Hi :) Glad to see me again? :D i guess not.

Maa, back to 'Dear-Diaring' you. We were cleaning our Tatami to take off of them the dried blood today. :D Sounds as if we had been doing something really brutal on them, right? :D It was fun ^^

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Hayate forced himself to roll off of his bed, hoping the fall would wake him up. It didn't, the landing did.

"Ouch." he muttered after rubbing his head to stop it from hurting. "Am not gonna thank you, 'Biki-sama.." he added and stood up to find something he could wear.

He threw away pants and shirt covered in dried blood and another pair which looked like took out from a cow's muzzle. Finally he found a black trousers at least looking clean and just a little bit torn shirt.

I guess I should give the bloody clothes to mum, but she's going to have a fit. Hayate rubbed the bridge of his nose and exited his room. He took a glance at a large clock in the hallway.

"Heh. I am late after all." he chuckled humorlessly and sprinted out of his house, slowing down just to slip on his shoes and grab a sweatshirt, thinking along the ways of 'If I didn't have it, it would rain. 'Cause I do, it won't.'

I wonder if Haya-chan is late again.. Iruka chuckled and took a look around from his spot on the forest path they both take everyday. He had been waiting for his teammate for almost twenty minutes now.

The genin sighed. Looks like we will be late, after all.. Ibi-sama won't be happy. But at least we will be late both, so we will take his wright together. He chuckled dryly and stretched his arms.

"Aaah! Sorry, I am sorry." Hayate said trying to catch his breath when he reached his friend. Iruka was waiting for me? Why? Does he want to be killed, too?

Iruka just rolled his eyes and started jogging slowly, giving his friend enough time to catch up to him. "Let's hurry up, I am too young to die."

"Aye, aye, General."

"Heh, heh." Iruka tried to laugh, but didn't really manage, since he was panting. "We did it, we are on time." he forced out and fell on his knees enjoying the feeling of being able to breath.

"Yeah.." Hayate fell down next to him breathing even harder than him – he hadn't have the pause Iruka had, after all. "But I think.. I died... somewhere... in the middle... of it." he chuckled tiredly and looked up just to face a raised eyebrow of his sensei.

"Heh. Fancy meeting you here, Ibi-sama." Iruka laughed cheekily and winked on Ibiki.

Morino sighed. "You know, you two are really good exercise on my patience." he informed them and decided to plop down in front of them, so that he wouldn't have to break his neck looking down. He had known them for some time now, to know that they weren't standing anytime soon.

"Glad to help." Hayate offered politely.

"... Alright." Ibiki started making his two genin open their eyes and watch him.

Uh-oh. He's serious. That's going to hurt. Iruka thought, but didn't comment.

"I am glad you decided to show up on time." the sensei praised them with a little smile. "And. We got a mission." he stopped for a moment letting his words to settle down. "Leaving this evening, it will take about two weeks."

"Woooow." Iruka breathed out. It was their fourth long-term mission at all. Having the interrogating specialist as their sensei had his cons and pros – for example, Ibiki was far too important for Konoha to be able to leave the village for longer time.

"Awesome." Hayate added and they exchanged happy looks. It was going to be exciting.

Ibiki secretly smiled, their happiness rubbing on him. And what more, he got to have a holiday.

"So for today, you are free to do whatever you want. No training. You can study those scrolls I gave you, but I recommend resting. You will need your energy." Ibiki informed them and stood up to leave again. He still had work to do. Paperwork, mostly.

"Sounds nice. I will help you with the paperwork?" Iruka offered and stretched his arm towards Ibiki, asking him to help him up. Not like he needed it, it was just too much fun trying to pull his sensei down.

"Good." Ibiki agreed and pulled him up, and even more up, holding him about fifteen centimeters above ground.

"Meh, you going to carry me Ibi-sama?" Iruka asked wickedly and tried to kick the man. Ibiki dodged.

"Nah. I am going to throw you. Maybe, if I do it strongly enough, you will fly straight to my office." Ibiki cracked a joke, sending Iruka with Hayate into laughing fit.

"Ne.. Biki-sama, it wasn't funny." Hayate told him seriously, holding back his laugh.

"Than why are you laughing, brat." the sensei finally freed his genin, letting him fall down into semi-crouch gracefully.

"That's 'cause it's your first joke in this season." Hayate rolled his eyes and stood up, too. He decided he could as well go to join the other trio and then visit Minato-sama, while Iruka will be trying to bury himself under paperwork.

"Whatever." Ibiki grunted and turned to leave, starting his usual hard pace, forcing Iruka to jog occasionally to keep up with him. Hayate waved on them, taking the other path towards the river.

"What's with you two calling me like this." Ibiki asked, making the question sound more like a demand, when they were alone. Iruka looked up at him and shrugged.

"Donno." he mumbled. What could he say? That they really looked up to him? He wouldn't take it, the Ibiki he knew didn't consider himself a good person.

Iruka could feel the older one watching him carefully and forced his features into calm, relaxed mask. He made sure for the calmness to reach his eyes and double-checked that his fingers didn't twich. He had been practising it since he got to be Ibiki's genin - the jounin had been able to look just trough him.

"Ne, Ibi-sama." Iruka suddenly remembered he wanted to ask something.

Ibiki grunted as a sign he listened.

How to say it.. well.. best would be to put it bluntly.. but.. to hell with it. "You are really talkative, today. How come?" Iruka shoot out and mentally face-palmed. Damned coward.

"That's not what you wanted to ask." Ibiki pointed out.

"Heh. Guess you know me – us – too good." Iruka chuckled nervously. "Well.. I wanted to ask.. if.. well.. you know how we are a three-person team, right?"

Morino raised an eyebrow.

"Of course you know. Stupid me." Ibiki's silence didn't help to put Umino into ease. "Could we find the third teammate, soon?" Still not what I wanted to ask.

Ibiki sighed. "Of course. Since you are asking, I assume you have someone on your mind." he stated.

"Mitarashi Anko." Iruka bit his lip.

"..."

The torture specialist thanked his training that he hadn't frozen. The only sigh showing his confusion and slight panic was a light frown on his forehead.

"I will ask the higher-ups." Ibiki said finally, knowing as well as Iruka that they won't oppose. Since it was Morino Ibiki who asked, there wouldn't be any problem.

Still training. Hayate sighed after sitting for a good hour on the Shodaime's head. He hadn't wanted to bother Minato-sama, yet.

Let's see how are the other teams training. He chuckled wickedly and slid down onto the Hokage's nose, pushing chakra into his feet and walking down. He stepped over the man's mouth and hang himself upside-down to climb his chin and neck.

"Still funny." he commented to himself. "Even though I have been doing this for almost three years, it's still funny as hell."

Hayate was still laughing when he stood on the ground.

"What's funny?" deep voice asked him and Hayate started. He turned briskly left touching his kunai pouch. He didn't take any weapon out - he was inside of his village, and the person didn't want to kill him – if they had wanted, he would have been dead already.

"Maa.. nothing at all.. nothing at all.." he mumbled and raised his arm to greet the young jounin, who was standing there looking bored. "Shiranui.. was it, right?" Hayate asked to make sure.

"Yup. You're Gekkou. Gekkou Hayate."

"Yes..." Hayate took a look around, trying to find something to say. "Eh, nice seeing you again?"

"Why so unsure?" Genma chuckled before answering with his own question. Hayate shrugged.

"Well.. did you like.. need something? Not like I have anything to do right now, but this is little bit awkward." Hayate commented bluntly, making the jounin laugh.

"Nah. Nothing at all. But since you are here, I have a question." Genma titled his head.

"Shoot."

"You two – you and that brat Umino – are genin under Morino Ibiki, right?" the jounin made sure.

Hayate nodded, trying to guess where Genma was going.

"What is he teaching you?" Shiranui shook his head and frowned while he asked. That was bothering him for some time, already.

Hayate blinked. That wasn't what he had been expecting. "What do you mean? Just.. normal things? To fight, defend, do jutsu.. What else should he?"

Genma sighed. He didn't know if he should believe the little genin or not. The opinion that Ibiki had been forming his own little soldiers was pretty widespread, after all. He decided he didn't believe him.

"I guessed you would say so."

"..." Hayate raised an eyebrow in so much of an Ibiki-fashion, that it just strengthened Genma's decision.

"You are, after all, Ibiki's little toy."

I swear I didn't want to make Genma an ass. I like him too much to do it intentionally! Really! He is my most favourite character. I would like to be so epic and say: "He's the only reason why i watch Naruto", but it wouldn't be true. I don't watch Naruto. Stopped about Five months ago. Too bored.

Anyaway. :) Hope you liked it, hope you enjoyed it. Hope you will give me something to enjoy, too, and review.

Byebye~