((I am so sorry that I haven't updated in over a week! I am a full time Senior in school and I have a babysitting job before and after classes. Coincidence? Lol, not so much. I started writing this at the beginning of the summer so yeah~ I had no idea then that I would be babysitting a five year old! x3 ))

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Chum: The story's not to be taken seriously. I am bending the characters to fit what I have in mind for them, not what they were formed to be in the shows.

~Chapter 10~

Itachi had fled to one of the training grounds in the compound, not wanting to face the ire of an enraged kunoichi. He hopped into one of the trees surrounding the clearing and ran a hand over his face. "Those kids have it out for me..." He sighed softly and rubbed his face, not knowing that someone else was in the clearing with him. His head shot up as he heard a few leaves being crunched under the soft foot falls of whoever had decided to join him in the clearing. "Who's there?"

A silver haired man stepped out of the underbrush, orange book in hand. "Well, what has chased the invincible Itachi to hide in the training grounds?" He shut his book and pocketed it, looking up to the branch where Itachi sat.

"Kakashi-sensei. Why might you be here?" Itachi nodded his head a little to his former sensei, and hopped off of the branch, landing next to Kakashi.

Kakashi smiled a little, his visible eye creasing. "I was wondering why you were here when we are to have a meeting in a few minutes at ANBU head quarters." He turned to Itachi and looked at him, tilting his head a little. "So why are you here instead of getting ready for the meeting?"

Itachi mentally sighed, not wanting to explain what had happened. He looked away as a light blush crept over his face. "It was nothing.." He watched as Kakashi looked at him blankly, not buying his excuse. Itachi rolled his eyes a little and relented. "Fine. You know the newest ANBU captain Higurashi?" Kakashi nodded and let Itachi continue. "Well, she's the babysitter for my little brother when I'm away on missions and she helps mother out all the time. She was out this morning, shopping for the food that mother wanted for the house, so that left me in charge of the four children."

"Wait... Four children?" Kakashi tilted his head a little. "I thought Sasuke was the only sibling that you have."

"He is the only sibling that I have. Higurashi and her older brother have adopted three children from the Orphanage, a three year old girl, a five boy and a six year old boy. I was watching the boys while mother was putting the little girl down for her nap and the oldest of the three boys ran off. I knew that Sasuke and Shippo would stay in the garden, so I went after Inuyasha through the house. He hid in one of the guest rooms and I went in to find him and..." He looked away a little. "He... Locked me in the closet..." He sighed softly. "Mother and father doesn't allow us to use our jutsus in the house so I wasn't able to teleport out of the closet. I was in there for about an hour when the door was finally unlocked. I thought it was Inuyasha, so I sort of tackled the person who opened the door and it was... A topless Higurashi..."

Kakashi was smiling broadly behind his mask, enjoying the younger ninja's plight. "Well, it seems as though the boys are planning something bigger than just locking you in the closet."

"That wasn't the worst part. The reason why I was sitting in the tree, sulking as you put it, is that when I tackled her and pushed myself up... Her..." He motioned at his chest and continued, his cheeks starting to tinge pink. "Breasts were under hand. She called me a hentai for hiding in her closet and I fled from her, not wanting to face her wrath at the time. But if we are having a meeting at head quarters, then she'll be there and she might try to bring it up..." Itachi shook his head a little and groaned. "What am I to do?"

Kakashi looked to Itachi and smiled a little. "I think that the boys are trying to plan out something for Kagome. What that plan is, I wouldn't know." He started to walk to the path that led out of the clearing. "I think that we might be late to the meeting as well." Itachi's eyes widened as he quickly followed his former sensei out of the clearing and to the meeting.

Kagome had left a few minutes after Itachi had fled from her room, heading off the the captains meeting that was to take place. "If he thinks he can get away with trying to feel me up, he's got another thing coming." She said quietly to herself, keeping an eye out for the person who her ire was directed at.

Anko landed right in front of the fuming girl and smiled. "Boy troubles?" Kagome pouted a little and nodded. "What happened? Did he try to get you in bed with him on the first date?"

Kagome's eyes widened and her jaw hit the dirt. "Wha- NO!" She started to wave her arms in front of her. "We aren't even dating!"

"Oohhhhh~ So just a romp in the hay?" Anko snickered a little, starting to walk ahead of Kagome. "Was he good?"

"ANKO!" The young ANBU captain ran up and covered Anko's mouth only to pull back to start wiping her hand on her pants. "You licked my hand! That's just gross... And no we did not have a 'romp in the hay'. He was trapped in my closet for some reason and when I opened the door, he knocked me to the floor and groped me!"

Anko smirked a little. "Its what you get for covering my mouth, smart one. And who was tryin' to feel you up?"

Kagome crossed her arms and looked away, mumbling softly. Anko grabbed Kagome's chin and made the younger girl look at her, an eyebrow raised. Kagome groaned and relented. "It was Itachi, okay?" Kagome's face turned a few different shades of scarlet when Anko started to laugh. "What's so funny?!" She snapped. A few people around them looked at them, wondering why the girl had yelled the Uchiha heir's name.

Anko couldn't help but laugh at the plight the younger girl was stuck in the middle of. "T-the heir of the Uchiha clan... F-felt you up?!" She couldn't say it straight with all of her laughter, making it harder and harder for her to breath. She finally got a gasp or two in once she hit her knees from laughing so hard. "Oh kami~ Oh kami! That's the best thing I've heard in a long time!" She wiped at her eyes, tears of mirth pricking behind her eyes. She stood back up, still trying to fight off a fit of giggles. "Its not that you aren't pretty or anything, its just that everyone in ANBU has known Itachi to be a block of ice. Everyone was putting bets on which sex he prefered... Some even put bets on animals." Anko cringed a little at it and saw Kagome shiver a little. "I know, right?"

Kagome nodded a little. "Let's just get to the meeting before anything else stops us."

Anko nodded in agreement and led Kagome to where the meeting was being held. 'This should prove to be entertaining to say the least..' She smirked to herself, chuckling softly.

((Yay! I know its not what some people would expect but I've been very busy and my plot bunnies escaped. I haven't found them all yet. ;-; I have been in school for two weeks now and my life has completely turned upside down in the past two weeks, that's why this is so late. Please to try to review if you can! PM's are accepted as well for any ideas and explanations if they are needed or wanted! :) ))