Genma Short Subjects

by Nezuko, Prince of Rats

This is a work of derivative fiction based on "Naruto" by Kishimoto Masashi. The characters and the world in which they live are the property of Kishimoto-sensei.

This one is dedicated to Keryn, aka Dianoetic, player of Inoichi at Fallen Leaves, who asked for a bunny.

Bunny

Genma watched his temporary students with what appeared to be vague, disinterested disapproval, but was in fact a keen, evaluating eye. "Just one day, Genma-san, please!" Isuzu had begged, and with his wrist in a cast and missions off-limits for another week, and the alternative being sitting in on a T&I committee meeting about the use of poisons in interrogations, Genma had acquiesced.

"Sorry, Ibiki," he'd said, "but I promised Isuzu-sensei over at the Academy I'd watch her brats while she took her mom to the doctor."

So now he found himself watching seventeen little incipient ninja chase eight goats around a field. He'd promised a prize to anyone who managed to catch an animal. So far, the goats were winning.

But one of the little proto-ninja cheated. Or saw underneath the underneath and acted on it. Both were, in Genma's mind, excellent choices. He wasn't particularly surprised to see it was Inoichi's flaxen-haired brat. She tugged at Genma's leg and grinned a gap-toothed 8-year-old grin up at her father's friend, and handed her temporary sensei a frantically squirming rabbit. A bunny really, just barely old enough to be apart from its mother.

"I got a aminal, Genma-niichan," Ino said. "Can I have my prize be I get to keep it?"