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Comfort Trap [May. 24th, 2015|07:40 pm]
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[User Picture]From: [info]nohara_rin
2015-05-25 02:59 am (UTC)

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Rin was Kakashi’s doctor; she’d known where all his weak spots were for years. She smiled and stuck her hands up his shirt with unerring accuracy. Kakashi’s yell echoed off the walls loud enough to make her ears ring. He twisted away like a startled eel, pulling a laughing Naruto along with him, and grabbed the sofa before he could actually fall off. First Mate wasn’t so lucky. The plush seagull toppled off Kakashi’s head and landed on the floor with a quiet, sad plop.

Rin,” Kakashi said, outraged betrayal in every line of his body. Her smile broadened.

“Yes?” she asked sweetly, and scooted closer, wiggling her fingers. Loyalty was for people who hadn’t just been woken from a nap.

Naruto cheered, “Get ‘im, Rin-neesan!”

Minato-sensei just pulled his legs out of the way, a soft, fond smile on his face as he watched them all.

Kakashi wasn’t so sanguine. “Traitor.” He lifted Naruto up and tossed him at Rin, who plucked Naruto out of the air with the delicacy she reserved for all precious things. Kakashi used the distraction to bolt off his end of the couch and over to Minato’s. By the time she looked up from Naruto’s delighted expression, all she could see of Kakashi was his forehead and a shock of grey hair sticking up over Minato’s shoulder.

“You know running only makes it worse,” she said.

"That's why I ran to safety."

“You think Minato-sensei will protect you after you used his son as a projectile weapon?”

"It's good training," Minato-sensei said, still amused. "He's a projectile weapon with a secondary attack. Naruto-kun, Rin hasn't been tickled yet..."

But Naruto, against all odds, curled in on himself in Rin's arms. "Rin-neesan doesn't get tickled," he said firmly.

“That’s right,” Rin said, resting her cheek on top of Naruto’s blond, fluffy head. He smelled like baby shampoo. “Only your Kakashi-niisan gets tickled, because he avoids so many of his doctor’s appointments.”

"I go to mine!" Naruto bragged. "I get lollipops."

Rin kissed his forehead. “Maybe if Kakashi went to his doctor’s appointments, he would get lollipops too.” She slanted a look over Naruto’s head. “Maybe.”

Kakashi’s hair twitched. “In that case, you owe me…” he paused for a moment, counting behind the safety of Minato’s shoulder. “Twenty-seven lollipops for this week.”

“It only counts if you’re polite during,” Rin said. “Don’t think I don’t know you made one of our trainee medics cry. Trainees aren’t useful when they cry, Kakashi.”

"They're learning, though," Kakashi said, without even an effort at contrition.

Minato reached back over his shoulder and tugged gently on Kakashi's hair. "Rin already has training programs for them. You're interfering."

“Thank you, Minato-sensei,” Rin said primly. “I need them to fear me, Kakashi, not you.”

"Multi-tasking is good for mental health," Kakashi said, ducking away from Minato and collapsing down on Minato’s couch. "Besides, you don't fear me, so that makes you even scarier. Everyone wins, except the idiot blonde who couldn't find a vein."

Rin looked up at the ceiling in silent exasperation, a reluctant smile tugging at her mouth. She was about to suggest to Naruto that maybe his niisan needed more tickles when Minato shifted. He glanced at the door just before a polite flare of chakra announced the housekeeper’s arrival.

Hiring a former ANBU as Naruto’s new nanny had been wise on Minato-sensei’s part, and Rin had been even more pleased when she’d done a background check on Ogata-san. Naruto could learn a lot from the woman’s wise, practical lethality.

Ogata-san stuck her silver head into the room. “Dinner’s ready, Hokage-sama.”

Rin could smell something heavenly from the kitchen. Her stomach growled. She shifted Naruto onto her hip and stood up, trying to hide her eagerness.

“Come on, lazybones,” she said to Kakashi and Minato, bouncing Naruto on her hip to make him giggle. “Hurry up or Naruto-kun and I will take all the food for ourselves.”