Naruto Primer: Sasuke and Naruto

Shindainishin no Jutsu

We said in Sasuke's previous chapter that we would discuss Sasuke's inferiority complex.  Well, mainly, if Sasuke has recently lost a battle and is feeling like he is not strong anymore, he does the unmanly thing and challenges someone weaker than he is to a battle.  This all roots back to his superiority complex.

Naruto is one of those guys who are weaker than Sasuke.  Even though Naruto constantly surprises everyone with his power and drive, Sasuke believes that he is still on another level than him.  But Naruto shouldn't feel bad because Sasuke thinks he's on another level than everyone.

But little did everyone know that Naruto was getting sick of Sasuke and his complexes so, all this time, Naruto has been working hard to learn a new technique to just surprise the pants of Sasuke.  He plans on using the brand new Shindainishin no Jutsu to take control of Sasuke's mind for a few minutes.  Sure, it wouldn't prove much, but it sure would be fun to see the expression on Sasuke's face once he realizes he's defeated!!

All Naruto had to do was wait for Sasuke to challenge him.  And, since Sasuke had been feeling particularly bipolar recently, it didn't take long before he began to feel the weight of his inferiority complex and announce that it was now time for their fight.

"I'm not going to go easy on you just because you're weak!" said Sasuke.  You see, he can have both complexes simultaneously.

"Just wait until you see my new technique!" Naruto exclaimed.

"New technique?" Sasuke said, his curiosity piqued.

"Yeah, just you wait and see!" said Naruto as he got ready to perform the Shindainishin no Jutsu by performing the right hand seals.  Sasuke could help but watch and wonder if Naruto could actually do it.  Half of him wanted Naruto to fail just so he could laugh at him, but the other half wanted him to succeed so he could use the Sharingan to copy it.

"I'm waiting!" Sasuke called.

"Shindainishin no Jutsu!" Naruto yelled as the two of them were engulfed in white light.  Naruto had never used the move properly so he didn't really know if it was supposed to be doing that or not, but he figured it was an improvement from when it just… did nothing.

When the light dimmed, the two of them were just standing there as if nothing had happened.  They had seen the light, but nothing as a direct result of it.  But as soon as they saw each other, both gasped and came very close to fainting.  If they were two girls, they probably would have fainted.

"What did you do, you idiot?!" yelled Naruto.

"I don't know!" Sasuke said nervously, looking at his hands frantically.  "It wasn't supposed to do this!  I was just supposed to take control of your mind!"

"That's the Shinsourashin!" Naruto groaned.

"Well what did I do then?" Sasuke wondered.

"The Shindainishin." Naruto said, sounding much like a whine.  "That's the technique for temporarily switching bodies with your opponent."

"WHAT?!" yelled Sasuke.  "I mean, I sort of gathered that from what happened to us but is there any way to…I don't know…turn it off?!  You know, make us go back to the right place?"

"I said temporary, idiot." Said Naruto, pacing.

"How long is temporary?" complained Sasuke.

"I'm sure there's a way to reverse it." said Naruto. 

"I'll just try using the technique again." Said Sasuke as he started making the seal for the Shindainishin.

"You won't be able to in my body." Naruto said.  "My body's not trained for that technique."

"We'll have to go and ask Kakashi to fix it then." Sasuke said.

"No way!" said Naruto.  "There's not a chance I'm going to go around walking in your body and telling people that I'm stuck in here all because you couldn't learn how to do a stupid technique right!"

"I don't like this anymore than you do!" Sasuke said.  "We don't have to go around telling people that we've switched, just Kakashi."

"You can't tell ANYONE." Said Naruto.

"Come on, who am I going to tell?" said Sasuke with a roll of his eyes. 

Just then, Ino popped out of nowhere and jumped on Sasuke.  "Good morning, Sasuke!" she sang.  "How about we go on a date tonight or something?  I promise it'll be fun!"

"Oh, I'm not Sasuke." Said Sasuke.  "I'm actually Naruto.  Me and Sasuke switched bodies by accident and he's right over there in my body."

"NARUTO!!" yelled Naruto.

"Oops…" said Sasuke.

"Wait…what?" said Ino, confused.

"It's nothing!" Naruto said quickly, grabbing Sasuke's arm and pulling him in the other direction.  "Come on, SASUKE." Naruto angrily dragged Sasuke around the little village, in search of Kakashi.  He didn't know exactly where to find Kakashi, so the two ended up wandering around aimlessly for a while until they crashed into Sakura who was just walking around foolishly.

"What are you two doing together?" she asked.

"Er…nothing." Said Sasuke, remembering that he wasn't supposed to tell anyone about the predicament.

"Good god, Sasuke!" gasped Sakura, slapping her cheeks.  "Why did you lead me on to believe that you weren't gay when you're going out with Naruto behind my back?!"

"WHAT?!" yelled Naruto AND Sasuke.

"You could have just told me the truth." Sakura said, a tear forming in her eye as she ran off.

"You're gay?" said Sasuke to Naruto.

"No, I'm not." Naruto answered.  "And even if I was, there's NO way I would go out with YOU."

It was then that Naruto and Sasuke spotted Kakashi with Asuma, Kurenai and Gai having a, "We're jounins and teachers, isn't that grand?" party, which consisted of having a pleasant little cup of tea.

"Your student, Neji, was actually a lot better at the Macarena than I would think." Said Kurenai as she drank some of her tea.

"Of course!" said Gai.  "He had ME as his teacher!"  He smiled and his teeth went; PING!!

"I think I want to teach my students the Macarena…" said Asuma, sounding wistful.

That's when Naruto and Sasuke decided to interrupt before Kakashi announced that he would be teaching his students the Macarena as well.

"KAKASHI!!" yelled Sasuke.  "WE HAVE THIS AWFUL PROBLEM!!  WE HAVE ACCIDENTALLY SWITCHED…"

Naruto threw a hand over Sasuke's mouth.  "Do you have to be so loud about it?!" he demanded, looking around.

"Switched what?" asked Kakashi quizzically.

"Switched bandanas?" said Asuma foolishly.  "Simply take them off and exchange them."

"Then put them back on of course." Said Kurenai.

"Of course." Laughed Asuma.

"What's your problem?" asked Kakashi, ignoring the others.

"I don't think I want to say with everyone else here." Said Naruto.  "Now I know that you guys don't keep anything secret because we just heard you talking about that time Neji was caught doing the Macarena."

"EVERYONE saw that." Said Kurenai.  "It's no secret."

"You still don't need to talk about it." said Naruto.

"Let's just say it." said Sasuke.

"Not in front of THEM!" Naruto said.  "They'll just go and tell all their students and then EVERYONE would know!"

"Why do you care?" asked Sasuke.

"What's the problem?" Kakashi repeated again.

"Fine, just say it." Naruto said, crossing his arms.  "You say it though, since it's your fault."

"We accidentally switched bodies." Said Sasuke.

"No you didn't." said Kakashi as if he KNEW.

"…Yeah we did." Said Naruto, looking offended.

"I can tell these things." Kakashi assured them.

"Why would we lie about something like this?" said Naruto angrily.

"Fine, if you're in each other's bodies, prove it." Kakashi said.

Naruto and Sasuke looked dumbfounded.  "How would we do that?" asked Sasuke.

"If you don't know the answer, how do you expect me to?" said Kakashi.

"Wait, is this a test or something?" asked Sasuke.  "This is another one of those weird test things that you do just to mess with our minds for a little while!  You were the one who gave me that Shindainishin no Jutsu after all!"

"No, I gave it to Naruto." Said Kakashi, pointing at Naruto.

"So you DO know!" said Naruto.  "Why would you do that?!"

"BOO!!" said Gai suddenly.

"Uh…" said Naruto uneasily.  "Seriously though…"

"BOO!!" Gai yelled again.

"Don't bother, Gai, they've figured it out." Said Kakashi.

"Of course we figured it out!" yelled Naruto.  "We figured it out the moment it happened!!  What I want to know is why you would do something like that to us!"

"BOO!!" yelled Gai for a third time.

"Gai, please, these are my students." Said Kakashi.

"Is that how you train your students?" Sasuke asked.  "Just try and surprise them so they forget what they asked?"

"BOO!!" Gai yelled.

"It doesn't work." Said Sasuke.

"You sure?" said Gai.

"Well, Naruto and Sasuke, there's only two ways to turn back." Kakashi said, folding his hands pleasantly.

"What are they?" they both said eagerly.

"One, you can come to a mutual understanding of each other's differences and become the best of friends!" Kakashi announced.

"I…don't think that's going to happen." Said Naruto AND Sasuke AT THE EXACT SAME TIME!!!  THEY EVEN PAUSED AT THE SAME POINT TOO!!

"Or, you could trick the Jutsu into thinking that you two are the best of friends by embracing each other tightly and yelling, 'I love you!!' as loud as you can." Kakashi finished.  They stared at Kakashi with murderous glares.  "It's only one moment of horror and then it's all over."

"Besides, it's not like you're actually hugging the other person!" said Asuma.

"Yeah, it's like you're hugging yourself!" said Kurenai.

"Instead of the other person!" Asuma said.

"Yeah!  It's just yourself!!" said Kurenai.

"As much as it pains me, I don't want to have to be YOU any longer." Said Naruto to Sasuke.

"I don't know…" said Sasuke.  "I've always been ostracized because I was possessed by the fox demon but now, if I'm YOU then I won't have that problem!  Plus, I'll have the Sharingan so it'll be a lot easier to become Hokage!  And, above all else, Sakura will love me!  Besides, I bet you just want to hug me because you're gay just like Sakura said."

"I'm not gay, and you can't do that." Said Naruto, trying not to lose his temper.

"I'll just be you for a little while longer." Said Sasuke.  "Just for fun!"

"Kakashi!" whined Naruto.  "Make him give me my body back!"

"I can't very well force him." Said Kakashi.

"Sure you can!" said Naruto.

"No, can't do it." Kakashi said.  "If you really want to get back in your own body, you'll have to convince him yourself.  You better go find him or something."

Naruto turned around to see that Sasuke wasn't there.  "NARUTO!!!" yelled Naruto.  "GET BACK HERE!!!"  With that, hurried off to find himself.  Literally.