Chapter 5: The Fifty Foot Turnabout
"KAKASHI!" Iruka bellowed as final warning. "I don't care how late you were up last night, but if you don't straighten up this house you're in for it!" he stared vehemently at the upturned home he'd woken to that morning. Kakashi, with a wave of hope had completely covered the house from top to bottom in scrutiny, doing so in complete secrecy and silence. Iruka's pleasure of stepping on every possible object that once sat on a shelf was overwhelming. He'd even rewarded Kakashi with a blow to the head once he'd gotten a good look at the entirety of damage committed.
Kakashi mumbled something from the back room, but Iruka was already closing the door and starting his walk to school.
The white haired jounin still left in the house moaned to himself before rolling over. He knew what he had to do that day, and he did not look forward to the task.
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Ronna-chan had promised herself repeatedly before turning in for bed the night before. She would get up early and read further into this parody of life book called Icha Icha Paradisu. When proper time to be getting to school came around though, Ronna didn't even have time to eat breakfast. She was late for school, missing her book, and in a general chaos.
"You've got dark circles under your eyes." her brother noted, nose turning up, "You shouldn't be up so late at night, you're grades suck already." he parted ways on those final words, heading in the direction of his own ordained school.
A flat glare rewarded his back, but she did not bait to the taunting. Instead she double and triple checked that her pant leg pocket still held the precious treasure she had been so prosperous to stumble upon. It thumped against her leg lightly as she walked, reassuring the book's presence.
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It was not hard for an Elite member of Konoha's Shinobi and ex-ANBU to find a twelve year old girl with little skill or training. In fact, it was one of the easiest missions he'd ever put himself to. Kakashi only had to look in Iruka's class list, find the girl's last name, then look in the phonebook.
Kakashi was not stupid. In point of fact, he was a genius, the title so aptly given to him for a reason. He knew that if any of the students had the book, it was more than likely to be the squatty girl who'd taken the tumble down the hill. If she had jogged up the part he had been summersaulting down previously, the simplicity of seeing an orange book amongst brown dirt was overwhelming.
Now all he had to do was wait for that fat kid who was walking with her to leave.
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Ronna's heart was pulling in two different directions as she walked. Her eyes passed over the large clock tower towards the center of Konoha. She was already late for class. It was useless in running. She still had a ten minute walk ahead of her. Exasperated, she stopped and huffed at the clock, considering her choices. She could go to school and be twenty minutes late for Iruka-sensei's class, or she could turn around and go back home where the secluded house and dime store porn book would soothe the nagging in her head. It would be nice to calm her desires of finishing the book today, for she couldn't think of much else when there was something distressing her mind.
Icha Icha vs. Iruka-sensei… she was sure she was only one in the world who would ever have to make such a strange decision.
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Kakashi's heart skipped a beat as he watched the kid suddenly turn around. She had been no more than fifty feet from the ambush point! The child was too inexperienced to know that Kakashi had been following her, therefore something else was plaguing her. She had no reason to suddenly turn around and start walking in the other direction, school was the other way! He puffed angrily through his nose, single eye following her warily.
He shifted his pace, stepping back again to camouflage himself as she passed. None the wiser, she continued her pace back to whence she came. Her destination was her home, Kakashi's heart constricting as she opened the door and snuck back in. He followed her chakra mentally, watching the untamed ball of blue energy sneak stealthily through the house and past her father who was still sleeping in the living room chair.
The deep eyed girl settled in her room, Kakashi circling the outside to locate her little dark and messy corner of the house. He couldn't see her, but he could sense her. He located her ball of chakra, leaning against the wall in a small space between her bed and the wall at her elbow. A lamp above her head proved to be the only source of lighting she used at the moment, the rest of the room being dark and forlornly forgotten.
She was well hidden from the window's view, meaning Kakashi could look in and plan his route of entrance. There was no need to scare the living daylights out of her, especially if she'd come back to face some emotional trauma as most twelve year old girls do. She could be sitting there crying for all he knew, and popping in out of nowhere to accuse her of hiding his favorite porn book would probably only escalate troubles for himself.
He settled on a simple plan. Opening the window and sliding in with the quietest of ease, he stood gingerly in two spaces that proved to be the only floor available to stand on. Kids these days sure were messy.
It was really annoying, I corrected all my stupid little spelling errors and mismatched sentences, but every time I click the save button they revert to spelling errors again. There was a 'her' that kept turning back to 'here' repeatedly, and a few others. I gave up. I'm sorry.
Is everyone still following? o.o'
-Aia