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Author/Artist: ohwhatsherface
Pairing: Uchiha Sasuke x Haruno Sakura
Fandom: Naruto
Theme: other world, #30 faun
Word Count: 702
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Team Seven cringed at the sight of their stone sensei.
"He looks happy," Naruto observed after a moment of silence.
While Sakura agreed, she knew they couldn't just let him remain a statue. "We need to fix him," she ordered. "Do we know any spells to fix this?"
Naruto snorted and looked at her disbelievingly. "Seriously? How can you expect us to when you don't? You're the smart one among the three of us."
"Oi!" Sasuke muttered, punching Naruto.
Sakura decided to ignore the possible offense behind Sasuke indignation. She shook her head and poked Kakashi's stone arm. "Well, I know a spell," she admitted, "but I was just trying to see if you'd been keeping up with your studies, Naruto."
Kakashi had been missing for three days now, and considering how he made them train and study for nearly nine hours a day, those three days off were making Naruto a bit lazy. A lot lazy. While he and Sasuke sure as hell enjoyed the practical part of their time with Kakashi, the theory section was mind-numbingly boring. When Team Seven finally decided to search for him in the Forest of Death (as in actually search—not just go in the Forest of Death like they had a tendency of doing without permission because it was a great place to be when intoxicated by Magic Mushrooms), they weren't all too surprised to find him crouched behind some bushes with a dirty leer on his face.
Sakura murmured an incantation and Kakashi's body suddenly began to twitch. He eventually stood up, brushing pieces of stone off of him.
"Took you little bastards long enough," he whined, putting his hands on his face.
"You're welcome," Sakura snidely muttered.
Naruto ignored Kakashi's obvious pain from having been in the same position for days and launched himself at his teacher. "Kaka-sensei! I missed you!"
Kakashi could only sigh and let Naruto hug him. He awkwardly patted the seventeen-year-old on the head as Naruto held on affectionately. "Er, I've missed you too, Naruto…"
"What happened?" Sasuke asked.
Immediately, Kakashi straightened. "Well," he began nonchalantly, "as I was passing through the forest I saw a faun in the bushes peaking at the nymphs and naturally, since I am a gentleman, I tried to do something about it." The three could see his cheeks redden from what little of his face was visible. "However, the nymphs noticed me chastising that horrid faun and thought I was the one peeking on them." Kakashi scoffed and crossed his arms indignantly. "Given what a chivalrous man I am, I am deeply offended and—"
"Oh, give it a rest you old pervert," Sakura muttered.
"Let's go get ramen!" Naruto suggested, yanking on Sakura and dragging her away. "We have to celebrate that we found Kakashi-sensei and saved him! Ne, sensei, what was it like being a statue?"
"Horrible. I could see everything."
Naruto grinned. "Well it's a good thing we rescued you!"
"What is this 'we' you speak of?" Sakura interrupted. She punched Naruto, making him stumble a bit to the left "I did everything, you jerk!"
"Yeah, but I was moral support—"
"Boys, have you been keeping up with your studies?" Kakashi asked in his teacher voice.
Naruto pursed his lips and tried to find an answer (read: lie). Eventually he just sighed. "Yeah, I have nothing."
Sasuke didn't even deign Kakashi with an answer.
Kakashi frowned and shrugged. "Fine. Tomorrow you're going to have a test on the magical properties of the various mushrooms found in the Forest of Death"—he nearly smirked when they all looked away shamefully—"as well as the disastrous effects that could happen to a witch's body if they ingested one."
Naruto coughed awkwardly. "Right." He shifted from side to side, trying to find a lie but ultimately failing. "I'm just gonna… yeah." Then he teleported away, leaving Sasuke and Sakura alone under Kakashi's all knowing (as a result of being a bloody well-hidden statue) stare.
"I'm going to the library," Sakura announced.
"I'll go with you."
Sasuke didn't miss the way Kakashi winked at them before the two teleported away, indicating he'd seen more than just the three of them getting high.
Crap.