"Naruto." Cried Sakura, her eyes wide, face pale.
Naruto turned to Sasuke who also looked shaken at what he had just done.
Naruto looked down and realized a puddle was forming at his feet, he was drenched in it. His clothes, hair. He held up his trembling hands. He couldn't believe what these two hands had done.
"Help." He said pleadingly. Sasuke grabbed some towels that had been stacked on the counter of the kitchen and tried to wipe it away. He scrubbed like a man possessed. Sakura came over and tried to stem the flow. It just slipped past her fingers and continued to spread along the floor, the table, the counter. Sakura was now also wet in it, her hair sticking to her forehead. "I cant do it." She said. "I never learnt how to handle a situation like this."
"Kakashi will be back soon." Said Sasuke as Naruto fell to his knees. "He will know what to do."
"How could you do this Naruto? You just leap into action, you don't think!" yelled Sakura, her voice tinged with hysteria.
"I thought … I thought …"
"Kakashi sensei told you to stay away, he said it took a special ninja with special tools to do a job like this and that we were just kids and couldn't handle it!" She yelled.
"I know!" yelled Naruto. "What have I done." He muttered as he surveyed the damage, "I just wanted to be a good ninja, I thought if I could do this …"
The flow had stopped, the liquid had tainted all around it. Sasuke's feet were wet in it, Naruto sat in the middle of it, too shocked at what he had done. Sakura turned away, the sight to horrific to take in anymore.
Kakashi walked through the kitchen door and stared at the scene before him.
"I told you that you weren't ready." He whispered.
Naruto looked at him glumly. "I'm so sorry Kakashi," he said in a near whisper. "What do I do now?"
"We clean up, we get changed, we learn from this." Said Kakashi.
His team nodded.
"But if you wanted to try and fix that leaking pipe, you could have at least turned off the water." Kakashi criticized. "I told you it takes a special ninja with special tools to do plumbing. Asuma is coming over now with his tool kit."
Sasuke kept trying to mop up the water on the floor while Naruto struggled to his feet, his clothes drenched. Sakura watched Kakashi walked over and check the pipe. What had just been a small drip had then turned into a waterfall when Naruto had pulled too hard on the copper pipe.
Thus Team 7 learnt something important that day.
There's a reason ninjas don't do their own plumbing.
