Get With the Times (Video games)
April 2005

Written for the Video Games challenge at LJ's Naruto100 community.

Title: Get With the Times
Characters: Team 7, Iruka, and some special guest appearances
Challenge: Video Games
Word Count: 400
Bonuses: Cross-dressing, multiple-of-100-word count, Naruto characters transformed into animals, game over
Note: Written as an alternative to having to deal with what FF dot net's forcing me to choose between (bastardized karaoke scene or abandoning the site entirely)... sigh.
Other note: Beware of crack. And yes, this game DOES exist, though not specifically for PS2 and I've never seen anyone play it, so I don't know the, er, action details... just seen screen shots, and (sweatdrop) that was enough...

The day that Kakashi-sensei decided to modernize his teaching methods went down in the history books as one of the most eventful in recent Konoha history... and that was including events like the chuunin exams.

Iruka stared at the screen, left eyebrow twitching spastically, with a very unhealthy-looking vein throbbing in his forehead.

"Computer-based educational methods are more and more important these days," Kakashi said sagely, perched cross-legged on a beanbag that had seen better days, and poking buttons on the controller in his hand. "This one, for example, has several benefits -- hand-eye coordination, elementary social skills, high-speed judgement calls--"

"JUDGEMENT CALLS?" Iruka thought he was sounding quite reasonable and self-controlled, given the circumstances. "WHAT about this game involves GOOD judgement? Where the hell did you get this -- travesty, this --WAIT -- wait, that -- WHAT is Sasuke WEARING?"

"A French maid outfit," Sakura said with a disturbing note of bliss in her voice, mashing buttons until the Sasuke on the screen did a high kick that flashed frilly underwear.

Behind her, Sasuke huffed and crossed his arms and turned a ferocious and suspiciously pink-cheeked glare on the corner of Naruto's sofa. Naruto, being Naruto, laughed at him.

"You're just sore because I whipped your sorry butt and got to be seme!"

Sasuke's pride couldn't let that go uncommented. "I transformed you into a goat!"

"Yeah, well, you were the one in the skirt, and goats are all horny and stuff, so of course I won that round--"

Iruka looked like he'd just blown a blood vessel. "He transformed into a goat? With French maids and miniskirts and God there's panty shots and -- wait, there's worse than panty shots, he -- just took off his -- Wait, what am I wearing?"

"Nothing at all!" Kakashi said gleefully.

Iruka's scream of outrage shattered windows for three blocks.

By the time Tsunade finished picking the fractured shards of the game disc out of Jiraiya's backside (since Iruka had imbedded them quite deeply), three notes had been added to the development file kept by the company who had been working on beta-testing the Icha Icha Paradise PS2 game.

The notes read:

1) Investigate secondary market use of broken game disks as shuriken.

2) Run background (and sanity) checks on teachers who offer to beta test H-games.

3) Umino Iruka-sensei (plus) students (plus) hentai material (equals) game over.