Third part. I am actually enjoying this more than I thought I would :)

Anyway, still the same, if you spot some mistake which hurts your eyes or language sences, let me know so I can correct it, thank you.

By the way, this is still happening at the same day as the two previous chapters.

Iruka walked down the streets on his own. He still had his smile on, but he was already starting to feel lonely. Without his friends, ever-polite Hayate, energetic Kotetsu, shy Izumo and moody Mizuki, he was just a small child, child who lost his family to Kyuubi.

He sighed. There was no use to being all depressed on top of being so tired.

Iruka yawned and rubbed his eyes absently greeting young women who was passing him – she was from the same part of Konoha as him. She didn't greet him back and Iruka remembered he had pranked her few weeks ago.

He chuckled to himself remembering that he had woken up to her scream the morning after. The prank wasn't really sophisticated or anything, he had just put her under small genjutsu, making her think she had gone bald.

She hadn't spoke to him since then and he didn't really mind. She was irritating.

"Gossips.." the teen mumbled to himself while he unlocked his door with a gentle push of chakra – it was his hobby, traps and their mechanisms – and suddenly had that really weird feeling at the back of his head.

Iruka harshly turned around, someone was watching him. He was fast enough just to see some dark blur disappear behind a corner, but the person's chakra presence was still there, he could faintly feel it.

The problem was – he didn't recognize the pattern. At first he though that maybe Hayate had gone after him to see if he was really going to bed, or that those two idiots had been trying to prank him or something. But the chakra was absolutely unknown to him.

"Hiding behind a corner.. huh?" he spoke to himself before shrugging and entering his house. He would find out later, the follower didn't look like going away, anyway.

Iruka had more important things to do. Like sleep.

"Aaw.. what to do, what to do.." Kotetsu said once again and ducked before anyone – probably Hayate – had the chance to hit him.

"You were asking the same last twenty minutes." Izumo said in a tone somewhere between boredom and irritation.

"I know that, my dearest little friend!" Kotetsu exclaimed and Hayate got the distance feeling, that it's the same what Iruka would tell him, being it the two in this situation. It scared him every time, how similar were those two. "I was just waiting for my dearest brother in everything but blood to answer!" he added with a cheeky grin.

"Kotetsu.." Hayate sighed. "Iruka is at home. Sleeping. He won't answer your question."

Kotetsu pouted. "But he is always the one to start our ritual arguing about what to do!"

Hayate sighed again. "It's always just the two of you, who is arguing. However, that doesn't by all that is saint to me change the fact, that Iruka is at home. Sleeping, and he won't bloody answer your stupid question, no matter how often you are asking."

"Oh." Kotetsu said intelligently with a distance feeling, that he should probably teach Hayate how to swear properly.

"What about we go up?" asked suddenly Izumo trying to stop their arguing before it even started.

"I guess it's better than standing here." Mizuki smiled and nodded.

"I am in." sighed Hayate and stood back before Kotetsu could flung his arm around his shoulders how he always did to him or Izumo, when he was going to say something cheeky.

"Aalright! Let's go! I bet Minato-sama is already missing our graceful presence!"

"Jeez.. You are even larger idiot than Iruka."

Iruka sat down on his bad and stretched. His whole body hurt. He listened to the cracking of his joints with satisfaction.

"Alright!" he said to himself after he finished. "Time to see my loyal follower!" he grinned and stood next to his window moving the curtains just a bit to see and not to be seen, and looked out. He searched the corner, but didn't see anything, or anyone suspicious.

"Oh right. It moved." he mumbled again, his voice sounded weirdly in the deserted house. He searched for the chakra presence and detected it in a narrow isle closer to his house.

He could actually see the shadow of his follower, as the guy wasn't probably concerned about being found.

"Hey... It's a child.." Iruka muttered. The shinobi following him was about the same high as Hayate was, but not as lean and graceful, he moved to crouch down on the dirty land and Iruka realized, that the kid was small. Not in the way Haya and Izu were, the kid was probably larger then the two, but while crouching he was embracing his body and he looked really tiny like that, in almost fatal position.

Iruka thought for a moment about kids from his class, but he didn't think this boy had been his classmate. He would recognize his chakra pattern.

For a moment he thought if that isn't him. But he was now probably at home with his mom learning how to bake cookies. And Iruka would have recognized his chakra immediately. His and Hayate's he would recognize anywhere, after all.

Iruka decided to give up for a moment and moved the curtains back to their respective places, returning to his loving bed.

"Hey look!" Kotetsu said, jumping two feet up while pointing towards group of older teens. "If these aren't our honored jounin." he said loud enough for everyone to hear and laughed mockingly.

"Stop it, Ko.." Izumo warned him. He didn't really want to get to fight with the olders, again.

"Let's go.." Mizuki added and started pulling the bouncing Kotetsu towards Hokage Monument, but it was probably too late. The tallest from the group had left his friends and was now going straight towards them.

Yes, that guy was smiling, but they all knew, that the jounin would all probably smile the most when killing someone slowly and painfully. They were all insane, after all.

"Hey, kids." the tall jounin greeted them pleasantly and Izumo gulped. The guy was twice his high.

"Ugh.. hi?" Hayate said questioningly. It was weird to have one off the 'high and mighty' to talk to them.

"Whatcha want?" asked Kotetsu with an arrogant smirk not looking nervous at all. The jounin raised an eyebrow on him, obviously debating if the kid was sane or not. He then looked at the small group in front of him with a frown.

"Iruka's not with you?" he asked the one kid, who looked like the most reliable from them, unfortunately picking up Mizuki. The white haired genin just grunted something not caring about the jounin at all.

"He's not. He went .. home." Hayate said when he realized the jounin didn't look dangerous at all. Just lost, maybe. It probably wouldn't hurt to say where his friend was, since no one, but Hayate and Izumo, would probably be able to find his house anyway.

"Oh. I see.. Thank you." the jounin said shrugging and Hayate suddenly remembered that Iruka once told him, that he made friends with one of the jounin, claiming that the one was absolutely normal and sane.

"Hey," Hayate spoke up to the leaving jounin. He turned around looking questioningly. "Wouldn't you be Namiashi Raido?" Hayate asked and the jounin smiled, nodding.

"Yea.. That's old me."

"Nice to finally meet you." Hayate grinned. "Iruka told me you are the only sane jounin in the Konoha."

"He did, didn't he." Namiashi Raido laughed rubbing back of his head. "I wanted to ask him if you kids wouldn't want to play a game of Flags against us, but since he's not here.." Raido shrugged.

"Tomorrow!" Kotetsu said with a huge smile. "We will play against you tomorrow, is that alright?"

Raido gave them raised thumb and made his way back to the other jounin, waving on the kids.

"So.. Shall we go visit Minato-sama?" Mizuki asked with a smile matching his friends.

Tomorrow they are going to play against the jounin.

And, Hayate promised to himself, they will do their best.

They were, after all, Ibiki's soldiers.

Thank you for reading :)

Please tell me what you think,

can anyone guess who is the one following Iruka? It shouldn't be so difficult. He know them, that's for sure. :)