I'm You and You're Me
Chapter One: The Mission
I was standing in the middle of a clearing where we were suppose to Kakashi-sensei about our mission.
'Well this is strange, where are Sasuke and Sakura? They usually get here before me.' I thought. Almost right after I had finished that train of thought, a blob of pink hair in the distance caught my eye. 'Sakura.' I thought, she wan't so bad once you got to know her, and once she'd shut up.
I used to pretend I had a crush on her, always calling her 'Sakura-chan!' and asking her out only to be turned down. She had a fairly bright personality but I believe she suffers from Bipolar disorder. Oh, did I mention that her and her best friend, if you could even call her that (they were always fighting), have this gigantic crush on out team-mate Sasuke-kun?
"Oh hi Naruto!" Sakura said as she approched, clad in her pink cloths with the tight blackish shorts underneeth, seemingly happy to see me.
"Hm?" I replied, snapping out of my thoughts. "Oh hello Sakura, how are you?" I smiled at her, but she just sighed happily and looked down unto the river below us.
"I'm just happy."
I looked at her for a moment, waiting to she if she would tell me why like she usually does. "Oh? That's nice." I mumbled before resting my back against the railing and staring up into the sky.
"Hey," She started, making me look down. "Cutting back on the orange?" She asked me, looking at my cloths.
"Eh?" I asked looking down at my dark orange shirt and black shorts. "Yeah, I thought it was just a little too ostentations to continue wearing." I chuckled, rubbing the back of my head.
She smiled. "That's good. Anyway, it looks nice." I nodded, turning my head back up to the clouds.
"Thanks Sakura."
"Hey Naruto," I looked back down, she looked slightly irritated. "Aren't you curious why I was so happy?"
"Eh?" I blinked, "Nah, it's probably something girly or about Sasuke or Ino." She slapped my shoulder. "Hey, what did I do?"
"Idiot." She said, but she was smiling.
"So," I started, she looked up at me, I was taller than her by a few inches.
"Yeah?"
"Was it any of those things?" She laughed and nodded. "Okay, then I don't want to hear about it." I smiled when she glared at me, hitting my head rather hard.
"Stupid." She mumbled, looking back down at the fish in the river.
"Ow, you hit hard you know." I stated, cradling my head.
"If you don't want to get hit, don't rile her up like that." A voice said from in front of me, making me look up.
Sasuke. I smiled, "Yeah, you'd think I'd learn!" I laughed, and both Sasuke and Sakura stared at me. "What?"
"What do you mean what? Don't you usually get mad when Sasuke says stuff like that to you?"
I smiled again. "Yeah, I guess I do." I replied, looking back up at the sky.
You see, the truth is, I have kind of developed feelings for Sasuke. It's strange I know, but I can't help it, he just looks so lonely all of the time, it makes me want to take care of him, love him.
"Yo dobe," Sasuke addressed me, making me blush at the thoughts I had just had as I looked at him. "What's with the outfit?" He was looking me up and down, I had even changed my shoes from blue to black.
"Huh? Oh this?" I gestured at the cloths, smiling. "I felt I was being a little too ostentations, so I changed, you know, for the sake of the team."
"Hn." He looked away, looking at a weird cloud formation.
I chuckled before looking down at the fish Sakura was gazing at.
"Yo!" We heard from behind us, this made me jump. "How are my favorite little ninjas?"
"Wahh!" I shouted, falling on my butt.
"Naruto?" Kakashi started, "Are you okay? You're a little jumpy."
"Eh, yeah, sorry, you just surprised me." I said, getting up.
"Alright! So, we do have a mission today."
"Go on already!" Sakura shouted.
"Alright, alright. Lady Hokage wants you to go to a small village in the middle of the Ameliorate(1) Forest, and give them this letter." Sakura groaned.
"So it's a D ranked mission?"
"No, not really, it's rather dangerous in that forest, so be on your guard. Later!"
"Wait! Kakashi!" Sakura cried, but it was too late, Kakashi had disappeared.
"Poor Iruka-sensei," I mumbled under my breath.
"What was that Naruto?" Sasuke was looking at me suspiciously.
"Uh, no it was nothing. We should get started, ne?
Ameliorate Forest, 20 minutes later
"Oh God," I cried, "We're lost."
Sakura didn't really pay attention, she was too busy chatting Sasuke's ear off.
"Ne Sasuke?" She started, curiously. "How far into the forest it this village, it gives me the creeps."
"Not much farther."
I sighed, looking around me. I mean come on, there should at least be some kind of sign that people live near by. I looking over to my left, in this small clearing resting in a beam of sunlight, was what had to be the prettiest flower I had ever seen.
"Whoa." I mumbled, walking over to it.
"Naruto, where are you going?" I turned, he looked curious.
"There is a really beautiful flower over there, I was going to go look at it for a second." Well that caught Sakura's attention.
"Wa? Really! I want to see!" She unlatched herself from Sasuke and ran towards me to see the flower. "Wow! What a beautiful flower!" She spoke in a whisper as we approached it.
We moved our hands down to it to gently touch it.
"Hey, idiots." Sasuke called from behind us, making us turn around. "I can see the village, come on, lets go."
"Alright! Lets get this over with!" I smiled at Sakura, while we walked over to Sasuke and continued on to the village.
Well? What do you think? It's better right?
1. Ameliorate supposedly means 'to change'