Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Chapter summary: What happens when the boys of the rookie nine and team Gai switch places? Thanks to all you nice people who reviewed, I really appreciate it. Also thanks for the suggestions. First up: Sasuke. This story hints at a future story I'll be writing about how Sasuke comes back to Konoha. The important things to know are that Orochimaru is dead, but Itachi isn't. The rookie nine are all 16 and team Gai 17. slight Ino x Choji implied.

SASUKE'S DAY

How hard can it be to pretend to be a bottomless pit? Wondered the Uchiha genius.

Sasuke figured that it wouldn't be too hard to be Choji, since all he ever saw Choji do was eat, chase butterflies, and watch clouds with Shikamaru. The rules said that he had to be around other people, but since Sasuke didn't like being around people all that much, he figured maybe he'd just hang out and watch clouds with Shikamaru, but then he remembered that Kiba was pretending to be Shikamaru, and there was no way he was going to spend the whole day with Kiba.

That dog boy is almost as annoying as Naruto.

Being a genius, Sasuke should have been able to come up with something to do to convince people he was Choji, but the truth was he didn't really know much about the young Akimichi, other than that his teammates were that lazy genius Shikamaru, and the annoying, former Sasuke fan-girl, Ino Yamanaka.

Though Sasuke had been gone for a few years before his return, less than a year ago, he had reintegrated into Konoha society with little trouble. True, he had never been sociable, and very little had changed there; still, people had always given him the respect owed to any member of the most respected clan in Konoha (even if now, there was only three of them left).

Upon his return to the hidden leaf village, there had been many who had considered him a traitor, and for a time, there was much distrust, but thanks to all his friends, Sasuke was able to slowly rebuild his life in the hidden leaf, while still training to kill his brother Itachi. (1)

Still, even though much had changed in the time since he had returned to Konoha, whenever he walked the streets, he would sometimes hear villagers whispering behind his back, along with the occasional fan-girl (or 10) giggling behind him, or chasing after him. It was nice, for once to walk the streets completely unnoticed.

"CHOJI!" a voice yelled behind Sasuke.

He abruptly turned to see who had called out to him, all the while trying his best to say in character.

"Ino." came the calm voice of 'Choji' (Sasuke).

"Hi Choji-kun" Ino smiled upon catching up to Choji, who had just passed the Yamanaka flower shop.

"What do you want Ino?" 'Choji' (Sasuke) said, as friendly as possible, which was sadly not that friendly, but Ino didn't seem to notice.

"Choji-kun, do you know where Shika-kun might be?" Ino asked "I have something I want that lazy bum to do for me."

"No." replied 'Choji' (Sasuke), wondering why it was that Ino was looking for Shikamaru, and not just asking Choji to do whatever it was she wanted from the lazy ninja.

"Oh, well… when you see him, could you tell him I'm looking for him please?" Ino sweetly asked.

"Ok." replied 'Choji' (Sasuke) as he began to walk away.

"Wait, Choji…" Ino began, causing 'Choji' (Sasuke) to stop and look back at her.

Suddenly, the blond kunoichi leaned into 'Choji' (Sasuke) and gave him a light peck on the cheek. 'Choji' (Sasuke)'s face lightly blushed at the contact, but he remained silent, too shocked to know what that meant.

"That's for the painting of me you gave me. It was really pretty." Ino explained. "why don't you come to my house for dinner tonight?… That way I can thank you properly by cooking you a nice meal." She smiled warmly at 'Choji' (Sasuke).

"Sure." Was all 'Choji' (Sasuke) could think to say, as Ino turned and walked back into the flower shop.

So he paints…

TBC...

Next up: CHOJI

(1) This was written way before Itachi... well I'm sure if you've read the manga I don't need to further explain this... but basically my stories tend to revolve around a pre-timeskip storyline, before the deaths, before the new characters (i.e. Sai and Yamato), pretend it's like a crossroads was met at the timeskip, and my stories just happen to take the non-shippuuden road...

A/N: Seriously, there's really not all that much about Choji, other than that he love to eat, so I decided that I wanted to give him a little more depth. I remember when I saw the episode where Choji and Shikamaru became friends, I thought Choji was such a sweet and sensitive little boy and that Choji's dad had a deep soul. So I figure, even though on the outside Choji might not be your ideal ninja, nor as pretty as Neji and Sasuke, he's probably got a beautiful spirit. So I made him an artist. (Edit: wasn't meant to base him on Sai's characteristics... it was actually written before i caught up to the manga and SAI showed up... kind of interesting parallels, i think), I hope you liked this chapter. I did. : D