and insanity that, trouble, headaches, and paperwork! I never know if you're going to be from Konoha or missing-nin from Kumo or Iwa! What are you planning!" He stopped his rant, partially because he was running out of breath and partly because of Team 7's reactions to it.

At his words, they had drooped and seemingly deflated until by the time he stopped, they were huddling in a corner surrounded by depression and despair.

"We've failed Kakashi-sama as his tools, we've become useless to him. Maybe we should just kill ourselves to relieve him of the burden we're causing him by living..." They trailed off, gloomily poking the ground in front of them. Kakashi froze, then hurriedly shoved down the tiny voice that screamed at him to let the kill themselves and get it over with. Sighing, he walked over and awkwardly patted two of their heads.

"Come on now, you're not really a burden, so stop talking about killing yourselves." Instantly, three pairs of watery, sparkling eyes were turned to him.

"Really, you mean it? We're not just broken tools to be thrown in a gutter for being useless? And causing problems?" Kakashi nodded and tried to get the image of Sasuke's puppy-dog eyes out of his head.

"No, you're not useless. Now if you want to keep being useful, go patrol the bridge and keep Tazuna alive." Team 7 jumped to their feet and snapped to attention.

"Hai, Kakashi-sama! We will prove that we are effective tools!" They then whipped out Mist hunter-nin masks, snapped them over their faces, and vanished at the same instant, leaving three small splashes of water behind. Kakashi sighed, then glanced around the room to see if anyone else was around before unsealing a jug of sake ("borrowed" from Tazuna's private stash) and gulping down almost half of it.

"I needed that."

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Kakashi groaned as he cradled his head in his hands. Why oh why had he drank all that sake? Oh yeah, his team. Speaking of which, where were they? He froze, then slowly turned to the window. Daylight, morning to be precise. He turned even more slowly towards the clock on the wall. Nine o'clock. He had started drinking around three in the afternoon. I've been out for eighteen hours! What have those little monsters done while I was out? Starting to panic, he jumped to his feet and dashed out the door to the dining room where he was met with the sight of Team 7, still dressed the same way, sitting around the table sipping tea.

He sighed again, this time in relief, then froze up as he noticed the presence of a fourth occupant of room, who looked exactly the same as the other three, but with brown hair. And as if to confirm his worst fears, they all turned towards him at the exact same time.

"Ah. Kakashi-sama, you're awake! You really shouldn't drink like that you know." Kakashi's mouth opened and closed several times behind his mask, before finally squeezing out a horrified: "They're multiplying!" and fainted.

A/N: So while Kakashi was passed out, Team 7, still as Haku, put Zabuza back into a near-death state and talked the real Haku into surrendering and pranking Kakashi. And can't you imagine Haku guilt-tripping Zabuza into acting nicer or shopping? XD