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Pom-Pom: …
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Sasuke stuttered and just opted to turn away. Sakura gave herself a devious smirk before he turned around again. He started to stuff the shaved ice into his mouth, even if he didn't like sweet things. Sakura turned worried.
"Sasuke, don't eat so fast! You'll ge-!"
"ARRRGHH!! BRAIN FREEZE!!"
"Don't say I didn't warn you."
"Ouch… hurt… PAIN…!"
"…"
After Sasuke finished clutching his head in pain, he continued to shove the shaved ice in big amounts into his mouth, soon encountering yet another brain freeze. Sakura sighed as he lay on the ground, curled up in pain, tearing his hair out at the clutching pain of brain freeze.
"Never did like taking advice from others, eh Minor-boy?"
The Next Morning
Sakura woke up first and attempted to get up, only to be weighed down. "What the fu-!?" She thought, looking at the still sleeping Sasuke on her chest. She smiled and patted his head.
"No… I don't want anymore shaved ice… Too… much… brain freeze… Onigiri…" He mumbled in his sleep, finally shifting off her and holding his pillow in a death grip. She looked at him and thought, "He looks so peaceful…"
Until a fly started to bother him. Reaching out, Sasuke grabbed the poor forsaken fly and squished it with a mere flexing of his fingers.
"Minor-Boy!" Sasuke groaned as slowly opened his eyes, his vision coming slowly. "What the hell do you want Haruno?" He demanded, his voice still laced with sleep, keeping one eye closed lazily.
Sakura sighed, "I thought you would be excited to know that we are actually going to be doing some fighting today…" Both of Sasuke's eyes opened and widened, excitement dancing in his pupils. "…but I guess that's not the case. We can still go tom-!"
Sasuke had jumped up and slammed her against the flap of the tent, his hands over her wrists. "No. We are going to fight today and that's final." Sakura vigorously nodded, as Sasuke's grip on her wrists really hurt. He narrowed his eyes, let go of her and walked out of the tent. Sakura gave him a silent raspberry and rubbed her sore wrists.
A few minutes, Sakura emerged from the tent. The first thing she noticed was a sandaled tapping foot. She looked up slowly. Black sandals, black khaki like pants, black collared shirt, angry face of Uchiha Sasuke, and the tip of his peacock hair.
Never mind his peacock hair! Sakura looked at his angry face, looking amazed at how red a person's face could be with anger. "Sa-ku-ra!" he said hotly, glaring at her with the Sharingan activated. Sakura blinked once, "Um… Yo?"
"Yo? YO!? IS THAT ALL YOU CAN SAY AFTER YOU SPENT TWENTY FREAKING MINUTES GETTING DRESSED!? YO!?" He snarled in her face, the curse seal also unwinding and chakra literally seeping out of him.
She held up her hands in defense. "No-Now Uchiha, don't get so angry…!! It was only twenty minutes!" Sasuke sighed and leaned back against a tree. "You say you took twenty minutes to wear your proper clothes… right?" Sakura nodded.
"The only thing I'm mad about is your choice of shirt." Sakura looked down at her shirt. "I don't see anything wrong about it." Sasuke twitched and started to rant.
"What!? Sakura look at your freaking shirt!!" Sakura looked at her shirt and shrugged. "Sakura! It says, 'If you can read this make me a sandwich'." Sakura raised an eyebrow. "So?"
He blew up. "So!? Why would you wear a shirt like that!? You seriously expect your opponent to stop, read the shirt, and make you a damn sandwich when he's supposed to shove a Katana in your gut!?" She shook her head. "Then why did you wear the shirt!?"
This was when Sakura got a small devious grin on her face. She pointed at her shirt with her thumb, "I wore the shirt as a handicap." Sasuke twitched. No this was not a normal face twitch, Sasuke's entire body jerked.
"How is a shirt a handicap!?" He screeched, not getting this concept at all. Sakura huffed and started to explain. "If the enemy is rushing at me with a Katana as you said, he'll see my shirt and probably stop to read it."
"Wh-?"
"Human Curiosity is a strange thing Uchiha."
"…"
"Anyway, so in that spilt second he decides that he's going to read what I have on my shirt. I'll attack him."
"Why would he wa-?"
"As I said already Uchiha, Human Curiosity is a strange thing."
"…What if he-?"
"Don't make me call you Minor-Boy again Uchiha."
Two identical glares. Sasuke gave a "Hn." Sakura got up and packed everything in her bag. "Come on Uchiha, don't get left behind."
Two Hours Later
Sasuke was getting impatient, how many trees had they passed in the last half an hour. "Haruno, how many trees have we passed in the last two hours!?" Sakura looked behind her and replied, "Oh, One thousand, two hundred, and thirty six." He twitched. "You've been counting!?" She nodded.
The conversation was short lived as a swarm Shinobi, with masks covering their faces leapt up in the branches in front of Sakura. "Oh great, interference…" Sakura muttered, while Sasuke seemed to lighten up.
"Can I fight them Haruno? PLEASE!?" He begged, looking completely ridiculous. Chakra started to leak out again and the Sharingan was already activated. Sakura sweat dropped and nodded slowly.
Punching his fist in the air, Sasuke turned to the Shinobi, who were quite obviously underestimating him. His Sharingan eyes swept over the crowd, observing to see who was the weakest. His eyes resting on one of the Shinobi in the back, he started to slowly walk over to the large swarm.
The Shinobi tensed up, all into a Taijutsu pose. Sasuke frowned. "I can't attack a single person… I'm going to have to attack everyone then…" "Sore ja…" (In that case…) He muttered.
Quickly performing the seals of the snake, ram, monkey, boar, horse, and the tiger, Sasuke quickly said the name of the jutsu. "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique.) Taking a deep gulp of air and opening his mouth as big as he could, he exhaled as a large brand of fire hit his opponents, scorching anything in sight.
Tapping his fingers and waiting for the smoke to clear, Sasuke placed himself in a Taijutsu stance. "Good, there's only one of them left… I guess they used a Genjutsu to make it seem like there were more…" Using the Body Flicker Jutsu, he appeared in front the opponent, who got confused.
Kicking the poor guy straight in the chest, he quickly dashed behind him and gave a sharp uppercut.
Finally getting the guy airborne, landed a quick kick to the guy's left side. The Shinobi blocked it and held his foot. Twisting around, Sasuke backhanded the guy in the face, causing him to release his foot. Sasuke then sent a swift punch to the gut, finally crushing the man onto the branch by slamming his left heel into his abdomen.
"Shishi Rendan!" (Lion Combo) He announced, twisting his foot harder into the man's stomach, a few cracks were heard and the man groaned with pain.
"So… who sent you?" He asked the man on the branch. The man grabbed a senbon (metal needle) from his pouch and stabbed Sasuke's leg. Sasuke raised his eyebrow and twisted his foot even harder into the man's abdomen. "Being difficult are we? I'll teach you not to resist."
He kicked his opponent off the branch and leapt after him. Grabbing his ankles, Sasuke wrapped his legs around his waist and sent him crashing into the ground headfirst. The man gave a weak cough. "The village… its five miles away…"
"Finally talking already, are we?" Sasuke let go of the man, and he started to speed away. Only to stump down dead, after Sakura had sent a kunai whizzing in his direction. She had her lips curled in disgust. "Ratting out on your team members eh?" Sasuke turned to her hotly. "I wanted to do that!"
"Shut up Uchiha. We have to get to the village."
"But-!"
"NOW!"
Sasuke mumbled darkly under his breath as returned to tree hopping. Sakura sighed. "Once we get to the village, we have to get that cut looked at. I don't think that was a normal senbon…" She got her answer when Sasuke suddenly fell from the branch and there a loud "SHIMATTA!!" afterwards.
Near The Village
By the time they had reached the village, Sasuke's foot had already been immobilized. "Stupid me, getting myself stabbed with that stupid senbon. I should have known that there would have to be a catch…" He thought, literally dragging his foot behind him.
Sakura looked behind her. "Uchiha's pace has slowed down significantly. The senbon must have been poisoned or at least drugged." "Ha-Haruno! Slow down!" He stuttered, stretching out an arm to try and futilely reach her, but ended up falling flat on his face.
"Haw-Hawuno…" He gargled into the dirt, a few pulsing veins clear on his head. She helped him sit up and wiped the dirt off of his face. "Done playing in the dirt already, Minor-Boy?" He swore at her and waved his fist. She frowned.
"Stay still Minor-Boy, you've still got dirt on your face."
"Would you stop calling me Minor-Boy!? I am technically your age now!"
"No you're not."
"Yes I am!!"
"You're still younger than me by a couple of months."
"WHAT!? Months don't ma-!"
"Yes months do matter Minor-Boy."
"DAMMIT HARUNO!! Stop calling me-!"
"Minor-Boy, Minor-Boy?"
"I would scream in frustration and walk away if I could use my left leg!"
"Well you can't so NYAH!"
"Nya-Nyah!? Have you finally gone insane Haruno?"
"Unfortunately for you, no."
Sasuke curled his lip and continued to limp to the village gates. Only to fall again. "This is pointless…" he mumbled into the ground. He tried to get up and got halfway up when his arms gave way and he crashed into the ground again.
"Haruno, so assistance would be really nice!!" Sakura helped him up again. "You're really helpless aren't you Minor-Boy?" "WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO YOU!?" He snarled at her.
In The Village
"No worries … Uchiha-san was it?" Sasuke nodded slightly. The doctor removed her plastic gloves and sighed. "It's indeed a poison yes, and it has three side effects. One is the one that you are currently feeling Uchiha-san, is the paralysis and it will spread through your body, but will be gone by tomorrow." Sasuke sweat dropped. "Paralysis, I'll be easy prey!! NOOOO!!!" He screamed in his head, holding back to urge to scream out loud and start tearing out his hair.
"Two." The doctor continued, holding up two fingers, "The next symptom is a very high fever that has to be absorbed in the morning so that you don't have to stay in bed." Sasuke's mind once again was sent racing, his eyes shifting back and forth. "Absorb my fever!? I don't know anything about medicine except for the basic healing of flesh wounds… OH NOES!!"
Sakura raised her eyebrow. "What's wrong with Uchiha? He seems really out of it." Sasuke was sitting in a chair, leaning forward, his eyes wide, his pupils looking dilated, and was sweating profusely.
"Three." The doctor said and Sasuke's eyes widened even more and he gulped visibly. His mind went into absolute overload. "Three!? There's a third symptom!? Oh Kami-sama, what is it!? Addiction to cookies!? Sandwiches!? Shogi!? Singing!? Shirts!? UCHIWAS!? What is it? What is it!? Saying Yo!? The urge to cosplay!? Cross-dressing!? What is it!? WHAT IS IT!? I WANNA KNOOOWW!!!"
FlamedraSeer7213: Yes I know, I'm evil, leaving you at a cliffhanger.
Pom-Pom: Your cough's all better!
FlamedraSeer7213: What? You expected me to be coughing until the end of my days?
Pom-Pom: …
FlamedraSeer7213: Well…? –tapping foot-
Pom-Pom: An-Ano… Please read and review kudasai!!!! –sprints away-
FlamedraSeer7213: Get back here dog! You didn't answer my question!!