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Chapter 7: Lost and Found
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Kankuro yawned as he stared at the sleeping form of the puppy he had stayed up most the night looking for. The sun had just started to rise when Kiba had managed to do a decent dog paddle in the pool. It had been at this point that Kankuro had noticed a furry animal had made its way into the pool area and wrapped itself in Kiba's shirt.
"So much for looking for your dog." Kankuro turned to see that Kiba had fallen asleep on the side of the pool, his foot still dangling in the water.
Kankuro smiled lightly as he walked over to the tired form and placed his foot on Kiba's side, earning a grunt, before nudging the body slightly causing Kiba to roll over….into the pool.
"Gah!" Kiba's head popped out of the water and as his arm went flying to the edge of pool. The teen blinked a few times as he choked on the water he had accidentally breathed in, then glared up at the older boy. "Why did you do that?"
"Didn't want you to catch a cold?" Kankuro tried unapologetically with a smirk.
"IS THAT THE SUN OUTSIDE?" Kiba yelled as he pulled himself out of the pool and crawled far enough away to be at a safe distance from the water before he collapsed on the ground again.
"That was the lesson from hell." Kiba muttered before he saw the fur ball in his clothes. "Akamaru?"
"He showed up a while ago, while you were still practicing how to drown." Kankuro grabbed his pants and started to pull them on before he smiled at Kiba. "You might want to get dressed too, before the janitor gets here and you get in trouble for staying out all night."
"Hn?" Kiba pushed Akamaru, waking the puppy up. "Stupid mutt."
"Who's in here?" A call came from the inside entrance to the pool as Kiba heard keys dangling.
"What?" Kiba turned to look at Kankuro to see the senior was gone. "Kan..ku…ro?"
"What is going on in here?" An older man slammed the door open and glared at Kiba. "Oh………we have a dirty bastard this time, huh?"
Kiba stared at him blankly. then realized he was still dripping wet and only in his boxers. He turned around and grabbed his jeans, noticing that Akamaru was gone too.
Traitor.
Kiba reached for his shirt only to see the old man pick it up instead with a smirk on his face. The man had long spiky gray hair with what seemed like a permanent cocky grin on his face.
"Ah, I remember my freshman year." The janitor continued, "I got into so much trouble, breaking into the girls locker room, breaking into the principal's office…"
"So… I guess that means I'm off the hook, right?" Kiba smiled sheepishly as he grabbed his shirt away from the old man.
"Like hell…" The man smiled before he pointed towards the doors signaling for Kiba to lead the way.
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Sasuke felt the sweat drip off his forehead as his eyes slowly opened. Why was he so hot?
He pushed the covers off of him and tried to turn over before he realized there was something pushed up against him so he couldn't move. He blinked a few times as he realized he had fallen asleep in Naruto's bed.
He lifted himself up slightly so he could turn over and glance at the sleeping blond.
Naruto was breathing evenly as he moved a little in response to Sasuke's movements. His blond hair was falling in front of his face with his mouth slightly ajar.
"Dobe." Sasuke stated with a smirk as he sighed and stared at his roommate. That had really been the worst conversation in the world that they'd had last night. Suicide, families that were no longer there…….
"We've got to be the most depressing roommates in the world." Sasuke laughed to himself noticing the smirk form on Naruto's lips.
"Good morning to you too." Naruto whispered as he squinted his eyes open and smiled at Sasuke. "You're warm."
Sasuke blushed at this and he snorted and opened his mouth to say something before thinking better of it. Naruto smirked at this causing Sasuke to turn over quickly, not realizing his legs were still wrapped in the covers.
THUMP.
"Hahahahaha!" Naruto nearly cried with laughter as he saw Sasuke's feet dangle in the air. He crawled over to the edge of the bed to see his roommate glaring back up at him.
"Are you okay?"
"No thanks to you…" Sasuke scoffed as he wiggled out of the covers and glared at Naruto.
The blond just gave a sheepish grin as he hopped out of his bed and looked at the clock.
"Class starts at 8 right?" Naruto yawned while he did a few stretches.
"Yeah?" Sasuke glared at Naruto for being an idiot. "What time is it?"
"It's 8:30…." Naruto stated with a yawn before his eyes widened; "NANI????"
"That's what I should be saying!" Sasuke retaliated as he grabbed his clothes off the floor and forced them on. "Why the hell didn't Kakashi wake us up?"
"Because you two looked so cute snuggling together that I didn't want to ruin the moment." Came a bored reply on the other side of the room.
Both Naruto and Sasuke walked around the divider to see Kakashi sitting on Sasuke's bed with a book in his hand, smiling at the two of them.
"We weren't snuggli-"
"How's Iruka doing?" Naruto cut Sasuke off, totally ignoring the glare he received.
"From what I hear he's almost brand new." Kakashi eyed Sasuke, which caused the dark haired teen to glare at him. "School's canceled, by the way."
"What happened?" Naruto smiled as he jumped up and down.
A free day off!!
"The Principal's grandson is missing."
"WHAT?"
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Asuma glared as he broke the branch that had just hit him in the face.
He didn't get any sleep last night and now Shikamaru was gone.
"Are you hitting on me?" Asuma let one of his hands trace Shikamaru's jaw line. "Cause if you are, that's kind of turning me on."
"And if I'm not?" Shikamaru shivered a bit as the finger traced its way down his neck.
"But I think you are…" Asuma smirked. "Don't tell me our little mishap on the roof made you fall for me."
"Who said anything about falling?" Shikamaru turned his head so that he didn't have to stare Asuma in the eye. "I might have been joking. You are straight.. aren't you?"
"Straight?" Asuma laughed as he placed a kiss on Shikamaru's neck before grabbing the teen's jaw and forcing Shikamaru to look at him. "People are people, Shika."
"And I suppose sex is just sex?" Shikamaru closed his mouth suddenly as though suddenly wishing he'd kept quiet and Asuma smirked.
"If you want it to be…"
"YOU'RE GAAAAAY!" A high-pitched scream came from behind Asuma startling both him and Shikamaru as they turned around to see a small kid with wild hair staring at them in surprise.
"You know this kid?" Shikamaru glared at Asuma. It was probably his.
"Kono-" Asuma opened his mouth to say something,
"Genma told me that you were acting funny!" Konohamaru stared at Asuma and Shikamaru.
"You're not gay, are you Asuma-senpai?" Shikamaru drawled out in a sarcastic tone causing Asuma to look back at him before he was pushed off the younger teen.
"Wha-" Asuma glared at Shikamaru.
"It seems like I took the joke too far." Shikamaru dusted his pants off before looking at Asuma. "You were really convincing yourself senpai."
"Huh?" Both Asuma and Konohamaru stared at Shikamaru in confusion.
"So Asuma isn't a homo?" Konohamaru stared wearily at the bearded teen.
"We just went too far with the joke." Shikamaru stretched lazily before turning around and walking away.
"Wait! Shika-" Asuma grabbed Shikamaru's arm and stopped when he realized the boy was glaring at him with disdain.
"Touch me again and I will kill you." Shikamaru uttered with such severity that Asuma felt chills go down his spine as the younger boy ripped his hand out of Asuma's grasp and kept walking in the other direction.
There was moment of silence as Asuma ran his hand through his hair and furrowed his brow in confusion. Konohamaru shifted to the side, snapping a twig and getting Asuma's attention.
"You-" Asuma glared at the young boy.
Konohamaru gulped as Asuma turned to him. Maybe he shouldn't have interrupted Asuma but he was surprised to see the senior with another guy. If only Genma hadn't been talking so loudly on the phone about Asuma's strange behavior; the young teen had been so worried he followed the stupid bearded man to the woods when he had heard they were looking for a puppy.
That didn't look like they were looking very hard.
But the other teen had said it was just a joke.
Konohamaru was starting to worry about his-
"You are in so much trouble." Asuma bit out as he reached out for the young teen only to have Konohamaru dodge him. Gritting his teeth he reached for the child again only to have Konohamaru take off running. "Hey! Take your punishment like a man!"
"I'm just a kid!" Konohamaru stuck his tongue out as he continued to run until he was out of Asuma's sight.
Asuma gritted his teeth before he turned around and sucked in a deep breath.
He had no idea where he was. He must have walked farther off the path then he remembered.
This wasn't going to be a good day.
"I'm such an idiot, I wasn't paying attention to where I was heading last night." Asuma mumbled to himself before looking up at the now well-lit sky.
He briefly wondered if Shikamaru or Konohamaru had made it back to campus.
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Iruka stretched out in his bed.
Oh, how he'd missed it.
Snuggling a bit deeper into his pillow he heard some barking coming from another room. There seemed to be bit of a commotion going on in the common room. Was Yamato yelling?
Iruka furrowed his eyebrow before he groaned to himself. Curiosity and worry taking over, he pushed his covers off of him and sat up. Throwing his legs off the bed Iruka made his way to his door and cracked it open.
"Where the hell have you been all night?" Yamato yelled as he glared at Kankuro who was holding a puppy in his arms.
"I was in charge of nightly rounds last night, remember?" Kankuro stated obviously as he turned to hand the squirming dog to Gaara before thinking better of it and placing the dog on the ground. "One of the freshmen lost their puppy and I stayed up all night helping him find it."
"That's why your hair smells like chlorine?" Yamato glared knowingly before shaking his head. "Listen, I honestly don't care, but we have a problem. Konohamaru is missing."
Kankuro's eyes widened as he turned to Gaara and Genma.
"WHAT?" Iruka slammed his door open startling everyone in the room.
"Iruka, you should be resting….." Yamato smiled, sheepishly placing his hands on Iruka's shoulders and trying to usher the teen back to his room.
"No! I feel fine!" Iruka shoved Yamato's hands off him and went up to Genma. "When did you see him last?"
Genma looked like he had just walked out of an interrogation room. He had huge bags under his eyes and his toothpick that was normally found in his mouth was now gone, almost making the older teen look incomplete.
"I didn't even say anything to him, I was talking on the phone to-" Genma ran his hand through his straight blonde hair before glaring at Iruka, "The brat just up and left, saying that he forgot something. I didn't realize I was supposed to be his keeper, jeez!"
Genma stood up and kicked the chair beside him before walking to his room and slamming it shut.
"He's been looking for the kid since god knows when, he also just came back from the Principal's office." Yamato sighed, "He cares, he's just..pissed, too."
Iruka went back into his room and came back out dressed in his outer wear. He looked over to see Yamato, Kankuro, and Gaara were already gone.
"Iruka!" The door to the apartment swung open to reveal Ebisu looking as if he was in a hurry. Mizuki was standing beside him peering into the apartment but not taking any steps closer into the dorm.
"Hai?" Iruka smiled at his friends who stared at him for a second. "You were looking for me?"
Ebisu realizing that he was staring pushed his sunglasses up and frowned. "We were wondering if you left yet. Everyone is splitting up into teams because he was last spotted going into the forest."
"Lets go then."
"Feeling better?" Iruka turned to see Mizuki looking at him a bit worried.
"Yeah, just needed some rest." Iruka smiled as they walked down the hallway, a small blush forming on his face. He couldn't believe how easy it was for him to sleep after Kakashi had kissed him; he had thought he would have been up all night.
"I can't believe the principal's grandson is missing." Ebisu spat out. "I mean you would think someone would be with him at all times or something."
"It's okay Ebisu, its not like he was kidnapped. You said they saw him going into the woods-he's probably just lost." Mizuki tried to laugh it off but sighed when they finally made it to the woods. "Let's find the brat."
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Konohamaru panted as he collapsed on the nearest tree next to him. How long had he been in the woods?
Staring up at the sky that the sun was now blazing in the kid could only think that it had been more hours then he really wanted to know about. He was tired, annoyed, and lost.
How did he get lost anyway? How many years had he spent playing in these woods with his uncle? Stupid uncle. Konohamaru pouted as he attempted to climb the tree so as to see if he could figure out what direction the school was in.
Konohamaru stared in awe at he span of trees he saw. He couldn't make it high enough on the tree to actually see over much of the trees but what he did see was nothing but green. He didn't think that his three-year absence from this place would mean it would change so much.
Three years………Konohamaru bit his lip before he shook his head. No, grandfather promised him the best education here, even though it was a high school, grandfather made the exception for him.
Grandfather was probably worried right now.
"Ha!" Konohamaru shouted as he smiled at the blue sky. "Serves you right old man!"
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Kiba glared at the janitor next to him as they made their way to the Principal's office.
"Jiraiya!" The old man turned to see Tsunade and Orochimaru stepping out of the principal's office. "Where have you been?"
"Miss me already?" Jiraiya grinned lecherously at the blonde who glared at him.
"This is no time for you to be a pervert today!" Tsunade raised her fist to hit him before looking at Kiba. "Don't tell me you think this idiot took Konohamaru."
"Idiot?" Kiba flushed with annoyance as the blonde smirked at him.
"What happened to Konohamaru?" Jiraiya looked at Orochimaru who just grinned.
"Slow as always Jiraiya." Orochimaru turned his back and started heading the other direction.
"The brat has been missing since some time last night…" Tsunade sighed looking at Kiba, "You better go back to your dorm where your senior can tell you about everything that's going on. Jiraiya, come with me." And with that the blond turned around with her hair swinging behind her.
"Eh……ah." Jiraiya nodded as he followed her completely forgetting about the teenager behind him.
Kiba blinked a few times before smiling stupidly. Did he just get out of some major trouble?
"Ah Kiba-kun." The principal stuck his head out of the doorway to see the student and smiled briefly. "Just the student I wanted to see. I need to ask you a favor, so if you don't mind could you please step into my office?"
Kiba blinked a few times before nodding and following the man into the office.
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Shikamaru glared as he stared at his foot, which happened to be in the middle of a puddle right now. He sighed as he pulled it out feeling the water stay within the confines of his shoe.
This was just great.
"Stupid." Shikamaru found a dry space away from the puddle and started to take off his shoes.
If there was one thing in the world more annoying than being lost then it was definitely being lost with wet shoes. He sighed he flopped down on his back and stared at the leaves that were covering his sky.
What was he doing?
Shikamaru sat up again and furrowed his brow. This was just too tiresome, so why was the he even……...wait……….what was he doing?
Feeling a migraine coming on Shikamaru groaned; he had blatantly flirted with the obvious womanizer in the school. What the hell was wrong with him? It was obvious to anyone who had seen Asuma's interaction with people that the man could care less about what warm body he slept with that night.
Shikamaru felt a blush rising to his cheeks thinking about how close Asuma had been to him.
Sex is just sex.
Sure it was just sex, FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY HAD THE EXPERIENCE!! What the hell was he doing? Sure there was a sarcastic statement every now and then but for the most part Shikamaru would never throw himself into something that he knew would involve actually doing something.
Stupid.
Tiresome.
Aggravating.
Shikamaru ran his hands through his hair ignoring how he pulled a few strands out of the ponytail and squeezing his eyes shut.
Maybe he should be worrying about how to get out of this forsaken forest before he worried about how stupid he was..
There was a loud cracking noise behind Shikamaru causing the teen to jump up and brace himself for an attack, but all he saw was a very disgruntled looking Neji.
"Found somebody!" The long haired teen yelled over his shoulder to have a girl with her hair tied back in two buns and a boy with a bowl cut appear.
"Huh?" Shikamaru stated smartly before the older teens just smiled at him. (Well, two did. Neji just stared disinterestedly.)
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Konohamaru glared.
Ebisu glared.
Mizuki glared.
Iruka sighed.
Mizuki threw his hands up in the air in exasperation before turning to the group. "Listen, I'm going to head back and tell everyone we found him. Maybe we can get some help in actually bringing him back!"
Iruka sighed again as he watched his friend go back and looked over at the frowning kid who was sitting on a branch just out of reach of Ebisu.
"Konohamaru, you need to get down." Iruka called, looking over at the kid.
"No! I don't want to go back!" Konohamaru pulled his knees up into his chest and squeezed his arms around them.
Why did they have to show up right when he had gotten to the point of deciding he would never go back to that school again? He would never have to see his grandfather again. He would never have to see his uncle again.
Maybe he could run away and join the circus or something.
"Listen, brat! You need to get down so we can get back to the school! Your grandfather is very worried about you!" Ebisu jumped up on the other branch so that he on level with the kid.
"I don't care if he's worried!" Konohamaru yelled.
"You don't mean that Kono." Iruka said as the boy glared down at him.
"What do you know, Iruka!"
Ebisu gave Iruka a surprised look before the scarred teen glared at the young teen.
"What did Iruka ever do to you?" Ebisu laughed a bit as Iruka just groaned.
"He acts like he's my dad………" Konohamaru started, "He likes to yell at people too, he may seem nice, but the other day he actually hit me!"
"You glued my furniture to the roof of my room!" Iruka retaliated.
"You did what?" Ebisu tried not to smile and looked over at Konohamaru who seemed to be smirking at Iruka's reaction. "I'm sure Iruka deserved it, Konohamaru."
"Thanks, FRIEND." Iruka stated. "Listen, I'm going to go make sure Mizuki didn't get lost or something…"
Konohamaru eyed Ebisu warily. Ebisu just watched as Iruka disappeared behind the trees before turning to Konohamaru with a grin.
"How old are you, Konohamaru?" Ebisu pushed his sunglasses up, eyeing the kid.
"11…how old are you?" Konohamaru muttered softly.
"I'm 15." Ebisu sighed as they were surrounded in silence. "So…why don't you want to go back to school?"
"You wouldn't understand." Konohamaru stated flatly.
"Well I might not understand." Ebisu stated with a grin, "But as of right now we've got nothing better to do….so if you want to talk, I'm here."
Konohamaru glared at Ebisu. "You're just being nice because I am the Principal's grandson."
"Maybe…..does it make a difference?"
Konohamaru just sighed. At least this idiot seemed more honest.
"Sooo…" Ebisu clapped his hands together.
"I don't even know you." Konohamaru opened his mouth to continue but thought against it and sighed again.
"How about this…you can ask me anything you want."
Konohamaru eyed the teen warily. "Anything?"
"Ahh…" Ebisu thought better of the idea but then decided to go with it. "Sure…anything."
"And you won't lie about it?"
"I won't lie about it."
"Fine…are you gay?"
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Ebisu looked up to the branch that he had just fallen off of. His glasses slid off the side of his face as he stared up at the kid, who was eyeing him back suspiciously.
"…WHAT?"
"Are you gay?"
"No." Ebisu stayed on the ground eyeing the kid. "Do you have a problem with gay people?"
Konohamaru stayed silent.
"Did someone do something to you?"
Konohamaru's face reddened as he gave Ebisu an undignified stare. "HELL NO!"
Ebisu just blinked a few times at the boy before smiling stupidly.
"Then you're just curious?"
"You-"
"Let's go home?" Ebisu smiled at Konohamaru as he reached out his hand to the smaller child. "I know you don't want to stay here, and I know you don't really want to make the principal worry."
Konohamaru was still glaring at Ebisu as he took his hand and hopped off the tree.
"I was getting bored out here anyway."
Ebisu just nodded with a smile as he helped Konohamaru on the path out of the forest.
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Asuma glared at the dog licking his face.
"Hey! Akamaru found someone!" Kiba yelled as he hopped over a giant root to see the bearded man. "Oh. It's just that Asuma guy."
"Please….hide your excitement." Asuma muttered.
"Wait…you were missing too?" Kakashi curved his eye at his friend.
"Who else is missing?" Asuma asked curiously.
"Well, they found Shikamaru not too long ago and I just heard that Konohamaru is back at the school. Should we be looking for anyone else? Perhaps some girl you lured out here?" Kakashi kept his sarcasm in tow.
"Har har…" Asuma handed the puppy back to its master as he followed Kakashi out of the woods. "This was the worst day of my life."
"I'm sure Gai will be more than happy to listen to all your woes, but first lets get you back to campus to inform your father you were missing, too."
"Inform him?" Asuma laughed, "He didn't notice I was gone, eh? I'll use that for future references."
"Give me more credit than that, Asuma."
Asuma turned to see an old man smiling at him with a pipe in his mouth.
"Wait……he's your son?" Kiba pointed from Asuma to the principal and back.
"Yes, I am." Asuma smirked as his fathered laughed softly.
Maybe the last part of the day would be a lot better.
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That's it for this chapter.
Sorry for the wait. Next chapter should come out sooner..like a few weeks hopefully.
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