Unfortunately I couldn't fit this into the story very well, so you should probably want to know that-
- The Rookie 9 (and Gaara) are 20, Team Guy's members are 21, Kankuro is 22, and Temari is 23.
!Warning! Read ONLY if you have problems with certain non-canon attributes (ex- mpreg, M/m)!
- (Trying not to give away details ) If anything of the following nature utterly disturbs your ability to read a fanfic, then STOP RIGHT NOW! Implications/actions such as these will be in my story- references to M/m sexual activity, strong language (occasionally), violence (select chapters), and adult situations.
!Also!
- DON'T FLAME me because you THINK that I'm slashing or making a pair you don't like. I'm not gonna say who will end up paired because when I write two characters they might go a direction that I didn't intend for them to go.
Well that's all for me, please enjoy my humble attempt to entertain you with writings.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Period.
Chapter 1: Thrown into Chaos, a forgotten faux pas
It was a new morning in Konoha, and the sun was already busying itself with its job of rudely waking the villagers. Shining brightly through every available window, the sun invaded the sleepy eyes of every man, woman, and child. It seemed especially content with waking those who had received the least amount of sleep from the previous night. This was the case with Uzumaki Naruto.
The light caught his face and refused to let him block it out and continue his slumber. He recoiled slightly but decided to surrender to the evil day that came forth. Hazily rubbing his eyes, he glanced around his room. Only, it wasn't his room. Those weren't his walls, and, as he shifted under the covers, those weren't his either. No, these sheets were newer, darker. Blinking further, he sat up slightly from the bed and wondered just how much sake he had had the night before. But how could he expect to remember that? He didn't know where he was or, as he discovered, why he was completely naked until-
'Oh Hokage.'
He was dreaming. He had to be dreaming. This was all just a crazy, alcohol-induced nightmare. There was no way he was laying completely exposed in Uchiha Sasuke's bed. And of course, there wasn't even the slightest possible chance that the form still resting next to him was the Uchiha himself.
'No,' Naruto shook his head. A delusion, a dream- any explanation sounded better than what his eyes were telling him now.
'I need a vacation from the missions. All this time doing long term assignments with Sasuke has gotten to me,' he reassured himself as he buried his head in his hands.
Still trying to convince himself that he was not in the right state of mind, Naruto was suddenly distracted by a form moving in his peripheral vision. The blond watched stiffly while the prodigy stretched and groaned, his mind screeching to a halt. Sasuke's eyes met directly with Naruto's, as if the Uchiha knew he was being watched. Everything froze. Even the sun dared not to rise another millimeter in this tension. And slowly, ever so slowly, both ANBUs expressions melted from their frozen neutral gazes to glares of devastating shock, followed by a realization that they were not, indeed, dreaming. Sasuke growled, giving the demon vessel a death glare worthy of making Itachi quiver.
"What are you doing here?" he hissed in a deathly quiet tone.
Naruto, unfortunately, was at a true loss for words.
"I, um… don't know," he choked, "I think there's been-"
"Get out."
"- a mis- What?"
"Get. Out."
Sasuke's tone was so laced in venom now that it could have put down Kyuubi.
"But Sasuke-," Naruto stuttered.
"I said GET OUT!"
With that, Sasuke picked up a spare kunai lying on his nightstand and aimed it directly for Naruto's head.
This time the blond did not try to continue with their conversation, and instead narrowly dodged the oncoming weapon, tripping out of the bed and onto the floor in the process. He quickly gathered his clothes …except they weren't his clothes …or were they?
'Oh hell, whatever!'
He fumbled with a few quick hand signs and managed to disappear before the whole wrath of the last Uchiha came down on him.
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Back at his humble abode, Naruto jumped into the shower to try to scrub his skin off. The longer he was awake, the tiniest bit more he was regaining of last night.
'Okay, so I know the Chunin exams were this week… Gaara and his siblings were there and… we had some kind of party, right?' He shook his head. 'Uh! What happened?!'
Then a desperate light bulb went off in the young shinobi's head. 'Maybe,… maybe there really was a mistake. I mean maybe we just ended up in the wrong place? I probably couldn't tell my room from his or something…right?'
Turning off the scalding water, Naruto dragged himself out of the shower and dried off. He walked into his room and proceeded to snatch up the clothes he had taken from Sasuke's room. Holding up an orange tank top, the demon holder was puzzled once more.
"I don't understand," he said, "These can't be mine; they're girl's clothes!" Glancing at the other attire piece, Naruto saw that it was a short black skirt instead of his usual orange pants. He hastily became disgusted, discarding the articles in a far region of his floor. Instead he reached for an old green undershirt and a pair of his trademark orange pants, the first and virtually only items in his closet.
"A walk and a bowl of ramen should get my mind off of this," Naruto sighed as he tried to ease his thoughts. Quickly, he grabbed his other trademark, the orange-and-black jacket from his training years and headed out the door.
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Meanwhile, at the Uchiha mansion, Sasuke was going through a crisis of his own, though no one would be able to tell it from his outward appearance. He stood in his own shower, allowing the water to immerse his body and give him the chance to think.
The prodigy knew he was never really a drinker; it surprised him along with everyone at the gathering that he took cup after cup of the wonderfully delicious beverage offered to him. A smirk almost threatened his lips at a slight memory. He couldn't remember exactly why he kept downing more and more of the intoxicating stuff, but a vivid image that he could recall seemed to give him a theory.
'…there was a woman. A woman, and… drinking games,' he remembered.
Sasuke growled. He was pissed off that he allowed himself to become drunk to where he could not remember why or how he came to find himself so close to his teammate. He stayed there, under the running water, until he was struck by a detail of his earlier image.
'That woman was- blond…with…blue eyes…Just like-'
"Naruto's Sexy No Jutsu," he muttered. However, Sasuke was not given a moment further to ponder on his predicament. Someone was knocking on the door.
At that moment, Sasuke intended to just ignore them. Unfortunately, it's hard to do just that when that person knows the exact jutsus to get in. Haruno Sakura peeked around a corner of the Uchiha home and called for her former teammate. Sasuke knew at that moment that continuing his train of thought would be futile. Sakura was already nearing his bedroom so he called out to her, "Stay out there, I'm not dressed."
Such a comment brought a nostalgic smirk to the ninja; he remembered the time when Sakura would have swooned over imagining him in the nude. Sasuke was inwardly relieved that Sakura had matured and abandoned her fangirlish ways and obsession with all things Sasuke. He could even go so far now as to say that she was sister-like to him, though his pride and her occasional tendency to pry kept him from admitting it.
The Uchiha picked out what was now his usual attire: black pants, a black muscle tee, and a long sleeve jacket in his usual shade of royal blue. As he tied on his headband, Sasuke told Sakura, "Come in."
He could see from the corner of his eye that his door slid open carefully and a pink-haired figure entered the room.
"Morning Sasuke-kun," a cheerful Sakura greeted casually, "Did you have fun last night?"
Sasuke tightened his headband and merely gave a cutting side glance. Sakura knew she wasn't going to get an answer, and she doubted on whether she wanted one now. Looking around his room, she thought it seemed messier than usual.
'What were you up to last night, Sasuke?' she wondered.
"Is there any particular reason why you're here, Sakura?" Sasuke calmly asked.
Sakura glanced around a moment longer before turning to her friend, "Oh yeah. I came over to see if you were awake yet, and if you were, I was going to ask if you wanted to join everyone for lunch. The sand siblings are leaving today."
She sweat dropped slightly, knowing that though Sasuke was trying harder since his return to interact more, he was still not very fond of large gatherings.
"I"ll come."
"Really?" Sakura asked in pseudo shock, "Can you repeat that?"
Sasuke repeated for her, "I. Will. Come."
He needed some time to just forget his morning and knew this would be a prime chance. There was only one thing…
"Is Naruto going to be there?" He asked subtly.
Sakura paused, "Naruto? I doubt it. He's probably still sleeping off his sake."
The Uchiha assumed a nonchalant appearance and walked briskly from the room. Sakura, meanwhile, was puzzled by her friend's question.
'Why does it matter to him if Naruto will be there or not?' Sakura pondered momentarily.
She gave the usually clean room a final look before turning on her heel and joining Sasuke outside.
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Naruto wandered down the street with his rough hands behind his head, staring up at the sky.
'I just don't understand. I can't remember anything about last night. First, I find myself naked in Sasuke's bed like some sort of joke or something. Then, I get home and realize my clothes were swapped out for girl's clothes! Did someone pull some kind of sick prank?'
"Naruto! Hello my friend!" Rock Lee appeared out of nowhere beside the blond and as always greeted him enthusiastically.
Naruto couldn't help but smile slightly as he replied, "Hey, Lee. How are you?"
"Wonderful! The approaching spring has my youthful heart soaring!" Lee happily struck a pose as he replied, but after a moment he toned himself down. Luckily he had grown up to be not so like his sensei, or at least, not always so like him.
"How have you been?" Lee continued, "I did not see you for very long last night before you disappeared. Tell me, Naruto, did the drinking do you in so soon? Was your youthful body unable to handle the intoxicating drinks like my own!?"
To that, Naruto sweat dropped, "Um, well, I'm not sure. I can't seem to remember much of last night…"
"Ah, well that's perfectly fine! As you know, I can't have a drop of alcohol myself. Last night I merely enjoyed the youthful hearts of my friends and their antics!" Lee laughed heartily. Naruto just politely smiled at his comment.
"Well now, Naruto, I must run off into the sunset-"
"- it's noon."
"- into the day! Our friends are having lunch and I cannot keep them waiting for the Handsome Green Beast of Konoha! Which reminds me, are you not coming, Naruto? The more the merrier Gai-sensei would say!!"
The green-clad jonin smiled candidly as he gave his friend a thumbs up. Naruto scratched his head for a moment before hesitantly agreeing, "Sure, Lee, I guess I could have lunch with you guys."
"Excellent! Come now, we shall run off into the sunset-"
"You mean day?"
"-off into the day to meet our comrades!!"
With that, Lee grabbed Naruto's wrist and took off running in a blurred mess of green, black, orange, and yellow.
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"Hey Choji, that was mine! I wanted that rib!" Kiba growled as the Rookie Nine and their friends tried to enjoy a lunch together.
It was the first time in almost a year that everyone in the group could get together ((A/N: Hey, it's hard to schedule a party when half your friends are jonins, ANBU, sensei, and a kazekage!)) so they were taking advantage of their short time. As it were, the chunin exams had ended the day before; the sand siblings would be departing later that day, and some of the others were already scheduled for missions.
"I didn't see your name written on it," Choji retorted simply.
The two glared at each other while Ino, the closest to them, rolled her eyes.
"Come on you two, you're acting like children! You acted maturer than this when you were genin!" she scowled.
Kiba cocked his head at her, "Look who's talking. 'Maturer' isn't a word! It's 'more mature'."
He smirked and turned back to Choji. Ino burned red with embarrassment and flew into an attack on the dog boy. Kiba's dog Akamaru, who until this point was busy contenting himself with his own food, jumped in to help his master and friend.
As the trio fought, Sakura and Sasuke entered the restaurant. "Hey everyone," Sakura greeted, "Uh? Ino, Kiba, what are you doing?"
The others in attendance readily welcomed their friends, and Tenten took it upon herself to explain, "They're fighting over Ino's grammar, I think."
Noticing the new arrivals, Ino stopped mid-punch and waved, "Sasuke-kun! Sakura!"
Sasuke merely nodded his head in hello and took a seat next to Shikamaru. Sakura greeted everyone and decidedly wedged herself between the reseated Ino and Kiba.
"So how was last night?" Kiba knowingly asked Sasuke, "I saw you with some girl. You two seemed to be having a lot of fun."
The last part was stressed. Sasuke glared at Kiba. The others picked up the hint that the ANBU did not wish to speak of his night, but Kiba decided to throw in one more comment, "Seesh, alright. It's not like I was going to ask if she was good in be-"
"Good morning, Youths of Springtime!"
Lee made his entrance just in time. Sakura sighed, glad that Kiba's sentence was interrupted before Sasuke decided to charge up a chidori and take out half of Konoha. Inwardly, Sasuke was also glad for the disturbance until he saw who Lee had brought in his wake.
Naruto smiled at his friends and happily spoke to each of them; even each of the sand siblings received so much as a word or two. However, the moment Naruto's eyes fell on Sasuke's the whole atmosphere of the room broke. The others, mostly their oldest friends and childhood acquaintances, were the first to notice the odd look each ANBU gave the other.
Their stare down was broken when Sakura offered, "Naruto-kun, I didn't know you would be here! Um, would you like some ramen?"
The blond eagerly looked away towards his pink-haired friend and took up her offer. He sat down, sandwiching himself between the two Hyuuga cousins Neji and Hinata, and enthusiastically began inhaling several bowls of his favorite treat. The others surrounding him returned to their original conversations and even Sasuke attempted to keep his cool around his blond friend. Everything was running smoothly with the gathering. Then Hinata tried to make a conversation. A conversation with Naruto.
"N-Naruto-kun?… W-where'd you go last night? You said that you would… dance with m-me… but you got d-drunk and …" she trailed off.
Hinata was actually improving her social skills, but she still had her moments where talking to Naruto, whom she still had a bit of a crush on, could be difficult. The pair had even gone on a date once, but Naruto seemed set on treating her as nothing more than a friend. Thus the stuttering, unsure nature Hinata gained when speaking to Naruto still remained.
Naruto furrowed his eyebrows, answering her honestly, "Really I don't know what happened to me last night. I don't remember anything except that I was at the party, and that many of us were drinking… Even this morning when I-"
He stopped. The Uchiha was glaring at him so hard that Naruto feared Sasuke would burn a hole through him. The blond would need to be very mindful of his wording. He knew Sasuke could beat him down right now. Naruto's chakra felt slightly lower than usual; he shuttered to think that last night must have drained him more than he realized.
Cautiously Naruto continued as some of his nearby friends listened in to his explanation, "-I woke up, and found myself with girl's clothes instead of my own."
Some of the group: Kiba, Kankuro, Sakura, and Ino, laughed at this. It seemed as if they knew something the blond shinobi (and the rest of the table) didn't.
"Oh yea, Naruto, I'm going to need my skirt and top back!" Ino laughed.
"Haha, yeah! Ino'll definitely need her things back after you've worn them, Naruto-chan!" Kiba snickered, causing the others to laugh harder.
The rest of the table, excluding Naruto and Sasuke, sweat dropped. Both of the ANBUs were becoming abruptly impatient with the 'joke' that was enthralling their friends. The atmosphere changed as Naruto and Sasuke were overcome by a sense of embarrassment.
"What do you mean?" they simultaneously growled, silencing the laughter automatically. The two of them were being gawked at by the entire stunned table, but nonetheless each glared at Ino in expectation.
"Uh, well," she stammered at their odd behavior, "Last night, Naruto, Sakura, Kiba, and I were playing some drinking games. Naruto was so bad that he was dead drunk within the first hour. Well, we thought it would be funny to dare him to use his Sexy No Jutsu to mess around with some of the guys."
Ino almost smiled at the image, "He was so drunk when we asked him that he totally accepted. Since my house was so close by, I ran home and got an outfit for him, since he obviously couldn't run around naked. I gave him the stuff, and… he changed."
Ino had to stop there, before she burst out laughing again, so Sakura picked up her story.
"Naruto made a really pretty girl. I was shocked, actually. Kiba spotted Kankuro-san and so we sent Naruto over to him. Haha, it was funny because he believed for awhile that Naruto was really a girl."
Sakura almost laughed, "I went over and got Naruto before Kankuro could get the chance to get Naruto even more drunk. Needless to say, Kankuro wasn't very happy when I told him the truth."
The group involved started their laughter again, and the puppet master added his own comment.
"Well it was embarrassing, but looking back I find it funny that I actually fell for that!" he laughed fully.
Naruto's mood grew fouler.
"So you mean you three stood by and let me make a fool of myself all night?" he snapped.
Kiba voiced up this time, trying to calm the irate ninja.
"Easy, Naruto. We only had a little fun with Kankuro and then we brought you back to our table. We told you that you could change back, but you said you were having too much fun! Then once Sakura and Ino went off to the ladies' room, I turned my back for one moment and you were gone!" he explained, "We tried to find you, but it was like you had evaporated into thin air."
By now, everyone was focusing on the speakers at hand, and it went unnoticed that Sasuke was growing more and more irritated. Just as Kiba finished his last sentence, the Uchiha stood abruptly and stormed out. By this time, the group was becoming used to being stunned.
"What's wrong with him?" Ino asked.
Sakura shrugged, adding, "I don't know. He's been like that all day. He just freaks every time someone mentions-"
"MORE RAMEN!" Naruto yelled with his bowl in the air. He sure as heck didn't want anyone to figure out what happened, especially since he wasn't completely sure if his guess was right.
"More ramen? Naruto, there's plenty of ramen right in front of you," Sakura pointed out, "You're acting weird, too… Wait, is there something about Sasuke that you know?"
The demon vessel swallowed hard, "Well, um…"
All eyes were on him as Naruto tried to cook up an excuse. He drew a blank, blurting the first thing out that came to mind.
"Sasuke's just mad 'cause he had to take me home last night! I wasn't able to tell one way from another so he had to help me, and I threw up on him!" he replied quickly.
Naruto had been under pressure before and had felt the heat of it, but the pressure he sensed in lying to his peers was staggering. He thought it was best to leave while he could.
"That reminds me," He began, rising from the table, "I need to go apologize to Sasuke so… See ya later guys!"
The blond said the last part as he dashed out the door, leaving the rest of the group very confused in his wake.
So yea, end of the first chapter! I know it seems confusing and a bit rushed, but hey, why else would the title be 'thrown into chaos'?
I apologize in advance if anyone seemed completely OOC. I want to portray everyone as close as I can, but there are some characters (Kiba, Lee, Ino) that I haven't seen enough of to know (or remember) how they act.
So now, if you will, take a moment to review my story, please. It's my very first, so even if it's a "good job", just throw me some feedback. If you find something you don't like, please tell me what it is so that I can work on it for later chapters (constructive criticism only, please).
And thank you for taking the time to read, that within itself I am appreciative of.
