This chapter is based off of Naruto episode 101 (Original) Where they try to see behind Kakashi's mask. XD I HAD TO DO THIS. Me and my friend were watching the episode after I told her some moments in the episode, and she watched it while we were baking cookies. (Don't ask, but they're good~) And I'm like, "What if it was this episode, except Zatch Bell?" And Maka12212's like. "...That'd be funny!"
But she doesn't like Zatch Bell that much, but she promised me she'd read it! :D (Well, not promised, but she said she would!)
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Zatch Bell or Naruto! I can't! It's quite impossible! Zatch Bell belongs to Makoto Raiku and Naruto...I don't really know, but it's not mine!
Zatch's eyes were narrowed, looking at Tia and Zeno. "Hey, you wanna see it don't cha?" He whispered.
Tia and Zeno stared at him blankly.
"I'd say it's time..." He whispered again, getting closer.
"For what?" Zeno asked sarcastically.
Zatch looked at Zeno. "C'mon! You know what I'm talking about! About...Dufort's real face!" He had a flashlight held below his face to give a creepy feeling and up close to Tia's face.
"Gyaah!" Squealed Tia. She balled her hand in a fist and knocked him in the head, Zatch fell onto the ground, a bump on his head. "What's the matter with you?" She yelled, as Zatch stood up slowly, rubbing his bump.
Zeno put his hands in the pockets of his mantle. "Please. This is lame, you can count me out. We finish today's mission, and I'm outta here." He growled, beginning to walk away.
Tia blushed. "Yeah, you're totally right!" She put her hands up to her chin, her smile cheerful. "Who am I kidding? Heh! This sounds fun!"
Zatch, his eyes still narrowed, turned Zeno's way and put his hand next to his mouth, not to be overheard, even though there was nobody around. "What if he has lips?"
Zeno froze in his tracks.
"Like a blimp!" Zatch called a little bit more than a whisper.
"Like a blimp! Like a blimp!"
The words echoed in Zeno's head. He pictured Dufort, his back turned to him. Dufort had recently gotten injured, and he had a mask all around his face, the only thing it didn't cover was his left eye. The three children didn't know what happened to the mysterious teen's face, and they were curious. But back to the picture. So Zeno pictured Dufort, his back turned to him, Dufort turned to him and removed the mask, in it's place, where lips that were GIGANTIC. Full, red lips that took up the entire bottom half of his face.
Zeno swayed from side to side, beyond freaked out by the visualization.
Zatch snickered. "Just one more little push!" He thought mischievously. "Or maybe buck teeth!"
Zeno straightened like a ruler.
"Buck teeth! Buck teeth!" The words rang through his head again.
He pictured Dufort again, reading a book, he looked up and removed the mask again, instead of lips, where humongous teeth like a gopher, that also took up the entire bottom half of his face.
Zeno shuddered, prickles working their way through his body.
Zatch smirked.
Elsewhere, with Dufort.
Dufort looked at the three children. "Well, this is out of the ordinary." He muttered.
"Here! Thanks for waiting!" Kiyo smiled at his friend, and walked away. Kiyo had gotten a part-time job at a ramen place, to earn some money. Tia, Zeno, and Zatch took him there as a treat.
Flashback:
"Three of you? Taking me to lunch?" Dufort asked. "I wouldn't be suprised if it snowed on me." Dufort mumbled. He looked up, and actual snow landed on him, entirely burying him and his ramen.
Zatch, Zeno, and Tia cheered. "He fell for it!"
"You know what I mean?" Dufort looked at him, a bit of a joke in his eyes.
Zatch, Zeno, and Tia shuddered. "Ehh!"
Flashback:
"You treating me out to lunch? I wouldn't be suprised if it snowed on me." He put his hands up in the air to protect himself. "Today." But no snow came down upon Dufort. He let down his hands. "Or something." He reached for his chopsticks, and his ramen exploded in his face, making his hair droop and covering his face with broth and noodles.
The three mamodo cheered again. "He fell for it!"
"Is that the idea?" Dufort asked again, giving the three children a bit of a glare, he was still picking noodles out of his hair.
The three children bristled. "Ehh...!"
Flashback:
"The three of you treating me to lunch? You aren't gonna drop a big pile of snow on my are you?" Dufort put his hands up again. "Or...Something like, that..." Dufort put his hand in front of himself, not wanting broth in his face, as he grabbed the chopsticks. But nothing happened.
"Eh, I'm just being silly." Dufort muttered as he put the chopsticks in the ramen.
Suddenly a giant red fist flew through the air, and socked Dufort right across the store to outside, hitting the fence a couple yards outside.
The children cheered once again. "He fell for it!"
"Well?" Dufort asked, looking at them expectantly.
The children brislted. "Ehh!"
Dufort hunched his shoulder a bit. "C'mon, you guys are up to something." He stared at them with his menacing eyes.
"Errr!"
Zatch shook. "Wh-wh-what are you, crazy?" Zatch squeaked. Tia smiled innocently. "Dufort! You just got out of the hospital! N-now, please! Just go ahead and eat!" She stammered.
Dufort relaxed a bit. "Well, alright then. I supposed I should just dig in." Dufort grabbed his chopsticks, and began lifting the noodles out of the bowl. The three mamodo stared at him intently, trying to see behind the mask.
Dufort looked at the food. "This looks good..."
the children stared with more intensity, acticipation making them almost shake.
The older teen lifted his fingers up to his mask, he hooked his fingers in, and...
Then Victoream and Reycom burst through the doors. "Heeey! Zeno! What a coincedence!" Victoream screamed, wrapping his arm around the boy.
Tia and Zatch screamed, freaked out by the random people, and that their view of Dufort was obscured.
Tia began bashing both of the mamodo. "Get out of the way!" Zatch tried climbing over them, but he kept getting pushed down. "I can't see squat!"
Once Zeno had gotten out of the grasp of Victoream, he began strangling him. If that's possible.
Dufort sighed in content. "Finished. Thank you. Tia. Zeno. Zatch." He put his hands together and placed the chop sticks onto the bowl's brim. Everybody froze. Looking at Dufort. "That fast?" Zatch, Zeno, and Tia screamed.
Dufort looked at the children. And letter. "Is something wrong?"
Tia shook. "Eheh! No! Of course not! What makes you say that?"
Zatch shook his head. "What the!"
Kiyo and his assistant were looking at Dufort. They're faces dazed from surprise.
"Okay. Now I'm curious!" Zatch, Zeno, and Tia said in unison.
Zatch gazed at Tia and Zeno. "That's. It. Nothing's gonna stop me from seeing that face!" The lightning blonde yelled. They were back in the park, thinking of a new idea.
Tia sighed. "How? You got any ideas?"
Zatch put the flashlight under his face again. "Don't worry, we'll see it one way or another!" He boomed.
Tia whapped him over the head again. "I'm asking how! You stupid, little troll!" She snarled. She twitched.
Zatch groaned. "Ugh, okay, smartie-pants, how do you propose we do it?" He moaned, a big red bump forming on his head.
Tia stammered. "Uhh...Well, we..." She froze, desperatly trying to think of a way to see behind Dufort's mask. "Err..."
Zeno spoke up. "We'll just half to tail him around for the day. He'll take off his mask evantually." He suggested. He turned around and began walking away. Tia blushed radiantly. "Oh, Zeno! I sweat you are so smart!"
Zatch let an anger mark appear on his forehead. "Oh, whatever. Thanks for the plan, Captain Obvious!"
Tia put her face close to his, her eyes demonic. "I'm sorry, what was that?" She snarled.
Zatch sweatdropped. "Uhhh...Nevermind." He replied, a little spooked.
This will be a two or three shot, you'll have to see, because this is getting friggin LONG. I'll continue in a bit!