Messy sketch of Inari and Naruto for Foxie-sama's For the Love of my Friends. [link]

I haven't done this much art for a single fic since Roll the Bones. XD

...Oh, and Inari was drawn from memory alone, so if he looks funny, that's why...

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The genin, for all of his oddities, did not have an extra pair of arms, an extra head, or another pair of legs. There was some sort of insulting banter Sasuke felt he should have been able to pull from that and wield against Naruto. But he was too busy staring at the way Inari and Naruto fit together. Like two siblings would, the younger depending on the older of the two to hold him up and above the world and all of it's difficulties.

No one noticed the stormy look in Sasuke's eyes, nor the clenching of his fists.

By the time Kakashi came by, Sasuke was in a foul mood, Sakura was confused, Naruto was irritated, and Team Seven seemed to have adopted a new member. Despite the three genins' varying bad moods, Inari grinned at him so cutely that Kakashi decided not to tell him to go away.

They tell me I'm going to have to teach kids. He thought in self pity. They tell me I'm supposed to be a role model. But they don't tell me about the buckets of teen angst I have to trudge through. I deserve a raise.