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Chibi Scarecrow Chapter 2
Kakashi didn't find this funny one bit. He holds nothing against the chunin, but he thought it would be familiar to be put with somebody he really knows.
"Ah, Iruka I hope you wasn't waiting long." Lady Tsunade said with a serious face, but if you look a little bit closer you can see the barest of all twitches. She was enjoying this too much, but Lady Tsunade was being professional about it.
"No Lady Tsunade, I haven't been waiting." Iruka-sensei bowed, but it wasn't as sincere as one may say.
"Well I have a C-rank mission I need for you to do and it's going to be done in the village. Do you except?"
"Yes."
Lady Tsunade got up and went to Kakashi. "This little boy here is Homaru Ta; he will be staying with us will his parents are away on a trip. His parents are from the Lightning country and we were asked to watch their son."
Iruka nodded as if he didn't believe it, but decided not to pursue. Lady Tsunade almost winces.
"Okay," Iruka said getting down to Kakashi/Homaru size and said, "We're going to have so much fun together."
Kakashi looked agitated.
"Iruka-sensei can you please come back in an hour or so, I need to talk to Homaru."
"Of course," Iruka bowed and left.
Iruka sat in the hallway waiting to go into the room. It was odd that the Hokage would want him. It wasn't the first of yet, so what could it have been. Iruka could feel the ANBU eyes and didn't think it would be wise stared back, but…
"Excuse me I know you're to protect the Hokage, but can you please not stare at me like that, it's quite annoying." The two ANBU's stared at each other. Iruka wasn't in the mood to be stared at like the next side order of a meal.
Iruka went in after a while and saw him. It was Kakashi in child form. He wanted to say something, but then he thought wait that's stupid. Kakashi in a child form, that's way beyond stupid. Still…
Lady Tsunade went on explaining something about the kid parents being on a trip and all and needed somebody to watch him.
Iruka agreed to watch him although he really didn't want to, but I haven't done any missions in a long time, plus he's not actually leaving the village.
Iruka left holding a sigh back as he went to go get things prepared for Homaru stay. Iruka just asked what he got himself into.
When Iruka-sensei left Kakashi wailed.
"Why, why him, he's going to suspect something?" Kakashi ranted like he wasn't twenty-eight, but then again.
"It would be better that way, if you were with the people you were familiar with then that mean your secret would be blown the whole jounin population would know.
"I chose Iruka-sensei, because he lives alone and he doesn't have much of an active social life. So of course he was the best candidate. So please don't give him a hard time, he has enough on his plate."
Kakashi sigh, "Are you sure he's the right person for this? I mean he doesn't seem like he wants to do it."
Lady Tsunade shrugs, "He accepted it so, and there is nothing we can do about it."
Iruka dropped his keys on the table and flopped on the couch. He made a couple of clones to start on the house chores. So tired, what am I going to do?
Iruka looked around the house and thought, 'Pathetic, I got nothing going for me. I'm boring and I'm alone. I might as well get a cat.' Iruka looked at the calendar, May 24, two more days until my birthday. Will anybody remember?
"I don't believe this; you're telling me that he has no social outside his social life?" Kakashi asked incredulous. He might not be much of a "social butterfly", but still…
"Do you think you can give him a paid vacation?" Kakashi actually asked meekly.
"Been there, tried that, didn't work." Lady Tsunade said. "I'm half considering getting him paired up with one of the kunoichi. But that might just end badly."
Kakashi nodded in agreement.
"Well ask him to take a vacation again."
"Fine, but what are you planning?" Lady Tsunade asked.
"Oh nothing," Kakashi smiled.
'Oh, this may cause a lot of damage.'
Iruka woke up startled out of his mind as his clones gave him their memories. It would seem the cooking, the cleaning, and the grading was done. Now it was time to pick up that Homaru kid.
Iruka grabbed his keys somewhat refreshed and left the building, not before an older bunch of women started prying about his health.
"I'm fine, I'm fine, I just been working longer hours," Iruka grinned sheepishly.
The biddies all crowed, "Now that's awful."
"How terrible."
And so on and so forth.
Before Iruka left, he had to make another trip to the apartment to drop off all the energy bars and vitamins and soaps the old ladies gave him.
"What a pain," Iruka dropped the stuff on the counter and left going the other way.
After finally making it to the Hokage room this is what he found.
A little kid dressed in a light blue shirt and dark slacks. An eye patch over his eye. And let's not forget his hair laid flat. Iruka almost thought it was another little boy, but the look he receives was the same.
Iruka looked at an obviously tired out Hokage. Look like they were both fighting tooth and nail about something.
Do I dare to ask? Iruka thought. He mentally shook his head and turned the other cheek.
"Well if this is all your stuff," Iruka said noticing a duffle.
Kakashi nodded not before giving a meaningful look to the Hokage.
"Iruka-sensei, before you go why don't you take a vacation while you're watching Ta. It's a paid vacation."
Again with the vacation.
"Sure," Iruka eyes popped and Ta/Kakashi looked satisfied. I can't believe I said that.
"That's good your vacation is a month and don't be surprise to see me at your door step."
"Oh and one more thing," Lady Tsunade leveled Ta/Kakashi with a stare. "Your parents told me of your flighty habits, so you better not try that here, do I make myself clear?"
Kakashi caught on, "Crystal." No spontaneously visiting the memorial stone. Crap.