Big Band: Ninja Style!
by: muaaimoi
" And just where do you think your going?"
Kakashi stares at his genin in disbelief. Two thirds of his genin team are seriously attempting to sneak away. As though he wouldn't realize it if they suddenly weren't there for training.
It's kind of insulting.
" Nothing" Sheldon answered quickly. His face closing off in the way that made him seem to be made out of stone. That trick was getting really old.
" What he said" Penny agreed, training guileless green eyes on Kakashi. Her lips falling into an innocent smile. He would sooner believe the Akamichi clan had collectively decided to diet.
Leonard sent them both hurt, betrayed glances. They had been trying to leave him behind.
" I'm sorry? Do I look like a genin greener than you?" So far experience had taught him that sarcasm was wasted on his genin team. But you really couldn't blame a guy for trying. It was a tough habit to break.
As usual Leonard swallowed nervously, looking at Kakashi as though he would rather be anywhere else. It was the sort of response Kakashi had originally gone for with the tactic, but it was a little pathetic, the way Leonard shrank into himself at the first hint of dissaproval. Which is what he took sarcasm to be.
It probably didn't help that he wasn't exactly wrong.
Penny arched her eyebrows at him, not willing to give up the goat, but unable to let the barb go unanswerd, she had a very bad temper, it was easy to forget in the wake of her smiles. It was the kind of thing that could get her killed someday, he wasn't the only the who needed to break some bad habits.
Sheldon just stared at him, the usual impenetrable mask failing with a slight narrowing of his eyes. Kakashi was starting to believe it was a sign of confusion, as Sheldon unfailingly pointed out the obvious.
" But your wearing a Jounin vest. Further more, we are assigned to you, it would take a complete imbecile to forget that you're our Jounin sensei."
Like that.
And this was the genius. So either Kakashi had scored the most naive shinobi genius in the last five centuries, or Sheldon was trying to pull the wool over his eyes. It kind of pissed him off that the odds were fifty , he had the worst luck...
" Now come on, why don't you tell your jounin sensei what your really up to? Especially since your trying to get away from your sensei, you don't want to hurt my feelings, do you?" Kakashi eye smiled at his genin. Sometimes the best response to bullshit was more bullshit.
Leonard squirmed, the only one on his team susceptible to emotional blackmail. The other two didn't so much as twitch.
" I don't know where they were going!" He burst out. It was a real shame he didn't actually know anything.
Kakashi turned to his remaining genin, eye smile stubbornly in place. Sheldon's stony mask never faltered, and neither did Penny's smile. It was a complete stalemate. Penny looked at Sheldon, and finally after a moment, both genin broke.
" We have to go see Meemaw " Sheldon admitted hesitantly.
Damn, Kakashi thought, it was good to be him. None of the other jounin sense would have managed to get them to blink, let alone fold. But he wasn't the best for nothing. And it was nice to have proof every once in a while. Then he registered what they had actually said.
"Meemaw?" He questioned, what the in the hell was a Meemaw?
" Sheldon's grandmother" Penny explained, shedding light , as she often did, on something Sheldon said.
" It's considered rude to be in the neighborhood and not drop by." Sheldon continued, as if he had never been interrupted. He got a lot of practice with that.
" Really?" Kakashi questioned, they had gone as far as to try to sneak away from him ( And rather alarmingly, almost succeed), all to see one of Sheldon's civilian family members? Why?" It's not as though you were expected."
" Oh we were" Sheldon murmured darkly.
" Meemaw always knows" Penny and Sheldon declared in tandem.
Okay, that wasn't creepy at all, really. Leonard stared at them as though they had individually sprouted second heads. Kakashi had too much practice hiding his own shock to do the same. But he had to admit, he was curious. What kind of civilians did Sheldon have in his family anyway.
" Well, we were all by Meemaws house today. Why don't you introduce her to the rest of the team, seeing as she already knows Penny?" He asked. He wasn't usually so indirect with his orders, but his genin team was best handled with care.
Sheldon and Penny traded a dubious glance.
Finally, Sheldon nodded," I don't see why not."
This was a mistake.
If only he had known... He would have avoided the life time of slavery that followed.
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Sorry this took so long, I honestly kind of forgot, this is why I didn't want to run so many fics at once. The others end up neglected. Sadly my self control sucks.
