Chapter Three: The Next Two
The door went down slowly with a loud crack that made Iruka shiver in fear. A large mass of figures with their beady red eyes and...torches? Oh right, they're an angry mob... anyway.
"Chiiiibiiiiis..." They all moan, their voices creaky and hollow. Possessive gleams shined in their eyes, their mouthes drooling! Iruka, after promptly considering turning over Kakashi as a sacrifice, turned around and pulled all the chibis into his embrace. With nimble fingers, he made his hands symbols and then disappeared with a poof of smoke.
"Huh?" Shikimaru asked once the smog dispersed. He blinked and then looked up at the torch in his hand. "What the hell? Dammit, Ino, the chibis got away!" Ino wailed out pathetically next to him, and Choji looked about.
"Hey guys," he grunted. "I thought this mob came with a buffet..."
Iruka gasped, his chest falling and rising rapidly with every passing breath. "You know," Kakashi whined inside his vest. "You doing that is like sending us on a rollercoaster. So please."
The school teacher stopped then, easying himself. "Sorry," he whispered. "I'm...just not used to running from chibi mobs. It's not something that happens every day, you know."
Naruto gasped, his head popping out from inside Iruka's vest. "Man, it's so cramped in there! I think I'm sitting on Sasuke."
"I really don't think he minds..." Kakashi sighed, his eyes closing. Soft chuckles inside emphasized the jounins' suspicions. Iruka immediatly frowned and unzipped his vest, cradeling gently in the crook of his arm all four of the soft, and small chibis. Sakura, he could see, had fallen asleep in the midst of all the excitement and he chuckled at how cute she was with her soft pink hair crowning her now chubby face.
"Although," he admitted aloud. "I can see why a mob formed to chase chibis. Sort of." He chuckled at Naruto, Kakashi and Sasuke's worried, shifting glances and then waved his free hand. "Maa..." he sighed. "Let's go find you all a cure. First stop, the Hokage-Sama."
Tsunade glared as Iruka came in. "Go away," she growled. "I want to go home as soon as I can, and I can't with stupid ninja appearing all the time."
Iruka sighed, the new Hokage as bitter as ever, "Hokage-sama," he whispered. He leaned forward and gently set the chibis down onto her desk, being careful not to disturb the still slumbering Sakura, for her to view. "Kindly explain this."
"They're chibis, good, adorable, the basis of a whole new empire at one point in time, I heard."
"Really?"
"Yes, they're quite popular."
"Well besides that, Hokage-sama, I was wondering if you had an antidote for turning them back to normal."
"Sorry, no can do." replied Tsunada as she picked up Kakashi, who was currently reading a mini volume of Icha Icha Paradise.
"You don't have any potions or ancient scroll to turn them back to normal!"
"To tell you the truth I don't have a clue on how to turn them back to non-chibi mode and I don't want to hurt their cute, little faces." Kakashi looked up at Tsunada and jumped down from her arms to the desk.
"We could use Kakashi-sensei as a test subject and try every clue we have to cure us on him since he was the one who got us into this mess. If he dies well then that just shows that he's weak." sqeaked Naruto as he pointed a chubby arm at the laid back Kakashi.
"How dare you say such cruel things to me! If I weren't like this you'd be running five hundred laps in chibi-mode!" Kakashi angrily growled.
"That doesn't sound much of a threat to me since we're the same size!" Naruto jumped up and began to charge across the desk towards
his sensei.
"I can still beat you even in this form Naruto!" declared Kakashi as he put his fingers onto his student's forehead. He pushed forward, and laughed as the little boy fell backwards from the soft blow.
Iruka growled as the little chibis began to argue admist themselves. "All of you," he mumbled. "Just shutUP!"
Kakashi and Naruto both paused, hugging clutching one another in fear at the sight of Iruka's throbbing vein now on his forehead. "Today was supposed to be just a normal day," Iruka stated his voice wavering in anger. "But no...I got dumped with a load of chibis. Well..."
"Iruka-sensei? Is that you?" Upon hearing his name being called, Iruka turned to face Gai who clutched onto his familiar clothing, tears pouring down his face. "Please...have you seen Kakashi-sensei?" He sniffed, his nose letting out a loud snort, and then lay his head on Iruka's shoulder, sobbing.
The dolphin blinked, his anger slowly dispersing and quickly turning into fear. "Can I help you?" He asked in a shaky voice. Gai nodded, holding up his shaking hands. Iruka watched in amazement as two little faces peered up from beneath their clothes.
"No way..." he breathed. Gai sobbed again, nodding and making Iruka's shoulder wet.
"I didn't know any better, Lee and Neiji were just so tired and I didn't even think...I just gave them the potion!" He screamed then, throwing his head back and sobbing out loud.
"Please Gai-sensei!" Lee cried from his teacher's palm. "Don't cry, it's not your fault at all."
"To hell with that! I'm a stubby freak, I want REVENGE!" Neiji screamed, flying up from Gai's hand. His little leg jut out and in quick lightening speed, tapped Gai's cheek. "Take that you big-browed freak! You turtle lover you make me sick!"
Gai groaned. "It seems the effects of the potion has made Neiji despise me..."
"I really don't think that's it," Kakashi piped up from behind Iruka. Gai's eyes bugged out at the sound of the tiny voice. He ran forward and pushed Iruka to the side, seeing the small chibi standing on the table and watching the now larger male with alert, wide eyes.
"K-Kakashi? Is that you?"
"No, it's Lean Rimes, what do you think genius?"
Gai cried. "Oh youth! I blame your reckless youth!" Kakashi sighed and looked away, mentally noting that this was going to go on for a long while. As their teacher sobbed, Lee and Neiji hopped onto the table counter. The young (heavily eyebrowed) nin stared around at the other little chibis before him and laid his eyes on Sakura, a naked, okay chibified, but still naked Sakura. Neiji grumbled and poked at Lee's now bloodless form.
"Master Gai!" Tenten followed after her sensei but had not been able to keep up with his hyperactive sense of duty to his students. She burst into the room and panted, clutching her hand to her now overly beating heart. "Is everything all right?"
Gai stopped singing about his youth when he turned and grinned. "Ah Tenten, of course everything is fine now. I have been so kindly offered by Iruka his care of our now adorable versions of your class mates." He laughed as Iruka glared at him, thinking angrily to himself about how he had offered no such thing.
"Well," Gai stated turning to Iruka. "I leave them in your care. I will do my best to find a cure as well." He turned to his student. "Tenten! Come, we will travel to find the cure for this accursed form that has left your friends chibified."
Tenten groaned but then straightened. "Sir yes sir..." she sighed and, leaving one last stare in the chibis directions, trailed after her sensei.
Iruka growled. "Tsunade sama, please you don't mean I must..."
"Let's see, if Lightening has a two out of three chance of winning, then he's not as good as the two out of four chance horse! Everyone knows that four is better than three!" The lady hokage laughed, dissappearing in a puff of smoke. Iruka hollered out to nobody, cursing the Hokage's need to constantly gamble.
The school teacher collected himself after a moment's breath and then turned to look at the chibis. Naruto was now skipping around Sasuke, who idely watched out of one eye. Sakura was staring out into space, probably talking with her inner self again. Lee was still unconcious, Neiji was homocidal, and Kakashi was reading a miniature version of Come Come Violence.
...Iruka wanted to kill whoever created chibis, as well as the author of this story.
Back at his house, after being sure to hide the chibis underneath his vest, Iruka began to investigate for something to clothe the little guys. He came back with handkerchiefs and after some time, was able to wrap all of them with small slices of each colorful cloth he could find. The chibis did not like this, and made this apparent with their constant whining. He sighed and assured them. "Don't worry, we'll be going shopping tommorow and you'll get some clothes."
Iruka picked them up and gently lay them onto the ground before heading to his door to fix it. It wasn't that hard and in a manner of a couple of hours he had a new one guarding him from the eyes of the rest of the world. He turned around and then smiled warmly at the sight his eyes laid down upon.
All of them lay in one circle, even Neiji, on the rug he had covering his wooden floor just before a television set barely used. Naruto yawned tiredly, eyes closed and head resting on Sasuke's slowly rising and falling belly as the boy also slept. Lee had attempted to snuggle with Sakura, but was thrown across the room, and Neiji leaned against the remote to the TV on the floor, his head nodding sleepily before he finally secluded himself to that sweet release. Kakashi was curled up, head resting on his book and gently mumbling somethings about what he had been reading before as he too slept. Iruka sighed and then walked up to them all, gently picking up Lee and setting him down closer to the others. The boy yawned and he too fell asleep.
The sensei let out a particularly loud yawn and decided he too should probably sleep soon. He didn't want to abandon the chibis but...ah what the heck. He sprawled out gently so he was close but not too close and stared at the little guys before him. He smiled warmly, chocolate brown eyes drooping heavy with the need to sleep.
"Good night..."
As soon as he was asleep, Kakashi's one blue eye opened and sparked mischeiviously. He grinned darkly and crawled towards Iruka's face, pulling out a miniature black sharpie marker he had been hiding for the longest time now...
Wow, I haven't updated in a long while, sorry about that, not many good things have been going on now, so there hasn't been much time for writing.
But anyways, I hope you all had a Happy Valentines Day!
BTW, don't own Naruto nor do I own Lean Rimes. evil smile
Hehe, and that's right Shikimaru! We all know your secret now, you're a chibi fanatic!
Well that's it I guess the others will be coming in soon enough, as well as some flashbacks on Iruka and Kakashi's past relationship so look forward to it! So...who should I chibify next? Hehehehehe...