4. Chapter

"No, Asuma, to the other side! Noo! Kick, yes! No, you have to jump!" Midori tried energetically to help Asuma, but after all, it didnt seem like it would work.

"Yes, I won again!" Kurenai shouted out of joy "maybe you should train more often." Laughing by making fun of him she pricked him.

"Hmm, anyway, what are we going to do next?" Asuma said trying to stop playing this game and put the controller back on the table.

"Uh, I know something! I know something!" Midori shouted „We can go and play at the river, or we could play hide and seek in the park, or ...!"

Asuma gave Kurenai a cant-you-do-something-about-this-look and she understood immediately and nodded slightly. "Midori-chan?" the girl stopped making troublesome suggestions.

Kurenai smiled "Midori-chan, do you like flowers?"

"Sure"

"Would you like ma to teach you some Ikebana?" The girl first looked as if she was thinking but then nodded excitedly. So they went together outside, and on the meadow Kurenai started explaining while Asuma leaned on a tree and watched them smiling. He just realized how beautiful Kurenai really was. But he shook his thoughts of when he noticed a certain pervert-books-reading-ninja in a tree.

"Hey Kakashi, what are you doing up there?"

"Im just hanging around."

"And since when do you prefer just hanging in a tree especially without your book?" Asuma questioned.

"Well, I do it from time to time. Er...but" he looked at Asuma smiling mischievously "the way you look at Kurenai... you love her. Thats more than obviously." Asuma felt quiet uncomfortable because Kakashi could eventually be right and he didnt even know whether this was good or bad. But he decided to deny it.

"We´re just friends and we are certainly NOT a couple." He said emphatically.

"Yeah, yeah, anyway...bye!" Kakashi said with a smile as if he wanted to add not yet. Then the silver-haired jounin disappeared with a puff of smoke. Asuma was really thankful that he did but he had to think about what Kakashi had said. Did he really have those feelings for her?

When Kurenai suddenly turned around to him smiling he recognized he was staring at her. He had to blush furiously and looked away immediately. When she realized his weird doing and so the staring, her cheeks turned into a pink colour. Midori seeing this, and so her plan working, couldnt do other than smiling devilishly. But she hurried to finish her Ikebana and when Kurenai looked back at her she hold it grinning in her hands.

"Im ready! Lets go home and play games!" So they got up went back to her house.

"So, what do you want to play?"

"Its a surprise! Ill prepare it, then youll see." With that Midori disappeared into the kitchen letting Asuma and Kurenai alone in the living room. Once more they sat on the sofa, waiting (more with fear than with curiosity p)

In the kitchen Midori prepared the game. First she took a tray, than many small glasses out of some shelves. She ordered the glasses in a circle on the tray with one big glass in the middle. Then she filled them with different juices. To make the game more interesting she thought to use alcohol. Smiling she searched in some cupboards. so, I need something that doesnt taste that much, so they wont become suspicious. Well, what about whiskey? So she went to a little cupboard next to the fridge and took out a bottle of this drink. She filled it into most of the glasses, then put it back, and came back into the living room with the full tray. Both ninja looked up when she entered the room and placed the game on the table. But Midori fast ran away into the kids-room, and returned some seconds later with a three dice in her hand. The waiting ninja gave her an asking look.

"OK, the game is to dice until someone of us get a 6, than this person can take a glass out of the circle and drink, the next person getting a 6 will drink the glass standing on the right side of that was drunk before and so on. The glass in the centre is the last one."

"Sounds...funny." Kurenai tried to appraise the game, and so it began...

After 20 minutes, Midori drank just one glass, Asuma drank more, but not as much as Kurenai. Looking at her Midori knew why she used alcohol, Kurenai was...some sort of plastered. Just when Midori suggested to play again, Mange alias Genma came in.

(S)he smiled "Hi, Midori-chan! Kurenai–san, Asuma-san, I hope shes been a good girl. By the way, why are you wearing such clothes, Kurenai-san?" she tried to asked hyperbolically friendly. Kurenais face turned into a deep shade of red and so Asuma answered instead.

"Thats not important. But I assume that our mission ends here."

Mange smiled and nodded."Yes, Im very grateful to you for taking car of my daughter." (S)he quickly stepped close shook their hands and pushed them outside with a short "Bye". Before the door closed Asuma could have bet that Midori had an evil grin, an Anko-like grin on her face.

"Well." Asuma started when Kurenai leaned against him. "Whats wrong Kurenai?" he asked not quite if he should be worried or if he should enjoy it.

"I dont know I just feel a bit tired." She said still blushed. "Dont you think this drinks tasted...weird?" "I dont know." He scratched his head. "But because you are tired... would you like to walk with me to my home where I could make us some coffee?" "Sounds great!"

In Midori's house

Both Genma and Anko transformed back to their real form. Anko stretched still smiling.

"Mission accomplished!" Genma raised an eyebrow

"Do you really think it worked?"

„Of course! Female intuition."

"Hm."

"By the way why do you still have that stick in your mouth? It would have ruined everything if they had noticed."

"Hn."

"OK, now just Kakashi has to tell us what they are doing now." She smiled widely.

In Asuma's house

Kurenai sat down on the couch and Asuma went into the kitchen to make some coffee. He pushed aside the broken piece of the vase and took out two cups out of the cupboard. A brief moment later he was back in the living room with two cups of coffee and sat down next to Kurenai. She took one and smiled. They both sat there and enjoyed each others company for a while. When Kurenai rested her head on his shoulder he looked up. She was asleep.

"Kurenai?" he asked softly. Hmm, should I wake her or let her sleep? He first thought to wake her but shes been quite tired and now she looked somehow peaceful. Asuma shifted his position a little and soon fell asleep, too.

Outside Kakashi smirked. He hang upside-down on the roof and watched the scene through the window.

What a cute couple. I think Ill go to tell Anko that the mission was successful. He glanced a last time through the window and jumped over the roofs under the moonlight.

End

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