Disclaimer: Not mine. Never have been, never will be. (Tear)
Odds and Ends
Chapter Three: Staring Match
Pairings: None
Eighteen minutes and counting.
Gai didn't know how much more he could take. Face screwed up in concentration, he continued to stare intensely at his opponent who in turn stared back at him with the same, bored expression he always bore.
Twenty minutes and counting.
The two of them continued to sit there like statues, the black haired one quivering under the stress and intense concentration, the white haired one still as stone.
Twenty two minutes and counting.
Gai's thick eyebrow twitched.
Kakashi stared.
Twenty five minutes and counting.
Gai felt a tear well up in his right eye.
Kakashi stared.
Twenty seven minutes and counting.
Gai's tear spilled over his lid, tickling his high cheekbone and making his face twitch.
Kakashi stared.
Thirty minutes.
Gai blinked.
"You blinked," Kakashi said simply.
Gai moaned in exasperation, grasping at his soup bowl cut hair, unable to believe that he had once again been defeated by the white haired ninja. However, his look of disappointment was soon replaced by a look of insane determination.
"Very well, my rival, you have won this round," Gai said, raising his clenched fist, "As punishment I will keep my eyes open for five hours without blinking! This will give me the strength and patience needed to challenge you to a rematch and surely win!"
Gai gave a thumbs up in his typical 'nice guy' pose, teeth shining and eyes ablaze with the flames of determination.
Kakashi looks up from his copy of Icha Icha Paradise.
"Did you say something?"
The flames extinguished.