Ooh, well, I know I am late, but I hope you will excuse me, I spent my day reading a book and enjoying the sun. :)

Enjoy, this is it, for today :)

8

They were all standing in a semi-circle at the edge of training ground 46 and even though Iruka with Raido had tried to make both teams interact with the other like friends, the circle they made was split in the middle of them with a step away and curious glances.

Iruka was smirking, which made few of the jounin and Anko uneasy and the rest of genin laugh. Silently, sneaky, of course. They didn't want to alert the jounin that something was amiss.

And of course the jounin would complain, how the other team was late.

"You just wanted us to be without food, so that you will win. But we aren't going to fall for that, baaaka." Iruka said sticking out his tongue at the dumbstruck jounin with backwards bandana and a senbon sticking out of his mouth.

The jounin, previously introduced as Shiranui Genma, frowned and took a step towards the teen, trying to look intimidating. "What did you call me..?" he asked slowly, his voice deliberately low and dangerous.

Scaary~ Iruka thought to himself with amusement. Too bad he, and Hayate, were more often than not at the receiving end of Ibiki's wrath.

"I believe he said something about you trying to leave us starving.." Hayate said in faked confused voice, blinking with innocence.

"Aah, don't make a knot on your brain trying to figure if he is deaf or stupid, little one." Mizuki said teasingly to Hayate, ignoring the presence of three jounin, one of them glaring at the beck of his head.

"Mizumizu is right, you know.. You shouldn't try to figure it all by yourself, you should just ask him." Kotetsu added looking really worried about his little friend. "Even though my bet is on the first.." he added thoughtfully.

"Not a chance!" Izumo cried out. "He is the latter, didn't you hear Iruka?" he pointed to the scarred teen nodding in satisfaction at his own explanation.

"Thank you, my dearest little friend." Iruka exclaimed grinning happily. "I am so glad you have faith in me, but I honestly think he is both."

"Hmm.." Kotetsu managed to look thoughtful while sneakily looking at the trio of jounin. Shiranui was furious. The senbon in his mouth kept on twitching and his eyes were lacking the usual boredom. Raido was obviously torn between amusement and embarrassment, because his two friends couldn't have a civil conversation. While the last jounin, who hadn't said a word yet, was just looking bored. And irritated.

"Alright, alright." Raido said trying to end the argument before it could get nasty, silently grateful that at least one of them – the excessively young jounin, child prodigy and the only son of the White Wolf of Konoha – was calm and collected. "Now that we know each other, we can as well go trough the rules."

"Wait up." Iruka frowned. "Raido-san, this is your whole team?" he clearly wasn't happy with it.

Raido offered him rare smile. "No, don't you worry. Gai is .. ehm.. well." He scratched his head thinking about how to explain it.

"He said he is going to take a warming-up run around Konoha. I believe he mentioned something about being bored waiting for us." unemotional voice of the last present explained and Iruka shortly wondered why did Hatake feel the need to include himself. Was he late, too, or something? Iruka shrugged, deciding he didn't care.

"So we will just start without him. You all know the game 'capture the flag', right?" he asked and when Anko shook her head, he sighed. "Alright. It's easy, really. In the territory, which is that part of training ground.." Raido raised his hand to point towards the forest, ".. each team will find a place where they would erect their flag. Mind you, it has to be visible from at least ten meters." Raido looked sternly at Iruka and the youngster chuckled guiltily.

"Alright, alright." Iruka said embarrassed.

"Around the flag, you have to mark a circle of two meters in radius. That circle is prohibited area – you can't step inside your own circle. The other team, however, can. The goal is to capture the opponent's flag and bring it to your circle. No stepping inside, though. Throw it there, or something. The moment when both the flags are inside one of the circles, the game ends."

Raido smiled, relieved the explanation was over. He didn't like having to talk for a longer amount of time, even more after meeting Iruka, because the teen tended to be ruthless and irritated after having to be quiet for a longer period of time.

And irritated Iruka was scary Iruka.

"Oh, the point is to capture the flag and protect your own." Raido remembered suddenly. "Iruka-kun will show you how to color-tag other people with chakra. Being tagged equals being killed and you have to do a small task assigned to return back to game. The joke is, you don't have to get the task by the one who tagged you, but until you do whatever someone has told you to do, the tag won't disappear. The smartest would be to demand task from your own team, so than it won't take so much time, but it's really up to you.."

"Alright. I think I understand." Anko smiled shyly.

"So we are waiting for the green fairy to return from a jogging season and then we can begin?" Kotetsu asked and titled his head in a way curious cat would probably do.

"Basically, yes." Raido answered with a smile.

"So that means it is you four against us six? I think one of us should play on your side, if just for a fair-play." Iruka frowned.

"That wouldn't really help the issue, since the one would probably just try and sabotage us." Raido chuckled and Iruka couldn't help but agree.

"I will play with them, I won't cheat." Mizuki frowned and glared at the scarred jounin, daring him to oppose. "I will try my best to make my team win." he said with determination clear in his eyes.

"We accept." Hatake said before anyone could say a word. "Then it would be a .. fair-play." he added, the word feeling strange on his tongue. He was a shinobi, shinobi cheat.

"There will be a catch." Shiranui Genma suddenly said, making the others gaze at him questioningly. He just smirked. "The team loosing, will have to undergo a punishment."

If he expected an opposition, he had to be really disappointed. Iruka and Kotetsu started grinning their usual wicked grin, which obviously was contagious, because the little, seemingly innocent, girl adopted it too, and even Hayate with Izumo sported little smile.

The only unaffected were Raido, who looked more worried than anything, and Mizuki with Kakashi, who just didn't give a damn.

Hayate started chuckling suddenly. And Iruka joined him immediately afterward. That two weren't afraid of any kind of punishment those jounin could think up. Basically because they would probably come up with something much, much worse.

They were Ibiki's heir, after all.

Uff. thats it. Tomorrow, I think, I will be even later. :( Places to go, things to do and so on.. Please, be patient, and.. rewiev, people! The feeling of writting something and not knowing if anyone likes it, or what people think about it is depressing.

Well, if anyone have an idea for the punishment, feel free to let me know :)