This idea eventual SasuNaru, fyi just came to mind after I watched, recently, one episode mainly involving Idate and Aoi (and Naru, Sasu, and Saku of course). If you've seen the episode, awesome; you'll somewhat know the feelings of the characters (or as how I perceive them). If not, it's alright. It's all good.
Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto were all breathing hard as they treaded water in the deep sea.
"Ah!" screamed Naruto before his head disappeared beneath the rippling water.
"This is no time to be fooling around, Naruto!" scolded the high-pitched voice belonging to Sakura as she saw a hand flailing aimlessly above the water.
"They're here," Sasuke told Sakura in realization. To confirm it, he peered through the gray water and saw Naruto struggling to break free of a Rain ninja's hold.
"Naruto!" he yelled before diving his whole body beneath the water. Sakura, not wanting to feel useless, followed suit. As they swam lower and lower, their actions were put to halt as miso bunshin swam up from behind and yanked their arms behind their backs, their hands now acting as handcuffs for the frantic girl and glaring boy.
The water clones laughed cynically as they viewed Team 7, the team that humiliatingly defeated them during the Chuunin examination. They looked pathetic. Well, the girl always looked pathetic thought a bushin. She never did anything. It appears she can't even hold her breath for a long time. It was true. Sakura was on the verge of becoming unconscious in the water.
Sakura-chan! Naruto growled and looked back at the water bushin, tearing himself from its grip. He kicked it in the stomach and swam a few feet before yelling Kage Bushin no Jutsu! Nine clones of the orange-clad nin appeared and surrounded everyone.
Sneering at the blonde's actions, all the water clones laughed. Speaking through his underwater breathing apparatus, one informed, "Your clones are useless here. Water clones have the advantage underwater."
Naruto and his clones all smirked before swimming deeper into the sea. They all arrived directly five meters below his friends and the miso bunshin. Placing their right hands, palms up, in a circle, a blue light began to emanate and rotate continuously in each of the tan hands.
What does he plan to do?! thought the miso bunshin worriedly. Their answer was soon answered as the swirling chakra combined and expanded, creating a powerful whirlpool beneath them. Taking advantage of their shock, Sasuke broke free from his temporary incarceration and grabbed the unconscious girl from a miso bunshin before kicking it down, down into the Naruto's spinning vortex of doom.
Shit all the bunshin thought as they desperately fought to swim away the sucking current. It was futile, though, as Naruto's anger surged through him and caused his chakra to increase and capture them even faster. Damn, the loud-mouthed kid is pretty good thought the bunshin before seeing defeat.
Smirking in victory, the nine bunshin poofed away and the original Naruto swam speedily to the surface. He reached oxygen and noticed Sasuke slowly pulling and swimming the pink-haired girl to shore.
"Sakura-chan!" Grabbing her from Sasuke, the caring boy put her on his back and channeled his chakra to his feet, allowing him to run on the water's surface at full speed, instead of swimming like Sasuke initially was doing.
Reaching the bay, Naruto ran until he tripped over a rock and fell to the grainy sand. "Sakura-chan!" he screamed. "Wake up!" Why do I have to be so caring? he thought in despair as he realized he may have to perform CPR on her. Sasuke would rather die than touch her.Shimatta he inwardly groaned.
Sakura, bit by bit, opened her eyes, spotting the gorgeous raven. Sasuke-kun! her mind squealed. I'll pretend like I need artificial resuscitation and Sasuke will save me! It took all her willpower to keep a giggly school-girl smile from forming on her face at the thought of having her crush's lips on hers.
Damn! thought Naruto as he slowly descended his lips downard.
Not able to keep her eyes shut, Sakura still saw Sasuke in the same position as earlier, but this time, she also saw Naruto's puckered lips nearing hers.
"Ahhhhhhh!" she screamed loudly, sounding like a banshee aiming to make someone's ears bleed. "Naruto, you moron!" she yelled before glomping, hard, on the head.
"Itai! Sakura-chan!" he whined. Fuck, that hurt. He sighed discreetly. What I get for trying to help.
Ungrateful bitch thought the brooding Uchiha.
"Ah! Sasuke-kun!" squealed the bipolar girl in excitement.
God, how can she go from yelling like a cruel bitch to acting sickly sweet? thought Sasuke. The blonde was thinking the same thing, but he already knew the answer to that question.
"Let's go, Sasuke-kun!" she screeched and grabbed his arm, pulling them away from Nagi Island's shore. The boy instantly jerked his arm from her small hands and walked ahead of her. What did I do? she asked herself, completely confused, having never realized he never liked her touching him in the first place. She ran to catch up with him, the both of them far ahead of Naruto, who was left with a bump in the head, in pain, on the sand.
The usually loud boy was now unusually quiet as he laid down on the sand and looked at the gloomy sky. Don't leave me he thought. He sighed dejectedly. Why am I so caring? I care so much about them, but they, don't give a crap about me. A lone tear rolled down the side of his voice and Naruto quickly wiped it away. I better catch up or Sakura will call me a retard or something. Then, she'll hit me.
Sprinting, in the newly descending rain, Naruto caught up with his teammates. As they walked more, they were disgusted by what they saw.
A thin, but muscular man, with teal hair was taunting and stomping repeatedly on a younger man—maybe not even a man—but a teenager a few years older than Team 7.
"Hey!" immediately shouted the boisterous blonde in outrage. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Shut the hell up, brat," responded the smug man, who then ignored the three ninja who were fisting their hands in fury.
"Stop it!" Naruto screamed, heading towards the man in skin-tight clothing, which looked akin to a scuba diving garb. In a second, the man closed the umbrella he was using to shield himself from rain to point at Naruto.
"Get out of here if you don't want to be hurt," he threatened. While he man spoke to her teammates, Sakura unnoticeably went to the injured teen's side.
"You think an umbrella can stop me?!"
"No," he began, "I know it can stop you."
With that he swung his umbrella and hit both Naruto and Sasuke in the sides, pushing them to the ground. Although he barely looked like he was using any force, the umbrella definitely had a strong impact on them.
Ch'kushou thought the irate blonde. Picking himself off the ground, he placed his middle and index finger against his other ones, forming a t-shape.
"Kage Bun—ah!" wailed the blood as a needle was shot from the end of the man's umbrella.
"Naruto!" yelled Sasuke to the younger boy. "Uh," groaned the raven as he was hit with a needle like Naruto.
"What pathetic ninja," he said. "You never turn away from the enemy in battle," he elaborated, intending those words to be for Sasuke. He looked at the two boys who were now on the ground, the sharp pain from the needles excruciating.
"Sasuke-kun!" was heard from a few feet away.
"How even more pathetic," he continued, causing Sakura to stiffen in angry defense. "She left her teammates. Pathetic."
"Aoi," groaned at the brown-haired teen.
The man laughed disdainfully. "All of you are pathetic. Good thing you all will die."
Everyone's eyes widened in horror, causing Aoi's lavender eyes to dance with merriment. "Pathetic fools. I hit you with poison needles with venom called 'toxic rain.' You'll be dead soon."
Suddenly, Aoi looked up. In the background, cheering could be heard. "Well, I must leave now. Have a good, short life." He was about to hit Sakura with a needle as well, but was too lazy. Believing this incident was enough torture for her, he left her unscathed. But, before departing, he turned and faced Sakura. "Like the rest of your life will be good after this," he deadpanned, referring to the deaths that she would witness soon.
Bastard thought everyone who remained there.
Without delay, Sakura took out a small bag. "Here, you guys. Tsunade-sama gave these to me in a situation like this." She handed the bag to Naruto who withdrew a pill and then passed the bag to Sasuke, who took a pill and then returned the bag to Sakura. The boys chewed their pill and almost instantly felt better. Sakura went over to the unknown teen and put a pill in his mouth as well.
"We better find shelter," Sasuke said calmly. After hearing his words, everybody comprehended that it was now pouring.
"I see a place where we can stay until the rain lets up," Sakura somewhat boasted and began heading there, Sasuke behind her.
Naruto on the other hand, was at the teen's side. "Hi," he said softly. "I'm Naruto."
"Idate," responded the teen.
"Can you walk?"
The boy looked away. "That man beat me pretty badly."
"No problem, then. I'll bring you to shelter." Naruto gave Idate a bright smile and slowly helped him off the ground and onto his back.
"Where'd they go?"
"There!" Naruto answered and pointed to them.
"Why didn't they wait for you?"
"Ehhh," Naruto voiced and dragged on before shrugging his shoulders, not wanting to say his teammates didn't like him. "Well, we better get you out of the rain."
"Hai. Arigatou, Naruto."
Holy moly! This is a lot! I didn't expect I'd type this much. Gaah, and I wanted this to be a short (veryy short) fic. I guess not, eh? Anyway, I wrote out the details b4 typing it up. I realize now that my chappies come out better if I write it before typing it up instead of juss typing up w/e comes to mind.
I originally wanted more for this chapter (i.e. what happens in the cave shelter) but I don't want a LONGGGGGG chapter.