A Bad Mission
Chapter VII - 'This One's for Business!'
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and you're stupid if you thought if one second I did. : )
Warning: This fic has both shounen-ai (and maybe some yaoi, I haven't decided yet) and cross-dressing. If those things offend you I suggest you not read it because if I get any mail complaining that I have guys kissing each other then I'm going to kick the sender's ass.
Rating For Story: Rated 'T' until farther notified (I might change it to 'M', so beware for that.)
Pairings For This Chapter: A little bit Sasuke?? and if you're really creative SasukeNaruto
When Naruto woke up he was alone; back to having the bed all by himself. He stretched, rolling around a little and enjoying the room. He couldn't stand having to sleep next to Sasuke. It was just too weird.
"Naruto," Sasuke said from somewhere beyond the bedroom door. "If you don't get up within the next minute your likely to be late to class and around here when you're late to class you get locked out for the whole duration," Sasuke warned the blonde who was pretending to still be asleep.
"You're not fooling anyone, Imbecile," Sasuke said, walking into the bedroom, "I know for a fact you aren't asleep. I'm so sure of it in fact that I'll give you a giant bowl of ramen if I'm wrong."
"Hey! That's not fair!" Naruto complained, flinging himself into a sitting position on the giant bed. "If I was sleeping I wouldn't have known about the bet but if I was awake I couldn't ever bring it up," he explained.
"Why do you feel you have to explain that to me?" Sasuke asked him, starting to walk out of the room now that Naruto was up. "Obviously I already knew that," he replied to Naruto's beginning-to-open mouth.
"Well who wants to go to classes anyway?" Naruto asked, completely changing the subject. "I'm here on a mission, not so I can get boring old schoolwork."
"Were you born stupid or did you slowly make yourself that way by hitting your head one too many times?" Sasuke asked uncharacteristically as he walked out of the room.
"What the hell's your problem?" Naruto asked, jumping out of his bed to follow the very pissed off Uchiha.
"That's not any concern of yours," Sasuke growled at the blonde boy. He was really not in the mood for any part of Naruto, especially his voice.
Sasuke did have a very good reason for being so short tempered on his first morning of classes. It just so happened he had woken up before five in the morning to a very bad dream and couldn't get back to sleep.
Now, nightmares were always around the Uchiha at night, he had gotten used to it. If the dream he had was a normal nightmare he could've cooped with it a lot better. As it was the dream was beyond excellent from Dream-Sasuke's point of few, and that was precisely where the problem occurred.
What Sasuke had seen that night was a sex dream, perfectly normal for boys at his age. What wasn't normal was who he was having sex with. The person was overage and he was even…well…a 'he'.
The black haired boy shuttered as he thought what he had done to his math teacher during that dream. Even the thought of thinking about it made Sasuke want to hack up the breakfast he hadn't been able to eat.
"Where are you going?" Naruto asked while trying to put on his shirt. "Classes don't start for another thirty minutes," Naruto reminded the other boy.
"I'm going for a walk," was Sasuke's only reply before walking out of the dorm and slightly slamming the door on his departure.
Sasuke walked with his hands inside the pockets of the baggy black pants he wore. To counteract the noted guy-ness of his bottom half he wore a tight red tank top. He settled himself into the noise of his boots' click-clop on the walkway beneath him and soon he was trapped inside his head with his thoughts.
If dreaming about having sex with a teacher wasn't bad enough then craving a teacher of the same sex definitely was. The more Sasuke thought about it the more disgusted he became with himself.
Did Sasuke really find the teacher attractive? He hadn't put much thought into it until that horrid dream. And if he did find him attractive would that make him gay? Sasuke highly doubted he was gay. At least, men had never before turned him on. Unfortunately he hadn't ever been attracted to any girls either, which made him start to wonder.
The boy was so concerned and involved in his own thoughts he walked straight into a man walking the opposite way.
"Katsumi," Suzuki said as a greeting when he noticed who had bumped into him. "Where are you going so early this morning?" he asked for conversational purposes.
"Oh…uh…" Sasuke hesitated, still surprised to run into the very teacher he had been thinking about. "I wasn't really going anywhere in particular," he answered, pushing the sex dream out of his mind and regaining his composure.
"Well you're welcome to come with me then," Akihiro invited with a smile on his face. "I was just going to go over to the café for some coffee," he explained.
"I…I really shouldn't…can't…I mean I appreciate the offer but…I've got class and…" Sasuke tried to explain, but instead just succeeded in giving off bad excuses. He didn't want to be alone with the same person he had just had a sex dream about. The very thought flustered him.
"Come on," Suzuki urged, "Don't let me enjoy a cup of coffee without any company."
"Well," Sasuke considered, giving into his teacher's invitation, "I could go for some caffeine."
"That's the spirit!" Suzuki congratulated, linking elbows with him. "Let's go then," he suggested.
"W-w-wait," Sasuke stuttered while the link in their elbows forced him along. "C-can't you get in trouble for this?" he managed to ask with some effort.
"For what?" the teacher replied, not slowing his pace nor releasing Sasuke's elbow, "Are you talking about the linking elbows or the going out for coffee?"
"Both, actually," Sasuke answered truthfully but not explaining beyond that. "Do you not care about getting fired or what?"
"Live everyday to its fullest, that's my philosophy, and probably the only good advice I will every give," Suzuki answered, "I want to go on a coffee trip with you and I refuse to let the school bully me. I'm not going to let a such a wonderful feeling leave me just because of the trifling fear of being caught."
"But," Sasuke tried to decline, not wanting to go on a date with the very person he had a sex dream about not even three hours ago.
"Come on," Suzuki urged, still pulling the boy in drag around. "There it is," he announced, pointing to it with his free hand.
Sasuke followed, no longer being pulled along. If he was going to have to go on this date anyway then he was going to go about it in a dignified way.
When they got in the coffee shop Akihiro ordered the drinks and food while Sasuke went to find a seat.
"You need to eat more," Suzuki stated as he sat down in the booth Sasuke was in and forcing a muffin into the other boy's face.
"I eat fine," Sasuke replied as a declination for the muffin. He then settled into his own thoughts, berating himself for sitting in a booth. He had felt sure Akihiro would feel too uncomfortable sitting next to him and opt for the booth across the table. Unfortunately he misjudged his teacher's bluntness.
"You're as skinny as shit," Akihiro insisted, dropping any professionalism he had left. "You don't eat because you think you're fat or any fuck like that, do you?" he asked.
"No," Sasuke answered, grabbing the muffin and stuffing it into his throat to prove it to his teacher. He was confused as to why the seemingly polite man had suddenly started to cuss, but it was more than a little scary for Sasuke. If the man snapped and attacked him, the ninja wouldn't be able to do anything besides stand still and take it. To defend himself would be catastrophic to the mission.
"Good," Akihiro replied with a smile, "I didn't want to have to worry about you all the time."
Sasuke remained silent, afraid that what he might say would push the man to become violent. He didn't want to take any unnecessary chances.
"You can talk, I promise not to bite...hard," 1 Akihiro said as silence suffocated the table.
"Ah, I'm just a little nervous, I guess," Sasuke said, not quite lying.
"Can't go on a date dressed as a girl?" Suzuki asked in jest, smiling a bright smile.
"Yeah," Sasuke agreed, forcing a fake smile onto his face, "I guess that's true."
"Well next time, dress as a boy. Anything to get you to actually talk," Suzuki said with a smile. "For now we should get out of here. Class is going to start relatively soon and I need to be there before the first student shows up," he explained.
"Alright," Sasuke agreed, becoming a bit more relaxed at the approaching end of his nightmare. "Thanks for everything," he thanked, standing up and making his way to the door.
"We still haven't found her and I'm getting tired of all this schoolwork," Naruto complained, banging his head on the coffee table where he was doing homework. The girl he was talking about was, of course, the person they had been sent here to seek out.
The noise brought Sasuke back into reality so quickly that the boy actually got a head rush.
"I know," Sakura answered, bringing up her gaze from Naruto's schoolwork (she had been trying to help him, but to know avail) up to Sasuke. "What can we do to find her?"
"I don't know," Sasuke answered. "This mission is impossible," he complained, "We have no clues about the person we're looking for. We don't know for sure what she's doing here, her name, her face, her age…we have no leads whatsoever."
"So why'd Kakashi send us on such a pointless mission?" Naruto asked, "Does he really expect us to find something without any leads?"
"I don't know," Sakura replied. "How did the people that alerted us to her find out anything without knowing what the person looked like?" she asked.
"Sounds like some sort of set up to me," Sasuke suggest absentmindedly.
"How?" Sakura asked anxiously, "What do you mean?"
"The options are simple enough," Sasuke explained, "One: Kakashi sent us on this mission to get rid of our asses for awhile. I highly doubt that's the case since his superiors would get rather angry with him. Two: someone above Kakashi told him the send us on this mission. That option is highly doubtful, as well, because we aren't very important to the entire village. Three: there really is a villain here and she let the information slip out to snooping ninjas so that they sent in some people as undercover workers. Then the criminal, whoever she is, would capture us and torture us and kill us as an example of what's to come for the village."
"Do you really think so?" Sakura asked even more anxiously than before.
"If I didn't then I wouldn't have said it," Sasuke explained with irritation. Why was Sakura being so half-witted?
"Who cares why we're here," Naruto interrupted, "All that we need to know is that we're stuck here."
"Stuck here?" Sakura asked, not sure what Naruto was talking about. "We can get back if we really have to."
"Not if any of want to be ninjas," Naruto explained. "And if anyone goes back then I'm kicking their ass!" he announced.
"Alright," Sakura accepted, "I promise not to leave until this mission is done."
"Good to hear you say that," Kakashi said, popping into the room noiselessly. "I always like students that do what I tell them to," he confessed.
"What are you doing here?" Naruto asked. "If someone finds you here then our covers are blown," he complained.
"If someone were to walk into this dorm right now and I wasn't here your cover would be blown anyway. It's pretty easy to tell you aren't a girl with no shirt on," Kakashi replied.
"So why did you come?" Sasuke asked before Naruto could scream at his teacher for staring at his half-naked body.
"We've obtained more information on the enemy," the teacher replied. "The enemy is actually a male," he explained.
"So that means…" Sakura started to say.
"That means that the enemy is a guy dressed as a girl just like we are!" Naruto finished for his female teammate.
"Yes," Kakashi agreed, "Unfortunately there are other villages looking for him now as well."
"Which means more guys in skirts," Sasuke reiterated.
"It also means that if we know who's a guy that still doesn't make him the enemy," Sakura realized.
"More importantly," Sasuke replied, "Now people will be looking for guys dressed as girls and they might find us. If they mistake us for the enemy it could become dangerous."
"Exactly," Kakashi agreed after turning to face Sasuke, "Both you and Naruto have to take all precautions as to not make yourselves targets."
"If that's true then you should probably get out of here, Sensei," Sakura advised, "I think someone's coming."
Kakshi quickly nodded his head before disappearing into smoke.
Knock. Knock. Knock.
"You both decent?" Sakura asked, looking over the two boys to make sure they still looked like girls.
Naruto flashed her a thumbs up after he had successfully pulled on a shirt, smiling at the ninja girl brightly. Sasuke just nodded his head and advanced on the door to open it.
"Hey Katsumi!" Kazuko greeted brightly when Sasuke had opened the door. "Is Sakura here?" she asked, wedging past Sasuke and invited herself in.
"Hey Kazu!" Sakura greeted happily, "What's up?"
"You'll never guess what happened!" Kazuko replied excitedly. "Go on and try," she urged, sitting on one of the leather chairs, "Go on."
Sasuke rolled his eyes but forced himself to remain in the room in case it was somehow something of importance.
"What? What?" Naruto asked the uninvited guest excitedly. Naruto was never, and will never be, a patient person.
"The school is having a merger dance with the all-boys school!" Kazuko burst out. "How unbelievably exciting his that?"
"B-b-but…" Naurto uttered incohertly.
"What's wrong Emiko?" Kazuko asked in a concerned voice.
"She's just concerned she won't be able to get a date," Sasuke covered up quickly. He hoped the excuse was a believable one, he wasn't exactly sure if girls worried about that or not. He hadn't really paid any attention.
"Oh! I was too, at first," Kazuko explained in a smile.
So it was a plausible excuse. Sasuke gave in to a silent sigh and thanked his fast-thinking brain for the quick excuse.
"But the school's going to draw names and pair us all off with the guys, so it'll be okay," Kazuko assured Naruto, "all you have to do is make sure you get an attractive one."
"It's getting late," Sakura announced when she noticed Naruto squirming uncomfortably and Sasuke looking deep in thought. "We should go to our dorm before we get in trouble," she suggested to her roommate.
"I guess that's a good idea," the girl accepted, following Sakura out of the dorm and into the hall.
"Sasuke!" Naruto screamed as soon as the door closed. He flung himself on the unsuspecting boy and pushed him on the floor. In milliseconds Sasuke's shirt was wet with tears.
"Be quiet, Idiot," Sasuke whispered to the crying boy on top of him, "These walls aren't sound proof, you know. People can hear you."
"B-b-b-but Sasuke!" Naruto cried in a quieter voice, "I don't wanna go to a dance with another guy!"
"Well too bad," Sasuke replied apathetically, "Other ninjas are on guard for us now. If you don't do this then we'll definitely get caught."
"No. I'm not doing this," Naruto refused, "This is way past the line I'm willing to go for this mission."
Sasuke slammed into the boy on top of him, changing position so that now Naruto's back was on the floor and the Uchiha was on all fours on top of him.
"You will do this," Sasuke whispered angrily through clenched teeth, "I will not fail at this mission; I will achieve my goal. If you prevent me from doing that then I won't hesitate in ripping you limb from limb, got it?"
Naruto nodded his head quickly in understanding, fearing the anger of his teammate. Sure, Sasuke could get anger, but never this angry. "I'll do it," he agreed quietly.
1"'…I promise not to bite...hard." – This is such a clichéd statement. It drives me completely mad when people use it. I will reveal its use later on in the story though.
Please tell me how much you like/dislike Akihiro. I need to know so I can continue on with the story.