This chapter will mostly follow Gaara and his thoughts. I don't feel like re-writing all of cannon so I'm going to skip some general knowledge stuff and go more into detail of stuff that's usually skipped, well that and because I'm trying to avoid any fight scenes…
'ugh how infuriating…' were the thoughts of a certain red-haired insomniac.
'to be forced to live with such an annoying creature…and father was unusually forceful when he told me not to kill it' the subject of his ire was his soon to be wife and her less than submissive attitude.
'this would be so much easier if I could just give her blood to mother…she's unusually persistent about it…' as his thoughts became more unstable the sand around him began to shift uneasily causing the other occupants of the room to become more uneasy.
"Baki sensei what happened last night, he seems more pissy then usual" whispered Kankuro
"the girl he's betrothed to is more loud and annoying then you, and they spent pretty much the whole night glaring at each other so I guess he's also kinda pissed that she wasn't intimidated. He isn't exactly allowed to kill her so he's pretty much stuck with her" Baki answered
"hey, I'm not loud and annoying!" Kankuro yelled, contradicting his statement.
"you're right, you're also obnoxious, arrogant, and stupid" said Temari adding in her two cents, starting the first verbal sparring match of the day.
'And so it was another regular day with the Sabaku's…' were the pained thoughts of Baki.
Meanwhile in another part of town, a certain orange wearing girl was using some less than lady-like words to describe how things went the other night to the hokage. "and he had the nerve to call me annoying after that!"
"well I'm sorry to hear things didn't go as smoothly as either of us would have liked, but you have to at least try to envision how he feels about this whole thing too. I don't think marrying some complete stranger totally against his will, was part of his plans for the future either" Sarutobi said trying to calm her down.
"I don't see why I have to marry him! Whose genius idea was that anyways?!" Naruto complained
"look Naruto your marrying him for the good of both villages, and I'm sure he's not really such a bad guy. If you can become friends at the least things won't seem as bad, I'm sure you have a lot more in common than either of you realize" he said hoping to persuade her.
With a sigh, Naruto caved in "fine I'll try to be friendlier"
"good girl. Now you better get back home before you're late for the chuunin exams" he said, dismissing her with a smile.
"oh crap I forgot about that! Thanks! Bye!" Naruto yelled before bolting it back home.
'where is she?' were the impatient thoughts of Sasuke and Sakura, Though they were eagerly awaiting her arrival for two very different reasons.
"sorry im late!" yelled Naruto as she waved her signed form above her head while she ran towards them.
"it's fine, as long as you showed up before we're disqualified" said Sasuke as he turned to enter the school.
"tell me everything!" Sakura demanded as she practically dragged her into the building.
Naruto told them the whole story, from the invasion of her home to her incredibly tense diner as they walked up the stairs to where their exam room should have been.
"well that was rather disappointing…I was hoping for a more romantic story" Sakura grumbled feeling let down.
"hey guys we only walked up two flights of stairs right?" Sasuke asked as he saw a crowd of people gathered around a door that said room 301 at the end of the hall, supposedly where the first exam would take place.
"yeah, I know this place by heart from all the times I've run through it, so I can tell you with utmost certainty that is room number 201. Also known as a broom closet" Naruto said sounding almost proud.
"it's a genjutsu!-" Sakura said a little too loudly until Naruto covered her mouth. Luckily everyone was too distracted to notice.
"well then let's go break it and show them we aren't some no name weak gennin who would fall for such a cheap trick" Sasuke said with a cocky smirk.
"why do you think I just stopped Sakura from yelling it across Konoha? If we just sneak by or go around we can let these idiots fight for access to a broom closet and have less competition for promotion" Naruto explained as she dragged them down another hall.
"wow dobe, I never knew you could actually think things through so well" said Sasuke as he now walked on his own.
"and I always knew you had a bigger ego than brain" she responded as she guided them to a second staircase, then to the real exam room.
"well here we are! Ready to do this guys?" Naruto asked about to open the door
"yep!" Sakura responded confidently. After the wave mission the gennin realized they were really behind in the training department, so after a little "friendly chat" with Kakashi, they really upped their training regimen, even managing to learn a few new low-level jutsu. After Naruto pushed the door open, everyone in the nearly silent room turned their attention to them, but the glares didn't faze them as they skillfully used the art of ignoring people. The onlookers eventually gave up when they realized their intimidation tactic it wouldn't work.
"Sasuke-kun! Where've you been cutie?" Ino yelled as she hugged him from behind, shattering any semblance of calm in the room.
"get off him Ino-pig he's mine!" Sakura said as she tore her off
"hey guys! So you made it too?!" Kiba yelled from across the room as he walked towards them.
"troublesome" muttered the pineapple haired genius
"how've ya been whiskers?" Kiba asked putting his arm over naruto's shoulders
"ah I've been better kibbs" she said playfully elbowing him in the gut to get his arm off
"tell uncle Kiba what's troubling ya"
"maybe later, right now we have to get ready for the first exam"
"h-hello Naruto-chan" Hinata shyly greeted
"hey hina-chan! You look as adorable as always!" Naruto gushed as she hugged the life out of Hinata.
"you rookies should keep it down, this isn't a picnic. You're making everyone else in the room anxious and making a target of yourselves" said a white-haired boy who looked like he was in his late teens, with large circular glasses.
"tell you what. Since your all new to this I'll show you my ninja info cards"
"ninja info cards?" Sasuke repeated
"they're cards I've made that contain information on everyone in this exam, and to make sure no information I haven't shown anyone gets out, the cards only show information when I put my chakra into it" the boy explained
"just who are you?" Shikamaru asked rightfully suspicious
"oh! Have I not introduced myself? I'm Yakushi Kabuto, genin of the leaf"
"you look pretty old for a genin, how many times have you taken the chuunin exams?" Shikamaru asked still suspicious.
"seven times" he said with a smile on his face.
"wow you must suck…" Naruto blurted out.
"Naruto!" Sakura said sharply as she smacked the back of her head.
"sorry…" she grumbled rubbing the back of her head.
With a chuckle Kabuto said "it's fine, besides I wouldn't have been able to gather all this information otherwise. Now say a name and I'll tell you their game" he fanned out the blank cards in front of them, waiting for the first name.
"Sabaku no Gaara and Uzumaki Naruto" Sasuke said before anyone else could suggest any other names.
Everyone looked at him in question at the last name but listened none the less when Kabuto started giving out information "Sabaku no Gaara, is a part of team sand siblings, and as the name implies his teammates and siblings are Sabaku no Temari and Sabaku no Kankuro, they've completed 8 C-rank and 1 B-rank missions, it's been said that he came back from each one without a scratch. Some extra information that the team is composed of the kazekage's children, Gaara is the youngest of the three and he is betrothed to Uzumaki Naruto"
"what!? When did this happen!" Kiba yelled
"that's what I was going to tell you later…" Naruto said putting her hand to her forehead in preparation of the oncoming headache.
"wow that's like marrying a prince!" Ino said excitedly.
"I know right! they doesn't seem to get that though, even if he is slightly homicidal he should still be romantic!" Sakura raged.
"Shut up and sit down in your seats!" boomed the loud voice of a large man wearing a dark trench coat.
"I'm Morino Ibiki and I'm your proctor for the first exam!" he said with a wild grin.
After looking at the test questions and listening to how the proctor worded the rules, it wasn't that hard for Gaara to figure out you had to cheat to pass the test, with little preparation Gaara set his plan into action. Two seats down Hiyori Kima furiously rubbed his eyes after sand suddenly blinded him, distracted he never saw the eye made of sand looking directly at his paper, giving the answers to its creator.
'too simple' Gaara thought as he copied down what he saw through his artificial eye. Rather than dispelling the jutsu Gaara took the time to see how his future spouse was doing, though he was rather disappointed with her progress.
'idiot…though if I'm lucky her stupidity will get her killed later in this exam'
He watched as she doodled all over the her sheet looking as cool as a cucumber, from any other angle it looked as if she was writing down answers no problem but from a bird's-eye view, Gaara could see the only thing she was having no problem with was drawing a rather graphic picture of some fox-like creature devouring civilians on the back of her sheet. it was a nice drawing in his opinion, she even managed to get the blood stains in the fur to look just right. He dissolved the sand eye after Ibiki declared pencils down and that it was time for the tenth question, and listened disinterested, in his opinion this question had a rather simple answer as well.
Genin, chuunin, jounin, none of the ranks really mattered to him, if the fact that he was a genin didn't stop them from sending him on a B-rank mission he was certain it wouldn't keep them from sending him off on more B-rank missions and up if they thought it would sedate his blood lust or kill him in the process, either way they would do almost anything to keep him out of their hair.
Gaara felt a little sense of disappointment when he saw Naruto raise her hand in signal of quitting.
'Well, there goes any hope of legally killing her…' Gaara though before his hopes were raised once more after she slammed her fist back down on her table.
"you expect me to run away from this exam with my tail between my legs because of some stupid question? When I do something, I don't do I half way! So if I've already worked so hard on this test there's no way in hell I'm going to quit now! if I fail, so what? That still won't stop me from becoming the strongest kunoichi anyone's ever seen, still genin or not!" She said fully determined.
Her speech solidified the resolve of everyone else in the room; after making sure no one else was going to leave anymore, the proctor passed everyone still in the room and revealed there was no tenth question. Gaara rolled his eyes after his foolish sister took the time to yell at the proctor asking if the whole test was a complete waste of time.
'in my opinion this whole exam is a waste of time. It won't prove my existence; it would only give me more opportunities to do it myself. By ending the existence of stronger opponents'
Gaara was shook out of his trance when the window down near the front row smashed open; he looked to see a scarcely dressed woman standing in front of a banner that read 'the sexy and single Mitarashi Anko'
"what are you doing here? You're early" grumbled Ibiki as he pushed the banner away from in front of him.
"wow Ibiki you're really losing your touch, there's so many children left. I can't wait to cut them in half" she purred sadistically. Some of the genin became a little uneasy from how she worded her sentence.
"oh please, if hokage-sama let me do my first idea of letting them guess which drink was poisoned we would have much less left. Besides, it seems we have quite the exceptional bunch this year" Ibiki replied with just as much sadism.
'thank god the hokage hasn't gone senile yet!' was the common theme of everyone else's thoughts on the proctors conversation.
"anyways meet me at training ground forty-two in fifteen minutes for your second test!" Anko yelled before jumping back out the window. Taking this as a dismissal the more sensible genin opted to walk through the door. As he was walking down the hall, trailing behind his siblings Gaara stopped to look back when he heard his name being called.
"Gaara! Wait up!" Gaara turned to continue walking when he saw the 'blond haired annoyance' running towards him with her teammates walking some distance behind.
Before he could make it very far Naruto ran in front of him, spreading her arms to obscure his path in the narrow hallway, as he was about to shunshin past her Naruto called out once more.
"Gaara wait, I just wanted to talk to you it won't take long I promise just hear me out!"
With a sigh he glared at her, silently telling her to talk.
Putting her arms back down Naruto said "okay! I know we didn't exactly start off on the right foot but I want to make it right. So can we at least try to be friends?"
Gaara stared at her extended hand as if it were a foreign object 'friends?'
"…sooo can we shake on it?"
"…i…" was all Gaara could say. He was at a complete loss on what to do in a situation like this.
"look I'm not so good at this whole friend making thing either so if I did something wrong I'm sorry…I'll just…give you some time to think on it. Maybe we can try to get along better on our next date" and with that Naruto left to catch up wither team.
Gaara stood in the hall still in shock 'she wants to be my…friend?' using the shunshin Gaara caught up with his team, ignoring his sibling curious stares.
~ Meanwhile in the sensei's lounge~
"hey Kakashi, Uzumaki Naruto is your kid right?" Ibiki asked as he walked in.
"yes" Kakashi responded uninterestedly in favor of his book.
"I think you should talk to her about this" Ibiki said showing them her drawing of the kyuubi killing several villagers.
The other jounin gasped in shock and horror while Kakashi only glanced then returned his attention to his book. "th-that drawing! Do you think she's a danger to the other genin?"
"we should withdraw her from the exam!"
"we can't unless you take her whole team"
"why is she so dangerous?"
"should I collect my team?"
"Kakashi why are you so calm about this!?"
"because I told her to draw" he said not looking up.
"what? Why would you tell her to draw something as disturbing as that! I swear Kakashi if you're influencing your students the wrong way" Kurenai threatened.
Quickly putting his book down Kakashi explained "no, no Kurenai! I told her to use art to express herself or as a hobby when she's bored. I didn't tell her to draw stuff like that; she came up with that on her own. She usually draws violent pictures like that when she wants to threaten Sasuke or is mad at the villagers; which I'm guessing was the case here, other than those times her pictures are rather pleasant"
"well if you say it's okay…" Asuma mumbled before attempting to sneak a cigarette from under Kurenai's watchful gaze.
"well that aside I gotta say she was the only person to pass the test without answering a single question, even the other side is just covered in doodles" Ibiki said with amusement.
"is that even allowed?" some jounin asked.
"yes technically since she got the tenth question correct and all you needed to pass was at least one out of ten"
"at this point I'm not sure if she's genius for not risking to cheat when she knew she couldn't and putting it all on the last question or an idiot for not being able to get the answers. You know you should test her somehow, I gave Shikamaru an IQ test and he turned out to be almost smarter than his dad" Asuma said after giving a sigh as he lost all his cigarettes to Kurenai.
~back with the genin~
"alright kiddies here's your waivers, now just sign 'em and you can go get your scroll and line up for your possible death!" Anko said cheerfully as she handed out the papers. Soon she began saying with a smile on her face "your death is on you, your death is on you, oh and your death is on you too! Don't be scared, we'll be sure to send your remains back home if there's any left"
'maybe I should wait for the next chuunin exam' were the reoccurring thoughts of the genin.
Speaking through a megaphone Anko shouted "my final piece of advice to you is don't die. Alright! opening the gates in three…two…one…go!"
The genin rushed into the forest hoping to get an upper-hand on the competition by setting up traps in advance, but there were some genin teams that were taking their time a little more than the others, in no specific hurry to hunt down prey. One team in particular however, was especially anxious to begin the hunt.
'the sooner he starts killing people, the sooner he'll calm down and won't kill us' were the unspoken prayers of Kankuro and Temari as they watched Gaara leap through the tree branches gripping his head in pain.
'friends…friends!? You don't need them; they'll betray you like Yashamaru did!' Shukaku was currently screaming into Gaara's head.
'don't listen to her lies! Kill her! Kill her now while you're in the forest!'
'but…what if I really can have a friend?' Gaara said back to him hesitantly
'No! no! no!' Shukaku raged, secretly afraid that her friendship would diminish his control over Gaara.
Gaara stopped mid-leap to clutch his head in pain from the sudden intense headache Shukaku racked his brain with, too absorbed in the sudden pain Gaara fell to the forest floor, his sand softening his fall with a muffled thud.
"Gaara!" Temari called out in concern from his sudden collapse, with Kankuro behind her as she jumped down to the ground.
"I'm fine..." Gaara said standing up to brush off any sand as he recalled all of it back into his gourd.
"do…do you want to rest or-"
"I'm fine" Gaara said firmly, cutting off her sentence. She didn't dare question him again after she saw the crazed look in his eyes.
With that they continued to wander the treetops, hopping from branch to branch in search of Gaara's first victim. It didn't take long before they bumped into a team from Kusagakure, who were currently battling with a team from Kirigakure. The two teams were so engrossed in their fight then never saw the wave of sand before it had already grabbed them.
"wh-what the hell!" the girl from the Kiri team yelled.
"this was too easy…no matter, I'm sure mother would still enjoy your blood" Gaara said emotionlessly as he began to constrict the captured nin.
"w-wait! Wait! If you let me and my team go, I'll give you our scroll!" said one of the captured boys from the Kusa team.
"no, don't do it! There's no guarantee he'll let us go!" shouted his other male teammate
"it's our only chance!" he yelled back
Gaara loosened the sands grip on the boy so he could reach into his pocket, and then watched as the thrown scroll landed near his feet. It was an earth scroll, not the one they needed. Then Gaara turned to the Kiri team.
"and you?"
"f-fine" the girl said as she too reached into her waist pouch to retrieve the scroll.
Gaara's sand shield flew up in his defence when the girl threw shriken in his direction instead of the scroll.
"big mistake" Kankuro said as he watched Gaara crush the Kiri team without batting an eyelash.
"n-now can you let us go" the first boy from the Kusa team stammered, feeling extremely sick after seeing and hearing the team they were previously fighting get crushed into a paste, and knowing it could happen to them next.
"no" Gaara said without hesitation
"what! B-but we-" the boy didn't get the chance to finish speaking before they too were crushed into unidentifiable hunks of bloodied meat, bones, and fabric.
Using his sand to rifle through the remains of the team that was first to go, Gaara picked out a blood stained heaven scroll from the gooey remains of a boy who was in the pile of mess next to what used to be the girl who attacked him. Taking the scroll from the sand and picking up the other scroll from the ground Gaara tossed them towards his siblings, Kankuro grimaced as he caught the gore covered scroll and pocketed it.
"well that was fast…anyways since we have all the scrolls can we go to the tower?" Temari said hopefully, although she already had a feeling what the answer would be.
"no, not yet" Gaara said coldly
"we'll find people on the way there, I'm certain there will be at least two teams waiting there to ambush someone" Kankuro reasoned, wanting to get out of the forest as soon as possible.
"no" Gaara said angrily, wanting to find the other Kusa nin from earlier. The one who gave the second exam proctor her kunai back with her tongue, he could sense she was powerful.
"why can't you listen to your big brother for once? There will be other people to kill on the way there so can we just go?" Kankuro argued back.
"shut up. I've never once thought of you as my siblings, if you get in my way I'll kill you" Gaara said as the sand on the ground shifted.
"don't say such cold things Gaara, if the person you want to fight so much is that strong then I'm sure you'll have the chance to fight them in the next test. the third part of the exam is always a tournament, so can you please just listen to your big sister's reasoning and kill him and a bunch of people then instead?" Temari said begging.
Gaara continued to menacingly glare at Kankuro as he held out his open hand, sand particles began to float in the air.
"Gaara!" Temari yelled pleading.
"fine" Gaara said as he used the sand to return the cork to his gourd, plugging it shut. he leapt back into the canopy heading towards the tower, not looking back to see if they were following. With a sigh of relief, Kankuro and Temari soon followed his lead.
When the tower was in sight was when it happened, with a smirk Gaara dropped down from the trees landing in front of a team from Amegakure.
"so it's the sand brats huh? How foolish, challenging us head on" the leader of the team said cockily.
Gaara let his sand flow out of the gourd. For a moment they stared each other down before the man said "you'll die here today"
But Gaara only responded intimidated "enough talk let's do this"
"Gaara we already have what we need, can we just move on" Kankuro asked
"no. those who meet with my eyes must die" Gaara said filling the air with killing intent
"bah! Then lets hurry up and begin!" the man yelled before tossing several umbrella into the air.
"die brat!" he yelled before saying "Ninpou: raining needles"
several senbon came shooting out from the umbrellas raining down on them as the jutsu's title described. Using his sand to knock them away, the man laughed completely unfazed "hah! There's no escape from this jutsu! All the senbon are controlled by my chakra so there's no way they can miss their prey!" as the senbon collided with Gaara, dust was kicked up in the air.
'too easy' the man thought. But was shocked when the dust cleared to show Gaara was completely unharmed, the needles were stuck in a shield made of sand. "is that it?" Gaara asked as he peered out at the man through a gap in the sand.
"no…no way…not a single one…he came out unscathed…" the man muttered to himself, shocked.
Attempting to attack him again the man threw more senbon at Gaara through the gap, only to have them blocked by the sand once more.
'no way a jutsu like that would work against Gaara…it was just bad luck on your part to run into him' Kankuro thought as he watched Gaara toy with the man.
"a rain of needles eh? Well I guess I'll have to make it rain blood!" Gaara said as he watched the man begin to panic.
"a shield of sand?" the man asked confused
Kankuro took this as the time to explain the workings of Gaara's ultimate defence "yes, it's his sand based total defence. The sand is packed into the gourd with chakra, a jutsu that only Gaara can use. The sand comes out to defend Gaara and the surrounding area, plus it happens regardless of his will, for some reason it happens automatically. Basically attacks, especially one like that, are useless against Gaara"
"b-but that's not possible! Those needles can pierce through five millimeters of steel!" the man said panicking as the sand began creep closer.
"you can't beat our Gaara" Kankuro said with a smirk as he watched the man begin to sweat.
"sh-shut up!" the man yelled as he charged towards them, running past the tendrils of sand that were previously crawling towards him.
'he's dead' were Kankuro's thoughts as he watched the man futilely run towards them.
Making a single hand sign and a gesture Gaara said "desert coffin" causing the nearby sand to envelope the man.
'I can't move!' he thought as he struggled against the sands restraints, feeling himself slowly getting crushed by the second.
"in the air and on the ground, sand can be controlled by Gaara's will" said Temari picking up where Kankuro left off, as she spoke she grabbed one of the three nearby umbrellas imbedded into the ground from the ame nin's attack.
As the man began to grunt and cry out Gaara said "shut up before I cover your mouth and kill you. But that's too pitiful…" as he spoke he too grabbed an umbrella.
Raising his hand in the air, Gaara closed his fist, 'desert graveyard' he thought before causing the amenin to explode in a rain of blood, just as he had promised.
"no pain because I killed him quickly…as blood mixes with the sand I become more powerful" Gaara said as he looked to the rest of the team.
"our-our scroll! We'll give it to you!" one of the remaining members said as the put their heaven scroll on the ground. But it wasn't what Gaara wanted anymore. Holding out both hands he commanded the sand to capture them "bye-bye" Temari said cheerfully, smiling as she waves to the soon to be liquid men.
With another desert graveyard he quickly ended them.
"great now let's get to the tower!" Kankuro said after picking up the other scroll to complete their now second set. with a glare Gaara relented, leaving team eight to cower in the bushes.
From there everything went smoothly, they made it to the tower in what was apparently record time according to the chuunin that informed them of the true meaning of the clue to the scrolls. It was rather hard for them to understand the man when he kept stuttering in fear, though his fear was understandable due to being the target of Gaara's harsh glare. With four extra days of nothing to do, the chuunin showed them to their room in the tower where they promptly showered. Even if Gaara didn't get a spec of dirt on him, he was still conscious of the amount of blood that was in the sand he used to cover himself.
It was well into the night that Gaara stood out on the balcony in their shared room, enjoying the view of the starry night sky. As he stared intently on the crescent moon, Gaara took the moment of calm to think to himself and away from Shukaku.
'she wants to be my friend? Something like this has never happened before…I think that's why mother is so troubled' the small part of Gaara's mind that was still a lonely deprived child jumped at the chance of finally making a friend, but the larger and more jaded part of his mind couldn't help but doubt.
'what if she's like Yashamaru and betrays me…do I even care anymore? At this point my memories of the good times with uncle Yashamaru are getting more distant every day. My memories of being seen as something human…something that was loved'
Gaara always enjoyed going outside during the night, for him it was a time of peace and tranquility. He often enjoyed going for walks in the abandoned streets or just sitting on the roof to think. Gaara wished the world could be plunged into eternal night, unlike other people who thought when the sun goes down the scary things come out, to Gaara it was like the scary things just disappeared, along with their fearful and judging eyes.
It was the daytime that was horrible; it was so busy and loud, bright and hot, not to mention the looks. Looks ranging from hatred to disgust, but the worst ones were the people who didn't even look at him; it was as if they were looking through him. But the ones he hated the most were the looks of pity, those were the ones that burnt him up inside. He didn't need their pity, they were the pitiful ones who couldn't wield nor destroy the weapon they created. This was why he liked it better in the dark; unlike in the daylight he couldn't see their multitude of judgmental stares.
The more Gaara thought of it, the more he desired it. He wished hard enough to even reach out with his arm and clench his fist in front of him, as if he could grab the moon and capture it for himself. Unknown to him, a pair of eyes were watching him in the dark.
Kankuro watched as Gaara looked out into the sky from the balcony, he was shocked by how calm Gaara looked as he star gazed. 'huh, I guess I kinda figured he just spent all night glaring at us as we slept' Kankuro thought as he watched Gaara reach out to the night sky, appearing to grab nothing. 'he looks…sort of harmless' Kankuro thought before closing his eyes once more, returning to the world of sleep before he was caught watching.
As two days passed and more teams entered the tower, they spent most of their time either wandering the building separately, fixing or polishing their kunai and or other specialized weapons, or sleeping/meditating. As Gaara walked past the medical wing he stopped when he heard a familiar voice.
"Gaara? Oh hey! what are you doing here, did you get hurt?" turning around Gaara could see Naruto running towards him.
"want to get lunch? Sasuke is still unconscious and Sakura-chan is staying with him so I would be all alone" Naruto explained as she walked along beside him. Well…he hadn't had lunch yet anyways…
-omake-
Sweat dripped down Sakura's face as she rested on the floor. Heavily panting she begged "please Sasuke… I can't take much more"
From on top of her with sweat also coating her body Naruto said in a hoarse voice "Sasuke…take me instead, I have better stamina"
"only if Kakashi joins in again…"came the sadistic purr of Sasuke.
With a heavy sigh, Kakashi said "these kinds of student-teacher relationships are frown upon…but if I must"
"good. Now get down there" Sasuke commanded.
'this can't be good for my back!' were the tear-ridden thoughts of Kakashi as he painfully kneeled and hunched over in front of Sasuke with Naruto right beside him.
"Begin"
Speaking in the perfect synchronization they were trained to, Kakashi and Naruto spoke in unison "Sasuke's etiquette rule number one: do not point at people. Sasuke's etiquette rule number two: do not talk with your mouth full. Sasuke's etiquette rule number three: do not-" Naruto stopped mid-sentence to cough before massaging her sore throat.
"Again" Sasuke demanded.
"b-but we've been doing this for hours!" Kakashi complained.
"well we wouldn't have to waste a second on it if you all knew how to behave in public. Now again. This time Sakura will join back in" he ruthlessly commanded as he cracked his leather whip mere inches away from them. They'd all been whipped by Sasuke at one point and another, and they all agreed (besides Sakura who was still on the fence) that it wasn't nice. Groaning, the ill-mannered members of team seven continued to recite the lines by memory.
Aaaand done! Wow sorry this took so long! For a while I was just enjoying summer's gift of sleeping in but then I kept stalling on writing the next chapter but I eventually managed to break the ice! only to be distracted once more… so you all have cuervo ryoko to thank for this update since they're the person who inspired me to get back to typing (thank you everyone for your support too) anyways you better enjoy this cuz I stayed up till 5:07 am to finish this so I could post it for you later in the day (I usually do this to make sure what I was thinking when I write chapters still makes sense after I've left that mind set) and the next update will hopefully take a shorter amount of time! and gotta say i really had fun with the omake so expect some in the future ^.^