I stood in front of the doors, hands on my hips staring at the disguised Kotetsu and Izumo. With my mask up, they couldn't see my frown, so I had to make up for that by narrowing my eyes. The pair of chuunin only seemed amused by this though, and as I wordlessly demanded to be let through, Izumo aimed a kick at me, and I reflexively moved to block it with my own leg...but Lee flashed between us and caught both of our legs. He let go of mine first, then Izumo's. I heard Tenten scold him for revealing his abilities, and the green clad boy was sheepish. Neji scowled at me, then pointedly look away. I shifted my focus back to Lee just in time to hear him ask out Sakura, and her subsequent rejection of him. I pop up behind her and look to Lee with a grin.

"She might not wanna be your girlfriend, but I'll be your boyfriend!"

Sakura looked horrified, but Lee just shook his head.

"No! I cannot be both your boyfriend and your senpai, Sasuke-san. I promised you I would be the best senpai ever!" He declared.

I almost wanted to tear up amd tackle hug the boy. The only reason he didn't want to be my boyfriend...was because he had promised to be the best senpai ever, and dating me would break that promise. I threw a fist up in the air.

"THAT IS OKAY, LEE-SENPAI, I HOLD NO HARD FEELINGS!" I shouted, before lowering my voice. "Hey, should we ditch all the losers who apparently don't know how to count?"

Lee grinned, flashing me a thumbs up, and I returned the favor. It was then that Naruto seemed to notice something.

"Wait...Sasuke, why are you guys dressed so similar!?" The blond exclaimed. "Like...you're both wearing the jumpsuit, just in different colors, and yours has a mask added on. You're both wearing leg warmers, and you're both wearing your headbands like belts!"

Sakura bonked Naruto in the head. "DIDN'T YOU HEAR LEE-SAN!??! HE'S SASUKE-KUN'S SENPAI!!! HE MUST BE WHO HE'S TRAINING IN TAIJUTSU WITH!!!"

"YES! YOU ARE CORRECT, NARUTO-SAN!!! HE TRAINS WITH MY TEAM REGULARLY, AND I AM IN CHARGE OF HIS WEIGHT RESISTANCE TRAINING!!!"

Naruto looked confused, so I brought up a leg and pulled down the hot pink legwarmers just enough to reveal that I was wearing weights. Unfortunately Naruto was still confused, so I had to verbally tell him.

"They're weights, Naruto. I've been wearing them ever since I got this outfit. I move up in weight a bit at least once a week."

A lightbulb finally seemed to go off in Naruto's mind, and his eyes lit up in understanding. Once I was sure he understood, we all started walking once more, merrily chatting with one another. We only stopped once we reached the exam room and others came over to greet us. Ino still looked conflicted whenever she looked at me, and I could tell she wanted to fight me to be my girlfriend, but at the same time she didn't want to hurt me. It was a little funny. I stiffened up as I heard the voice of an older boy call out to us.

"You guys should be more careful...you're drawing a lot of attention to yourselves."

FUCKING KABUTO. I immediately took out a prank smoke bomb and hurled it at his feet. He was surprised, but kept up the act of being a clumsy leaf genin. He didn't seem to know what to do once it was revealed that the smoke bomb had burst into glitter and fine, hot pink powder, covering the front of him rather thoroughly.

"Fuck off, no one likes you!" I growled.

Kabuto held up his hands in surrender, slowly backing away with a look of utter confusion on his face. Satisfied, I gave a nod and turned back to everyone else, who was gaping at me.

"What? I know I'm good looking, but you don't have to stare!" I grinned under my mask.

"...troublesome" Shikamaru uttered.

"...Sasuke, what the FUCK happened to you???" Kiba asked. Akamaru barked in agreement from atop the Inuzuka's head.

"I decided to stop being an emo broody asshole and actually be myself instead of letting my trauma and hatred for my brother suffocate what's left of my soul is all."

I said it so nonchalantly that everyone looked even more gobsmacked and disturbed than before. But I ignored them as soon as I saw a familiar mop of blood red hair. I perked up, waving wildly to the murderous Suna genin.

"HI GAARA!!!!"

Ignoring the looks of horror from his siblings, I practically bounced over with a grin so wide it could be seen through my mask. I stopped in front of him, making sure my hands were completely visible to try and show him that no, I was NOT going to attack him.

"So, did your brother beat up any more small children since last week?"

Kankuro was sweating, looking completely terrified, while Temari looked concerned for my wellbeing...both physical and mental. Meanwhile Gaara was just confused, but answered me anyways. Poor guy's brain had likely shut down.

"No, he hasn't. The threat of death was enough to prevent him from doing anything stupid again."

I nodded. "It is a very effective motivator. Hey, do you need some water? You sound dry as FUCK!"

Gaara only looked more confused than before, but before he could even formulate a reply, Ibiki showed up with his veritable army of chuunin in tow.

"ALRIGHT, SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP YOU INGRATES!!!" He yelled.

He started explaining what we were to do for the test, but I tuned him out. I tapped Gaara on the shoulder, and he whirled to face me, murder in his eyes. I didn't balk though.

"Good luck!" I said, before bounding back to my team and getting in line to draw the number for our seats.

Once we were in our seats, I tuned out the rest of the instruction, and when told to begin...I just started doodling all over my test. Why bother trying if I didn't even need to? Eventually, I grew bored of doodling as well, and took out a shuriken to fidget with. I nearly cut myself on it several times, but still avoided it like the badass I was. A few minutes of that and I started folding up my test into a paper crane, making it hop across the desk I sat at. Then I grew bored of that, so started using my chakra strings to mess with people.

My first target was Kankuro. I had been working on my precision with my chakra strings, and was more than able to steal a pencil from the person next to the puppet user, and write out 'hello!'. Kankuro just looked confused once more, before I drew out the Uchiha crest on his paper. Then his incredulous gaze whipped over to me. I then used the pencil to poke him in the head, and he glared at me. The chuunin proctors only watched the scene with varying looks of confusion and amusement.

Pretty soon, Ibiki called out that it was time for the tenth question. There were various calls of outrage, and teams started dropping out left and right. I waited until Naruto made his grand stand, and once he finished, I jumped up myself.

"YEAH, YOU GO NARUTO!!! SHOW HIM THE FLAMES OF YOUR YOUTH!!!!"

"YES, NARUTO-SAN!!! THE POWER OF YOUTH!!!!" Lee shouted

Everyone sent the two of us looks of confusion and exasperation, and Ibiki just face palmed before regaining his composure and announcing that we passed. Once the excitement died down, Anko burst through the window with her banner, announcing herself. I couldn't help but stare at her outfit. How did she keep the coat from showing off her nips? Was it like the tree walking and she held it there with chakra? If she did that was fucking cool. But what if she just had it sewn onto her mesh top? Or glued down? Less cool, but still impressive. At some point, her gaze landed on me and she smirked.

"Sorry kid, you're a bit too young for me." She said.

I just shook my head. "No, that's not it. Not that you aren't attractive, because you like, definitely are, but I was just wondering how you keep the jacket covering yourself like that...ooohhh, that gives me another question...have you ever ripped off your shirt in the middle of a fight to fuck with your opponents? Titties are a very good distraction, I speak from experience."

Everyone was dumbfounded, but Anko just cackled. "I like you, kid. Say, what team are you on?"

"Team 7. Me, Sakura, Naruto, and Kakashi-sensei."

Anko only cackled more. "Well that explains why you know from experience!!! I've heard about Naruto's sexy jutsu, and I know Kakashi myself."

I grinned. "Yeah, Naruto had his clones turn into a bunch of different girls, and I turned into Tsunade!!!"

Every adult in the room, with the exception of Anko, looked horrified. Anko looked like she was going to asphyxiate herself from laughing so hard. Ibiki then loudly cleared his throat.

"WE ARE GETTING OFF TRACK HERE!!! ANKO!!! WILL YOU PLEASE CONTROL YOURSELF AND GET THE SECOND PART OF THE EXAMS STARTED ALREADY!?" He yelled, with a dose of killing intent sprinkled in.

Anko just snorted and waved him off. "Alright, alright, I'm going! FOLLOW ME, FRESH MEAT!!" With that said, she waltzed out the door, and I followed without hesitation, everyone else following after they broke out of their shock.

After we had arrived at the Forest of Death and Anko explained the test to us, I turned to Naruto and Sakura, grinning beneath my mask.

"Guys, guys, guys! We gotta steal two of those scrolls! Naruto, do you have any spare scrolls on you?"

Naruto blinked at me, but nodded.

"Perfect! We can paint some of them to look like the mission scrolls, then I can use my chakra strings to switch them out and no one will know until they try to open them at the tower!"

Now understanding it, Naruto grinned, and immediately set to work. He made sure to be all but completely hidden so none of the competitors could catch on. Sakura looked uncomfortable, though.

"Sasuke-kun...isn't...isn't this cheating?"

I laughed. "Sakura, cheating is half the job description of a ninja! If you aren't cheating, you obviously aren't trying!"

This didn't seem to comfort her any, though. Tapping my chin, I had another idea and rushed off to Hinata's team.

"Hinata! Hinata! Hey!"

The shy Hyuuga looked to me in curiosity. "Y-yes?"

I leaned in, grinning. "You wanna make a deal? I can help your team get both scrolls as long as you help mine, too!"

She looked uncertain, but Kiba snorted. "Oh yeah? And just how is that gonna work? Besides, we don't need your help! Right, Akamaru?" Akamaru yipped in response.

"I know you don't NEED the help, but come on, wouldn't it be hilarious if all these other older teams get to the tower just to find that two ROOKIE teams beat them there?"

Kiba looked interested now, and even Hinata looked like she was willing to do this. Shino...well...he looked like Shino. I couldn't read him.

"All I need...is for Hinata to use her byakugan to see which teams have what scrolls and where they have them. I'll switch them out for fakes so they won't even notice!"

Kiba looked doubtful, and Hinata was clearly nervous. However, she activated her byakugan anyways. She watched as teams went in the booth to turn in their waivers and receive their scrolls, telling me which teams got what scrolls. As this was going on, Naruto came over with his bag of phony scrolls, and I immediately set to work. There were a few teams who had their scrolls in a back pouch, so I stole theirs first. A couple people saw the floating scrolls, so I appeased them by giving them an extra real scroll. They seemed satisfied by this arrangement, and pretended that they saw nothing.

It took around ten minutes before I had all the scrolls needed, and luckily just in time for Anko to send everyone to the starting gates. Before long, we were set loose into the forest. Thankfully my team could immediately run for the tower. I was really hoping we could avoid Orochimaru. I did NOT want that curse mark!

We kept running for a while before I remembered something. I stopped suddenly, making Sakura and Naruto double back to stay with me.

"Sakura, Naruto, we need to draw thingies on ourselves. Everyone here has to know the transformation jutsu, so we need a way to identify one another in case we get separated."

Sakura smiled, face flushing. "That's an amazing idea, Sasuke-kun!"

Naruto grudgingly agreed and brought out his paints he had used for the scrolls. I immediately set to work, pulling up one of Naruto's sleeves to draw a small, crude fox. He looked down at it contamplatively, then back to me, and I winked at him, causing his face to blanch. I then moved to Sakura, moving her hair out of the way to draw a small sakura blossom on the back of her neck. I then blew on it a bit to make sure it was dry so it didn't get in her hair, and she squeaked.

I then handed the brush to the pink haired girl and pulled my mask down, pointing to my cheek. It took a moment, but Sakura got the hint and started painting. I tried to identify what it was based on the feeling, and I was pretty sure it was the Uchiha crest with an extra circle around it. A few moments later, I grinned and put my mask back on.

"Great! Now if we get separated, we just show each other these, and we'll know we're good! Let's keep going now!!!"

I didn't wait for them to respond before setting off once more. We were only running for two minutes when we were suddenly blasted by a wall of wind, scattering us. I knew exactly what that meant...and I cursed internally. Dammit, I thought I had managed to avoid the guy!!!

After I tumbled to a stop, I got up with a groan, and soon Sakura came into view. I immediately pulled down my mask so she could see what she had painted, and in reply she turned around and shifted her hair out of the way so I could see the flower I had made. I nodded, and heard rustling in the bushes.

"Boy, am I glad to see you guys!" Naruto's voice said.

I held up a hand before he could continue and he stopped, appearing confused. "Show us your left arm."

The Naruto looked confused, but rolled up his sleeve anyways...revealing clear skin. As soon as I saw that, I immediately activated my sharingan and threw three kunai at the fake...at Orochimaru. Sakura had also thrown some shuriken, but the serpentine man dodged all of them. He gave a predatory smile at us before he dropped the transformation, revealing his borrowed face of the Kusa kunoichi.

"My my, it seems you saw through my disguise...what was it?" She said.

"I ain't telling you shit!" I said.

The man chuckled, and pulled out a scroll. "You're after this, right?" Before I could respond, he swallowed it whole.

"...does that mean if you want it back at the end of the exams that you have to puke it up?" I asked.

He seemed a bit taken aback by my reaction, but quickly regained composure and chuckled once more...then I felt a tidal wave of killing intent, and froze for a moment as I saw flashes of my death. It was much worse than it was with Zabuza...but I had the same reaction. I burst out into hysterical, screeching laughter. Orochimaru seemed a bit startled by this, and paused for a moment. That slight pause gave me the motivation I needed to burst into motion, immediately rushing to grab Sakura and retreat to the branches. As soon as we stopped, I looked to Sakura in desperation.

"We need to find Naruto...this dude is on a way different level than Zabuza...and even Kakashi-sensei had trouble against Zabuza. This enemy could probably wipe the floor with both of them at the same time based off of the killing intent alone. There's no way this is a genin...so they're not interested in our scroll. They want something else...and I'm pretty sure it's me they're after. Our only chance is Naruto...and one last thing..."

I quickly reached out and grabbed her by the hair, slashing it short with a kunai. Sakura looked terrified and dumbstruck as the pink locks fell down.

"No one ever stopped to wonder why I liked girls with long hair...it's because in the ninja world, having long hair is a symbol of power. If you have long hair, you're saying to everyone that you're so strong you don't have to worry at all about your hair being used against you. Now you...GO!!! I'LL STALL THE CREEP WHILE YOU GET NARUTO, GO!!!!"

Sakura hesitated, but bolted off nonetheless. I heard dark chuckling behind me.

"My, what a touching moment...but now you've left yourself at the mercy of the predator...a grave mistake on your part, SASUKE,"

I gave a yelp and leapt out of the way as fast as I could. Fuck, if I wanted to last long enough, I would need to be faster! Using my chakra strings, I undid my leg weights and kicked them off. I was sure Lee would forgive me for losing them in a situation as dire as this. The weights thudded to the ground, breaking a couple smaller branches along the way. I was nowhere near what Lee wore, but it was still enough to give me a mild boost in speed.

I saw Orochimaru come flying at me again, and I squawked before letting chakra strings fly out my fingertips, wrap around my wrist, and then zip to attach to a branch. I tugged myself out of the way, and the midair direction change seemed to befuddle the snake man a bit as I swung away. The sannin only laughed as he gave chase once more. Fuck fuck fuck, what did Sasuke do in the show!? RIGHT!!!

I brought out a coil of ninja wire, and sent my chakra strings to wrap along the length of the different sections of wire so I could manipulate it. I made it fly at Orochimaru, and knock him back against the trunk of a tree before wrapping around him and the trunk. I rapidly did the hand signs for the fireball jutsu, and let it loose on the man. There was a blood curdling screech, and for a moment it appeared that the battle was over, but I knew better. Apparently Sakura and Naruto didn't, though.

"YOU DID IT, SASUKE-KUN!!! YOU KILLED HIM!!!"

I whirled around towards the direction her voice had come from, eyes wide. "SAKURA YOU IDIOT!!! NARUTO, SHADOW TO THE GATE!!!!"

I heard a screech of warning from Sakura a moment too late. Orochimaru had already sunk his fangs into my neck. After a second, he pulled away and I let out a shout of pain as my neck BURNED. I collapsed to my knees from the sheer intensity of the pain.

"EW EW EW EW CURSE HICKEY CURSE HICKEY NONONONONO!!!!" I yelled.

I vaguely registered Sakura shouting at the man, and once her attention was turned back onto me, I forced myself to stay awake long enough to watch Naruto make a shadow clone that ran off through the forest.

"Sakura...Sakura...imma pass out soon...but...but get me...to the tower...they just said the team had to all get there alive...they didn't...say everyone had to be...conscious...you and Naruto, carry me to the tower...the jonin will be able to help...me...okay...?" I choked out.

I managed to hold onto consciousness long enough to see Sakura nod, the pink haired girl already crying. I gave her a pained smile.

"Don't worry...a stupid...cursed hickey won't...kill me...I'm too cool to die that...dumb..."

With those final words of confidence, I felt my eyelids close and my mind slip away from me. I knew I would wake up...the original Sasuke lived, after all, so of course I was going to survive as well. I just hoped they could get me to the tower in time.

I woke up three days later in the tower. Unlike canon, there were no threats here, so I was able to force the curse mark into receding. The intense wave of chakra the mark activating caused though was unavoidable, and soon I was surrounded by jonin...who looked confused that I wasn't rampaging. After they got over their shock they began questioning me on what had happened, so I just told them the truth.

That it didn't take long for me to realize that there was no way I was facing an actual genin, that the killing intent alone was enough to prove that the guy could wipe the floor with Kakashi-sensei. Once satisfied with my answers, they left, telling me that the mark would be sealed after this phase of the exams was finished. I nodded, and just gave a thumbs up.

I was about to leave to explore, but suddenly Gaara was blocking the doorway. I smiled, giving a wave of greeting, but he just...stared at me. What did he want? I wasn't a Yamanaka! I couldn't read minds, or invade them, or whatever! I was about to say as such when he finally spoke.

"You aren't afraid of me...why?"

I blinked, and once again decided that the truth was my best bet. "Because one of my best friends has the kyuubi sealed inside of him, my brother killed our entire clan, and I just got a cursed hickey from fucking Orochimaru of all people. So even though your seal sucks ass and Shukaku is a spiteful, murderous asshole, I've already faced waaaay worse. Besides, back to the first point, you and Naruto are basically like...brothers! You both have tailed beasts sealed inside of you!! The tailed beast doesn't define you...YOU define you. Wow that was fucking cheesy but hey I hope it got the point across."

For obvious reasons I didn't mention the fact that the one who sealed the beasts inside them were both their fathers, who were now dead. No one anywhere near my age was supposed to know who Naruto's father was, and no one but Orochimaru knew that Gaara's father was dead yet. Gaara blinked at me, his head tilting to the side. Like a puppy. A confused, powerful, bloodthirsty puppy. It made me want to hug him. But, if there was one important thing I had learned, it was that asking for consent before you touched someone outside of fucking beating their ass because they're an enemy was paramount.

"Gaara can I hug you?"

Gaara only looked more confused. Had...had he never been hugged before!? Wait what was I saying of course he hadn't been. Did...did he know what a hug was?

"...why would you want to hug me? It seems idiotic. A death wish."

Okay so he knew what a hug was. "I'll take that as a 'no, Sasuke, you cannot hug me' then. That's okay, not everyone likes or wants hugs. If you ever want a hug, I'm here though!!! You look like you need like...a lot of fucking hugs, dude...and water. Seriously you sound dry as fuck are you okay?"

Gaara looked like he didn't know what to do with himself. His expression was somewhat pained and mildly disgusted...what was that called again? A grimace? I'm pretty sure it was called a grimace.

"...I am from the desert and I have the sand spirit sealed within me...my voice reflects that is all."

Didn't make sense to me but I wasn't about to question it, so I just shrugged. "Okay, whatever floats your boat. Both offers remain available! Oh, and if in the next couple of days you need company at night, feel free to come wake me up. It must get like...really fucking boring. I heard that those who have Shukaku sealed in them can't sleep or the little shit will break out."

Gaara seemed like he was having a minor crisis, but otherwise was okay. Until the minor crisis turned into a moderate one and he shouted in what sounded like pain, clutching at his head. Dammit, Shukaku was fucking with him again! I didn't know what to do! What was I supposed to do!? I knew if I reached out to touch him, I would just be fucking yeeted back into a wall or something.

His yelling had attracted his siblings and a couple jonin, who looked ready to rush and restrain him. Scowling beneath my mask, I hurtled around Gaara to stand between him and the others protectively. He didn't deserve any of this bullshit!

"Leave him alone!!!" I shouted.

Everyone present was shocked by my demand, but didn't move any further, which I counted as a success. Unfortunately that caused Gaara to fall to his knees, still clutching his head and screaming in pain. Fuck I didn't know how to make this better!!! I turned around, kneeling in front of him, but didn't try to touch him.

"Gaara...Gaara, it's okay. Focus on yourself...list all the things that make you you and not the monster inside you. Draw a line between them, and focus on the parts that are only yours. I know you can do it...show Shukaku that he can't control you!!!" I encouraged.

"Shut...UUUUUPP!!!!!" He yelled, using some sand to knock me into a wall. "I...am a monster...I was born a monster...a demon that loves only himself...my purpose in life is to end others...and one day...I will end yours."

I wasn't sure what to do now, but I sat up, wheezing a bit since the air was knocked out of me. I gave a thumbs up, brushing off the help of others. I shakily got to my feet, and stepped over a bit closet, but not as close as before. I had a sad smile on my lips...not that anyone could see it. Poor Gaara...he...never had anyone. I wanted to hug the poor guy so bad and never let go. Too bad that would get me a one way ticket to a sand coffin.

"...I don't believe that you're a monster...but you won't kill me. I'm not going to let you, and neither are any of my precious people." I said.

He was just panting heavily now, still holding his head and glaring at me. It seemed much safer now...there was no agitated sand swirling around him, and he wasn't screaming anymore.

"Temari...come here, you should probably take him back to your room." I said.

Temari hesitantly came forwards, but Kankuro bristled. "Hey, why didn't you ask me to get him!?"

I gave him a deadpan stare. "...I don't like you and your sister seems waaaay more reasonable. She doesn't try to beat up random six year olds for accidentally running into her."

Kankuro flushed in indignation, and I had a great idea. "You know...you're lucky I managed to stop you...that kid was the grandson of the third Hokage..."

Then the puppet wielder turned whiter than fucking Orochimaru as he realized the implications of almost beating up the grandson of the most powerful man in the village. Good...he should be scared. Temari shakily reached out to touch Gaara, and the jinchuuriki glared at her...but didn't do anything. The kunoichi was nearly pissing herself as she guided him to stand, and I scowled at her. Once Gaara was standing steadily on his own I lunged forwards to try and punch her...albeit I was intentionally gonna hold myself back. She managed to block it, and the jonin looked close to intervening.

"Quit treating him like he's an exploding tag just waiting to go off...he is your goddamn frickafracking brother and if you keep treating him like a rabid dog I will beat the shit out of you!!! I will attach chakra strings to you and make you hit yourself in the face with your fan repeatedly, then I will find a fish somewhere just to slap you with it!!!!"

Temari didn't seem to know what to make of my threats, and neither did the jonin it seemed. Either way...I didn't care. I meant every word I said. I let my scowl immediately shift to a cheerful grin, and stood with my hands on my hips.

"Good! Now that that's taken care of, I'm gonna go figure out what I can do to keep myself from dying of boredom...I'll probably start pranking everyone who shows up. Toodles!!!"

With that, I did an exaggerated march out the door, the other occupants moving out of the way so I could pass. I just aimlessly went down the hallway, looking around curiously. I would find someone I knew eventually. Lucky for me, it wound up being team 8. I grinned, seeing that they hadn't noticed me yet, and jumped up, flipping upside down to stand on the ceiling. I waited silently until they were almost directly under me. Then, I dropped down, landing in what I had now decided was going to be my signature taijutsu stance...crouched like gentle fist, but arms positioned like Lee.

"FEAR NOT, COMRADES, FOR I, THE GORGEOUS BLUE BEAST OF KONOHA HAVE AWAKENED FROM MY MILD COMA!!!!" I shouted.

Hinata let out an 'eep', and Kiba laughed boisterously.

"Hey, Sasuke! I was wondering where you were. I gotta say, that plan of yours was brilliant. The older leaf teams who got here after us were pissed!!!" He said.

"...mild coma?" Shino piped up.

I nodded. "Yeah I got bit by some whacko and now I have a frickin curse hickey. Here, see?" I pulled down my mask far enough yo show them the curse mark.

Hinata immediately activated her byakugan to look at it, and seemed incredibly puzzled. "It-it has a d-different chakra signature in it...l-like the person l-left some of th-their chakra in the s-seal..."

I nodded. "Yeah, and it's weird. If I run out if chakra it activates, giving me a boost in power, but as a consequence I get way too aggressive and murder-y. So it's best to not use it."

Kiba and Hinata looked a bit startled, but I just grinned and put my mask back up. I swung around, slinging my arm over Kiba's shoulders.

"Hey...wanna grab Naruto and have a prank-a-palooza? We can prank everyone who comes in here and it'll keep us from being bored."

Kiba grinned, a mischievous sparkle in his eyes. "What are we waiting for? Let's go get Naruto!"

With a grin, both Kiba and I rushed off to find our third partner in crime...or fourth, if you counted Akamaru.

It had been a trying day for his team, and Dosu was angry. He was angry at Orochimaru for being used as a pawn. He was much more than just some PAWN to be discarded! He would prove his worth...and once he proved that, he was going to leave Sound. He wanted to make Orochimaru see what he had lost out on. They had encountered the Uchiha's team in the forest, but were subsequently beaten by the two conscious teammates. He had decided a tactical retreat was best, and had left them his team's scroll as incentive to not chase after them. It hadn't taken them long to get another, and soon they arrived at the tower themselves.

Dosu opened the door to his room, only for a log to come flying at him that he easily shattered with his gauntlet...unfortunately that seemed to be the wrong move, as when it shattered he found himself covered head to toe in glitter. Once the shock of what had happened had faded, he clenched his fists, trembling with rage. He would get whoever had done this.

Kabuto stepped out of the shower, feeling very refreshed after the stint in the forest. He was incredibly glad that he had been able to wash off the powder and glitter that idiot Uchiha had covered him with. He had taken off his glasses before getting in the shower, but as he lifted them up to put them on...he wished he hadn't.

The lenses were now painted over, solid black with that cursed glitter mixed in. He knew the Uchiha had to be responsible...and he was furious because Orochimaru-sama had forbidden him from harming the obnoxious child.

He would find some other way to get back at him, though.

Kankuro was about ready to just ditch this stupid village and these stupid exams. He had come back from the bathroom to find all of his war paint covered in GLITTER. Plus, Crow had been bathed in the foul substance as well, and had all sorts of crude, girly drawings on it. The hair on the puppet had also been put into braided pigtails!

The worst part?

When he opened up the puppet to make sure that none of the weapons were tampered with...he got a prank smoke bomb full of flourescent yellow powder that smelled like garlic and fresh cut onion of all things. He let out a furious shout, already knowing that it had to be that damn Uchiha messing with him again!

He really hoped he would face him in a fight at some point...that stupid kid needed to get the tar beaten out of him!!!

Who would do this?

Why?

Ino had many questions running through her head as she stood in the assigned room, looking out at the disaster. Everything was haphazardly strewn about, and the entire room smelled like WET DOG. The rations she had brought for her team all lay half eaten, and there was paint on half her spare clothes. She put on the only clean clothes left, only to screech and immediately rip them off, itching herself everywhere. ITCHING POWDER!!! WHAT IMMATURE ASSHOLE HAD DONE THIS!? SHE WAS GOING TO KILL THEM!!!

After she had rinsed off the itching powder and washed the paint from a set of clothes, she got to thinking and came to a conclusion.

It had to have been Naruto and Kiba who had done this. No one else had the gross immaturity to pull this off. She was going to give them a piece of her mind when she saw them next.

In the lounge, the gathered jonin stood confused as they stared at an odd sight. There was water...everywhere. It looked like a storm had come through just the lounge, and had left other little surprises in its wake. There were many origami figures floating around, with a few even tied to the ceiling. They all had strange little phrases written on them that most didn't recognize and dismissed.

Kakashi, however...

He recognized all of them as quotes from his favorite book series. None were overtly sexual, and most were completely innocuous...but he still recognized them. He knew this was targeted at him, especially once he saw a little paper doll made in his likeness covered in red paint and glitter. Only his genin team knew about that...and now he wasn't sure which one had had this idea...Sasuke or Naruto. He did know that they were getting extra boring and tedious D-ranks after this, though.

Why were his students like this? They were going to give him a heart attack from all this stress.

A/N: Hiiii agaaaaiiiin! This chapter I'm more uncertain of, and I might edit it later, but for now here's this!I'm still looking for a beta as well.Happy reading!