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Oct. 29th, 2006 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tehluggageI think I might be infested with Halloween plot tortoises, as they've been showing up lately at midnight, on the dot. It's just a leetle worrying.
Anyway, mild Naruto crack ahead. You have been warned.
Sasuke first saw it when he'd shown up at Naruto's apartment early one morning in order to fetch the tardy blond. It was one of the (admittedly few) times Naruto had overslept, and it fallen to Sasuke to retrieve him. Naruto had opened the door, still rubbing sleep out of his eyes, and that was when Sasuke saw it. He hadn't said anything about it, preferring instead to classify it as one of those things that made Naruto so very Naruto-ish. His penchant for wearing eye-searingly orange clothing and unnerving fondness for ramen were on the list as well.
When Iruka first saw it, it was clutched in the hands of his...loudest pupil. He'd been heading to his place, recuperating from a mission, because even though he was first and foremost a teacher, the Hokage occasionally had need of him outside the village. Naruto had been curled up sleeping on his couch, waiting for him. As soon as he'd stepped foot inside his window, (ninja habit), Naruto had woken and offered it to him, claiming that it always helped him to sleep better, and did Iruka-sensei want to borrow it, just for the night? Rather touched, Iruka had gravely accepted it, fetched Naruto a blanket and a pillow, and gone to bed wearing it.
Kakashi had seen it for the first time when he broke into Naruto's apartment (to keep him on his toes, as he claimed, although Naruto held this up as yet another example of Kakashi's essential weirdness). He had surprised Naruto dressed in nothing but it and a towel, singing at the top of his lungs into a milk carton. Before the shock of the moment faded, Kakashi had whipped up his hitai-ate, and immortalized it forever with his Sharingan. He was gone a split-second after that, leaving a kunai to thud into the wall right where he had been. Leaping across the rooftops of Konoha, he savored the picture (it was a candidate for Jounin Monthly's Candid Camera page, if only there was a way to transfer pictures from the Sharingan to paper), and wondered briefly where Naruto had pulled his kunai from, it wasn't a very big towel.
Sakura hadn't thought anything of it when she first saw it, on one of their longer missions. Naruto had pulled it rather ceremoniously from his backpack after they'd settled themselves for the night. She'd seen it, dismissed it, and hadn't thought anything more about it until nearly three years later. After the revelation that Naruto carried the Kyuubi, many previously puzzling aspects of Naruto suddenly made sense. When Sakura eventually thought back to it, she interpreted it in a very different light. Obviously, it was part of Naruto's desire to give himself some semblance of normalcy, albeit a lesser part than the make-friends-with-everyone-possible, beat-up-those-who-didn't-want-to-be-friends, and-make-them-friends-anyway part. Amazing how a single piece of information could flavour almost three years worth of memories.
Jiraiya being the author he was, he was always on the lookout for new material. So of course, the first time he'd seen it, his first thought was to write it into his new book, in any way, shape or form possible. He managed to do it, too. Naruto never did find out, and it gave Kakashi a bit of a surprise when he opened the new Icha Icha book. Ironically, it was the one Naruto gave him when he returned from his years-long training trip.
As for Naruto, well... He'd seen it in a store window one afternoon, and thought that it was quite possibly the coolest thing he'd ever seen. He walked out of the store fifteen minutes later, minus a good portion of his allowance, but plus a brand new sleeping cap.
Concrit, comments, all will be welcomed!
Anyway, mild Naruto crack ahead. You have been warned.
Sasuke first saw it when he'd shown up at Naruto's apartment early one morning in order to fetch the tardy blond. It was one of the (admittedly few) times Naruto had overslept, and it fallen to Sasuke to retrieve him. Naruto had opened the door, still rubbing sleep out of his eyes, and that was when Sasuke saw it. He hadn't said anything about it, preferring instead to classify it as one of those things that made Naruto so very Naruto-ish. His penchant for wearing eye-searingly orange clothing and unnerving fondness for ramen were on the list as well.
When Iruka first saw it, it was clutched in the hands of his...loudest pupil. He'd been heading to his place, recuperating from a mission, because even though he was first and foremost a teacher, the Hokage occasionally had need of him outside the village. Naruto had been curled up sleeping on his couch, waiting for him. As soon as he'd stepped foot inside his window, (ninja habit), Naruto had woken and offered it to him, claiming that it always helped him to sleep better, and did Iruka-sensei want to borrow it, just for the night? Rather touched, Iruka had gravely accepted it, fetched Naruto a blanket and a pillow, and gone to bed wearing it.
Kakashi had seen it for the first time when he broke into Naruto's apartment (to keep him on his toes, as he claimed, although Naruto held this up as yet another example of Kakashi's essential weirdness). He had surprised Naruto dressed in nothing but it and a towel, singing at the top of his lungs into a milk carton. Before the shock of the moment faded, Kakashi had whipped up his hitai-ate, and immortalized it forever with his Sharingan. He was gone a split-second after that, leaving a kunai to thud into the wall right where he had been. Leaping across the rooftops of Konoha, he savored the picture (it was a candidate for Jounin Monthly's Candid Camera page, if only there was a way to transfer pictures from the Sharingan to paper), and wondered briefly where Naruto had pulled his kunai from, it wasn't a very big towel.
Sakura hadn't thought anything of it when she first saw it, on one of their longer missions. Naruto had pulled it rather ceremoniously from his backpack after they'd settled themselves for the night. She'd seen it, dismissed it, and hadn't thought anything more about it until nearly three years later. After the revelation that Naruto carried the Kyuubi, many previously puzzling aspects of Naruto suddenly made sense. When Sakura eventually thought back to it, she interpreted it in a very different light. Obviously, it was part of Naruto's desire to give himself some semblance of normalcy, albeit a lesser part than the make-friends-with-everyone-possible, beat-up-those-who-didn't-want-to-be-friends, and-make-them-friends-anyway part. Amazing how a single piece of information could flavour almost three years worth of memories.
Jiraiya being the author he was, he was always on the lookout for new material. So of course, the first time he'd seen it, his first thought was to write it into his new book, in any way, shape or form possible. He managed to do it, too. Naruto never did find out, and it gave Kakashi a bit of a surprise when he opened the new Icha Icha book. Ironically, it was the one Naruto gave him when he returned from his years-long training trip.
As for Naruto, well... He'd seen it in a store window one afternoon, and thought that it was quite possibly the coolest thing he'd ever seen. He walked out of the store fifteen minutes later, minus a good portion of his allowance, but plus a brand new sleeping cap.
Concrit, comments, all will be welcomed!
