Disclaimer: Naruto doesn't belong to me.
Warnings: Shonen-ai…crossdressing…
Summary: Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto undertake a strange mission from their sensei: a very strange mission. Who will be able to get a boyfriend the fastest? Warning: this does contain crossdressing and shonen ai!
Gamble: A Bet to Remember
It all started out much like every other day started out. Uchiha Sasuke, the prodigy of Konohagakure's Uchiha Clan, and the last remaining one in the village (the only other one who was alive was currently gallivanting off in the wilderness with a strange fish-man named Hoshigaki Kisame. However, these two are not part of our storyline, so we don't give a damn about them, okay? Okay)
Uchiha Sasuke was what people would call a "ninja." He had the perfect looks to be one, as well. His spiky hair, probably styled after a parakeet, was jet-black. His eyes were black, as well. He wore a wide-collared royal blue shirt with a strange symbol on the back. The symbol was a fan, the top half red and the bottom white. It was the Uchiha crest – his family's honorable character, which also happens to be what "Uchiha" means. That's right, folks. His last name was "fan." He was surprised that a certain blonde dobe hadn't figured it out.
But there's reasons that said blonde was a dobe.
At least Sasuke could keep some dignity around him when things like this happened.
What's "this" you ask?
You mean I didn't get to the entire point yet?
Fuck.
Anyways… back to explaining how the day was for all of them.
Sasuke was waiting at the bridge that he always waited at this early in the morning, for his teammates and teacher to show up.
What the hell was taking them so long anyway? After all, he'd been waiting since three in the morning. We won't ask why he was waiting at three in the morning, but he was. Sasuke's dedicated to killing his brother like that… yes, the same brother who was off gallivanting in the wilderness with none other than a big fish man who has NO eyelids.
Anyway… back to the story.
Sasuke was sitting on the bridge, cursing out his teammates and teacher in his head when he heard the ever loud ring of "SASUKE-KUN!" from somewhere to the left.
Fearing for his life, Sasuke cast a paranoid look over and was relieved to see that it was only ONE fangirl instead of half a dozen.
Haruno Sakura was coming, a pink-haired, green eyes girl dressed in a maroon dress that had slits and green shorts. The girl's forehead protector had been tied over her head. In fact, compared to most of the girls that ran after Sasuke and certainly in comparison to ALL of the guys that were after him, Sakura was in the top ten for prettiest. Only a few of those girls at the bathhouses beat her… but again, another story for another day.
Soon after Sakura had run down the path and grabbed onto his arm, which he hated but didn't have the will to tell her (he was lazy in the morning, especially after waiting four hours for his teammates), the blonde dobe that had crossed his thoughts earlier was actually appearing in person.
And yes… he was blonde. Spiky hair that stuck up from his head without the use of hair-gel was definitely the boy's style. He wore a bright orange jumpsuit, which Sasuke personally thought was strange for a ninja and told the boy this several times a day, and his forehead protector, like Sasuke's, was firmly in place where it was supposed to be. He had the deepest blue eyes that anyone could have. They were a mixture of the sky and sea: the color was that of the sky, but the depth was that of the sea. His cheeks were scarred with three lines on each side of his nose ((Sasuke never could figure out where the things came from, but he didn't bother asking)) and his mouth was stretched into a vulpine grin. The boy was Uzumaki Naruto.
So now that his teammates were hear, the only person that Sasuke had left to curse at was his teacher, Hatake Kakashi. A seemingly one-eyed man with only a quarter of a face, for he wore a mask that came over his nose and his left eye was covered by his forehead protector. Now, Kakashi was infamous for his being late, so chances were, the three genin had a very long time to wait for their teacher to poof in out of the blue and give some stupid excuse. All in all, Sasuke thought this was stupid, especially since he wanted to train.
After all, he still had to kill his brother. ((Yes, the one with the fish-man, surely you know this already!))
No one knows who started the conversation that morning, but it was clear that it was not the anti-social bastard known to his peers as Sasuke. After all, he was an anti-social bastard, thank you very much!
Sakura had let go of Sasuke's arm and was currently leaning against the rail. After the first couple of shouted insults as Sasuke, all of which were effortlessly deflected, Naruto quieted done.
"It's beautiful out here," Naruto said softly, as though unaware that anyone was around him. He looked up at the sky, palms resting on the top of the red rails that formed the bridge they were comfortably standing on.
"What do you mean, baka?" Sakura sniped. She had been in the middle of a particularly graphic fantasy of her and Sasuke in an apartment, under a blanket with no clothes on and… you get the point. Basically, she was having a wonderful fantasy sex with Sasuke.
Naruto stayed silent, which made the pink-haired girl even angrier. She walked over to her blonde teammate and pushed him off the rail. Losing his balance quickly, Naruto soon found himself sitting in the shallow river, completely soaked, with a sore bum that had landed on a rock. He winced in pain as he tried to stand up, yes… tried. Apparently, he had also twisted his ankle on the way down. This didn't help him at all, for when he tried to stand up, his ankle wouldn't support him and he ended up sprawled in the river once again.
"Oy, dobe!" Sasuke called down the two feet to the boy.
"Nani, teme?" Naruto growled.
"You okay there?" Sasuke wanted to know.
"It's not like I need your help like one of your fucking fangirls," Naruto snarled back.
Needless to say, that comment left two people very angry. One was Naruto himself, because he was angry anyway at having fallen. Another was one of those "fucking fangirls" that Naruto had just pointed out.
A vein in danger of popping on her abnormally wide forehead, Sakura stomped through the shallow water towards Naruto. "BAKA!" she screamed, slapping her teammate as hard as she could. With that done, she walked away from the blonde.
Oh yes, there are a few things that the author forgot to mention. Please forgive me, but if I don't say it now, then the next part will confuse a lot of you. The genin are now the whooping age of sixteen, and Naruto has long since been over the pink-haired cherry blossom, as some would call her.
Naruto and Sasuke preferred to think of her as a she-devil, though they never dared to say their opinions of their teammates aloud. They didn't want to die, and nothing is as dangerous as a girl when she's pissed off and PMSing. They could handle the girl's temper on a normal basis, but something in the minds, after four years of being together, told them it was near to the girl's time of the month. Dear God, save them now!
Naruto, being the delightful idiot we all know and love, happened to forget that little fact as he grumbled, just loud enough for her to hear, "That's probably a good reason why she doesn't have a boyfriend."
Sasuke looked at his comrade, eyes widened, as he bit his lip to hold back laughter. Sakura's eye twitched menacingly.
"What did you say?" she screamed.
Naruto winced at the volume of the yell, but stared back at her steadily. "You heard me, Sakura-chan. I said that you're too violent to have a boyfriend."
Sasuke swore he saw at least four veins about to pop on the pink-haired girl's forehead. He knew this wasn't a good sign and therefore, stepped back about ten feet, hoping that was far enough to be out of the radius of the girl's anger.
"Yeah, but at least I try!" Sakura yelled back. Sasuke looked from one to the other, as they shouted random insults and baiting words at each other. Despite the fact that they were insulting each other, neither wanted a physical fight. So they kept this one at a mental level.
"Why would I want to try?" Naruto growled back, finally able to stand on his own. "It's not like I'm gay or anything!"
Sakura laughed… an evil, maniacal, terrorizing snickering sound… okay, so it wasn't that bad. But it wasn't a nice laugh either. Instead, she just chuckled, as though she knew something that the other didn't.
Sasuke and Naruto exchanged a confused glance as they looked at their poor mentally unstable teammate. Did she take her pills this morning? Laughter. No… guess not. Of course, Sakura didn't really take pills… except for a few vitamins and maybe birth control, but who cares, right?
"I bet that you couldn't get a boyfriend, even if you were a girl!" Sakura challenged, eyes glinting mischievously. Oh yes, it was time to set her matchmaking plan into action.
"What?" Naruto growled back. "One week and I could get a boyfriend – probably faster than you."
"No you couldn't… you would have to act like a girl and everything to get a real boyfriend."
"Still, it would be one week, even after all this training was done! ONE WEEK!"
Sakura grinned to herself. "All right, Naruto-baka," she said. "One week of training to be a girl, and then one week of actually looking for a boyfriend, and we'll see who wins."
Sakura turned to Sasuke, and the black-haired boy suddenly got a very, very bad feeling. "Sasuke-kun?" the girl said sweetly.
Sasuke blinked, refusing to let any emotion show on his face. Behind him, he heard Naruto snickering to himself.
Anger surged through the Fan… err.. the Uchiha as he whirled and faced a soaked Naruto.
"What're you laughing at, dobe?" he snapped, obviously, getting only three hours of sleep didn't help his temper much. Perhaps he should reconsider waking up at two and getting to the bridge by three, especially since he went to be at eleven at the earliest. Sighing, Sasuke stared at Naruto, who was looking at him with a blank expression.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Kakashi appeared, perverted book in hand and a creepy smile in his eye.
"I think it's a great idea Sakura-chan!" Kakashi said with a grin – or what his students interpreted as a grin. After all, seeing one-fourth of a persons face is really hard to distinguish feelings from, especially on a ninja like Kakashi.
"Don't you?" Sakura asked coyly. "I thought you would agree. I can even get Ino to help me teach them, and then I know several people who could help us teach them all it takes to be a kunoichi."
Kakashi looked at his single female student proudly. "Thank you for the idea you presented me with last night, but don't you think that a week is a little to short for them?"
"Wait a minute!" Sasuke yelled.
Kakashi and Sakura, in the midst of their plotting, turned to Fan-Man with a bored expression on their faces. "Yes?" the asked in the same bored tone.
"What do you mean by 'them'?" Sasuke wanted to know. "Naruto's the only one participating."
Both the girl and the jounin's faces spread into a very maniacal expression and Sasuke could only feel the most unimaginable fear there was to feel.
The jounin strolled over to his student. "Just think of this as a mission, Sasuke-kun," he said lightly.
Sasuke glared daggers at the man. The daggers bounced off the jounin's dagger-proof shield, which made Sasuke pout.
Suddenly, Naruto wandered over to the boy. "At least their not asking up to stay in our male forms for this… I'll teach you Oiroke no Jutsu(1)," he said.
Sasuke was about to thank Naruto, when Kakashi's voice cut in.
"Sorry, Naru-chan but for this, you have to stay male. Now, report back here at eight tomorrow morning and we'll get you both started. Whoever completes the mission first, gets a surprise."
Sasuke and Naruto exchanged a look of complete and utter horror. Just what the fuck had they gotten themselves into?
End Chapter One
Kyuubi-chan's Corner!
Hao, everyone. I know, I know, I have two other fics that I need to complete. I Can't Be Born Again is put on hold until after the battle between Sasuke and Naruto is completed in the manga, because that battle holds the key to one of the parts that's in the upcoming chapter of ICBBA. I Bleed Black, well, I'm writing the next chapter, but I got bored, and so I wanted to do something FUN! So I came up with the perfect idea.
Sasuke in a dress.
You'll find out what kind of dress soon.
(1) Oiroke no Jutsu is also known as Sexy no Jutsu. One of Naruto's own, this one can even beat old man Sarutobi!
-Kyuubi-chan-
