Chapter 7- Game Plan
"You froze the hot springs while they were inside it?"
"Yep."
Haku and Hanabi walked around town, Haku had just finished telling Hanabi what had happened.
Hanabi smiles wide, "You were better off staying dead."
"I never had this much fun before," Haku said excitedly. "Don't try to kill me now."
"Well, what do we do now?" Hanabi wonders.
"What do you want to do?"
"I know, let's go to the hot springs. You can show me that water freezing technique."
Haku thinks a little, "I don't know…"
"Hey, if you don't, I'll spill."
"Okay okay," Haku easily gave in. "Let's head over there."
Haku and Hanabi make their way to the hot springs, they had bumped into Shizune who was looking for Tsunade. It turns out Tsunade was escaping work again. Hanabi tells her she hasn't seen the Hokage and they go their separate routes. They reach the springs, only to find out that there is a sign saying they are warming up the water.
"Aw man," Hanabi sighed.
"No worries, they're warming up the water right?" Haku smiled. "That means I can freeze them and you can look at it with your eyes."
Hanabi perked up, "Hey, you're right."
"So the rumors were true."
"EEK!" The two of them find Itachi standing behind them.
Hanabi speaks nervously, "I-Itachi, what are you doing here?"
"Sasuke and Asuma sent me out to look for Sakura, she's more then a little late for training. I've heard you froze the hot springs but you don't look like a ninja. While I'm here, why don't you show me that water freezing technique?"
Haku forced out a laugh, "Heh heh, since you asked nicely…"
Tsunade was calmly enjoying her time off. She put the sign in front of the hot springs to make sure no will ever come in the springs to bother her, not even Shizune. The warming water was just what she needed to relax herself from the heavy duties of being Hokage.
"Water freezing technique!"
"YEAOOOWW!"
Haku, Itachi and Hanabi stare dumbfounded at the building. They heard the very loud scream, but the sign said they were warming up the water, who could be in there?
CRASH!
They got their answer when Tsunade blasted through the wall in a towel.
"WHO FROZE THE WATER!" Tsunade thundered.
Hanabi points to Haku, "He did it! It was him!"
While Hanabi was pointing to Haku, Tsunade's eyes were on the one standing right next to him, Itachi. Hearing that 'he' did it, Haku was safe because of his looks. Tsunade clenched her fist.
Itachi sees the incoming danger, "W-wait Hokage-sama!"
Tsunade: "SHIN SHOOOOOOORYUUUUKEEEEN!!!"
POW!
In an instant, Itachi disappeared into the big blue sky. The Hulk, aka Tsunade, breathed real heavily as Hanabi and Haku quickly and quietly made their escape.
Sasuke and Asuma meet up with Chouji's team, they ask if they've seen Sakura or Itachi. The told them what happened with Sakura, but they haven't heard anything about Itachi.
Asuma looks up, "I'm sure he's on his way here right now."
"What makes you say that?" Sasuke questioned.
"Just a gut feeling, you might want to move a bit Ino."
"Why?"
Asuma points to the sky behind them. But as they did, Itachi crashes into Ino making a small crater. Both of them groan a little before Itachi tries to get up, in doing so he accidentally gropes Ino's chest. On instinct, Ino kicks her leg up hard, hitting Itachi right where it hurts, causing him to groan even more as Ino leaves the crater.
"What happened?" Sasuke asked.
"THAT PERVERT TOUCHED ME!"
It was silent, except for Itachi's moaning.
Sasuke pointed at his brother, "I was talking about why he fell from the sky…"
"Oh…"
"Well it looks like he won't be able to talk for quite some time," Asuma observed. You socked him pretty hard."
Haku and Hanabi hastily made as much distance from the hot springs as possible. They wanted to avoid Tsunade as much as possible for the rest of the day, or week, or month. The two of them stop at the platform underneath the Hokage's faces.
"And I thought Sakura was scary," Haku spoke out. "She just took out that guy like he was a punching bag!"
"Well, the only one to have gotten her this mad before was Jiraiya. He was peeking at her and she almost killed him for doing so."
"Eh?"
"It's you!"
They turn to see Rock Lee coming up to the platform. He doesn't seem very pleased at seeing Haku. Haku however, senses something is amiss, especially from behind him.
Lee readied himself, "Now, you are going to answer for what you did yesterday!"
"EH!?"
"Now Tenten!"
"Gotcha!"
Tenten jumped out and captures Haku, Hanabi backs off as Rock Lee readies himself for something.
Tenten cries out, "I've got her Lee. Now's your chance to avenge us all!"
"Right! This is for all the girls you humiliated!"
He charges and gets his feet ready for a kick. Haku however, being a missing nin and trained by Zabuza, easily escapes at the last second. Lee instead hits Tenten. She is sent high, as Haku and Hanabi leave quickly.
"Tenten! Are you okay?"
"Do I look okay?"
Haku and Hanabi runs into Neji and Gai at the bottom of the stairs.
Neji speaks, "Hanabi-sama, you should be home now. Hiashi needs you help with something."
Hanabi sighed, "Oh man. Well, I guess I'll see you later Haku."
"Say Haku, are Tenten and Lee up there?" Gai asked. "I asked my team to meet me here for an important lesson."
"They're there alright. Tenten however has a nose to pick with Tsunade."
Gai seems confused, "What are you talking about?"
"You'll see!"
Gai leaves quickly as Neji confronts Haku.
"You better not have gotten Hanabi-sama into any trouble."
Haku smiles, "No worries, if anything she loved the trouble."
"TENTEN! GET OUT OF TSUNADE-SAMA'S NOSE THIS INSTANT!" Gai screamed.
Haku smiles at Neji before walking away. Neji takes a good look at him, thinking that he is just what we needed to spice up life back into Konoha. Joining the rest of his team, he almost laughed at the sight of Tenten's dangling feet coming out of Tsunade's nose.
Author: Okay so that leaves who? Shino, Kankuro, Gaara and Hinata for sure. This fic is almost at its end!
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Haku decides to leave as Kankuro readies for his next show. Haku gets up and goes down a street only to see Sakura, Sasuke, Itachi and Asuma waiting for him. Turning around he sees Ino, Chouji, Kiba and Kurenai. To one side is Tenten, Neji, Lee and Gai and finally Shikamaru and Temari cover the last side. Shino and Gaara notice the strange formation. Kankuro popped his head out of the stage window to see what was going on.
