5. Jumble
Naruto could not believe that Sasuke had let them get caught by the enemy. He was practically seething as he stared at the man guarding him in the dark cell that he had been thrown into. If Sasuke were in the same room, Naruto was not sure that he could keep himself from committing homicide.
This had been a simple undercover retrieval mission, and with the skill level that Sasuke and Naruto had, there should not have been any trouble at all. But a certain Uchiha had forgotten to keep his ninja reflexes in check at their dinner party. A glass had fallen off the table and Sasuke had reached out to catch it without even thinking.
Now, catching your glass from falling off the table might not be suspicious, but when the glass belongs to the man sitting across the table from you and you do not even get out of your seat in the catching process, that is rather odd. The two had promptly been recognized as ninja and were thrown into cells.
The man in front of Naruto smirked at the blonde's glare. He twirled a key ring on his finger tantalizingly and laughed at the angry growl he received. "Don't worry, we'll get you to tell us why you're here soon enough. And after that, we'll let you go, in a sense."
Naruto, although sometimes (ok, most of the time) slow, did not need any further explanation on this issue. These men were planning on killing them no matter what happened. The blonde could only smirk. "You shouldn't underestimate the ninja of Konoha, sir, you will regret it later," he said, already running through escape routs in his head.
He and Sasuke had come up with many different plans, were they to be found, but none of them had involved actually being captured. These men were not even ninja, and they were not supposed to have underground holding cells. One good thing was that there were not very many men at this base of operation. Still, pulling through this alive would require some quick thinking.
The glare returned to Naruto's face when the man guarding him moved closer to him, within reach if his hands had not been shackled behind him. "I wouldn't go talking like that, brat," the man said, his own eyes narrowing.
"I'll say what I want," Naruto said defiantly. "You can't-" he stopped himself mid-sentence to look at the door when it was pushed open with a loud scraping noise.
Sasuke was roughly shoved into the room and fell forward into a heap on the ground. Naruto felt his heart skip a beat as he smelled blood, but his worry turned to anger as soon as Sasuke pulled himself up. The guard glanced between the two, not missing the concern Naruto had expressed.
"Is he special to you?" he asked, slowly moving to where Sasuke sat.
Naruot bit his lip, taking in Sasuke's physical appearance once more before he answered. Sasuke's hands were shackled just like Naruto's, but he looked fine, if not dazed, besides a small wound on his forehead. The ninja met eyes, a silent agreement running between them. "No way! He's the jackass who got us caught!"
The guard smirked at the sudden outburst. "Oh?" he questioned, nudging Sasuke with his foot.
Sasuke, ignoring the guard, was on his feet in an instant, glaring at Naruto. "It wasn't my fault! If you hadn't been an idiot, you would have grabbed those documents when you had the chance and we would have been out of here on time!"
"So now it's my fault? I might not have been able to take those documents yesterday, but I sure as hell didn't get us caught! If you were a good ninja, you'd be able to keep your skills in check and not break out in acrobatic feats during dinner parties!" Naruto said, moving forward so he was face to face with his partner.
"Oh please, like you wouldn't have done the same thing? Except, if you had done it, you would have dropped the glass anyway."
The guard was smiling at their fiery argument, pleased with their disclosure of information.
"I would not have dropped it! But that's besides the point! You shouldn't have been showing off in front of all of those people."
"Now I was showing off?"
"Yes, you were. And now we're stuck in a holding cell with shackled and without weapons!"
"We could have been out of here back at that dinner if you had had any skill at all! But I bet you were too afraid to take on all of those guys at one time."
"I was not afraid!"
"I'm sure you were."
"I could beat them any day. Heck, I could beat you any day!"
"I doubt that."
"Oh yeah? Rasengan!"
"Chidori!"
The guard did not even have warning as he was hit with the two chakra attacks simultaneously. Naruto and Sasuke stared down at the jumbled mass of guard at their feet, their breathing heavy.
Sasuke glanced at Naruto, who was rubbing his wrists where the shackles had been. "Idiot," he muttered, marching toward the door of the cell.
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sorry for the cheesiness, but it's really late. I know it sounds kind of like the road to eldorado, but hey! that was a good movie!!!