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10

Maaan, that's so freaking stupid. Iruka thought to himself as he were holding two different pieces of chakra wire in front of his face. I can't connect them, not enough length. He sighed to himself looking around, trying to find something what could possibly help him.

"What's the problem, boss." he caught a voice from his left and almost jumped from his skin. He hadn't been paying attention to his surroundings.

Iruka turned around to give a nod to his best friend, who was standing there, leaning against a tree and looking kinda smugly. Iruka wouldn't do that, if he were him. Hayate's hand was about three centimeters from the switch of one of his stun traps.

"I have already trapped the whole area here, it's done in a spiral, from the middle, where the flag is, up to here. I would put your hand away, by the way, if you don't want to be henged into an ant." he said in a bored voice, not even looking up when his friend yelped and jumped backwards, almost stepping on another trap.

Iruka sighed. He had to hurry up, if he didn't want any of his teammates activating the traps.

"I just don't have enough wire attached, I would have to start over from the beginning, if I didn't come up with any other way.." he mumbled to himself.

"I can always pump chakra inside of some branch or something.." he mumbled and Iruka looked back at him, contemplating.

"I forgot you can do that.." he mumbled. "Here, do it." he threw him small peace of clothing and two shuriken. Hayate looked at him strangely, but obeyed, pushing his chakra to the inanimate objects.

"By the way, I wanted to tell you, you are now officially prohibited of asking your enemies for a task." Hayate informed him before disappearing to the forest.

Iruka looked after him before thrusting the two ends of wire through those shuriken, using the straps of clothing to jam them.

The young shinobi shrugged. "You know.. I was curious what would Hatake give me as a punishment. Sorry, Haya-chan.." he said to the deserted forest and laid the wire down to the ground and covered it with leaves.

"I am curious.." he mumbled to himself and pushed his chakra to the whole circuit of traps trough the wire. "Entirely too curious.." he said before pushing two his fingers inside of his mouth and whistled loud enough for the whole forest to hear.

Anko sat down on a branch and panted. She was tired. She had been tailing Gai for a while now, after she saw him for the second time. He still had the color tag on his head and Anko couldn't help but giggle. The pink suited him.

She jumped to another branch and realized she had already crossed the second stream. A lot of water here. She noticed. Now that I think about it, there is a river in the middle. I should be going alongside of it..

The genin took a careful look on her prey and leaped again from branch to branch. Let's see.. I guess that Mizuki guy is probably water type, while the rest of them – that weirdo is just taijutsu, Hatake is lightning, they say, Raido-san.. I would say he's earth and Shiranui is probably earth, too. Our team – I am fire, Kotetsu is lightning and Izumo is earth, too. Iruka is.. could Iruka be water?

She stood to a halt taking a look back where she knew her teammate was, still playing with traps.

He might as well be, I will have to tell him about the water, it could help. She thought to herself as she peeked down on the running figure. Gai suddenly stopped, looking around and Anko did the same, in panic that someone was close.

The young girl almost fell down from the tree, as she spotted another figure just few feet from her. As in not left of right from her, but down. She guessed that if he got the idea to look around himself – up – she would have been spotted, but the young men was entirely too absorbed in his book to do it.

Anko giggled, trying the hardest to muffle the sound not to alert anyone to hear her, and leaped back to another tree. If she was correct, and Maito Gai was looking for Hatake, they would spot her.

"My Greatest Rival!" the green jounin exclaimed and Anko saw Hatake almost fall down from the tree. She giggled again.

"What do you want now.." the smaller jounin asked and composed himself. "Eh? Gai? Did you need something?" he asked again, when his rival stayed silent. Kakashi frowned. That wasn't like Gai, he would already throw at him some challenge or something. Is it henge?

Kakashi slipped down from the tree, standing just few feet from the other jounin. He titled his head, silently watching the other man for any signs of lie.

Gai gave him a thump up in a praise and looked as if he was shining.

Yes, it is him. Now, what did he want? Kakashi thought to himself, but didn't have time to guess, because his book, his precious book, gift from his beloved sensei, had disappeared.

The copy nin looked up in a shock, just to see grinning Gai, holding the small, orange object in front of him in a teasing manner.

"What the... Gai! Give it back!"

The green jounin just smirked more and shook his head. Anko secretly snorted. That was starting to get funny.

"Give it back, and give it now." copy-nin repeated icily before sliding few steps towards the other. Gai took a step back with every one Kakashi made. Then, without warning Hatake shot forwards, pulling a kunai from his pouch. The killing intent leaking from him was heavy and cold, it was almost burning.

Anko watched with wide eyes as Gai effortlessly dodged and jumped over his opponent. Kakashi just turned around making an almost circle with the blade, slaying it just a few centimeters away from Gai's chest.

"Give me my book, you bastard!" Hatake ordered around, positioning his hands threateningly into a Saru-seal over the kunai.

Gai just looked on the little book in his hands, than at Kakashi, and back at the book, and leaped from his heels and into the trees. He took the way towards the nearest boarders of their Training Field, his rival hot on his heels.

Anko sighed in relief. The danger had passed. She had been really worried for a moment, the killing intent was something, and Gai wasn't doing anything to soothe his friend, only taunt him further.

Crazy as bat, these jounin.. she thought to herself with a roll of brown eyes. But awesome, they are really strong, and fast.. They could take me down in a second.. she admitted not really calmly.

"Well,well,well.. How ...nice of you, to come and visit our flag.. honestly.." Anko jumped few feet, startled. She slowly turned around – if someone wanted to attack her, she would have been already tagged.

"..Mizuki, was it.. right?" she asked, when she found herself eyes-to-eyes with the snake kid from earlier. The kid gave her a smile, which was probably genuine, but didn't do anything to calm her, and clapped his hands.

"Alright. The Ten questions is up. Time to tag you, dear." he said in a tone which got her frozen for a moment. Mizuki leaned forwards with a raised palm to tag her, and Anko panicked and fell back from the branch. She didn't even have time to panic, she knew she will fall down on her back – not enough time to turn around. Anko clenched her eyes shut preparing herself for the fall, but suddenly cold hand caught her wrist holding her in the air.

"What the hell?" Anko opened her eyes. Mizuki was crouching on the same place she had been, preventing her from falling down and trying hard not to fall too. He didn't have balance on the branch.

"Like.. What the hell?" Mizuki repeated and pulled her up next to her, steadying her with both of his arms. "What is the great idea in killing yourself, dammit?" he put his palms on her shoulders, shaking with her.

"Sorry.." Anko managed to say, the adrenaline leaving her, making a place for the fear and panic. She sobbed. "I am sorry.. I didn't mean to.. I just.." Mizuki pulled her closer, embracing her, because he didn't really know what to do. He was friends with males all the time. Not a single girl, he could have called his friend, so he wasn't used to crying. Luckily, it worked. He didn't really wanted to have furious Iruka and Hayate on his case, because he had upset their little friend. They were scary.

After all, they were Ibiki's boys.

Aaw.. longer than I wanted. Not like I mind, but.. :)

Hmm.. let's say, this was Kaka vs Gai and Anko vs Mizuki.. next can be.. for example.. I wanted to see Raido fight, so Raido versus .. someone. :)

Oh, even though I don't like to do so, REVIEW PEOPLE! It makes me happy ^^ And I can as well do the little whinning, seeing this is my tenth chapter.

And! If you want the loosing team to do something as their punishment, write me and I will try to put it there. Honest. :D