Yoo-hoo, minna-san!!!
Its Ioh-chama here!! And I'm INCREDIBLY happy and INSANELY grateful to all the reviewers to Term Paper!! I simply wrote it on an imaginative whim, I didn't know it would be liked so much!! Arigatou gozaimasen!!
Argh, I feel so damned LOVED!!! T-T
Oh, you don't know how happy I am. Anyway, this is my new one. And guess what??!!? IT'S NOT A ONESHOT!!::le gasp!:: Actually, this could've been a oneshot. But I wanted sooooo badly to put up a reply list for all of you lovely reviewers!! But it's gonna be pretty short, sorry.
I figured I'd make it M at first, just cause...well, to be safe and cause I'm lazy :3
Yep, it's one of those where our friends find out their fandom online. XD And what happens? Oh, well, you'll have to find out, won't you? I don't own Naruto, and any descriptions to any doujinshis that might exist is only cause I don't have the imagination to make up a storyline to one. XD But those come later. For now, enjoy!!
"...What?"
"You heard me. A research project."
"But sensei," Sakura began, "We're pretty much chuunin by now. Shouldn't we be focused more on missions or our training?"
"No." Kakashi replied. "You guys have worked a lot on your training already. You need to expand your knowledge on the other Ninja villages."
"Wouldn't it make more sense if we went to the villages themselves and observed them first-hand?" Sasuke asked nonchalantly.
"Not necessarily. In case you haven't noticed, we're in tough times as it is. And any knuckle-headed ninja," his one eyed gaze fixated on Naruto, who promptly wriggled in his seat and looked away, "could set someone off and a frail peace would be destroyed. So we'll be doing our research safe from behind Konoha's walls." Naruto angrily scuffed his foot on the floor.
Sakura protested. "Still, not all the villages are as old as Konoha or Suna. I don't think we have many books on them."
"Precisely. Thats why we're using these." Kakashi gestured to, in the corner of one of Konoha's libraries, a large desk with some computers on them, facing the side wall.
"Computers?? Demo, sensei, I don't know how to work a computer well!" Naruto complained.
"Hn." Sasuke had an old laptop at home. He only used it on occasion, though.
Sakura nodded. Helping Tsunade and Shizune, she had dealt with patient records on computers.
"They're really not that hard to operate. If you have any questions, Sakura looks as if she knows some on the topic, and there's always the librarian."
Naruto made a face. He didn't like the librarian, she was stuffy and old. But this was the perfect opportunity to get Sakura's help. He had the image set in his mind that she would lean over him to type something, and he could look at her without openly staring.
"Alright. Ja." Kakashi walked off.
Naruto's fantasies were shattered as Sasuke sat in the middle of the large desk, and Sakura closest to the rest of the library. Grumbling, he took his seat in the very corner and pushed the power button.
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"Aaaaah!" Naruto relaxed in his seat, resting the back of his head on his hands. "Man, the Village of Grass doesn't seem a very good place to live." He sniggered. "Whatever."
"You're not actually done, are you??" Sakura asked, obviously annoyed as to even think that this total idiot would be finished an assignment before her.
Leaning over to look at the blond's screen, Sasuke snorted. "No way. It's really bad."
Naruto curled his lip at the typical better-than-you snubbery of his teammate. "Keep your nose in your own business, teme!! You don't have any right to judge my shit!!"
"Shit indeed." Sasuke turned back to his own assignment, typing with some respectable speed. Naruto just growled at the turned head of dark hair viciously.
"You know Naruto, assignments aren't worth anything if they're not done well. It doesn't matter if you're finished, if its poorly done, finishing early won't matter!" No wonder he got bad grades back at the academy. The pink-haired girl mused to herself.
"Demo, there wasn't that much stuff online on Grass. It's not that influential a village. Unlike Konoha." The container smiled proudly. "So I pulled together a report on whatever dirt I could get."
"Then why didn't you choose another village??" Sakura's eyebrow twitched in annoyance.
"Too much work." Naruto relaxed back on his hands again.
Whatever. Not my grade. Sakura turned back to her PC.
"Hey, I have some time to spare. I wonder if I'm on the web!" Naruto grinned hugely. "That would be so cool!" Picturing online shrines to the future Rokudaime Hokage online, he went back to that search engine he was using, and chicken-pecked his own name on the keyboard. "U-za-ma-ki Na-ru-to."
Yeah, chicken-pecked. Told you he wasn't technologically inclined. He then pressed 'enter'.
Sakura and Sasuke simultaneously stole a side glance to their teammate. Secretly, they both wanted to look up their own names, now that the idea was brought up. But to be more mature and worldly ninjas, they subtly waited for a reaction from him. The sounds of keys being rapped in the gentle rhythm of typing stopped momentarily, waiting for the reaction.
Naruto leaned forward in his rolley chair, changing his leg's positions and rolling his mouse over the numerous tiny links with two-cent descriptions underneath. He scrolled down a bit, and clicked on one. Sakura and Sasuke leaned toward him ever so slightly, trying at a glimpse of his monitor image.
Naruto focused his gaze to the bright screen. There was a large flattering picture of him, with the typical stats beneath the picture. His face broke into a grin. "Sugoi!!"
He scrolled down a bit. "Miso ramen, yeah...seemingly oblivious to...Hinata's feelings...? Okay...hmmm...how do they know about Kyuubi...? Prankster...apprentice to Jiraya...AHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!"
"What?!?!?" Both Sakura and Sasuke snapped their faces immediately to meet Naruto's, nonchalant facades squished by their overwhelming curiosity. Naruto didn't seem to notice they were pretending not to care in the first place.
"I-It even says the pattern of my favorite boxers!!! Ahah!!" Naruto's eyes were welling up with tears. "See?!" He pulled down the waistband of his orange pants just enough to show the pattern. Sure enough, it matched the description onscreen.
He wiped the wells from his blue eyes. "That's so cool!!! Right?!!"
Sakura face faulted, turning back to her assignment. "Actually, that's kind of creepy..." She was now itching to type her own name into a search engine, wondering why she hadn't thought of it before, all those times stuck in the clinic spinning around in the chair till she was dizzy out of boredom.
"Feh." Sasuke wondered if it was somewhere online that he slept in a different room of the compound each night, out of a superstitious idea he had read about. It seemed fairly logical at the time, and it had become sort of a habit.
Naruto excitedly backtracked to the search engine. "Aah!! There are so many links!!" He bounced up and down in his seat like a child, and clicked on another promising link.
"This one's about my dream of becoming Hokage, and..." He squinted at the type, reading off the page, "...how his ambition seems for naught because of his past and his demeanor, but he has the burning will and determination that will most likely take him to his goal...How cool is that?!? Everyone's supporting me!" If Naruto's smile had been any bigger, it would have ripped his face in two.
Sakura smiled warmly inside. Yeah...he certainly does...
...Even though he's a retard...Sasuke's thoughts continued.
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Naruto's face conveyed his attitude exactly. A lazy, contented smile complemented relaxed eyes and his chin rested in one hand, elbow on the desk.
A good few minutes had passed since he typed in his name, and most of the sites had the same information as the rest, different pictures and drawings of him, his friends, and even people he didn't even recognize. Or forgot. Even though the sites all said the same things about him, it was never negative except for the immature flamers. And the very fact that there were SO MANY of the sites pleased him.
Sasuke and Sakura were simply finishing up their assignments, only peeping over at the blond's screen if he gave an obvious reaction.
Sakura's report was going to be on Amegakure, after a recent mission having run in with its leader, and wishing to know about it. Sasuke's was unsuspiciously on the Village Hidden in the Mists, avoiding research on Sound. He had mixed feelings on Sound, and didn't want to show any particular interest in it at the moment.
Click. Click. Click.
Naruto followed link after link, never straying too far from the search engine site. He was pleased to find all of these sites on him. But, he wondered vaguely on where this information was coming from. Oh well. It wasn't bad information, so why care?
He skipped a few pages in the search. All these links were the same.
Wait. What was that?
DJS? What does that even mean? There was what seemed like the beginnings of some sort of review, and an...author's name? He didn't have an author!
Curious, he clicked on the link. Dozens of rather grainy black and white thumbnails appeared in a line. His brow furrowed, and hesitantly clicked one at random, a little bit down.
Sasuke took a quick glance at his teammate, then did a double take. He was almost finished typing up his report, but Naruto's expression had switched poles. His chin was no longer resting lazily on his hand. The contented grin was replaced with wide blue eyes staring at close proximity to the screen, mouth slightly open in...what the hell was going on? With a frustrated look on his face, he propelled his wheely chair to Naruto's PC.
"What's wrong? Someone badmouth your out...fit...?" His gaze had followed Naruto's to the screen.
There, on the screen, was a page of a manga. Two pages, actually. They showed Sasuke, given away by the symbol on his back, grabbing Naruto by the shoulder, and...Kami. There were lips on lips, and eyes screwed shut in what looked like...need? No way.
No way.
Naruto's expression remained plastered to his face, cerulean eyes lit up impossibly wide by the bright monitor. Sasuke showed just about as much surprise as an Uchiha could, swallowing thickly.
Sakura glanced over, and decided to see what the boys were gaping over. Naruto probably accidentally ran into some like, porn spam or something...tsk. Boys. She walked over to the now-crowded PC.
But, when she saw the pages on the screen, lots of possible reactions threatened to pop to the surface. Laughing, growling, running away, rubbing her forehead in a very Tsunade-like manner, elbowing the boys teasingly, excetera...
She ended up walking back to her seat, shrugging. "He was bound to find something inappropriate sometime..." she muttered to herself. Still, she couldn't help feeling a bit uneasy about what she had just seen. Actually, a lot uneasy. Her hatred toward Naruto had faded to a friendship, even to seeing him as a bit of a brother, if an annoying one. Likewise, her crush on Sasuke had also faded to loving him as a brother. Still, she couldn't help the sour feeling lurking somewhere in her. This can't turn out well.
A trembling hand firmly and slowly clicked the 'back' button. Eyes darting to the other grainy images, there was him and Sasuke...they were...Naruto's breath clawed its way out of its throaty prison, and his mouth opened wider, trying to spit something from the tumor in his throat. "A-ah..."
"I-I, have to, go..." He feverishly grabbed his bag and bolted out of the library like a bullet from a gun.
"Gaki!! No running in the--!!" The librarian froze at the sight of the Kyuubi vessel, and the look on his shadowed face.
Sasuke collapsed back on his chair, letting out a long breath.
"He forgot to print out his assignment." Sakura stated concernedly, staring after the faint image of Naruto running outside.
"I got it." Sasuke told her. He clicked on his report's 'print' button, then Naruto's.
Sakura rubbed her forehead as Sasuke walked by to pick up the papers. This wasn't going to turn out well.
Before shutting down the PCs, Sasuke took a mental note of the address displayed on the screen.
Damn, and I wanted this to be the 100,00th Naruto fic. ::sighs:: I'm such a dork...XD Seriously, I had waited since 80,000something, "OMG I WANT TO PUBLISH THE HUNDRED THOUSANDTH ONE!!"
Whatever, when you losers who stole my spot are old and grey, I'll write and publish the millionth one. And it will pwn.
::laugh:: Like that'll happen. Anyway, away from my dorkiness.
You know back in like middle school that one kid in class would look up his name and be like "Hey look what I found!!" and the rest of your little class would be like "Get back to work, retard!!" But you all knew you wanted to do it. XD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE::heartheartheart:: I know this isn't really a present, you kind of knew about it already, but at least I was thinking of you::chu!:: You're almost to legally buying doujinshi for the rest of us!! 8D
Review, onegaishimasu!! This isn't a oneshot, so I might put them up if they're interesting. :D