3: Sasuke Screws Up
"Did you get a good luck at them before they ran away?" Sakura asked Sasuke as they sped down the street after the twins.
"No," Sasuke said solemnly. "They were moving too fast."
Naruto gave a short cackle. "Sasuke is an idiot!" he proclaimed. "He got whipped by a couple of kids!"
Sasuke fumed, "If I'm an idiot, than you're an even bigger idiot, since we're on the same team and we're sharing the same mission."
"SO?" Naruto said as he leapt across a wall. "You're the one who has the Sharingan!"
"Shut up, Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed, nettled on Sasuke's behalf. Naruto pouted. "We can't argue right now! Those kids need to be tracked down and brought home! It's really dangerous for little kids to be running around by themse—AH!"
A kunai came hurtling towards her and it took some of her best abilities to jump out of the way. The team screeched to a halt and stared at the weapon embedded in the wall where Sakura had been standing earlier.
"Who would attack us?" Sakura asked, wrenching the kunai out of the brick wall. In response to this, a flood of shurikens came hurtling towards them.
"What's going on?!" Naruto exclaimed, jumping onto the top of the wall out of harm's way. "An enemy? Now?!"
"Those are genin? They're so weak!"
Naruto bristled. "Who's there?!" he cried. But before the voice could respond, Sasuke immediately hurled a kunai at a tree. It gave two timid squeaks, and two bodies fell onto the ground.
"The twins?!" Sakura exclaimed incredulously. "…Your mom lets you play with sharp things?"
"A bunch of brats?" Sasuke muttered, crossing his arms. "Kids like you shouldn't play ninja. It's dangerous."
"You're one to talk, Uchiha!" one of them, a boy, cried. He quickly drew out another shurikan, but Sasuke beat him to it. He raised another kunai with a menacing glare.
"Don't even think about it."
The other Sasegawa twin, a girl, looked rebellious. "If people like you can become genins, then we ought to be allowed to take the genin test too!" she said.
"What was that?!" Naruto shouted. "A genin is required to do a lot of tough jobs! Little kids like you shouldn't be allowed—" He was silenced by the little boy impudently kicking both of Naruto's shins.
"OUCH!" Naruto cried. "Why you—!"
"RUN, KIRI!" the boy shouted. They both dashed away.
"Do they really think it'd be so easy to escape?" Sasuke said, looking a little bored. He disappeared from his position next to Naruto and Sakura and appeared in front of the twins. From behind, Sakura clapped her hands eagerly as Naruto fumed.
"You two are coming with us," Sasuke said, grabbing both of their collars roughly. "We're going to play a nice game of checkers when we get back—"
POOF
Sasuke stared.
Sakura's eyes bulged.
Naruto struggled to restrain his laughter.
Sasuke dropped the two straw dolls, faces drawn in with charcoal and thread, with disgust. From the distance, Sakura could depict the fire raging in his eyes.
"Sasuke-kun?" she called tentatively. "The replacement jutsu?"
Sasuke let out a low feral growl. "Let's get them," he spat.
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Coming up...
4: Rivalry
"If that's the case," Shino said suddenly, "The first one to finish painting two walls will get a date with Hinata."
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