Title: Distraction I
Words: 640
Summary: Remember back in Chapter 27 when Tayuya had the 'perfect' idea… what was that idea? Here's one way it could have gone.
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"This is your perfect idea?" Haku hissed at Tayuya as she led him by the arm to the kitchen. The girl nodded brightly with a dark smile on her face and then looked back at the basement where the rest of the kids were standing.
"Yeah, it'll work fine."
"It's not even an idea. You're just gonna—AH!" Haku let out a yelp as he was pushed roughly into the kitchen and directly into the shinobi they were trying to avoid. It was easy avoiding Tsunade because the woman was at work already but Zabuza… now he was an obstacle that no one wanted to really face. But here Haku was, leaning against the man's legs with his face pressed firmly into the hard, toned stomach.
"Um… ah, hey Zabuza-sensei!" Haku smiled brightly. The man raised a brow down at him, ingredients to making a sandwich within his grasp. The shinobi reached down and steadied Haku before turning to the counter to make his sandwich. Haku stood there nervously before glancing behind him and straightening his shoulders. He had to do this!
"So I was wondering something, Zabuza-sensei," Haku said casually, leaping up on the counter by the silent man. Dark eyes glanced at him, curiosity shining within the depths.
"Well, you know how we all call Sev-chan papa because he adopted us so he's our papa?" Haku chattered out his curiosity with something that had actually been bothering him. He resisted the urge to glance around to see the progress of his brothers and the girls.
"Yes…?" Zabuza prompted.
"Well, you know how you and papa are together now?" Haku continued.
"Yes…?" the Demon of the Mist looked like he didn't appreciate the way he thought this was going. Haku had a feeling that Zabuza expected the 'where did babies come from' but Haku already knew that.
"I was wondering. If Sev-chan is our papa and you're papa's boyfriend, does that mean we get to call you mama?"
"Excuse me?" Zabuza glared at him as if he had told him that he was a horrible shinobi that couldn't kill a novice with a stick.
"Well, papa is papa and a papa is with a mama but because papa is papa, you can't be papa. So, you're mama!" Haku grinned, rather proud of amazing logic. Zabuza stared at him for several seconds, squinting at him before reaching out and flicking him hard on the nose. "Ow, what was that for?!"
"You are real," Zabuza grunted and went back to making his sandwich.
"Wait, so when can we start calling you mama? Does papa have to put a ring on your finger first and then we call you mama or…?" Haku tilted his head, rubbing at his sore nose. The man hadn't thought he was a clone. He just wanted to hit him.
"What is today?"
"Tuesday, I think."
"If today is Tuesday… let's see… two days from now… never. You can never call me mama and I am not above ridding Severus of a child if that is what it takes to rid you of such a stupid suggestion," Zabuza growled, glaring hot fire into the young boy. Haku swallowed hard before smiling brightly.
"Thanks for that talk Zabuza-sensei. I'm gonna tell Naruto and Gaara to not call you that—bye!" he darted out of the kitchen and up the stairs in a blur of green and brown. Haku pounded into the bathroom but stopped short to stare at the image of Kimimaro being pulled back and forth between the redhead and blond, trying to clean the dirty boy up while said boy simply allowed it to happen, smiling softly.
"You guys owe me," Haku pouted and took off his clothes for a bath too.
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The End