Miss Jane Austen Girl requested this as a sequel to the first one, so here it is. Happy reading.
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"You're so useless. Stupid fox." Sasuke sneered at Naruto who was cringing as he sat gingerly down on a fallen tree. Sasuke looked at the blood seeping through Naruto's clothes and shook his head.
"Since you had to chase Rock Lee into this stupid forest because he stole our headbands and then get attacked by a wild rabid frog, we have no one here who's carrying any bandages or wound dressing.
"Ow, ow owiiie." Naruto wasn't paying any attention to Sasuke and eventually the Uchiha snapped.
"Alright! Enough of your whining! I'll bandage your damn wounds with my undershirt, OK?"
"Will you really?" Naruto sniffled.
"Oh stop acting like a girl." Sasuke angrily shrugged his jacket off before pulling his undershirt over his head and cutting it into strips. "OK. Now we have to get this off of you." He grabbed Naruto's zipper, yanking it down and then trying to pull the thing away from Naruto's arms. The fabric was not very flexible and had to be cut with a kunai knife.
"Jeez. What's with this thing, Uzumaki? It's ugly, obviously too small for you, smells really bad..." Sasuke didn't finish his list of all that was wrong with Naruto's orange jogging suit.
"Well..." Naruto winced as Sasuke pulled on his clothes some more.
"Well what?" Sasuke finished pulling the cloth away from the bleeding frog bites on Naruto's back.
"Well every year some chunin go around and collect clothing for all the orphans in this area. They sort it all by size and distribute it..."
"And you chose that? I don't care how poor you were, there must have been something better. We're talking about chunin doing the collecting here."
"They never allowed me inside the orphanage until all the other children had gotten theirs. Last year, this was all that was left. It was dirty and I think it had vomit on it but I washed it in the river and... I couldn't get anything new this year because once I finally passed basic ninja school(1) the people at the orphanage decided I could fend for myself from now on." Naruto looked over his shoulder, wondering why Sasuke had frozen behind him. the Uchiha smiled suddenly in an awkward and sympathetic way.
"Come on, that should do it. You can come take a bath at my house and then we'll find you some new clothes. Really new. No-one-else-has-ever-worn-it-or-even-vomited-on-it new."
"Really? You'd do that for me?" Naruto stood, suddenly full of good spirits and energy.
"Naruto Uzumaki, you'd be surprised at how little I wouldn't do for you."
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(1) I don't know what the "basic" school is called. Before they get divided up into three-man cells. I was pondering referring to it as "elementary" school but decided against it.
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