Chapter 20

[Third person pov | Kakashi's apartment]

Kakashi deadpanned at the sight in front of him.

"You know, I told you three not to eat. And you're not supposed to meet at my house. And you're late." The Hatake continued to add things on that were wrong with this picture, opening the fridge to retrieve the orange juice. "It's over here, sensei." Naruto said, gaining his attention. The masked-man groaned, closing the fridge. Naruto tossed him the carton. Kakashi being Kakashi, caught it with complete ease. 

"We're rebellious." Aria shrugged, tossing some tomato slices to Canterbury. Sasuke shot her a sour look, his lips pressing together into a thin line. She scoffed at him. "Hey, I know you're a tomato addict, but Canterbury is a literal pig. Share." 

Sasuke rolled his eyes at her, turning away with a humph. Kakashi let out a heavy sigh. "You're not supposed to eat." He said weakly, looking down at the pan of eggs, slightly-toasted tomatoes and melted cheese that looked nearly done. Aria shrugged innocently. "If you eat breakfast, we shouldn't be deprived." Aria said. "Yeah, that's neglect. Believe it." Naruto set a couple of plates down on the bar. They were going to need more stools. "A form of abuse." Sasuke grumbled. Aria nodded surely. 

"Whatever. You better share, then." He eyed the package of raw bacon, wondering when it would be cooked. Aria rolled her eyes at him in response. "Men." She muttered. Canterbury let out a snort of agreement, turning to look at Naruto who sneaked a sip of milk from the carton. Looking over at Sasuke, you could clearly see that he was sneaking tomatoes off the plate in front of Aria. He was trying his best to be subtle, but it really wasn't working for him.

"Alright, you assholes. Personal space is key." Aria snapped her fingers. "Language." Kakashi offered halfheartedly, shuffling past her to join Sasuke on the other side of the counter, which raised up slightly into a bar. They didn't really have a table to eat at. They'd gotten one at some point, but Aria and Sasuke seemed so adamant on researching anything and everything on the Uchiha clan that the table was now covered, and Naruto had recently joined them, so they'd looked even farther into the Kyuubi. Kakashi assumed that meant he'd told them. 

He was glad the blonde boy had someone to trust. 

"Sasuke, I can see the tomatoes disappearing off of the plate. Seriously dude, half of them are gone. If you're trying to be sneaky, it's not working." Aria waved a wooden spoon at him. The Uchiha leaned back to avoid the blow, having the decency to look a little sheepish. "Says the one we all know is going to sneak at least one piece of bacon." Sasuke shot back. Aria rolled her eyes. "I'm the one making the bacon, dumbass. And I live here. I can do whatever I want." 

"No more breaking windows." Kakashi warned, biting into a piece of toast. Naruto had walked in to see Kakashi with his mask down, and Kakashi had no doubt that Aria and Sasuke had gotten a glimpse at it at some point during their friendship, so he wasn't even going to bother. "Hah, see. You can't do everything." Sasuke sat up straighter, clearly triumphant. Naruto snorted. "She'll break the damn window if she wants to break it, Sasuke. We both know that." Naruto held up the orange juice Kakashi had drank straight out of suggestively. The Hatake nodded. All of them had contaminated the drinks in this house, so much so that it really didn't matter anymore. But if you got backwash in it, you had to get it dumped on your head. House rules. 

"Boom, omelettes. Bacon time, bitches." Aria slammed a fresh pan down on the stove top. "Language, dammit." Naruto cursed. "Dumbass." Sasuke rolled his eyes at the blonde. Kakashi let out a heavy sigh, reading through the newspaper Naruto had probably brought in when he entered the apartment. "You're all twelve. Stop cursing." Kakashi said lazily. "Ah, fuck you, old man." Aria responded, licking her lips as the bacon began to sizzle.

"Aria, I may be a pervert, but I am no pedophile." Kakashi tried to sound offended but it really didn't work. "You know, saying that immediately adds to your creep factor." Sasuke informed, shoveling an omelette onto his plate. "Believe it." Naruto agreed, sliding into one of the stools. Aria would have to shove someone off or something. Probably Kakashi. As the oldest, he was always the odd man out.

[Third person pov | Training grounds]

"Kakashi, what you're doing is painfully obvious." Aria told the silver haired man once he'd finished explaining the bell test. "And we read your diary." Naruto added quickly, earning a whack over the head from Sasuke, and some sort of hiss from Canterbury. Aria turning to him slowly, a rather dark look on her face. Mostly, the girl just looked plain done. Nobody was blaming her. This was Naruto they were talking about. If he wasn't tiring, then nobody was. 

"I'll have you know that it's a journal, not a diary." Kakashi said defensively, frowning at his students. Of course they knew the point of the exam. But how had they gotten to the journal? He kept a pretty close eye on that thing, as it was sort of important. He really hoped they hadn't read all of it. That would be awkward. He really didn't want the first people to know about his queer ways to be his students, but by the devious looks on their faces, they knew.

"You know, if you were interested in Iruka, you could have just said so. We can hook you up." Aria coaxed. Kakashi's heart dropped. They would never let this go. "We have connections." Sasuke assured. This remark made Kakashi's eyebrows shoot up. What the hell were these brats talking about? "Connections?"

Both of them looked at Naruto.

"My influence over him is great: sue me." Naruto held his hands up in a surrender position. "Naruto's information is pretty accurate, even if he is an idiot." Sasuke shoved his hands in his pockets. Kakashi blinked at the three. "Yeah, and Naruto says that Iruka's Bi, which means he's probably Bi." Aria shrugged. "We'll look into it for you."

Kakashi could only groan, slouching. "Let's just do the damn bell test." He mumbled. 

"Language."

~

"So how the hell do we get them?" Sasuke hissed at his two teammates. "Um, we go and get them. Believe it." Naruto said in a 'duh' tone. Sasuke rolled his eyes. "I know that, you idiot. I said how." Sasuke hissed, his eyes narrowing. Aria sighed. Why were boys so... so boy-like, or whatever this awkward adolescent male thing was. 

"Naruto, you distract him. I'll hit him with some sort of instrument ray thing, and send him flying. Sasuke, you're the fastest, so you need to get in." Aria clapped her hands together. "And then out."

"Huh, that might work." Naruto scratched the nape of his neck, trying to imagine the outcome. Thinking about it too much on his own was sort of painful. He tried not to. "Hn, it's better than anything you could ever come up with." Sasuke scoffed at Naruto, looking to Aria with someone akin to admiration. Aria didn't notice, of course, but Canterbury did. He let out a low rumble that none of them really heard, staring at Sasuke with narrowed eyes. Was Sasuke even worthy?


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