Disclaimer: Neji ain't mine, Shikamaru ain't mine, plot is mine.

Summary: One unexpected fall from a cliff... How troublesome can finding a cure to this get?

Warnings: Shônen-ai (a.k.a. boyxboy), slight pervertness, slight OOCness.

A/N: A story I've been writing on for god knows how long. Been planning of putting this up for ages, but didn't have the time to actually write the final version ready 'til now.

Hope there ain't much typos, 'cause mey beta Akatsuki Wallpaper is gone for awhile and she couldn't beta this. And I know this must be a little confusing, but it's the style I use while writing this, so please bear with me.

Day 1 - The switch

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A squirrel running up a tree trunk two hundred feet down from here.

A bird flapping its wings on a branch twenty-two feet left from here.

A man staring just a foot and half behind him.

Hyuuga Neji, the genius of his clan spins around furiously. The veins on his face look freaky, but the man walking carelessly toward him does not stop.

"Nara", hisses the pearl-eyed man and the veins disappear.

"Hyuuga", returns the other man lazily, hands stuffed in his pockets.

"Did you come here just to interrupt my training or do you have some message?" Neji's voice is harsh as he turns around on the edge of the cliff.

Shikamaru, the man with a head like a pineapple mutters something under his breath. He walks forward until he reaches the other man.

Neji turns his head away from him. Shikamaru gazes at the clouds. "How troublesome."

Sudden rumble around them catches their attention. Neji knits his eyebrows and shoots a sharp glare to Shikamaru.

"What was it?"

"Sounded like rocks falling", mumbles Shikamaru and together they turn to look behind them. As they see the cliff they just stood on far above them and notice the ground under them collapsing, they can just wonder how come they did not notice it before.

With surprised cries they fall.

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"Aagh…"

"…troublesome…"

Shikamaru lifts his hand to his forehead. Something feels strange. His skin feels softer than before.

Then Shikamaru opens his eyes. Even before opening them he feels something strange again. His eyes feel wider than before.

But as he looks around him he knows something strange has happened. For it is no common sight to see yourself lying in front of you. Without a mirror, to be exact.

Fortunately for Shikamaru he is a genius and too lazy to panic. So he just moves to shake his real body, already gotten somewhat used to this one that belongs to Neji. "Oi, Hyuuga. Neji, wake up."

The other boy, looking like Shikamaru, lets out a short, low moan and opens his eyes slowly. And stares. "What the fuck?"

Shikamaru sighs and brushes the long, black locks out of his sight. "This is annoying. Why won't Neji tie his hair properly… This way it just keeps getting to my face."

The other man – Neji, still looking too much like Shikamaru – stares again. He feels like touching the body infront of him, to confirm it is real, not just an illusion, but he doesn't have the strenght to even rase his fingers. "What. The. Fuck?"

"Don't panic. It'd be too troublesome to calm you down."

"I. Am. Not. Panicking." His teeth's screeching can be heard from far away. "I just want to know what happened while I was unconscious, Nara."

"It seems that we somehow", Shikamaru waves the long bangs out of his face, " – damn his hair – switched bodies."

Silence. For a moment. Then a long yawn. From Shikamaru's body.

"This is - " Neji yawns, blinking his eyes to not fall asleep, " - your fault."

The pearl eyes widen a bit. "Strange", Shikamaru mutters to himself.

"Did you say something?" Neji, acting like he had been visiting Shikamaru's body for his whole life, asks lazily.

"Maybe we should go to Hokage. The way he is acting could mean this may have more influence on us than I thought…"

"You do realize you're talking out loud all the time, do you?" Neji stands up slowly, finally getting a grip of his own, real mind. He holds out his hand for the other man sitting on the ground.

After a moment of staring Shikamaru takes the offered hand. "It feels pretty strange to touch myself like this."

Neji only raises his eyebrows. 'I hope he is not gonna do anything stupid as me... I couldn't bear the embarrassment...'

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Yet again the villagers of Konoha have something to gossip about as Hyuuga Neji pulls the half sleeping Nara Shikamaru roughly behind him towards the Hokage tower. And they don't even bother to hide it.

Shikamaru frowns to the people staring at them and moves his head to glare at Neji so he would walk faster, but instead he just gets a curtain of long hair blocking his view. "How come when he were in control he never had these hair problems", he mutters angrily while trying to get the hair out of his face.

"...The hair tie is gone."

Shikamaru stops, Neji bumping into him. "And you tell me now? After all the problems I've been through." He sounds quite serious over the hair issue.

"That's what you get when you can't handle my hair." Neji smirks in a way that makes him look like himself though he still is in Shikamaru's body. "But if you really insist, you can have this..." he reaches for the hair tie that holds Shikamaru's hair in the spiky ponytail. Then he feels very familiar hand grabbing his own.

"Don't", Shikamaru growls, glaring at Neji warningly.

Neji shrugs. "Not, then..." He yawns yet again.

So they continue their walk, Shikamaru muttering to himself once in a while. Everybody stares at them, not even bothering to lower their voices while gossiping about the two of them. Hyuuga Neji and Nara Shikamaru? Walking together? Holding hands?

Shikamaru blushes as he realizes he really is holding Neji's hand. Quickly he lets go. "Come", he grunts and fastens his steps.

A/N: So, here it is. The first part of Bodies: Switched. Hope you enjoyed it. I gotta say I had fun while planning the plot many many months ago.

Note: When Neji or Shikamaru's POV, they will be called by their real names. When someone's POV who doesn't know they've switched; they'll be called by the name of the body they are currently in. Get it, anyone..?

Dunno why this is rated T... Oh well, I just have to write something perverted so this is really T material. Yeah.

Well, then... Comments would be nice. And criticism is allowed, yes.

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