A/N I have to say I´m not greatly into Art. I like it, but I don´t know a lot about it. So if I messed up badly because something absolutely doesn´t fit, I apologize... I chose the titles by what sounded characteristic for the characters.

Summary: A short collection of drabbles, each containing different characters from Hidden Leaf.

Disclaimer: I own more than 250 books. I don´t own Naruto, sadly.


The arts of doing the laundry

Part 1 – Uchiha Style: Minimalism

"Minimalism: Movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features." (wikipedia)

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"AHRG!"

Plish. Plosh. Plash.

The sounds coming from the great mansion sounded deadly dangerous to Kakashi´s ears. The experienced jounin stopped in his track on his way down the wide alley and listened carefully. There it was again:

Plish. Plash.

"DAMMIT!"

Raising one eyebrow delicately, he made his way down the rest of the road until he reached the main gates to the Uchiha mansion. There hadn´t been anyone living in it for years now, and it looked accordingly: dark, gloomy and somehow… lost. He wondered why Sasuke suddenly had decided to move back into his childhood home. Maybe he wanted to live outside of the main village. Coincidentally, the villagers were as happy as Sasuke probably was to have the last one of the Uchiha Clan live outside their sight. But it wasn´t as if Sasuke ever had cared for what other people thought, so he probably just had decided to tackle the revival of the old house with the energy he couldn´t spend elsewhere, seeing as he still was on probation. Like the last two years since Naruto finally managed to bring him back to Konoha.

Entering the front yard, Kakashi immediately made out the source of the alien sounds: Sasuke was kneeling in front of the water basin, a huge, wet, soapy something in front of him, and colorful streams of curses flowing through his clenched teeth.

"Yo, Sasuke", Kakashi greeted his student and settled down on the low wall beside him.

"How´s it going?"

Sasuke didn´t deign himself to answer. "This bloody thing won´t get clean", he muttered under his breath and continued scrubbing with a sponge. "And every time I – Ahrg!"

Bemused, Kakashi watched as Sasuke´s hand slipped into the basin, sending the water splashing over and drenching him with cold water and soap.

"You think you should start cleaning up the house by washing the curtains?", he asked and chuckled at the cold stare the other one gave him.

"I already cleaned up", he hinted dangerously quiet. "The house is perfectly habitable if you don´t need luxury. It´s not your business what I do in my generously granted free-time. And I like it the way it is. It´s just that these…"

He gave the curtains a disgusted shake and in consequence spilled water over himself again.

"These things won´t get clean!"

Kakashi shook his head and watched in silence for a few minutes. "You could just buy new ones", he finally offered. It was so like Sasuke to revert the same energy and determination to cleaning up the house as he gave to learn a new jutsu or finish a mission. The boy - although he was nothing like a boy any more - was way too serious in anything he did.

"Like hell I´m going to do that", Sasuke muttered darkly. "Being spotted in town, buying curtains? I´ll never be able to show my face again in public. You know, my first only pleasure right now is that nobody sees what I´m doing" – he threw his teacher a threatening look – "And if you ever tell anyone, I´ll kill you."

"Naruto would kill for seeing you like this."

"Yeah." Sasuke sighted. "And my second pleasure is knowing he isn´t any better at this than I am."

I apologize if Sasuke seems... A bit OOC. But I figured he was such a serious and determined person - if he had nothing to do, he´d revert every ounce of skill to cleaning up as perfectly as he would finish a mission. He might not enjoy it but see it as his duty and as some kind of training.

So... Tell me what you thought^^ I´d be glad to hear anything. Reviews are love, after all^^

Coming next: Part 2 - Sannin Style: Romanticism