Fic: Viewpoints part 5
Formatting fail in the last chapter but I don't feel like fixing it...
Here be
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Viewpoints
Part 5
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There were several things that should never be said to the Hokage. For example, insulting his friends or ramen was not a good way to stay in his good graces. There was another even more dangerous thing to say however… and that was the word ‘no’. When that word was used in the context of ‘No you can’t do that’ or ‘No that’s impossible’ the Hokage took it as a challenge and did everything he could just to prove that he could. And with the sheer amount of determination and raw power the Hokage had… the end result wasn’t always pretty…
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“You know… I’m not sure I like that thing.”
Iruka turned to look at his former student and current Hokage. They were sitting on the roof of the Hokage tower eating take-out ramen.
“What thing?” Iruka asked lowering his chopsticks.
“That,” the Hokage said pointing at the Hokage mountain where the faces of the 5 previous Hokages looked over the village. There were people working on the sixth face now.
“Why don’t you like it? I would’ve thought you’d want your face there too. You are the Rokudaime Hokage after all,” Iruka asked.
“Well yeah but I don’t know… Getting your face carved into a mountain? That’s pretty creepy,” the Hokage said squinting his blue eyes thoughtfully.
“Creepy? Not just everyone gets their face carved into a mountain. It is an honour so you shouldn’t complain,” Iruka said although he knew what the Hokage was after. “It’ll also help the people to remember you when you’re gone.”
“I don’t need something like that. I’m going to be so great that they’ll remember me even without a stupid mountain. Besides I look a lot like Yondaime so in the future they’ll just wonder why the hell did the carve the same guy twice. It’s not like those carvings are that accurate,” the sixth Hokage said.
“Well you just better get used to it. It’s not like you can tell them to stop,” Iruka said.
“You’re saying the same thing as Sasuke,” the Hokage said pouting a little out of habit. “Besides if they carve my face there it means that someone could vandalize it.”
“Like you did?” Iruka asked amused.
“Well yeah, but I could do that because I’m amazing,” the Hokage said nodding to himself.
Iruka sighed and shook his head. Some things never changed…
“I wonder if I could still do that… and not get caught this time,” the Hokage suddenly said, his expression changing into a look of mischief.
“And what if you do get caught?” Iruka asked deciding to play along for now. He turned his head a little when he heard someone walking towards them.
“Well I guess I’ll just have to punish myself then,” the Hokage said.
“How?” Iruka asked while he looked at the newcomer.
“Well I suppose I’d have to work more and leave off the ramen, training and Sasuke,” the Hokage said shrugging.
Iruka almost laughed at the horrified expression that flitted across Sasuke’s face when he heard what the Hokage said. Iruka was glad that he no longer blamed the dark-haired jounin for stealing his former student’s innocence.
“And how long would that last?” he asked. Okay so maybe he hadn’t completely forgiven Sasuke yet.
“I dunno… a month maybe?”
If possible Sasuke’s face paled even more. Iruka almost felt sorry for him. Almost…
“Do you think that’s long enough?” he asked. Maybe it was a little cruel but one did not become a teacher if one didn’t enjoy the look of terror on someone’s face.
“You think it should be two months?” the Hokage asked. “Oh hi Sasuke. Didn’t see you there.”
Sasuke didn’t answer the greeting. He just walked to the Hokage grabbed him and slung him over his shoulder.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing, Sasuke!?” the Hokage asked struggling.
“Keeping you out of trouble,” Sasuke just said and after throwing an accusing glare towards Iruka he started walking away ignoring the Hokage’s protests.
Iruka finished the bowl of ramen and stood up stretching. He’d give it a week before the Hokage mountain would be covered in graffiti. Iruka wondered when Sasuke would realize that denying the Hokage something would only make him want it more.
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Unfortunately for the Hokage his boyfriend possessed the same aversion to the word ‘no’. In his case though it wasn’t about a challenge. He just never really thought that someone would actually say no to him… and when they did… he sulked.
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Rock Lee was sitting beneath a blooming cherry tree thinking of his pink-haired love. It was only a matter of time before Sakura-chan would finally go out with him. She had given up on Sasuke when he had gotten himself a boyfriend so no one was standing on his way anymore.
“She will be mine soon!” Lee said doing his typical ‘nice guy’ pose.
Ah… life was good.
“Leeeeeee!”
A red and white blur hit him almost full speed but since he had gotten the warning just in time he managed to stay up. It wasn’t like this was the first time this happened either.
“What happened?” he asked and tried to pry the Hokage off of him.
Just how did he end up as a relationship counsellor in the first place?
“I think he doesn’t like me anymore,” the Hokage answered.
“Why do you say that? You know he loves you,” Lee said.
“But… but he said I’m more trouble than I’m worth,” the Hokage said, looking at Lee with his blue ‘kicked-puppy’ eyes. Lee was secretly sure that the blonde practised that expression in front of a mirror. It just couldn’t be natural.
“And what did you do before he said that?” Lee asked patiently.
The Hokage’s expression turned thoughtful. “I think he was saying something about us taking a day off together. I told him that I’m way too busy to do something like that and then… well you know what happened then,” the Rokudaime Hokage said.
And what it really meant was that Sasuke had for some reason suggested a day off and had been ignored by his lover. This had ticked the dark-haired jounin off and he had reacted with the tried and tested playground logic ‘it’s not like I wanted to be with you anyway’.
“Where is he now?” Lee asked.
“I don’t know. I haven’t seen him after that.”
And that meant that Sasuke was with Sakura now. He wasn’t exactly sure why Sasuke always sought out the pink-haired kunoichi when he and the Hokage were having a spat. He suspected it was an attempt to make the Hokage jealous and a way to make sure that Lee worked fast in making the Hokage go back to Sasuke.
Lee sighed. He didn’t really have a choice, did he… Sometimes being a nice guy was hard.
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Most of the time it took a ridiculously short time for the couple to make up and some of their friends went so far as to say that they probably fought just so that they could have make up sex. But no one could really be sure about that so they had to settle for staying away from them after a fight. Too bad it was sometimes pretty hard to do that…
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Shino was never the most sociable person -atleast by human standards- so many people thought that he couldn’t be all that well informed when it came to rumours and gossip. They were usually wrong though. Just because he didn’t speak much didn’t mean he didn’t listen as well. But… although he was usually well informed of all the things happening within Konoha even he had to admit that it was nearly impossible to keep track on one of the most well-known relationships in Konoha.
And that was probably why he had ended in the wrong place at the wrong time…
He had been sitting peacefully in a small walled-up garden watching the bees when it had happened. The door leading into the Hokage tower suddenly slammed open and two people stumbled through the doorway before the door was hastily slammed closed again. Shino thought it was fairly impressive that they managed to make progress at all seeing as how tangled together they were. It didn’t take him long to recognize the two… not that he hadn’t guessed who they were earlier.
“Mmmm…Sasukeee…” the Hokage moaned clutching Sasuke’s hair as the taller man did his best to mark the skin of the blonde’s neck.
When he saw Sasuke’s hands wander under the Rokudaime Hokage’s robes he thought it would be better if he left. In fact… he should’ve gone before he had time to see anything happen between the wonder couple.
He stood up and saw Sasuke give him an annoyed look before he turned back to his lover. Shino rolled his eyes behind his glasses and walked to the door… which was locked…
The sounds behind him were getting pretty loud now and the door still wouldn’t budge.
“Mm… you like that?” he heard Sasuke ask. Judging by the moan the blonde let out it did feel better than good… whatever he was doing.
Now he had two choices… he could just kick the door down and esc- leave the garden through the doorway but he had a feeling that the Hokage didn’t want more spectators -he wasn’t all that sure about Sasuke though… The other choice was to jump over the garden wall. The problem with that was that on the other side of the wall was a women’s bath.
He spent a few seconds wondering whether he’d rather face and angry Sasuke, an angry Hokage or few angry women.
“Sasuke!”
…And that was how he ended up mildly bruised and wet (and with a rubber ducky on his head but he didn’t know that yet). Sympathetic Hinata was tending to his minor cuts and promised him that she’d try to keep him better informed. What she said next was probably her way of trying to make him feel better but…
“Don’t worry, Shino-kun. Everyone runs into them atleast once a month.”
After hearing that he was glad that he could control his expressions well. His stoic reputation would’ve been absolutely ruined if he’d broken down and cried then.
-End part 5-
Here be
xxx
Viewpoints
Part 5
xxx
There were several things that should never be said to the Hokage. For example, insulting his friends or ramen was not a good way to stay in his good graces. There was another even more dangerous thing to say however… and that was the word ‘no’. When that word was used in the context of ‘No you can’t do that’ or ‘No that’s impossible’ the Hokage took it as a challenge and did everything he could just to prove that he could. And with the sheer amount of determination and raw power the Hokage had… the end result wasn’t always pretty…
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“You know… I’m not sure I like that thing.”
Iruka turned to look at his former student and current Hokage. They were sitting on the roof of the Hokage tower eating take-out ramen.
“What thing?” Iruka asked lowering his chopsticks.
“That,” the Hokage said pointing at the Hokage mountain where the faces of the 5 previous Hokages looked over the village. There were people working on the sixth face now.
“Why don’t you like it? I would’ve thought you’d want your face there too. You are the Rokudaime Hokage after all,” Iruka asked.
“Well yeah but I don’t know… Getting your face carved into a mountain? That’s pretty creepy,” the Hokage said squinting his blue eyes thoughtfully.
“Creepy? Not just everyone gets their face carved into a mountain. It is an honour so you shouldn’t complain,” Iruka said although he knew what the Hokage was after. “It’ll also help the people to remember you when you’re gone.”
“I don’t need something like that. I’m going to be so great that they’ll remember me even without a stupid mountain. Besides I look a lot like Yondaime so in the future they’ll just wonder why the hell did the carve the same guy twice. It’s not like those carvings are that accurate,” the sixth Hokage said.
“Well you just better get used to it. It’s not like you can tell them to stop,” Iruka said.
“You’re saying the same thing as Sasuke,” the Hokage said pouting a little out of habit. “Besides if they carve my face there it means that someone could vandalize it.”
“Like you did?” Iruka asked amused.
“Well yeah, but I could do that because I’m amazing,” the Hokage said nodding to himself.
Iruka sighed and shook his head. Some things never changed…
“I wonder if I could still do that… and not get caught this time,” the Hokage suddenly said, his expression changing into a look of mischief.
“And what if you do get caught?” Iruka asked deciding to play along for now. He turned his head a little when he heard someone walking towards them.
“Well I guess I’ll just have to punish myself then,” the Hokage said.
“How?” Iruka asked while he looked at the newcomer.
“Well I suppose I’d have to work more and leave off the ramen, training and Sasuke,” the Hokage said shrugging.
Iruka almost laughed at the horrified expression that flitted across Sasuke’s face when he heard what the Hokage said. Iruka was glad that he no longer blamed the dark-haired jounin for stealing his former student’s innocence.
“And how long would that last?” he asked. Okay so maybe he hadn’t completely forgiven Sasuke yet.
“I dunno… a month maybe?”
If possible Sasuke’s face paled even more. Iruka almost felt sorry for him. Almost…
“Do you think that’s long enough?” he asked. Maybe it was a little cruel but one did not become a teacher if one didn’t enjoy the look of terror on someone’s face.
“You think it should be two months?” the Hokage asked. “Oh hi Sasuke. Didn’t see you there.”
Sasuke didn’t answer the greeting. He just walked to the Hokage grabbed him and slung him over his shoulder.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing, Sasuke!?” the Hokage asked struggling.
“Keeping you out of trouble,” Sasuke just said and after throwing an accusing glare towards Iruka he started walking away ignoring the Hokage’s protests.
Iruka finished the bowl of ramen and stood up stretching. He’d give it a week before the Hokage mountain would be covered in graffiti. Iruka wondered when Sasuke would realize that denying the Hokage something would only make him want it more.
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Unfortunately for the Hokage his boyfriend possessed the same aversion to the word ‘no’. In his case though it wasn’t about a challenge. He just never really thought that someone would actually say no to him… and when they did… he sulked.
xxx
Rock Lee was sitting beneath a blooming cherry tree thinking of his pink-haired love. It was only a matter of time before Sakura-chan would finally go out with him. She had given up on Sasuke when he had gotten himself a boyfriend so no one was standing on his way anymore.
“She will be mine soon!” Lee said doing his typical ‘nice guy’ pose.
Ah… life was good.
“Leeeeeee!”
A red and white blur hit him almost full speed but since he had gotten the warning just in time he managed to stay up. It wasn’t like this was the first time this happened either.
“What happened?” he asked and tried to pry the Hokage off of him.
Just how did he end up as a relationship counsellor in the first place?
“I think he doesn’t like me anymore,” the Hokage answered.
“Why do you say that? You know he loves you,” Lee said.
“But… but he said I’m more trouble than I’m worth,” the Hokage said, looking at Lee with his blue ‘kicked-puppy’ eyes. Lee was secretly sure that the blonde practised that expression in front of a mirror. It just couldn’t be natural.
“And what did you do before he said that?” Lee asked patiently.
The Hokage’s expression turned thoughtful. “I think he was saying something about us taking a day off together. I told him that I’m way too busy to do something like that and then… well you know what happened then,” the Rokudaime Hokage said.
And what it really meant was that Sasuke had for some reason suggested a day off and had been ignored by his lover. This had ticked the dark-haired jounin off and he had reacted with the tried and tested playground logic ‘it’s not like I wanted to be with you anyway’.
“Where is he now?” Lee asked.
“I don’t know. I haven’t seen him after that.”
And that meant that Sasuke was with Sakura now. He wasn’t exactly sure why Sasuke always sought out the pink-haired kunoichi when he and the Hokage were having a spat. He suspected it was an attempt to make the Hokage jealous and a way to make sure that Lee worked fast in making the Hokage go back to Sasuke.
Lee sighed. He didn’t really have a choice, did he… Sometimes being a nice guy was hard.
xxx
Most of the time it took a ridiculously short time for the couple to make up and some of their friends went so far as to say that they probably fought just so that they could have make up sex. But no one could really be sure about that so they had to settle for staying away from them after a fight. Too bad it was sometimes pretty hard to do that…
xxx
Shino was never the most sociable person -atleast by human standards- so many people thought that he couldn’t be all that well informed when it came to rumours and gossip. They were usually wrong though. Just because he didn’t speak much didn’t mean he didn’t listen as well. But… although he was usually well informed of all the things happening within Konoha even he had to admit that it was nearly impossible to keep track on one of the most well-known relationships in Konoha.
And that was probably why he had ended in the wrong place at the wrong time…
He had been sitting peacefully in a small walled-up garden watching the bees when it had happened. The door leading into the Hokage tower suddenly slammed open and two people stumbled through the doorway before the door was hastily slammed closed again. Shino thought it was fairly impressive that they managed to make progress at all seeing as how tangled together they were. It didn’t take him long to recognize the two… not that he hadn’t guessed who they were earlier.
“Mmmm…Sasukeee…” the Hokage moaned clutching Sasuke’s hair as the taller man did his best to mark the skin of the blonde’s neck.
When he saw Sasuke’s hands wander under the Rokudaime Hokage’s robes he thought it would be better if he left. In fact… he should’ve gone before he had time to see anything happen between the wonder couple.
He stood up and saw Sasuke give him an annoyed look before he turned back to his lover. Shino rolled his eyes behind his glasses and walked to the door… which was locked…
The sounds behind him were getting pretty loud now and the door still wouldn’t budge.
“Mm… you like that?” he heard Sasuke ask. Judging by the moan the blonde let out it did feel better than good… whatever he was doing.
Now he had two choices… he could just kick the door down and esc- leave the garden through the doorway but he had a feeling that the Hokage didn’t want more spectators -he wasn’t all that sure about Sasuke though… The other choice was to jump over the garden wall. The problem with that was that on the other side of the wall was a women’s bath.
He spent a few seconds wondering whether he’d rather face and angry Sasuke, an angry Hokage or few angry women.
“Sasuke!”
…And that was how he ended up mildly bruised and wet (and with a rubber ducky on his head but he didn’t know that yet). Sympathetic Hinata was tending to his minor cuts and promised him that she’d try to keep him better informed. What she said next was probably her way of trying to make him feel better but…
“Don’t worry, Shino-kun. Everyone runs into them atleast once a month.”
After hearing that he was glad that he could control his expressions well. His stoic reputation would’ve been absolutely ruined if he’d broken down and cried then.
-End part 5-