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Switching Bodies
"Shit!" Naruto screamed out barely dodging Sasuke's kunai. 'Getting a little too close for comfort Sasuke.' Naruto thought as he jumped towards the next tree.
Sasuke was chasing after him through the woods. Naruto pissed off the Uchiha for the last time today.
First, Naruto was able to throw Sasuke off guard this morning and pushed them both in the river.
Then Naruto and his god damn shadow clones decided to throw dirt around during training while they were wet. Waving his hands around saying "Look Sasuke I can be just like Gaara.
Sasuke scoffed, the thing that pissed him off the most was when Naruto asked why he was being... emo?
Sasuke picked up his blades as he ran and was about to deck the loser when Kakashi popped up in front of Naruto. "There you are Naruto, you guys can kill each other later but I need you for a second." Kakashi tilted his head in thought. "Well more about an hour but you get the idea."
Naruto looked up in confusion before turning to his teammate. "Your aim's getting better; just try to work on the attitude."
Sasuke tried to stop his teeth from grating."Meet me at the courtyard tonight so we can finish this." Sasuke bit out as he turned to leave.
'I'll be there, you can bet on it.' Naruto thought while curious as to why Kakashi wanted his attention now.
~! !~
Later that night….
Naruto tried out a new skill he secretly took from his sensei. This has to be a strong attack since Kakashi was hiding it so well. Naruto made the complicated hand signs but nothing happened.
"wow some move" Sasuke said cockily
"I don't know why it didn't work." He furrowed as Sasuke surged a strike against Naruto's rib cage. Naruto grabbed to hold his arm so he could swing his opponent up over his head. Their eyes locked.
Sasuke was able to break away before being slammed to the ground which caused Naruto to lose his balance and trip. "Why do you act so retarded dobe?"
"Why do you act so cold and so heartless- teme" They were rolling around on the ground after that.
They each pulled out a kunai and held it against each other's throat. Sasuke ended up on the bottom being pressed against the ground by Naruto's body weight. It didn't even faze Sasuke. He had his sharingan turned on and kept staring at Naruto's blue eyes waiting for the next move.
Naruto was breathing hard trying to stay in control of his body from Kyuubi. He lowered his knife a little "So are you going to answer my question?" he huft out. "I am the one on top which means I win so-"
Sasuke eyes turned back to normal on that question before looking away. 'What am I suppose to say? After 3 years of this…' Sasuke thought as he dropped his arm.
"Get off me already." Sasuke said more gently then usual and started to walk away.
"Where are you going?" he figured he might as well answer the kid before he wants to follow him again.
"It's late, I'm going home."
~! !~
Naruto woke up and noticed the clock said 4 AM and he went back to bed in an instant
Sasuke woke up about 4:45 he refused to open his eyes yet. 'at least my head feels sane today' he thought as moved every muscle in his body one by one to make him relaxed and figure out what is still sprained from the spar.
Everything seemed to be fine except for his hands had thick callous around his palm. He growled into the pillow not really wanting to face today. 'He saved me from myself once you'd think I'd be able to do it myself.'
Taking a deep breath he noticed something was wrong. It's fall and it felt like its 100 degrees in here. And this scent… smells like…' his eyes shot open being fully awake. 'chicken ramen… when the hell did I eat ramen?'
Throwing his feet over the bed he stumbled through the dark to flip on his light and it wasn't there. Then Sasuke tried to turn on his sharingan and started to panic when it wasn't working.
"What's going on?" he called out trying to keep his voice steady hoping this was some kind of sick joke.
He didn't hear anyone so he called out again. "Who's there?" It sounded like Naruto was two feet away.
He ran his hand against the wall until he found a lamp and turned it on. He searched the room and what he saw, was the last place he'd ever think of.
'The dobe's room and the dobe is not even in here' The orange clothes on the side of the bed and the black blanket and the team Kakashi picture sat on the night stand. He ripped his own in half a long time go…
'where's Naruto?' Sasuke unconsciously flipped the dagger through his fingers as his mind went into hyper drive.
He ran out into the living room and didn't see anybody. He needed to check outside. He paused as he looked down. He was even in the dobe's pjs.
Sasuke skipped the redundant thought as he attempted to turn the door knob. He had to go find Naruto. He found the door knob to be wet and slippery. 'What's going on?' his blood was on the door handle, he didn't notice he cut himself when playing with the dagger earlier.
Sasuke looked towards the window; he could always go through there. He paused as he saw himself in the windows reflection, soft blue eyes were staring right back at him.
~!~
Naruto rolled over and was face to face with something soft.
He opened his eyes to see a beautiful auburn haired woman who was peacefully sleeping next to him.
Naruto jumped out of the bed still staring at her afraid to wake up and wondered why/ how she got in there without him noticing.
Naruto noticed he wasn't home anymore. The dark blue walls and the small dresser in the corner. Naruto backed away, his head felt like it was throbbing slightly, his jaw killed like a bitch.
He decided to wander the house to look for a first aid kit and maybe a snack. The house was very clean and neat and to his disappointment the fridge had very little food in it.
Naruto sighed in frustration. He looked down, he was wearing dark pants and a white shirt. What happened to his new green pj's? Where the hell am I?
Deciding to wake up the girl for answers but didn't need to because she was standing in the doorway to the bedroom. "Sasuke, won't you come back to bed?" she said tiredly, rubbing her eyes. 'So, she's thinking of Sasuke is she? Isn't every body..'
Naruto forgot about her and decided to find Sasuke himself. He threw on some jeans that he found on the floor. 'I got off a little easy and I want to know why. I thought he'd tell me more if I let his anger get the best of him, but for some reason Sasuke still wouldn't tell me what was bothering him.'
As Naruto was walking around the town he saw Kiba sitting on the bench, probably waiting for Choji to come out of the store.
"Hey kiba have you seen…-." Kiba cut him off
"Hey what happened to Naruto? You didn't mess with him again did you? I swear to god I'm going to deck you one of these times Uchiha."
Naruto blinked, "What?" Naruto couldn't help but look befuddled.
"Did I confuse the poor avenger? I'm sorry maybe I can explain it like you would towards Naruto. Your ass is toast if you don't fix things with Naruto, he left towards the shrine a few minutes ago."
' But I am Naruto… what is he talking about?' Kiba threw a bottle cap at him and Naruto caught it but he was shocked at how he held the cap.
His hands were long and soft, he almost dropped the cap in surprise. Then Naruto went to run his hand through his hair when he noticed that his hair was extremely shorter than usual. Kiba glared at him as he went inside.
~!~
Naruto dashed towards the shrine to see the place was empty. He sat down on a bench. "What's going on?"
"That's what I want to know." Naruto turned his head to find his body walking towards him and stopped a few feet away. "dobe you can't figure it out yet?"
Naruto looked down at his outfit before yelling out. "I'm wearing a dark blue shirt, I have short hair, and I smell like vanilla amber… I'm the teme? No way."
"Hey watch it. Not like I like to be you either."
"Sasuke?" he jumped up to meet him. "Dude I must be dreaming."
"Not unless were both having the same nightmare."
"shut up." Naruto glared at him. 'so that's what I look like' "Well if you're me and I'm you… how the hell?"
"I've been trying to figure that out all morning. The possibilities are not coming up." They searched each other before Naruto pinched his old body's arm … then hair… then tried to lift up his shirt. "What are you doing?" Sasuke said getting extremely irritated.
"I'm tryng to see how long it takes for you to hit yourself in the face." The Uchiha's face held a grin that looked so unnatural to the people who would be used to seeing him. "Why are you still in my pajama's? You do know it's like noon right?"
"Not like I had much time to change, what about you?" Sasuke commented back
"oh yeah! What are you now? Like a man whore or something, because when I woke I found this hot auburn hair chick practically all over me." Naruto exclaimed thoughtfully.
"She comes now? Uhg, I helped her out a few days ago and she wanted to thank me… and no, she's not my type…"
"How is she not your type she was HOT."
Sasuke rolled his eyes at his friend's comment."Yeah well her voice is like nails on a chalk board and she's too simple minded." (like you) he wanted to add.
"We have to tell Kakashi about this." Naruto said looking at his new set of hands.
"We don't have to tell him anything, I can figure this out by myself." Sasuke sat down on the roof. "What time did you wake up?" Sasuke asked
"I don't know. Like 4-something, and then I went to sleep and around 8 I found that chick on me."
Sasuke gave a grunt. "Where were you at 4?"
"I don't remember, I was too tired to wake up, I'm sorry I didn't know my life was going to turn so drastically." " And I didn't know my punches hurt so much." He said massaging his new jaw. "We shouldn't be talking about this here huh? How about we go back to my place?" Naruto finally said.
"Hm."
~!~
Sasuke laid against the wall with his eyes closed as he heard something being thrown across the room. "Sasuke teme you're too tall to fit into my clothing and nothing seems to fit besides my black tank top."
Sasuke looked at his self scowling in front of him. The tank top was almost too small. "Well what were you thinking? You can't wear your own clothes even if they fit because there's no way I'd ever wear that."
"Well I wasn't expecting to wear your clothes because you might think I'd ruin them." Naruto said. Making a mocking wave with his hands.
"What? No I wouldn't, clothes are clothes."
"Then why did you get so mad yesterday?" Naruto trailed off.
"Who in the right mind would run into someone and push them in the river?" Sasuke said remembering earlier at why he was so mad at Naruto.
"Sakura was chasing me and I knew you wouldn't help hide me what else was I suppose to do?" Naruto smiled. 'Using you as bait worked great too i have to remember that one'
"What did you do to her this time?" Sasuke said but Naruto shook his head.
"I only asked why she was wearing all that make-up. Then she got up and started chasing me." Naruto shrugged as he dug through his cupboards for a snack and finding none. "Hey, I'm going to go get something to eat. I'll be right back."
~!~
On his way to the market Naruto had a thought. 'What if this is a one day thing? I have to take the advantage of it.'
Naruto meets up with Sakura and starts to flirt with her.
A few minutes later the real Sasuke walks up to the group. Sakura turned to smile at him. "Oh hey Naruto, Sasuke and I was just talking." She said blushing pushing her food around her plate.
"Hi." He said starring at himself "How are you doing Sakura?" he forced himself to keep calm but his rage was building. He slipped into a seat.
"Great. What about you? You seem quite upset." Sasuke blinked and mentally slapped his forehead. Naruto's expressions always seemed noticeable.
"They ran out of ramen." He thought quickly. "So I made a dent in their food stand." Across the table he noticed his body's smile faded as he let go of Sakura.
"You did what?" Naruto exclaimed, looking horror-struck.
"Oh yeah, there was this poor old lady who I – " Naruto kicked his own leg hard.
"You seemed busy; well I was just about to take Sakura-chan out for ice cream."
"That will have to wait because there is some research we have to get back to." Sasuke said in a threatening tone.
"I don't want to." Naruto whined in Sasuke's body
"Well there was something else I did today that was so much fun and it involved blowing up- " Sasuke grunted again from an under the table, kick to his knee.
"Sorry Sakura, I hope to do this again sometime." Naruto said sliding out of the seat.
Once they were out of hearing range Sasuke announced, "You're making me look soft here. I have a reputation to look after."
"Well I don't know if you noticed but ever since you came back a lot of people don't know what to think about you."
"Maybe I like it that way."
"Maybe you don't…"
~!~
The next morning Sasuke went to his house to wake up Naruto.
"I thought you said we were going to change back once we woke up again?" Naruto muttered sleepily.
"No, I said it was a probability." He huffed and sat beside Naruto so it wouldn't freak himself out by staring at himself. "If you're going to be a good 'me', there are something's that you need to do."
"One, you can't spaz out and talk whatever comes to mind. No, actually its best if you don't talk at all. Two, don't be a man whore with me as your body. So always keep the doors locked at night. Three, don't drink because I can't hold shit and I don't want you to make a fool of myself.
Holding back comments Naruto carefully spoke during his turn. "You know this counts for you as well, about the whole reputation thing. If I start looking like I could kill everyone who looks at me wrong, like a young Gaara, I won't hesitate to bring it to your attention. Next, I have all these things planned on this schedule with people, so I need you to attend to these things" There were 17 events on his list.
"You have the whole month practically filled out." Sasuke said darkly. "You're pushing it with over 3 events, nonetheless 17."
Ignoring him Naruto continued "last if something happens, like we have a mission or we are being attacked, I'm going to have to teach you how to use some of my attacks so we will be going to practice every night."
"Is this you or me talking?" Sasuke said.
"I don't know, it just came into my mind, things… weird things have happened lately."
"What is it?"
Naruto hesitated to continue. "Forgive me… for seeing through your personal memories." Naruto said slowly
Sasuke shrugged it off as a casualty. What could he do? Tell him not to think? "Don't worry about it, because I had one and I have a feeling they're not going to stop."
"yeah, but yours are so… sad. Like the part when you see Itachi leave, to seeing how people react when you walk by, to how lonely your life was growing up..."
"Okay! Stop that, how are you doing that?" Sasuke said feeling agitated. He didn't want to talk about the past.
"I'm not they just come up! I'm sorry."
"The only thing I saw was about me and Sakura… a lot of small clips. You must really like her."
"What can I say? I live in the present not the past."
"Is that it? You think I still-"
"Well its not hard to believe but they were as clear as mist so I take it you're almost through with them." Naruto said sympathetically.
Anyways, back to the other subject. We'll meet up at the end of every day if not during the day."
"you can count on that."
~!~
Day 3
Sasuke was half a step behind his body, keeping his hand firmly on the inside of the body's forearm, trying to restrain Naruto from wondering off. "teme" Naruto whispered "I really don't need you to be my escort, I can walk fine with your legs already."
Sasuke coughed trying not to make it seem obvious that was a unneeded comment. "You still can't control your movements."
"Just because I don't want to be a still ironing board doesn't mean I can't control my movements."
"Today's the first time to hang out with everyone, try to act regular." Naruto stopped. "ladies first." He said.
"Hey dobe, it's about time you learned your status in nature."
"What! That's not.. Sas- Shino hey man." Naruto said
"Sorry we're late I got a little side tracked in the chocolate shop." Sasuke said in the most drastic way as he glanced at the real Naruto. Which he closed his eyes trying to hide his embarrassment.
"No problem."
~!~
Naruto thought the outing with his friends were going well until Sakura came up to them.
Sakura asked, who she thought was Naruto, to help her out with the food. Sasuke glanced at Naruto before receiving a nod and leaving the group.
Then the group turned on the poor Naruto who they thought was Sasuke.
Neji looked at Gaara and Gaara stared at Sasuke. But no one said anything till Kiba spoke up.
"Well I'm glad you had enough guts to put aside your pride to go talk to him." "If you left him like that we wouldn't know what part of Kohona died besides you."
Naruto had no idea what they were talking about and decided to make something up. "Well I'm glad you guys think so.. it took a lot of explaining that was probably worth more than you'd ever know."Naruto said
Gaara spoke up. "So what are you guys now, a couple or something?" Naruto stared in confusion.
"Well whatever you guys did, we want you to know that we'll have your back Uchiha." "And if you have any trouble, you can count on us." Neji finished
Sasuke smiled slightly towards Sakura as she was mixing some noodles. "I was hoping to give you a word. Well, the guys thought it would be best if I told you how relieved we are that you're better… well they think that, I think that you've come along way. I'm so relieved that you've found a best friend and you guys will hang on to that."
She was rushing her words out so that they kind of blended together. "I mean us girls would love to get close to you guys but we never had such a bond like you two had. And when I seen you out together everyday for the past couple days, I've realized how happy you guys are and if the one I love is happy, then I'm happy… he always talks about you, when you weren't partying with us."
She handed him some seasoning before washing some dishes. "I knew you guys couldn't be mad at each other forever. Oh you're going to have to start the flame up again on the stove, it does that sometimes." She saw Naruto nod his head as he did a sign to light the fire again and he added a few seasoning.
Sasuke mouth decided to move on its own. "Yeah, I didn't know what happened for it to happen like this. I've tried almost everything and read every book on the research and I can't believe I can't find anything on it… as for the dobe I can't say much… he's just always getting in my way and I knew something crazy was going to happen, beside's trying to kill him… twice." he added regretfully.
"So, instead you just had to fall in love with Naruto huh Sasuke." His shock faded as he smirked and looked down.
"Is that what that is huh?" Sasuke said. Sakura was smiling at him, her eyes looked like they held happy tears.
"You can play dumb no matter how hard you try, you couldn't fool your own team mate Sasuke, what a shameful performance. I want to know why you guys are doing this though?"
"How did you figure it out?"
"Oh common' Naruto sure made an awful excuse with all the happy Sasuke and the whole shebang. But you were my first clue and the last one's to make my assumptions correct. I noticed that the day Sasuke/ Naruto asked me out, when I saw Naruto's face, it didn't even faze him that somebody else was with me and that Naruto didn't slam on the table to fight over me. Then just now, I was more concerned on why Naruto was doing all of the researching" Sasuke looked at her to keep going. "Plus, today when you added seasoning, you didn't ask where the salt was." She said as a matter of fact. "Naruto loves salt in his food."
"I don't know what I'm more appalled from; the fact you put salt in your noodles or that you know how Naruto eats his food." He joked.
"He only eats that every day, kinda hard not to notice. Anyways, the way you do your signs are definably not Naruto's."
Sasuke sighed "It's a good thing to know Shikamaru isn't here"
"But neji is, common we better go back in there before something happens."
When their day was finally over, Sasuke and Naruto was walking back to the Uchiha estate.
"Do you think we should tell them?"
"Well tonight they all gave you their respects of trust, so I don't think we should tell them just yet. Later, when it's funny." Naruto said
"Hn, there's nothing funny about this."
~!~
Naruto and Sasuke sat cross legged towards each other on his bed, talking things out when Naruto gets closer. Sasuke watches himself scoot closer to him and traces the lines on his face. "I don't know about you but I can't stay mad at myself that long." Naruto said teasingly.
"If you're trying to ask if I'm still mad at you, no I'm not, but I'm disturbed at how close you're getting."
"I look like you, so unless you're calling yourself disturbing then go right ahead." Naruto said.
'damn it Naruto.' "you're not going to check yourself out again are you?" he smirked. And Naruto… grinned.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow at Naruto in question. 'What?'
"That's the second time I've ever seen you smile. By god! I think he's sane! He's okay everyone he's o-kay!"
"Who are you talking to dobe?"
"Me. He's sitting right in front of me and I can't help but laugh."
"So you call me sane, I hope for your sanity." Sasuke saw his friend smile, that same unusual smile that he has gotten used to. "uh oh, what are you doing?" Naruto made a devilish face on the Uchiha has he wiggled his fingers.
"Guess who's ticklish?"
"You are." He said in a matter of fact tone.
"Bingo." Now if you were looking through the window you'd see Naruto glaring at Sasuke who was about to tickle him when you heard the scream "Stay the fuck away from me." Too late, guess who's faster? The body of the Uchiha. Which was now making the blonde laugh like no other but trying to yell out cuss words and trying to roll off the bed away from the tickling source. The Raven haired guy nodded in approval before he got up, grabbed his jacket and headed out of the bedroom door.
"Where are you going?"
"it's late, im going to bed." He tried to say in a calm collective and almost scary voice. Trying to act like the real Sasuke, but he couldn't help the smile forming on his lips. He stopped as he heard his friend get off the bed. "You can sleep in the bedroom."
"It's ok, I'll sleep on the couch, anyways it actually is your bed. It belongs to a Uchiha right?"
"I didn't expect you to take it personally. Even though I knew you would… well I don't want it." Naruto said fluffing a pillow that sat on the couch.
Sasuke said nothing as he sat next to the couch on the floor.
~!~
The morning woke up Sasuke. The raven haired kid pressed his head against his pillow not wanting to wake up just yet. It caught him by surprised that his pillow moaned. Sasuke opened his eyes to find himself with his friend's arm over his stomach. Over my body. Again he wasn't sure which part of it he was surprised most, the fact they were back to normal or the fact they were both sleeping on the floor really close to each other. "Hey Naruto."
"Another couple minutes." He mumbled as he unconsciously moved his hand up and smacked Sasuke's face trying to shut him up.
"dobe wake up." he whispered again.
He slowly opened his eyes as he frowned. "This is either a dream or a nightmare."
Sasuke smiled, his face felt a natural tug at it. 'always messing with my life constantly aren't you?' "why are we on the floor?" Sasuke stated
"Well it's kind of confusing, I don't really know. You said err I heard my voice saying something about stop worrying because I guess you thrash around in your sleep. I don't remember at all what I was dreaming. Then I felt someone hug me and you kept saying something softly and I must have fell back asleep. The last thing I knew I was me again." Seeing Naruto's soft face and bright blue eyes, warmed something in me and I was still smiling. "Who knew my voice was so hypnotic." Sasuke ruffled his hair
"Hey who said you could touch the hair?"
"Hm, shut up dobe.