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Problems, problems, he was riddled with them!
Right after some training with Naruto, where he instructed the blonde in better Taijutsu stances and such, he went to the store and bought a load of books pertaining to Medical Jutsu. He had to start somewhere and it was best if he did as much as he could on his own, because he didn't want to spend too much time with someone he didn't know or like.
The problem, was that there was so much about the human body that he didn't know! Sure he knew that there were 206 bones and that there were two types of involuntary muscles in the body. He didn't actually know what they were, but he knew enough to get a picture of it.
He knew about cells, but he didn't know that there were more than just red and white blood cells! He didn't expect to see words such as: Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic.
The more he read, the more he really hated science, because it made everything sound painful and was pretty much a language all on its own. With those strange multisyllabic words that no normal person would ever be able to pronounce.
He flopped back onto his bed and sighed. This whole plan to become a medic was a lot harder than the hard he had originally thought.
His thoughts shifted to the grinning blonde who had wrapped himself around the Uchiha earlier that day and he flushed. It was worth it!
He sat back up and flipped the page, intent on learning everything he could, as fast as he could.
Failure, was not an option.
Sasuke walked into the kitchen, intent on retrieving a tomato before he set off for the training ground. So they were told not to eat, he didn't care.
Itachi was already awake, which wasn't surprising in the least.
"I heard the strangest thing yesterday," he said casually, taking a sip of his tea.
"Hn."
"Yes, it seems some people are under the impression that you wish to pursue the medical field."
Sasuke almost froze, but was able to catch himself in time. Kakashi told him! He should have known that it wouldn't be kept secret! The bastard!
"That would be because I do intend to," he answered, using a little bit of sarcasm.
Itachi's eyebrow rose slightly, "Really? And when did you decide this? I distinctly remember you saying on Friday that you wanted to join Anbu."
Sasuke gave no reaction as he bit into his tomato. How was he supposed to react? Was it supposed to be a vehement denial or something along those lines? He was an Uchiha, he didn't do things like that.
"I've been thinking about it for a while and something just solidified the idea for me, very recently," he fibbed without meeting his brothers gaze. He reached out and took one of the onigiri sitting on the plate before his brother and took a bite. Forget the no eating rule, Kakashi would probably be late anyway.
"Would this 'something' be a certain blue-eyed, blonde Uzumaki, by any chance?"
Sasuke's heart skipped a beat and his face almost broke out into a blush, but he held himself together. He had to improve his acting skills, because the look on Itachi's face told him that his older brother knew part of the reason why Sasuke suddenly wanted to changed paths. Itachi would have found out eventually, but this was ridiculous!
He decided to be honest, slightly. "Yes," he answered. "However, you'll just have to guess why and when you do, don't tell anyone. It's really no one's business and I don't need more fan girls popping up out of nowhere because of it." He decided to add the fan girl part in hopes of deterring Itachi a bit.
Itachi was silent and Sasuke grabbed another tomato on his way out of the house.
"Good luck!" he heard Itachi call from behind him.
"Hn."
Sasuke was the first to arrive, though that didn't surprise him. He sat in the open field and pulled a medical book from his pouch. He might as well learn while he waited.
The dobe showed up half an hour later, stuffing his face with a large cup of instant Ramen.
"We weren't supposed to eat," he stated, wondering what the blonde's answer would be.
"So? Since when do I follow rules?" the blonde stuffed more noodle into his face.
"Hn. I ate too.
Naruto's mouth dropped, giving him an unattractive display of his masticated food.
"Please close your mouth, I don't want to see that."
"Bite me, teme."
Sasuke was suddenly transfixed on the blonde. Those three words were the wrong sort to say, especially with Sasuke's new feelings. Looking down, he hissed silently. He had another problem and had no way of fixing it unless he decided to randomly jump in the freezing river.
"I don't know where you've been, dobe."
Naruto paused in his eating and sent him a look, "It would be kind of creepy if you did."
Sasuke rolled his eyes and returned to his book.
Sakura appeared half an hour after Naruto finished his food and was downtrodden to see that both Sasuke and Naruto were avoiding her.
Sasuke was happier than he had ever been, because the dobe had sat beside him the entire time and didn't look at the menace once! Score for the young Uchiha!
Naruto groaned and laid back on the grass, "He's really late. Do you think he'll be three hours late again? Maybe more?"
Sakura scoffed, "He's a trained ninja. He would never do something like be late without a good reason! Stop thinking of dumb things, Naruto!"
Naruto looked at Sasuke, who was staring at him. "Don't listen to her she's worthless. Here, learn some basics at least, you never know when the knowledge will be handy," the Uchiha stated, handing the blonde a book.
Naruto sneered but did as told and laid back to read.
"Teme, what is the Medulla Oblongata?"
Sasuke frowned, "Nothing about that is in that book. Where did you get that from?"
"I heard it the other day and I wanted to know," the blonde shrugged.
The Uchiha sighed, "It's the lowest part of the brainstem. It controls things like your heartbeat, digestive system and respiration. It's very important, so don't get injured anywhere near it."
"Well don't you know just a plethora of information, teme."
Sasuke scoffed, "I'm shocked you even know the word plethora, dobe."
"You know I'm older than you."
"So?"
"Of course I would know bigger words than you do!"
Sasuke looked up and gave the blonde a look. "Do you really want to start this, dobe?"
Naruto sat up and leaned into the Uchiha, "Sure, teme. Let's do it!"
Sasuke felt his pants tighten at those words and he shifted the large book fully across his lap. "Well then, how do you want to do this?" he asked.
Naruto opened his mouth and then froze, "Uh...I don't know."
Sasuke rolled his eyes and returned to his reading. "Buffoon."
Naruto's eyes narrowed, "Ignoramus."
Sasuke looked up, "Simpleton."
"Imbecile."
"Lummox."
"Dullard."
"Scoundrel."
"Reprobate."
"Miscreant."
"Irritating!"
"Exasperating."
"Troublesome."
"Obnoxious."
"Vexatious."
"Mischievous."
"Deceitful."
"Dishonest."
"Unscrupulous."
"Compare."
"Contrast."
"Collocate."
"Juxtapose!"
"Where the hell did you get that word from?!" the Uchiha demanded.
The blonde shrugged, "You would throw out a word and I would give a synonym to it. The last four were synonyms. And you didn't say another word, so do you surrender?"
Sasuke sighed and gave the blonde a small almost invisible smile. "Yes, I concede defeat."
"Yes!" Naruto cheered. "Now what?"
"Read."
The blonde huffed and laid back down.
"Hello!"
"You're late!" Sakura yelled, pointing at the masked man.
Naruto and Sasuke just looked at one another and returned to their books.
"I was only my way here but I had to help an old woman carry her groceries home. And then I saw a black cat and had to take the opposite way around, but ran into another one and had to wait for three hours for the bad luck to fade away."
"Liar!"
"Okay, so let's get to it!"
Kakashi placed a timer on one of the nearby stumps and hit the top.
"It's set for noon. You have until then to get one of these bells from me and whoever doesn't get one, goes back to the Academy."
Naruto and Sasuke looked up to see the silver bells. The wind blew and they jingled. The two looked at each other and nodded.
Sasuke took the books back and put them in his pouch.
"But there are only two!" Sakura yelled in horror.
"Uh..yeah. I'm looking right at them," the man said.
"Anyway, if you don't attack to kill, you'll never get them. So, any weapon is allowed."
"But we could kill you!"
There was a moment of silence before Kakashi shrugged, "I'll take my very high chances."
"Ready...steady...GO!"
Sasuke reached out and grabbed Naruto's collar and jumped away, dragging the blonde with him. Slapping a hand over his mouth, he quickly situated himself on a large tree branch about half a kilometer away from the silver-haired man, keeping him his sights. He placed the blonde in his lap and kept his hand in place.
"Shush," he hissed.
"There are two bells and two of us. We need to get them but we don't have game plan. We need a better idea of each other's abilities."
Kakashi, who was standing in the center of the clearing, suddenly vanished and Sasuke flinched, waiting for a possible attack. None came and he sighed in relief.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Naruto looked up at him and cursed behind his hand. Ripping it from his mouth, me gave Sasuke a look.
"He got Sakura!"
"So?"
The blonde shifted and slapped a hand over the back of the Uchiha's head. "Get with it, teme! She's all alone. Her intelligence isn't going to help her with this! You and I both know that she has no chance in hell of getting a bell."
"Yes, which means we will."
"No, teme! You and I both have a higher chance on our own of getting a bell than she does. We decided to work together instantly, putting our high chances together and pretty much ensuring that we'll get the bells. But she is still alone with no chance and I don't think it's fair."
"So?"
"So, just because we don't like her, doesn't mean we shouldn't put our feelings aside and work together. We are a team. Team Seven. Working together is a necessity in missions. Though I am confused, I've never heard of a three-man team in Konoha before."
Sasuke looked down at the blonde and thought about what he had said. Surprisingly, he had a good point. Teamwork was a necessity and there was no such thing as a three-man team. This was a problem.
"I think we're supposed to work together to get the bells," he said after a few moments. "He doesn't want us to get the bells, he's just testing us to see if we'll use teamwork. And if you and I had only worked together and gotten the bells, all of us would have been sent back to the Academy, because we didn't prove that all three of us could work together."
Naruto nodded, "So, we have to go and find Sakura and think of a plan to try to get the bells?"
"I'm not happy about it either, but if we want to pass, we have to. Follow me."
Through the foliage, Sasuke sighed as they jumped from tree to tree. Problem solved, but he didn't like the outcome.
"There she is, teme!"
He looked at the right and saw the menace lying on the ground in the center of another clearing. She looked frozen(A/N: LET IT GO! :D).
He looked around cautiously and deviated from his path to follow the blonde.
As Naruto tried to wake the girl, he was still looking around, prepared for any form of attack.
"W-What?"
"Hey Pinky, Sasuke and I found out that we have to use teamwork to get the bells. Kakashi isn't judging us on whether we get a bell or not, but if we use teamwork to get them. And if we don't, we'll be set back to the Academy."
"That's stupid, Naruto-baka! Kakashi-sensei wouldn't do that!"
"Really. Well, I'm the one that suggested we use teamwork and noticed that there was no such thing as a three-man squad in the history of Konoha. Sasuke was the one to come up with the reason, so I guess you just said that Sasuke was stupid. No wonder he doesn't like you, when you insult him like that."
Sasuke had to keep himself from snorting. He was toying with her and it was working. He couldn't help but find it incredibly attractive.
"W-What?! No, I would never insult him!"
"Really? 'Cause you just did. Well, I guess we'll just fail then. It was a good plan anyway, teme."
"No, no! I'll do it! What are we doing exactly?"
"Okay, we need to attack him together. What skill do you have, Naruto?" Sasuke asked.
"Good at Taijutsu and perfect aim. I can do Jutsu I've created and I just recently learned a new Jutsu that could help us out."
The blonde stood and made a cross hand sign. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Sakura gaped and Sasuke's eyebrows actually rose.
Naruto poked the clone, who in turn, poked him back.
"It's solid!" Sakura said in awe.
The Bunshin folded his arms, "I am not an it, you know! I have feelings too!"
Naruto threw a punch and the Bunshin poofed away in a spiral of white smoke.
"I can created hundreds and use the Henge to make them look like us."
Sakura was staring at him in silence and Sasuke was pleasantly surprised. He knew solid clones were hard to master. So, how could the dobe do that, but not the regular Bunshin?
"I have too much chakra to pull off the Bunshin no Jutsu! It's good to know there's an actual reason as to why I can't do it and it's not because I'm an idiot."
"Okay, you do that then. Can you try to Henge some of them into weapons?"
"Yeah, it's not hard to become pretty much anything I want. Watch!"
Naruto made a hand sign and disappeared in a puff of smoke. His form was replaced by a fuma shuriken, which Sasuke snatched from the air. "Very detailed, dobe. Impressive."
Tossing it up, Naruto exploded back to himself. "Thanks, I've been working on that for years. Shall we start?"
Sasuke nodded and Naruto made another sign.
"Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto stepped out into the clearing that Kakashi was waiting in.
"What's this?" he asked, flipping a page in a book that was in his hands.
Naruto gasped, "Icha Icha!"
"Yes, I've been dying to finish it! Carry on!"
"He's a pervert," Naruto whispered to the other two. "I know what to do to get his attention."
The three pulled out their weapons and Kakashi looked up, "That's a lot. Do you really think you can hit me?"
"One way to find out," Naruto grinned.
The three dashed toward him, arms raised.
Kakashi teased them as he just spun in simple circles, dodging everything they threw at him. From shuriken to tanto and even some senbon.
When they were out, Kakashi chuckled. "Too bad!" he taunted.
Naruto smirked, "Not really."
There was multitude of explosions surroundings Kakashi's form and he was on the alert. Imagine his shock to see so many Naruto's surrounding him.
The all formed the same hand sign, "Haremu Jutsu!"
There were several explosions and when the smoke blew away, Kakashi was sputtering at the enormous amount of naked women surrounding him!
Sasuke rolled his eyes. Pathetic, that the once great Anbu Honshu was made a fool of so easily, by women.
The women all got close, but Sasuke wasn't expecting the next move.
Naruto grinned and formed a hand sign, whispering, "Bunshin Daibakuha."
He gaped as the entire area around Kakashi went up in a large explosion, rocks flying. Naruto launched himself forward and reached his hand out.
"These are real!" he said, flicking the two bells in his hand.
"Is sensei okay?" Sakura asked, looking around in worry.
"If that killed him, he didn't deserve to be the Anbu Honsho," Sasuke stated.
"Wow! I was not expecting that at all, Naruto. Actually, you're a lot different from what I expected you to be," Kakashi said, staggering out of the smoke. His clothes were torn and he looked like he'd just been through a big battle.
"You found out about the teamwork and worked together, you passed. Meet me at the Mission Assignment room tomorrow morning at nine. I have to go and buy a new book."
He was gone with a Shunshin.
"He looked like shit."
"Yes. You need to stop it with the foul language."
"Teme, I haven't cursed since Friday night!"
"Why would you even have a reason to curse?" the Uchiha asked, stuffing his hands in his pockets.
"Nothing really."
The Uchiha sent the blonde a disbelieving look, but dropped it. There would be time to learn about it later. Right now, his major problem, was that he was hungry.
There were officially Genin. That problem was solved and now he just had some others to worry about. But first, food.
"Come, dobe."
A/N: Another one is done! You know, I had a Harry Potter flashback with the last line. 'Come Dobby!'.
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