imbrii (imbrii) wrote in imbrication, @ 2007-09-06 16:55:00 |
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Entry tags: | drabble, haruno sakura, hatake kakashi, naruto, uchiha sasuke, uzumaki naruto |
Naruto - Hello
Series: Naruto
Characters: Team 7
Pairing: none
Type: random idea expansion
Warnings: dull, bad writing
Spoilers: not a one, as this takes place waaaaay back when they were stuck on D-ranked missions
Word Count: 430
Etc: I explain a bit after the fic...Just another silly, poorly executed idea.
It was a clear spring day—sun shining, flowers blooming, birds singing. The perfect day for weeding yet another garden.
“This sucks!” whined Naruto for the umpteenth time that minute.
“If you keep griping about it, it’ll take longer to get this over with,” muttered Sasuke, pulling up a dandelion with far more violence than necessary. He didn’t want to say he agreed that D-rank missions were getting old, because that’d be agreeing with Naruto.
“Sasuke-kun is right. If we get this done quickly, we show that we’re competent at simple tasks and worthy of something more challenging.” Sakura was blatantly biased during arguments.
“That doesn’t make it suck any less,” grumbled Naruto, yanking out another weed.
Moshi, who everyone called Moshimoshi, brought out snacks at noon.
“Moshmoshi-san, thank you for the onigiri!” said Sakura with a smile. She elbowed Naruto and glared at Sasuke when they didn’t immediately follow suit.
“Thanks,” the Uchiha grumbled.
“Thanks, Mo—baasan.” Naruto added, unsure why he hiccupped in the middle.
The old lady looked at him strangely before she walked off.
Sakura whirled as soon as she was gone, “You could’ve at least said her full name! Really, Naruto, how hard is it to say Moshimoshi?”
“I meant to, really! It just stopped.”
“Liar,” interjected Sasuke.
“Am not!”
“Are too!”
“Am not!” Naruto huffed. “I’ll try it again, to prove it.”
“Fine.” Sasuke crossed his arms.
“Moooooooooooooo—” Naruto furrowed his brow, and tried again at a higher pitch. “Mooooo—” No avail. “MooooOOOOOOooooooooo—chimochi!”
His teammates stared at him as if he’d grown a third head. “You really can’t say it? Try again.”
For the next few minutes, Naruto gave his all, obviously annoyed that something so simple was out of reach. He managed to say noshinoshi, mokimoki, and a variety of similar-sounding syllables but not moshimoshi.
Kakashi popped in as Naruto contorted his body and face one more time, trying to catch the elusive syllables.
“Yo. What are you kids up to?”
Sakura leapt upon a potential source of reason, unreliable though he may be. “Kakashi-sensei! Naruto can’t say ‘moshimoshi!’ He’s been trying for the last five minutes.”
“Ah, so that’s why you’re so behind on your weeding,” the grey-haired jounin replied drolly. The genin scrambled back into the garden, question forgotten, each shouting accusatory remarks as to whose fault it was they’d become distracted.
Kakashi’s one exposed eye slid over to the orange-clad boy. So the myth is true. Kitsune really can’t say ‘moshi moshi.’ He wasn’t sure what to think of that, besides that it’d make a great password.
Note: To explain this for those less dorky about Japanese: Moshi moshi is how you say hello on the telephone in Japan. I can't find a solid source, but I know I've heard the supposed origin is that kitsune are unable to say the phrase, so the greeting ensures you're talking to a human and not a fox spirit in disguise. Kitsune led to Kyuubi, and this idea came out.
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