GaiKaka Gai x Kakashi ... Kakashi's got an agenda, and is overstressed. Gai thinks it might be his own fault. Mishaps and Misunderstandings...
This chapter's G rated. Hnnn… ah yeah! I'm away for a while so Chapter 8 won't be updated for a while (like.. two days, oh noes… . ) Enjoy this one!!
Chapter Seven: The Third Party
"WHAT?!" Kakashi said angrily, slamming his fists down on the Hokage's table.
"Kakashi!" Shizune started.
"Let him speak, Shizune!" Tsunade waved her aside, giving Kakashi a stern look, "What reason would you have to disagree with this proposal, Kakashi?"
Kakashi scowled at her. He had done a fine job avoiding the Green Menace for almost a week (which, honestly, wasn't that hard considering he was a flaming eye-sore from miles away), and now, here this… melons-for-boobs, boobs-for-brains idiot was suggesting that all the leaders of the students involved in the latest chuunin exams got together for a briefing, of sorts.
Kakashi's fists clenched.
"None, Hokage."
Tsunade gave a small smile. "I didn't think so, Kakashi."
With a final glare, Kakashi stormed out of the office, knocking an incoming Naruto off his feet.
Naruto stared at his angry sensei marching double-time down the hall and out of sight. He didn't think all this would be affecting him this much, but at least his suspicions were becoming more and more confirmed.
"Naruto, glad you could make it, finished your mission then?" Tsunade smiled.
"You mean that mission?"
Tsunade's smile widened, "yeah, that mission."
Naruto glanced out the hallway to where his sensei had knocked him over.
"Guess so, I'm just glad it's over…"
"Oh…," Tsunade smirked, "it's far from over…"
Gai moped in his room, still in the same boxers he had been in days ago, stubble growing from his chin and cheeks, socks stained to off-white. He was a mess.
The day Kakashi left, he tried to pull himself together.
He kept waiting for his sunrise. His daily rejuvenating light.
But every morning, he woke up minutes too late.
Every morning…
… he missed his sunrise.
Gai felt stupid to be feeling this way. What ever had happened to the Green Beast that once presided inside of him? Hibernation, he joked to himself…
Reaching past the unwashed dishes, he opened cupboards, looking for something new to snack on. Anything to pass the time.
The shuffling of paper from the door of his apartment distracted him from the quest of un-boredom-ing himself. An envelope was being roughly shoved under the door.
He ran to the door, heart thumping, what if it was Kakashi?
He flung the door open so it shuddered on its hinges.
…
There was nobody there, except for a couple of young ladies across the way, one of which shrieked and fainted at the sight of the dirty boxers and nothing more.
He muttered a quick apology and disappeared back through the door, anything to quieten the thudding in his chest. The wood left small splinters in the skin on his back as he slunk to the floor.
He closed his eyes and looked to the ceiling, as if all the answers lay within the white plaster designs.
After a few silences, Gai reached for the white envelope sitting on the polished floor.
It was marked with the village-symbol and his name. An order from the top, he guessed. He looked inside. There were two pieces of paper. The first read:
Maito Gai
Congratulations for getting your students through the late Chuunin Exams.
Please be prepared for a small get together and debriefing for the teachers of students who undertook the exam. The function will be held tomorrow at…
Gai stopped reading. Who cared where it was? Whatever Tsunade had in mind, would probably be ruined by Kakashi pounding his head in with a few thousand chidori punches. He didn't want to go at all… He took out the next note:
PS
Attendance is Compulsory
-Tsunade
Gai gave one more drama-queen groan and went back to his search for food.