Disclaimer: All people that appear in this chapter are the property of Kishimoto Masashi. (Expect for those random, nameless guys but they shan't be mentioned.)
A/N: Verrrrry important chapter to understand why. Eheh… Oh well, you'll understand after you've read this.
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Please tell me if there're any typos. I didn't check all the words from dictionary, so I'm not so sure about them...
Day 1 - His house
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"Excuse me, Hokage-sama. Nara Shikamaru and Hyuuga Neji wish to speak with you."
Tsunade raises her head from the table to glare at the man for a while before banging against the table again. "Let them in."
"Evening, Ho - " yawn, " – kage-sama."
Tsunade knits her brows as she hears the greeting. Who did the man say wanted to meet her? Nara Shikamaru and Hyuuga Neji, wasn't it? Then how come that didn't sound like neither of them, for Shikamaru never bothers to greet, and the Hyuuga would never show how tired he is.
Tsunade focuses her gaze to the two men in front of her. Everything seems to be normal, Hyuuga glaring around and Nara going to fall asleep. But their chakra ways seem to be all messed up.
"How did you manage to fuck yourselves up this badly?" she growls, standing up from her chair. "Good you came to me, otherwise it would've taken many hours to cure you…"
"So you can cure us right away?" Nara asks hopefully, waking up from his dream-like state.
"I hope so. I can't stand your hair anymore, it has something against me", Hyuuga growls.
Slap!
The two men's eyes are wide as they hold their equally red left cheeks.
"There. Now your charkas are working yet again", Tsunade smirks, withdrawing the chakra from her hand.
Hyuuga glances at her, then sighs. "This is just too troublesome…"
Tsunade frowns at this. 'Did Hyuuga just..?' An idea, pretty impossible though, comes into her mind. "Don't tell me you have switched bodies?"
Nara nods.
"Oh, great." Tsunade buries her head into her hands. "So you", she points at the supposed to be Hyuuga, "are Nara in reality?"
A nod again.
Tsunade sighs. She wants to get rid of those two as quickly as possible so she could return to her dear sake. "Look, you two…" She quickly goes through all the possible suggestions in her head, finally deciding the best one. "I think you shouldn't tell anyone about this. Let's keep this between us three."
The Hyuuga - in Nara's body – glares at the other man. "Does that mean we have to act as each other until the cure is found?"
"Yes." Tsunade must admit she hadn't even thought of that. 'This is getting interesting…' She smirks and lands her piercing gaze onto the two men who glance at each other. "Don't worry about missions. I'll fix it so your teams won't have any missions but maybe C-ranked, so you won't leave Konoha. And once I've found the cure, I'll let you know. Now, piss off."
Hyuuga and Nara bow to the Hokage and leave, starting a verbal fight as soon as they get out of the office. Tsunade sighs.
'Damn. I forgot that there has been a case like this once before… and they changed back with a crash. Oh well, those two will try that out sooner or later…'
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"No way am I going to act as you." Neji crosses his arms and stops.
Shikamaru sighs and stops walking too. He turns to look at the sulking Neji, who is yet again fingering the hair tie that has probably grown to Shikamaru's hair.
"Don't touch it", Shikamaru hisses, taking a warning step towards Neji.
Neji raises his eyebrows. "Why not? Are you afraid of – of seeing me without it."
'What the - ?' For a very short moment Shikamaru can't understand what Neji means with the 'seeing me without it' until he realizes that they are on a busy street where everybody can hear them. And it looks like many are listening to them right now. Shikamaru grins. 'Let's play along, then…'
"How could I be afraid of seeing you without it when it brings back so good memories."
It looks like the whole street froze after hearing Shikamaru's – well, to them it was Neji's – suggestive voice.
Neji stares at Shikamaru. His eye twitches. "You...!"
"Shikamaru! Yohooooh!"
Neji can nothing to it. His eye twitches again. "What are you doing?"
Shikamaru peeks from behind Neji, looking quite frightened. "She's so troublesome…"
"Who?"
"Hi!" Suddenly someone glomps Neji. "How you doing? We haven't seen you in so long time!"
Neji looks at the blonde girl hugging her. "Yeah, right…" are the only words that manage to escape from his lips.
"Hey, Shikamaru. Wanna come to barbeque?" Another friend of Shikamaru's appears and Neji doesn't know this one's name either. Yes, he realizes that he is an Akimichi, but that doesn't help much because Neji doesn't think that Shikamaru calls his team mates by their family names.
"Hyuuga", the Akimichi suddenly says, causing all of the three to turn to look at the supposed-to-be-Hyuuga.
"Hi, Neji", the blonde girl greets. Neji starts wondering just how the hell does she know his name.
Shikamaru nods to the girl as a greeting, then grabs Neji's arm. "I'm sorry, but Nara can't come with you now. We have some business to do."
"See ya", Neji says and lifts his hand in a friendly wave. The Akimichi and the nameless girl look at each other, stunned.
"Well, see you later then", the girl smiles and then Neji and Shikamaru are on their way again.
"Who the hell were they?" Neji hisses as soon as they are out of the busy street.
"Ino and Chôji, my team mates."
"Was Chôji the girl?"
"He's boy."
"Looks more like Ino to me…"
"You should remember his name. He was rescuing Sasuke with you."
"As if I could remember everyone's name after so many years."
Shikamaru glances at Neji, his eyebrows slightly knotted. "We should go somewhere private so we could discuss about… everything." Once again he brushes the long bangs out of his view. Cursing inside his mind the Hyuuga's hair to hell he is just too glad of the fact that his chakra is not messed up anymore, or he would still be thinking out loud. "Is your place quiet enough?"
"Not quite. People tend to just come in without any warning." Something clicks in Neji's mind. "Wait, wait, wait."
"What?" Shikamaru crosses his – or rather Neji's body's – arms.
"You mean I have to go to your house? No way." Neji holds up his arms and backs few steps.
"You're so troublesome…" Shikamaru sighs and rubs his temples. "Look, Hyuuga, if we are going to keep this situation as a secret, that means we have to act as each other until the cure is found. And to act as each other without anyone getting suspicious we have to learn where to live and how to act."
"Fine", Neji grunts and walks to Shikamaru. "Show me your place."
"Gladly."
A/N: Yet again about Shikamaru's hair tie. But, I mean, he never takes it off, so his hair must be stuck like that. Or at least the hair tie's melted into his hair. That happens, trust me.
And the part where Neji ask if Chôji was the girl has a hidden meaning to it. 'Cause chô means butterfly, Neji thought it was a girly name, so he assumed the girl to be Chôji. And the sentence 'looks more like Ino to me', can be understood like I meant when you know that ino can be translated as stomach's. Yeah.
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