Me: shivers

Kiba: What's the problem now?

Me: O.o Anyone who was reading this fic is gonna kill me...

Kiba: And why is that?

Me: I haven't updated in forever... cringes

Kiba: blank stare weakling.

Me: disappears for a second and reappears doing a flying roundhouse

Kiba: ends up on the floor dammit.

Me: smug grin and yawns mockingly I knew that would come in handy...

Kiba: The thing that worries me is she might do it at school...

It was a pain. Shikamaru stalked out of Sasuke's house. It was also his first experience not being woken up by his mother's yells, but by an alarm clock. He knew he had to try a bit to stay in character, so although he usually slept late and managed to still get there on time, he tried especially hard to get there early. Obviously, he never had Kakashi as a teacher... or Sakura as a teammate, when he's a Sasuke look-alike. He tried to fix his posture, but his shoulders kept slumping into his normal position. At least Sasuke kept his hands in his pockets like he did. It was then where he saw Sasuke... or more now, Naruto walk up.

"Humph." He added, with a look that did not match Naruto whatsoever, "This is so stupid." He cringed as he heard himself speak in Naruto's voice. He told himself that he had to act as much like Naruto as possible, he felt the urge to do well in this, especially since he wanted to make it almost a challenge for himself, as to how long they could pull this off.

"Hi Sasuke-kun..." Sakura blushed slightly, as Shikamaru looked to her and inside his head, he gave a low sigh, 'I forgot this it what it would be like.'

"Ano sa, ano... sa... Saku...ra...chan." Sasuke tried to act hyperactive, which didn't exactly work. He forced his words as he waved his hand from side to side.

Sakura raised an eyebrow and then smacked Sasuke over the head, "Idiot, what's wrong with you?" She then leaned back against the bridge railing and then clasped her hands together, staring softly at Shikamaru.

"Why won't she stop staring at me?" Shikamaru whispered to Sasuke, shaking slightly. Sasuke sighed and answered in a soft voice,

"She always does that... remember... you're me..." Sasuke added, he was a bit in shock that she hit him. It was hard to think that she could act so differently to another person that it became so drastic. After waiting for about an hour or so, the half-asleep Shikamaru was startled by a loud shriek of rage from the bubblegum-haired girl. "UUUGH!!! Kakashi-sensei! You're late again! What is your excuse this time?!"

"Sorry, sorry... I was taking a lovely walk when I was confronted by Orochimaru's ghost." He smiled, rubbing the back of his head.

"LIAR!" She pointed a finger up at him, as Sasuke tried as he could to do so with the equal Naruto enthusiasm.

"Mendokusaina... is he always this late?" Shikamaru asked Sasuke, who couldn't help but be generally pissed that Shikamaru kept asking him questions. Kakashi looked over to the two male genin and blinked for a moment. He couldn't quite figure out what the purpose was so he jumped down from the roof Sakura spotted him standing on.

"Ohayo..." He grinned as usual. Sakura stared at him oddly, "I was thinking about doing some Chakra molding exercises." He looked between Sasuke and Shikamaru, and a loud sigh came from Shikamaru...

"This sucks..." He mumbled under his breath. Then it hit him. Sasuke always insulted Naruto. This was better than he thought. Actually, molding Chakra would be relatively easy for Shikamaru, seeing as how he is naturally the best on his team, probably equal to Sakura if not better.

Upon arriving at the bottom of a waterfall, Kakashi looked up, the sun blazing into his eyes. He took out his book and concealed himself underneath a tree.

"For today, we're going to combine two things you've learned how to do activities such as walking on water and sticking to a tree. This is a more challenging task. The water is rushing against you so you cannot get a running start. The natural chakra flow follows the water. When the water is moving, your Chakra will have a tendency to lead you in the other direction. Plus, the rock surface is very slippery. Start. " He waved his hand with a sigh. He figured out that he would let them do something basic for this week, and the Hokage even offered the suggestion, seeing as how business was extremely slow for the day.

'Be like Naruto... be like Naruto' Sasuke thought carefully to himself. 'Be a clumsy idiot.' He smirked at the thought. He went into the water and gathered as little chakra as possible, "Sakura-chan! Look at me!" He snickered, getting better at acting like the blockhead.

"Naruto! Shuddap! I'm trying to concentrate!" She yelled, but noticed that Naruto was struggling with his words, what was making him so goddamn tongue- tied?

Sasuke started to run and then automatically slipped about two seconds after trying to make an impact in the wall. Sakura, upon looking at this thought simply, 'He's having an off day.. .he's usually better at this...' She gathered her chakra carefully, and only concentrated on it. She then slowly started to trudge her way, up. It initially was hard, but it gradually became easier, she made it about 3 quarters of the way up when she heard Kakashi answer,

"Well done Sasuke." She looked up at the more than usual, relaxed Sasuke. When did he improve so much. She did like him, this was true, but it hurt her heart that now he was even better than her at gathering Chakra... now what was she going to be good at? Her inner Sakura burned inside, but instead, she slowly reached the top and responded, cupping her hands together.

"Wow Sasuke! That was amazing!" She squealed. Shikamaru paused for a second. It was weird getting used to this. He has never been cheered on for something so effortless...

"Hmph." He answered sticking his hands in his pockets and went to sit at the edge of the bank. About a couple hours later, Sasuke finally made it up the waterfall. Of course, he was just doing this to be like Naruto, yet he probably didn't realize he was overdoing it.

"Dobe." Shikamaru snarled to Sasuke. As Sasuke twitched irritably, that was his saying, Shikamaru was gloating inside himself. Although he would never admit it, he was jealous of Sasuke's popularity or more of just irritated by it. Whichever one it was, it didn't really matter.

Sakura looked at Sasuke with a funny face. Something must have been occupying him. Since when was Naruto, quiet? Suspicion rose in her mind, and the careless way Sasuke got up the waterfall, was so effortlessly. Something was up and she was going to find out just what it was. Her inner laughed wickedly as though she became an evil demon. She smirked and then as she noticed now everyone paying attention to the unusually quiet Sakura she slightly blushed.

Lee: Well that sucked...

Me: twitch And... WHY is that?

Lee: grinns Neither Gai nor I were in it!

Me: But you're not on team 7.... -- blinks

Lee: Oh cruel world! Why am I a year older than Sakura-chan!?

Me: sweatdrop I'm not even going to try... walks away emotionlessly