A.N.B.U.

Chapter Seventeen: Ibiki-san's and iruka-chan's wedding...

The day had finally come. It had taken a lot of preparation because half of the A.N.B.U. Corp ( well more like 98%, but whatever) wanted to attend. And getting such a large group leave, even for a day, was a lot, and I mean a lot, of paperwork... Luckily for everyone involved the commander was very tired the day we asked and just signed off, without reading, the paperwork making that day a nice all-staff rest day... So all of Sigma was basically running around making sure everything was ready while I tried to calm Iruka down...
"-What if he says no...
- Why would he say no?
- I don't know... What if says I'm not good enough?
- calm down!
- I can't !!!
- Dolphin... If you don't calm down right now I'm telling your future husband you're being a naughty boy, a familiar voice said.
- oh please Commander-sama... Have mercy. I swear I won't be panicking again...
- it's okay little boy, don't worry too much."

When everything was ready, I walked my subordinate to the aisle... This wedding was purely legal, of course... A.N.B.U. were mostly atheists, I mean we killed people, tortured others, and could die anytime. We couldn't really believe in any type of heaven or hell. For us it was death was permanent, death was finally catching up on the hours of missed sleep, finally laying still, stopping the never-ending streak of pain, of suffering. An Anbu who died was free.

ANBU was a big family, a big Ninja family. When the vows were said, the commander went over to Ibiki and threatened him with the worst possible pain if he didn't take good care of Iruka. Inoichi did the same for Dolphin-chan... Then all of us exploded into laughter and the party started. ANBU parties were... Wild, mad, and typically ended in punishment, fights, or a massive hangover. We ate the cake and the newlyweds started opening the gifts... Now the fun part was that no one had told the two birds what gift they brought so it was a fun little guessing game each time. They both received nice gifts, some new weapons, and some books ( an icha icha volume... Which was promptly confiscated by Ibiki who gave it to Yugao... She shredded it to pieces before burning it...). Then finally Ibiki opened my gift... Laughed before looking straight at me and with a closed eye smile, slowly said:
"You do know, Kitsu-chan, that I needed a volunteer to demo field methods for the green jonins... I'm sure you won't mind some basic pain tolerance training, ANBU level pain tolerance training of course... "
Well, now I have a reason to run right?
" Yes of course Morino-san, it would be my pleasure..."
The things you do for your comrades...
~Luciolle24