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A/N: I've went over all the previous chapters and edited some stuff, and corrected some minor mistakes I found. Nothing major that you need to re-read the entire thing for, but I've added a new part to chapter 6 that I forgot to put earlier, which is pretty strange since that new scene was one that I've been wanting to write for quite awhile, so if you could kindly please read chapter 6 again and tell me what you think of the new part, I'd be quite grateful. ^-^
Oh, and to my faithful readers whom I am eternally grateful for, I'm afraid that the next chapter will be postponed for some time due to an evil thing some teachers like to call "semester finals". I hope you will be patient...
*Interesting note: this chapter was written backwards.
Back in Konoha, Elite Jounin Ebisu was busy lecturing his incurable charge Konohamaru. Well, perhaps "lectured" isn't the most suitable word. "Attempting and failing miserably to correct a youngster and being ridiculed instead" would be more fitting. Below follows an account of their conversation.
"You WHAAAATT?!!!"
The goggle-sporting boy sulked, pouting.
"Are you telling me, that YOU are responsible for your sister's missing book?!!"
The pout deepened into a scowl. "If you didn't know that already, then whad'you asking me for??"
Ebisu frowned. Such insolence, in one so young! "Do you know how much trouble you've caused for your entire family by pulling that stupid prank? Now, speak! Where did you put the book?"
"Back where I found it in the first place..." the youngster muttered.
"And where is that, exactly?" the Jounin pressed.
"In a cave where I fell off from the cliff last week when we were hiking, okay?!!" Konohamaru finally spilled. "I hated that book! Whenever they were reading it I could hear them through the walls and it drove me crazy!! Ick!" the boy shuddered. "Now tell me who told on me!!" he demanded.
Ebisu chuckled superciliously. "You really believe that you could get away with a prank like that without the Hokage-sama's knowledge?"
"What? So it was the old geezer that spilled on me?? I'm gonna make him regret it! I'm gonna go defeat him right now and become Hokage myself!!" Declared Konohamaru before he charged torwards the Hokage's room.
However, he'd barely taken two steps before he tripped over his own scarf and fell flat on the floor. He picked himself up, muttering "Ow", but was prevented from taking another step by Ebisu, who now had a death grip on the end of his scarf which choked Konohamaru whenever he tried to go beyond the circle formed by the radius of the scarf.
"Nuh-uh, not so fast! I didn't spend the entire morning chasing you down just to let you run off again!" pulling on the scarf, he reined in the boy like a fish and picked him up by the collar so that the child was now dangling helplessly before him.
But perhaps not as helpless as he thought.
Concentrating hard, Konohamaru put his chubby little hands together into a seal. "HENGE!!" he yelled, transforming into a young, dark-haired, and very naked girl.
Ebisu let go of the boy at once, sputtering in indignation. "KONOHAMARU!!! WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THAT VULGAR SKILL??!" he yelled at the boy, but not before Konohamaru saw the tell-tale drop of blood coming out of his irascible tutor's nose and the slight blush that stained the lanky man's cheeks.
There was no way around it: the youngster must be corrected and set on the right path once more, and the only one who could do that was: the Special Jounin, Ebisu of Konoha! He puffed up his chest, about to give the grand lecture of the year.
The youngster recognized that look on his mentor's face. Desperate for excape, he blurted out the first thing that came to mind. "Oh, look! Kurenai-sensei's coming this way!" he said, pointing a finger behind Ebisu.
"W-what?" Ebisu quickly straightened out his shirt and hastily blotted at his bleeding nose with a hankerchief, lest his disheveled appearance be witnessed by another of his rank--and especially not by the attractive Kurenai-sensei! Hurriedly pushing his sunglasses up a notch with his middle finger, he turned around, taking his eyes off the boy for a few precious seconds.
However, those few seconds was all that Konohamaru needed to scamper off.
Fully expecting to be confronted with the newest female Jounin of Konoha, Ebisu turned around--only to be met with an empty hallway. He whirled around quickly only to find that his charge had also disappeared.
There was no way around it; the Ebisu, the Elite Super Special Jounin charged with the special mission of training the grandson of the Hokage, had been duped.
At this point, it should be noted that the man's face was livid with anger and was turning the color of a ripe tomato. One could practically see steam rising out of his ears and nostrils. The redness of his face intensified to the point where all the man's stress, frustration, and exasperation exploded in one single word:
"KONOHAMARUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"