Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
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'It's so unfair.' grumbled a short blond boy. He was wearing a blue and orange clothed and was stomping his way through the forest kicking stones which came before him and dived at every squirrel he saw. 'I mean, how come HE never gets in trouble?! And when he does something, I always get the blame for it!!' the boy said throwing a stone up into the air with all his might. He watched it soar up into the air and looked down again.
He didn't pay much attention to where he threw the stone, because with a soft thud it landed on his head. He let out a yelp of pain and fell onto his knees. He stood up, rubbing his head and said,
'I hate gravity…'
His sour face expression fell and his head dropped. 'But, no matter what I do, Sakura-chan always likes him more than me…'
He started walking further into the forest. Thinking of how he could get back at his rival. 'Maybe I can shoot him.' he miserably thought aloud.
'Shoot who, dobe?'
Naruto spun around and saw, to his disbelief, a smirking Sasuke. Sasuke looked his normal, cocky self, and Naruto didn't like that smirk he was wearing, not even a bit.
'Why you little – 'Naruto yelled and leaped onto Sasuke, tackling him to the ground. The two boys wrestled on the ground and landing some nasty punches to each other.
'What are you two doing?' came a bored voice. A masked man with silver spiky hair grabbed each boy by their collar and pulled them up.
'He was following me!' Naruto yelled pointing an accusing finger at Sasuke.
'He started it!' Sasuke yelled trying to slash Naruto's finger with a kunai. Kakashi sighed and dropped the two fighting boys onto the ground.
'Have you two ever heard of Yuuko and Yuukubo?' Kakashi said taking a seat on a stump of wood.
'Who were they, Sensei?' Naruto curiously asked, immediately sitting crossed legged on the ground, eager to hear the story. Sasuke, on the other hand had no interest in this, grunted and started walking away.
'Sasuke, I never gave you permission to leave…' Kakashi sternly said.
Sasuke tightened his fist and went to sit, cursing under his breath. Looking pleased Kakashi continued with his story.
'Yuuko and Yuukubo were two brothers. They were born in the Country of Lightning, but came to Konoha when they turned fifteen. They were much like you. Always fighting to maintain dominance.'
'Like…Us?' Naruto asked curiously, rubbing his chin.
'Is this some sort of joke?' Sasuke said looking irritated.
'I'm not finished. Now, one day they had a fight over a woman. So, they challenged each other. The winner will get the woman, but they were equally strong, so the fight was doomed from the very beginning. While they were fighting an old wrinkled woman with grey hair approached them. She asked them for their help with her luggage, but they refused because they wanted to finish their battle.'
Kakashi glanced at the two Genins sitting in front of him, both eager to hear what happened next. Satisfied, Kakashi continued,
'The old woman got angry and because of their arrogance, she cast a spell on them. The spell switched their souls, making Yuuko's soul go into Yuukubo's body and vice versa. The brothers were shocked and when they realized what had happened, the old woman was gone. Their whole life they searched for this woman, but without success. They died in battle because none of them were used to the other's body movements. So have we learned a lesson?'
Sasuke and Naruto glanced at each other and started laughing. Kakashi stared at them and stuttered,
'W-why are you laughing?'
'Sensei, nice try, but a gypsy woman won't make us stop fighting, and I already know I'm the dominant one!' Naruto chortled rolling on his back from laughter.
'Humph, yeah right you idiot. The only thing you dominate is your underwear.' Sasuke sneered standing up and jumping into a tree.
'THAT'S IT!! YOU END NOW!!!' Naruto yelled jumping after Sasuke, who jumped back and Naruto hit the branch instead of Sasuke. Naruto chased Sasuke through the whole forest, but both of them stopped when they reached the entrance to the Forest of Death.
Naruto gulped and looked at Sasuke. Sasuke didn't look at him and jumped off the branch and landed smoothly onto the opposite branch in the Forest of Death.
'Oi! You can't go in there!' Naruto yelled.
'Too scared to go into the forest? Why don't we go fetch the poor scared little baby a bottle and maybe then he'll go in. Oh poor little baby.' Sasuke teased.
'You little freak…I am so gonna BEAT THE LIVING HELL OUT OF YOU!!!' Naruto bellowed, narrowly missing a branch again. Sasuke easily jumped out of Naruto's reach. 'Damn you!!' The enraged blond yelled. Having had enough of Sasuke's idiotic game, he pulled out a kunai and hurled it at Sasuke who easily dodged it.
'Idiot, you let anger blind your focus and aim.' he said calmly, wielding his own kunai. He threw it and it scratched Naruto's cheek. Blood started to drip form his face, but that didn't bother him the slightest.
'As if I would ever take advice from a cocky bastard like you!!' Naruto yelled. He jumped into the air and yelled, 'Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!' Eight clones emerged from clouds of smoke and they all charged towards Sasuke. 'He always uses the same tricks. He never learns.' Sasuke thought smirking and took out eight kunai and threw it towards the Naruto clones. All of them poofed away and a bank of smoke covered the real Naruto, making Sasuke unable to see him.
'I GOT'CHA NOW, SASUKE!'
Before Sasuke could even think of his next move, Naruto came falling out of the smoke and punched him hard in the face. A sickening crack could be heard. Sasuke let out a grunt and staggered backwards, clutching his nose that was now bleeding. Blood dripped on his clothes and he cracked his nose back into its right position. A satisfied grin spread across Naruto's face.
'You're not that great, Sasuke-bastard.' Naruto said wiping the blood from his face.
'At least I'm not a failure of a ninja like you.' Sasuke snarled.
'Well that's – HEY!! THAT'S IT!!!' Naruto yelled jumping, yet again towards Sasuke, but this time, when Sasuke jumped back, Naruto didn't hit the tree branch. Instead, he hit a cushiony pillow and when Sasuke jumped back, he hit a wall.
'Where the-'Naruto gawped, amazed at what just happened. They were in a small little trailer. It looked very old and it wasn't very neat. Scraps of paper were lying on the floor; all the pieces had words written in a very funny language written on them. Sasuke stood up, rubbing his back and went to examine one of the pieces of paper.
'It's Latin.' he said, flipping the paper of to see if something else was also written on the back.
'How do you know, eh?' Naruto asked, poking his head under the bed in search of "clues".
'They taught us basic Latin at school, fool.'
A loud THUD came from underneath the bed, and Naruto emerged rubbing his head.
'I don't remember them giving us Latin.' he said.
'Probably because you didn't show up for most of the classes.' Sasuke said rolling his eyes.
Naruto growled at him and said, 'Well if you're so smart, read what's written there.'
'Dominatio per Malum'
'Which means-'
'Power through evil.'
Both of them paused and started at each other. Both were thinking the same thing. They needed to get out of here and fast. If that's what's written on just one piece, they shudder to think what could be written on other pieces of paper.
'Ah, so you are a young prodigy, I see.' came a croaky old voice. Sasuke almost dropped the piece of paper but caught it and stuffed it in his pocket, it might be useful. Naruto backed up against the wall and went rather pale.
The old woman had to be somewhere in her nineties. Her face was old and wrinkled, yet it still had a mischievous glow to it. She was very short, even shorter than Naruto. She was dressed in an old and battered looking orange kimono, which was a bit too big for her.
'Curiosity killed cat the cat, remember that.' the old woman said tut-tutting and waving her finger in the air. She slowly walked over the wall opposite where Sasuke was standing and traced her finger along its elegant design patterns. The wall started shifting and a hole was made. A cauldron was boiling inside the hole, puffing purple smoke out of it every once and a while.
'Ah, I wish you two would have taken the story of Yuuko and Yuukubo seriously. Very fine men and ninja, though they detested each other and had to be punished for their actions. Such selfishness…' the woman went on, stirring the cauldron. It was becoming dark blue. She took a little bottle which had a label on that read "Newt Eyes", and threw it into the cauldron making it go light blue in color.
Naruto and Sasuke exchanged scared and horrified glances. What is that story was true? What if they would end up like Yuuko and Yuukubo? What if this woman was the old woman who put the spell on them?
'Now, to teach you two a lesson, I'll have to punish you.' the old woman said, pouring some of the potion into a little squirter bottle. She stepped closer to the two boys and edged back until they were back against the wall. The old woman let out a nasty high pitched laugh and said,
'Trouble trouble,
This is what makes your insides bubble,
Use it well,
Or else I'll put you under my spell!
For many years people have fought,
For many years people have never thought,
Of the consequences that they will get,
But no one ever fret.
So heed my warning,
That tomorrow morning,
You will not be YOU,
But you will be inside your rival's shoe."
A blinding light washed over the room and Sasuke and Naruto had to cover their eyes as to not go blind. The old woman's spell and laugh kept echoing in their minds. Deeper and deeper they feel, into what, they did not know.
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'AAAAHHHHHH!!!!' Sasuke yelled falling from his bed onto the hard cold floor. 'It was just a dream.' Sasuke said aloud to himself and walked to his bathroom. He was drowsy and he didn't know why. He had the strangest dream. He and Naruto were fighting in the Forest of Death and then suddenly they were in an old lady's trailer, an old woman appeared and then recited a weird poem and all he could remember after that was a rather tingling feeling and a blinding light.
Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and walked towards his bathroom. His room was unusually bright. His room usually was dark and gloomy looking. This one was bright, and it had posters on the walls and it was really untidy. Scrolls were lying sprawled out onto the floor and the bedding was green.
'It must have been someone playing tricks on me, or I'm just going mad.' Sasuke thought aloud, as he resumed his walk to the bathroom.
When he got to the mirror he noticed his brush was yellow and not dark brown like his usual one. Deciding it must have been a spare that he accidentally bought, he started fixing his hair, that is, until he saw his reflection.
He let out a scream of horror as he realized that standing before him in the mirror wasn't him, with his raven black hair and onyx eyes! Standing in the mirror was a blond boy with blazing blue eyes, weird scars that resembled whiskers on his cheeks and spiky blond hair!
He was inside Naruto's body!!!
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Naruto yawned and stretched. He had such a weird dream last night. It was about him and the emo-bastard that were fighting in the Forest of Death, when suddenly they were transported into a crappy looking old trailer. And old hag lived there, who is maybe a witch, because she had this giant cauldron in which she cooked something.
All Naruto could fully remember from his dream was a strange tingling feeling and a blinding light. Naruto shrugged and hopped out of bed. He looked around the room that was unusually dark and gloomy. His room was always cheerful and warm. This room was cold.
'Must've been Sasuke-bastard trying to pull a prank on me.' Naruto thought bitterly. He started walking towards the bathroom, but noticed that all the scrolls were packed neatly in alphabetical order and there wasn't a shred of clothing lying on the floor.
'Weird…' Naruto thought and continued his journey to the bathroom. Just as he wanted to pick up the brush he noticed that this too was out of place. Where was his shiny yellow brush? This one was dark brown. He figured it must be a spare and looked into the mirror to do his hair.
When Naruto saw his reflection, he went ice cold and all the color from his face drained away. Where was his golden blond hair? Where were his weird scars on his face? Where were his blue eyes? Where did his tan go?! Looking back at him was a pale, raven haired boy with dark onyx eyes. His skin color was beyond white and he was defiantly taller.
He was inside Sasuke's body!
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Ok, hope u all liked this chap. Plz R&R!
Oh yeah, and Dominatio per Malum isn't made up….it's real, just to let ya know ;) ehehe….