TealDragoness89: Nyah… I'm so sorry for not updating…the past year has been one of the most stressful ones with all the high school applications and interviews…and sadly, I was only accepted to one of five schools I applied to ;;
Sasuke: Oh stop complaining.
TealDragoness89: Easy for you to say…you could buy your way into any school with your looks TT;;
Naruto: Ahahaha! That dumbass? No way!
TealDragoness89: Um…yeah…anyways, gomen ne once again. Sankyuu for all the supporters I've had, especially my friends! This chapter wouldn't be up without the support of my best friend, who made me promise her that I would upload a new chapter by the end of August.
Summary: Due to an incident involving Hinata's byakugan and Sasuke's sharingan, they're bodies switch, and both ninjas have to cope with their current situation. In the previous chapter, everyone has finally found out what has happened and are heading back to Konoha. After confronting the Hokage about Sasuke and Hinata's problem, Hokage reveals something that shocks the two and makes the confrontation between Sasuke and Naruto almost non-existent.
Pairing: SasuNaru, ?Hina
Disclaimers: If I owned Naruto, this series wouldn't be about ninjas and fighting anymore >D You'll have to thank Kishimoto-san for creating Naruto for us naughty fanfic writers to toy with
A/N: As you all know, this fanfic hasn't been updated in a long time. My writing style has significantly changes, the series has developed, the characters have developed and matured. I am going to keep writing this fanfic the way it would have been written even with the whole Oro plot now.
Hinata cautiously and hesitantly lifted up the flap to her tent, not wanting to surprise Sasuke and Naruto if they were in a moment. She had seen them heading back together…it wouldn't be too surprising if they had went back to the same tent. She sighed, slightly depressed about the way Naruto had reacted when it had been him that kissed her. His reaction seemed strangely familiar yet she couldn't put her finger on it.
"Naruto-kun?" she squeaked out, hearing no rustling inside. She poked her head inside to already find Naruto slowly packing, a forlorn expression on his face. He quickly masked it with his typical giant grin when he saw Hinata by the entrance to the tent, acting as if what had happened between them well…didn't happen.
"Sas…Hinata-chan…it really is hard telling who you are when your bodies are switched!" Naruto grinned, rubbing a hand on the back of his head. Hinata let out a breath of relief. Naruto wasn't mad at her. "You…" those words stopped whatever she had planned to say as her ears pricked up. Naruto has those eyes again. "Why can't you see through this façade?" his voice had a solemn tone to it.
"Nan…nani?" Hinata asked, slightly confused by Naruto's words. This wasn't like Naruto.
"Ahh…nevermind. You should get packing Hinata-chan," Naruto gave her another huge grin as he finished zipping up his duffel bag. At that moment, there reflected an emotion close to confusion shown in what looked liked Sasuke's eyes. Of course, Naruto was too busy packing and avoiding eye contact with Hinata to notice.
After a good forty-five minutes, the group was ready to go. Not surprisingly, Sakura had taken the longest to pack. Probably from all the make-up and clothes she brought to impress Sasuke. What they did find out was how it took Kiba almost as long as Sakura to pack. They all brushed it off as him having a lot going on in his mind, like Hinata for example.
The group of genins barely spoke to each other as they treaded the musty forest, searching for the exit. The silence was uncomfortable and to say the least, unbearable. It was strangely unusual to hear Naruto quiet for once. Thank goodness that instead of concentrating on what to say to break the silence, someone was actually looking for the exit to escape the intense stillness. That way, they would have less quiet time. And concentrating on finishing this training is what some of the members of the group did, even if it was a small percentage.
"We're out," Shino bluntly stated.
"Ah! Finally!" Kiba let out a huge breath of relief. "I don't know how long much longer I could've stayed!"
"Uhn…we should find Kurenai-sensei and Kakashi-sensei as soon as possible so we can consult them of Sasuke-kun's and Hinata-chan's condition," Sakura suggested, her eyes roaming her own group of odd genins. Her eyes lingered a bit longer at one person in particular.
"Hokage-sama better know how to fix this…" Naruto mumbled to himself. Sasuke smirked slightly.
"Why? You worried about us?" he asked, eyes flickering with mockery. To that, Naruto responded with a simple sticking-out-his-tongue movement.
"You wish," the smaller boy grinned confidently.
"Naruto, stop fooling around. Let's get a move on!" Sakura scolded, a vein appearing on her forhead.
"A…ano…" Hinata quietly caught the three before an argument broke out. "Our senseis are here already…" she pointed in front of them. And indeed the two senseis were slowly approaching them, just a couple of yards away. Kiba and Shino had noticed just about the same time as Hinata did, being the quieter half of the party.
"Hn…well I guess part of our work is done," Sasuke said, more to himself. Naruto looked uneasy as did Sakura. Sasuke eyed his two teammates wondering what the hell had gotten into them. They had been acting rather…abnormal for the past few days. "Nani?" Sasuke asked, his voice sounded more demanding.
"Ah…you know…Hokage-sama might not even know how to fix this even if he knew what the problem was…" Naruto replied, his head snapping up as soon as he heard Sasuke's voice. The dark-haired shinobi's eyes remained on his smallest teammate, having a feeling that it went deeper than that. For Naruto's sake, he decided not to press the matter. He trailed his hand over to Naruto's, lacing their fingers softly. Naruto flinched noticeably but didn't pull away, just turned his head in the other direction, making Sasuke chuckle almost inaudibly.
"I thought I had you all figured out…guess not," he smiled inwardly at his embarrassed partner. Naruto tilted his head down even further, the color taking over his face in a matter of milliseconds.
"Oi Naruto! That's Hinata's hand, not Sakura's!" the obnoxious voice of their sensei sliced the fluffy moment in half like a hot knife through butter. That was exactly the push that Naruto needed and got to make his hand snap back to his own territory.
"Ka-Kakashi-sensei!! Don't say rude things like that!" Sakura yelled out. Probably Inner Sakura had taken control at that moment. Kakashi chuckled at the pink-haired shinobi's comment.
"Ah…gomen gomen…" he replied rather unheartily. "Hn…why were you holding Hinata's hand anyways, Naruto? Hmm…a mistake?" Kakashi asked, his eyes returning to their usual bored state. To that, the genins fell silent.
"Nani? What's wrong with you guys? It's as if you've all adapted Hinata's quietness…" Kurenai crossed her arms, confusion etched on her face. Kiba coughed, clearing his throat and stepped up a bit.
"…It's funny…that you should mention a change…" he started, unable to keep eye contact with the two senseis. Kakashi and Kurenai glanced at each other, immediately knowing what the problem is.
"Oh no…Kakashi, I told you it was still a possibility," Kurenai sighed, sounded a little disappointed but not too taken aback.
"Ah…but it was still a one out of a million chances…" Kakashi shrugged.
"But it happened. What do you have to say for yourself now?"
The genins looked at each other, mixed expressions on their faces. Did their senseis really know about their situation? Or were they just assuming something else? Maybe they weren't even interested and talking about a bet of some kind…but if they did know, they risked that chance of this happening? How dare they!
"Ahem…Kakashi-sensei…" Naruto coughed, butting into the senseis' argument.
"Alright, we'll take you all to Hokage-sama immediately," Kurenai turned to face the students.
"So…you know?" Hinata's voice was barely audible, as usual. Kakashi was almost unable to hold in his laughter, hearing the soft voice coming from the typically stoic boy.
"Hai, we know," Kurenai replied, still a little distressed about their current condition.
"You knew that this could happen and you still sent us into the forest?!" Kiba's impulsive side took over him.
"Oi, you're too loud. We can fix this, you know," Kakashi replied rather calmly. "We just need to take you to Hokage-sama…you know, there's something else that I'm wondering about…" Kakashi's gaze turned hard, giving a glance at Kurenai.
"Hai, I'm wondering the same thing…but we should get them to Hokage-sama first, then ask questions later," Kurenai answered back, the concern that was in Kakashi's tone was now mimicked in hers.
"Do you think they know about…?" Sakura asked, her question more directed at Kiba, for some peculiar reason or another.
"No duh they know. I thought we had this conversation already," Naruto eyed the two. Sakura sighed slightly and nodded.
"Y-yeah…you're right," her eyes leaped over to Kiba once more before falling slowly and hesitantly back to the ground.
The Hokage's place wasn't too far away. They were there faster than one could bake cookies. The walk there had many similarities to the one they had earlier that day, from the forest back to the village. The strange silence was loud enough to make one go deaf, and if you didn't really put any thought into it, you might have thought that you had gone deaf.
"Hokage-sama…" Kurenai's placid voice called out softly, knocking a couple of times on the door. There was no reply when the two senseis decided to enter anyways. The ever-so silent genins followed their senseis in and stood nervously in the back as Kakashi and Kurenai approached the Hokage.
"Hn? Is something the matter? I hear no noise from the usually disruptive one," Hokage-sama's voice echoing, giving a long stare to Naruto, who looked as if he didn't care about the comment. His eyes then traveled over to his two solemn Jounins and sighed. "So it did happen?"
"How come everybody knew this could happen and didn't even warn us??" Kiba hissed to his comrades.
"Hai," Kakashi replied to the Hokage's inquiry.
"Did you find out if…?" Hoakge-sama continued. This secrecy was starting to bug the sanity out of the youngsters. It was as if the elders were trying to keep them from knowing something that should be known to them.
"Not yet."
"Then let's find out. Naruto-kun, please stand up."
And to their astonishment…well, Sasuke, Kiba, Sakura, and Hinata's astonishment at least, Shino and Naruto both stood up.
"Oh uh…" Shino's form flinched, noticing Naruto standing up. "Ah…gomen ne, I gave it away, ne?" the one who appeared to be Shino, rubbed the back of his head nervously. And Naruto's form sighed, looking quite aggravated.
"Then it did happen," a wrinkly smile made it's way to the Hokage's face.
"Nan…nani…" Kiba's eye twitched. It immediately snapped open when a thought occurred to him. So it wasn't just him and Sakura either…
"The switched that occurred between Sasuke-kun and Hinata-chan because of their Sharingan and Byakkugan also affected your companions as well. Whoever the two genins that paired up were, if I correctly assume that pairing up is what you did at one point of your training, is now in the other's body."
Sasuke's jaw dropped slightly, staring at the Hokage, the words repeating over and over in his now dizzy head. A light gasp could be heard from Hinata, her generally unadorned eyes enlarging. The other four genins were staring at the floor or fidgeting tensely looking just a tad bit guilty, probably for not mentioning it sooner.
Another thought swiftly struck the Sharingan carrier's head, making him turn his gaze to the golden-haired boy. That means everything that had happened between the two, the kiss, the confession, the light holding of hands…that means all of that…Naruto had no clue that all of that had happen. And now that he thought about it, the Naruto he had done all of this with was…Shino.
TealDragoness89: Ah…sankyuu sankyuu! Once again, I succeeded in making it a cliff-hanger
Sasuke: You egotistical writer…how do you know that no one knew that was coming? I thought it was pretty obvious.
Naruto: OMFG! TD-Chaaaan! You can't elave it here! I want to read the rest! ;;
TealDragoness89: grins Well…I think that about answers it if it's a cliffy or not… Gomen ne for taking forever. Please R & R!
I don't want to bring you bad news, but I don't think fanfic writing is my place…I hate it when I disappoint my readers by not updating but I can't help it. I'm starting High School soon, and I don't want to rush fanfics. Quality, not quantity. I don't want to post up a fanfic that has no quality. I won't promise anything, and I'll try to stick with fanfic writing…this is just a notice. Over and out!
Sasuke: Oh stop complaining.
TealDragoness89: Easy for you to say…you could buy your way into any school with your looks TT;;
Naruto: Ahahaha! That dumbass? No way!
TealDragoness89: Um…yeah…anyways, gomen ne once again. Sankyuu for all the supporters I've had, especially my friends! This chapter wouldn't be up without the support of my best friend, who made me promise her that I would upload a new chapter by the end of August.
Summary: Due to an incident involving Hinata's byakugan and Sasuke's sharingan, they're bodies switch, and both ninjas have to cope with their current situation. In the previous chapter, everyone has finally found out what has happened and are heading back to Konoha. After confronting the Hokage about Sasuke and Hinata's problem, Hokage reveals something that shocks the two and makes the confrontation between Sasuke and Naruto almost non-existent.
Pairing: SasuNaru, ?Hina
Disclaimers: If I owned Naruto, this series wouldn't be about ninjas and fighting anymore >D You'll have to thank Kishimoto-san for creating Naruto for us naughty fanfic writers to toy with
A/N: As you all know, this fanfic hasn't been updated in a long time. My writing style has significantly changes, the series has developed, the characters have developed and matured. I am going to keep writing this fanfic the way it would have been written even with the whole Oro plot now.
Hinata cautiously and hesitantly lifted up the flap to her tent, not wanting to surprise Sasuke and Naruto if they were in a moment. She had seen them heading back together…it wouldn't be too surprising if they had went back to the same tent. She sighed, slightly depressed about the way Naruto had reacted when it had been him that kissed her. His reaction seemed strangely familiar yet she couldn't put her finger on it.
"Naruto-kun?" she squeaked out, hearing no rustling inside. She poked her head inside to already find Naruto slowly packing, a forlorn expression on his face. He quickly masked it with his typical giant grin when he saw Hinata by the entrance to the tent, acting as if what had happened between them well…didn't happen.
"Sas…Hinata-chan…it really is hard telling who you are when your bodies are switched!" Naruto grinned, rubbing a hand on the back of his head. Hinata let out a breath of relief. Naruto wasn't mad at her. "You…" those words stopped whatever she had planned to say as her ears pricked up. Naruto has those eyes again. "Why can't you see through this façade?" his voice had a solemn tone to it.
"Nan…nani?" Hinata asked, slightly confused by Naruto's words. This wasn't like Naruto.
"Ahh…nevermind. You should get packing Hinata-chan," Naruto gave her another huge grin as he finished zipping up his duffel bag. At that moment, there reflected an emotion close to confusion shown in what looked liked Sasuke's eyes. Of course, Naruto was too busy packing and avoiding eye contact with Hinata to notice.
After a good forty-five minutes, the group was ready to go. Not surprisingly, Sakura had taken the longest to pack. Probably from all the make-up and clothes she brought to impress Sasuke. What they did find out was how it took Kiba almost as long as Sakura to pack. They all brushed it off as him having a lot going on in his mind, like Hinata for example.
The group of genins barely spoke to each other as they treaded the musty forest, searching for the exit. The silence was uncomfortable and to say the least, unbearable. It was strangely unusual to hear Naruto quiet for once. Thank goodness that instead of concentrating on what to say to break the silence, someone was actually looking for the exit to escape the intense stillness. That way, they would have less quiet time. And concentrating on finishing this training is what some of the members of the group did, even if it was a small percentage.
"We're out," Shino bluntly stated.
"Ah! Finally!" Kiba let out a huge breath of relief. "I don't know how long much longer I could've stayed!"
"Uhn…we should find Kurenai-sensei and Kakashi-sensei as soon as possible so we can consult them of Sasuke-kun's and Hinata-chan's condition," Sakura suggested, her eyes roaming her own group of odd genins. Her eyes lingered a bit longer at one person in particular.
"Hokage-sama better know how to fix this…" Naruto mumbled to himself. Sasuke smirked slightly.
"Why? You worried about us?" he asked, eyes flickering with mockery. To that, Naruto responded with a simple sticking-out-his-tongue movement.
"You wish," the smaller boy grinned confidently.
"Naruto, stop fooling around. Let's get a move on!" Sakura scolded, a vein appearing on her forhead.
"A…ano…" Hinata quietly caught the three before an argument broke out. "Our senseis are here already…" she pointed in front of them. And indeed the two senseis were slowly approaching them, just a couple of yards away. Kiba and Shino had noticed just about the same time as Hinata did, being the quieter half of the party.
"Hn…well I guess part of our work is done," Sasuke said, more to himself. Naruto looked uneasy as did Sakura. Sasuke eyed his two teammates wondering what the hell had gotten into them. They had been acting rather…abnormal for the past few days. "Nani?" Sasuke asked, his voice sounded more demanding.
"Ah…you know…Hokage-sama might not even know how to fix this even if he knew what the problem was…" Naruto replied, his head snapping up as soon as he heard Sasuke's voice. The dark-haired shinobi's eyes remained on his smallest teammate, having a feeling that it went deeper than that. For Naruto's sake, he decided not to press the matter. He trailed his hand over to Naruto's, lacing their fingers softly. Naruto flinched noticeably but didn't pull away, just turned his head in the other direction, making Sasuke chuckle almost inaudibly.
"I thought I had you all figured out…guess not," he smiled inwardly at his embarrassed partner. Naruto tilted his head down even further, the color taking over his face in a matter of milliseconds.
"Oi Naruto! That's Hinata's hand, not Sakura's!" the obnoxious voice of their sensei sliced the fluffy moment in half like a hot knife through butter. That was exactly the push that Naruto needed and got to make his hand snap back to his own territory.
"Ka-Kakashi-sensei!! Don't say rude things like that!" Sakura yelled out. Probably Inner Sakura had taken control at that moment. Kakashi chuckled at the pink-haired shinobi's comment.
"Ah…gomen gomen…" he replied rather unheartily. "Hn…why were you holding Hinata's hand anyways, Naruto? Hmm…a mistake?" Kakashi asked, his eyes returning to their usual bored state. To that, the genins fell silent.
"Nani? What's wrong with you guys? It's as if you've all adapted Hinata's quietness…" Kurenai crossed her arms, confusion etched on her face. Kiba coughed, clearing his throat and stepped up a bit.
"…It's funny…that you should mention a change…" he started, unable to keep eye contact with the two senseis. Kakashi and Kurenai glanced at each other, immediately knowing what the problem is.
"Oh no…Kakashi, I told you it was still a possibility," Kurenai sighed, sounded a little disappointed but not too taken aback.
"Ah…but it was still a one out of a million chances…" Kakashi shrugged.
"But it happened. What do you have to say for yourself now?"
The genins looked at each other, mixed expressions on their faces. Did their senseis really know about their situation? Or were they just assuming something else? Maybe they weren't even interested and talking about a bet of some kind…but if they did know, they risked that chance of this happening? How dare they!
"Ahem…Kakashi-sensei…" Naruto coughed, butting into the senseis' argument.
"Alright, we'll take you all to Hokage-sama immediately," Kurenai turned to face the students.
"So…you know?" Hinata's voice was barely audible, as usual. Kakashi was almost unable to hold in his laughter, hearing the soft voice coming from the typically stoic boy.
"Hai, we know," Kurenai replied, still a little distressed about their current condition.
"You knew that this could happen and you still sent us into the forest?!" Kiba's impulsive side took over him.
"Oi, you're too loud. We can fix this, you know," Kakashi replied rather calmly. "We just need to take you to Hokage-sama…you know, there's something else that I'm wondering about…" Kakashi's gaze turned hard, giving a glance at Kurenai.
"Hai, I'm wondering the same thing…but we should get them to Hokage-sama first, then ask questions later," Kurenai answered back, the concern that was in Kakashi's tone was now mimicked in hers.
"Do you think they know about…?" Sakura asked, her question more directed at Kiba, for some peculiar reason or another.
"No duh they know. I thought we had this conversation already," Naruto eyed the two. Sakura sighed slightly and nodded.
"Y-yeah…you're right," her eyes leaped over to Kiba once more before falling slowly and hesitantly back to the ground.
The Hokage's place wasn't too far away. They were there faster than one could bake cookies. The walk there had many similarities to the one they had earlier that day, from the forest back to the village. The strange silence was loud enough to make one go deaf, and if you didn't really put any thought into it, you might have thought that you had gone deaf.
"Hokage-sama…" Kurenai's placid voice called out softly, knocking a couple of times on the door. There was no reply when the two senseis decided to enter anyways. The ever-so silent genins followed their senseis in and stood nervously in the back as Kakashi and Kurenai approached the Hokage.
"Hn? Is something the matter? I hear no noise from the usually disruptive one," Hokage-sama's voice echoing, giving a long stare to Naruto, who looked as if he didn't care about the comment. His eyes then traveled over to his two solemn Jounins and sighed. "So it did happen?"
"How come everybody knew this could happen and didn't even warn us??" Kiba hissed to his comrades.
"Hai," Kakashi replied to the Hokage's inquiry.
"Did you find out if…?" Hoakge-sama continued. This secrecy was starting to bug the sanity out of the youngsters. It was as if the elders were trying to keep them from knowing something that should be known to them.
"Not yet."
"Then let's find out. Naruto-kun, please stand up."
And to their astonishment…well, Sasuke, Kiba, Sakura, and Hinata's astonishment at least, Shino and Naruto both stood up.
"Oh uh…" Shino's form flinched, noticing Naruto standing up. "Ah…gomen ne, I gave it away, ne?" the one who appeared to be Shino, rubbed the back of his head nervously. And Naruto's form sighed, looking quite aggravated.
"Then it did happen," a wrinkly smile made it's way to the Hokage's face.
"Nan…nani…" Kiba's eye twitched. It immediately snapped open when a thought occurred to him. So it wasn't just him and Sakura either…
"The switched that occurred between Sasuke-kun and Hinata-chan because of their Sharingan and Byakkugan also affected your companions as well. Whoever the two genins that paired up were, if I correctly assume that pairing up is what you did at one point of your training, is now in the other's body."
Sasuke's jaw dropped slightly, staring at the Hokage, the words repeating over and over in his now dizzy head. A light gasp could be heard from Hinata, her generally unadorned eyes enlarging. The other four genins were staring at the floor or fidgeting tensely looking just a tad bit guilty, probably for not mentioning it sooner.
Another thought swiftly struck the Sharingan carrier's head, making him turn his gaze to the golden-haired boy. That means everything that had happened between the two, the kiss, the confession, the light holding of hands…that means all of that…Naruto had no clue that all of that had happen. And now that he thought about it, the Naruto he had done all of this with was…Shino.
TealDragoness89: Ah…sankyuu sankyuu! Once again, I succeeded in making it a cliff-hanger
Sasuke: You egotistical writer…how do you know that no one knew that was coming? I thought it was pretty obvious.
Naruto: OMFG! TD-Chaaaan! You can't elave it here! I want to read the rest! ;;
TealDragoness89: grins Well…I think that about answers it if it's a cliffy or not… Gomen ne for taking forever. Please R & R!
I don't want to bring you bad news, but I don't think fanfic writing is my place…I hate it when I disappoint my readers by not updating but I can't help it. I'm starting High School soon, and I don't want to rush fanfics. Quality, not quantity. I don't want to post up a fanfic that has no quality. I won't promise anything, and I'll try to stick with fanfic writing…this is just a notice. Over and out!