Chibi Scarecrow Chapter 6
Ta was sitting on the swing set, staring at the sky while Iruka conversed with some mothers who were also there with their children.
There kids saw Ta, but they were a little nervous going up to him. He was after all a little hard to approach; Iruka fixed that in no problem.
"Ta, can you come over here for a second," Iruka said in a sweet voice. Ta was hesitant, but came over none the less. Iruka squatted, "Those kids want to play with you so stop scaring them and let them play with you."
"No," Ta said.
"Stop being stubborn."
"Stop being persistent."
"I will when you start acting like a child, you're not an adult."
"But," Kakashi caught himself.
"But what," Iruka prompted.
Ta stared at the kids who were steady backing up at his harsh glare.
"Be nice," Iruka left to go talk to the mother. They decided not to interfere.
Kakashi thought this shouldn't be so hard.
One of the braver brats, stepped up and said, "You don't play much do you?"
Ta eyebrow twitch as the boy gave him a smug look.
"It doesn't take much to have fun." All the brats were staring at Ta he felt like he was in some kind of danger, but he ignored.
"Okay," the kid did an about face. "Children of the Playground fall in."
Ten of them got into a single file line arms at their side, feet together, back straight.
"Today we have a new kid at the park and it's our mission to make sure that he feels welcome. Am I clear?"
"Hai," they shouted in unison.
"Good, now who wants the privilege to conduct the first activity?"
One little girl stepped forward, "I."
The boy nodded, "Very good, our mission starts now."
Iruka could only gap at the kids as he silently prayed for Ta's safety.
"Don't you worry, by tomorrow afternoon he'll be as good as new."
Iruka wished it was just that simple.
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Iruka dragged a wiped out Ta back to his apartment; he gave him a bath and put him right to bed. The poor kid was dead on his feet.
"Good evening Lady Tsunade," the blonde woman smiled.
"I guess you already figured it out," she was talking about Kakashi identity.
"Yeah, but that's not why you're here."
Lady Tsunade nodded and tapped on Kakashi chakra paths.
"That's it?" Iruka asked surprised.
"Well I can't say that's it. It's all to Kakashi, but we all know how that's going to end."
"So our chibi scarecrow is no more, eh?
The Hokage laugh.
……………………………………………………………………….I've never been more sorry for a crap-ass ending, but I lost a lot of motivation and I said if I drawn this story out any longer you guys would hate, so I'd just stopped.
Sorry and thank you for reading up until now.