“W-well…he just sort…burst into laughter…he seemed to think it was hilarious,” She explained, a smile finding its way to her face, Iruka made no attempt to disguise his astonishment,
“What!?”
“Yea, he just cracked up,” She shrugged her shoulders in time starting to laugh herself, which Iruka eventually began to laugh as well,
“Ahah, I think you were very lucky that he was in a good mood!” Iruka grinned widely, “What did you do to them?”
“Uh, well I use my chakra fan to knock them out,”
“What do you mean?”
“Well I can create blades of wind energy from my fan, it’s made of wood which reacts to chakra, I could have created a blade sharp enough to cut them in half, if I had wanted to,” She explained cooly as she flipped over a branch. It occurred to Iruka that he should probably be a little more carefully around Oriko; she could really do him some damage if she felt like it.
The continued on for a little while, chatting lightly, Oriko felt marginally more comfortable around him, but knew she would feel far better when she was back in Konoha and had her own place to go back to.
“Are your missions with Kakashi usually this sort?” Iruka asked suddenly, catching her by surprise,
“What?”
“You usually go on missions with Kakashi, are they more or less battle orientated?” Oriko wasn’t sure what he was getting at by such a weird question,
“W-well it’s a bit of a mix really, sometimes we’re escorting one of the Daimyo’s advisors or we go on an assassination…it varies, why do you ask?”
“Hmm, well, your reactions were so fast back there, it would seem that you have a lot of battle experience,” Iruka shrugged his shoulders, “More so that an average Chuunin,”
“Huh…well I’ve never really thought about it, I spend a lot of time practicing and I suppose I’ve been in a lot of spars or fights otherwise that they don’t really intimidate me anymore,” She reasoned, her expression showing that she was guessing to an extent, as she met Iruka’s eyes who held an interested spark,
“Well, that’s very good…and I’d assume that you’re not that hasty usually?” He had a smile, but Oriko wasn’t impressed by his comment, and showed it
“Ugh, that was the Daimyo; I wasn’t going to let a potential threat get past me was I? If they had been enemy nin, the no one would have been impressed by slow reactions, would they?” She looked indignantly at him but her amusement was still obvious,
“Aha, well that is true,”
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They made it back to the small two-kilometre perimeter around Konoha and Oriko almost instinctively sped up, leaving Iruka in the dust,
“H-hey, wait up!” Iruka cried as he tried to catch up,
“Aha, c’mon Iruka, not that slow are you?” She couldn’t resist a grin as she landed in front of the gates to see Izumo and Kotetsu behind a small table looking extremely bored, “What’s up, guys?” She asked, seeing their nearly-asleep expressions,
“Ah, why are you so perky?” Izumo queried, seeing Iruka appear from the tree line looking in a great hurry,
“Oriko! You can’t just dash off like that! Anything could’ve happened!”
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Hatake Kakashi: Fascination
FanfictionKakashi thinks he's in for a nice break, free from students, after Naruto's recent departure with Jiraiya, but he hadn't counted on a beautiful stranger turning up in Konoha whom Tsunade thinks would become a powerful asset were she to be trained as...
Hatake Kakashi: Fascination: Part XXXIV
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