PIE FIGHT!

[Tensei Kaori]

Yanagawa Hoshiko slinked along the back alleys and shadows of mid-afternoon Kohana. She had some unfinished business with her cousin, and she was finishing it here and now.

Spotting an idea hiding spot atop a store's roof, Hoshiko leapt up - surprisingly agile despite her heavy boots, which were mostly made of metal - and crouched into her hiding spot.

It wasn't until her target - Yanagawa Kohana - came into site. Hoshiko grinned mischievously. This is it!

With a great battle cry of "Hey Kohana! I never got to thank you for that pie you gave me in my bio thread!" Hoshiko stood up, threw a pie at her cousin with all her might, and took off at top speed across the rooftops of Konoha.

[Hatake Hiroshi]

Kohana skipped along, humming a tune to herself, soaking in the nice, warm afternoon sun.

Hey Kohana! I never got to thank you for that pie you gave me in my bio thread!

She spun around, and her eyes widened as a pie hurled straight towards her. "GENKAI MAKUDEN!" she shrieked, frantically waving her hands out in front of her, but it was too late. The edge of the pie tin hit her fingertips and flipped around, sending bits and pieces of fluffy whipped topping and creamy filling everywhere before the whole pie hit her smack dab in the face.

Kohana, in shock, stood there a moment before peeling the mashed pie off of her face. She threw the empty tin to the ground and quickly went to wipe the sticky goo from her skin. Looking around, she growled.

"HOSHIKO!" she squealed, leaping up onto the nearest building to have a look around. She finally spotted her cousin and quickly took off after her.

[Tensei Kaori]

Hoshiko laughed, flashing a V-sign as she looked over her shoulder to grin at her cousin. "I win this time, Kohana! WAUGH!" she finished as she turned around... and came face to face with a power pole! Channeling her chakra into her feet, she flipped in the air and landed, feet first, sticking to the side of the pole. She sprung off of it, doing another midair flip and dropping into a crouch on a rooftop below.

"Ahhh, that was close," she breathed, relieved that she hadn't killed herself. "Now where did she.....?"

[Hatake Hiroshi]

Kohana cackled as she watched Hoshiko avoid running face first into a power pole, and decided to take advantage of the situation.
With a flash, she reappeared behind Hoshiko and held her breath as she slowly pulled a pie from behind her back. Leaning forward, ever so quietly, she swung her arm around, and smashed the pie right into her cousin's face.

[Tensei Kaori]

Before she knew what was happening, Hoshiko felt the cold, wet sensataion of a pie being crammed into her face. Grabbing the arm that dealt the blow with one hand, she turned around and used the other to wipe a fistful of pie out of her eyes - and smashed it right back onto Kohana. "Gotcha!" she squealed, giggling insanely.

[Hatake Hiroshi]

Kohana giggled, and bouced around in place, rejoicing over getting Hoshiko back. Her victory was short lived. Her cousin grabbed her by the wrist, whipped around and squished a giant wad of pie back into her face.

Gotcha! she heard her giggle.

Reaching up, Kohana wiped the leftover pie from her cheeks. "Oh-ho-ho, my dear cousin! This war is not over yet!" She flicked her wrist, splattering the sticky goop onto the rooftop. She opened her mouth to speak when she heard a familiar voice approaching their location. With a smirk, she looked back at her cousin.

"...Aijou..."

[Tensei Kaori]

Tokoharu Akina was taking her usual shortcut from Kaori-sama's office to her apartment for lunch when she heard some rather excited giggling from up above. She looked up...

...and saw what had to be one of the strangest sights she would ever see. There were two Kunoichi - most likely Yanagawa, from the looks of it - giggling like mad.... and covered in pie, of all things!

What on earth...?

* * * * *

Hoshiko was not happy when she heard what Kohana had to say.

Aijou?!? Shoot! I need to come up with a new plan!

"The war is far from over, dear cousin!" Hoshiko declared with a wink, grinning, before forming her hands into a simple seal and disappearing in a flash of sparks.

The pie-covered Yanagawa reappeared on a high rooftop not far from the spot where she'd been cornered. She could even see the offending light pole that had caused her to be caught in the first place. Sticking her tongue out at the pole, she looked around for her next option.

[Hatake Hiroshi]

The war is far from over, dear cousin! Hoshiko said, winking, before flashing away.

Kohana stood and watched as her brother approached, Ryuji and Haruki following close behind. They must have been on their way home from their shift at the Hokage's office. Before she was able to duck out of sight, she was caught.

"Kohana?" her brother called. "What are you doing up there?"

Sighing, Kohana flipped off of the roof and landed next to the ANBU. "I was just---"

"You look horrible!" Haruki said, reaching forward and brushing a chunk of pie crust from her shoulder.

Kohana turned her gaze to Aijou, who frowned, crossing his muscular arms across his chest. "What were you doing?"

"I know!" Ryuji chimed.

"What?" Aijou asked as he and Haruki turned to look at their comrade, who had stood quietly behind them until now. Just as they did, Ryuji thrust his arms forward, shoving two pies into their faces.

The fiery-haired ANBU chuckled, flashing a big smile as he scooted over to stand next to Kohana. His two fellow squad members turned to face them, pulling the pie tins away from their faces.

"RYUJI!" Aijou growled, wiping the thick filling from his eyes.

Ryuji and Kohana gave eachother a high-five, snickering at how rediculous their friends looked.

"You are so lucky I'm in a good mood, today, Ryuji-kun," Aijou stated with a quiet laugh before pulling a pie from behind his back and cramming it into the red-head's face.

Ryuji stood there for a moment before peeling it from his skin. He licked his lips. "Mmm... Lemon meringue! My favorite!"

[Tensei Kaori]

So. Not only were the two girls in on it, the ANBU were too?

"What in the name of the Five Great Kage is going on here?" asked Akina of the pie-covered group. Yet as she approached them, something inside her told her she shouldn't have asked.

[Hatake Hiroshi]

What in the name of the Five Great Kage is going on here?

The group turned to see Akina approaching them.

"Akina-chaaan!" Ryuji exclaimed, smiling brightly. "Don't you know? It's Pie-A-Friend Day!"

[Tensei Kaori]

Akina raised an eyebrow at Ryuji's comment. "Pie-a-Friend Day? What on earth are you talking about?"

* * * * *

Up above the rooftops of Konoha, Hoshiko sped off to a familiar spot. If Kohana had backup, so would she.....

[Hatake Hiroshi]

Akina seemed a bit perplexed about Ryuji's comment, as she raised an eyebrow and responded. Pie-a-Friend Day? What on earth are you talking about?

"You've never heard of it? It's when you give your friends a pie as a gift." The fiery-haired ANBU flashed a silly pie-filled grin before shoving a nice whipped-cream pie into the kunoichi's face.

[Tensei Kaori]

Akina just stood there, covered in pie, completely lost for words. As a special Jounin she could handle any situation the village needed her to handle, but this went beyond her reasoning ability - just the fact that the ANBU were running around shoving pies into people's faces made her question the ability to get out of bed this morning.

But before she could react, she heard a voice call out from the rooftops.

"Just what do you think you're doing?" the familiar male voice demanded. Akina looked up to see a figure standing on the edge of a roof, dramatically silhouetted by the bright sunlight. "In the name of justice, you will be punished!"

With that, the figure vanished from the rooftop, and pies began to rain down on the group - oddly enough, they missed Akina entirely.

When the mysterious shinobi landed in front of her, facing the others, she knew why.

There, posing dramatically, was her nephew - Tokoharu Tatsuya. Akina just sighed.

Today was a very strange day.

[Hatake Hiroshi]

Ryuji giggled at the now pie-covered Akina, but before he could say anything else, a voice rang out through the still afternoon air: Just what do you think you're doing? In the name of justice, you will be punished!

They all turned to see who was calling out to them. A figure stood atop one of the nearby buildings, sillouetted by the glaring afternoon sun. Within moments, they vanished, and a shower of pies rained down from the sky.

Aijou, with lightning-quick speed, grabbed hold of Haruki and pulled him down into a crouch, surrounding them with a Genkai Makuden, leaving poor Ryuji and Kohana defenseless against the downpour of pies.

Kohana squealed as pie squished on the top of her head. Quickly, she crouched down, protecting her head from anymore pies. Ryuji, on the other hand, just stood there, letting the pies rain down on him.

Finally, the pies stopped falling, and the figure that had been perched upon the roof landed near them.

Kohana stood up straight again, and tried her best to removed the pies that had squished against her back. Looking over at Aijou and Haruki, who looked to have been untouched by the pies, other than the ones Ryuji had crammed into their faces, she spoke up. "That was mean! I'm your sister, Aijou!"

He chuckled. "Well, you and Ryuji were the ones who started this whole thing..." Then, he turned his gaze to the shinobi that had just made himself known. He looked kind of familiar...

Kohana huffed and looked over at Ryuji, who just stood there, covered in pie. The only thing he muttered was: "Eeeew! Mincemeat!"

[Tensei Kaori]

Tatsuya grinned, flashing a dramatic V-sign at the group. "Tokoharu Tatsuya, here to save the day!" he announced. "No one pies my Aunt and gets away with it!"

Turning to two of the suspects, he grinned. "That was quite the save! Just the kind of skill I'd expect from someone who can land a pie on a Jounin!" And with that, he pulled out two more pies and rushed at the two men, waiting until the last second to throw them and dash off to the side.

Sighing, Akina began wiping the pie off her face and flicking it off onto the ground. Why on earth did Tatsuya have to show up? He was likely to end up pieing half the village "in the name of Justice" if this kept up.