| [Mar. 2nd, 2011|11:07 pm] |
“Wolf’s teeth,” Tsume muttered, glancing over as canine heads lifted, nostrils twitching as wet noses checked the scents on the two new visitors. Not Inuzuka: that had been clear from the anxiety smell coming ahead of them through the forest. She hadn’t been paying closer attention than that, not until a giant stepped out of the shadows, little brother in tow.
Kiba had invited him, she remembered that. She’d just hoped that it would get forgotten afterward.
“You came!” Kiba bellowed, bulleting from the other side of the common area, barely skirting the banked bonfire. “I told you guys I invited ANBU and they’d come! ‘Cause my mom’s like, the ANBU alpha now!”
Kiba was trailed by a dozen Inuzuka children, and another two or three non-tattooed cubs from his class. Most of them were looking at the two newcomers suspiciously.
“He isn’t ANBU,” one cheeky little boy said loudly, puffing up his chest and lowering his chin. “He’s not even wearing armor.”
Kiba threw his arms around Ibiki’s waist and dangled. “He is too! Aren’t you, Ibiki?”
He was, indeed, and Tsume wasn’t going to forget it any time soon. She edged around one of the tables, putting more distance between them, and glared hotly at her nephew when his eyebrows rose. |
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