[Thread] Not Your Afternoon Tea [Aki, Kureno, Rin, Tsurude]

[yuuhi_kureno]

[[OOC: Following immediately after this thread.]]Kureno knew Rin had told him he needed to take it easy on his mind and body, mainly in giving them proper nutrition and rest. The nutrition part was easy, but not so much the resting. Taking more breaks during work hours was difficult, but so far Kureno felt he’d been doing a good job. He even

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[konoha_fifth]

Tsurude had been in more battles then all the people at the table had been in combined. He was a master tactician, an excellent leader, a medic without par. He had one sure win tactic in mind. One clear way to escape this and possibly maintain his integrity as Hokage.

"Limits!" Tsurude seized upon, slowly starting to slink down in his chair. "Limits are very good, very important, very much in place with everyone here." He started to sink further, slowly, slowly. "Everyone here is off limits, completely uninteresting, totally boring, no sex appeal at all..." His nose brushed against the edge of the table.

Okay, time to let go of the breast, man. It hasn't been that long.

...

More important things now. The Plan. The great PLAN. He dipped under the table and crossed under it, hands moving in rapid succession, boar snake boar dog dog horse... And then slowly he started standing on the other side. "Really just a bunch of celibate or whipped men. And poor! DIRT poor. Well... everyone except him."

Tsurude pointed at Kureno and all the female attention turned to him, eyes opening wide as they realized they had only one viable target.

At that exact moment, Tsurude turned on his heel and booked it. Horse, the final hand sign completed as he exited the door. And then his genjutsu shifted from Hokage to very old man, tottering down the road.

Tsurude survives again.

[yuuhi_kureno]

"........................................."

During a three-second silence, which was made very heavy with the sudden surge of three predatory auras, Kureno's mind decided that: yes, Tsurude-sama had just done that; no, murdering the Hokage was never the right answer; yes, I should stop thinking now and RUN.

It was every man for himself right now as far as Kureno was concerned. Time to make with that genjutsu master thing he was thinking about earlier and vanish into thin air--literally. And with some swift handseals of his own, Kureno did just that right before the brunette could pour herself over his chair.

Rin and Aki would survive. ...Most likely.

[dango_is_love]

Aki abruptly stopped laughing and straightened at Tsurude's words. His eyes got wide with Kureno's quick escape.

Just him and Rin. Aki didn't know, but he was pretty sure that somehow Kakami would figure out a way to blame him if something went wrong.

...And he really wanted to live to see his first date.

Rin's arm was grabbed, he was jerked up, and Aki instantly started moving and fast. All those years of ducking out of bills had really helped improve his speed.

[medical_miracle]

Apparently Rin was always going to be someone who needed rescued. From the enemy, from himself, from tumble-dryers, from his co-workers, from amourous and playful prostitutes, from life in general.

As he was yanked by the wrist out his seat, out Kimi's grasp and out the door - Rin found himself spectacularly grateful that it was Aki rescuing him this time and not Asuka or Kakami. Especially not Kakami.

He didn't think she'd find this as funny as Kureno and Aki did. He also didn't think he wanted to explain. As he and Aki gave each other one look, and then split for parts unknown to the other, Rin reflected that this was probably not the way to spend his days leading up to ensconcment in the village's most important holy site.

He also reflected that he was NEVER following Tsurude on a half-assed drinking expedition again.

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Meanwhile, back in the Zelkova...

Kimi and her companions smiled to each other with their prettily painted lips and skipped right into the abandoned seats of the ninja boys. With a bubbling giggle of pure congratulatory glee, the brunette, Keiko, lifted a hand for the bar staff and winked at her compatriots.

"Three new glasses for this sadly abandoned and very high class sake, please~"

And with that the trio knocked treated themselves to the Hokage's choice of alcohol... and that way at least somebody got a drink.