A/N: OK, next chapter's here.
Neko? Then Neko it is…: Save Neji, Shika, Hinata and TenTen?? Oh, but making them mice is what gets the story exciting!! Buahaha!! Afterall, it'll be cool to see a mouse use Byakugan… Herherz…
Chapter 4: Three Down… and the Rest of the School to Go
Naruto suppressed a shudder as he turned into the cafeteria. He had been excited at the start but now he was just plain scared. Sasuke had left a lot earlier to set up some hiding spot with the camcorder and now Naruto had to face the six-armed sub by himself.
"Calm down… breathe in, breathe out…" He told himself. He turned and stepped into the cafeteria.
Kidoumaru looked up and smiled a very fake-looking sweet smile. "Ahh… Naruto! I knew you'd come."
"You did?" Naruto asked, trying not to let his fear overtake him.
"Yes. I knew you'd come too." Sakon's voice sounded from behind him, causing Naruto's heart to jump. He spun around, "Oh! Sakon and Ukon sensei's!! Haha… how come you're here?"
"To watch a pupil on our own class receive a reward. We're here to support you." Ukon said in a creepy voice.
"Why, you really don't have too…" Naruto tried to appear as unafraid as possible, "What nice teachers you are. But I'm sure you have a lot of papers to mark and people to scold, so… err, why are you locking the door?" His last sentence came out high pitched and squeaky, making Naruto feel like he was already a mouse.
"Why, so that other students won't see you and get jealous. Wouldn't want a crowd of candy-loving students pouring in now, do we?" Sakon said, latching the door.
'What kind of a lame excuse is that?!' Naruto thought, appalled by the lack of credibility in the reasoning. He was just about to angrily voice that very opinion when Kidoumaru called and threw a chocolate bar straight at his face, and Naruto caught it just before it hit the floor.
"Oh! Thanks sensei! I'll be off now. Toodles!!" Naruto gave a wave and proceeded to walk toward the cafeteria exit. Sakon/Ukon stood their ground in front of the door, and Kidoumaru seemed to be getting impatient, "Aren't you going to eat it here?"
"Oh, no…" Naruto replied shakily, "I'm going to enjoy this in my mouse- I mean, house! And I'm gonna be bait- LATE… at this rat- I mean… RATE!!"
Kidoumaru narrowed his eyes, but forced a smile, "Oh, just finish it here, and you can be on your way home…"
"NO!! I mean… no! Haha… I really must get going…"
"JUST EAT THE DAMN THING!!"
"Ok!" Naruto tore the wrapper off and shoved the chocolate bar into his mouth.
"Ahaha… very, {chomp} very yummy!!" Naruto said with a full mouth, "I'll be {chomp} going now…"
Sakon/Ukon just stayed at the door. Naruto was about to put up a fight when six hands pushed him from behind, causing him to swallow the entire mouthful of partially masticated chocolate in one gulp.
'SHIT!!' Naruto cursed in his head, with one single word reverberating in his mind: MOUSE.
He felt himself becoming shorter, and he could feel his bones moving around like he was some lego doll getting remodeled. He could feel the whiskers on his face grow longer and more prominent, and his skull felt… weird.
Soon he was looking straight at someone's shoes, dizzy from the chemical brew.
Kidoumaru laughed evilly, "So you knew about the potion… well, no mouse is going to spill this plan to anyone."
The sub lifted a foot and it was about to come down upon a very shocked and lightheaded rodent when a voice came out from behind the cafeteria counter.
"Who said a mouse was gonna spill it?"
Kidoumaru spun around in bewilderment, "WHAT? Who are YOU?"
"Uchiha…" Sakon murmured from the cafeteria doors.
"Uchiha Sasuke?" Kidoumaru raised a brow, "I've heard of you. The Sharingan."
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Sasuke, standing on the countertop, smirked nonchalantly and his eyes turned ruby red, "You got that right."
He leapt in the air with amazing speed, bringing a foot down on Kidoumaru's head.
Kidourmaru used the force of the kick to do a back flip, and landed back, on his feet, and he grinned horribly, "This will be fun."
Two ridiculously long arms shot out from the sub's sides, extending like rubber, and headed straight for Sasuke, followed by another two more.
For the next few seconds, all Sasuke saw were hands and fingers. The snake-like arms were quick and darted around easily at him, and he had to duck and dodge quicker than the mobile limbs.
Kidourmaru saw that the boy was coping exceedingly well and shot out the other two remaining arms to attack.
Sasuke fought with them for a few more seconds before he finally found a clear shot, and he took his strike, sharply hitting the side of his hand against Kidourmaru's arm - sort of like a karate chop.
A loud crack was heard, and Kidourmaru howled in pain, "Damn you…" He cursed, drawing his arm back like a spider that just got poked at.
Sasuke was about to charge at him again when Sakon's face appeared from under, and the sub's hands were going straight for Sasuke's head.
Sasuke was already in the forward momentum he had launched himself in, so stopping without crashing into the sub was out of the question. The only way Sasuke could dodge the hit was by jumping above the sub's hand range and hitching himself onto Sakon's shoulders with his two hands, then flipping himself over the sub, and continue in the direction he was first in. And that was exactly what he did. This move was already too dangerously close to the opponent, so he did it as fast as he possibly could and tried to create more space between the sub and himself.
When he felt he was a comfortable number of meters away from the sub, he turned around, expecting to see the Sakon right on his heels. But the sub was standing just where Sasuke had left him. Kidoumaru wasn't making any moves either. Something must be wrong.
Sasuke then saw the quiet smile of Ukon, hanging from Sakon's back. Sasuke felt quick pang of panic and reached behind himself, pulling off the that had been planted on his back by Ukon while he had flipped over Sakon. But it was too late. The explosion took place and Sasuke felt his body getting flung back by its ardent force.
Blank. That was all he saw and thought. He couldn't see, feel, of hear anything, and he couldn't react to anything as his body wouldn't respond - there were no instructions from the mind for the body to respond to. When the white blank finally started to clear from his eyes, he saw two teachers looking down at him… smiling evilly…
Then the pain came. A crushing sort of pain, as if every bone in the body was getting twisted into bizarre positions they weren't meant to be in. It all happened so fast, yet so slowly to him. He could hear the cracking and grinding of bones as organs shifted around his being. And the pain was like fire, like his muscles were getting ripped off and his skin was getting stretched and torn apart. He couldn't breathe, like he had no lungs to do so.
But the pain eventually stopped. And all he could do was lie there. His mind was fast, and it soon snapped out of the shock from the pain and was registering everything he heard.
"Whoa. How fast did that happen? One drop takes about thirty seconds. This one took about four secs."
"That was eight drops of the potion at one go… It must have hurt a lot. I think it killed him."
"…No way… it's still alive? Kill it."
If Sasuke's mind was fast enough to register what he heard, it was fast enough to register what he saw: A large foot, coming right down towards… no, onto him…
"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!!!" A small, chipmunk-like squeal could, ever so faintly, be heard.
"ARGH!!!" The foot drew back away from him. Relief washed over him, but still he could not move.
"Dammit!! Where the hell did all these rats come from?"
"OW!! The damn things are biting me!"
"They're back for revenge!!!"
"Kidoumaru, shuddup and kill the damn things."
Sasuke could feel his body getting dragged from where he was lying, and he was soon inside a dark, musty looking place that looked like the underneath of a cupboard.
Wait. It was the underneath of a cupboard.
"Hi Sasuke." It was all too familiar a voice.
"Naruto?" He could barely move his lips as he spoke. Were they even lips?
"Whoa, you took that potion pretty fast. Shot down in three seconds. You okay?"
"Did it hurt?" Chouji's voice. Naruto must have met Chouji here. Just like Chouji to make for the cafeteria when turned into a mouse.
"Yea…" Sasuke chose not to let on that it was still hurting like hell. He finally felt sensations coming back to his limbs, and then he ignored whatever pain he felt and got up… on all fours.
He stood there unsteadily for a while. It was a strange feeling to get up on all fours, and walking was definitely going to be weirder, although it probably wouldn't take too long to get used to.
He looked up at the two other creatures nearby. One was a brown, large and round one, no doubt Chouji, with the two usual pink spirals on his cheeks. The other mouse was a light, blondish color, with bright blue orbs for eyes - obviously Naruto. Sasuke noticed Naruto's tail, instead of a thin, mousey one, was a longer, more fox-like sort of tail, and his whiskers were extra long.
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Naruto felt a little tired after using his shadow replication technique, and the six-armed sub tasted pretty nasty too. Being a mouse, he felt that his chakra level had decreased along with his body size, and he also realized that the only technique he could used was whichever he was best at - that is, shadow replication.
It was freaky how he saw Sasuke disappear in a few seconds and ending a up a mouse. Having taken a chocolate bar with one drop of the potion, it had already hurt its fair share. Eight times must have really did some damage. But Sasuke was standing on his fours now, a dark, ebony colored mouse with red eyes, a black tail, and white paws. Now that he saw Sasuke seemed fine, he could finally laugh.
"WHAHAHAHA!!!" Naruto burst out.
"What?" Sasuke asked with a tinge of annoyance in his voice.
"You're a mouse!!! Sasuke is a mouse… Sasuke is a mouse…" Naruto sung.
"You're one to talk, you gerbil."
Naruto zipped up immediately and glared. "I'm a foxy mouse. NOT a gerbil."
"Quit fooling around. We gotta go find some way to tell the others."
"Chouji, we gotta go…" Naruto couldn't continue, as what he saw nearly sent him spewing.
Chouji was nibbling at a lump of some old moldy scrap of food that looked like it had been there for a few years. In fact, he was sure he could see things moving around on it. Sasuke couldn't help but cringe at the sight too.
Chouji looked up, "What? I'm starving, okay?"
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Among many other students, Sakura could see that all the other teams were there. Hinata, Shino and Kiba were looking at a certain stall selling chocolate bars, and Kiba was letting Akamaru choose whatever bar it wanted.
Rock Lee, TenTen and Neji were at another stall selling lollipops, with only Neji not looking to interested, in fact, rather annoyed he was pulled along.
"Wonder where Sasuke-kun is." Ino wondered aloud.
Sakura was musing over the exact same thing. Exactly where were her two teammates? The candy fair was just starting.
"Sasuke probably doesn't care and isn't coming, and Naruto's most likely gathering every single coin he can possibly find at home for the fair." Shikamaru droned in his usual bored voice.
"I just can't believe Chouji isn't here. He must really be sick." Ino said.
Sakura thought about what Shika said about her teammates. 'He's probably right.' she sighed as she followed the other team into the fair, ready to indulge in whatever candies were in store for them.
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A/N: Righteo… many mice to come…
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