It is almost four in the morning my time, and I finally decided that getting an idea that's been in my head for years should happen right now. Let the madness ensue.

Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke had never been particularly close to each other, to an outsider's eye. The two of them never hung out alone, did not share secrets nor confide in each other often. However, in their own unique way, they were friends. Nowhere near as close of friends as he was to Uzumaki Naruto, but the next closest friend he had.

Certainly not close enough to be remotely comfortable with the situation they were currently in.

It had been a relatively simply mission, really: find and retrieve target. A typical mission that the two would be assigned, as they worked remarkably well together. As luck would have it, Sakura's chakra was water type, which, when combined with Sasuke's lightning based attacks, the two were a force to be reckoned with. Considering how smart the teammates were, it was mere days before they thought to combine jutsus and they had been partnered on missions almost immediately afterward to unleash havoc on Konoha's enemies. Their teamwork was part of the reason Sasuke was let off parole as early as he was after turning himself in. That, and assisting the Shinobi Alliance didn't hurt, either.

This mission, however, had gone haywire. Unfortunately, there had been little information on the target's abilities, so Sasuke and Sakura were forced into battle blind in a sense. It hadn't been a remarkable battle, until their foe released a jutsu that neither had ever seen before. They both managed a combination attack before the jutsu had set hold to incapacitate their enemy. Both stared at the unconscious figure.

Still looking at it, Sakura remarked, "Well, that was weird. Sasuke-kun, are you alright?"

Without looking at her, he replied, "Ah."

At the same time, as if on cue, the two turned to each other and both experienced the same sensation. They both felt that they were looking into a mirror. Sasuke saw a look of unmasked shock reflected on his face and raised both of his eyebrows in surprise. Sakura, on the other hand, saw herself with a strangely impassive looked on her face.

She reacted first and began staring at her hands and flipping them over and over. "Those aren't my hands..." Frantically, Sakura flung her hands to her face and felt for familiar feature, only to find none. Upon this, looked at Sasuke to find him staring at his nails with the most confused expression on his face.

"Sasuke-kun..."

"Sakura, why am I wearing purple nail polish?" He spoke quietly and if in danger of going on a rampage at any second. Sakura slowly scooted over towards him and took his hand gently.

"Because I painted my nails last night." She now looked up from their intertwined hands to make eye contact. "Sasuke-kun, we've switched bodies."

The tortured teens spent the next hour trying everything they could think of to return to their respective bodies, but to no avail; the situation was no better. All that was gained were a few bruises in trying Sasuke's idea of beating themselves out of the other.

Sakura flopped to the ground, defeated. "Oh, what are we going to do? I can't go home as you!" He sent her a glare. "No one is going to believe us if we go to the hospital like this, not even Tsunade-shishou." She allowed her forehead to drop to the ground in aggravation.

Sasuke rubbed his temples, looking more annoyed than he had the time Naruto had spilled ramen in his lap. Sasuke wasn't allowed to pummel him as they were on an undercover mission and had been in a positively foul mood the rest of the night. "We aren't going to tell anyone," he explained tiredly. "We are going to wait this out until you figure out how to fix it."

Sakura lifted her head up, confused. "Why do I have to fix it?"

"Because you're the medical ninja and have access to more files in Hokage Tower than I do." Sasuke scowled a little when he thought of just how many files were rumored to be in there.

"So," Sakura spoke very slowly, "Let me get this straight, you want to go back in this...state, and pretend that you are me and I am you?"

Sasuke cringed at seeing such open emotion on his face and nodded. Sakura tilted her head inquisitively. "How is this going to work? There's no way you can be me!" He narrowed his eyes at her challengingly.

"What makes you say that?

"How do you expect to work at the hospital?"

He frowned and lacking a valid response, answered with a question. "How do you expect anyone to believe that you're me?"

Sakura sneered and seeing his signature expression on him for the first time in his life filled Sasuke with an unidentifiable sensation. "You think that's difficult? I just have to stop talking."

"As if you could do that," he grumbled. "Besides, I'm not pretending to be you. Ino is annoying." A mental image of having a sleepover with Ino flashed through his mind and he cringed inwardly.'

Sakura sighed before replying. He did have a point, there's no way Sasuke would be fooling anyone. Everyone would think Sakura had gone crazy if she suddenly stopped talking and her bedside manner went out the window. "We can't tell anyone, and not telling anyone isn't an option either." She sighed again. "I guess we will go report to Tsunade-shishou, leaving this incident out, and go from there."

"Hn."

After having a slow trip back to Konoha (changes in leg length really mess up one's movement and causes much tripping) and the report given and no one suspecting that anything was amiss, the two headed back towards Sakura's apartment to work out the finer details of their arrangement of sorts. Upon arriving, Sasuke was instantly made aware of a problem he had somehow overlooked. "Sasuke-kun, just head to my room, I'll be there in a minute."

"Why?"

"I have to go to the bathroom," she replied, nonchalantly, as though it wasn't an issue at all. Sasuke, meanwhile, was panicking silently. He was not open, by any means. Having someone else being able to see any part of his body at any time was a terrifying prospect. He had nothing to hide or be ashamed of, but he was a modest person at heart and was not looking forward to when Sakura decided to shower. She started walking down the hall and before stepping into the bathroom hesitated to say, "Oh, and since I'm a medic, the male body isn't anything I haven't seen before." She shut the door before Sasuke even had time to react.

Meanwhile, after shutting the door, Sakura just remembered that if this situation wasn't taken care of by the end of the week, Sasuke was going to have the most miserable surprise of his life and was trying to laugh at the thought of Sasuke having to deal with being a woman. Boy, did he have a lot to learn.

Sasuke slowly became less awkward in, well, her skin as the day went on. After being shown how to put a bra on, he just suffered in silence and decided to cooperate. Being spared the makeup lecture, he learned all about clothing, her beauty regime, and where everything was located in her room. It was more than he had ever wanted to know about Sakura and the thought of trying to deal with all this hair while showering sounded downright dreadful.

Now that it was early evening, Sakura yawned. "Well, I think that's about all you absolutely need to at the moment." She stood up and walked towards the door.

Sasuke stared at her. "Where are you going?"

"Back to your house, silly. People would kind ofa notice if Uchiha Sasuke spent the night with Haruno Sakura." She giggled at the image of Ino's face when that news reached her.

"Isn't there anything you would like to know," Sasuke muttered half to himself. Sakura just shook her head at him.

"You're a guy, Sasuke-kun, how hard can it be?"

Very cliche idea, I know, but I would still find it amusing. And I haven't stumbled across a SasuSaku body switch story anywhere. Anyway, review and let me know what you think!