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A/N: Thanks to everyone who read and reviewed the last chapter and I hope you enjoy this one! ^^
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, If I did Sasuke would be well dead by now.
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Epic Indulence.
Chapter Two.
By KittyMarks.
Kakashi and Sakura raced out to the corridor with Kain close behind them to find Sasuke in a fight with another dark haired cosplayer. The cosplayers arm was bleeding and two kunai were sticking out of his shoulder, Sasuke was sporting a large bruise on the left side of his face and a plastic kunai had been dug into his thigh all the way to the hilt. Kain roared angrily when he saw what Sasuke had done to his friend and jumped into the fray bashing Sasuke on the head. The youth stumbled and then caught Kain on the jaw with an impressive punch.
Kain went flying into Naruto who yelped and lashed out in surprise. The older blonde grunted as a fist went slamming into his ribs and retaliated with a kick to Narutos stomach. Both blondes jumped back and glared at each other. Kakashi looked between Sasuke and the Itachi cosplayer and Kain and Naruto. He sighed and grabbed Sasuke by his collor just as he was about to lunge at the Itachi cosplayer and whacked Naruto on the back of the head. Sasuke choked and spluttered as he was dragged backwards and Naruto swore and clutched his head in pain. Kain ran over to his friend and started asking questions a mile a dozen. The dark haired cosplayer looked at the kunai in his shoulder and grimanced painfully as he grasped one of the handles.
"What the fuck did you doto that kid?!" Kain yelled pointing at the still struggling Sasuke. Jae glared at him and whacked a hand across Kains head. "I didn't do anything! That little shit just stabbed me so I punched him and then he stabbed me again and I got him back with one of my props." Jae growled and winced as he pulled one of the kunai out of his shoulder. "Shit, these things are real!" he exclaimed and Kains eyes widened. His head whipped towards Kakashi and Sakura who was fretting over the Uchihas wounds and then to Naruto who was looking at Kain with the same intense expression.
"Why are you dressed like me? And who is that bastard?!" Naruto yelled pointing at Jae, the Uchiha cosplayer scowled and yanked out another kunai. Kain rolled his eyes, Jae just couldn't wait until they got medical attention, noooo he had to pull out the knives himself, damn proud arsehole. Kain rooted around in his kunai pouch and pulled out a roll of bandages, he didn't actually have any kunai in the pouch, just some chocolate, bandages, matches and a pair of Orochimaru cosplay earings. He sighed and started to roll the bandages around Jaes upper arm and shoulder but blinked in surprise when Kakashi stopped him.
"Let me, Its the least we can do. My student did cause all this trouble after all." he said in a placating tone. Kain handed him the bandages and looked around again. The corridor was empty, it seemed that everyone had hightailed it when Sasuke pulled out the knives. Naruto just seemed pissed off that everybody was ignoring him and looked about ready to punch someone in the face when Sakura took pity on him and dragged him away to the corner and began to whisper something in his ear. The attempt at secrecy was ruined however when Naruto jumped back in shock and yelled out.
"WHAT?! THERES A MANGA ABOUT ME?! IS THAT WHY THAT ASSHOLE IS WEARING MY CLOTHES! WHAT THE HELL!" Kain slammed his hands over his ears at the same time as Sakura and Sasuke. Kakashi just slapped his forhead and threw the wrap of bandages at his student, they banged of his head and rolled along the floor, slowly unwinding before stopping over at Sasukes feet, the dark haired youth had pulled out the toy kunai and was wrapping his own set of bandages around his wound. Jaes eyes were cool as he survayed the scene and he looked over at Kain. One of his contacts had fallen out in the earlier fight and his eyes were mismatched dark green and red they met Kains azure eyes and a flicker of understanding went between them.
"Where you from kid?" Kain asked nodding at Naruto, Sakura opened her mouth to say something when Naruto shouted back. "Konoha! Believe it you clone!". Kains eyebrows shot up under his hair and he blinked rapidly. "So your the real Uzumaki Naruto, born the tenth of October in Konoha?!" Kain demanded and Naruto nodded hesitantly. Kakashi raised an eyebrow when he heard Jae mutter. "Oh, here we go" and look away as Kain ran towards Naruto and wrapped his arms around the smaller blonde and swung him around in a circle.
"Dude! You so totaly ROCK!!" he yelled setting Naruto down and ruffling his hair enthusiasticly. Naruto just stood there sumbstruck as Kain whirled around poking and prodding and hugging him. "I just hugged Uzumaki Naruto! Whoop! Go me!!" he yelled and did a little dance. "You are my IDOL!!" he yelled again as he spun the young Uzumaki in yet another circle, Naruto was begining to look a bit green when Kain put him back down for the third time. Kakashi coughed into his hand and Kain looked around to see everyone staring at him like he had grown two heads. He flushed and jumped back behind Jae.
"Well, since the gig is up." Kakashi murmered as he placed his hand over Jaes wound, then his hand started to glow green and within seconds the wound stopped bleeding and the skin grew back over the cut. Jae sighed in relief and rolled his shoulder. "Thats much better. Thanks Mr Hatake." he said and Kain sniggered behind his back and mouthed 'Mr Hatake?' Jae just ignored him an looked intently at Sasuke who glared defiantly back. "Why are you dressed up like Itachi?" he demanded and Jae rolled his mismatched eyes.
"Becuase he is my favourite character, along with Pein and Madara." he answered while looking at his painted nails with an expression of disinterest. Kakashi rose an eyebrow at the mention of Madara.
"Favourite character?!" Sasuke yelled enraged and Jae nodded absently "Yep, what about it?" and by now Sasuke was shaking in anger. "What about it? What about it?!! THAT BASTARD KILLED MY FAMILY!" the Uchiha shouted running towards Jae with another kunai in hand. Kakashis hand shot out as quick as a light and tapped the base of his neck and just like that Sasuke was unconsious on the floor. Kain was whispering hashly to Jae who was defending himself. "What? Its not my fault he doesn't know-" "How the fuck is he supposed to know?! He's twelve!" Kain interupted and Jae rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Your right, but I like Itachi. He's a kick ass character and he looks cool as well." Jae muttered and Kain chuckled ruefully. "Try telling that to him." he said pointing at the sleeping Sasuke.
Kakashi was staring at the two of them with a narrowed eye and Kain flushed. "Um, its, uh, future stuff?" he finished lamely making it sound like a question. Kakashi sighed again and pulled out his Icha Icha book, the real one and suddenly Jae slapped his forehead. "The skit! Its in like five minutes!" he said and he grabbed the back of Kains collor and started to drag him back into the room. Then he turned around, swinging Kain into a wall and pointing at Kakashi, ignoring Kains pained groan. "You. Come with us." it wasn't a request. Sakura and Naruto lifted Sasuke up and they padded after Kakashi into the room.
It was a hive of activity, no-one inside seemed to know or care what had happened out in the corridor and within seconds a short red haired girl, the same one Sakura had seen earlier had grabbed Kakashi by the hand and pulled him behind a curtain. When he came out he was wearing a hawaiian shirt and a red flower lei swung aroung his neck. Naruto laughed out loud but a glare from his sensei shut him up. The red haired girl made a few notes in his fake Icha Icha book and handed it back to him. Kakashi read it through once and his visable eye widened in horror. "I have to dance?!".
"Don't be a baby, its just a few steps and your pretending to be drunk so remember to stagger around a bit and slur some of your words" the girl instructed. Kakashi nodded dumbly and glared harshly at Sakura who flinched and mouthed 'Sorry' at him. Kain ran over and zipped up his orange jacket and threw a blue and orange flower lei around his neck. "Okay dokie, lets go gang!" he yelled and Sakura watched in facination as around seven other people dressed as Her, Sasuke, Itachi (Jae), Shikamaru, Hinata, Ino and the red haired girl marched out the door followed by Kain and Kakashi. They walked down teh corridor out into a room at the end that had a stage in the middle and was surrounded by chairs. Kain hung back and explained to Sakura.
"This place used to used for the school down the road when they do their annual plays. They agreed to let it out to us for today and some of the kids from the Primary set up the chairs and decorated the walls for us." he said before running up and taking his place on the stage. Alot of the chairs were already occupied by another group of cosplayers. The tallest one had a long black wig on and wore a strange white robe that was tied with a bow in the back with a purple belt. He had yellow contacts in and was talking to a large boy with an orange wig and similar clothes. When he spotted Jae and Kains group he burst out laughing.
"So, ya finally decided to show your face eh? And here we though you were to scared!" he cried in a nasal voice. Kain smiled condecendingly at him. "Why would we be scared of you Ray, you couldn't act your way out of a paper bag." he chuckled and then turned his back to the angry cosplayer and began to instruct his group. A small gathering of people to the left of the stage caught Sakuras attention. They weren't cosplayers and were dressed in normal clothes, they whispered and talked amongst themselves. Sakura decided that they were probably the judges.
They skit started and Sakura found herself laughing at parts. It was about the genin trying to find out what was under Kakashis mask and Kakashi going on vacation and some group called Akatsuki getting caught in the middle of things. Even the other group clapped grudgingly when it was over and it was their turn to start. The other teams skit was a bit darker and was about the sannin Orochimaru, basicly kicking everyones asses and conquering Konoha. It wasn't bad and everyone clapped when it was over. Well except for the three genin and Kakashi who frowned, Kakashi was probably just upset that his character got beat straight of the stage within the first few seconds.
"Okay, judges, you have ten minutes to make your decision. Lets go!" Kain shouted clapping his hands and there was a flurry of movement from the judges as they rooted around for pens and paper and began scribbling and droppin notes in a small box at the side of the stage. When they had finished Jae picked up the box, opened it and began to count the slips of paper. He grinned when it was over and asked another judge to count them again just to show that his team weren't cheating. The mousy looking girl blushed and stuttered as she took the box off him and counted the paper again.
"Um, MangaAddicts have won with ten votes, AnimeGeeks.. lost with a total of six votes" the girl murmered and Kains group cheered and whooped and jumped up out of their seats. Rays group slumped on the stage and muttered curses under their breaths. Kain hopped over to Sakura and Naruto and caught them both in a hug. Natuto squirmed and cried out "Oh, no! Not this again!" and Kain hopped back an embarrassed grin on his face. Sakura laughed quietly and gave him a one armed hug back and told him that as a friend she was glad he'd won, it wouldn't do for Kain to think that she had a crush on him, her heart belonged to Sasuke.
Kain congradulated his team and they filed back to the room to take photos as different characters. Jae and Kain both agreed not to do the Obito shoot, it would only cause unnecissary problems with Kakashi. Kain tied some of his blonde hair back in a ponytail and shrugged on a white trench coat with flames decorating the ends of it. The red haired girl was now wearing a longer red wig and black leather pants and shirt with a collor around her neck and a leash, she had a pair of red fox ears on her head and a bushy red tail sticking out form her leather pants and three whisker marks on each cheek.
She sat down and looked sullen as Kain picked up the leash with one hand and made the peace sign with the other as he winked at the camera. The camera flashed a few times and Kain switched from standing triumphantly with one foot on the Kyuubi cosplayers back to leaning against the wall with the girl sitting at his feet glaring up at him. Kain chuckled at the shocked look the two genin were giving him as hugged a Gamabunta plushie and pouted at the camera. Another fifteen minutes and the Yondaime pictures were all taken. Jae had gotten back into his normal clothes, a greet t-shirt and black jeans with black converse. He's taken out the last contact and his eyes were both their normal green colour. Kain was still prancing around in his Yondaime cosplay, chatting to his friends and teasing Naruto and Sakura. Sasuke had yet to wake up.
After a while everyone slowly left the building but Kain and Jae stayed behind to clear up the last of their props and check that all the windows in the building were shut before they closed up. Sakura was sitting next to the unconsious Sasuke and Naruto was talking animatedly to Kain, Jae was humming tunelessly as he packed his Akatsuki cloak into his bag and Kakashi was leaning against a wall and reading his porn. The three ninjas shot to their feet as the ground began to shake they looked around quickly to see what would happen this time.
Sakura screamed as the ground beneath her gave way and she and Sasuke fell into a chasm that had appeared below them "Not again!" Kakashi hissed as the ground beneath his feet crumbled, he stuck to the wall using chakra and looked over to where the other three were standing. Suddenly Jae cursed as he fell down into the abyss and Kain yelled and caught his outstretched hands but was dragged down by the weight of his friend. Naruto jumped in after trying to save Kain but tripped and went flying into the chasm. Kakashi swore angrily and jumped down after his genin and the two cosplayers. They were once again surrounded by black and Kakashi cursed softly as the warmth enveloped them once more and they lost consiousness.
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