Good late morning, here it comes:

7

"That was fast." said the girl – Anko, when they returned to the bridge. She was sitting at the edge, not unlike Iruka had been, and munching on a chocolate bar. "Soo, what naughty things were you doing?" she asked cheekily and chuckled when Iruka flushed and Hayate paled.

"You.. are hentai!" Hayate yelled taken aback. Anko just blinked on him innocently.

"Takes one to find one." she shoot back with a grin and shook her head to get her hair out of eyes.

"Whaaat?"

"Wohoo – sugar!" Iruka cheered, choosing that moment to join the conversation, before something ugly happened. Anko smiled and pushed her hair behind her ears.

"You wanna?" she asked and offered them piece of chocolate.

"Thanks." Iruka said happily and sat down, too, leaving Hayate no option but to follow him. The smaller teen took a piece of chocolate, too, munching on it hesitantly, as if wondering if it hadn't been poisoned. It probably wasn't, but who knows..

"So, who else is playing?" she asked curiously.

"Well, me and Iruka, you and three other genin, they are friends of us – that's one team, the second team are jounin." Hayate took the liberty to answer, seeing as Iruka had his mouth stuffed with melting chocolate.

"So we are basically genin team and against us it will be a jounin team? Isn't that dangerous? They can easily kill us.."

"I guess. I don't really know them, but Ru-chan will probably tell you more, after he is done with suffocating himself with food." Iruka poked him under ribs ans swallowed.

"Hmm.. Namiashi Raido is the first – I know him, he is nice, but can be scary. But I guess he wouldn't really hurt us in a game, he is soft." Iruka smiled. "I like him. Then, there is his best friend – Shiranui Genma. I don't really know about him, he acts as a jerk, but since Raido-san likes him, he can't be a bad person. I don't know about his abilities, but they say he is really fast – oh, he uses throwing weapon." he remembered.

Hayate nodded. He had heart that, too.

"It would be nice seeing if he is faster then Haya-chan, though.." Iruka mumbled to himself earning a curious gaze from Anko. "He is really fast. It's scary." Iruka chuckled pointing towards his small friend.

"Anyway.." the larger teen continued, "...Maito Gai is next. He is a huge fan of taijutsu, fast, strong and deathly, but he is a weirdo. All his talks about yought are really getting on my nerves. But he is obsessed with a fair-play, so he won't hurt us. As for Sarutobi Asuma and Yuuhi Kurenai, I don't know either, I have met them only few times, but Raido-san says they are nice."

Anko nodded. That sounded fair. She didn't really want to end up death, because of a game of 'capture the flag'.

They didn't have to wait too long after that, before there were three figures walking towards the bridge.

"Oh, finally." Iruka commented, pointing towards the three teens. Anko looked up startled – she hadn't notice.

"Are they nice?" she asked silently, looking up at Iruka with worry. Iruka gave her a grin, which she tried to answer with on of her own, but ended up frowning because her hair had fallen over her eyes, once again.

Iruka chuckled because of the heated glare Anko was giving her hair. "Yeah, you will like them."

"No." Hayate said. "They aren't nice, no matter what Iruka says. He says 'they are nice' about everyone." Anko frowned playing with her fingers.

"I see.." she mumbled.

Hayate sighed. He didn't mean to scare her, but.. "Mizuki is silent and unfriendly.." he started. And I don't like him. He added to himself.

"Heey, he is nice." Iruka argued.

"Ok, ok. But he is silent, and he is unfriendly. Almost like Ibiki-sama when you wake him up. Izumo – he seriously is nice. But he rarely says what is he thinking, so he can be all nice to someone, but then kill him, for all I know." he continued and Iruka chuckled. In a way, Hayate was right. "And then there is Kotetsu, who is about opposite of Izumo – he is a jerk, always and even towards his friends... Eh. Almost like Iruka, here."

Iruka stabbed him under ribs again and Hayate stuck his tongue. Anko chuckled, trying to hide it behind her hand, but only succeeded on getting her hair back over face.

Iruka watched he for a moment as she struggled with her purple hair, before taking out of his pocket his spare rubber band.

"Here.." he said and showed her the band, before getting on his knees and crouching behind her. He took as much of her hair as he managed and pulled it up to a ponytail like he was wearing. He stepped back to look at his masterpiece and smiled in satisfaction. Only few strands were now free, and those weren't long enough to actually be a bother.

"Thank you.." Anko said softly, before hesitantly touching her hair. She smiled. It was much better.

"Yo, folks. What are you up-" they heard a deep voice start saying something, but it abruptly stopped. "New friend, Iruka?"

Hayate looked back to see that their friends had already come close to them – not like he didn't recognize Kotetsu's voice, anyway.

"Yeeeaa.." Iruka stretched. "She is in our team – for the game." He explained and almost stopped after the first part of his sentence. And why not? Haya always says he wants someone to be our third, and why couldn't it be her?

"Aaalright..?" Kotetsu said obviously waiting for further explanation. His little friend next to him elbowed him and with a roll of his eyes took a step forward.

"Don't be a jerk, idiot. Hi, I am Kamizuki Izumo, it's nice meeting Iruka's friend." he said and although smiling nicely, Anko could feel his eyes looking right trough her soul, sharp and suspicious.

"Mitarashi Anko, .. my.. pleasure meeting you." she said politely and bowed her head. She didn't consider them her friend. She didn't want to touch them, didn't want to shake their hands, didn't want to get closer to them – they weren't nice and warm and neither friends as Iruka, and maybe even that Hayate-boy, were.

"Those two there are Hagane Kotetsu, as for the jerk who can't talk properly and Touji Mizuki, as the guy who can't talk at all." he replied sarcastically making Anko wonder if he was being cold because of her, or it it was his usual attitude. She remembered Iruka saying something about him being nice to everyone, but it certainly didn't look that way.

"Yo." Hagane Kotetsu said and cheerfully waved his hand on her, she replied with smile and bow, as her sensei had told her was the most neutral and polite way to greet someone. She shook her head to force thoughts like this away.

"Hi, nice meeting you." said that Mizuki and she got the distant feeling he was similar to him. To her sensei, in a way his mouth moved and how his eyes would move over her while talking.

Anko stared in fascination at that snake-kid, and absentmindedly reached to play with her hair. She didn't touch anything, just her bare cheek and that seemed to snap her out of trance, as she remembered Iruka pulling her hair up.

"So.. shouldn't we all go and find the other team, or something?" she asked finally noticing the tension around her. The boys in front of her were giving her weird looks and she almost turned around and fled, because that was something she was afraid would happen if she tried to befriend anyone.

Staring.

Yes, she knew her sensei was a sannin. And she knew he was a traitor. But it wasn't her fault.

"Aw! First things first!" Iruka said cheerfully and maybe little bit too loudly, and Anko turned towards him, seeing that he – and Hayate as well – were standing behind her and glaring daggers at their friends.

I don't want them to argue. Anko surprised herself with thinking something like that – she always thought she didn't really care about anyone else. But she was glad.

"So.. what are we going to do now?" the small kid – Izumo – asked with a raised eyebrow and took a few steps forward stepping over the imaginary line closer to Iruka and standing right next to Anko, as if he didn't give a damn about who she was.

"I am hungrryyyy!" Iruka whined and threw his arms around Anko's and Hayate's shoulders, as those two were next to him. "Let's go eat!"

And eat they went, not caring it was long after midday and not caring that everyone would stare strangely at them.

Let them stare, they couldn't care less what people say about them.

After all, Ibiki's shinobi, they were.

Aw, no longer listening to Drrr Ost while writing it. :) this chapter I wrote while listening to screeching and chirping of my neighbour's parrots. They are loud.

Heh. Hope you liked it :)