Downtime • ダウンタイム

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/Does anyone even read the damn disclaimers?! -_-

By: TakaTrash

A/N: I've had this account for years, lurked and read a ton of fanfiction, yet never took the time to write about one of my top OTPs. A glance at my username says it all; I love Team Taka so much so here I am now. Two years later after the ending of Naruto yet my love for Taka is stronger than ever. So, I just wanted to write about them so I went on a random word generator as writing prompts. I don't know exactly what I'm doing but these will be entertaining drabbles. Well, this features the stupid antics of Sasuke's team and maybe some SasuKarin in the future. Have fun reading!

I. Issues

"Jeez. There he goes again, acting like he's the leader," muttered a boy with an irritated expression. His attention was fixed upon the blade he was carefully wiping down. "Oi, Sasuke! I'd rather cater to you when I'm not busy!" he took a breath and growled, "And, I'm busy!" He let out a toothy grin and resumed cleaning up his precious kubikiribocho.

About ten minutes in, his eye caught a glimpse of something in the reflection of his sword. The reflected side of his blade later revealed a face of an angry boy staring at him furiously. "Suigetsu. Meeting. Inside."

The sword fanatic placed his polished blade down slowly and turned around to face the pissed Uchiha. "Sasuke. Sword. Busy." Suigetsu flashed a smirk and he felt proud because he knew he just pushed one of the raven haired boy's nerves with one of his sarcastic remarks. Instead of Sasuke giving him death threats as he would've thought, the Uchiha let out a sigh.

"You've been cleaning that sword for ten minutes. You don't even shower for that long. I just need to talk for two minutes with the three of you. Okay? Your shower time is less than that so I'm sure you can deal." Suigetsu was slightly annoyed at the shower comment. He mentioned it many times to Taka. He always backed himself up stating how he doesn't need to shower since his body is fucking water! Yet they still think he's someone who's not fond of hygiene. Defeated, Suigetsu got off the small bench and walked towards the door, slowly sliding it and entered the room inside.

Sasuke followed, closing the sliding door behind. Suigetsu, obviously annoyed, crossed his arms and took a seat next to the tall orange haired boy. Before Sasuke could commence his team meeting, he was interrupted as Suigetsu felt a deathly glare and was later sent flying into a wall, liquefying his face in the process. "Listen here! Sasuke called for a meeting ten damn minutes ago! Juugo and I were sitting ducks here waiting for your ass! You can play with your toys later!"

Suigetsu groaned and rolled his eyes at the hot blooded girl in front of him. "If Juugo was sitting outside with me during my sword clean up during those ten minutes, would your reaction've been different?" he smiled, knowing he was the master of egging her on. It was hilarious. "Suigetsu, you bastard! What are you implying!" She started to kick at him back and forth.

He was about to shoot another sarcastic remark until Sasuke spoke up. "Suigetsu. Stop provoking Karin." The two of them huffed at each other and went to sit with Juugo and Sasuke in the circle. Suigetsu hated how Sasuke always took Karin's side when it's clearly obvious that Karin starts all the fights!

When everyone settled down, Sasuke cleared his throat, ready to speak. "So. Taka. I have some issues regarding this team." He noticed a gasp from one of them and he motioned his hand to stop them from interrupting. This message he was about to deliver was important to him and he couldn't deal with another interruption. He continued, "I trusted you guys. But one of you let me down. The fact that this happened is making me have a hard time sleeping and it keeps me up at night." Sasuke swallowed. "I just want the culprit to confess to their sin. I don't know who could do such a cruel thing..." He trailed off, blinked, and kept his gaze fixed at them.

"Hn. What happened exactly, Sasuke?" Karin asked, unconvinced that there was actually an issue in their team. I mean, their teamwork was flawless. The way they complimented each other in their battles were proof enough, was it not? Karin pushed her glasses up, waiting for his reply.

The proud Uchiha took a loud breath in and angrily bit at his lip. "One of you…", he began. "ONE OF YOU DAMNED IDIOTS THREW AWAY ONE OF MY PAIRS OF SHOES AND NOW I ONLY HAVE A PAIR!" Sasuke yelled at them with a scowl shown on his face.

The three Taka members exchanged looks and later burst into an explosion of laughter.

"Oi, Sasuke, didn't know even you had an idiotic side to ya! I swear-", Suigetsu cut himself off and went off laughing even harder. Juugo bit down on his lip because he felt it would be wrong to laugh at his cage, Kimimaro's will, precious Uchiha Sasuke. Either way, his efforts were futile as he couldn't help it and also went laughing hard at the boy.

Sasuke couldn't believe what was in front of his eyes! "Y-You… assholes! Why are you guys laughing at me? Laughing at the fact how untrustworthy our team is?"

Karin, the saviour to the situation started to give the poor boy the explanation as best as she could but in between words, there were still a few hiccups of laughter here and there. "So you see," a faint laugh freeing itself, "Sasuke… you're either a dumbass or have the memory of a brick." She tried to suppress her oncoming group of soft laughs and continued, "None of us are untrustworthy! If you want to point fingers, you have no one but to point at yourself! You're the one who single-handedly got rid of one of your pairs of shoes! Not us!"

Suigetsu chimed in to continue, "You see animal lover boy over there?" he pointed at Juugo and the orange haired boy soon turned sheepishly. "Well, you know how he is. Collecting birds and shit and what not. Anyways, I'd guess one of his animal friends made their way down town onto your side of the futon and got too close to you."

Fists slowly shaking and a shade of embarrassment was on Sasuke's face. "...Suigetsu. You're talking about the..." Before he could recall of the events, Suigetsu finished it for him. "Yes! The centipede was cozy-ing up to you and I'm guessing even the mighty Uchihas have a fear of something so without further ado you woke all of us up with your screaming and we witnessed you beating up a slimy worm with both of your stupid shoes. Juugo and I were stuck with clean up duty, y'know, getting rid of the blood and what not and cleaning your side of sheets."

Sasuke's eyes flickered to Karin as if on cue for her to finish the story. "While those idiots went taking care of your stupid mess, I accompanied you to, er, dispose of the killing materials. Which were your shoes. You set them on fire. With your katon jutsu. Later you stepped down on the ashes of your precious shoes for fifteen minutes repeatedly shouting, 'I'll kill you!'."

Suigetsu and Juugo nearly died of laughter. "Wow, that unreleased side of the story makes it even better! Sasuke claims I can't manage my time wisely because of a ten minute sword clean up, but who wastes fifteen minutes stepping down on centipede and shoe ash?!"

Triggered, Sasuke proceeded to beat those two smart asses. No longer wearing a flashy grin, Suigetsu was beaten to a pulp, or should I say, water. Juugo could have probably won in the process if he had his violent urges act up but he was rather caged for been laughing his ass off at his cage.

Later that day, Juugo and Suigetsu were sent to buy a new pair of shoes for Sasuke to prove their undying trustworthiness. Karin decided to prove her loyalty through other means that should not be named.