chpt 11

It took alot of convincing from haruka for gai not to want to instantly tear into his rival the moment he got out of the hosiptal. To most of the other jounins this was a shock, gai usually was very stubborn, never listening when it came to beating his rival, but bizzarely he listened to haurka. Oh well, kakashi wasnt gonna argue...

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Iruka boredly sat outside the hostpital..he'd gotten a mighty big whack on the head because of spying on gai and haruka with kakashi. He coudldn't even rememebr what had happeend...only a vauge memory it was kakashis idea. oh well.

He got to his feet, wobbling all the way home, but just as he was about to go lie down, he heard a cheeping by his feet. Dizzily he looked down "eh...canary?" he asked. It flew up and sat on his ponytail chirping happily. He blinked slowly at it..then smiled, wobbling inside and closing the door.

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The next day haruka sat in the classroom, wondering where iruka was. He was late for his own class, the kids were sitting around looking restless, she didnt have a lesson plan and so was trying to think of something. But just as she was about to speak, the door opened.

"ehe...sorry im late..." she looked at iruka as he entered...and did a double take. For there, perched on his head, was a tiny little tellow canary. "uhh...iruka-sensei..?" she asked. He blinked, then smiled "oh him? thats Stupid" she blinekd "you called a canary Stupid?" he nodded smiling "yeah, at least that way, if anyone ever asks if im alone.." he sat behind the desk, Stupid balanced on his ponytail "i can say im with Stupid.."

She did a major sweatdrop as the kids swarmed up to take a look at Stupid, who sat on iruaks ponytail chirping happy.

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The rest of the lesson was uneventful, unless u counted Stupid somehow managing to peck irukas ponytail loose, which resulted in the chuunin walking smack into a wall. The kids wouldn't stop laughing for ages, and iruka seemed utterly dizzy again...

She sighed, she was sitting at the desk, marking the papers. Iruka hadnt been looking too well after the lesson so she'd told him to go home and rest, she'd take care of the papers. She'd been sitting there for ages, since iruka had stumbled off, Stupid sitting on his head as always.

"erf..." she stared down at the pile of papers on the desk, no matter how much she did, there always seemed to be more. "z.." she stared dozing off, her last thought "canary stupid..?"

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-POKE-

"lee, stoppit."

-POKE-

"lee..thats not gonna help.."

-POKE-

"lee-!"

haruka awoke to someone poking her in the head, hearing a familair voice..shifting she turned and looked at lee "ehh?" she asked dozily. Behind him she heard a voice "ok..so maybe it did work.." she sat up "ahh.." she yawned "gai-kun" she smiled happily, feeling the tiredness ease away upon seeing him.

He smiled "sorry about that..lee here.." he poked him in the head, causing the student to laugh "thought a good dose of poke-her-in-the-head-repeatedly would help..."She started to laugh "actaully it did..its been a weird day..." he smiled "want to go to the ramen resturant and get some food, you can tell us what was wierd about it there.." lee noddded happily "the whole place has been re-done and it looks great!" she smiled "that'd be great..."

lee bounded ahead, and she and gai smiled knowingly at each other "he a sweet kid" "yes.." then they smiled at each other, haruka's face a little red, but she felt happy now he was there...Lee looked back for a second, and saw the smiles between the two of them -ehh...i right! they DO like each other..!- he smiled.....

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"Iruka was back in class again?" she nodded. "yeah, but he looked very pale..and.." she stared laughing. Gai blinked "eh?" she looked up, trying not to burst out laughing "he had...a canary with him, called..Stupid.."why would he name a canary that?" gai asked baffled. She shook her head, shoudlers shakign in laughter "because he said it would be funny to tell ppl..if they asked if he was alone..that he was with Stupid..." the all sweatdropped, Lee couldnt help laughign at the idea of a canary being called stupid...

"i think..." gai said at last, over lees laughing "irukas a few feathers short of a whole budgie..." haruka laughed even mroe "i-it was..it was a c-canary.." she managed to stammer out. They all just started laughing and all the jounins nearby thought theyd never seen gai THIS happy before...somethign to do with haruka...

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Authors Note: bwahaha! extra long chapter 2 amke up for the wait..XD sorry this took so long, first i lost the original data for this chapter...then i caught the flu x.x coudlnt sit in front of my PC w/out fainting....x.x