Important plot points happen between the last ficlet and this one, but I just wanted to write Kakashi's brain breaking first meeting with his new students.
Kakashi isn't really paying a lot of attention as he heads for the classroom. He's late, and he knows it; with any luck, the genin he's supposed to be judging will have left, and he can just fail them without even meeting them. Ishaka pads behind him, a rangy, half-blind wolf, who is if anything paying less attention to their surroundings than he is.
In other words, they're shamefully easy targets, and it would probably serve them right if the slightly-open classroom door that Kakashi pushes open was booby-trapped.
They might have preferred it, too.
Kakashi is more than half expecting to be greeted either with an empty classroom, or a cry of, "You're late!" Instead, he's greeted with the sight of his three new students enacting the most controversial scene ever included in an Icha Icha book.
...Except that they've improved on it, because that scene only had two people and their daemons involved.
The muttered "Kai!" is reflexive - this can't be real, surely? - but does nothing to dispel the sight before him. One hand goes up to his hitai-ite, before his (presumed dead) survival instinct kicks in. It's a genjutsu, it must be, but if it isn't (or isn't breakable) - does he want this image permanently burned into his mind?
No. No, he does not. His hand falls back to his side, and he finds himself focussing on parts of the scene as if finding a small discrepancy will be enough to dispel this - this unholy sight.
The kunoichi of the group is nearest the door, and therefore nearest him. She's lying on her back, writhing in a way that he really doesn't want to think about, with her right hand petting a daemon who is for some reason in the form of a golden-furred, many-tailed kitsune. Her hand is buried in its tails, wrapped around the base of one of them and gently tugging -
It's very - suggestive.
He looks away, at her other hand, which is also touching a daemon - this one is an animal he doesn't even recognise, something with spines which are currently laid flat so that the girl isn't damaging her hand each time she strokes it. She isn't the only one stroking it; his eyes follow the line of the boy's arm to see -
Minato-sensei's face. Younger, and with the whisker-marks that come from being the Kyuubi's jinchuuriki, but it's clearly Minato's face - and currently, the boy has an expression that he recognises from when Minato just had some 'private time' with Kushina.
Not looking at that, either.
His glance away leads to him seeing the third daemon of the group (and why are there three daemons here, anyway? Minato's son - Naruto - isn't supposed to have one) who has, for some unknown reason, become another kitsune with pink fur. Naruto's hand is buried in this fur, rubbing circles on its flank. At the other side, the Last Uchiha is gently scratching it.
At least the Last Uchiha isn't pulling faces or moving in a way that makes Kakashi want to claw his eye out. No, it's almost impossible to tell that he's affected, unless you're very, very good at reading body language.
Kakashi wishes he was less good at reading body language.
He looks with a sense of inevitability at the boy's other hand, which - surprise, surprise - is finishing their little circle by tugging gently on the golden kitsune-daemon's ear.
Out of order Ficlet
brain breakingfirst meeting with his new students.Kakashi isn't really paying a lot of attention as he heads for the classroom. He's late, and he knows it; with any luck, the genin he's supposed to be judging will have left, and he can just fail them without even meeting them. Ishaka pads behind him, a rangy, half-blind wolf, who is if anything paying less attention to their surroundings than he is.
In other words, they're shamefully easy targets, and it would probably serve them right if the slightly-open classroom door that Kakashi pushes open was booby-trapped.
They might have preferred it, too.
Kakashi is more than half expecting to be greeted either with an empty classroom, or a cry of, "You're late!" Instead, he's greeted with the sight of his three new students enacting the most controversial scene ever included in an Icha Icha book.
...Except that they've improved on it, because that scene only had two people and their daemons involved.
The muttered "Kai!" is reflexive - this can't be real, surely? - but does nothing to dispel the sight before him. One hand goes up to his hitai-ite, before his (presumed dead) survival instinct kicks in. It's a genjutsu, it must be, but if it isn't (or isn't breakable) - does he want this image permanently burned into his mind?
No. No, he does not. His hand falls back to his side, and he finds himself focussing on parts of the scene as if finding a small discrepancy will be enough to dispel this - this unholy sight.
The kunoichi of the group is nearest the door, and therefore nearest him. She's lying on her back, writhing in a way that he really doesn't want to think about, with her right hand petting a daemon who is for some reason in the form of a golden-furred, many-tailed kitsune. Her hand is buried in its tails, wrapped around the base of one of them and gently tugging -
It's very - suggestive.
He looks away, at her other hand, which is also touching a daemon - this one is an animal he doesn't even recognise, something with spines which are currently laid flat so that the girl isn't damaging her hand each time she strokes it. She isn't the only one stroking it; his eyes follow the line of the boy's arm to see -
Minato-sensei's face. Younger, and with the whisker-marks that come from being the Kyuubi's jinchuuriki, but it's clearly Minato's face - and currently, the boy has an expression that he recognises from when Minato just had some 'private time' with Kushina.
Not looking at that, either.
His glance away leads to him seeing the third daemon of the group (and why are there three daemons here, anyway? Minato's son - Naruto - isn't supposed to have one) who has, for some unknown reason, become another kitsune with pink fur. Naruto's hand is buried in this fur, rubbing circles on its flank. At the other side, the Last Uchiha is gently scratching it.
At least the Last Uchiha isn't pulling faces or moving in a way that makes Kakashi want to claw his eye out. No, it's almost impossible to tell that he's affected, unless you're very, very good at reading body language.
Kakashi wishes he was less good at reading body language.
He looks with a sense of inevitability at the boy's other hand, which - surprise, surprise - is finishing their little circle by tugging gently on the golden kitsune-daemon's ear.