AN:
Wow, so once again this is late. I know I promised this would be out on Friday, but I've been really messed sleep-wise and I've had a lot of trouble getting going. I'm still having trouble but I managed to get this out so hopefully it was worth it. Thanks to all my reviewers, once again sorry for the wait.
jAi0rOKu, crazy-antman, HanaTenshiHimeko, Night-Owl123, harukakanata, Shodaime Ramenkage well it's not exactly soon, but hopefully you'll enjoy it just the same.
Ayumi Uchiha okay so I'm not actually sure you're still reading this but all the same, sorry you didn't like that.
Limelie thank you curtsies. I like unique.
Insanechildfanfic,hurrahhurrah, :), Only Secret, goingcommando,Alana-StarSugarCat, Dual Rasengan I'm glad you liked it.
starry096 I agree. Plus I had to bring in Iruka somehow; you can't just leave him out of a fic.
SawCyn-WroteSin interesting suggestion. We'll see.
wolvesm0on what, what mate, chipper indeed.
SolidAmerican hehe, hope this chapter answered your questions.
This story is AU (Sasuke's still there) starting after about chapter 177 of the manga that means there will be spoilers if you haven't gotten that far. Information about the past five years will be told throughout the story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
B regular stuff
B internal thoughts and such.
Picture Day
After Naruto and Sasuke escaped the Academy, they prepared themselves to spend the rest of the day on the run. For the next two hours that is exactly what they did. Sakura and Kakashi were never more than a block away as the duo raced through the streets of Konoha.
Around four in the afternoon the two caught their first break when they managed to fake out their sensei and ex-teammate. The two boys swerved around a bend in the road and ducked into an alleyway. They hoped that the street was short enough to convince Kakashi and Sakura that they had in fact made it around the next bend before them. Luckily they were right as they saw a moment later when their pursuers sped by.
Naruto sighed in relief and sank down. "When is this going to be over?" he muttered.
"When we give in or they catch us," Sasuke replied.
"Well the first one isn't going to happen," Naruto said.
"And the second one isn't likely," Sasuke added, "so I guess we just have to put up with it until this picture day thing has passed."
"From what Kakashi-sensei said, Tsunade hasn't even set a date yet," Naruto replied mournfully.
Sasuke grimaced at that and sank down across from Naruto. "Hopefully someone will take pity on us soon," he said uncharacteristically. Naruto delicately raised an eyebrow at the Uchiha, and Sasuke was suddenly reminded of just how similar Naruto and Tsunade really were. "She taught you that didn't she," he said.
"Taught me what?" Naruto replied in confusion.
"That eyebrow thing," Sasuke replied. "She does that whenever someone does something unexpected or lies or something. It's like she's saying 'Is that so?'" he added.
"Dude I don't know what you're talking about," Naruto retorted, standing and stretching.
Sasuke rolled his eyes at the blonde's behavior before standing and following his lead. The two jumped up to the rooftops before immediately ducking for cover. "Okay, so TenTen's watching the roofs," Sasuke said, turning to look at Naruto.
"She was heading in the opposite direction, so if we stay low we should be able to make it at least a few blocks before someone spots us," Naruto replied slowly creeping along the rooftop. The two boys were extremely lucky. They not only managed to get a few blocks away but halfway across Konoha.
Naruto and Sasuke left the rooftops in an alleyway next to Ichiraku's Ramen. Although both were rather hungry, Sasuke managed to dampen Naruto's complaints by telling the blond that there was too large a chance that Sakura and Kakashi were inside. He had no idea how right he was.
"Where could they possibly have gotten away from us?" Sakura asked as she and Kakashi entered Ichiraku. Naruto and Sasuke's eyes widened and they quickly hid behind the ramen stand's dumpster. Unfortunately… well fortunately for Naruto and Sasuke, unfortunately for Sakura and Kakashi, the stands walls were rather thin. The two could hear the conversation taking place inside.
"Maybe they got lost on the road of life," Kakashi said, gaining confused looks from the entire search party that had gathered together for dinner.
Sakura dropped her head down onto the bar and smacked it twice before Lee reached over to stop her. "They're running away from us," she said, "not late for training."
"Do we even want to know?" TenTen asked, looking back and forth between the two visible members of Team 7 in confusion.
"Probably not," Kiba responded. Neji could only shake his head in amusement. Sakura and Kakashi were turning out to be almost as amusing as Naruto, Sasuke, and the Hokage normally were.
"Well," Sakura said, ignoring TenTen and Kiba's statements, "I'm finished I suppose we should all get going." She lightly jumped off her seat and waited patiently for the others to follow. She tapped her foot impatiently as Kiba and Kakashi both took their time getting up. "The faster you two get moving the longer we have to torture those two," she said finally with a wicked gleam in her eye.
Kami, those guys are going to kill us one day, Naruto thought. He gulped slightly and turned to look at Sasuke. Sasuke wasn't paying the least bit of attention to the conversation inside, but he jumped to attention when Naruto shifted to turn around. "We should get out of here," Naruto whispered.
Sasuke looked at him in confusion for a moment before shrugging. I must have missed something, he thought guiltily. A moment later he saw Kakashi and Sakura take off down the road and he nodded forward to Naruto, and the two slowly moved out of the alley. When they made it to the end of the alley they peered out cautiously and sighed in relief when they saw no signs of their trackers. "Let's go," Sasuke said, walking off down the street.
Naruto followed in relative silence that would have raised questions if the entire village wasn't by this point aware of Tsunade's devious Picture Day. The entire village was on edge waiting for the two boys to give in and allow themselves to be cleaned up nicely. Okay so it was mainly the entire female population and a small portion of the males, but still everyone with half a brain knew that Hatake Kakashi was in serious danger of losing the title of "Most Eligible Shinobi" to one, or both, of his former students. They could only hope that his preferences hadn't rubbed off on the boys as well.
The two made it three streets before anyone approached them. Luckily it was none of their pursuers but a young black haired boy their age. "Excuse me, do you know when the Mongols ruled China?" he asked with a silly grin on his face.
Sasuke glanced around looking for Sakura and the others. All he found was the convenience store they were passing and another boy, a blond one, who appeared to be waiting for the other one to bring back an answer. "Ummm…" he stuttered looking at the boy in confusion. This has to be a joke of some kind. Maybe it's a trick, he thought.
"1279 to 1368" Naruto replied absentmindedly. He was completely unaware of Sasuke's inner dialogue as he continued on.
"Thanks dude," the boy shouted at their backs.
"How do you know that?" Sasuke asked, looking at Naruto in disbelief.
"I study… sometimes," Naruto said, looking away in embarrassment. "Plus, I thought Genghis Kahn was cool when we read about him in class," he added, causing Sasuke to chuckle in amusement, and Naruto to once again combine glaring and pouting in a ridiculous attempt to display his displeasure with his teammate.
"There they are," someone shouted; Naruto and Sasuke froze in their tracks and turned to see Kiba pointing at them and laughing. A moment later Sakura and Kakashi appeared in front of them
"Shit," they said in unison before taking off again.
"Oh, just give up already," Sakura shouted after them as she and Kakashi gave chase.
"No, you give up," Naruto shouted back childishly. Sasuke barely heard the blond mutter, "Please," dejectedly as they continued on.
AN: Well I hope that was enjoyable for all of you.
If you've never seen Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure go see it now. If you have you may have recognized the scene outside the convenience store. That scene does not belong to me, or at least not that line nor the "unnamed" character that says it; both belong to whatever genius wrote that movie.
The date is basically correct. The exact date changes depending on the source you get it from, but that hits the right general era.