Five times Obito made friends with Kakashi - Mission #05
Mission #05:
It was a beautiful saturday in Konoha, made all the better by the fact that there was no scheduled training that morning. Obito had the day all to himself. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, the people were smiling and... was the ground quaking?
A low growl was all the warning the genin got before a one hundred and fifty pound giant dog attached itself to his side.
Obito nearly had a small apoplexy as he saw his whole arm vanish into that cavernous mouth with fangs. Instead, he squeaked - who knew what the dog might do if he screamed? Thankfully, it hadn't actually bit down, so his limb was still pretty much intact. (Pretty much, because he could feel the drool seeping into his clothes and sliding down his skin...) He tried to carefully pull it back, but the brown-furred bulldog immediately put a stop to that attempt by clamping down a bit more forcefully.
"Aah!! Let go, you stupid mutt!" Obito finally lost it. "What do you want from me?!"
Unconcerned eyes peered at the young Uchiha from under droopy folds of skin, and the great dog adjusted its hold on him so that it was now biting up to the shoulder.
Seeing more of himself disappear inside the animal, Obito began to panic. The smell of rotting meat that wafted up to his nose when that giant mouth had opened slightly wasn't adding to the hope that he'd make it out of this in one piece, but he refused to give up. Willing himself to not so much as twitch the arm he was about to lose - because he really didn't want to know what the interior of a dog felt like, and because he was afraid it might cause the bulldog to swallow up a bit more Uchiha - Obito started to look around, hoping to find some nearby restaurant or foodstand he could shout a quick order to.
Instead, he found a little pug with a blue vest - and a Konoha forehead protector?! - speeding its way over to him and looking like it had no intention of stopping. "Uh oh" was all Obito had time to think, before a second little rabid animal attacked him. Little teeth bit into his ankle, and definitely not as gently as the first one.
"Ow!!" he cried. "What the hell?! What am I, some kind of dog lure?"
"Where were you this morning?" he heard a familiar dry voice ask from behind.
Obito had to twist his head as far as it would go in order to scowl at his grey-haired teammate. It figured Kakashi would be nearby when random dogs started attacking and making a fool of him.
"Kakashi!" he shouted. Then he realised that his friend was a genius, so if anyone could help him out of this ridiculous situation, it would be him. "Help!"
"Where were you this morning?" he repeated in his ever-dull tone.
"Ah... what? I don't know, asleep? A little help here?!"
"Do you remember what today is?" Kakashi pressed on, making no move to approach the other.
"Saturday, of course! I'm not stupid," he glared. "Uhh, see these dogs here? Could you..."
"And you can't think of anything special about this saturday?" Kakashi interrupted, his cool mask slipping as a little anger seeped through to his voice.
"Uh... Sensei said there wouldn't be a practice today. What's with the interrogation?"
It looked like Kakashi had finally had enough. His shoulders slumped as he scoffed and turned his back on his trapped teammate to walk away.
"There wasn't a practice today, because we're supposed to go on a mission, idiot. Come on, you're holding up everyone! We've been waiting for you at the gates for hours now."
Obito gasped. He started sweating a little when he remembered that the little paper his sensei had given them to inform the team that they were "free" for the weekend did indeed have something else written on it. He berated himself for not paying more attention and tried to rush off to walk with Kakashi... only to be held in place by two very stubborn dogs.
"Hey, wait up! Help me get rid of these..."
"Bull, Pakkun!" Kakashi called before he could finish and both the bulldog and little pug let go of the young Uchiha to run back happily to the grey-haired chuunin.
"They're yours?!" Obito raged, pointing at his friend with an accusing finger.
Kakashi gave him the usual half-lidded stare, but didn't bother to reply right away as he patted his ninken on their heads, congratulating them on a job well done.
"You're dripping," was his final answer.
Obito didn't miss the other's slight amusement, but he was too caught up on the state of the arm he'd extended to bother with it. He was covered in viscous drool. "Ew..." he moaned, before rounding back on Kakashi. "Next time you come looking for me, tell those things I'm not dog food!"
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