Title: Plushie no Jutsu
Series: Naruto
Author: Miali
Chapter five: Goldfish and Kitty-cats
Disclaimer: Another verse, same as the first, a little bit louder and a whole lot worse.
A/N: Okay! So, I'm back. Here's the update for PnJ, I don't have time to type up my drabbles… I spent a good 5 out of 7 hours sleeping in the car today and didn't get any homework done. Yes, real life has caught up with me. I will however, post what I have of the second chapter of Restart in my LJ, so go and read that or something. That should hopefully be done sometime soon!
Oh yes, as for the spelling error in the last chapter – I can't change it… wouldn't let me replace the chapter. Thanks to those that had noticed though… I got to writing authors' notes and forgot about it. XDD
Well now, I've talked myself to death so I shall head on to write chapter five, ne? X3
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Iruka eventually dozed off, sometime around eleven, throughout the entire time the cat had remained focused on the plushie, who was thinking of ways to avoid the situation yet to come.
Iruka's tanned arm was draped over the plump cat, who was curled into a ball. As soon as he was sure the chuunin was asleep, however, the cat slid languidly from beneath the teacher's arm and leapt silently up onto the shelf where the plushie was sitting. Kakashi shifted slightly to see the cat, but he was unable to turn his fluffy head far enough to see the creature.
A cold nose and whiskers brushed across the back of Kakashi's head and the plushie shivered. The feline rubbed its cheek against the plushie for a moment before a white paw batted at the jounin. Kakashi slid a few inches along the shelf. A few more blows were landed by the feline before Kakashi fell to the ground with a light thump.
The triumphant cat jumped slowly from the shelf to Iruka's bed, landing softly on the sleeping chuunin, who only rolled over, knocking Sakana slightly off balance. The cat forgot about its prey for the moment, finding it uninteresting.
Kakashi looked up at the cat on the bed with his one uncovered eye and a plan came to his mind. All that was necessary was for his headband to be lifted. A small peach arm struggled to lift itself up to a similar-shaded face. Stubby fingers found the bottom of the cloth headband and attempted to lift it up, only to find his arm was too short. Kakashi groaned aloud and rolled over.
On the bed, Sakana's orange ear turned toward the sound, quickly followed by a shift of the head. Kakashi found himself staring into two iridescent green eyes and froze. A soft thump was heard and the cat was quickly beside the plushie. The plushie's mind raced and he quickly put his hands together.
"Kage bunshin no jutsu!" ten more Kakashi plushies filled the floor. The cat paused for a moment, confused. It shook its head before attempting to pounce on the original plushie. The cat was fast, but Kakashi was faster. "Kwarimi no jutsu!" The cat landed on one of the plushie clones and it evaporated in a puff of smoke. Sakana closed his eyes and sneezed, giving one of the plushies a short amount of time to crawl slowly across the floor toward the original, face dragging and unable to lift its head.
The clone reached its destination and pulled up the original's mask just seconds before the cat pounced on the clone, which again erupted in smoke, causing the cat to sneeze. Kakashi continued to switch through clones, causing the cat to become irritated further and continue to destroy the plushies. Finally there were only two remaining.
Sakana, having learned his lesson by now, pounced on the further clone, only to have it explode in smoke. The original Kakashi plushie laughed. "You really aren't the most intelligent animal, are you?" The cat hissed and swatted at the plushie. Kakashi smiled. "Here kitty kitty kitty…" He caught the cat's eyesight for a moment and preformed a quick genjutsu. Unfortunately for Kakashi, however, the cat's mind works differently from that of a human and the jutsu had no effect.
Within moments, Kakashi lay on the floor, cuts leaking fluffy gore onto Iruka's floor. He looked over at the bits of fluff throughout the room and wondered how long until Iruka awoke.
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Iruka's buzzer went off promptly at 6:00 AM. He sat up in bed and rubbed at his eyes. A tanned hand reached out to grasp the plushie from the shelf, only to find a blank void. The chuunin's dark eyes dropped to the floor. The plushie wasn't there either. He stood and walked across the room toward the bathroom. Only then did he notice the sight of horror.
Well, it would've been, had Kakashi still been human.
What Iruka did see was a mangled looking Kakashi lying face-up on the floor, bits of fluff strewn across the room, and a very content looking cat sleeping on the heater.
"Sakana!" The cat opened its eyes lazily and meowed at Iruka. The teacher sighed and scooped up the plushie and bits of fluff. "C'mon Kakashi-chan, let's get you fixed up."
In Iruka's kitchen, Kakashi now lay on the table, various sewing supplies spread out around him.
"I'm sorry about Sakana… He's usually not a bad cat… I suppose he gets it from my students." Iruka picked up a needle and thread and began to gently stitch up the plushie's arm. "I suppose you're wondering what I mean by that, ne?" Kakashi nearly nodded, more than a little eager for something to keep his mind off of the needle about to pierce through his arm.
"Sakana was a gift from Naruto's class…" Ah. Well, that explains something. The plushie thought, still a little bitter about losing his fight. "The name was a joke, Naruto's idea, based off of what the class had done the previous year." Iruka gestured toward a very large goldfish swimming in a fishbowl on the windowsill. "His name is Neko."
Iruka finished up the stitching in Kakashi's arm and moved to tend to his other injuries. Meanwhile, Sakana wandered victoriously around the kitchen, whining for his breakfast. Iruka sat the plushie down to pour dried brown cat food into a porcelain bowl. The cat ate greedily before hopping up onto the windowsill and watching Neko fixatedly.
Iruka, you run a strange household.
There was a loud knocking on the door and Iruka hurried to open it. On the other side stood a loud blonde with a fox-like grin on his face.
"Hey – Hey, guess what Iruka-sensei!"
Iruka smiled kindly at the blonde, "What Naruto? Would you like to come in for breakfast?"
The blonde nodded and followed after the teacher into the apartment chattering incessantly behind him. "You're gonna be team seven's leader until Kakashi-sensei gets back!"
On the table, Kakashi laughed.