Disclaimer: Only Kishi gets to have Sasuke and Naruto at night, alone... I don't own them!

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Naruto can't help but checking Sasuke's face. He isn't always able to read his thoughts. Most of the time they have their understanding of each other's emotions. Sasuke broke the curse, that's what Naruto tells himself anytime he questions his friend's motives. Sasuke is a part of him.

"Maybe we should have stayed to help them," Naruto brings it up as they hop from the branches, trying to ignore the thoughts running through his brain.

"No. They can handle themselves. Besides, who knows what the Hokage has in store for us. We won't take these so easily, Naruto." The gentleness in Sasuke's voice reassures Naruto that his friend is still there.

"Well, I'm glad you're in charge of them though... so I won't lose them anymore. Though, I don't know how safe they are in your shirt like that. Why do you always leave it open?" Naruto jokes, "airing out your abs?" Naruto looks at Sasuke's ensemble. Lately he's been wearing these large open v-necks showing off his abs, very loose and allows the wearer to be quick, but it looks like something you'd see a prostitute in.

Sasuke's grin slips on to his face, "At least it's not a bright orange jumpsuit, bakka."

Naruto laughs bitterly, "Teme!"

They both near the tower, knowing that they will turn in their scrolls and move onto the next round. But there's something missing. Both of them had semi-broke the rules, using Sharingan and nine-tails chakra, and they've only had to face one ANBU agent so far, who wasn't nearly that powerful.

They inspect the perimeter of the tower. No traps. Sasuke and Naruto exchange looks and head through the front door. Standing there, smiling, are all the shinobi from their finishing class. Nearly all of them are Jounin or Chuunin, much higher in rank then Sasuke and Naruto. They all look at the two boys, their eyes smiling at one another.

Naruto heads in, cheerfully as always, "Another congratulations party?" Sasuke cautiously follows behind Naruto. Kakashi is standing there before the steps, his one visible eye curved in a way that he seems happy to see the pair.

"No." He puts simply as he thrusts his fists into Naruto's belly. Naruto spits in shock and flies back into the wall, making a large dent. He leans into the ground and coughs a bit more. Slowly he stands up and wipes his mouth, revealing an eager grin.

"Naruto! Head outside, there's more room to fight!" Sasuke calls to Naruto as both dash out the doors and are quickly surrounded by their classmates. Kakashi stands at the far end of the circle, letting Naruto and Sasuke take it all in. Who they will be fighting.

Sakura cracks her fists, while offering a tempting smile towards Naruto. Hinata shifts her feet from beside Kiba who strokes Akamaru's fur. Shino calls his bugs to him and begins preparing as Shikarmaru wakes himself up from a weary state. Ino looks at him a bit annoyed but smiles as she nudges Choji to stop eating in front of their opponents.

Naruto looks at his all his friends, "You've all been waiting for this day, huh?" He quickly shoots a look to Sasuke who jumps into the air as Sakura pounds her fists into the earth. She looks up to him, with eyes full of scorn. He lands and quickly ducks under Kiba's fists.

Hinata goes straight in for Sasuke, preparing her Bayakugan. She can't even think about fighting Naruto just yet. Shino uses his special ability to plant his insects around their make-shift arena. They crawl around Sasuke's feet as he quickly jumps around, blocking the blows from Kiba and Hinata and darting the deadly bugs.

Shikamaru laughs. Naruto turns, and notices no one is focused on him. They're all after Sasuke. He turns to Shikamaru and catches his gaze, him and Shino are playing Sasuke! "Sasuke! Watch your footing! No shadows!" Shikamaru glares at Naruto as Sasuke hops in another direction. Naruto gets ready to help Sasuke, but is stopped by Choji.

"All that Ramen, Naruto!" He laughs poofing himself up into a large ball. Naruto's eyes grow wide.

"Gah! Don't sit on me Choji!" He yells while narrowly dodging his ball-like attack. Sasuke starts growing bored of the constant quick attacks from Kiba and his dog, and Hinata. He jumps up quickly and pulls out his sword, revealing its glimmer in the afternoon sunlight.

He jumps down and slashes it against Ino's back, not deeply, but enough. She cries out in pain. Everyone's eyes glare at Sasuke as he knocks her out with his bare strength.

"She wasn't even attacking you!" Shikamaru yells, angrily. That was his teammate. Sasuke ignores this and moves to pursue Sakura. He is taking out the medics.

Naruto notices this. They are friends, they won't kill friends. This is just for fun and practice. He has to keep reminding himself this. This is to become a Chuunin. He summons his chakra and explodes his shadow clones into the surroundings.

He gets his shurkien ready and begins to attack Shikamaru, all at once. Using an old move, the clones pursue Shikamaru into the air – where there are no shadows. Naruto uses his powress and summons his chakra to his foot, slamming down onto Shikamaru's chest. Uzumaki Barrage, a move stolen from Sasuke, who stole it from Rock Lee.

Choji looks up, "Shikamaru!" But it's too late. Naruto quickly dodges Choji's second attack and gets a shot to his face, pushing the fluff on his round cheeks like it were a pillow. Choji flies and meets with Kiba, pushing them both back.

"What the hell!" Kiba yells, he struggles to move the knocked-out Choji off his lap. "Akamaru help!"

With Kiba and Akamaru called off, Sasuke easily dodges Hinata's moves and gets a good shot at her shoulder, pushing her back into the ground.

"Hey watch it man! That's my girlfriend!" Naruto calls out, going to help Hinata. Sasuke starts to smile, but it is quickly replaced as a fist meets his jaw. He feels the earth creep up around him, like he's being buried. Sakura heaves over the boy lying deep under the earth.

Everyone is in shock. Kakashi is speechless, Naruto stops holding Hinata for a moment. Kiba and Shino just look on, surprised.

"I thought she loved him?" Kiba asks Akamaru, the dog whimpers in response. Sasuke stands up, revealing the large blue mark on his cheek, and the pool of blood coming out from his mouth. His teeth ripped the skin off the inside of his cheek. He slowly opens his eyes to Sakura, whipping the dirt off his shirt, and repositioning the scrolls to a more secure location.

Sakura continues breathing heavily. That blow took a lot of chakra. Naurto looks at his teammates, unsure of who will strike next. Instead of Sasuke or Sakura though, it's Hinata!

"Gah!" Naruto yells as he is thrown into the ground as Sasuke was. He stares at Hinata, his lover, smiling shyly at him, with those curious Bayakugan eyes. Naruto clutches his stomach, she got one of his chakra points. "Nice job, honey..." he squeaks out as he tries not to double over in pain.

Sasuke takes this distraction to strike Sakura, he kicks her with his foot, sending her into the air. He weaves his signs for his fire jutsu, but stops as he sees her crying from above him. She falls to the ground, she knows she still has power to fight. But she can't do it. She couldn't do it then, and she can't do it now. She can't hurt Sasuke anymore, but that one hit, that felt good.

Naruto, winks to Sasuke, hoping that he will take care of Hinata for him. He goes over and charges at Kiba, head-butting him.

Kiba doesn't react to the blow and calls to Akamaru, both transform and perform their spiral attack, trying to get Naruto into the ground.

"You know," Naruto begins, dodging the pair, "I was never really a dog person. More of a feline guy." He laughs. Kiba plummets into Naruto, and the two fight it out. Meanwhile Sasuke takes on the Bayakugan girl once more.

She aims for the chakra points, Sasuke dodging them every time, "So you're still that good without even using your Sharingan. I guess you were the one..." Her voice trails off. Sasuke takes one of the miniscule breaks in between the hits to sneak under Hinata into her 1 degree of blindness and quickly strikes her from behind. She falls, but he catches her, laying her softly on the ground.

Naruto lays Kiba down as well, having finished him with his clones. It's only Shino and Kakashi left. Shino looks to them, "Well I'm out." He says walking away.

"Don't pull a Shikamaru! Come on let's fight!" Naruto calls out cockily. Sasuke watches Shino's hands carefully.

"But, Naruto, I've already used all my attacks." Shino's smile grows wider as he flicks a finger. Naruto looks around, feeling a bunch of tiny feet crawling on his body but being unable to see them. He feels millions of tiny little legs crawling across his face and he looks at his nose, crossing his eyes.

Sitting on his nose is the most hideous bug he has ever seen. It is gooey, with a black odor oozing out of it. It's eyes are red and stare at Naruto with lust. Naruto screams and tries ripping them off his face radically.

He sees Sasuke has also been affected. Sasuke grabs one of the bugs and feels it in between his fingers, the ooze isn't lethal, it's more of a numbing powder.

"Naruto, don't kill the bugs!" Sasuke yells, he turns but finds a paralyzed Naruto on the ground.

"Sas – uke. I ca -n't move." His mouth can hardly make out the words, the odd pus is sticking to Naruto's body and is congealing. Sasuke sighs looking down at Naruto, now what does he do with the bugs on him? Anyone can touch him, and then paralyze that part of his body.

He very slowly begins to move his hands. "Not so fast!" Kakashi yells, sweeping in from the side, Sasuke jumps high, dodging the attack. A few bugs fall off his body. While in air, Sasuke carefully strips off his shirt and lets the bug littered jacket fall, he notices that the bugs are not reforming to attack his chest again. They've all been assigned to a specific nerve.

Sasuke lands on the tops of his feet and quickly jumps again, and not letting any parts of his body rub against each other he uses his speed to force the insects to fly off of his body.

"Argh!" Naruto screeches in an odd manner, causing Sasuke's head to snap back and watch his friend take a Chidori to the stomach. Sasuke, with a few bugs still remaining rushes back over and takes Kakashi's hand, feeling the lightning still running through it. He lets the electricity slip into his body.

He feels it muse inside of him, as he pushes it back out in an astounding manner and into the body of Kakashi. Any on lookers wouldn't be able to tell, but the volts jitter through Kakashi and cause him to shake uncontrollably. Kakashi falls to the ground as Sasuke falls to his knees. Who would of thought it would be so hard not using jutsus?

He begins to hear poofing and looks around. All the bodies of their friends are being summoned back somewhere. The fight is over. Naruto is still awake, not in too much pain, knowing he's been paralyzed. Sasuke carefully picks him up and carries him in his arms up the stairs into the tower.

He lays his friend down meaningfully and turns to the center of the room, unraveling the scrolls. A large cloud of smoke appears and Sasuke covers his eyes. Tsunade looks at both of them, with a very disappointed expression.

"What, the hell... was that?" She asks as simply as she can. "You want to be Hokage, Naruto, and look at you over there!" She sighs, and then her smile creeps on her face, "but congratulations. You both pass."

They all turn to Shino entering the room, "Hey guys," he says as he calls the remaining bugs off of their bodies. He then hands a salve to Sasuke and makes an expression none of them can see behind his large collar and glasses.

Sasuke nods and takes Naruto in his hands once more as they teleport back to their house. Like a good housewife, Sasuke pours hot water into a kettle, bringing it to a boil. He takes Naruto jacket off, and begins applying the salve to his body. Rubbing it deeply into the affected areas.

"Bakka..." he grumbles as he pushes harder into Naruto's body. Naruto just looks back up at him, trying to grin. The tea begins steaming and Sasuke pours the glasses. He leaves Naruto on their couch with their tea as he enters the bathroom to wash off. Naruto was his first priority.

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