Why Anakin is No Longer Allowed to Mentor

1. Jedi Gremlins

Anakin was humming in a surprisingly good mood as he went to meet up with his secret wife Padme.

"You're in an unusually good mood. Did something happen?"

"I got assigned teaching a Padawan class today."

Padme felt a sense of foreboding. It wasn't that Anakin hated kids, far from it. He actually adored children.

The problem was Anakin's sense of humor.

"What did you do?" said Padme with a sigh.

Anakin's grin was far from reassuring.

In the temple...

It took a great deal of effort to keep from cackling. No matter where you were or what time period, it remained a universal fact that children were gullible as hell. Particularly those raised in a closed off society...like the Jedi temple or their affiliates for example.

Which was why Anakin took full advantage of being stuck with mentoring a Padawan group for the full day to screw with their heads for his own amusement.

Seeing the honestly terrified expressions of the ten to thirteen year old padawans while Anakin happily claimed that Master Yoda turned into an evil gremlin like creature whenever he ate any sort of food after midnight, and that in order to insure no one would notice, the other Jedi Masters made a point to hit him with water in order to 'spawn' replacements that would be grown by morning. In fact, they had a special group of Knights that were tasked to deal with the 'evil Yoda' that were created whenever someone failed to keep him from eating after midnight.

Anakin was so convincing he could tell they believed every word. To be fair, no one quite knew WHAT Yoda's particular species was, just that he was the only known example of it.

Either way he desperately held his laughter in when Yoda came to check on the younglings, and they all gave him (to the last child) terrified and worried looks that baffled the Master.

In the apartment...

Padme stared at her husband, an exasperated, but fond expression on her face.

"Anakin...you're a terrible person."

"Oh it gets better. Yoda finally figured out where the source of the strange rumor came from," laughed Anakin. "'Allowed to teach the Younglings again, you are not.'"

Padme's mouth twitched upwards in amusement.

"Really?"

"Should have seen Obi-Wan's face when I replied 'Gullible, the Padawans are.' In my best Yoda voice," said Anakin, cracking up.

While he had been able to keep a straight face when Yoda came to inspect the younglings, he hadn't been quite as successful when he saw the exasperated look on Obi-Wan's face hearing Anakin's comeback.

He had zero regrets. He really did.