Chapter 7- Don't fall asleep on the job
...a book.
Her mouth hung wide open and she asked
"But... hey! Hey! Why do you have a book?" she asked confusedly. Inside the mindscape, where she was free of outsiders, she and Kyuubi rolled around on the floor laughing.
For you see, it wasn't any old book.
It was one they knew very well; ero-sennin's Icha Icha Paradise.
They had been there when he was writing it (the main reason that Naruto had decided it was a very bad idea to tell him Naruto's secret) and had been forced to read the drafts of the final copy.
And now Kakashi was reading it!
Naruto pretended to be angry though, and launched forwards once again.
A punch was thrown. He stepped backwards. A kick was aimed. He ducked. A second punch was thrown... and hit wood.
Naruto stood there, 'surprised' as the silver haired shinobi poofed out of existence. The presence of a dangerous person was felt behind her, but the blonde controlled her natural instinct to turn around and injure the threat, still under the charade of Naruto.
"A ninja isn't supposed to get caught from behind, baka," the voice said lazily.
"Huh?" dramatic, of course, Naruto thought to herself, rolling her eyes as she waited for the next move. Sadly, Naruto knew that it would involve her getting hit.
Damn.
Kyuubi was right, she should have chosen a mask that didn't have to be stupid the entire time.
"Too late now!" the gleeful voice of Kyuubi whispered into her ear. Naruto physically jumped as Kyuubi pounced on her from behind and hugged her.
Fortunately, no-one in the outside world noticed her jump from anything out of the ordinary; they were focused on Kakashi, currently in the seal of a tiger.
It was commonly used for fire jutsus, and the last members of the team were freaking out (calmly- definitely calm) that their sensei was serious enough to use a katon jutsu from such close quarters.
And then he called out the name of the jutsu.
"Sennen Goroshi!"
Naruto hardened her skin with chakra, not enough that he would notice, but enough so that the technique barely hurt at all.
Still had the same force though. She went flying through the air, carefully gathering enough wind chakra to shield her from the drop, and landed in the middle of the woods.
That was really going to smart later.
She sighed, but since the jinchuriki had really had enough of this 'fight the teacher without showing any skill' game that she was so good at, Naruto walked to the nearest tree and climbed it.
Sitting about half way up, she looked across towards her old position and saw Sasuke for a second, before he carefully climbed down and away from the tree, presumably towards the sensei.
Yawning widely, Naruto subtly switched the jutsu gouzen otokonoko (phantom boy) to take chakra from her chakra seal carefully inked onto the inside of her real jacket.
After all, she couldn't have the genjutsu fall down whilst she was asleep and catching up on the rest from last night that she didn't have.
Never mind that she could go for a week without sleep; this was boring and unnecessary and therefore she could sleep through.
Naruto closed her eyes and slept.
Sasuke frowned. Not that it was unusual or anything; but he was frowning at the fact that a team member was missing. A certain hyperactive, idiotic shinobi was running wild.
And Kami knew that was never a good thing.
Kakashi was frowning too, slightly worried for the missing idiot of their... group. It wasn't a team yet, oh no, the children had failed and failed badly. He had given them a second chance, supposedly after lunch, but no blonde had turned up for lunch.
If he (A/N I figure 'hey, his thoughts. I should write he' so yeah) didn't turn up soon, then he was going to reveal his position at the edge of the woods to find them. The Kyuubi container couldn't be left alone for too long after all.
Meanwhile, Sakura wasn't at all worried.
"Cha!" she told inner Sakura irritatedly.
"Sasuke-kun's ignoring me! I bet it's that baka's fault. Where is he anyway? I bet he got lost!" Inner Sakura agreed...
Until Sasuke pushed himself up and announced that he was going to go find Naruto.
"What! Sasuke-kun, why? I bet that the idiot just got lost anyway!" she latched herself onto his arm as he started to walk away.
"Sakura. Let go of my arm. I am going to find Naruto, because he will be a liability left alone without food," Sasuke said evenly.
Sakura pouted at him as she reluctantly let go, then followed him as he started to walk away.
Quickly she caught up, falling into step with the quick paced boy.
"What do you want?" he grunted, looking straight ahead with narrowed eyes.
"Will you go on a date with me after this, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked, peeking shyly at him.
"No," he responded firmly and walked off.
Sakura stopped walking as she saw him walk off, and sighed sadly. He wouldn't go on a date. Oh well. He would surely agree tomorrow! She had long hair after all, and everyone knew that Sasuke-kun liked long hair.
Sasuke wandered further into the woods, eyes peeled back searching irritatedly for a glimpse of orange. Orange meant Naruto. That was his goal.
However, the best he could see was green, dark green, light green, a bit more green, brown, yellow, gree- yellow.
Black eyes zeroed in on blonde hair. Yellow was almost orange, and at least Naruto was easy to spot. Sasuke let a small smirk cross cold features as a top-quality, polished shuriken was pulled out of a pocket. Hah. That would teach Naruto to sleep whilst he was meant to be doing something.
The weapon whistled slightly in the air as it cut straight through to where Naruto was. He lay there sleeping as the throwing star passed over his head, and stabbed itself through the material on his other side.
Naruto tried to shuffle over in his sleep, and ended up crashing into the tree he had been lying on. Eyes now open, he shot upwards as the Uchiha watched, satisfied with his work.
Naruto had in fact, not been asleep. Well, she had been at first (she had spent way too much time with Gaara when she should be sleeping) but the instant Sasuke had come within range of her chakra sensors, she had been jolted from a peaceful rest into a rough tree. Not the best sleeping place, but it would do.
She had then discreetly shifted her gouzen otokonoko to her again, since it made no sense for it to be on her spare reserves when Naruto had plenty of chakra ready to power it with.
The shuriken had been thrown seconds before Naruto started, but she hadn't bothered moving since it would miss.
However, she had thrown in some realistic acting for Sasuke's benefit by pretending that the shuriken had woke her up and made her crash into the tree.
She thought he had bought it. Kyuubi had applauded her the entire time from inside her head, so the blonde had been kind of distracted at that moment in time.
She sprung herself from the tree and swung down like a monkey, making certain of acquiring a few leaves in her hair so that she could still be a baka.
Reaching the floor, a hand reached up and scratched a neck in 'embarrassment' and Naruto apologised (slightly) to Sasuke. Then jumped away.
Sasuke frowned. There was something wrong with this, something suspicious with this scene, but or the life of him, the young prodigy couldn't figure out what.
The forest? Nope, the only sounds made were animals. Someone following them? He quickly extended his chakra senses, but there was nothing within 10 meters of them. Naruto? No he was the same as normal. That must mean-
He was the same as normal. Sasuke had snagged that horrible orange jumpsuit of his with the shuriken. Examining Naruto's left shoulder sneakily, he confirmed what he had suspected. It had definitely hit.
So where was the hole?
(A/N Ok, I'm sorry but I have a stupidly busy weekend, so I'll update as soon as I can, but no promises!)
