Hullo all! Thank you for you wonderful reviews! And I apologize, again, for the short chapter, so I've decided, that I will either do one short chapter per week or one long chapter every two weeks, or at least I'll try, the only reason I get as much done as I do is because I get up at 5 in the morning to type out the story for you guys, so feel grateful, grateful dammit!
Ahem, anyway, the reason I'm starting so soon you ask? Well, I've been reading a bunch of Naruto fics, and in every single one, Naruto was an idiot! I don't get it, he made up his own jutsu at the age of ten! Not even Shikamaru can claim that... on second thought, he probably could, but he's to lazy... fine then, not even Itachi has done that!
And what's with all this talk about Naruto being straight? What kind of straight person wants to turn into a girl? It's just an excuse to cross dress, it really is. And he could beat a jounin, that whats-his-name-guy, in the first book. AND he mastered the jutsu that had taken the hero of the village four freaking years to master, yeah, it took Naruto a week. So yeah! Beat that you thinking-Naruto-is-dumb-losers!
So yeah, here's the story. I've decided that my recap isn't all that helpful, it just tells you the last sentence, which isn't all that helpful, because what if the last sentence is I like cheese or something stupid like that, plus with the way it is, I have to go back and find the last chapter, then hit copy then paste and all that obnoying jazz. So, presenting the NEW AND IMPROVED recap:
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In the last chapter, Sasuke finds out that Naruto is an Anbu and then Naruto leaves Sasuke in his house...alone...
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Sasuke had spent the last fifteen minutes getting over his 'Naruto is an Anbu' induced shock. He had spent the five minutes after that pondering what else he didn't know about Naruto. He spent the last few seconds deciding that he was going to find out. He got to his furry little feet and got off the pillow mountain, with proved more difficult then one would think, seeing as how the pillows kept sinking beneath him and trying to pull him into their fluffy softness forever. When he had freed himself from one particularly persistent fox shaped pillow, he wandered around the large room, inspecting the bookshelves, wondering what kind of books Naruto read.
All of the books surprised him, what he had expected were books with lame titles like 'So You Want To Be Hokage' or 'How to Make Ramen In Three Seconds'. What he found were books with titles like 'History Of Konoha' and 'The Truth Beyond Truths'. When he was done examining these books, he moved on to another shelf, filled, not with books but scrolls. These were higher up, so Sasuke couldn't make out the titles, but he knew a forbidden scroll, or seven, when he saw them.
He continued on. He wandered back to the evil pillow mountain of doom, as he had so creatively dubbed it. What was here, of all places that Naruto hadn't wanted him to see? He examined the hole nearest him. Nothing. Just the picture of team 7. Above that was the sketch book, and farther above that the phone, next to where Naruto had kept his Anbu uniform. Sasuke wondered what Naruto had in that sketch book, or in on the cubby next to it the notebooks next to it. He wondered if the single notebook, separate from the others, was a diary.
He also wanted to know what was in the cubbies to far above his head to see. Forgetting Narutos warning not to touch, he stuck his face into the hole with the sketch book, and ...
...promptly got his nose shocked. He jumped back with a yelp. Actually it was more of a squeal, but he was an avenger, and even in cat forms, avengers didn't squeal. Ever. So it was a yelp, and that was final. He eyed the sketch book warily, sure he must have imagined that, no way could the dobe have done a defensive jutsu around this sketch book, why would he? How would he? Naruto could barely even win a fight against Sakura! (A/N: Yeah, I know thats not really true, but you know Sasuke, he always underestimates people)
Sasuke was not a very fast leaner, or he was just stupid. Either way, he, for some reason didn't believe the pain in his nose and stuck out a paw, into the hole with the sketch book. He got shocked. He squeal- ahem, yelped. Figuring that only the sketch book could be protected, after all, these jutsus took a huge amount of chakra, chakra that Naruto didn't have. Especially not on a mission, so only this one hole could be protected. He tried to stick his tail into another hole. It get shocked. Sasuke was starting to think that this wasn't such a brilliant idea after all.
He glared at the holes. Why was Naruto protecting these things? These useless, meaningless things, and not the forbidden scrolls? 'Whatever' Sasuke thought 'If that idiot isn't smart enough to protect the valuables, its his problem' and with that, he strutted out of the hidden room, or at least he tried to, it was kinda hard with his paw singed. The door materialized into place behind him.
Time for some snooping in Naruto's room.
He padded along the cream hall. He hadn't had time to explore Naruto's room the last time he had been at there, he had been to busy being hungry. He wandered into the room, the door had been left open. He was once again shocked at the decoration of the room. The walls were all a dark green, the shag green carpet was soft under his paws. The bed was just a mattress on the floor. But that wasn't everything. There was what looked like a large oak tree climbing up the side of the wall, the hole in lined with shelves, the higher up hole lined with pillows.
On the other side of the wall there was a weeping willow, it's branches hiding something from view. He padded over there, stepping between the soft branches. Sasuke felt a strange feeling, similar to that of the feeling when Naruto had transported them. He ignored it in the light of what he saw. His mouth dropped open. It looked like a forest glade. There was a shallow stream running across a small corner, ending in a deeper pool, with a waterfall pouring water into the pool, feeding the small river. The carpet beneath his paws was now soft, lush grass. There were trees there to! Higher then where the ceiling would be. He could even see a sapphire sky through the tree tops.
It was then that Sasuke came to the only logical reason that there could be. He was dreaming. That was it. It was all a figment of his imagination. He didn't mind, he'd had much worse dreams. In fact he was interested in what would happen in this dream. Knowing that dream-Naruto would return soon, he left the magical clearing and wandered back to Naruto's room. Deciding to look around at this room, he wandered over to the oak tree that doubled as a book shelf. The books up there shocked him. He had many of the same books at home. Books like Shaman King, Yu Yu Hakusho, Hikaru No Go, One Piece and Full Metal Alchemist. Yup, definitely a dream. An interesting dream, true, but still a dream.
Might as well live it out' he thought 'See what other crazy things my subconscious come up with. Like... Itachi being a Konoha spy, or... Naruto in a mini dress.' Sasuke did his best to snort at this thought, not even wondering why that thought had popped into his head, or why it didn't bother him. He didn't however, get to complete the snort, as he was 1) a cat and 2) a cat with a singed nose.
"Sasuke! I'm home!" came a voice from where the front door followed by the sound of the door closing. Sasuke raced out to the hall, not wanting to be caught snooping. Naruto saw him and picked him up and swung him around. "That was awesome! I should have thought of naming one of my pets Sasuke along time ago!" Naruto exclaimed, putting Sasuke carefully down on a chair (he had brought him into the living room).
It was then that Sasuke realized what Naruto was wearing. He was wearing a very very short dress, red with white fur lining the bottom and the sleeves that came down to the middle of his arm. He was also wearing a Santa hat, and Sasuke noticed with the small part of his mind that was not taken up with what nice legs Naruto had, that Naruto was wearing red nail polish.
That same part was pondering if cats could get nosebleeds.
"Oh, heh heh. I bet you're wondering why I'm wearing this, aren't you?" Naruto asked, a bit sheepishly, sheepishly! as if parading around in front of his rival in the shortest thing that Sasuke had ever seen (in fact, he was starting to doubt it could be logically be called a dress, more like a scrap of fabric) was a perfectly normal, everyday occurrence. Although, for Naruto, it might be. And he didn't know that it was his rival he was parading half naked in front of. Sasuke hadn't, of course, been wondering anything of the sort. He had been wondering if it was legal to look that, ahem, fuckable.
" Well, the reason I'm dressed like this is that stupid Tsunade-baachan thought that my mission tonight was gathering information from members of Sound, so I get all 'dolled up' as she put it, in my Sexy No Jutsu form and off I go. And since it's so close to Christmas, this is what I get to wear." Naruto grinned at Sasuke, before grabbing the end of the 'dress' and starting to pull it over his head. Sasuke was bit disappointed before he realized that if Naruto wearing the dress, he wouldn't be wearing anything, well, except the underwear. Sasuke sat back and watched the show. He was disappointed, to say the least, when Naruto began to head towards the bathroom, still trying to get the scrap of fabric over his head. The door closed behind him with a click. Sasuke shook his head, repeatedly. He was trying to clear his head. It wasn't working.
That image of Naruto was going to haunt his dreams for a long long time. He couldn't for the life of him, figure out why that thought didn't bother him at all.
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Naruto was now wearing black lounge pants, a long t-shirt and that weird little hat of his. He wandered almost lazily over to Sasuke.
"Hey, Sasuke-kitty, it's dinner time. What do you want to eat?" he cocked his head as if listening. Meh, you can't talk, well, Kyu says he's in the mood for mice, but I don't really feel like catching any right now, you know? So, sushi it is! I feel like some shrimp tempura, you want some? Sasuke nodded his head, watching as Naruto grinned before making his clones and picking Sasuke up to put him in the table.
This time Naruto did not help the clones, he sat down at the table next to Sasuke, then put his feet on the table ad leaned back in his chair, putting his hands behind his head and looking very comfy. Sasuke felt the urge to roll his eyes.
"Hey, what happened to your nose?" Naruto asked, leaning closer to get a better look, which resulted in him being almost nose to nose with Sasuke. Sasuke could feel Narutos breath ruffling the soft fur around his nose. He felt his skin heat up under his fur ad realized that had he been in his human form, he would have been blushing. He wondered why, as he had come nose to nose (and mouth to mouth) with Naruto before. Needless to say, this did not make his skin cool down. Suddenly Naruto snickered, leaning back in his chair again.
"Heh, curiosity killed the cat, ne?" he said, tapping Sasuke's singed nose gently. To his surprise, Sasuke felt a cool, soothing sensation flow from where Naruto's finger was. He blinked. Was Naruto…healing him? What? Could he do that. Apparently he could, Sasuke realized as Naruto moved his hand down to Sasuke's paw and the other to his tail, and the cool feeling spread over there to.
"I did warn you, didn't I? You shouldn't touch the things in there. Only I can get in there without getting singed. I'd let animals see, but… you never know who else can talk to animals. The Inuzuka family for one, like I want Kiba to know what's in there." Naruto grinned. One of the clones put a shrimp roll in front of Sasuke and one in front of Naruto. "Dig in." Naruto said, making good on his own word. Sasuke began to nibble on his own food.
"I can't wait to tomorrow." Naruto exclaimed randomly. "I'll finally have time to get some training done, then I get to go on my favorite kind of mission!" Sasuke tilted his head to he side to convey his confusion. "I get to meet with Konoha's spy in the Atsuki!" he explained proudly, as if this wasn't a revelation at Sasuke at all.
Sasuke was a high-ranking jounin, he should have been informed of a spy in the Atsuki! How was it that Naruto knew and not him. Sasuke got the impression that not even every Anbu knew about it. He just stared at Naruto, his food forgotten. Naruto grinned.
"Curious as a cat. aren't you? You seem more…intelligent then some of the other a animals I've taken care of…more aware. You seem to understand what I say, more then the others, they understood the words, yes, but they didn't understand things like the Atsuki and spy. I feel like, I dunno, you're almost human. Alright, I'll tell you, but I won't use any names, like I said, you never know who can talk to animals." he suddenly paused, then turned his head as if listening. "Yeah, yeah I know, but.. He reminds me a bit of Sasuke, the real one." he blushed faintly. "I feel like I can trust him. I know very well what happened!" Now his tone was one of anger. "Well, like I said, I'm not going to tell this guy any names, keep your fuzzy nose out of my business if you won't even listen to the whole conversation. Stupid old fox." the last bit sounded like an annoyed endearment.
"Anyway, Sasuke-neko." he said, turning back to Sasuke. "The tale of the Atsuki spy for Konoha. We'll call them…Chi, yeah, Kyuu, thats good. Chi. Man I'd love to see his face… anyway, this guy, Chi, was framed by Orochimaru for…well I can't tell you what he was framed for, I might as well tell you his name. Well, anyway, it was horrible. That's one of the downsides of henge. So anyway, Chi." a snicker "Was framed, but at the time he was supposed to have been doing this crime, he was actually with the Hokage. But he knew that the village needed a spy in the Atsuki, and knew that soon, other villages would learn of 'his' crime if the truth was nor learned, so he could pretend to have deliberately done the crime and joined the Atsuki."
"But…even though he is now a key member of the Atsuki, there are still things that he had left behind that…make it harder for him to stay in this unique position. Like for example, there is one person, who's name I also can't tell you, because that would give it away to, so lets call him Ke." he giggled again. "Not funny Kyuu!" he was bright red now. "I will not call this person Uke, stupid inconsiderate no good lousy fox. Well, this Ke guy still thinks that Chi did this horrible crime and so seeks to kill him, and to maintain his position in the Atsuki, Chi has to pretend to scorn Ke and always has to fight him. One day, Ke will get stronger, and…well, Chi will know the worst possible kind of death." Naruto trailed off his voice soft.
"Anyway!" he said, brightening suddenly. To suddenly to be real. "I'm exhausted, how 'bout you? Plus, um, Chi, is coming here tomorrow, so yeah! It'll be fun. So, I better head to bed, and you to!"
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Cookies to anyone who can guess who 'Chi' and 'Ke' are! And about this, should Naruto act stupid or normal? You vote to decide! Oh, and for anyone who wants um, well crap, I forgot what I was going to say, I was watching Kyo Kara Maoh. Oh, right! Anyone who wants, um, ur, never mind. …..oh well, whatever. Damn anime. I got Kyo Kara Maoh for Christmas, and it's one of the best things I've ever seen! My god, can you say bishis in almost-cannon-yaoi much! Also, next chapter might be in Naruto's POV, or both, but it's a very important chapter… so yeah, prolly both. It's gonna be fun! All who review will get… A preview of next chapter. And not the lame reviews like 'That was great, update soon!', I'm talking real reviews here people!
Oh, and I seem to be getting a hell of a lot of reviews that say 'write more or I'll kill you' or 'I'll kill myself' as much as I love reviews, can we keep the morbid ones to a minimum? Please? I am flattered, really, but…yeah…
