| [Jan. 23rd, 2011|09:41 pm] |
Genma gave Raidou another hooded, slightly fond look. "Idiot. Here, hold the end, then," he instructed, and shook the scroll open. Raidou reached over and took the free flap, pulling it so the creamy paper spooled out from the winding cylinder in Genma's right hand.
Genma read the short note quickly, scowled, and read it over once more, then looked up to find Raidou studying him.
"Well?" Raidou said.
"The rookie's missing. Ryouma. And Ginta and that Hatake bastard are going AWOL together to track him. At least that's what it looks like." He gnawed on his senbon. "Fuck."
Raidou took a step to Genma's side, and read the note over Genma's shoulder. "Guess that explains why it's been so quiet next door," he said. He dragged a hand along his jaw, rubbing the edge of the tape securing the bandages to his cheek, and blew out a long breath. "Goddammit. Exactly how injured was Sakamoto?"
"Bad," Genma answered. He flicked a look at Raidou. "Last time I saw him he was still in a cast and on crutches, but he didn't have either just now. For all I know that idiot cut the cast off himself." He shook his head and glared at the note. "Hatake probably talked him into it."
"Hatake?" Raidou asked with a pursed-lip scowl of doubt. "The loner extraordinaire?"
"Yeah. The situation with them was... I told you about that, right? Maybe I didn't. Ginta only sorta hinted at it, but from what I gathered from scuttlebutt, it was a sort of messy love-triangle. Ginta was friends with Ryouma from way back, or something like that, then Ginta and Kakashi had a mission or two and there was some chemistry, and then our straight-boy rookie turned out not to be that straight after all..." He caught Raidou's eye with a dry chuckle. "Guess that's going around?"
Raidou threw him a lopsided grin. "Must be something in the water."
"Must be," Genma agreed, and leaned into Raidou's shoulder. "Anyway, so Ryouma seduced Kakashi, because I'm about certain it didn't go the other way. Hatake doesn't have a seductive bone in his body. And then the rookie had that mission with Tsume that went to such complete hell. And Kakashi was on the rescue team for that, and then he was on the retrieval team for Ginta on his mission that went bad at the same time as ours..." He paused, stared past the scroll, past Raidou. "Kage's balls, it sounds like a fucking soap opera plot or something. Or karma. Really intense karma." |
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