Chapter two. Enjoy.

By the way (666bulle) thank you very much :) 42 - there is a film/book "Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy". If you have two hours and want to have small laugh, watch it, it's worth it. I won't tell you anything more, I don't want to spoil the fun for you. :)

Anyway, I always wanted to write a fairytaile beggining with a sentence: "Somewhere, in the middle of nowhere, there was something, that have nothing to do with anything."

Still listening to the same music. Still being on drrr high.

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They finished their task in a record time of three and half hours and laid down on a road in the middle of District Nine, not caring that people were giving them weird looks. They were exhausted.

"Aw.. in times like this, I wish we had the third one.." Hayate moaned and shielded his eyes form sun with his wrist.

"Nah.. I don't want anyone else. Like this I have you just for myself!" Iruka grinned teasing his friend, who just rolled his eyes on him before realizing that it didn't have the wanted effect because he had had his face covered.

"Idiot." he said instead. "You still have to share with Ibiki-sama and my dad and sisters and my cat and aunt and uncle and.." he would continue on, not being for Iruka who interrupted him with mock-panicked gasp:

"What? I thought the cat was ours!" he said, because the two of them found the kitten on their way from training and adopted it and let it live with Iruka, since Hayate's father thought Hayate was allergic to animal hair. He probably was, but he couldn't care less, since he was allergic to almost everything. "Does that mean you don't want to be with me and bring our little one up together anymore?" he declared dramatically and sat up, looking sneakily around to see that about twenty citizens were looking at them with scandalous expressions.

Hayate seemed to realize it, too, and promptly turned red. He was easy to embarrass and Iruka was often using it to make fun of him. Like in that moment.

The older teen stood up pulling his friend on his feet, too. "We are finished here." he said in obvious attempt to disappear from the area.

Iruka sighed. He was actually enjoying himself and the idea of having to go to sleep was not appealing at all.

"Let's go to bed." Hayate declared loud enough for every citizen to hear him just to humor his friend and play along. Iruka turned around to look at him, noticing the still present redness on the teen's cheeks and started freely laughing. Hayate hesitantly joined him and soon enough they were both howling in laugh while walking down the deserted streets of mid-day's Konoha.

"Hey, if those punks aren't our famous Izu-Mizu-Ko!" said suddenly Iruka and elbowed his friend turning his attention to four small figures near the Konoha river.

"What? Where?" Hayate looked the pointed way and his face brightened up upon seeing them, too. "Yep, you're right!" he cheered and waved with both of his arms, hoping to get their attention.

One of the figures turned around and seemed like checking them, before poking another one and pointing their way.

Iruka with Hayate changed their way along the river instead of the road to the Konoha square, watching as two tiny figures started jumping up and down while waving wildly. They waved them back and started grinning in almost identical way.

"What about we throw them to the river?" whispered Hayate and chuckled as the two figures started running towards them, slowly followed by the other two.

"I think it wouldn't have the effect, I guess they are both already wet.." Iruka pouted. "But!" he said suddenly making his friend look at him with interest.

Iruka grinned at him in evil manner and firmly gripped his shoulders and waist. "I can always throw there you!" he chuckled and made a half-step with turning, effectively showing his friend to the water.

"Irukaaaa!" Hayate shouted before going under the water with a loud splash.

Iruka didn't even have time to laugh, before two pairs of hands gripped him and he just heard cheeky "hi" from Kotetsu and shy "hallo" from their youngest friend Izumo, and he went flying after Hayate.

The small teen was just trying to catch his breath when something hit the water next to him and made him sink back down. He panicked and caught the first thing he found, trying to get back above the water. Unfortunately the thing he caught on was his generally violent teammate, so he went back down immediately.

He was waving frantically around, because he really didn't like water, and he really didn't enjoy being under it, and he really, really couldn't breath and he didn't want to die.

And then there was something pulling him up and fresh air was cold and chilly, but he leaned back against the warm something what pulled him from underwater and was kind of content.

"Hey, you alright?" something poked him and he realized it was Iruka who pulled him out, because no one else he knew was so warm, and yet so irritating.

Hayate nodded. Wait, why was Iruka in the water? Wasn't he the one who threw him there from the land in the first place? Wait, wait. Wasn't Iruka the one who threw him there?

The small teen turned around in Iruka's embrace and punched him with all he had. He really hated water.

"Bastard." he mumbled while Iruka tried his best not to let them both sink back and rub his aching jaw at the same time.

"Heh. Sorry, I couldn't resist.." the larger teen chuckled hesitantly and started pulling them both towards the land. "Let's get us out, it's still cold to bath."

"Whose fault is it, that we are bathing, again?" Hayate stated coldly and started making his own effort of swimming, without getting too far from the source of warmth in the process.

"Well. Mine, that you are bathing. Their, that I am bathing. So you are now officially avenged." Iruka informed him with small smile.

"Oh.. I see.." So, that was how Iruka got to the water, too.

They were fortunately close to the bank, so it didn't take them long before they climbed up to join their two grinning friends.

"Sooo.." Kotetsu started while messing up Hayate's hair. "How was the bath, kiddos?" he had on his special cheeky grin.

"Nice actually, thank you for sharing, as I see you have had your own one earlier." Iruka chuckled pointing to their bare torsos and wet t-shirts, they were holding. He took off his own top, hesitantly followed by his teammate.

"We had a mission to pick up the trash from the water today. It was so exciting." spoke up Izumo, the smallest teen from group, and offered them smile.

"We had our own share of excitement. Imagine, we were cleaning the Academy walls." Hayate informed with a grin.

"Actually, it was kind of interesting." Iruka laughed. "Some of the pictures were pretty educational."

"Ew.." reacted Hayate remembering some of the sketches.

Izumo silently laughed – he could fortunately only imagine, what Iruka considers 'educational'.

"Hey, there is sensei! And Mizumizu is soo slow." Kotetsu suddenly declared, and really, the two figures was close to them finally.

Iruka waved on them smiling happily and Mizuki hesitantly answered with his own wave.

They had been good friends at the academy, best actually, but after both of them got their own teams, they grew apart. It was mostly Mizuki who distanced himself.

Iruka was, after all, Ibiki's student.

Questions, comments? :)

Anyway, thank you for reading.