Naruto Primer: Sasuke/Rock Lee
Shindainishin Revisited!
Ever since Sasuke tripped on that banana peel in front of all the guys, he just hasn't been able to control his inferiority complex. Why hadn't he noticed that there was a banana peel under his foot?! Why was it only HIM who had slipped on that banana peel?!
Everyone else, meanwhile, had completely forgotten about it. Especially Lee who was out looking for Sakura to ask her on a date as we speak.
"Sakura, will you go out with me?" Lee practiced as he walked down the street. "Or…Sakura, would you do me the honor of…no…oh, why do I even bother? It's not like she'll ever say yes!"
Lee's speech was well timed because Sasuke just so happened to overhear him. Mind you, he doesn't care about Sakura or the fact that Lee is having troubles getting her to date him, more so the fact that Lee was THERE instead of being somewhere else.
"Lee, I demand that you fight me now!" said Sasuke, pointing at Lee.
"I accept!" said Lee immediately. "After all, we never really got back to our battle after we went to Papa Gino's! I've beat you once before, I'll do it again!"
"I LET you win!" Sasuke argued as he got ready to use his Katon Ryuuka even though it never works.
"Oh, don't bother using that Katon Ryuuka." Said Lee. "I can tell just by your hand seals just what you're doing. It's easy to dodge and I know exactly how to read it."
"I WASN'T doing that move…" Sasuke said as he quickly changed his hand seals.
"Not the Katon Goukakyuu either." Said Lee. "Or the Katon Housenka. All those fire moves are all the same and equally easy to dodge!"
"Fine then I'll have too—"
"Don't tell me that you're going to use the Shishi Rendan!" said Lee. "That is practically MY move so you honestly think that I don't know how to dodge it?"
"I wasn't planning on using that one!" said Sasuke, getting frustrated. "If you're going to be so cocky then I'm going---"
"Didn't Kakashi tell you NOT to use the Chidori in minor fights?" Lee asked.
Sasuke quickly racked his brain trying to think of a move that Lee had never seen before so he could throw him off guard. Suddenly, he found one that he had copied from someone. He couldn't remember where from or when, but if he didn't even know what the move was then there was no chance that Lee could possibly know!
"Let's see how you do against the Shindainishin no Jutsu!" said Sasuke as he performed all the hand seals. As soon as he said the name, he remembered just what it was. "Oh crap."
But they were both enveloped in white light that soon diminished. After a moment of silence, Sasuke looked down at himself.
"OH my god!" he yelled as he jumped up in the air. "Look at me!! I'm Sasuke!! I'm Sasuke!!"
"Hurry Lee, hug me and say you love me before anyone sees us!" said Lee frantically.
"Wait…what?" said Sasuke.
"Okay, okay…" said Lee, figuring he deserved at least an explanation. "In my frazzled state, I accidentally used a move to switch our bodies. As you can see, you're inside me and I'm inside you. This has happened to me before and the only way to turn us back is to hug each other say that we're in love."
"Well that's weird!" laughed Sasuke. "But if it's the only way…"
"Yes, unfortunately, it is the only way." Said Lee.
"Absolutely then, since we can't very well have us be in each other's bodies for longer than we need to!" said Sasuke.
"You are a lot more reasonable than Naruto." Said Lee and just when they were hold each other in a warm embrace of artificial love, Sakura suddenly rounded the corner.
"SASUKE!!" she called as she ran over.
"Not yet." Said Lee, pushing Sasuke away because he didn't need Sakura pulling the, "YOU'RE GAY?!" like he knew she would.
"Are you two fighting over my love again?" she asked.
"Indeed we are, Sakura!" said Sasuke.
Sakura was just about to say something but then she paused and looked at Sasuke. "Wha?" she said.
"Sakura, I would like you ask if you wanted to go on a date with me!!" said Sasuke dramatically as fire burned in his eyes.
"NO!!" yelled Lee.
"Of course!!" said Sakura. "Sorry, Lee, but I only like you as a friend!"
"You can't date her!" said Lee angrily.
"I'm in heaven!" said Sasuke.
"Me too!" Sakura agreed.
"I'll see YOU at six!" said Sasuke.
"Okay!" Sakura said happily as she skipped off.
"What was that all about?!" demanded Lee.
"Please let me date Sakura JUST ONCE and then we can switch back!" Sasuke pleaded. "I'll never EVER get another date again in my life! Especially with Sakura! You can do whatever you want while you're me! You can make me look like the biggest idiot ever!"
"I'm not going to walk around making you look like an idiot." Said Lee since he KNEW he was WAY above that.
"I NEED this date!!" Sasuke said, getting down on his knees and begging. "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!"
"FINE!!" Lee yelled.
"REALLY?!" said Sasuke, springing up. "NO WAY!! YOU'RE THE GREATEST GUY EVER!! Let's be best friends from now on!!"
"Please don't act so flamboyant while you're me." Lee said, shaking his head.
"Right!" said Sasuke. "Don't worry, after my date I'll come and find you!!"
"You won't have to look hard, I'll be right there." Lee assured him.
"OKAY!!" said Sasuke as he ran off. Lee wondered if he really should have done that.
Lee walked off, wondering what he would until after the REAL Lee's date was over. "Let's see…" he said to himself. "As Lee, I don't have to worry about girls chasing after me. I don't have to worry about guys wanting to fight me. I also don't have to worry about random people ambushing me and trying to kill me but failing…" He thought for a moment. "I guess I could relax all day."
He paused.
"Or I could train." He finished.
With that, he made his way to his favorite training area.
Sasuke, meanwhile, was ALSO wondering what he could do. After all, he said to Sakura that he'd meet her at SIX, and it was only TWO now. "Girls are going to be chasing after me, guys will want to fight me and random people are going to ambush me and want to kill me but FAIL!!" Sasuke said to himself. "The possibilities are endless!!"
"AND," Sasuke added, pointing his finger up in the air. "I can use ninjustu and genjutsu!"
That sunk in.
"OH MY GOD!!!" he yelled at the top of his lungs so that random bystanders were frightened. "I CAN USE NINJUTSU AND GENJUTSU!!! I MUST FIGHT SOMEONE!!!"
Of course, the REAL Sasuke, who is currently in Lee's body (hopefully you knew that) had reached his favorite training spot. "Hm…I need to create a new move to use against Lee that isn't…THIS one…" he said, finishing up while sounding quite annoyed.
"But Lee's right…" he continued. "Those fire attacks really never do work. I need to find a way to improve on them. Maybe if I combined one of the attacks with the Shishi Rendan… that would be cool."
So Lee splurged up some fire and combined it with the Shishi Rendan and… OH MAN, it was awesome!
Unfortunately, he didn't quite get passed the splurging up the fire. He didn't even get that far. "What's going on?" he wondered. "Why isn't there any fire?"
He had to think about it for about a half a second before he figured it out.
"Oh…no…" he said.
Sasuke (the false one) was not NEARLY as upset about the switch. He had been running at full speed to Neji's favorite training area with high hopes that Neji would be there. Training.
He came to a stop and, when the dust cleared, he saw that Neji was standing there looking quite annoyed. "What are you doing here?" he asked.
"FIGHT ME!!!" Sasuke yelled.
"Not right now…" Neji said.
"NO, IT HAS TO BE NOW IN THE TIMES BETWEEN TWO AND SIX!!!" Sasuke yelled.
"Well fine then." Said Neji as he got in his fighter stance. "Even though you didn't want to fight me before."
"I'm going to use ALL my ninjutsu and genjutsu on you!!" said Sasuke. "First, I'll use the Bunshin!!"
"…Okay…" said Neji, looking slightly confused. "But I don't think that's going to work. Especially since you just TOLD me what you're doing."
"Hang on!" said Sasuke. "Back up a little bit, I need a little space to do this. Just wait a few seconds."
"What?" said Neji, standing up straight.
"Ready?!" said Sasuke as he closed his eyes and concentrated, performing a hand seal. There was a poof and then a horrible deformed transparent version of Sasuke appeared next to him all dead and immobile, kind of like what Naruto did in the first few chapters. He opened one eye and looked at it. "I DID IT!!! LOOK AT THAT!!!"
Neji was at a loss for words. "Did you hit your head?" he asked finally.
"This is the best thing that's ever happened to me!" Sasuke announced. "Well, except for the fact that I'm going out on a date with Sakura. But I guess that hasn't happened yet so being able to use ninjutsu and genjutsu is, as of right now, the best thing that's ever happened to me!"
"You're not Sasuke." Said Neji finally.
"HOW'D YOU KNOW?!?!" yelled Sasuke as he looked as though he was going to faint.
"It was a little obvious." Neji said, rolling his eyes.
"Neji, you have to teach me a move!!" Sasuke begged. "Now that you know my horrible secret, I have to learn one of your moves!"
"How does that make any sense at all?" demanded Neji. "And besides, I don't even know who you are, all I know is that you're NOT Sasuke. For all I know, you're some evil villain bent on destroying the entire human race and learning one of my moves is key to your evil plan."
"I'm not." Said Sasuke. "I'm Lee. Me and Sasuke traded bodies with the Shindainishin no Jutsu!"
"Lee?" Neji said with a raised eyebrow. "I know it's not true now since the REAL Lee wouldn't be able to use the Shindainishin no Jutsu."
"No, Sasuke used it!" Sasuke said.
"Why would Sasuke switch bodies with Lee?" Neji wondered. "If he were to switch bodies with someone, wouldn't you think it would be with a jounin, or the Hokage…or, if it had to be another one of us genin…me?"
"I don't know!" said Sasuke. "He just did!"
"Right, whatever." Said Neji.
"It's true!" said Sasuke.
"Oh yes, I believe you." Said Neji in a very patronizing tone.
Since Sakura loves Sasuke OH so much, she had decided to stalk him as he ran off into the forest. She had figured that since he loved her too so it would be okay if he caught her stalking him! However, she had just so happened to overhear this conversation between Neji and "Sasuke". Poor her!
"Oh my god!" Sakura whispered to herself as she turned around and tuned the two out. "Then it was Lee the whole time who asked me out on a date? And I said yes?"
She groaned slightly and was just about to run away crying when Sasuke, or Lee rather, came speeding by her, probably not even noticing her. She peeked back around the corner to see Neji now all by himself. After a few moments of debating with herself, she stepped out into the opening where Neji could see her… even though he could probably already do it.
"Did I just hear that conversation correctly?" she asked. "I mean, how Sasuke was saying that he was actually Lee and that the real Sasuke used the Shindainishin no Jutsu?"
"Yeah, but it was probably just an attempt to confuse me." Neji said. "Then, when he realized it didn't work, he just ran off."
"No, it was probably true." Sakura sighed.
"Why do you say that?" Neji asked.
"Because it's happened before." She replied. "Naruto accidentally used the technique to switch with Sasuke and they were stuck as each other for almost a whole day. What should we do?"
"Do we have to do anything?" Neji said.
"Come on!" she said, getting an idea. "If you help me get them back in the right bodies then I'll tell you how I knew your blind angle!"
"Fine." Said Neji ALL too quickly.
Meanwhile, Sasuke (the false one) was standing outside a store window looking at his reflection while holding a comb, looking as though he was about to attack his hair with it. "Such bedhead!" he said.
It just so happened that the REAL Sasuke within Lee's body was walking by at that time. "What are you doing." He said NOT in the form of a question at all.
"Oh, I'm just fixing your hair for my date." Said Sasuke. "You look like you slept on your hair weird."
"I like it like that." Lee said. "Don't change it. I don't give you permission to do so."
At that exact moment, Neji and Sakura came out of nowhere. "Lee!" said Sakura, pointing at Sasuke. "I know it's you in there!"
"HOW?!" Sasuke yelled.
"Neji told me." Sakura said.
"NEJI?!" yelled Sasuke. "YOU PROMISED YOU WOULDN'T TELL ANYONE!!!"
"…What?" said Neji. "I didn't make any promise like that. Besides, I didn't even tell her. She just listened in to our conversation when you were telling ME."
"Oh no!" whined Sasuke. "Will you still go out on a date with me, Sakura?"
"No!" said Sakura, crossing her arms.
"WHY NOT?!" cried Sasuke.
"Because not only do I know that you're not REALLY Sasuke, but you tried to deceive me into think that you were so that I'd go on a date with you." Sakura explained. "You've done it before."
"OH ALAS!!" exclaimed Sasuke sadly, which looked pretty hilarious.
"So does that mean I get my body back sooner?" Lee asked.
"Wait!" said Sasuke dramatically. "Can't I just use the Sharingan really fast or something?!"
"Geez, is that everyone's secret desire, to use the Sharingan?" Lee sighed. He looked at Sakura and Neji.
"Yeah…" Sakura said with a shrug.
"Not me." Said Neji. But then it looked like he was battling internally with himself for a good ten seconds. "Well…maybe… but just a little…"
"You won't be able to use it, Lee." Said Lee. "It's not something you can just do because you're in my body. It takes a lot of hard work and years to learn."
"I'm good at hard work!" said Sasuke. "No one works harder than me!!"
"Well, I'm not about to wait years for you to learn how to use the Sharingan in your ninjutsu-less, genjutsu-less, Sharingan-less, huge eyebrowed body." Lee said with a sigh.
"That was just mean!" said Sakura.
"No, it's okay!" said Sasuke. "He's been extra nice for letting me use his body for a few hours, especially since he had intentions of letting me go out on a date with you! So, I guess since I can't use the Sharingan… I might as well just go back to my body."
"I'm glad this was a lot easier than with Naruto." Said Lee.
"Hang on." Said Sasuke. "Are you SURE you don't want to go on a date with me, Sakura? After all, you liked my personality back when I was pretending to be Sasuke's not evil brother and now I'm in Sasuke's body!"
"I don't have a not evil brother." Said Lee.
"Uh…you have a point but…uh…" Sakura said quickly. "My heart belongs only to Sasuke! I must remain faithful!"
"Very well." Said Sasuke sadly as he wiped a tear from his eye. "I wish not to cheat in life since I worked hard to---"
"Lee, don't make this any more painful than it already is." Said Neji.
"All right then!" said Sasuke.
Sasuke and Lee finally had their loving embrace and then, all was well.