Sasuke leaned back against a tree, thoroughly exhausted after training with his sensei.
"Water?" Kakashi asked, holding out a bottle of water. Sasuke shrugged and reached for it. After giving his pupil the water, Kakashi disappeared in a swirl of leaves and wind.
Sasuke popped open the cap of the water and took a big gulp, feeling dehydrated. The next thing he new, he felt very dizzy, and passed out.
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Sasuke's eyes fluttered open, and he stared at the grass surrounding him. He pushed himself to his knees, subconsciously noting how much shorter he felt. He brought his hand up to brush his bangs out of his eyes when he noticed something. He stared at his hand, moved it back and forth, then looked at the rest of himself, and screamed.
He made a mad dash all the way to the Uchiha mansion, ignoring the surprised looks from others. He sprinted to his room and stopped in front of his full-length mirror and screamed again. Sure, it was HIM that he saw, but it was him as a SIX YEAR OLD!
Mind clouded with confusion, he rushed back outside and ran until he came to the meadows. There, he collapsed on the ground. Perhaps it was his six-year-old emotions, or maybe it was the frustration, but tears sprang to his eyes and soon he found himself burying his face in his arms and sobbing his cute little six year old eyes out.
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Naruto hummed happily to himself on his afternoon stroll. He was just about to turn and go back into town when he heard a faint noise. Curious, he crept closer to the sound. Soon he saw a poor little kid crying.
'Aw,' Naruto thought 7 wonder what's wrong with him...'Carefully, he made his way over to the kid then squatted down
and spoke. "Hey, what's wrong?"
Sasuke lifted his head, tears still streaming down his face. "D-dobe?" he asked. Naruto's eyes grew as wide as saucers.
"SASUKE?" he asked, picking up the boy and holding him at arms length, staring.
"P-put me down, baka." Six-year-old Sasuke said while whipping tears away. He tried to give the Uchiha death glare but it didn't work as well on an adorable kid's face. Naruto Set the kid on the ground and sat down. "What HAPPENED!" he asked, still gawking.
"If I knew do you think I would still BE like this!" Sasuke demanded, cursing the boy's stupidity at a time like this. "If I knew what had happened I would have already reversed it and" Naruto slapped a hand over the Uchiha's mouth and whispered fiercely, "sense that?" he asked. Sasuke threw his senses out and then he too sensed high charka signatures near by. "Get behind me." Naruto demanded. "You can't fight like this." Sasuke glared.
"Still a ninja." He stated, getting into a fighting stance, which of course was absolutely darling.
The ninjas they had sensed, three of them to be exact, came out from their hiding spaces. Sound ninjas. One threw a
shuriken at Sasuke, who easily caught it. The problem wasn't, however, that his reflexes were any worse, it was that he
was weaker. The force of the caught shuriken sent him flying backwards. Naruto quickly rushed behind and caught him.
"Get behind me, Sasuke. Now." He demanded through clenched teeth. Eyes wide, suddenly realizing the state of
helplessness that this predicament left him in, Sasuke nodded and jumped behind the blonde; reflexively grabbing the
other boy's jacket.
The ninjas were weak and quickly defeated by Naruto, but Sasuke couldn't shake off the feeling of fear that he just wasn't
used to. Naruto looked to his shook up companion. "You okay?" he asked, concerned. Sasuke scowled.
"'Course I'm fine, dobe." He spat out. The blonde thought for a second or two and then said "Maybe we should go see the
hokage..." Sasuke's eyes widened again.
"NO! Nononono!" Naruto glanced at him, slightly surprised at the pleading look in the brunette's eyes. "Why not?" he asked.
"'cause, 'cause...I don't want anyone finding out about me!" he said, grabbing the blonde's hand and dragging him in the opposite direction from the hokage head-quarters.
"Fine, fine, how about we go to my place then?" he said, grabbing the boy by the shoulders and turning him in a right angle." Sasuke nodded and began to walk with Naruto.
Naruto sighed exasperatedly. "Can you walk any slower?" Sasuke glared.
"Well SORRY. It's not my fault that I just got ten times shorter!" he said defiantly.
"Fine then." Naruto said, grabbing Sasuke by the waist, hoisting him up and setting him on his hip, and continuing to walk towards his house. Sasuke looked surprised. "Let me down!" he demanded.
"No, you're too slow." The blonde said evenly, not even faltering.
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Sasuke sat across from Naruto on his knees. He felt way too short if he didn't. The blonde was staring at him, smiling almost affectionately.
"What are YOU so happy about, dobe?" Sasuke asked, glaring.
"I don't know..." The young shinobi said airily, "You're just so cute!" Sasuke's glare sharpened, "Call me that again and I'll tear that smile off your face with my bare hands."
Naruto, however, didn't head his friend's warning and picked up Sasuke and swung him around. "But it's TRUE! You're absolutely ADORABLE!" Sasuke's child-anger caused tears to spring to his eyes and his face to flush as he pushed away from his rival and or friend. Naruto set him down again, concern showing in his eyes. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"Nothing" Sasuke said, looking away as tears began to come out of his eyes, "'m just frustrated." Naruto got down on his knees and took Sasuke by the shoulders, about to try and calm the child down. He was surprised, however when Sasuke threw his arms about him and began to sob into his chest. Naruto, though surprised and feeling a bit out of place, tried to comfort the troubled Uchiha as much as possible. Soon the boy became dead weight in his arms, fast asleep.