Oh dear, I don't believe this one is as good as the others... But here it is, just one more to go. Yondy beware, your time is coming!

Please read and review. Don't think I don't notice you lurkers who read and don't review, I know who you are. Beware Sai's abs are feeling wrathful today.

Note: I don't own any of this, but I do wish I had some ramen...

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Chapter 9. A Bowl of Ramen

The next morning when Rin showed up at the Ramen Shop, Obito was waiting. Obito was never early, except when ramen was involved. He was still wearing his hat, which Rin found weird because he had said yesterday all the green was nearly gone. Today, there weren't even little tuffs of hair poking out from under the hat. Rin was looking confusedly at the hat when she sat down.

"So what's with the hat?" she asked. "I thought all the green was gone,"

"The green is all gone," replied Obito, his voice was subdued.

"So what's with the hat?" she questioned again. Obito turned to her.

"Do you really want to know?" he asked her.

"Yes!" said Rin. Obito frowned, then winced then pulled off the hat. The green was gone all right. Rin's eyes widened in shock with a wordless gasp she fainted.

"Rin? Rin-chan?"

Rin opened her eyes dimly. Obito was kneeling beside her, a very worried look on his face. He was wearing his hat again.

"Are you alright?" he asked. Rin rubbed her head, she had fallen off the stool and now she had a throbbing headache.

"Obito, your…"

"Yeah, I know," he answered swallowing.

"But…but… HOW!" she whispered fearfully staring at his hat.

"I don't know," replied Obito sitting back. "Maybe some of that shampoo rubbed off on my hands, I just don't know how…"

"What are you two doing on the floor?" demanded a very annoyed Kakashi. The two stood up.

"Nothing," replied Rin.

"And what's with the hat, Obito. I thought you said the green's all gone," said Kakashi.

"The green is gone," replied Obito.

"Then what's with the hat!"

"Do you really want to know?" asked both Obito and Rin.

"Yes!"

"Don't say I didn't warn you," said Obito and he pulled off the hat. Kakashi looked with a blank look of shock on his face at Obito's hair.

"You're… blonde!" said Kakashi and began to laugh. Embarrassed, Obito pulled back on the hat over his now bleach blonde hair.

"Well," said Rin trying to get over her shock at his hair. "What's the plan now?" Obito laughed and pulled out a paper bomb.

"I've invited Arashi-sensei to breakfast here," said Obito. Kakashi looked from Obito to the paper in his hand.

"That's brilliant," he whispered in admiration. Obito nodded humbly.

"It shouldn't go wrong," he said, then waved over the owner of the ramen shop.

"What is it, Uchiha-san?" asked the owner.

"Could I just have an empty bowl?" asked Obito. The owner looked slightly confused then handed Obito a bowl and watched as Obito stuck the paper bomb to the bottom of the bowl.

"When Arashi-sensei comes in here, put what he orders in this bowl, okay?" asked Obito handing the bowl back to the owner. The owner looked at the bowl awkwardly.

"Umm… okay,"

"Speak of the devil," hissed Rin under her breath. Arashi pulled up a stool.

"Hey guys," he said with a grin at his students. They and the owner smiled awkwardly back.

"I'll have a large portion of some pork ramen, kudasai," said Arashi to the owner who nodded.

"I'll have some pork too," said Obito.

"I'll have chicken," said Rin.

"I'll have what she's having," added Kakashi. The owner nodded and carrying the sabotaged bowl went back to fix the ramen.

"So why did you want me to come to breakfast with you?" asked Arashi.

"Uh…n..no reason," stuttered the three at once.

"Rrrright," replied Arashi. "Say Obito, what's with the hat?"

"Here you go," said the owner passing out the bowl. As Obito got his bowl and was about to eat it, he realized that it was the wrong bowl.

"Uh, this isn't my…." He never had a chance to finish as the bowl of ramen exploded on him. Obito fell off the stool.

"Obito-kun!" cried Rin running to him.

"Urgh…" whispered Obito. "Foiled again."

"Here, let me help you," said Rin helping him stand up. Kakashi just shook his head. It's like everything we try keeps getting messed up… Kakashi dug into his ramen trying to figure it out. Sooner or later something they did had to work. It wasn't possible for them to just continually to fail.

As Rin and Obito walked off to plot, Arashi examined the shards of the bowl.

"Hmmm…something's fishy here…" he murmured.

It looks like a job for the claw….

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to be continued...

uh oh beware the claw... review or face its wrath, either that or the wrath of Sai's abs, neither of which are pleasent.

-Hammy Uchiha