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A Bunch of Childish Preteens

Chapter 4-Beware in the kitchen!

They were in the kitchen and Kakashi avoided stepping on the messy food that now lay on his kitchen floor after Sasuke's little "rampage." He'll definitely clean it later, but it made Kakashi wonder how Sasuke can be hungry again so soon. This kid does have a big appetite.

"You three, sit down while I look for food, okay?"

They nodded and Kakashi headed to the closet to look for food.

Meanwhile, the three little kids went to the dinner table. Sakura chose the chair in the middle. Naruto and Sasuke went to the end of the table and suddenly pulled out the same chair as they glared at each other.

"Hey, I'm going to sit here!" Sasuke shouted at Naruto.

"Nah uh, I'm going to sit here!" Naruto yelled back.

"You can't sit here! I pulled the chair out first!"

"Not true! I did!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!'

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

Kakashi knew they're going to call him now.

"PAPA KAKA!"

"PAPA KACHI!" They yelled in unison.

He knew it, "I thought so…here we go again."

"What is it?"

"Sasuke won't let me sit here!" The blonde haired boy pointed at the raven haired boy.

"Nah uh! You're the one who won't let me sit here!"

"Not true! You're lying!"

"No, you are!" Sasuke poked Naruto's chest.

"Are not!" Naruto poked him back.

"Are too!"

"Are not!"

"Are too!"

"For god sakes, stop fighting!" Kakashi was finally annoyed with their argument, "It doesn't matter who sits here! Why doesn't one of you sit there?"

"I don't want to! I like sitting here!" Naruto whined.

"Yeah, I like sitting here too!" Sasuke agreed.

Kakashi slapped his forehead, "What different does it makes? It's not like that seat is special or anything. They're all the same."

"Why do you want to sit there?" He asked calmly.

"Because it's the head of the table and it has the most power." Naruto pounded his chest proudly, "That's why!"

"Yeah, that's right! I want to be the most powerful too!" Sasuke raised his hands up in the air.

Kakashi sweat dropped, "Even though, they're small. They still act the same."

"I don't care about the powerful thing. I'll settle this. Naruto can sit there and Sasuke you have to sit over here."

"Yay! I get to be the most powerful!" Naruto cheered happily.

"No fair! Why does he get to sit there?" Sasuke said, angrily.

"I'm not going to explain why. Just do what I tell you."

"This sucks!"

"Ha-ha, I get to sit here, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!" Naruto stuck his tongue out at Sasuke.

Sasuke glared at Naruto, "I hate you."

Naruto did raspberry sounds with his tongue at Sasuke. Sasuke just kept on glaring at him.

Kakashi snickered, "That's Naruto and Sasuke I know."

He opened the closet only to find a can of tomato soup, tomato sauce, and spaghetti noodles.

"I guess I use these…but first I should check what's in the fridge." After that, he rummaged through his refrigerator.

Inside the fridge was only a plate covered in foil. He picked up the plate and removed the foil. It had four onigiris (rice balls) that he had for dinner last night.

"This will do. I'll make spaghetti and warm these onigiris up." He closed the refrigerator and put them in the microwave, setting the time to one minute.

Afterward, Kakashi took a big pot out of the closet; put it in the sink and turned on the water to fill it up. He turned the faucet off, placed the pot on the stove, and turned on the fire, which made Sasuke excited, "Cool! Fire!"

"Um…yeah. Fire," Kakashi raised one of his eyebrows, wondering why he was so happy about the fire.

"Papa Kachi?"

"Hm?"

"Can I play with fire?"

"W-what?" Did he hear it right?

"Fire! Can I play with fire?"

Yup, he heard it right. "Is he out of his mind?"

"…Uh no. you may not."

"Why not?"

"Because it's dangerous."

"How is it dangerous?"

"It just is. So, no fire."

"But, but I want to play with fire!" He whined.

"Well, you can't! You're too young to play with fire."

"But I'm a big boy!"

"Not even close. You're still a kid." Kakashi patted Sasuke's head.

"I'M NOT A KID!" Sasuke shouted, slapping his hand.

"Yes, you are."

"Am not!"

"Are too."

"Am not, am not, am not!"

"Are too and that's final. No more arguing."

"Hmph!" Sasuke crossed his arms angrily with a grumpy face.

"Kids." Kakashi muttered.

Later…

Kakashi finished cooking spaghetti. He reached for three plates on the shelf, used the tong to carefully place the noodles onto the plates, and spread the tomato sauce over it. He brought it over to the dinner table.

Then, Kakashi went to get the onigiris from the microwave and took them to the table as well.

"There you go. Now eat."

"Yay! Spaghetti! Me like spaghetti!" Sakura started eating.

"Onigiri, onigiri, onigiri!" Sasuke grabbed the rice ball with his two hands and took a small bite.

"They're so cute when they're happy."

Kakashi noticed that Naruto wasn't eating, "Naruto, why aren't you eating?"

"I don't like spaghetti or onigiri!"

"Why not?"

"I want to eat ramen!"

"Sorry Naruto, but I don't have ramen."

"But I want ramen!"

"No ramen!"

"I want ramen! I want ramen! I want ramen!"

"Say all you want. You won't get ramen anyway."

"I won't eat then!"

"Fine, then don't eat."

"Then I won't eat!" Naruto crossed his arms and suddenly his stomach growled, "…I'm hungry…" He placed a hand over his stomach.

"Then eat."

"No, I won't eat this stuff! I want ramen!"

"My goodness…I never thought Naruto would be such a stubborn kid."

"Oooohhhh! Cool fire!"

"Huh? Fire?" Kakashi turned around to see Sasuke standing by the stove.

"Fire on, fire off, fire on, fire off!" Sasuke repeatedly turned the stove on and off.

"Sasuke, don't do that! It's dangerous!" Kakashi rushed over while Naruto left his seat and wandered around in the kitchen.

Sakura found something interesting on top of the fridge. It was a big jar full of cookies, "Cookie…" She got off her seat to get a cookie.

Kakashi held Sasuke's hand.

"Let me go! I want to play with fire!" Sasuke tried to wiggle out of Kakashi's grasp.

"No, you will not! Now that you didn't listen to me, I guess I have to punish you."

"Noooo! Me don't like punishment!"

"No one does. For your punishment, you will be-"

"Papa Kachi?"

"Don't interrupt me when I'm talking. As I was saying-"

"But…Papa Kachi..."

"Didn't I tell you not to talk while I'm talking? Back to what I was saying-"

"Papa Kachi…I need to tell you something."

"If I let you say something, will you be quiet afterwards?"

"Yes."

"Okay, what do you want to say?"

"There's fire on your back." Sasuke pointed behind him.

"Fire?" Kakashi sniffed, noticing the smoke coming from somewhere, "Why am I feeling hot? I feel like I'm on fire. ON FIRE?" He looked down to see a fire burning his pouch that carried his weapons, "Oh sh-" He let go of Sasuke's hand and quickly went to sink to fill a bucket with water.

He poured the water onto himself.

Sasuke laughed, "Papa Kachi looks funny!"

Kakashi was very angry and turned off the fire just in case.

He headed to Sasuke, "Forget about the punishment…Now, go back and eat your-" Kakashi stopped and noticed that Naruto and Sakura weren't in their seats, "Hey…where did Naruto and Sakura go?" He looked around.

Kakashi spotted Naruto on top of kitchen counter. He was sitting there calmly, "At least, he didn't leave the kitchen. Now, where's Sakura?"

"Cookie!"

"Cookie?" He turned around and saw Chibi Sakura on top of the refrigerator trying to get a cookie out of the jar.

"How did she get up there?"

"Yay, I got a cookie!" Sakura jumped off the fridge with a cookie.

"SAKURA!" Kakashi screamed.

Kakashi slid and caught Sakura just in time before she hit the floor..

He sighed in relief, "Sakura, are you okay?"

"Hai, I'm okay, Papa!" She smiled, eating the cookie.

"That's good…" He lay down with Sakura on top of his stomach, "Whew…good thing I caught her. I don't know what I would do if she got hurt."

Naruto grabbed a knife that was hanging on the wall nearby, "Going down!" He giggled, dropping the knife.

The knife headed towards Kakashi's face.

"HOLY-" Kakashi screamed.

SPLAT!

However, it missed. The knife was repelled by Kakashi's forehead protector.

His heart beat quickened from fright, but in a way he felt relief.

"Papa, are you okay?" Sakura stared into her "father's" eye (s).

"…Yes…I'm…okay…"

"Thank god for…the forehead protector. Lucky…"

"Papa?"

"Papa Kaka!"

"Papa Kachi!"

"What is it now?"

"My clothes are dirty." Sakura showed Kakashi her clothes, dirtied with tomato sauce.

"Me too!"

"Me three!"

Kakashi covered his face with his hands with his mind telling him that he should cry now. He has to give them another bath.

Room…

Kakashi was lying on his bed with a pillow in her face, "…I thought this day would never end…I can't believe they're like this."

"All right...mental note...Second rule: never let the children near the kitchen. Third rule: never let them touch anything sharp. Fourth rule: Never take your eyes off of them…"

Kakashi groaned, "I'm dead tired. I need to get some sleep now. I have big day tomorrow." He switched the light off and moments later, he fell asleep.

TBC

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-Saki-Kun