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Chapter 10
Ruby fiddled with her fingers as she watched Yang and Naruto talk about clothes and something else she wasn't paying much attention to. This was not her place to fit in. She was a girl, yes, but buying clothes was never really her thing. To her, clothes had to serve one purpose unless they were a battle outfit, then they had to serve two purposes. Right now they were looking for everyday kind of clothes. Yang was trying to reason with Naruto into wearing something with a little less orange and more gold and blue. Naruto wasn't having any of it. Ruby knew that as soon as they were in a weapon shop she'd be right at home. All she had to do was wait until they were at the weapon shop and she could proudly show her stuff.
Sadly, with as much time as they had spent at the store so far, that seemed like a forgone thing. Coco was reasoning with Sasuke on something about colors for Naruto's main battle outfit since the blond couldn't be trusted with such a thing. After he picked out an orange tracksuit, both said he didn't have a choice, much to his displeasure. The only silver lining out of it was that Coco and Sasuke were willing to let him wear anything else so long as his main combat uniform didn't have any orange. Naruto was more than happy to oblige to that and let them go back to trying to find something for him to use.
Ruby pulled out her Scroll and watched footage of Naruto fighting other Grimm to try and figure out what kind of weapon he might be able to use. It was clear he had abnormal strength with how he was able to rip off a Deathstalkers' clay and use it against it to kill it. But then there was his supposed victory over a Nevermore that he ripped in half. Until video footage of that came out, Ruby wasn't going to believe it either.
Her mind raced with ideas for his weapon. Sasuke made it clear that they came from the same place and went to the same school. Naruto's fighting style was more like Yang's than it was Sasuke's. But the basic principle was still the same. Naruto was fast just like Sasuke. Both fought with the purpose of getting in and getting out in quick succession. Naruto had some skill with a sword, given how many Grimm he slew with it, but also, Sasuke had mentioned during their time together that Naruto used similar weapons like himself. So that ruled out guns as a whole unless he was down to try them. She had no problem finding a weapon shop that sold classic weapons.
So if Naruto had brute strength, speed, and endurance on his side, he obviously needed just a normal weapon to get by with. She couldn't see him with a sword just like Sasuke's. That was out of the question as far as she could see. Naruto swung it with such ease that the weight of it might have been nothing to him. He might as well have been swinging a piece of glass with how careful he was with the thing. Never once did he strike the sword on anything harder than soft flesh as if he were fearful to break it. So he needed something that could take a good impact from him. Naruto would want a bladed weapon, not something dull and flat.
The couch she was sitting on bounced, dragging her from her thought. Weiss had plopped down beside her and was watching the two parties try to find clothes for the blond as he stood with a set of outfits in hand that he was being ordered to try on. "I can't believe Ozpin is going to allow someone as young as he is in to Beacon," she said with a huff of annoyance.
Ruby shrugged. "Well, he did let Sasuke in. Perhaps it's because of how strong he is. I mean," she laughed despite how serious she was trying to be, "he did practically save the city. If Ozpin didn't let him in, it might show Vale that he's not taking in the best of the best. How do you think it would look to the rest of the world if an independent Hunter shows up that's younger than the best Hunter in the world and does what he just did? I'm sure Ozpin is just covering all of his bases to make sure people don't assume the worst about us?"
Weiss wasn't sure if she believed that. Ozpin already made a mistake in letting Blake join. Despite her position on the matter, learning the truth was still a hard thing for her to swallow. It was harder than admitting to the world that she knew her father was in the wrong about a lot of things. Her hatred of the White Fang was justified, but her discrimination on all Faunus was not. She came to the defense of her father on more than one occasion and knew that deep down she shouldn't. Why did she have to defend his name when he was dragging it through the mud? He should defend himself.
But the cold truth was that Weiss was his daughter and it was her duty to be there in the defense of her family name, even if it meant defending her father.
"No. I think it has more to do with the fact he wants to do right by both of them." Blake sat down beside Ruby and watched as Naruto came out wearing one of the outfits. Sasuke and Coco shook their heads and he became animated about it. When Yang shoved him back in, Coco and Yang shared a quick grin of victory before talking with Sasuke about something. "Naruto had a hard life growing up, just like Sasuke. I think he wants to make sure that they use their skills for good and not evil intent. Naruto could easily pass as a Faunus and probably is one, so he wants to keep him from the White Fang if he were to meet them. Imagine if they had him on their side?"
Weiss could see it, if she were to believe the stories. Her family's company would be destroyed. Nothing would be left standing if his power was real and was turned on them. Not even Atlas could probably stop something like him if he was really as powerful as they were lead to believe. Could Atlas stop him if he was a member of the White Fang? If Ozpin was letting him join to keep that from happening, she would let it all slide, but really, she didn't think that was the reason. There had to be more to it. Naruto didn't even seem to care about coming to the Academy either. He actually told Sasuke he didn't want to join. Who in their right mind would pass up a chance to become something more than just a regular soldier for hire? Naruto was being given the chance to become a Hunter without even going to a combat school.
It boiled down to one question: What was Naruto?
Blake released a tired sigh as she watched Naruto come out wearing another outfit. Yang and Coco looked at him funny while Sasuke crossed his arms and shook his head. Before either of the three could say anything to him, Velvet walked over with something else. She spoke to them for a brief moment and then put it in Naruto's arms. He gave her a questioning look before complying. He walked in wordlessly and the four began talking anew. Blake caught part of what they were talking about, but she was more focused on her thoughts about Naruto.
He couldn't possibly be a Faunus. Not many Faunus would be lucky to have features like him. There were those that got lucky and had only claws or some other animal feature that was easy to hide. Blake liked being able to hide her ears with the bow, but her nervous tick of moving them to every sound would shatter that illusion. Naruto had only whisker marks that could easily be passed off as scars or even tattoos. No one would think twice about what they were or how he got them.
But his recent questions towards Velvet did have her curious as to whether or not he knew what a Faunus was at all. There were very few cases of Faunus retaining more than one feature. The chances of it happening were so rare that it was next to impossible without the aid of technology to achieve it. Even then there was a less than one percent chance of it even taking. So why on earth would he ask such a question? Sasuke never once stated that they lived in a village without Faunus so there wasn't a chance in hell that they never came across one. Plus, with the White Fang all over the news, there was no way Naruto wouldn't have seen one. His earlier statement about not seeing any was off putting and left Blake curious on how he never saw one to begin with.
"I'm not a fan of it!"
Blake looked up from her thinking pose to see Naruto looking down at his attire and then to Sasuke. The former Uchiha didn't like it one bit, but Coco was more than willing to admit it had some taste to it. He just happened to be missing something that tied it together.
Naruto wore black pants with an orange strip running down the front, a long sleeved black shirt with a golden fox in head in the center of the chest, and a short sleeved white haori that ended halfway down his calves with orange flames coming up from the bottom of it. Naruto seemed to enjoy it. It had some orange on it. He was happy with as much as he got. He didn't really like the fox head on his chest, but he was willing to go with it if only because it was given to him by Velvet.
"Well I like it!" Naruto beamed and grabbed Velvet, pulling her in for a hug. The bunny girl blushed at the contact and looked a little shy about being put on the spot. "We got all my clothes, right?"
"I feel like this goes back on our agreement." Sasuke told him. Naruto deflated. "But I guess you'd just dye it orange anyways so it'll work. Just don't wear it all over the place. We have other clothes for you now." Sasuke whistled and the three girls that had been sitting around doing nothing jumped to their feet. "We're paying out and going to a weapon shop."
Ruby cheered and raced over to Naruto. "So what kind of weapons do you like?"
"Naruto go change into your others clothes so we can pay for that stuff," Sasuke ordered. Naruto stuck his tongue out at him and returned to the changing booth. A moment later he returned and shoved the clothes into Sasuke's hands. "Thank you!"
"I will eat your unhappiness."
Sasuke smirked and marched off with the clothes in tow to pay for them. Ruby marched up on him and grinned as the clothes were paid for. Naruto immediately tore out one of the orang t-shirts he had received and threw Sasuke's long sleeved shirt inside. Yang chuckled endlessly as the former Uchiha grimaced and shuddered at the sight of the all-orange shirt with a black tribal design on the chest. Naruto was super pleased by and ripped the tag off. He stuffed it in his pockets as they marched outside.
"Have you no decency?" Weiss demanded, angry that Naruto had changed shirts right in front of her and in public.
"Not really," he confessed, earning grins from Yang and Coco. "So I have to get some weapons now, right?" Ruby slid right up to him and put her arm through his as she started marching, dragging him behind her. "Aren't we supposed to be following them?" he asked fearfully.
"Nope!" Ruby chimed, happy to finally have some limelight with the supposedly strongest thirteen year old in the world. The others trailed behind her slightly as Ruby started probing for more information on him. "So how do you fight? Are you in and out quick type? Charge straight at the enemy and just mow them down? What sort of fighter are you?"
"He's like me," Sasuke answered before Naruto could say anything. "Though our styles our different, he got the same training I got. So you can expect him to be someone with a lot of tricks up his sleeve, really fast, really strong, and in need of more than just a sword. He is getting weapons similar to mine unless he also wants a sword. That's up to him. But the other items are needed." Ruby nodded in understanding and continued to probe the blond for more information. Satisfied, Sasuke slowed his pace so that he was walking beside the others, giving Ruby and Naruto enough space to actually talk about his weapon on their own. "I think we screwed up by giving an orange shirt like that."
"Why?" Velvet asked. Yang picked that one out. Yang was proud of it.
"He'll never take that one off."
"So?" Yang asked, unsure of what he meant by it. She had shirts she wore all the time because she liked them. She already did her laundry the other day and she was back to wearing the same shirt she the same day she did laundry. It was just hard to see under her coat.
"No I mean I don't think we'll ever see him out of that." Sasuke explained further. "Although," Sasuke paused and looked at the back of his friend, a thought tugging at the back of his mind, "perhaps the whole reason he wore the same clothes all the time was because he really didn't have anything growing up." Blake became unhappy and looked at the blond as Ruby became animated about the weapon choices. Weiss looked a little indifferent, still finding Naruto's previous actions to be displeasing. "He wore this tracksuit all the time. He never changed his clothes. But the more I think on it that might have been because he didn't have any other clothes. He wasn't liked in our village so it wouldn't be that much of a leap to assume that he couldn't get stuff."
"If they thought he was a Faunus, I could see it." Blake confessed sadly. Before she started hiding her ears she had the same problem. She'd walk into a store and be sent out with glares, unable to purchase anything. It was a tough life and only the strong survived. Blake made sure she was strong.
Sasuke fell into a deep thought as he once more thought about what their next course of actions was. Naruto was still not on for joining Ozpin and coming to the academy. He could understand Naruto's logic behind not wanting to join. Why go back to school when he was a fully fledge ninja of their village? What was the point? And even then, Naruto would feel like he was betraying Konoha by coming to Beacon to be a student. Sasuke knew he was going to have to talk to Naruto about that. If anything, Ozpin might have something else that he could do if he opted to not join come to the school as a student.
Sasuke was yanked from his thoughts as they rounded on a weapon shop where Ruby had stopped and was talking to Naruto about something. Sasuke and Weiss hung back to watch as the two talked and ignored most of their conversation as they looked at the weapon shop and to the people passing by on the street. Blake said something to Naruto and Coco responded for Naruto. When Coco replied for Naruto, Velvet said something else and they walked inside. Sasuke followed them in after Weiss marched inside.
Blake split from the others to look at the merchandise with Sasuke and Weiss. The three looked over various projectile weapons from bolts to shells. Sasuke took no interest in the rounds or the arrows and favored more to the various sizes of kunai and shuriken. The desire to get more was strong, but sadly, Naruto needed them more than he did. Their fight before they arrived here cost him all of his supplies. The only thing Naruto still had to his name was his headband that he still wore and the necklace. So this was a trip purely for him. Sasuke could return later if he needed to, but as of right now, he didn't need anything.
Blake picked up a kunai and glanced it before losing interest in it and setting it down. Weiss was looking at various books on fencing. Despite her rise to in rank for their fights, Weiss knew that it was only a matter of a time before someone figured out how to predict her movements for her fights. While unknown to her that Sasuke had already figured it out, along with others such as Pyrrha and Emert, it was becoming far more difficult for her to actually stand toe to toe to people like Ren or even Persia. Her fencing skills were all about being fast and precise. No matter how fast she was, if they could predict her target, she wasn't going to hit them.
Sasuke glanced over to where Ruby and Yang were talking with Naruto about his type of weapons. He was favoring kunai and shuriken and nothing else. Sasuke took a deep breath as he rounded on his friend and jabbed a thumb outside. "Let me borrow him for a second, okay?" Ruby nodded, feeling dejected that Naruto didn't like her opinions on weapons. Naruto sat the kunai in question down where he got it before following the raven haired shinobi out the door. As soon as the door clicked shut, Sasuke asked, "So you're not getting a weapon from here?"
"I'll get the kunai and shuriken, but I don't need any other weapons."
Sasuke could honestly see where Naruto was coming from with that. True, in the shinobi world, Ninjutsu and kunai were your best friends. It made killing people easier if you weren't wielding a fuck-off huge blade or something completely impractical like a hug fan to blow people away. But, when compared to normal kunai, even specially made kunai, a sword would have a longer reach, meaning if you were to afraid to try and get closer, you weren't getting up on them to do your job with the kunai. Of course, the reverse to that was that if they got in to close to you, you're sword, no matter how small or long, was practically useless.
But this wasn't their world. They weren't fighting other humans… yet. Their enemy would be Grimm; monsters with a hunger for destruction and the annihilation of all human life. True, there were criminals out there like the White Fang, but Sasuke couldn't see a bunch of First Year students going down to fight a highly trained and highly motivated and armed group of terrorists anytime soon. This wasn't their world where their first mission away from the village was a lie and they were sent up against Zabuza and Haku. It just didn't work like that here. Sasuke already got a chance to see how the board actually worked for jobs. If Ozpin or Professor Scar wasn't letting you take the job because it was too difficult, by god, you weren't getting it. And no amount of whining or saying you were ready was going to cut it either.
"Fair enough," Sasuke admitted, but his eye told Naruto he wasn't allowing him to get just kunai. "I know why you'd think kunai would be better. We grew up using them and nothing else. We learned how to fight with them. We learned how to throw them. But we learned how to do that by fighting each other in the preparation for fighting other ninja. We weren't learning it to fight monsters like what we face now. So having a practical weapon, something that has some reach, isn't a bad idea. Even Fox, who would rather punch his enemy into the ground, has bladed gauntlets for fighting. Even if you don't take a sword or anything that you have to wield with both hands, at least get something that can be practical when fighting these things. You can't punch or kick or Rasengan all of these things. Are you going to rely on that red power of yours when you fight these monsters?"
Naruto gave him a dead stare. The thought hadn't really gone that for far him. Sasuke may have had a point, but his point was still unheard to him. "I never got training for anything other than kunai," Naruto told him, trying to cut his losses before anything else major come up. "I'm not like you. We're different, Sasuke. You were always the one that was precise and knew how to work every angle. You have a fighting style… a real one. I'm a brawler. I hit you and you will fall. That's how I am. You can use a sword. I can't."
"I could teach you." Naruto made a disinterested noise. "Naruto, just because things were different back home doesn't mean they'll be the same here. No one knows the truth about you. And there are people in that shop right now that actually are interested in you. Blake touched your whisker marks when you were lying in bed asleep while in the hospital. Coco wanted to meet you when she heard about how powerful you were. Pyrrha even said she wanted to get to know you. You have people that want to spend time with you. And I bet that if you ask for help, they'll help you learn how to use whatever weapon you want. I'm not asking you to get a sword. I'm asking you to go in there and get something that you think you can use and not lose a finger to. It doesn't have to be like Ruby's scythe or even Blake's swords."
"That still doesn't change the fact that I don't want them. I've never had a problem fighting the way I do now."
"I know that." Sasuke exclaimed. He sucked in a deep breath when he saw Yang with her face pressed comically against the window. The shop keep inside was shaking his head, clearly unhappy with her. "Look," Naruto looked away from him, arms crossed and an angry expression on his face, "Just go in there and pick out something. You can't tell me that you never walked into one of the shops in Konoha and wanted a weapon that they wouldn't give you. I know you. You were hated in our village because of your power. I know that now. So this is your chance to get something, anything, and learn how to use it. I'll help you if I can. I'm sure that if you really look hard, there are students at that school that would stop to help you. Just… give it a chance. You don't even have to use it. I never use my sword in my matches because I'm terrified I'll kill someone with it."
Naruto sighed and looked back at the weapons in the shop. He saw Yang with her face pressed against the glass and then saw Ruby doing the same, both looking like dorks. Weiss was clearly agitated by their behavior and was doing her best to show she wasn't with them. "Any kind of weapon, right?" Sasuke nodded. "No matter how impractical it is, you'd help me if possible?" Sasuke nodded again. "Fine then," Naruto grumbled, marching back into the store. He walked over to the swords where Blake was perusing them and stopped at one. He picked it up and unsheathed it slowly. Sasuke visibly recoiled at the sight of it. "I'd like something like this," he said plainly.
Blake took the weapon before Sasuke could grab it and examined it. Everything about was fairly normal. It was your standard katana. The hilt was wrapped in golden and orange cloth with a tribal design at the end of it where the two separate colors of cloth converged and became two long tassels that dangled a good four inches before being tied into a knot at the end. The guard was red with a small oval shaped form to it with the same tribal design carved in to it. But the blade was unique. Despite being a dark blue with a slightly wider frame to it and less of a curve, the sharp side of the blade was on the wrong side.
"You can't be serious," Sasuke said flatly. Naruto gave him a blank stare as if daring him to go back on his word. Well, Sasuke thought bitterly, it wasn't really a bad choice. All things considered, Naruto wouldn't need to really cut someone with it if he used it on anyone that was human. Naruto had enough strength behind him that probably having that weapon swung at full force to any part of the human body would remove a limb or break everything he hit. Plus, if Naruto could actually force chakra over the blade to increase its cutting proficiency, who cares if the weapon had the blade backwards? It would make a good surprise to anyone if he could do it and use it on someone. Losing a limb or two in front of someone else would put a deep seeded fear in them.
"It's not impractical," Blake defended. She took the sheath and slid the blade home before returning it to Naruto. "It shows a sense of honor and decency towards life. It speaks volumes about his character. He chooses to view all life as sacred and would rather not be forced to kill if presented with a chance to do so." Somehow Naruto thought that sounded right and accepted it. Truthfully he was getting to be an asshole towards Sasuke, but if she liked it and looked that far into it, then hey, he wasn't complaining. More win for him then. "But it does present a problem for fighting Grimm, but I suppose you'd just flip the blade over." Blake finished.
"Or I could just stab them with it," Naruto told her plainly. Blake rolled her eyes and gave him a light chuckle. Naruto blinked and looked to Sasuke for a moment before saying, "I'm more for fighting with my fists than a sword. Really, I'd rather use kunai, but if we're going up against Grimm all the time, I'd rather have something I can use safely anyways."
"Well if you fight with your fists," Yang began as she walked over to another part of the shop. Naruto put his sword on the counter. Sasuke walked over and grabbed a few kunai and shuriken to set on the counter. "Why not try something like these?"
Yang held in her hand a pair of silver gauntlets with bladed fingers and knuckles. They were barely capable of fighting his arm, but it was clear that the shop keeper probably had more in different sizes in the back. This was just a display case. Naruto looked them over, taking them in hand as Yang continued.
"Normally you'd put a gun on these babies like what I did with mine, but if you're like Sasuke, I doubt you'd like that." Naruto nodded without really paying attention. He heard 'gun' and 'Sasuke' and knew that it was a negative thing. "Since you say you like fighting with your fists, this would work as something you can use on the Grimm as well as giving you some protection when fighting them. Sasuke said you don't have an aura shield and that you can recover from almost anything lethal to a normal person. So I assume that means you don't care much for complete protection. This can give you that. And you'd have the option of either stabbing them through with your hands-since you're absurdly strong and could probably do it without them-or punching them straight into paste."
Naruto tossed it in the air a few times and considered it. It was more his style. If he could punch someone, even Sasuke, with this kind of weapon, there was no way you were just getting back up. His knuckles were hard as stone, but even then, getting hit by a full blown punch on top of something that was bladed and metal wasn't really going to make you wanna get back up unless you were crazy or had a death wish. Sasuke even seemed pleased by the choice when he glanced over to see what Sasuke was doing.
"You sold me," Naruto said quickly. "Do you have anything like that for my tiny arms?" The shop keep nodded mutely and went into the back of the shop. Naruto walked up to Sasuke and looked at the kunai. They were so much like his own back home that he felt a small bit of nostalgia. Sad that he hadn't been awake for long to really miss Konoha just yet and he was already feeling that way. His eyes danced over the rest of the weapons before something else caught his eye. He reached down into another set of displays where kunai were brought out. These ones were silver with a wooden handle and three blades to them. The two extra blades forked off the main blade.
Naruto blinked and in that single moment he saw an image of a man with blond hair wearing a haori appear in his mind. In his left hand he held a kunai similar to these, but the handle was wooden and sporting several seals along it. Naruto opened his eyes and the image faded from his mind. He put the other kunai away and put ten of the tri-bladed ones on the counter. Sasuke gave him a curious look. Naruto remained somewhat quiet and detached for the briefest of moments. Sasuke didn't bother asking why. His mind raced back to being inside Naruto's and what he saw before he could cut Kyuubi's paw off. He could have sworn he saw a weapon similar to that one flying through the air. Perhaps he was just trying to fill in a missing puzzle pieces with this?
The shop keep returned and put the gauntlets on the counter. He rang them up and Sasuke presented Ozpin's card. The man scanned it and gave it back, smiling as he did. Once their purchase was complete it was all sacked up and they marched out. Naruto remained quiet as Ruby rummaged through the bag, despite disapproving looks from Weiss and Blake to pull out one of the oddly shaped kunai. She marveled at it and tested it by lightly stabbing her finger with it. Without her aura to shield her, it was easy for the point of the blade to pierce her flesh and release a small droplet of blood.
"Why would you do that?" Yang demanded, taking the weapon before her sister could hurt herself with it again. Ruby sucked on her finger, offering an odd shrug as she sucked on the blood. "I doubt these things are clean, Ruby? You might have just gotten tetanus or something!"
"Sorry," she said with her finger still in her mouth. "I just wanted to see how sharp it was."
Naruto took the weapon away from Yang and stuffed it back in his bags. "It's okay," he confessed, coming from his own stupor. "I'll be doing the same when I get to the dorm I'm staying at." Naruto was neglecting to say that if he did it, he'd heal instantly. While the mystery of what aura could do for anyone was something Naruto had no understanding of, he knew that a small puncture wound would probably be gone in an hour or so given how fast most people could heal from even something like that. Then again, a simple stab to him was a kunai through his entire hand and that healed overnight unless he was using Hinata's awesome healing cream. Then any injury he had was healed instantly.
"That's not healthy," Velvet berated, staring worryingly at him. Naruto blinked and looked at the clouds overhead. He wasn't used to a girl really worrying about him. It was a new change of pace. Sort of like how Sasuke was friendly, offering to help him learn how to fight using a sword. "So I think that clears up everything we need to do today," she said, returning to her normal cheery self. "Let's go back to the academy and get something to eat. I'd rather not waste money down here in Vale when we can eat for free back at the academy." Cheap as ever, Naruto was willing to agree. At the mention of food his stomach rumbled and he whined silently. "And you won't be eating ramen this time around," she told him sharply. "It stunts your growth."
"Is that a short joke?" Weiss and Ruby said sharply. They slapped hands and gave Velvet a curious glance as if begging her to continue with what she was saying. The shy bunny girl backed off with a light smile and moved to the other side of Naruto where Blake and Sasuke were walking. "Let's just get home," Weiss told them, practically ordering them all. "I'm hungry and the food at the cafeteria will be better than what we can get here."
The group nodded, happy with their work on getting the blond hair youth some weapons and clothes. Now if only he'd join Beacon and become a student…
A/N
Naruto's weapon of a choice is the Reverse Blade Sword for a reason. Blake sort of explain part of the logic behind it, but Naruto was also doing it to be an asshole towards Sasuke, like his one final act of defiance against him. The tri-kunai are actually one of more favorite kind of weapons in the Naruto universe and not because his dad used them. Other people used them too, it was just that Minato actually made them unique with what he did. I think it was someone from Suna did made them unique and then Minato went and did his flying thunder god stuff with it. Naruto's outfit is a darker version of his sage outfit from when he fought Pein. That was, to me, his greatest outfit. Even though the only thing that changed was that he was given a sage a coat, it was still the best to me. I loved it. Naruto's going to go through a minor set of moments where things are shifting for him, some in a good way and some in a bad way really because to him, as Sasuke sort of put it, Naruto sees this as betraying their village. So he has to get sort of get over that hill before he can really start to be more like the person we all know and love around Sasuke. Around the others, he's not going to care too much and be his usual goofy self, but any time he's around Sasuke, until he works this part of his life out, he's going to be a little defiant towards him.