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Recap: Kaosu infiltrates the village and stays with Tsunami & Co.


Kaosu patiently teaches Inari how to make a paper butterfly. They were doing it to distract themselves, they would do anything do distract themselves.

Kaiza had been killed, publicly executed, a week ago and the defeat lay heavily over the village. Only a few could find the courage to build the bridge and it's progress had been slowed to a crawl. Kaosu had played her part in that, she reported the underground movement before it even started and the would be rebels would scatter.

A knock on the door startles the two children from their task. They glance at each other in vague hope, Tazuna was supposed to return with help today! The two rush to the front door and hide behind Tsunami as she opens the door.

First they see a bright splash of orange, looking up they notice a bright face, topped with vibrant yellow hair and a forehead protector- a ninja!

He grins down at them, "Hi there!"

Kaosu studies his face noting the whisker-like marks on his cheeks, he reminds me of a fox.. "Foxy" it is!

She smiles to herself as a growl comes from behind 'Foxy' "Move baka, Kakashi is heavy."

Foxy moves out of the way and Kaosu looks at what they are carrying. Upon noticing that it was a man she glances at his face only to find that most of it was covered by a mask, Masky.

The line moves on and Kaosu immediately notices the boy's bored expression and his hair, Duck Butt.

Finally the last of the strangers walks in, apart from her hair Kaosu notices nothing remarkable and settled for calling her, Pinky.

Kaosu embraces Tazuna as he crosses the threshold, quickly joined by Inari and Tsunami. He chuckles and pries all of them off of him, "We need to go make sure our guests are comfortable."

Tsunami nods and heads to the kitchen to prepare a snack for the group while Kaosu quickly heads to the room they had set aside for company. She walks in to find them setting out their stuff, Masky was already on his bedroll.

Pinky already seems finished so she walks over to her and leans down so they're eye to eye, "Hey there! What's your name?" she asks in a slightly baby way.

The one and only thing I hate about being a young child, however, she goes along with it and smiles, "I'm Kaosu, what's your name?"

"Well, I'm Sakura" she points to herself, unnecessarily, "Naruto" she points to Foxy who waves, "Sasuke" Duck Butt didn't even glance in their direction despite the adoring tone Pinky said his name in, "And Kakashi-sensei." Finally she gestures to Masky.

I'll stick to my nick names thank you very much.

"Where are you guys from?"

Foxy answered that one, "Konohagakure."

"What's that?"

So the questionnaire began, by the time Tsunami called for dinner she had extracted a decent amount of information from the two, she wondered if a quarter of it would ever be useful.

Standing, the three had sat down in a small circle, Kaosu makes her way over to Masky. Carefully bending down she pokes him before quickly jumping back, out of range for any retaliation. She receives no reaction and she does it again. Foxy smiles at the small child's antics, Pinky sighs and shakes her head but doesn't move to stop her while Duck Butt calls from the doorway, wait when did he get over there? "Are we going to eat supper or what?"

Kaosu swoops in for another poke when Masky speaks, "That's a good idea Sasuke, let's go eat."

She falls back and lands on her butt in surprise, quickly backing up as Masky's visible eye opens.

Foxy starts laughing outright at Kaosu's reaction and Pinky growls, "Shaddup!" as she hits him.

He groans and rubs his growing lump as Kaosu looks up at them with an expression of confusion, "Why did you just hit him?"

Pinky shrugs, "He was annoying me." Foxy replies over top, "I don't know!"

Duck Butt huffs, "I'm going to go sit down."

"Wait for me Sasuke-kuun!" Pinky latches onto Duck Butt and they disappear.

The expression melts from Kaosu's face as she asks, "If someone else is laughing you're supposed to hit them?"

Foxy laughs nervously, not noticing the lack of any emotion in the question, "No, please don't get that idea, Sakura-chan is one of a kind."

Masky's eye narrows slightly as he sits up and listens to the conversation.

Kaosu smiles devilishly, "Do you like Pinky?" she covers her mouth as she lets the nick name slip.

Foxy doesn't catch on, "Who?"

"I think she means Sakura."

Kaosu nods, her hands still over her mouth.

Foxy grins again, "Nicknames, hm? What's mine?"

She lifts her hands for the word "Foxy" to escape before putting them back.

The two boys wince, that hit a little too close to home for Naruto.

Masky distracts the other two, "What about mine and Sasuke's?"

Kaosu lets her hands drop after seeing that they really weren't angry or annoyed, "Yours is Masky and the other boy's is Duck Butt."

Foxy brows wrinkles in confusion again, "Why 'Duck Butt'?"

She grins and mimes his hairstyle above her head, "Have you ever noticed his hair?"

The corners of Masky's mouth twitch upwards but Naruto squints at her, "I still don't get it."

She sighs and lets her hands drop again, "Just take a good, long, hard look at his hair, okay?"

Tazuna calls for them, "Do you guys want food or not?"

The two kids jump up and rush to the table, leaving behind their crippled sensei who sighs and leans back, a little more sleep won't kill me.


Go Kaosu and her nicknames, and Naruto and his denseness. :)

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