A/N – Thank you all for your reviews. I love you all and that crap :P Anyways this is kind of short, but it's humorous. I'm up in the middle of the night, because tomorrow's Sunday and I have to study… Aww… Anyways hope you like it anyways, since it's not very important to the story line, but, I wanted to write it.

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Chapter 6 - Hospital Mischief

"So," Kakashi started to speak, "What did you want to talk to me about?"

Naruto looked up. The three of them were sitting in the hospital wing, where they were supposedly eating today. "Food should've been here by now," Naruto thought and his stomach loudly agreed.

"The curse mark," Sasuke spoke, ignoring Naruto's rumbling stomach. "It's not going away."

"It won't go away," Kakashi said, "And right now, it's a good thing. While it doesn't hurt you to use much chakra anymore, the mark is still working. It's like a seal full of chakra and if you learn to use it, it'll be an advantage."

Sasuke looked interested. But before he could ask anything else, the lunch arrived.

"Here you go," the man said, placing some trays in front of them. Then he disappeared in white smoke.

"Finally, food," Naruto exclaimed, digging in almost instantly. Since there was no way for the finished teams to find food by themselves while in the tower, they were fed by the chef. One more perk for finishing early.

Kakashi stared as his students began to eat. Outwards they hadn't changed a bit, with the exception of bruises that were on their skin and even those were already healing, but their behavior towards each other and Sakura even… What exactly happened in that forest?

He mentally shrugged, deciding to find out a bit later as he also began to eat.

-About fifteen minutes later-

"My bum hurts."

Kakashi and Sasuke stopped eating and stared at Naruto.

"What?" The young boy asked, "I've been kicked around a lot in the last two days. I just stated a fact."

Kakashi and Sasuke still stared.

"You can moan about your aching neck, but I can't mention the pain in my bum?" Naruto exclaimed.

Kakashi and Sasuke shared a glance, before they nodded.

Naruto huffed, as he gobbled up more fish.

"How long do we have until the third exam?" He asked, after he gave up on being angry at Sasuke and his sensei.

"A bit over three days," Kakashi said. "Which brings us to this question. Are you going to sleep here or upstairs?"

The two boys said almost immediately, that they would sleep 'here.'

"Somebody has to look after Sakura," Naruto said, as it was completely obvious. Sasuke only Hn-ned [From now on, it's a word ''sticks out her tongue''.

"Guys, she's safe in the tower," Kakashi explained, again. "Why do you want to 'guard' her so much?"

"She guarded us in the forest, so we like have to return the favor, you know?" Naruto pointed out, as he finally pushed the plate away from him, having satisfied his hunger.

"Sakura guarded you in a forest full of enemy ninjas, man-eating plants, bugs in size of humans and you repay her by guarding her in a secure tower full of friendly ninjas?"

Naruto shuffled his feet, even he seeing the stupidness in that. Sasuke didn't speak, as he stared out of the hospital window. Kakashi shrugged, "I need to talk to some other jounins. The trays will be taken away soon enough and if you want to sleep in the hospital wing, then fine by me."

Kakashi left, leaving the two boys from his team into the hospital. "They'll see the reason and go upstairs," Kakashi thought as he left, "They're smart."

Naruto and Sasuke watched their sensei leave.

"We'll still look after her, right?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah," Sasuke agreed, restraining from adding a "Duh !" like he wanted to. Too many emotions. When he said duh, it was like… Neji stumbling behind a rock and falling into water. It just didn't happen.

-Dozens of miles away-

Neji Hyuuga was fishing for his team. He reached out to grab the fish, when he stumbled behind the huge rock and fell flat onto his face… again. Only this time it was into water not mud. He wasn't sure if it was any better as he rose and rasped the water off him, wondering what the hell was wrong with him.

But using his own twisted logic – Once a klutz, always a klutz…

-Back to the tower-

Hours passed and Naruto and Sasuke spent them in the hospital wing. It was almost past ten, when they decided to go lay down. Sasuke in bed no. 1 and Naruto in bed no.3. They barely got to close their eyes when they heard someone walking closer, slowly and as silently as possible. They both went tense, waiting for the intruder to make a move.

They heard steps near the bed between the two of them and then they jumped.

"ARGH!"

"WHAA…!"

"What the…"

Naruto had jumped on a woman. The woman they actually knew already. "Chie?"

Naruto quickly pulled off, but still aimed his kunai at her. Sasuke stood by the other side of Sakura's bed, sliding a hand slowly over his face, really close to slapping himself.

"Tell us something only the real Chie would know," Naruto demanded. The woman, nearly having a heart attack from Naruto's jumping earlier, nodded slowly, as she started to breathe again.

It was hard of thinking something she knew and something they knew as well. They had barely exchanged a sentence.

"Kakashi reads Come, Come Paradise," She offered.

"Nu-uh," Naruto shook his head, "Everybody knows about Kakashi's perverted books. Something else."

Chie scratched her head hard enough that her scratching started to affect her brain. Then she snapped her fingers and said, "Sakura has a tiny scar near her left breast, shaped as a heart."

Naruto stared with an open mouth, until he snapped out of it and blinked several times. "Well…"

"Sasuke is she telling the truth?" He asked, not lowering his kunai, but using his free hand to scratch his head.

Sasuke stared at him, not believing he was asking him. "I should know how?"

For a full fledged minute there was a complete silence between the three of them. Chie still half scared to death, Naruto and Sasuke not sure what else to do. Naruto finally nodded, finding a perfect solution.

"Check."

"What?" Sasuke asked, bewildered. Of course it didn't appear on his facial expression. Having a bewildered expression, was as likely as… oh never mind, I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for Neji. Sasuke just didn't do facial expressions with the exception of stoic, bored and some others.

"Check," Naruto repeated as talking to a three year old, "If she has a scar."

"…"

"You check."

"I can't, I'm watching the suspect," Naruto said, an obvious hint of 'Duh' in his voice.

"I'll watch her and you check," Sasuke told his blonde friend.

"Argh, just do it already," Naruto said, "It's not a big deal."

Sasuke stared and stared and… "DO IT!" Naruto bellowed and Sakura moaned a bit in her sleep. None of the three moved, until she descended into sleep again.

Sasuke turned slowly towards Sakura's bed and took a deep breath. Jeez, he just killed an S- class criminal, so why was he feeling so queasy? He gently placed a finger at the neckline of Sakura's shirt and closed his eyes as he lifted the material a bit.

"You can't see the scar with your eyes closed, you moron," Naruto said, annoyed. Sasuke so wanted to punch him right now. Instead, he slowly opened one of his eyes and… he hadn't lifted it up enough. He growled, believing he was getting sick himself. He was feeling hot. "Probably fever," he thought, as he pulled the material up inch-by-inch.

"So…?" Naruto asked, tapping his leg.

Sasuke saw some skin and a few very lonely freckles. He didn't dare to lift the blouse a bit more, afraid that Sakura would wake up and murder him. Yes, that was the reason. He'll stick with that.

"Argh," Naruto exclaimed, "We'll die in old age before you look, won't we?"

Sasuke closed his eyes again and quickly lifted the shirt up and slowly peeked through one of his eyes. He quickly let down the shirt and turned around.

"Was it there?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke nodded not turning around. "I need a walk, bye."

He quickly walked out of the hospital wing.

"Fine," Naruto yelled after him, "I'll just watch over Sakura here…" Naruto turned around to come face-to-face with Chie, who didn't look too happy. No, she looked rather murderous. Naruto gulped and added slowly, "…If I live long enough."

Sasuke was walking down the halls in the tower, looking for any window… Any anything with cool air. He could feel it. The thing that should never happen with any Uchiha. The thing that was strictly forbidden for him, by well him, was happening. It was disastrous. It should never happen. It just couldn't.

Sasuke took a deep sigh and accepted the gruesome fate. He was blushing.

"Sasuke?"

"ARGHG!" He jumped a good feet high.

Kakashi's eyebrows rose way past his hairline at the sight of agitated Uchiha. Sasuke quickly corrected is posture and pretended that it hadn't been he, who let out the girlish scream. He also turned his back to his sensei.

"Are you alright?"

"Go away," Sasuke spoke, staring at the corner in front of him, his back firmly towards Kakashi.

"At least he's acting like himself again," Kakashi thought. Out loud he spoke, "Something scared you?"

Though he remained completely quiet, Kakashi took it as a yes, but I'll never, ever admit it. You'll have to pry it out of my dead cold lips. That's how Kakashi translated the silence anyways, so he continued,

"What was it? Did Naruto try to sing again? I swear one day…"

"No," Sasuke replied, horrified by the memories. It had been awful. If he was ever tortured then Naruto's singing would be the most efficient way. He knew it.

"What else could it be…" Kakashi pondered out loud, "He walked around in the hospital room naked?"

Sasuke was starting to think that those perverted books were starting to rub off on his sensei.

"Not that either, eh?" Kakashi thought, "Naruto told you he was gay and was into you."

Sasuke's eyes widened. Naruto wasn't… was he? He could feel that the heat on his cheeks had completely faded and slowly he turned around and looked at Kakashi with that look. It was the look with which Sasuke expressed emotions, because Sasuke never showed emotions. It was like Neji falling off a tree, it just didn't happen.

-Several miles away-

"We need to rest a bit," Ten-ten spoke up.

"We need the second scroll," Neji spoke, "I say we keep looking."

"Most of the ninjas sleep on the day, I'd say," Lee spoke up, "So they could strike at night. So if we youthfully attacked during the day, we have a bigger chance winning in a youthful way, using our youthful energy more youthfully."

Neji stared at him. His eyes saying silently, "WHAT THE HELL?"

"Fine," he crumbled. "Find a branch hidden enough to sleep on. The ground is moist, probably some kind of swamp or something."

His team mates nodded and they found a place soon enough. As they all got settled comfortably, Neji felt a slight cracking sound. 'What?' There it was again. Suddenly he realized what it was, but it was too late. The branch had broken and he fell.

"Argh!"

He landed into the swamp and felt himself slowly sinking.

"What are you staring," he screamed at his team mates, "Help me out!"

Oh what had he done to deserve such wrath. What did he do wrong? He thought of those things as Tenten and Lee gave him a branch and pulled him out. He was covered with green slime all the way from waist to shoes.

He looked at himself and said, "Bloody effing brilliant!"

-Back to the tower-

"What else could it be?" Kakashi asked, as Sasuke rolled his eyes and started to walk back towards the hospital wing. "Did Ebisu harass you? That closet pervert! I'll…"

Sasuke stared at him, wondering if he was for real.

"Not that either?" Kakashi growled, "What else could it be? You're stuck with your team mates in a tiny room… Did Naruto fart or something?"

Sasuke growled, getting more and more annoyed by every moment.

"Sakura couldn't do anything to scare you, right? Unless she was naked," Kakashi laughed, but stopped when Sasuke next to him stopped the growling sound immediately.

"She scared you while being naked," Kakashi offered.

"Sakura was not naked!" Sasuke as good as screamed. A couple of heads popped out from the hallway. Sasuke could recognize one as Kiba and another one, the girl with the fan, as a Sand genin.

"When was or wasn't Sakura naked?" Kiba asked. Hinata looked out as well.

"Who's naked?" The girl, with blonde hair and a fan, asked at the same time.

Sasuke growled and hurried downstairs, Kakashi right after him like taking Sasuke's annoyance as an invitation to play.

"Okay, it wasn't Sakura being naked," he whistled, "Maybe you were naked and she saw you? Nah, she's unconscious… Naruto transfigured into Sakura and got naked?"

Sasuke was pleading for someone to kill him as they entered the hospital wing. He saw Naruto sitting on his bed, looking at Sakura's sleeping form. As they walked closer, Naruto looked up. Sasuke had to smirk,

"What happened to you?"

"Apparently Chie isn't too happy to be jumped on," Naruto said, his new shiner in the size of a fist.

"Ahah, you saw Naruto jump on Chie in a dark room and you got scared!" Kakashi exclaimed. Then he froze, "YOU JUMPED ON CHIE? SHE'S SO MUCH OLDER THAN YOU!"

"Shh!" Both boys shushed him, pointing to Sakura's bed. "She's asleep."

"And I didn't jump on her like you think," Naruto explained, "I literally jumped and what's with the whole Sasuke being afraid of me jumping on Chie thing?"

"AND SINCE WHEN AM I OLD?"

Kakashi gulped and turned around, slowly. "I didn't mean it like that," he said, waving his hands in front of him frantically, searching for a way out. Chie was closing in, with this steely glint in her eyes. Bad sign, Naruto could tell from experience.

Kakashi backed towards the door, "Boys, I have to go… See you in the morning."

And then he broke off running, probably also knowing what the steely glint in the med-ninjas eyes meant.

It was late by now and both boys decided to call it a night. They were in their beds for a while, when Sasuke spoke,

"Naruto."

"Yeah?" The blonde boy asked from the bed on the other side of Sakura's.

"If you ever tell her what I did, I'll kill you," Sasuke said, matter-of-factly.

"You'd never do that," Naruto said, "Right Sasuke? Sasuke? You were kidding? Right?"

He never got a response, because as stoic as the Uchiha was, he was weak against sleepiness. So he slept and he had those beautiful dreams where he was so mighty and powerful that he could do the greatest thing ever.

He knew how to say hn in five different languages!

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A/N – Well that was a bit shorter and a bit more… pointless than usual, but sometimes a writer must write a complete pointless chapter, so she could laugh a bit :D I was tired and I didn't feel like writing one of those angsty bits.

Btw – Chances are I can't update for the next week. School and more school… If I have enough reviews by Friday I might :) Even before if I manage to make time.