Hi. I didn't write anything yesterday, I was tired. And I am today, too, emotionally drained and physically beaten up from my and frisbee seisson. :D However, I can't neglect the story, now, can I? :)
Enjoy.
15
"You are going down, jounin." Kotetsu whispered and patted the jounin's head. He pushed chakra trough his finger tips and onto Raido's hair.
Raido sighed. How embarrassing, he had been defeated by a genin. Taken by a surprise. And on top of it, the insane kid had probably tagged him with some horrible color like pink or bright green.
"Heh. Don't worry your pretty head. I used dark blue." Kotetsu chuckled and took a step back. He tugged on the chakra wire letting Raido free.
"Aaah, thank you." Raido smiled and stretched his arms. "But even though you are so nice and kind and all, I am not going to ask you for a task." he informed.
"Maa, that transparent, am I." Kotetsu laughed. "Well then, I am off." he shrugged and waved over his shoulders.
"Wait up!" Raido called after him. Kotetsu turned around surprised.
"What's up?"
"Are you going to help your little friend?" the jounin asked curiously. Because I don't think he will be able to defeat Genma.
"Oh, should I?" Kotetsu blinked. "'Cause Ruka said Hayate is really good and all.."
Raido sighed again. "Look, kid. You are good, but you took me down 'cause of a surprise. Genma is not going to go easy on him."
"If you say so.. Alright! Am going to help him! See ya." Kotetsu turned around once again.
"That's why I said 'wait up'. Am going with you, need a task from Genma." He grinned and jogged next to the smaller shinobi.
"Hey, woman, let me go!" Mizuki yelled on the purple-haired kunoichi who had decided that the best way how to stop him from struggling is to climb on top of him. And so she had done it.
"Of course." she said nicely.
"...but?" Mizuki raised his eyebrows.
"But you have to give me a task." Anko chuckled.
"No, no, no, no.. Aah, wait." he closed his eyes. I don't want to loose. But like this we can't continue on the game. I can't tag her, because she is tagged already, and she can't tag me, 'cause she's outta the game. "What a pain.."
Anko titled her head. "Are you going to give up?" Like..really? What is he going to ask me, to kill myself?
"Yea.. don't have enough patience for you. Your task will be.." Need something smart. "...to sit down under the tree and just sit there, until someone find you." Hehe, here you go. Mizuki grinned.
This time it was Anko who raised her eyebrow. "Aaalright..?" She let him go and jumped from the tree. Anko sat down, shrugging.
"Nee.. Mizuki. You found me, thank you." she said after few seconds of silently sitting there.
Mizuki, who hadn't had the time to leave yet, hit his forehead with his palm. Damn.
"You want a task from me, hmm..?" Kakashi considered it for a moment.
"Yup!" Iruka copied the copy-nin's usual way of smiling and beamed.
Kakashi smiled back. "Alright. You are to help me get revenge on Gai." He grinned obviously satisfied with himself. Iruka chuckled.
"Can we prank him?" he asked hopefully and stood next to his senpai looking up at him in almost worshiping manner.
"Of course."
"Tag you? Tag you? I am going to kill you, brat!" the jounin yelled and blindly threw three shuriken. "Slowly and Painfully!" he added with a sadistic gleam. Hayate gulped.
"Maa, you shouldn't hurt your fellow shinobi, Genma-san.."
"You aren't shinobi, you are a monster!" another senbon stack itself centimeter above Hayate's right ear. "You know how it smells? And hurt? Damnit! What did you put into it?"
"Heh, funny thing.." Hayate chuckled nervously, eying another set of sharp things in between of Genma's fingers. "I don't know.. ask Iruka." Ew.. Iruka isn't going to be happy.. But anyway, he is better in these kind of situations then I am.. And he will be proud on me for using his weapon.
"... Damn you, damn you to hell, Raido!" Genma grunted in a low voice, promising his best friend all kinds of torture he could remember. Not being for you, I would never go play a game with your nice genin friend and his comrades.
"And how is this my fault, now?" asked a deep voice with a hint of amusement. Genma almost jumped from his skin and only accidentally stopped himself from piercing Raido with a needle.
"Dammit! Don't sneak on me! Baka!"
Raido raised his arms in defenseless gesture. "Sorry, sorry. I was actually going to ask you for a task, but you should probably finish it with the kid, before you have to fight them both." Raido chuckled and pointed his finger towards where Kotetsu was forcedly pulling the senbon out of Hayate.
"Hehe – you look like a hedgehog!" Kotetsu laughed and tugged on a senbon sticking out of his friend's wrist.
"..That makes two of us.." Hayate grunted back.
"A! Stop it right NOW!" suddenly there was another senbon right next to Hayate's head. "Not until I tag him." Genma said firmly and jumped next to the two genin. He raised his hand and slapped Hayate's cheek without any force. Green hand-shaped stain appeared.
"There." Genma whispered self satisfied and poked the other genin under his ribs. "Ha! Two in one hit." He grinned and turned to get rid of those senbon nailing Hayate to the tree.
"Wha..?" Kotetsu asked bewildered. "I wasn't even your enemy!" He argued but Genma only smiled on him.
"Who said you have to?" a chuckle. "I tagged you, and now you three are in my mercy, because you can only get a task from untagged player." He grinned rather evilly. "And better than going to find someone else, you can listen to what I have to say."
There was a moment of silence, interrupted only by the sound of a blood running down to the ground. Raido joined them in their task of freeing the older genin.
"You really went hard on him.." Raido mumbled as he watched the pale kid. He inspected one of those injuries, which were close to organs. They didn't look seriously, fortunately.
"I am sorry about it." Genma shrugged and supported Hayate's weigh when the last senbon was out. He picked him up and jumped down to the ground, helping him to sit. "You alright?" he asked carefully.
"Yea.. Just shut up." Hayate glared on him. "What is the task?" he asked quickly, before anyone else would be able to ask him about his well being. He hated it. It was bad enough knowing that after meeting up with Iruka, the boy will go to his mother-hen mode.
Genma studied him for a moment. "I want to get back on Umino. For the bomb."
Hayate's eyes went wide and he didn't know what to answer.
"First of all, call him Iruka. Then, we can talk." said Kotetsu firmly and landed next to them.
Genma sighed. "I want to get back on Umino Iruka. For the bomb." he repeated emotionlessly.
"And how per say do you want to do it?" asked Raido with a frown.
Hayate stood up slowly. His body hurt but he snatched away Kotetsu's and Genma's hands trying to help him. He could do it himself.
"I don't know yet, but I think you lot can help me.."
"What about some prank? It's harmless enough." Kotetsu titled his head. "He does it often enough, it's time to-"
"I refuse." Hayate declared and interrupted whatever Kotetsu had been saying. He couldn't care less. Hayate glared back on those three who were looking at him with wide eyes because of his outburst. "Iruka is my friend, I am not going to go against him. I will find someone else to give me a task and I will warn him about you trying to hurt him."
He was so ticked off. He didn't even know why. Was it because of the idea Genma had come with? Or because Raido, who had Iruka considered his only friend from the rank of jounin, had agreed to help? Or because Kotetsu had agreed? Kotetsu, who had been Iruka's best friend at the academy, before even meeting Izumo, Kotetsu who had met Iruka as a toddler and they had each other's back every time they played ninja.
That wasn't something Hayate could tolerate.
He was, after all, Ibiki's idealist.
I didn't make Kotetsu bad guy, I just think the way I write him, he is someone who wouldn't pranking someone as a revenge like this take like a bad thing, even though Hayate would. Guess Iruka wouldn't either.. :D
I think I like protective Hayate, though.
Hope you liked it,
see you tomorrow.