Trading places: Chapter 7

Homeroom FINALLY ended after forever. "Oi, Sasuke, wait." Sasuke called to Naruto. The class was exiting the classroom when they saw Naruto run up to Sasuke.

"Are we all dying soon? Them getting along, that's magic." Kiba said. "Shikamaru, pinch me, I'm dreaming." He said as he attached his head onto Shikamaru's shoulder.

Shikamaru roughly brushed Kiba off. "Idiot." He muttered and walked away.

Kiba ran after him. "Wait!" he screamed as he ran down the corridor, receiving odd looks from the surrounding students.

"We don't have classes with each other next." Naruto stated, worried.

"I know." Sasuke replied. "Just don't talk to or look at anyone."

"But that's so boring." Naruto complained with a pouty face.

"Baka, don't do that. People will see." Sasuke said as he lightly smacked Naruto on the back of the head.

"Hai, hai. What class do you have next?" Naruto asked.

"History with Sarutobi. What about you?"

"English with Genma."

The two boys walked to their classes in a comfortable silence.

"See you after first period." Naruto said to Sasuke.

"Yeah." And they both parted ways.

In a corner, Uchiha Itachi watched his little brother and the blonde walk in separate directions. "Sasuke's acting… strange." Itachi mumbled out loud while narrowing his eyes at his brother who was currently waving at the crowd of girls to his left.

"Who's acting strange?" Itachi heard a voice from behind him. Itachi put his hand in a fist and was about to attack the mysterious person when the blonde behind him jumped away, holding his hands up in surrender.

"Dude, it's only me, un." Deidara said.

Itachi sighed. "Don't scare me like that."

"Me, scare you? You scared me!"Deidara said as he stomped his foot.

Itachi raised an eyebrow at the blonde. "How?"

"Oh, I don't know, maybe because you were about to beat me up because I asked you a question."

"Hn." Itachi said as he proceeded to stalk, I mean, observe his little brother." Deidara looked over Itachi's shoulder.

"Oh, your little bro was?" Deidara questioned.

"Yeah. And he's hanging around with that one blonde kid." Itachi said as he pointed to the other side of the hall, towards Naruto (Or Sasuke…)

"Hey I know him! That kid's Naruto. "Deidara exclaimed.

"Naru-who?" Itachi asked, tuning around to Deidara.

"His name is Naruto. A short blonde, talkative person. He has these whisker scars on his face and he's a freshman like Sasuke."

"And you know that cause?" Itachi asked. Wait, whisker scars? Wasn't Sasuke screaming something about that this morning?

"He's in my pottery class. We sit next to each other and make clay bombs, I mean, bowls together, Un. He's really nice and funny. He kind of reminds me of a younger version of me."

"Oh god, not another Deidara." Itachi mumbled.

XxX

Naruto entered Sasuke's history class. He stared at the rows of desk. Where does he sit?" Naruto shrugged and took a seat by the window. Naruto felt a soft tap on his shoulder and looked up.

"Hey um Sasuke, can you get off this desk. This is my spot." Shikamaru said.

Shikamaru! Thank god someone I know is in here. Naruto remained with Sasuke's stoic face. "Yeah," Naruto replied while getting up. Shikamaru sat down and stared at the window. "Hey um, Shikamaru, do you know where I sit?" Naruto asked.

Shikamaru turned to face Sasuke. He stared at him with disbelief for a moment then pointed to the desk behind him. What's wrong with him today? Shikamaru asked himself.

"Thanks," Naruto said.

"Yeah…" Shikamaru replied as he went to stare out the window. In the middle of his cloud watching, the bell rang and the door to the classroom opened up again.

"Today we are taking a pop quiz." Their sensei said while walking in. All the students groaned; including Naruto.

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow. Why is Sasuke complaining? He always is the first one done. Shikamaru thought as he glanced back to Naruto. Naruto was leaning his head on the desk with a complaining look on his face , arms laid flat onto the desk top, pencil tucked behind one ear.

There is something wrong with him. Shikamaru looked back again at Naruto. Definitely.

XxX

"Naruto, can you please give me definition for the word tarnish?" Genma asked Sasuke with a smirk, thinking that "Naruto" would make a fool out of himself and give the class a stupid answer.

Sasuke sighed and stood up from his seat. "Tarnish is to ruin or taint something. A synonym for the word is damage or demolish. By the way, sensei, the correct wording for the sentence you said before is actually, Naruto, define the word tarnish for the class, please. You weren't really asking me, but demanding me to." He answered in English. With that, Sasuke sat down with a smirk on his face. The whole class was silent, gaping at Sasuke, especially Genma.

(In this, Naruto's bad at speaking English/ remember that they are actually speaking Japanese, not English… even though I'm typing it in English, but… yeah never mind.)

"Naruto, smart answer? Since when did he actually have a brain? Kiba mumbled out. The class nodded in agreement.

"I thought I'd never say this, but c-correct, Naruto." Genma said.

"The world really is ending." Kiba said.

XxX

"Hey," Kiba said when he sat besides Shikamaru on their lunch table. Kiba and Shikamaru were eyeing a blonde and a raven standing in the lunch line. "Shikamaru, did you notice-"

"That they're acting, different?" Shikamaru asked, seeing if he could guess what Kiba was going to say.

"…Yeah," He said as he reached for his drink inattentively, still staring at the two."It's like….um- it's like they've switch personalities. Naruto's being all broody today and Sasuke's acting like Naruto, but a little less… extreme. But Naruto's always loud on his birthday!"

Shikamaru nodded agreement. Kiba brought his drink up to his mouth and tried to suck up the drink from his straw, but nothing came out. He began to suck on it harder.

"Kiba, will you take my finger out of your mouth?" Shikamaru said, a little annoyed.

"GAAH!"

XxX

Sasuke lifted an eyebrow. "What was that?"He asked Naruto. Naruto shrugged.

"Hey, I think I'm getting the hang of this!" Naruto told Sasuke.

"Hn." Naruto paid for his and Sasuke's lunch; or should I say Sasuke paid for their lunches because Naruto used Sasuke's wallet.

Sasuke gave Naruto a 'what the heck' look.

Naruto ruffled the back of his hair,"Eheh, birthday treat from you?"

Sasuke sighed. "Don't mess up my hair." They both walked out of the lunch line. "Where do you want to sit?" Sasuke asked.

"Um, can we sit at my table?" Sasuke shrugged and led the way. Sasuke sat down first and said hey to the two other occupants. Naruto followed after. Kiba was wiping his tongue with a napkin and drowning himself with orange juice while Shikamaru was rubbing his index finger on the hem of his shirt.

Naruto nudged Sasuke on the side with pleading eyes. Sasuke side again. "What happened?" He asked.

"This idiot was molesting my finger. So troublesome." Shikamaru answered.

"What?" Naruto asked, trying to hold in a laugh.

"It was an accident! I thought it was my- wait, Sasuke why are you sitting here?" Kiba questioned.

Naruto gulped. "U-umm, I was… and Naruto… eating." Naruto mumbled. Sasuke face palmed himself while the other two looked at him quizzically.

"What he was implying was that Sasuke's helping me out with English." Sasuke answered, saving both of their butts.

"Yeah! That's what I'm doing."

"Okay…" Kiba said slowly

An awkward silence filled the table. "Um, Sasuke, want to go to the…" Sasuke saw a group of girls heading towards the bathroom, "bathroom with me?"

"Sure?" Naruto answered. Sasuke took Naruto's wrist and basically dragged Naruto away from the table.

"Bathroom? As a group? I thought only girls do that!" Kiba shouted out in disbelief. " And why didn't Naruto ask me instead?"

Ino and Sakura sat down on the table. "Was that Sasuke and Naruto?" Ino asked.

"Yeah," Shikamaru replied.

"Weird, I thought that they hated each other. They've been acting suspicious." Sakura said, taking a bite out of her sandwich.

"That's what me and Shikamaru were saying .Naruto was acting fine yesterday after class, well, until he passed out." Kiba told the other three.

"Passed out? Why?" Shikamaru asked Kiba. Kiba took a sip from his orange juice.

"Well, Orochimaru gave the two a weird drink and they both passed out after that. I brought- well, Iruka brought Naruto home last night, but he never woke up."

"What was the drink for?" Sakura asked curiously.

"Orochimaru said that it would make the two understand each other, but it didn't say anything about acting like each other." Kiba answered.

Shikamaru started thinking."Wait, do Orochimaru's experiments usually work or do they usually go wrong?" He asked.

Kiba scratched one of his triangular tattoos. "No, almost every one of them fails. Why?"

Shikamaru made a circle-like shape with his hands and closed his eyes. "But, that's impossible." He mumbled out loud.

"What's impossible?" Ino asked.

"Maybe it isn't." Shikamaru opened his eyes and clasped his hands together."Hmm, interesting." He said, smirking.

Me: OOO Shikamaru might have found out! Maybe.

Ghai: NO NO NO, why did you end it there!

Me: x) because I can!

Ghai: T.T update it soon.

Me: I just updated it!

Ghai: It's not enough

Me: -.-

Thanks for reading!

(The end of this story is coming soon!)