A/N: Yeah, I'm really free right now I guess, what with all the shit I'm going through. Anyhow, I managed to gear up to start writing this. Don't know how this is gonna turn up. Hope its gonna be fine. :D
QuantumofShoelace: Actually, I intended it to be a parody of the thing. :\
Chapter 2: Land Of Whirlpools
"Teme."
"Dobe."
Kakashi eyed his students with mild amusement. The two had entered the Konohan Assembly Hall not more than five minutes ago, and had already finished deciding. He sighed. Their choice wasn't that big a surprise anyway. To think that they'd go any other way, would have been deemed something of a mortal sin by those concerned, even if one of them was an emotion-less hotshot.
He looked lazily at them. Be it whatever, Tsunade had still asked the Jonin who'd trained the ninja in question to give them the option of thinking twice, and that of looking up ninja from other teams. He knew it was just a fruitless waste of his energy, and that reading porno would have been considered better time usage than doing the above, but he couldn't just ignore the Hokage's orders.
"You're sure?"
He said that more impassively than not, but the two shinobi in front of him took it differently, both reacting to their own extremes of irritation. Blonde did a double-take, and bent down on the desk in front of the silver haired Jonin with his hands on it, while Red-eyes raised his eyebrows and stretched his lips in a straight line. Kakashi closed his eyes and sighed, anticipating what was about to come next.
"Of course I'm sure!" said Naruto Uzumaki, eying his sensei with bemusement. Was he serious? Who else would Naruto wish to pair with, when his brother was just beside him!
Kakashi stared at him for a few more minutes, before sighing and finally picking up him pen to jot down their names. He scribbled on the paper for a few seconds before looking up to find his blonde student looking at him with the slightest hint of confusion. He raised his visible eyebrow questioningly at him, and got an all-too-predictable question in response.
"What about Sakura-Chan?"
Kakashi shared a brief moment of eye-contact with his other student, and realized that even Uchiha's were capable of laughing with their eyes. Naruto was just too obvious sometimes.
"With Ino," said Kakashi, turning to look back at Naruto. The blonde's eyes widened in comprehension, and then closed as he grinned at his sensei. Kakashi returned the smile.
"I should've known," said Naruto. He waved shortly at his master, and then turned, following the already retreating back of his black-haired team mate out of the door.
15 Minute's Later;
Shikamaru and Chouji stood in front of Kurenai. The formers' sensei was dead, and thus, the responsibility of taking down information regarding them, rested with the person closest to the man, which was, obciously, the man's wife-to-be.
"How troublesome."
Kurenai looked up and smiled at the sighing Chunin. Shikamaru had changed a lot over the years. He'd become an intern at the Hokage's intel department, helping his father with the latter's work; he was the sensei of the young genin who was Kurenai's son; He was a member of the Konohan board; and he'd even managed to conjure up the courage necessary to ask out Ino, his fellow team-mate. But if there was one thing that hadn't changed about him, it was his lazy nature.
Kurenai chuckled softly, and took down the names of the two who'd chose to be roomates. About ten minutes previously, Kiba and Shino had shown up to her, and said that they'd be roomates. That'd come as no surprise to her, and she'd quickly gone through the formalities. After that Shikamaru and Chouji had come up to her, as she was Asuma's closest person before the latter's death, and told her about their decision, the formalities of which, she was taking care of currently.
"You people do need to develop variety though," she reasoned, looking up at the chunin.
Shikamaru seemed to ponder on the thought, and after a few minutes of contemplation, he sighed in surrender. Kurenai gave him yet another smile, and asked him a question that passed her mind.
"Know who Naruto teamed up with?"
Shikamaru scrunched her eyebrows and frowned at her.
"Er... Sasuke?"
Kurenai's eyes widened, and her jaw slackened.
"Was that a guess?"
Shikamaru's answer to this question of hers caught her off-guard, but, when she gave it a little bit of thought, she realized that it wasn't exactly untrue.
"One doesn't need to guess when it comes down to those two."
The Konoha 12, or rather ten, stood in front of the village gates, waiting eagerly for the bus that would take them to Uzushiogakure to come. It was a sunny day, and the hot rays of said celestial body played on the parts of skin the shinobi had left bare, making them feel warm. Chirpy sounds floated to their ears, as birds happily basked in the warm morning-sun. Short gusts of wind occasionally blew in front of the ninja, picking up bits of dust with them. The overall feeling was peaceful.
The ninja stood gossiping eagerly with each other, catching up on whatever news any had missed out on. Stories covering almost every sphere of life were brought up, and the people who brought them up energetically went about explaining them in the most indulgent manner.
But there was still one, or rather two, things this small gathering lacked...
...and they were Konoha's most feared twosome.
Whatnot had the two ninja done. Be it bursting into the Hokage's office and throwing said Lady out of her window, because they were convinced of her being an imposter, or throwing horse-poop at women coming out of Konoha's public Bath, because they were told by some crazy medic that the women bathing there fell prey to a disease which only horse-poop could cure, the two were never not mentioned. They were the most popular duo in Konoha, and it was not always because of their achievements in warfare.
They were Naruto Uzumaki, and Sasuke Uchiha.
And these were the two who were currently racing towards the village gates from the other end of the village, that is, the Hokage moment.
The villagers stared at the dust that was suddenly 'thrown' at them, in incomprehension. They looked at the road for the mischievous idiot who'd done it. However, their eyes didn't find anything fitting the above description...
...But that didn't mean that their ears didn't catch up.
"You, huff, better g-, huff, give up Tem-, huff, Teme," panted the blonde, as he ran feverishly through the main thoroughfare of the city.
The person whom he addressed huffed indignantly from behind him.
"You, huff, should be the o-, huff, one giving, huff, up, Dobe."
Their summer clothes ruffled in the wind, and shrieks of almost every pitch came to their ears as they ran. Naruto grinned, the race was fun. Taking a sharp turn at the next road that branched out from the thoroughfare, Naruto left Sasuke suffering from the slightest bit of confusion.
Sasuke tried to figure out why said blonde had taken the road, when the route was clearly the one they were already in, when...
BAM!
"DOBE!"
An entire tank filled with cat poop fell down upon the Uchiha, giving him the unique feeling of being a garbage tank. He staggered, and brought his right sleeve up to clean his eyes, muttering curses under his breath as he did so. After having had cleaned his eye-region to his satisfaction, he looked up to search for his 'nemesis'.
But he was already gone.
"Shit."
The Uchiha jumped onto the top of a nearby building, and activated his eternal mangekyo. He searched momentarily for the Blonde-Dobe he was so furious at, before his eyes finally yielded him his prey.
"You're so dead."
Jumping lithely into the air, the black-haired prodigy smirked, which was kind of unusual given the situation he was in. However, because of what he did next, his smile kind of made sense.
He brought his hands up to his chest's height, and quickly performed a few hand-signs. After having finished with which, he brought his right hand up to his mouth, and leered at Naruto's butt-region.
"Katon: Giant Fireball Jutsu!"
"YaaaaAH!"
The blonde quite conveniently fell over the rooftop he was presently on top of, and began comically slapping his butt, muttering curses beneath his breath. Once he successfully stopped the fire that was burning his buttocks, he looked up at the Uchiha, who was smirking above him. He grinned.
"You're gone."
He switched into bijuu-mode, just as his adversary activated Sus'anoo.
Sakura Haruno, in the course of her life, had been put through a lot by her retarded team-mates. Be it her almost-death, which was caused by none other than her former love, or the ninja-fox-flu she suffered from because of her baka of a savior, Sakura, to say the least, did not think the methods of her closest comrades to be 'sane'. And that was an understatement.
Now, she wouldn't usually care about their sanity if all the three of them were inside their home-village, but that was only when they were under the constant and perfect vigilance of their seniors, and even that had sometimes fallen short of being able to stop the utter madness of the 'Konohan-Gods'.
However, the now that was currently presented to her, had all the village seniors by her side, and her team-mates were absent!
It called for panic. Which explained why she was presently stomping her way to her Shishou, the Hokage.
"Lady Tsunad-.."
"Sakura, don't worry," said the old woman, cutting her. She had the most uncanny ability to read her mind, which Sakura, during some of her, er, more 'mentally-active' days, found to be the slightest bit uncomfortable.
"But Shishou, they're alone, powerful, and very, very cracked up!"
Tsunade chuckled.
"Sakura, they leave for Uzushiogakure, which incidentally happens to be Naruto's ancestral home, today, surely they'll lessen up on the competitions tod-"
"TEME!"
"DOBE"
BOOOM!
The peaceful grin on Tsunade's face immediately disappeared, replaced by clenched jaws. Her eyes widened, and a nerve on her forehead twitched. She quickly rolled up her sleeves, and got ready to make for her village; the village which was presently under the attack of two madmen.
"YOU BASTARDS ARE SO. FUCKIN'. DEAD."
Now, if a person normally saw a sixty-something year old woman, who looked like a twenty-something year old chic, scream shit like that, they'd be scared. However, that was not the case here.
This was a sixty-something year old woman, who looked like a twenty-something year old chic, and was one of the most powerful tai-jutsu specialists in the world, screaming bloody murder.
The people around her nearly peed in their pants.
Tsunade walked up to the village gates and stomped her feet once, cracking up the ground across a twenty meter radius, and suddenly she had two ninja standing in front of her. Two ninja who were glaring at each other, pouting, and definitely, definitely, half-naked. Not that they weren't aware of it. They just decided to play along.
Tsunade pointed at them in shock.
"What hap-pened to y-you?"
They looked at her impassively, and then, slightly frowned.
"You mean this?" said the blonde, pointing at his clothes, without looking away from Tsunade. He grinned and simply shrugged, "Teme here, and I were just having a bit of fun."
Tsunade's eyes widened.
"A bit of fun? You idiots are half nude for Buddha's sake! There will be delegates from almost every single nation, in Uzushiogakure, when we reach there! Important Samaritans, Daimyos, Kages, Professors and whoever not! And you expect me to let you go there like... this? What excuse do you fools expect me to give them?"
Naruto's face contorted into one of thought. His eyes narrowed, his eyebrows scrunched, and his lips bent into a weird shape. If Tsunade hadn't been that worked up, she'd have laughed at him, however, she was definitely not feeling giddy just then.
After a few moments, the blonde-ninja suddenly fisted his right hand and slapped it with his left hand. His bare-teeth gleamed in the sun..
"I'll tell them that I'm one of the only two living members of the Uzumaki clan. Not that I'm obsessed with it or anything," he said, casting a sideways glance at a brooding Sasuke, and chuckled, before continuing, "But its sure to get us off. And anyway, who says that we're going there like this?" He said pointing at his nearly-bare body, "We'll just dress up again."
Tsunade cast him a scrutinizing glare, whilst attempting to find some point to rebut him on. However, when she found none, she just sighed and smiled; it had got her back to her normal self anyway, them doing this, because she was beginning to think that her peace-loving-facade was just a bit too much for her to handle. She looked at Kakashi, and half-jokingly addressed him.
"Escort them."
A small fit of chuckling ensued.
The bus took approximately fifteen hours to reach the ruined-village of Uzushiogakure. In the course of the journey Naruto and Sasuke made up, and went back to busting each others' humps, which in turn led to a fight between them, bringing them right back to where they'd started from.
Tsunade eyed the two boys with mild fatigue. But there was still a smile which found its way to her lips. It was like a reflex action, that smile of hers', whenever she saw the two idiots together, and they're ways of getting around each other, she just knew that she'd smile, although she couldn't why.
"They are the most troublesome two, aren't they?"
Tsunade turned around to look at the speaker of the words. She found a masked man, standing in front of her, with closed eyes, giving off the impression of a smile. Tsunade looked back at the two and chuckled softly.
"Probably."
Kakashi sighed.
"But they're still the best of the leaf."
Tsunade nodded. That was what she found to be the most intriguing thing about the two; they'd basically been apart for four years, and their rivalry during that time had got to the point where they were ready to even kill the other if need had been. But there they were, sitting together, fighting, laughing, teasing, and whatnot! The two did have a special bond. That much, even an idiot would be able to see.
She turned back to look at Kakashi.
"I was looking forward to this trip particularly for Naruto, you know."
Kakashi's eyebrows raised.
"And why would that be?"
Tsunade looked back at the blonde, who was presently trying to strangle his Uchiha friend, and smiled.
"Because he gets to visit the village of his mother."
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