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Chapter 10

-How to get a conversation: Stubborness-

Kotetsu grinned from ear to ear and wagged askingly a clanking box in front of Anko´s face.

"Now?", he asked.

She rolled her eyes, dipped into her pocket, groping for some money. When she gathered enough she hastily put it into into the box, champing with rage.

Kotetsu shrugged his shoulders. "Your plan wasn´t bad, it was close but in the end it didn´t work."

"I was sure it would happen this week, damn, she even started cooking for him...!", she growled. "These two drive me over the edge, how can something so simple be so complicated? I don´t get it."

Tsunade entered the common room and suddenly popped up next to them. "What exactly are you doing there?", she asked.

Kotetsu became very nervous, but Anko was just pouting and therefore indicating that she would definitely not help him.

"Er... oh well, we...thats... thats the...er..."

"We have a bet going on." Sounded Kakashis calm voice. The copy-nin had just appeared out of nowhere as was his custom.

Tsunade became radiant eyes, she was instantly on fire. "A bet? What´s it about? Whats the pool?"

"Its about Shizune and Genma. One gives a proposal of when one thinks they will finally get involved. You can guess the week or the exact day. If you get the rigth week, you´ll get a little amount of the money but if you guessed the exact day you´ll get most of it."

Tsunade had already pulled out a note. "I´m in!"

The others sweat-dropped.

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"Genma, I have to talk to you."

Ennerved Genma waved him away. "No, thanks, Raidou. I don´t have the time to talk with you as you might notice."

Very interested a whole class of pupils in the ninja-academy looked up from their works to listen to the conversation their teacher and the other special-jounin held. Sporadic giggles could be heared. Of course they had noticed Raidou who had lifted a plate at the ceiling and tried to get Genma inconspiciously into a conversation from there. It wasn´t his first try to talk to the stubborn special-jounin, it was his fifth. He tried it the normal way twice but Genma simply ignored him and went directly into his class. Raidou decided to delay it to a later point of time but Anko crossed his path and threatened to "root out his balls" if he did not immediately "swing his ass to Genma and convince him to –cencored-". She already had bet a modest amount anew. Driven with understandably fear for his manhood he compelled to speak with Genma in his classroom. Meanwhile Genma was very irritated and locked doors and windows with traps so that Raidou had to approach him from an unsuspected direction, from above.

"Genma, it is really impotant.", wispered Raidou in a conspiratorial voice.

Finally Genma gave up ignoring him and looked up to him, a vein popping angrily on his forehead. "You´re making a fool of yourself!"

"Therefore you can see how important it is to me!"

"Raidou, I know exactly about what you want to talk with me, I am neither blind nor dumb..."

"Is that so?"

"Don´t interrupt me! And even if I had the time to speak with you, I don´t WANT to!"

Raidou sighed. "Yare, yare, seems worse than I feared... But you know what? Somehow you are a real pansy..." He didn´t get any further because a thin senbon bored itself into the wall behind him, next to his throat. Raudou gulped.

"Don´t overdo it!", Genma hissed.

"Sensei? Why are you so irritated?", asked one of the young pupils.

"You really don´t know?", his neighbour asked. "Genma-Sensei is deeply in love but is too shy to go and tell her, everyone knows that. Thats why he´s so edgy.1)"

Genma´s eyes widened stunned, he had to blink a few times and nearly lost his senbon.

The jounin above him gave him a triumphant grin. "Are you now going to talk with me?"

Genma inhaled deeply. Resigned he put his hands into his pockets and sighened. "Ok. In two hours, my home! Don´t be late this will be your only chance!"

Raidou gave a mock salute and disappeared.

Immediately Genma´s angry gaze fell on his students who shrinked in their seats and directly dedicated themselves back to their work. One of them rose a shy hand. "Er, Sensei? Wouldn´t it be advisable to remove the all the traps from the windows and doors? In case of an emergency we would not be able to escape..."

Ennervated Genma looked at him. In the last moment he denied himself a comment like Don´t worry, in that case it would hit the right persons or You woun´t get out until you defuse them yourselves. Instead he went to the door and window and redid everything himself. This obviously wasn´t his day.

This wasn´t originally planned to be a chapter so its rather short, sorry. I hope you liked it.

Special thanks to my beta Rashi, who gave me her ok to post this chap. hihi.

1) I borrowed the idea of one student telling another things to convince Genma into talking from a Ruka/Kashi-fic I forgot the title of.