FIRST OFF: Reviewers: snuggles! I do sooo love it when people take the time to encourage me! wink, wink …or even just to tell me that I suck… cringe
And DEMON (reviewer)It's funny you should say that! Hahaha! On a lot of levels! You'll see what I mean…maybe.
Hercat (reviewer) sent me a review pointing out that in "…That Day…" I wrote "…when he could meat his team officially for the first time…" GET IT? MEAT? HAHAHAHA! That is funny to me on a very personal level. Spell check let me down again!
IN OTHER NEWS:
Whilst looking in my Japanese/English dictionary I discovered that if you break down the name Konoha you get: Kono "this" and Ha "leaf / foliage" or "blade / edge of a knife" or "Group / sect / school". I found this cool. I've now passed on the coolness… or not. Whatever.
NOTE! Okay…so I was hasty posting that last chapter…I didn't really reread it to catch mistakes….I noticed some misspellings and some forgotten words (sorry for the lack of quality cries)…also, (and most importantly) that the ending was a little…ummm…not what I planned on it sounding like (((LMAO!))) I just want to clarify that it was Naruto saying "fuck" in his head. Not the person who saw them! The Fuck part is supposed to be italicized, denoting 'thought' (AFF)…. No LEMON here (yet…hee hee). Come on! They are like 12! PERVERTS! (((Personality #2: "Um…but YOU are a pervert.") YOU SHUT UP AND GO TO SLEEP! d(-)b two thumbs up! (pst…did anyone notice that Sasuke really does sleep with a kunai instead of a teddy bear? hint- banana. Hee hee.)
DISCLAIMER…or whatever: um, yeah…if I owned Naruto, I would say screw college and just do nothing but Naruto all day long…(snuggles with Naruto)
WARNINGS: Language and violence…with a touch of gore…nothing too naughty...yet. For now it's just 'hints' and 'nudges' with evil grins. Evil grin
Enough of my idiot babbling…on with the friggin' story!
…When They Became Genin… (part 2)
Sasuke was still trying to sort through all the information that the Hokage had just given him. The meeting had not turned out as badly as he'd anticipated. Sure he was going to be stuck living with a guy who he didn't even know, and he'd have to watch how he behaved even more from now on, but he'd put up that front for so long that he thought it probably wouldn't be too hard. And that last bit…wow. That really threw him for a loop. He wasn't really sure how he was going to handle all that. He thought that his life was about to take an interesting turn.
That turn, in fact, came sooner than expected. He was on his way to meet Naruto at the bench. Yeah. Perfectly normal. What he saw when he got there however, well, it was NOT normal at all. It's not everyday that you come across yourself being straddled by the girl you absolutely cannot stand under any circumstances, after all. He stood there shocked for a moment. Who would be so stupid as to do a thing like this? That was a stupid question. He knew exactly who it was, and he didn't even have to ponder the sequence of events that lead up to this little situation. It just fell into place on its own.
He surprised himself, however, when he didn't immediately rush over and beat the living shit out of the Dead Last for using him like that. He waited for a minute. He heard 'Naruto' moaning Sakura's name. How was it that Dead Last knew just how to hit him right in his funny bone? As if he'd EVER call out her name like that! How could Sakura be so fucking stupid? She was supposed to be good at seeing through genjutsu, and look at her! She was eating it right up! He had to laugh. So he did. Hard. Dead Last was going to get his ass kicked sooo bad. It was going to be fun watching that.
Sakura heard someone laugh. It was quiet at first, like it was being stifled. Then full on uproarious laughter. She didn't recognize the voice, but it startled her enough to make her pull away from the delicious mouth that she had been enjoying. She was surprised by the look she was getting from Sasuke. He looked horrified, like he was embarrassed that they'd been caught. She didn't care about people seeing though. She wanted everyone to know! Well, she thought she did. She turned to see who had been watching them and nearly had a heart attack when she saw the owner of that hideous cackle. She spun around again and looked at the Sasuke who she'd been making out with. He looked pissed now. It was his usual expression. She'd never actually heard Sasuke laugh before. She assumed someone was playing a dirty trick. But who?
Naruto had to think of something…and fast! He was in a very terrifying position. He said the first thing that came to his mind. "Fuck off Dead Last! This is private!"
Sasuke laughed even harder at that. He almost couldn't stand it! Naruto had fucking balls to spare! He clutched at his belly and half doubled over with laughter. "This…is…too much! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Something was terribly wrong here. Sakura quickly stood up and fixed her rumpled clothing. "What the hell is this?" She gave a questioning look to the boy she thought was her soul mate. He just sat there, breathing heavily, looking at the other boy who looked like her soul mate, but acted nothing like him. She was forced to ask herself a very difficult question. Which one was more likely? Sasuke approaching her, and pretty much making all of her dreams come true, or Sasuke, the ever silent and unemotional boy, suddenly overcome by his emotions enough to be crippled with laughter. It was a difficult question. She looked at one, then the other. Both seemed real. The Sasuke that she'd just been sitting on even smelled like her Sasuke, the other one though, something about him…
"OH GOD! Dead Last! This is just too funny! Sorry, but I ain't helping you out with this one! You're on your own."
Sakura spun around again to face the person who'd just made her whole body shake with ecstasy a moment ago. He looked defeated. He sighed and stood up. He took her face into his hands and met her eyes. Sakura was too confused to pull away.
"Sakura, look… I know I'm an asshole, but I don't care. That kiss just now… You can go ahead and hate me for the rest my life and it would totally be worth it. That kiss was that fuckin' awesome." The eyes that she'd been staring into suddenly faded from absolute blackness to a shade of blue that she couldn't describe properly.
The whole world seemed to drop out from under her feet. She was too stunned to react at first. She stepped away from the hands that held her and glanced over to the other boy who had now calmed down a bit, but was still grinning like a mad man. She suddenly felt incredibly sick. "Did you set this up?" Her voice was hurt and strained.
"He didn't do this. It was all me." Naruto had decided the least he could do was take it like a man. He owed that much. He was the one who'd acted like a bastard. He didn't want her to hate Sasuke. Sasuke was innocent this time.
Sakura's head fell forward and her hair covered her face. There was pause. A long pause. Sasuke just sat watching, with wide open eyes, waiting for something to happen. Naruto was readying himself for what he knew was coming next. Sakura clenched her fists tightly.
Naruto thought he was prepared for what was coming, but he was not. Sakura pivoted and hit him so hard in the face he was thrown back and knocked off his feet. He hit the ground with a thud and what remained of his illusion vanished into a puff of smoke.
"YOU FILTHY DISCUSTING BEAST! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?" Sakura stormed over to where Naruto lay and kicked him in his face. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" With that she continued to beat him. He didn't even try to fight back. He just lay there and took it. He knew he deserved it after what he'd just done to her, but he prayed that she'd get tired and quit soon because even though he was usually quick to recover, yesterday's 'battle' had really taken it's toll on him. He was getting low on chakra and he was still injured.
Sasuke, after a while of watching the annoying bitch beat Naruto senseless, felt the need to step in. He just had to offer his piece. "Come on Sakura! It's your own fault! You were the one to fall for that stupid Henge! Like I would ever do something like that!" Sakura turned to him and gave him a hurt look.
"Stay out of this Sasuke…cough …this is between me and her…" Naruto was pushing himself back to his feet. "Listen…Sakura," he got cut off when she hit him again, right in his mouth.
"I hate you Naruto! I'll NEVER forgive you for this!" She kicked him in his stomach and he fell over again coughing.
"Give him a break Sakura. I can guess what happened here. You heard me tell him to meet me here and decided to sit here and wait for me, didn't you? You thought he was me so you threw yourself at him, and now you're mad cuz you were stupid enough to fall for his prank. Maybe if you weren't a stalker, none of this would have happened. Serves you right for always being a bitch to him."
"I…told you to…stay out of this, Bastard! I don't need your help!"
Sasuke turned and yelled down at the beaten Naruto. "I'm not helping YOU Dead Last. I'm just making a point." He turned and faced Sakura again. "You know what Sakura? I'm actually glad this happened to you. I'm so fucking tired of your stupid sniveling bullshit. If you knew me at all you would never have fallen for that illusion. What the hell is wrong with you anyway? Why is it that you can't take a hint? I DON'T LIKE YOU! All you ever do is run around with your stupid little friends and talk shit about me. You don't even KNOW me! You know nothing about me! Dead Last, here, knows more about me than you do! Yet you still delude yourself into thinking that by some magical force I will somehow be enchanted by you. Get OVER yourself! And for your information, when that bitch Ino heard me say I like long hair…I WAS TALKING ABOUT MY HAIR!" He brushed his long, silky, black bangs out of his eyes and glared at her.
Sakura was too shocked to even reply. She just stood there, with wide eyes, staring back at the boy who'd just ripped her heart to shreds. She started to tear up. She didn't want to cry. She did not want him to have the satisfaction of seeing that. She was startled when Sasuke was suddenly being punched in the face by Naruto.
"You asshole! Why do always have to be so mean to her? She actually cares about your sorry ass and you just throw it back in her face!"
"What, like she does to YOU every day? You're both fucking stupid! I'm going back to class." He turned to leave but Naruto grabbed his arm and stopped him.
"Apologize to her Sasuke." His gaze was firm.
"Why? I'm not sorry. I was just telling the truth." Sasuke was also firm in his resolve.
"She deserves better from you, you bastard!" Naruto was still holding him by his arm, preventing him from leaving.
"I don't need you to defend me Naruto! You dirty monster!" Sakura's choice of words caused Naruto to tighten his grip on Sasuke's arm for a moment. Sasuke noted this.
"Sakura, listen to me." He let go of Sasuke and approached her. "I know that what he just said to you had to hurt really bad, because you pretty much just did the same thing to me just now." He paused, remembering her words when he asked her what she thought of him. "I'm sorry if you felt like I was trying to get in your way. I don't want you to be hurt. He only said those things to you because of me, and I don't want you to hate him for something that I did. I want you to be happy."
Sakura walked over to Naruto and slapped him, he didn't even flinch though. He just stood there and took it again. "You want me to be happy? Then why don't you just go kill yourself! Nobody would miss you anyway! You're just the village idiot! All you ever do is run around and play stupid pranks on people to get attention!" Naruto winced as if Sakura's words had actually cut him. He said nothing in return. He just turned and started to walk away. "I guess I can't blame you for being an idiot delinquent though. Maybe if you had parents to beat some sense into you, you wouldn't be such a loser!"
"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY?" Sasuke didn't even realize it, but he'd activated his Sharingan. He advanced towards the pink haired girl, who was now backing away from him. She looked terrified. Sasuke didn't care. "YOU SHALLOW BITCH! BE GLAD THAT YOU EVEN HAVE A FAMILY!"
'Ugh oh. This is bad.' Naruto knew that even though that last comment was meant for him, Sasuke had obviously taken offence. "Sasuke!" He turned and rushed back towards them. He grabbed Sasuke from behind before he could reach Sakura and tried his best to restrain him. He hooked his right arm under Sasuke's, and brought his hand up and fisted it in Sasuke's hair, trapping the other boy's arm above his head. He brought his damaged left arm around Sasuke's neck and used it to support his other arm. Sasuke was bent slightly backwards because Naruto was a bit shorter than him. It threw him off balance. Still, he struggled in Naruto's grip.
"S-Sasuke…?" Sakura had never seen him like this before. She'd never seen his Sharingan. She thought he looked like a demon and he was acting very strange. She didn't know what to think.
"SASUKE!" Naruto was using all of his strength to keep Sasuke from attacking Sakura.
"GET THE FUCK OFF ME NARUTO!" Without even thinking, he dug his fingers into the tender area on Naruto's left wrist and tore at it, reopening the wound.
"AAAAH! FUCK!" Naruto released his left arm but still held Sasuke the best he could with his right. He tried to tangle his leg between Sasuke's to trip him.
Sakura saw the blood soak through the bandages on Naruto's arm. She suddenly felt horrible for what she'd said earlier. She didn't know that Sasuke had given him that wound yesterday. She thought Naruto had done it to himself. "Sasuke! Stop it! Please! You're hurting him! What's wrong with you Sasuke?"
Naruto shoved down the pain in his arm, clenched his hand into a fist, and brought it back with all his strength, directly into the spot that he'd seen that bruise on Sasuke's abdomen earlier. Sasuke grunted, his knees buckled, and he went slack. Before he hit the ground, Naruto released his hold on him, and with the lightning speed, brought out a kunai from his pouch.
The pain from the blow was enough to calm Sasuke down a little. He quit struggling. He found himself seated on the ground with Naruto's kunai again taunting the tender flesh just under his jaw line. Sakura stood before them in a daze. She had slumped to her knees and was covering her mouth with her hands. She looked like she was in shock. Sasuke heard Naruto breathe stern, raspy, words into his left ear.
"Save it for later Sasuke. I'm the one who caused this. You can take it out on me. Just calm the fuck down."
His voice sounded the same as did yesterday, when he said his last words before passing out. Sasuke wondered if his eyes looked the same as they did then. Sasuke always recognized eyes. The eyes were always the first thing he noticed about a person. What kind of eyes did they have? It was as if he was always searching them for something, for eyes like his own. His released his Sharingan, closed his eyes, and sat motionless, waiting for Naruto to lower his blade.
"Wow. Look at this! It's your first day as ninja and already you're trying to kill each other!" said a strange voice out of nowhere. "I can tell this is going to be fun." Obito mentally cursed the old Hokage for not telling him that these three particular children hated each other. 'Thanks a lot you conniving old bastard!'
The three new Genin turned in the direction of the voice. Sakura gasped at what she saw. Sasuke just narrowed his eyes. Naruto, still holding his kunai to Sasuke's throat, lifted his bloody arm and pointed dramatically at the shadowy Nin who was walking casually towards them. "It's YOU!"
"Yeah. It's me." Obito stopped before them and shoved his hands into his pockets. "Hello again, Naruto. You can put that away now. I don't think it's necessary."
Naruto looked down at Sasuke. "Oh…hee hee…yeah." He withdrew his kunai and put it back into his pouch.
"I'm not even going to ask." Obito said, rolling his eyes. He didn't need to ask what Naruto was doing threatening his teammate with a kunai though. He'd been watching the whole scene play out. He would have said he was just 'doing his homework', everyone else would have said he was spying…or peeping. He'd gotten especially good at it during his years spent as a Missing Nin.
"So…why are you here?" This was the second time the guy had shown up during one of his little brawls. Naruto was confused, but happy that he'd got to meet him again.
"He's our Jounin instructor." Sasuke got to his feet, dusted himself off, and stared pointedly at Naruto's bloodied, bandaged arm. It had started to drip, and was forming a puddle on the ground.
Naruto's eyes got large and he smiled. "Really?"
"Yeah. I'll explain myself later though. Right now, you should let me take a look at that arm. It looks pretty bad."
"Hugh? Oh!" Naruto stuck his bandaged arm out to his new instructor, who quickly brought out his own knife to cut away the soiled bandages.
"Sakura, right?" Obito looked over to the little pink haired girl who blushed at his mention of her name. "Come over here. I want you to see this."
Sakura stood and approached her new instructor and the boy who'd just 'violated' her. She was very confused. Sasuke stepped back and allowed her plenty of room to pass him. He looked like his usual self again. What happened to him earlier? She thought it must have had something to do with his eyes. 'He looked like a demon.' She stopped next to Obito and looked down at the bleeding gash on Naruto's arm. It looked awful! The scab that was covering it had been ripped away and it was oozing again. Why did he want her to see it? Did he hear what she'd said to Naruto about killing himself? Was he TRYING to make her feel guilty? She did feel guilty. At least, she did until Obito turned Naruto's arm so she could see the back of it. Then she saw that the wound was not a slash, but a puncture. She immediately decided to be pissed at him again.
"A kunai. It entered here and cut right through like butter. It was a clean stab." He turned Naruto's arm back over. "The problem is here." Obito circled his finger around the heavily damaged area on Naruto's wrist. "The blade got caught between the bones. It was twisted repeatedly before being pulled out. The back edge of the kunai made these cuts." He pointed to the individual lacerations that extended from the main gash.
Sakura felt sick. It looked disgusting! How was it that Naruto wasn't screaming in pain? She looked up at him. He looked perfectly calm, like nothing was wrong. He looked over at Sasuke, then yawned and scratched his head. Then he turned and his eyes met hers. She immediately looked away. She shivered. She couldn't look at him. She was still pissed. She turned her attention back to his arm.
Naruto looked over at Sasuke. He noticed that Sasuke looked like he was paying close attention to what their new instructor was telling them. He wondered if he should too. He looked back over at Sakura. He wanted so badly to be pissed at her for saying all those nasty things she said to him earlier, but he found that, looking into her eyes, it was a hard thing to do. She looked away. 'Damn you Sakura.'
Sasuke watched Obito break down the nature of Naruto's unfortunate injury. He felt horrible for what he'd just done. He ghosted his hand over the rather large bruise that Naruto gave him the previous day and probably made a lot bigger with that last hit he'd given him. 'He got me back for that one. I think he cracked a rib.' While doing this he noticed that the tips of his fingers on his left hand were tinted red. 'Naruto's blood.' He'd just done that to him without hesitation. He felt a little sick. He wanted to wash his hands.
"When it was pulled out, hmm…" Obito spread the skin back from the gash just a tiny bit and examined the inner damage, "The handle was pulled clean through." He looked up at Naruto and cocked an eyebrow at him. Naruto shrugged. "Okay, Sakura, step around here, I want you to watch this closely." He formed some hand seals and summoned his chakra to his hands. They glowed greenish-blue. "Naruto, hold this arm steady. This will probably feel…strange." He held both of his hands over Naruto's wound and began feeding his chakra into it. "I'm accelerating the growth of the new tissue cells. It's making the wound heal faster. Healing, though, is very unnatural and in most cases, it's best to try to let wounds heal by themselves. See, it requires extensive knowledge of the internal workings of the human body and if done incorrectly, can actually do more harm than good. It's always possible that the healer's chakra could disrupt the natural flow of the wounded, so, especially with someone like me, who isn't trained as a Medical Nin, extreme caution should be used when performing an emergency healing jutsu."
Naruto looked down and saw that the gash was beginning to stitch itself together. The edges of his torn skin looked like they were reaching for each other. It was weird. It was almost like watching grass grow, except, at an unusually fast pace. He was a little enchanted with it. The greenish-blue glow was dancing about in the blacks of his eyes, lulling him. It was mesmerizing. He heard a…tone…in his head. That was the best way he could think to describe it. It was like a chime, but the noise just kept on going. He started to sway. Tiny points of light danced in front of his eyes. He thought he was seeing stars. "But they're in the wrong place…" He felt something grab hold of him by his shoulders. The stars began to spread and multiply until they nearly made a sheet of white across his vision. He heard his new instructor's voice. He sounded far away.
"Thanks. Hold him up. This isn't as easy as it I make it look, you know."
Sasuke almost wasn't able to catch him. One second Naruto was fine, the next he was getting ready to fall flat on his back again! 'What the heck did that Obito guy do to him?' He felt Naruto begin to sag backwards and start to slump down. He maneuvered his body so Naruto's weight was supported by it, but kept his hands on the boy's shoulders. He tilted Naruto slightly to the side so he could see over his shoulder to watch Obito's jutsu at work. A thought struck him. "Sharingan!" It was barely more than a whisper. He didn't think it would be nice to yell it out, since he was so close to Dead Last's ear, after all, regardless of whether or not he could hear it. .
Sakura had instinctively reached up to grab hold of Naruto's arm when it began to go limp. Healing jutsus were careful business after all. She held his arm steady while her new instructor worked. She wondered how old he was. He was very cute!
Naruto started to come back around. He felt weird all over. There was a kind of pressure…and warmth…pressing on his back. He tried to shake his head to regain his bearings, but he felt the skin of his cheek rub against something. He jerked the other way. He felt the warmth leave him. Now there was just the pressure on his shoulders. He turned his head to see what it was he was touching. 'What the…?'
"Can you stand?" The voice was soft. Very uncommon.
"Y-yeah…I'm okay." He saw that Sasuke was staring intently at something in front of him, and his eyes looked all funny again. He felt Sasuke's hands leave him, allowing him to stand on his own. He looked back down at the wound. All of a sudden he was itching like crazy.
"Naruto! Stop squirming!" Obito gave an angry glance up at his new student and quickly returned to his task.
"Uuuughaaaah! I don't like it! Stop! I don't need you to heal me!" Naruto stomped his feet like a child and wiggled around until the glow faded from Obito's hands. He withdrew his arm quickly, and on reflex, stuck the wounded area in his mouth and sucked on it. He looked at the shadowy Nin with pouty eyes, as if the man had just offended him. "What the heck did you just do me? I almost passed out there for a minute!"
Obito sat back, resting after exerting so much chakra into his jutsu. "That wasn't caused by me, kid. You almost bled to death right there." He chuckled quietly. "Really, that was good. I've never seen anyone so calm facing death before. Nice skill to have." He flashed Naruto a smile and gave him a thumb's up.
Sasuke and Sakura were already sporting weird looks on their faces. It started when Naruto stuck his bloody arm in his mouth and licked it. Those looks changed only slightly when they heard what their instructor told Naruto about him nearly dying from blood loss. It didn't help that Naruto wasn't really reacting at all. He was just standing there, like someone didn't just tell him that he was about to die a moment ago.
Sasuke looked back down at his left hand. The blood was now sticky and crusty, and was caked under his short fingernails. 'I…almost killed him just now…without hesitation…over…' He glanced over at the girl who had succeeded in pissing him off to umpteenth degree a moment ago. 'What if…I'd done that to her?' He suddenly felt a little sick.
Sakura stared at Naruto. What the hell is wrong with him? Why the heck would he be so stupid as to attack Sasuke like that? He should know that Sasuke is way stronger than him! But then, he did defend himself pretty well against him, even though he almost died. He could have just died! How can he be co calm about it?
"I don't think I would have DIED from just this. I've had worse." He bit his tongue after he said it. 'Shit! I can't just go around saying shit like that! Stupid! Stupid!' "Ugh, so who are you anyway?" he asked of his new instructor, in an attempt at changing the subject.
"My name's Obito, and like Sasuke pointed out earlier, I'm going to be your Jounin instructor."
Naruto pulled a roll of bandage out of his supply pack and began unconsciously rewrapping his arm while he spoke. "You're and Uchiha too aren't you? Like Sasuke? I mean, that's what I heard."
"Yeah, well, by name. I haven't belonged to that clan for a long time… lucky for me apparently. But we'll talk about all that stuff later." Obito clapped his hands together as he stood up. "Alright then! Since Naruto isn't going to die. Let's go eat lunch!" He thought maybe getting some lunch and having a chance to sit and chat would help to solve the difficult tension that had so suddenly occurred within his new Genin team. He didn't even know why they were looking at him funny.
"Oh yeah! I'm so hungry! I haven't eaten since yesterday morning! I'm starving to death! Obito sensei, please! Can we go get ramen?"
"Oookaay. What about you two?" He turned to his other two students, who had taken seats next to each other on the infamous bench. "What do you want to eat?"
Sakura didn't even want to think about food after having seen that hideous gash on Naruto's arm…and after seeing him licking it clean as if he was some kind of dog…and she'd just KISSED HIM! 'BLAAA!'
Sasuke couldn't even think about food after what he'd just done. How could he have just let that situation get so out of control? He even attacked Naruto in his weak spot! The one that HE'D given him! It was as if he was subconsciously TRYING to kill him! What would he have done if he'd gotten a hold of Sakura?
"Ramen's fine." They both called out in unison, not wanting to argue or even say anything more.
"Okay! Ramen it is then. I'll introduce myself more while we eat… or after, yeah, after would be better." He looked around at them. They didn't seem to care. Naruto looked as if he would explode if he had to wait any longer, and the other two were in their own little worlds. "Let's go then, shall we?"
"Woo Hoo! Ramen here I come!"
"Hey, is that Ichiraku place still around? I haven't eaten there in YEARS!"
"Of course! It will live on forever in this village! I'll see to personally!"
"Hahaha!" 'It's funny you should say that Naruto.' "You're a weird kid, you know that?"
"Hee hee." Naruto grinned and led the way. Obito followed him casually. Sasuke and Sakura dragged on behind them, each lost in their own thoughts. They didn't even notice they were walking together. "Oh! Hey, Sasuke! What was it that you wanted earlier? When you said you wanted to ask me something?" Naruto yelled back to the boy who'd told him to meet him at that infamous bench.
Sasuke was shaken from his thoughts by Naruto's voice. He almost didn't register the question. After a moment, he did, and hurried to catch up to Naruto so he could talk to him. "Wait up, Dead Last."
Sakura, upon hearing Sasuke's voice, was lifted from her trance. She hadn't even noticed him next to her. Now he was running away again. 'Hmph! Jerk!' Her thoughts once again became clouded though, when her eyes returned to their forward position and they met with the absolute splendor that was her new sensei's ass. 'I'm very lucky today! Ino is going to be soo jealous! I got Sasuke on my team, AND my teacher is the sexiest instructor I've ever seen! He's even cuter than Iruka sensei! YAY!' She glanced ahead of him and saw that Sasuke was actually carrying on a conversation with Naruto. 'That Idiot!' Something had to be wrong with Sasuke today. Maybe he was sick? He looked like he wasn't feeling well. That had to be it.
"So, what is it that was so important that I had to risk my life to hear it?" Naruto was just joking of course. He wasn't even concerned with the injury anymore. All he wanted was to be relieved of his curiosity and to get an ungodly amount of miso ramen into his belly as soon as possible.
"I'm…sorry. I didn't mean to do that to you. It's just…sometimes…I just… freak out." Naruto looked at Sasuke like he'd just told him he had the plague.
"No! Really? I hadn't even noticed!" He gave Sasuke a goofy smile and continued his pursuit of ramen. Sasuke caught back up with him and jammed his hands in his pockets. Naruto was surprised by the attention Sasuke was suddenly giving him. Sasuke rarely even turned his eyes to Naruto before yesterday, and now it was like he was trying to be buddies with him. It was freaking him out really bad. "Are you feeling okay Sasuke? You're not acting like your usual bastard self. It's freaking me out really bad!"
"Shut up. Dead Last."
"That's more like it!" Naruto grinned and put his hands behind his head. "Well, is that all you wanted?"
"No. I wanted to talk to you about your new technique."
"Kage Bunshin? What about it?
"I want to copy it."
Naruto choked a little. "Excuse me? What?"
Sasuke continued like it was the most natural thing in the world. "My bloodline skill, Sharingan, is also called Copy Wheel Eye, or Mirror Wheel Eye. It copies techniques."
"And WHAT makes you think I'm gunna just let you 'copy' my brand new skill that I had to work my ass off to learn?"
"I let you try your skill out on me, now let me try my new skill out on you. I think you owe it to me."
"No way! You arrogant bastard! That's just asking too much! And I don't owe you shit except a good ass kicking for this bullshit I had to go through today!" He held his freshly re-bandaged arm out to the arrogant prick that was getting out of line with him.
"Fine, I'll just wait until you use it again and I'll copy it then."
"You asshole!" Naruto was surprised by the Bastard's audacity. That in itself was surprising!
"Copying is my skill. I have to use it somehow. Face it, sooner or later that technique is going to be mine, with or without your approval."
Naruto was dumb struck. Sasuke had very valid point. He WAS gracious enough to think to ask before he copied his technique, but still! "Why do want MY skill so bad? If you can copy techniques, why don't you go find somebody else's?"
"Because I like YOUR skill, Dead Last. It was fun yesterday, fighting with them. Since I obviously can't fight like that everyday with YOU, I thought I could just learn to do it myself, thus eliminating the need to have you there at all."
'He's kissing my ass to fucking steal my Kage Bunshin?' "You're a real asshole, you know that? I knew there was a good reason that I hated you. Bastard!" Naruto pouted.
"I'm not trying to be an asshole, Dead Last. I just thought that we could help each other out, that's all. Why do you have to be so difficult about it?"
"How is YOU stealing my technique, helping ME out?"
"You like Sakura right?" Sasuke smirked at him. Naruto didn't like that look at all. It made him look evil. "You know, I could have her whenever I wanted."
"I fucking HATE you!" Naruto jammed his finger at the arrogant bastard's chest.
"It's true though, even AFTER I said all that stuff to her. Not that I want anything to do with her…"
"Why do hate her so much? She really likes you! You should feel lucky! You prick!"
"Oh yeah. Lucky. She doesn't care about me. She just wants bragging rights. She's a horrible, shallow, bitch and you're stupid for liking her."
"Don't talk about her like that in front of me Bastard! I'll kick your ass like I did yesterday!"
"Oh yeah, that worked out real well for you, didn't it." Sasuke glanced down at Naruto's damaged arm and raised an eyebrow, thus succeeding in pissing Naruto off beyond belief.
"Whatever, Bastard. It got me some fucking respect, didn't it?" He was tired of this bitching.
"Hn! Yeah. I guess so." Sasuke wasn't bothered to make an excuse for his sudden change of heart when it came to the village idiot. He did respect him.
"So when do you want to do it?" Naruto folded his arms behind his head and glanced over to Sasuke again.
"What?" He'd forgotten what they were originally talking about.
"When do you want me to show you how to do Kage Bunshin?" Naruto looked annoyed at his new comrade's slow reaction time.
"You decided to show me now?" Sasuke noticed that Dead Last's expression had changed dramatically. He looked like was plotting something.
"On one condition. Since we're a team now, you have to be nice to Sakura from now on."
Sasuke flinched. "Now that's just asking too much!"
"Fine. I'll just never use my technique again," Naruto said smugly. "I'd go THAT far to keep it from you."
"Why do like her so much? She treats you like shit!" He looked at Dead Last like he was stupid. He WAS stupid! 'What the hell is wrong with that guy?'
"I don't like her for the way she treats me, dumb ass! I like her for the way she treats you. She'd do anything for you. You're lucky."
"You're an idiot."
"So when do you want to do it, Bastard?"
"I don't know. We'll have to see how this meeting goes with Obito. I'll let you know before we break for the day."
"Fine. Oh! Hey! What did the old man Hokage tell you today? He was at the Academy to talk to YOU, wasn't he?"
"Yeah. He says that have to live with Obito now, because he's my relative."
"Geez! You even get to have your own private instructor around whenever you want, and you still want to copy my skill? This just ain't fair!" Naruto whined and sulked.
"He told me something else too, about you."
"About me?" He was done sulking now.
"Yeah. I don't know if I should say anything about it yet though, you should just wait to hear it for yourself."
"You have to tell me! You can't just say something like that and then not tell me! I'll die!"
"I don't think I'm supposed to say anything about it. Hokage Sama just told me because he thought I should know since I'm going to have to live with him."
"Tell me! Tell me! Tell me! Tell me! Tell me!" Naruto flailed his arms in the air overdramatically.
"FINE! Shut up already! Annoying!" Sasuke stopped Naruto's flailing, and glanced back at their oblivious teacher before he continued giving Dead Last the information he'd gotten earlier from the Hokage. "Hokage Sama told me, that before Obito left the village, he was YOUR legal guardian."
"…"
"Don't say anything about it! He'll probably tell you himself later."
"…What's that mean Sasuke?"
"What?"
"He was my guardian, what does that mean?"
"It means that he was the one who was responsible for your care."
"Oh." Naruto didn't know what to think. Obito was his guardian? How could that be? It was too much for him to grasp all at once. He didn't know how he felt about it. If he was his guardian, then why did he leave him? And why did he decide to show up now? He glanced back at his 'would be' guardian. Obito was locked in conversation with Sakura, oblivious to him and Sasuke. Sakura was giving Obito that look. Naruto didn't like that look at all. He turned back to his new 'would be'…friend? "Man… this is going to be weird."
Sasuke thought back to the day before yesterday, when he's learned of his brother's death. Naruto was there, and he'd shown concern for him. He felt like he should return the gesture. "Yeah. Are you… okay?"
"Yeah. I'm fine. Don't worry about me." They walked in silence the rest of the way to Ichiraku. This was mostly because Naruto was buried in his thoughts, and Sasuke wasn't exactly the best at making small talk. When the smell from the ramen shop hit Naruto's nose however, his whole attitude magically changed. "OH YEAH! It's ramen time!" He sped on ahead, leaving the others to catch up to him at their leisure. By the time they actually got there, Naruto was already on his second bowl, and he was as happy as they'd ever seen him.
OKAY I'M GUNNA POST THIS NOW! SO YOU ALL CAN SEE IT!
OH my gosh! I just watched episode 126 last night! I thought I would pee myself when I saw my sweet little Haku! EEEEEE! I love him so! It sucks so bad that he's dead! (cries) I was planning on skipping over that part of the series in my story, but after seeing his sweet little face again I just HAD to include it! Here is an excerpt that I wrote from the up coming sequel to "If It Went This Way…" tentatively titled "Mission to the Wave." Can you guess which part this is from?
"What the hell are you still doing out here Dead Last?"
"You don't have to hit me you bastard!"
"Someone had to wake you up! You were just sitting there zoned out!"
"Oh! Was I? Man! The weirdest shit just happened to me just now!"
"The weirdest shit is always happing to you, no matter when it is."
I know, it ain't much, but I've already written a bit more of it (between working on this chapter and doing assignments, that is) I hope you all will also check that one out too when this is finished. I'm so excited about it! But this one ain't quite done yet. I still got a little ways to go.
Sadly, or not wink… "…When They Became Genin…" is becoming a trilogy or more. hope not! Sigh! It's a long freaking day! I just have to tell the part where Obito tells them about himself! And also when our favorite team is forced to open up to each other and make their secrets and dreams become known to the rest of the group! (here's a hint! Naruto gets 'out-ed', Sasuke a roommate, and Sakura gets a clue! (winkwinkevil grin) It ain't what your thinkin' folks! You are all a bunch of PERVERTS! (((Personality #2: Um…but you are the one who))))) I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP AND GO TO SLEEP! () …zzzzz… (-)v
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Come back soon for "…When They Became Genin…(part 3)" Hopefully within the next week or so! can't wait for the end of this friggin' quarter!