Ha! Cough. Uh, still not s'posed to be here. well, i'm never gonna be .. i'm never supposed to be here anyway, but i mean, ESPECIALLY today, since i should be busy cleaning. TT grr. At leeast my bookshelf's in! Yoshi!
Kakashi is kinda OOC, isn't he? I mean, not like OMGILUVFLYINGPURPLEPEOPLEEATERSBUTILUVPIEDAMOSTCUZITSMYONETRULUV! OOC, y'know?
Recap:
But then, Kami-sama must have showed mercy to Kakashi, for he no longer suffocated from the heavy perfume cloud. He cautiously opened his eye and saw…
Iruka in front of him instead of the scary woman.
"Iruka!" he tried to say, but instead started into a massive coughing fit that rivaled Hayate's, and doubled over onto the street. Iruka, being the kind man he is, thumped his friend on the back. Finally, the coughing fit was reduced to ragged, hyperventilating pants. If it weren't OOC for Hatake Kakashi, he would have smothered Iruka with a hug. The Copy Ninja officially declared Umino Iruka an angel.
"Thanks," he wheezed.
"No problem," the school teacher chuckled. Suddenly Kakashi jumped up and looked around.
"They're still farther down the street," Iruka answered his unasked question. "I, er, took you someplace 'safer.'"
"How safer?"
"Erm," Iruka scratched the scar that ran across the bridge of his nose, "down the street, around the corner, and farther down the street? I don't think they were going to go after you. Who were they, by the way?"
Kakashi trudged to a bench and slumped down on it. "I've no idea."
Iruka took a seat next to him.
"Er, thanks…" Kakashi started awkwardly, "for…saving my life."
There was a pause, and then Iruka laughed.
"You make it sound like you were in a life threatening situation!"
"It was!" Kakashi protested.
"And so, you thank someone, who is of a rank lower than you?"
"I'd thank a rat if it was he who saved me."
The two men laughed together.
-(let's skip back up the street around the corner and farther up the street again…)-
The woman who had tried to converse with Kakashi turned around and helped up the woman who had been playing faint on the street.
"Jeez, that was so priceless, wasn't it?" the second woman said to the first.
"Hilarious! –cough- Too bad we couldn't see his face because of your –cough- damn perfume and his mask though," the first replied.
"It's not that bad!" the second protested.
"Dude, Genma, yeah it is."
The two women disappeared in a poof of smoke, which cleared away revealing two young men. In place of the first woman was Hayate, and in place of the second was Genma. Genma took a senbon needle out of his pouch and placed it in his mouth. Hayate opened his mouth to say something, but Genma held his hand up.
"Before you ask anything, it's strawberry flavored."
-(now back down the street around the corner and farther down the street again…)-
There was an awkward silence among the two men.
-( back up the street around the corner and farther up the street again…)-
"Hup!" Genma grunted as he jumped down from the tree. "Got it!"
Hayate gave his partner a thumbs up. "Let's take it back to them now."
"Oi!" someone yelled. Genma and Hayate turned to see Naruto and Sasuke walking towards them.
"Did you get it?" Sasuke asked.
Genma grinned. "All of it."
"Awesome!" Naruto pumped a fist into the air. "Let's go back to my place then!"
-( down the street around the corner and farther down the street again…)-
"Soooo…erm…would you—"
"Would you—"
"Er, sorry, you go first."
Kakashi cleared his throat. "Uh, since it's around lunch time… and—"
A growl from Iruka's stomach interrupted Kakashi's sentence. The Chuunin blushed and apologized.
"And since we both apparently haven't had lunch yet," the Copy Ninja laughed, "do you want to go grab a bowl of ramen together?"
Iruka's stomach growled again. Kakashi took that as a yes.
-(no, not up the street around the corner and farther up the street again-gotcha didn't I?- actually, let's drop by Naruto's apartment)-
It was actually rather packed in Naruto's small apartment. The orange clad ninja bustled around, shoving dirty/clean clothes and instant ramen cups into corners and tidied up speedily. Then Naruto served the ramen take-out from Ichiraku's out to everyone as they took a seat around the TV. Everyone included: Sasuke, Sakura, Lee, Kotetsu, Izumo, Gai, Asuma, Kurenai, Genma, Hayate, Anko, Ibiki, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Naruto himself, of course. Altogether—15 people, mostly adults, crowded into Naruto's small apartment! And they still had enough room to breathe.
"Naruto, will you accept the honor of doing it?" Genma asked, handing Naruto the item they had retrieved.
"Of course," Naruto said in mock solemnity.
-(at Ichiraku Ramen's)-
(a/n: AH FUCK I BIT MY TONGUE!!! Charli: Dude. You're interrupting the story. Me: Thut. Uph. Innah. Meh. (Shut Up Inner Me) … Eeew, 'the frick is that?! Er, cough. ONWARD!)
"Ow!" Iruka exclaimed. Kakashi turned to him, somewhat startled.
"Bit my tongue," Iruka explained, after a while.
"Oh," Kakashi said. "You eat so slowly though, how do you even manage to bite your tongue?"
"I do not eat slowly!" Iruka huffed. "I just don't inhale my food in less than one second like you do!"
Kakashi didn't know what to say to that, so he chuckled instead and turned around in his seat to watch people on the street, as Iruka finished off his bowl of ramen.
"Ah," the silver haired jounin suddenly said. "I do actually have something to tell Naruto." He turned to Iruka, who was paying for the ramen. "Do you want to come with me…or…should you go back to the Academy?"
Iruka thought carefully for a moment and then said, "I think I have a few minutes left of my break. If it's short, I suppose I can go with you." He smiled. "I haven't seen Naruto for a while, anyway."
The "scarecrow" and the "dolphin" exited the ramen shop and headed towards Naruto's home. It was a pretty quiet yet pleasant walk, but short. They soon reached Naruto's apartment building and entered the door. Then they went up quite a few stairs, since Naruto's was on the top floor, and stopped in front of their pupil's front door. Strangely, there were a lot of shoes beside it. The two visitors looked at each other, puzzled.
"Either Naruto's gone insane and stole everybody's shoes, or he has quite a few guests…"
Kakashi knocked on the door. For some reason, no one answered it. So, he grasped the doorknob and turned…
OH THE SUSPENSE!!!!!!!! Er...haha. Cough.
GAH! ITAI! (knocked out by charli, somehow)
Charli: get back to cleaning, bytch.
CG: (cries)
Haha! Ze Plot Zickens!! (the plot thickens!!) Or does it?
Charli: That doesn't even make sense. AND I SAID BACK TO WORK, BYTCH!
CG: jeez, not even Shikamaru's mom is like that... so damn troublesome. (mumbles and crawls away from the computer)